The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-30

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Athens. o.. Aug. 29.-W. H. Taft
broke away from his schedule today
and delivered an impromptu political
!. speech from the back platform OF his
train, with Mrs. Taft by his side. in
which he pitched the campaign on the
single issue:
Which party, by its works and not
by its promises. has earned the conf
dence not only OF capitalists. but of the
wage-earners and farmers?"
The speech was cheered by large
crowd OF residents of Gallipolis, o.,
where the Taft train stopped for five
minutes this morning.
Athens gave Mr.. Taft a rousing well
come when he later reached that place.
and several thousand of her citizens
made themselves a part of the reunion
of veterans of the county now being
held and listened with interest to
speech by the candidate in which he
eschewed politics and devoted himself
to the human interest of the life of the
veterans.
The exercises at Athens were en-
braced in a three-hour stay. and in
cluded a luncheon party at the home
of General Charles II. Grosvenor. for
many years a member OF congress.
The exercises were held in the city
park, and after addresses the candidate
was given an opportunity to shake
hands with his hearers.
Throughout the trip TO Athens there
were constant demands for the appear
ance of the candidate on the rear plat
form, and when he complied he was
cheered and many cordial remarks
hurled at him.
In speech at GaI1ioolis. Mr.. TAFT
said:
Too Many Issues.
THE campaign, as II is developing on
the part of our friends, the enemy, the
Democratic party, seems TO involve so
many issues that IL takes a week or a
month or more TO cover them, but 1
fancy after all that the one issue which
win present itself TO the voters of this
country is the question of confidence in
the one or the other of the parties as
TO which party by its works. and not
by it's promises, has earned the conf
dence not only of the capitalists, but of
the wage-earners and of the farmers.
For twelve years we have been en-
joying prosperity never before
equalled in the world. and whether or
not the Republican party brought about
that prosperity, certainly il made IT
possible for us TO enjoy it so that the
farmers were never more comfortable,
the wage-earners never have had higher
wages nor a higher standard of living
and the business man never enjoyed
greater prosperity.
In the course OF that tremendous
prosperity abuses crept in and with a
knowledge of those abuses, the Repub-
lican party undertook, as it always has
undertaken when obstacles presented
themselves, when evidence became ap-
parent. remedy for those evils. Under
that matchless Republican. Theodore
Roosevelt, the Republican party has
gone ahead to take the steps 10 remedy
these evils, and is In the course of do
!. ing So
The Panic Explained.
Now at this point we have had a let
up of the prosperity of the country
There has been such an expansion of
capital. so great investment that the
capital for the time was exhausted and
there came lack of confidence on the
part of the investing public. but we
progress in prosperity which has been
so wonderful for the last twelve years.
The question now for the people TO set
tie Is whether the remedies which the
Republican party has adopted and car
ried out under Theodore Roosevelt shall
be continued. whether the confidence
which the public have in the Republi-
can party. and whether the business
men have in the Republican party and
those Uynn usfllin0 n inxa-f fbafr
capital have In the Republican party.
shall be awaited of by the people of
this country in order TO bring back the
prosperity that we have had. or wheth-
er we shall turn the government to a
party that has been doing everything
by turns and nothing long. that in 1895
proposed not a revision of the tariff.
nor any other remedy, but to scale
down our debts by adopting a silver
dollar that was worth so cents in order
&c bring about a prosperity which their
leader said was impossible. He said, II
you remember. that unless we took free
silver. wheat would go down, and he
did not have to live two years before he
saw that prophecy repudiated by the
facts. On and on in the face of their
declaration Of the necessity for such a
remedy goes the greatest prosperity
ever seen. And so again in 1900 we were
told that we must have something
against Imperialism. We must avoid
that destruction 10 which the country
was hurrying. because we were helping
a poor people 10000 miles away TO get
on their feet in order that they might
gain the standard of civilization, and
then again in 1904 we were treated TO
another chaVce to restrain Theodore
Roosevelt. because IL was feared he
would become tyrant in this country
and would usurp all legislative and ju-
dicial functions.
These are the remedies that we have
rad proposed in the past and now we
are again threatened by this party I'M
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