The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-04-14
TAFT DRAWS Line
:. FOR INSURGENTS
Parity Should Judge Its Members
I. gu.e by Their Deeds.
NE PLEADS FOR HARMONY
President In Speech at Washington
Declares Distinctions Can Only
Read Themselves Out OF
the Ranks.

Washington, April 11.-President
Taft went to the banquet of the
League of Republican Clubs de.
termined to sound no keynote
speech"
He announced his determination in
his first sentence; but in the next few
moments he had enunciated call to
party unity and statement of his at
tftude toward insurgency which
brought the diners to their feet with
yells of approval.
The president declared he had no
quarrel with the insurgents; that he
sought to read no one out OF the party,
but tnat he proposed to demand the
party should judge its members by
the support they give to the party
legislation during the remaining
months of the present session Of con.
gress.
Time for "poing Things"
This is not exactly the time for
speaking, except in the two houses of
the national legislature" said the
president. This Is the time for doing
things; the time for voting upon and
passing the measures to which the
party has pledged itself
After congress has adjourned, then
Is the time to form our lines of attack
against the enemy.
I'VE are reading no one out of the
Republican party. We want all of
them within the party ranks They
have the opportunity to establish
their claim to Republicanism by that
which they shall do as legislators In
both houses of congress; by helping
to enact the legislation to which the
party Is pledged.
By their fruits We shall know
them Old friends who in good faith
stand to the enactment of legislation
to redeem the promises the party has
made have the right to stand forth as
Republicans. If they don't want to
stand with the party or help the party
to the enactment of its legislation, !
have no quarrel with them. They
have the right to vote or speak as
they will. but we want their aid as
Republicans so long as they win be
Republicans.
Republican Party Is Not Rigid.
Il don't want to say anything here
that will seem to separate them from
US. or to indicate that In their profes-
sion of Republicanism they are not
as sincere as l hope / am. The Re-
publican party Is not a rigid party.
We may not all agree In our opinions
upon legislation, and we have the
right to express those opinions within
the party
But when the evidence is shown
that man does not desire to support
the Republican party; when he shows
himself unwilling to redeem for the
party the pledges made to the people
by the party; when he withdraw8 sup
port from the party and wishes sue
cess for another party, then We have
the right to say that the label he bears
Is not Republican.
And so, although we have gone a
long way In this congress, and al
though | hope there is only a month
or two months more, believe that In
that month or two months there is
much to be done and much to be
shown as to character and Identity of
those who belong to the Republican
party.
Appeals for Party Harmony.
mo man has the right to read an
other man out of the Republican party.
He reads himself out If he Is disloyal
to the party. and II not, he can, by his
own words, show that he is loyal. So
you see 1t is in no defiant spirit that
am here, I want the help of all Re-
publicans, whether or not they may
in the past have slipped away little.
I'VE want them back to help that
grand old party upon which the real
| progress Of this country depends"