The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-20
Wants to Know If It Isn't Bet ter to Retain the Tried Than to Try the Un-
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P PROGRESS R REMARKABLE
Considers History of Democracy and PccullalitlcS of It's Icndcrship-- Crowds Large and Re
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Baltimore, Mr., oct, l9.--l Hitting straight at his opponent, Mr. Bryan, with even moro force than in the north, west or south Judge William H. Taft to-day carried his campaign to the very doors of New York city, and gave clear indication of the character of speeches hc win make m tho Empire state next week.
 Mr. Taft spent three hours in New ark, an hour in Elizabeth an hour and twenty minutes il Trenton an honr In Wilmington, and the entire | evening in Baltimore. He encounters co tremendous crowds and enthusiasm spontaneous and ample.
 'l can only say to you, he remark eG, that from what | have seen in New Jersey to-day and what l have seen in Delaware to-day and what | saw in the south and west in the last thee weeks, am going to bo elected and lt would give me the greatest pride If, in that electoral vote, | | could have the three from Della ware" !"
 The real issue of the canlpaiun is," said Mir Taft tonight, "whether you think the republican party by what lt has done in tho last twelve years. Is entitled to vour confidence. Even if lt has done something to dispcaso yon ! is lt not much to be preferred to tho democratic party under any circum- stances considering tho history of that party and considering the peculiari- ties--to use no moro offensive oXprcs- sion-of the leadership of that party ?''
 The acts of tho republican party were then recountel; Establishing the gold standard repeating the Wilson- German tariff bill, and enactng the pinGlcy tariff; fighting the Spanish war--"we fought 1t promptly and 1 we'll We put the Cubans on their feet as We supposed They stayed there for three years, then they fell on their knees and we had to RgaIn go and help them to thsir feet.
 Tn Porto Rico we have made mil- lion people rejoice every night and ov- cry day and thank God that they arc under the prosperity that the stars and Stripes havc given.
 Then we took up tho Philippines the hardest problem that we had to aovc as the result of tho war Today half a million Filipino school children are reading, writing and recltiug in English we have given them practical control over the central government and full control over the provincial and municinal rovornOeute
 These noro problems that had not been solved in the platforms of the party. The republican party has a sense of governmental responsibility The democratic party has no cohesion except that of opposition 10 the repub- lican party
 We took m the Panama canal, which for four hNudrcd years had beon tho subject of discussion
 Mir Taft next took mp what hc termed the moral awakening" re- spcctng the conduct of large business enterprises, resulting in "qulckoning of the American conscience
 You would think from the state. mcnts of Mr Bryan" he added. That no progress had been made. bu- tho progress is truly remarkable through th" pnssage of tho rate bill the rail roads themselves having abandoned re- bates have abandoned unlawful dis- crlminatons and have taken away inc chief instrumentality by which unlaw ful trusts and monopolies have been sustained