The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-15
NEWSPAPER MAN
FOR TAFT AGAIN
General Felix Agnus Says He
Is the Logical Candidate
Of the Party

Washington, Dec. 16.-Gen. Felix
Agnus. the veteran proprietor of the
Baltimore American and upholder of
the regular Republican party in Mary
land, come over from the Monumental
city to attend the Gridiron dinner and
he said:
First and foremost. l want to de-
clare myself unequivocally in favor of
the denomination Of William Howard
Taft in 1912.
HE is our logical candidate, our
best candidate. the candidate about
whom all true AMI loyal Republic
can rally;,and lest but .a0t,leasts-the
candidate who can lead us to victory.
did the Republicans get a shaking
up in November? Was there land
slide? Did they suffer a Waterloo?
Surely they did, and from the way the
Democrats indulge in self-glorif1ca-
tion one would think they had never
before won battle and would never
win another. But l can recall occa-
sions in the past when the voters, for
reasons I think wholly inadequate,
administered defeat to the great old
party that has furnished the bulk of
the sound and constructive statesman
ship which has blessed the nation (al-
ways the voters regretted such action,
and remedied it by again clothing the
Republican party with power.) To-
day, as the result Of Republican rule.
we are enjoying an era of wonderful
national prosperity. Perhaps it was
that the country had too much pros
perity to give a correct judgment at
the polls. Nations, like individuals,
sometimes fail to realize their excel
lent conditions. The times are opu-
lent, every honest man can get work
at fair wages, and under the sane and
constitutional dispensation of Presi-
dent Taft no citizen can. complain
that. he is at a disadvantage compared
with his ueighbor.
Favors Extra Session.
"Our Democratic friends have been
given control of the next house of rep
resentatives. Since they are SO eager
to relieve the masses Of the alleged
unjust exactions Of tariff which they
claim is robbery of the consumer, why
not give them a chance at the earliest
possible day to put their theories into
effect?
"Why should they not beseech the
president to call congress in extra
ordinary session following the fourth
of March next, so that they may go
to work Immediately upon a free
trade measure, or is it purely tariff
for revenue they advocate? Can 1t
be that our southern members, who
will have every important committee.
will rest their souls In patience until
the regular session In December.
1911? In their haste for that radical
revision, can we not hear the clamor
Of the Louisiana members to hurry
up the reductions Of the duty ON sugar
and on rice9 Are not the Mississippi
and the Alabama representatives I'M
patient to begin the work Of reform
by enacting bill to let In lumber
free of duty, and are not the Texans
quite as keen to keep hides on the
free list?
Il submit these exponents Of tariff
reform to be given an immediate op-
portunity to make good their plat
form pledges. The country. they
claim, is suffering, and they can ex-
tend the healing draft In the shape Of
downward revision. II that be true.
they cannot too quickly engage in the
work, and I hope the president will
give them the opportunity through his
proclamation Of an extra session. j.
"And with It all predict that the
country, after short experience with
the Democrats. will be very glad to
go back to Republican rule under the
standard Of President Taft and to
keep him in the white house for four
years more. The Republicans have
but one candidate. and that is Will
| liam Howard Taft.