The daily sentinel., 1908-07-28
TAFT SOUNDS GREAT
REPUBLICAN BATTLE CRY

uSNelOpment OF the usefulness oil
The Hague tribunal.
''The visit of Secretary Root to
South America, emphasized our
| friendship for our sister republics
| which are making such strides in the
southern hemisphere. The assist
ance which we are rendering in San
Domingo to enable that government
to meet its obligation and avoid
anarchy is another instance of sue
cessful work of this administration in
helping our neighbors.
This administration has by the
prcmptness, skill and energy with its
negotiations secured dominion in the
canal zone of the Isthmus of Pana-
ma without which the construction of
the canal would have been impossible
it has subdued the heretofore insur-
mountable obstacle of disease and
made the place of work healthy. 1t
has created such an organization that
in six years certainly, and possibly
less, the Atlantic and Pacific will be
united, to the everlasting benefit of
the worlds commercial and effec-
tiveness of our navy will be doubled.
THE statement of the things &C
tually done by this administration
| at home, in our dependencies and in
foreign affairs, shows a marvel of
IL
Z ever a party has entitled itself to the
approval of it's works by a mendate
of power from the people whom it
served. it is the Republican party in
the present campaign.
'The only respect in which nothing
has been done is in the development
of our foreign marine. AS long as
we upheld the system of protection
for cur home industries, we must
! recognize that it is inapplicable to
assist those of our citizens engaged
in the foreign shipping business, be-
cause there is no feasible means of
excluding foreign competition and
that the only other method of build
ing up such a business is by direct
aid in the form of mail subsidy. L
am in favor of the bill considered in
the last congress as a tentative step.
| The establishment of direct steam
ship lines between our Atlantic ports
and South America would certainly
do much to develop a trade which
might be made far greater. On the
Pacific the whole shipping trade
threatens to pass into control of
Japan. Something ought to be done
and the bill which failed was a step
in the right direction.
Independent Democrats.
THE Democratic party under it's
present leadership in previous cam
paigns has manifested a willingness
to embrace any doctrine which would
win votes with little sense of respon-
sibility for its practical operation. In
its striving for success it has ignored
the business prosperity of the coun-
try, has departed from sound, econ
omic and governmental principles
and has reversed its own traditional
views of constitutional construction
Patriotic members of the party have
refused to be controlled by party ties
and have either refrained from vot-
ing or have supported the Republican
candidate. May we not appeal to
these courageous and indignant cit
izens to again give us their support in
this campaign, because the reasons
for their breaking the bonds of party
are stronger today than ever before.
/ 81 have now reviewed at great
/ length the principles at issue between
/ the two parties. When | began the
preparation of this speech l hoped to
make it much briefer than it is, but
! | found on an examination of the
| platform and on a consideration of
the many measures passed during the
| present administration and the issues
arising out of them, that | found it
was impossible to deal with the sub
I jects comprehensively with proper ex-
\ PLANTATION and qualification in short
speech. This is my excuse"