The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-19
TAFT PLEADS FOR
HARM0NY|NPARTY
Asks Congress to Pass Bills to
Which ills P1edg
ed.
DOES NOT FEAR OUTCOME
Has Tried to Do Right Rather
Than Play P OH

| Rochester, n. ". March 1s.--In his
speech before the Chamber OF Com
merce tonight here President TAT
made an appeal TO Congress to6subor-
dinatc and sacrifice individual opinion.
lin ordcr@lthat# measures he had rec
ommended in fulhlment Of party
pledges shall be enacted into law. He
expressed the hope that the party
would show tho sense and de-
Termination to meet It's responsitHli-
ties"
The impression had gotten abroad
that tho Presidcntsmgh have some-
thing to say tonight with regard to
the acute situation In the House OF
Representatives at Washington. but
this was his nearest reference to the
subject.
At one point. of5shis speech, which
was devoted en- tirely to. the legislation
which lie had recommended III the past
few months, the President further de-
clared: s55
THAT If this Congress is to he
treated as Republican Congress,
these things ought to pass in full
.flment Of party pledges. After this is
done 1t does not matter what happens
at the next election We will have
done something the country Will be
grateful for, whether 1T thinks 1t
ought to express this gratitude In the
Immediate future OF, not"
II. # & Not Seeking Strength.
Toward the end ofihis remarks. the
sis that "hc had tried as President to
sdo what lie believed was right. rather
than to do things that would bring
political strength which was chcered
for. several minutes.
| The President declared that he had
been told that lie was no politician,
and dire things had been predicted.
3IIo believed, however, that in the
end the people would find that the
measures recommended IL to Congress
were right and that right, after all,
was the very best politics.
u Mr., Taft's greeting 3to-night was tho
most demons nstrative he has had IN his
recent travels 10 was followed by
president VIC. Brown. of the New
York Cen trail Railroad, who told ofthe
progress and stability that had come
to the business world since Alr. Taft's
inauguration .5 \.
The PRESIDENT summed up tho things
which he declared had caused some
or his advisers to cha ractarize him as
/ a. bad NJ pOllClClan.s n tlc slTSC pldCC,
4 ho said, there was the tart IT law. and
| a new tariff bill always deteots a par
/ Ety. In tho second place had come the
Incorporation tax. ebringtng With it the
onmlty OF everybody directly or indt-
rectly Interested In the more than
100000 corporations affected BY It. In
|}the third place, there was the alleged
postal deficit which had been charged
to the carrying of magazines and peril
odlcals at cent a pound. That was
bad politics, because 1t urrayed all
the magazines and periodicals against
the administrations In the fourth
place. Congress- only reduced the duty
on print paper so per cent, instend
OF putting L 1t on tho free list. This
offended tie newspapers, And last OF
all. tho postal savings bank bill had
turned all the bankers against the ad-
mlntstration. M s
Thinks Measures Right.
tSo."' lie continued, my friends don't
aee Just whore we arc coming out,
But am confident In the end that the
measures viii approve themselves. The
trouhlcs wo most fear are those that
nevor come, he measures that We
promised ought TO he adopted, not hes
cause they will rive us political
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