The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-20
TAFT'S VIEWS Of
'PROGRESSIVES''

NEW YORK, Oct President Taft
delivered what will probably be his
only public address IN the present
campaign at the banquet OF the Na.
tlonal Republican League at the Hotel
Astor tonight
The Presidents speech was marked
by a particularly conciliatory tone to-
ward the insurgent wing OF the party
lie gave "all factions of the party
due credit for their share I'm helping
to put through Congress the legisla.
tive programme, which the President
outlined in some detail. The record
of the past Is months, he declared,
was an earnest of the desire of the
party to fulfill its platform promises
and obligations, and he promised, If
the Republican majority in Congress
should be continued at the coming
elections, that the work thus far left
undone would be carried through to
completion.
TAFT DEFINES PROGRESSIVE"
Upon the whole Republican party
the President bestowed the title of
Progressive" Then he undertook to
define just what is meant by progress
sive.
"A party of true progress Is not a
party of radicalism," he declared amid
cheers.
ut is not a party Of ultra-conserva-
tism," he added and again was cheer
ed.
"A progressive Republican, the Pre-
sident went on, els one who recognizes
existing and concrete evils and who is
in favor of practical and definite steps
to eradicate them"
Twice President Taft mentioned Co
lionel Roosevelt by name in connection
with the campaign against corporate
abuses, and third time by inference,
when he referred to the New York
situation. The cause of Republicanism
in this State, he said, has been heart
ened by a brave declaration of prin-
ciple and by the nomination of a can
didate for Governor of the highest
character and ability.
At the same time, Mr.. Taft did not
take an altogether sanguine view of
the benefits that are to accrue from
direct primary experiments, but ire
hoped that the idea could Returned
to a useful and permanent betterment
of politics.
"But however effective these sug
gested changes may prove at first" he
added, 81 venture to say that no great
permanent good can come from them
until they are accompanied by g
change in the individual voter, anC
his awakening to the necessity fol-
constant watchfu1ness and effort or
his part to prevent the old evils from
appearing in a new guise."
President Taft announced that he
had directed the Tariff Commission tC
make no report of the work it has ac
complished up to this time until after
the election. He took this step, he de
clared, in order to lift the commission
out of politics entirely. He referred
to his suggested future revision of the
tariff schedule by schedule, and de
clared that the Payne tariff law is
coming generally to be recognized as
creditable bill.
The President declared for a sweep
ing extension of the civil service, TAX
ing a stand in favor of putting all
postmasters, collectors of customs and
internal revenue, surveyors of Gus
toms and appraisers on the permanent
rolls of the Government, this leaving
but little of the patronage of old.
In outlining the future plans of his
Administration the President placed
stress upon the proposed Federal in
corporation law. He referred to the
Standard Oil and Tobacco Trust cases
pending in the United States Supreme
Court, and. declared that he did no
share the fears somewhat freely eX
pressed that a decision adverse t.
the corporations would greatly disturb
financial centers, halt general business
and bring on financial disaster.
The President rediculed the asseT
ton of the Democrats that $3OO,OOO,OO
would be saved in national expendi
lures each year if that party wer
placed in power. He asked for
more definite statement of where tn
saving was to be proposed by the De
! mocrats to cut off the pension list o
; to do away with the army and tn
navy
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