Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-11
PRESIDENT REFUSES TO AT.
TEMPT TO READ PROGRESS
slvEs OUT OF PARTY,
PLEADS FOR UNITED RANKS
IN FORTHCOMING CAMPAIGN
Says He Desires to Go Before the
People With Pledges Fufiled-Urses
Members of Congress to Show Their
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Makes Visor-
Gus Defense of Taft Policies.


Columbia, not so much as the president
of the United States, as in the capacity
of titular leader Of the republican
party.
Taft said he did not want to read
any man out of the party but that "by
their fruits they should be known
Tonight" he said, I'VE are reading no.
body out of the party. We want them
all in the ranks and they have oppor-
tunity to establish their claim 70 re-
publicanisn by that which they shall
do in the house of congress by helping
to enact the legislation now before
them" The 500 guests from all parts
of the country stood up and cheered.
With all due Difference to the distin-
guished members of the senate and the
house who surround me-" the president
continued, L want to say I think this
is not exactly the time for speaking ex-
cept in the two houses Of the legisla-
ture. This is the time for doing things"
The president was again Interrupted by
a roar Of cheers. The time has come
he said, for doing, voting and passing
the measures which have been placed
before congress- After congress has
adjourned the republican party will
have formed its lines OF attack. Then
will it be furnished with the weapons
with which we are going into the next
contest.
Tonight We are reading nobody out
of the republican party. Those in the
senate and house who stand for the
legislation we seek in order to redeem
the pledges of the party have the right
TO stand with the party as republicans.
II with
them. They have right to their opin-
ions. But we desire their aid as re-
publicans and I don't wish to assume
that they are not as sincere as I hope
I am myself in repubLicanism. The
republican party is not rigid in its
demand. 1t is so broad and liberal that
It permits of differences of opinion
Must Get in Line.
After the tumult of the shouting
subsided the president CO.. tinued But
when the evidence is shown that
member of the party does not desire
the success OF the republican party
and is unwilling to redeem the party's
pledges and takes the position which
Indicates he does not desire the sue
cess Of the party, the label he bears
is not republication.
we have gone a long way in con-
month or two left, but in that time
much is to be done and much is to
be shown as to the character and iden-
tity OF those who belong to the repub-
lican party.
No man has the right to read an
other out Of the republican party He
reads himself out if he is disloyal and
If he can not by his own works show
his colors." The president emphasize
ed his remarks with forceful gestures.
Il want everybody in the rank / want
the help Of all republicans even if
same may have slipped little 1
want them all back to help that grand
old party-and 7 say this with al,
due Difference to our democratic
friends-upon which the real progress
of the country depends" This was
the signal for a long continued up
heavaL Why do ] say that he con-
tinued, 1T is not that the democrats
are not patriotic Or good citizens, but
it Is that expression the democratic
party does not mean compact, cohes-
i've body Of men who can make pro-
gross. I look forward with philoso-
phic temperament to the threatened
invasion of the hall Of congress by the
democrats.
'1 say threatened, yes, threatened
in the imagination of Champ Clark,
Henry Watterson and others. st am
confident that when once it comes and
has been for two or more years, it
means a long lease of power to the
republican party.
I'VE want no schisms in the republic
can party. The time will come after
congress adjourns when we shall have
redeemed our pledges. that we can
go before the American people and
argue out all differences and ask suf-
frage Of our fellow citizens on our rec
ord"
Tariff Was Revised.
The president was followed by Sen
ator Lodge who took up the tariff bill.
Lodge was cheered when he said:
The republican party promised to re-
revise the tariff and has done it. In
our support of the principle of protec-
ton We are not prepared to yield a
3ot or offer any apologies"
Senator Bradley Of Kentucky, de-
clared the Kentucky republicans would
stand by the president and the party.
Representative Nicholas Longworth,
of Ohio, made q strong plea for the tar
i'll bill and the success OF the Taft ad-
ninistration. In discussing the atti-
tude Of Beveridge of Indiana, relating
to the tariff, Longworth referred to
the discussion Of the lumber schedule
before the ways and means committee
and brought in the name Of Clifford
Pinchot, which was family cheered
Pinchot, he said, had told the commit
tee that the conservation Of forests
required reduction of the tariff. III
there is a man." said Longworth,
more responsible than any other
more than all others put together-for
the fact that today lumber is not upon
the free list, 1t is Pinohot"
Representative J. Hampton Moore Of
Pennsylvania; John Hays Hammond,
and Representative William B. McKin-
ley. OF Illinois. also spoke.
0ouin 10 ss::.e pe&$
John C. CApers. OF South Carolina,
brought the republican enthusiasts to
their feet when he said: "The south
was going to save the republican par
ty from threatened defeat. The re-
publican party may lose Iowa or Kan
sas. but We IN the south are going to