Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
SECOND TERM FOR TAFT
GOV. HUGHES PREDICTS HIS RE-
ELECTION.
New York Executive, at Lincoln
Banquet, Says People Recognize
Presidents Ability.

NEW YORK, February I'm the
opinion of Charles E. Hughes, Governor
of New. York, President Taft will be re-
nominated and reelected as President
of the United States. In closing his ad-
dress at the Lincoln day banquet in this
city tonight Gov. Hughes said:
THE American people are fair enough
to recognize a great man, filling a great
solute fidelity. and for that reason Presi-
elected"
Greeted With Applause.
with applause. Mr.. Taft. he continued
had great tasks of housekeeping before
him, but by his character and training
he was well suited to perform them. No
man in the United States, he said, was
more fit for the office he holds, Or more
fit to carry out its vast undertakings.
Gov Hughes, besides euiogizing the
President and predicting his reelection,
said, turning to the state Of New York,
that there need be no fear for the repuD-
lican party.
We have Just to keep on saving
through the sound oak, as Lincoln did
years ago, to achieve our purposes" he
said.
1T would be impossible" he went on,
Ito minimize the fear and uncertainty
.occasioned by certain events but the
republican party was made up of repub-
lican voters and there are no people
more desirious of fair and just admin
istIation of government"
The republican party is hurt more by
misrepresentation than anything else,
he said. I'VE must get back to the high
moral purpose which characterized the
party in it's earlier days
This is no time for covering up. There
is no time to retire from dismay from
any disclosures. The party can stand
The party needs TO purge itself of evil
and get rid of what is not good in it.
We must go forward, showing that the
party is not represented by aught OF
evil.
Il come to you with a word of cheer
The time in a partys life that seems the
most critical is often the occasion fol-
the greatest opportunity. 1t takes times
OF great stress to bring our great quail
ties.
Gov. Forts Declaration.
Gov. Fort said, in part:
The republican party cannot live on
its past, however great that past has
been, and it has been unparalleled in
history. Parties to succeed must change
with the changed conditions. There has
not been a period of time since the civil
war that has seen such far-reaching ques-
tons of governmental policy as those OF
today.
Senator Dolliver, Senator Nelson and
Senator Beveridge are not thoughtless
men. They know their people. and they
are familiar with the conditions in the
middle west. They are only little in
advance of the most of us. But they
are no more SO than was Lincoln in his
Springfield speech in 1853.
There is something higher than state
revenue involved in corporate regulation
and as loyal as | am to my state and to
her interests, if there is no other way to
secure proper control and regulation OF
corporations except through federal in.
corporation, and that Is found constitu-
tional and capable of doing it effectively
then with all it means to New Jersey
am ready to stand by the President in
reaching method that will bring the
corporations under the absolute control
of the nation"