Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-06-07
A DIFFICULT PROBLEM.

Now, my friends, that presents a
great and difficult problem, that 1 am
quite willing to, admit we. have not vet
solved and the question which the, coun-
try will have to, determine after all, Is
which party 1t is which has heretofore
SHOWN sufficient skill and effectiveness
in dealing with great issues, which party
can be trusted to solve that problem
than which we have had no greater In the
history of the county
Mr.. Taft spoke at Kelley park to a
81 and stand filled with throng which
gave him a demonstrative welcome.
After stating that the Republican party
was born of a moral issue, the president
declared that one of the characteristics
OF that party is its ability to do things
and then proceeded to enumerate the is
sues which, he said, had been met sue
cessfully and effectually. Continuing. he
said! ,-....s....a 30" @' -.. ;
Now parties differ. I am not going
to make a partisan speech. 1 am not
going to say anything invidious. But I
think you may personify parties if they
will only live long enough to show their
different characteristics.
ABILITY TO DO THINGS.
lone of the characteristics of the Re-
publican party is it's ability to do things.
Now 1 do not say that as an idle boast.
but II you can point to a party In Eng
land or a party in the United States
that has had issues to meet that the Re-
publican party has met and that has met
them with the success and effectiveness
of the Republican party l would be glad
to have you name 1t. 1t Is true that the
time seems to produce. the man for every
emergency. but behind that man, or
ganized to hold up his hands, was, the
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every exigency. ...... @
1T is said that Grant saved the coun-
try. 1t is said that Lincoln saved the
country. 1 should be the last to de-
tract in the slightest from the grand rep
utation of either OF those men, but neith-
er Lincoln nor Grant could have accom-
plished what they did or brought about
the results that were brought about I'M
less there was an organized force behind
them which gave them the means, which
gave them the instruments by which the
future was worked out and the rebellion
war suppressed.
SOME OTHER ISSUES.
"And now I could go on, my friends,
and point out the other issues which this
party met as the result of the civil war
the work of reconstruction, the work
of restoring the credit of the govern
ment, the meeting or tnat lnslolOuS doc
trine of greenbackism, by which we were
going to print the money to pay our
debts and thank God that our debts were
thus disposed of. Then came the free
silver-shall I call 1t heresy?-well, 1 will
call 1t theory by which we were to
pay our debts not by the printing press
but by cutting those debts in two.
And then we had the issue that was
thrust on us by the Spanish war. We
were going to drive the Spaniards out of
Cuba, set up Cuba as an independent ma
ton and give away. Well, We had not
begun hardly before we found ourselves
10000 miles away, over in the Philip
pines, and we are there yet.
I'VE have been twice to Cuba. / hope
we will never have to go again. But it
only shows that the running of a gov
eminent is the meeting of great and
sometimes unexpected issues and what
YOU need in command is an organized
force that has shown itself in the past
able to meet these issues and to have
the effectiveness and the skill and the
energy to meet them with credit TO the
people of the country, and that is what
the Republican party has done down to
this"
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