The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-10-30

Comparing the two parties, first,
what experience has each had In row
erning; second, what is it that united
them together? Is it a force that is
likely to keep them together in such a
way as to give them a full sense of
responsibility to the people at large in
carrying on the government? Are the
men, whom they selected for their
leaders statesmen, men with a fine
sense Of governmental propriety and
governmental policy? Having made
that comparison without regard to the
particulars which they uphold in the
present issue, you can usually make
up your minds which party you ought
to take, because between each presi-
dent many issues are likely to arise
that cannot be submitted to q party,
crisis are likely to come that cannot
|be submitted to the rank and file Of
the people and you have got to take
a party and trust to 1t to work these
problems out. That was exhibited in
the record Of the Republican party
with reference to the Spanish war.
The spanish.Amerlcan War.
I'VE determined to end the ~interna-
tional scandal at our doors; we went
into the war in Cuba. and we came
out in the Philippines 10000 miles
away, and we hadsto decide the issues
which were there raised and which
were difficult to meet. They present
ed new phases of government that we
had never had before, but with Viii
liam Mckinley at the head, with your
own Elihu Root to aid him, as n Of
the greatest jurists and statesmen this
world has ever seen, with the Repub-
lican party behind him, with It's disci-
pline, with Its injustice and with, it's
courage, those policies were carried
through and they brought credit and
glory to the nation. i am using that
to illustrate that one Of the great rea-
sons for the selection OF party is its
proved efficiency, its proved courage,
its proved experience with reference to
all issues Of government that may
arise.
Democratic 1Discord.
"Now, what5of the Democratic par.
ty? They had power for four years,
but the minute they got Into power
they began to quarrel over what, they
should do. They passed q free trade
bill through one. house and then in the
next house they made q kind OF sec
tional protective hill and before they
got through, n, assumed such q phase
that Cleveland the leader Of the party,
for whom we have the highest respect.
pronounced that bill an act OF ,pIerfidy
and dishonor and broke. up. the. party
and they had, to divide between free
silver and the gold standard. In other
words. they showed, as they would
show now II you gave them power,
that the only cohesiveness that they
have is q co%1esiveness to the Republi.
can party. They lack efficiency, they
lack responsibility to the people for
carrying on the government as II
should be carried on, and this. my dear
friends, without any reference to their
principle and when you get their prin-
ciples, their acts are even worse"
Addressed Laborers.
At Geneva, where Judge Taft had a
large audience, composed largely Of
those interested in labor, he talked
q half hour longer than his hours
schedule permitted. After giving the
history OF the writ Of Injunction TO
show. that 1t was q process devised to
prevent the executions Of a threatened
injury to his property, he had this to