Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-14
BLACK ON ROOSEVELT
EX-GOVERNOR CALLS HIS POLL
CIES A SERIES OF ANTICS.

BOSTON, February 14.-Ex-Gov. Frank
S. Black of New York was the chief
speaker at the annual dinner Of the Home
Market Club here last night. and the
plainness with which he talked about the
present administration at Washington
rather startled the members.
However. they found some consolation
in stand pat" speech by Representative
Bannon of Ohio, who incidentally put in
a good word for Speaker Cannon, not as
cause of his attitude toward tariff revi-
sion. Mr.. Bannon prefaced his remarks
by saying: I'VE cannot afford to dis
pense with the services of such a grand
republican as Joseph Benson Foraker.
Further than this the prophet speaketh
not.
Mr. Blacks speech was il possible.
more critical of the way things have been
done by Roosevelt than was his recent
speech at Concord, n. H.. when he talked
about the man on the barrel head melting
the mob.
Denounced the President.
He denounced Roosevelt's doctrines as
dangerous, socialstic and un-American,
and declared that while they had been
promulgated under the cloak of a repub-
lican name they were not republican nor
American. and that the party is "stagger-
ing under blows inflicted in the party
name" Mr.. Black spoke, In part as fol-
lows:
My own belief is that the best govern
ment in the world is that of the United
States under the direction of the repub-
lican party. And when l speak of that
party 1 mean what it has been and what
l hope 1t may be rather than what it
seems to be now. 1t is easy to regard
that party as the country; it has been
so many times. War. finance. success
disaster-in all these the republican party
has been the heart and conscience of the
to the partisan republican who remembers
the history of his country to associate
patriotism, nationality. freedom and even
the country itself with the career and
doctrines of the republican party. That
party has not changed the laws of ma
ture. No one claims that. But nature
works best when most encouraged, and
every man as old the youngest here
knows that during every democratic ad-
ministratiOn since 1860 she seemed to fall
asleep. She resumed her Industrious ca
reer at the beginning of McKinleys adj
ministration. and followed it necessarily
until the elimination last October Of
those dangerous, sociaiist1c, un-American
doctrines which took away her courage
and started her upon course of wander
ing and hesitation.
Republican Party's True Mission.
1.-The republican party has been the
friend of every honest man and honest
purpose. 1t has been wise enough to I'M
derstand and strong enough to carry on.
1t has embraced within it's sympathy
every race. color. creed and condition.
No man has been great enough to defy it
or weak enough to be despised. And
throughout it's history of fifty years 1t has
encouraged and applied the highest human
tendencies.
Moved by either sentiment the pres
ent state of the country cannot fal to
provoke in thoughtful men a feeling of
disquietude. The occurrences of the last
few years point too plainly toward ma
tional crisis Respect for the old and
established is giving way to feverish de-
sire for the new and experimental. The