Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-04-15
TAFT SAYS Things
AT MEETING OF LEAGUE OF
REPUBLICAN, CLUBS.
Said He Did Not Want to Read Any
Man Out Of the Party, But That by
Their Deeds They Should Be Known
Pledges Must Be Redeemed Speeches
by Others Prominent in Party.

Washington.- William Howard Taft
spoke Saturday night before the League
of Republican Clubs of the District of
Columbia, not so much as president of
the United States as in his capacity as
titular leader of the republican party.
Mr.. Taft said he was "gIad the re-
publican party still lives =; that he did
not want to read any man out of the
party, but that "by their deeds they
should be KNOWN
Tonight, = he said, ''we are read
ing nobody out of the party. We want
all of them in the ranks and they have
the opportunity to establish their claim
to republicanism by that which they
shall do in the congress by helping to
enact the legislation which is now be-
fore them -
Not Keynote Speech.
The 500 guests from all parts of the
United States stood up and cheered
The president was in mood to "talk
turkey" but he said he had not come
ito them to make keynote speech. y
With all due Difference to the dis
atinguished members of the senate and
1.-The house who surround me-" the presi-
dent continued, ''I want to say that I
think this is mot exactly the time for
speaking except in the two houses of
the Legislature. This is the time for
doing things"
Here the president, who spoke with
more emphasis than. usually character
ICES his after-dinner speeches, was
again interrupted by roar of cheers
and shouts.
"GreatI" "Bully for youi'' "Now
you re talking'P CHATS what we
want to heart" were among the com.
ments shouted from the floor of the
banquet hall.
"The time has come,'' said President
Taft, for doing and voting and pass
ing the measures that have been placed
before this congress. 1t is the time for
doing things, and 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
Redeem the Pledges.
"Those," he continued, lin the SEN
ate and house who stand for the legis-
lation we seek in order to redeem the
pledges Of the party have the right to
stand with the party as republicans.
If they do not, we won t quarrel
with them. They have a right to their
opinions But we desire their aid-aid
as republicans and don t wish to as
sumo that they are not as sincere as 1
hope am in republicanism.
1.-THE republican party is not rigid
in its demands. 1t is SO broad and lib
eral that it permits differences Of
opinion.'
Mr.. Taft chuckled in his inimitable
way as he spoke of the differences of
opinion of the party. After the tu-
multi of the shouting had subsidized the
president continued:
But when the evidence is shown
that member of the political party
does not desire the success of the re-
publican party and is unwilling to re-
deem his party pledges and takes po-
sition which indicates he does not de-
sire the success of the party, the label
he bears is not republicanism
We We gone long way in congress,
and | know there is but month or
two left, but in that time much is to be
done, and much is to be shown as to the
character and identity OF those who be-
long to the party.
No man has right to read another
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 was talking straight
from the shoulder. He emphasized his
remarks with forceful gestures.
Not Defiant.
''You see," he continued, ''I am in
no defiant spirit tonight
At this time the president laughed
aloud at his own words, starting the
chorus of laughter from his hearers 81
want the help of all republicans, even
if some may have slipped away little
want them all back to help that grand
old party-and | say this with all due
Difference to our democratic friends
upon which the real progress of this
country depends.
This was the signal for prolonged
cheering. The president waited while
the demonstration which his remarks
precipitated proceeded for several min
utes.
"Why do say that9'' the president
continued. 1T is not that the demo
Gratis are not patriotic or good citizens, |
but it is that the expression demo. l
cratic party does not mean a compact, /
cohesive body of men who can make $
progress in this country.
81 look forward with philosophic
to the threatened invasion
of the halls of congress by democrats. !
l say threatened-ye threatened-in
the imaginations of Champ Clark,
Henry Watterson and others.
II am confident that when once it |
comes and it has been in power for two
OF more years it means longer lease
of power to the republican party.
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