The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-04-15
TAFT PLEADS FOR
PARTY HARMONY


is not republicanism.
We've gone u long way in congress
and | hope there is but a month or
two left, but in that time much is to
be done and much is to be shown as
to the character and identity Of those
who belong TO the republican party.
"No man has a right TO read an.
other out Of the republican party. lie
reads himself out if he is disloyal and
IL he cannot by his own works show
his colors.'
The president was talking straight
from the shoulder. lie emphasized his
remarks with forceful gestures.
"You see,'' he continued, 81 am in
no defiant spirit tonight
Al this the president laughed aloud
AT his own words, starting the chorus
of laughter from his hearers.
IL want everybody in the ranks. !
want the help Of all republicans, even
if some may have slipped away. |
want them all back to help that grand
old party--and | say this with all due
Difference TO our democratical friends
upon which the real progress of this
country depends
This VAS the signal for a long con
tinued upheaval. The president watt
ed while the demonstration which his
remarks precipitated proceeded for sew.
eral minutes.
"Why do | say thati' the president
continued. at is not that the demo
Gratis are not patriotic or good citizens,
but it is the expression democratic
party does not mean compact, cohesive
body of men who can make progress in
this country.
II look forward with philosophic TEN.
permanent TO the threatened invasion
of the halls of congress by the demo.
Gratis. I say threatened-yes, threat.
cned-in the ~inaginations of Champ
Clark, Henry Watterson and others.
~ am confident that when once il
comes. aud has been for two or more
years, it means a long lease of power
to the republican party.
We want no schisms ia the rcpub
lican party. The time will come after
congress adjourns when W shall have
all redeemed our pledges, that we can
so before the American people and
argue out all the differences in the Suf-
irage of fellow citizens on its record. -
The president when concluded was
Liven a great ovation.
lie was followed by Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge, who took up the tariff
bill of which the president had not
spoken.
Senator Bradley Of Kentucky, the
third speaker, declared that Kentucky
republicans would stand by the presi
dent ana the party.
THE cry should not be-" he said,
''that the republican party has saved
the country, but that the republican
party has been and is the country,
Without it we would have no coun,
try"
In discussing the attitude Of Sena.
tor Beveridge of Indiana, relating To
tie tariff, Representative Nicholas
l.ongworth OF Ohio, who spoke next.
referred 20 the decision of the lumber
schedule before the ways and mean.
committee lad brought in the name
Of clifford pInchot, former chief for,
ester, which was family cheered. Mr.
Pinchot, he said, had told the commit.
toe that conservation of the forests
would he aided by n reduction Of the
tariff"
ar there is one man. said Mr.
L%ongwOrth, more responsible than
any other more than all others pat
together-for the fact that today lum
Der is not upon the free list, it is Mr.
Clifford Pinchot."
"Tho time will soon he at hand when
we shall enter upon a campaign Of vast
consequence. II may involve the in
tegrity of the republican party.
81 do not believe, with some of my
party colleagues, hat wc should fll
signals of distress, but | do believe /,
is no time to merely try to laugh away
The seriousness of the situation.
1.-THE republican canuot afford t,
have the sincerity Of their pledges
doubted.
II am a Taft man-not on the sur
face-but through and through" con
tinued Representative Longworth, "l
am not willing TO use his name rs d
cloak for my support of other men