The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-10
WICKERSHAM SENDS HOT
SHOT INTO INsURGENT
CAMP IN SPEECH.
HAS PRAISE FOR PRES.
SAYS ADMINISTRATION WILL
REDEEM PARTY PLEDGES
IF LEFT ALONE.
(sy United Press Leased Wire)

CHICAGO, April 9.-Declaring
that the time has come for every
republican to choose whether or not
he is for the president and the re-
publican party, Attorney General
George Wickersham tonight, before
the Hamilton club of this city, de-
livered stirring address in defense
of the administration of President
Taft, and, in effect, told the. "in-
surgents" that their proper place
was outside the party breastworks.
Treason" said he, has ever
consisted in giving aid and comfort
to the enemy. If anyone wishes to
join the democratic party, let him
do so. But let him not claim to be
a republican, and in and out of sea-
son work to defeat republican meas
ures and to subvert the influence of
the republican president"
81 am fully persuaded" he said
in another part of his speech, that
despite the efforts of individuals to
magnify their own particular i'm
portance at the expense OF party
honor, the republican majority in
congress will make good the party
pledges and give the country the
benefit of that legislation which the
party has promised and which the
president has so clearly and so
forcefully outlined.
"sToP co0UETTiNG WITH
DEMOcRATs.'
What other administration can
point to the accomplishment of so
much in so short time? Is it not
time that all those who call them
selves republicans should stop CO.
quoting with the democratic party,
should sink their individual prefer
ences about details of legislation,
and join with republican workers in
carrying to Irritation under our
great, patient, considerate, wise re-
publican president, the work of
clinching the reforms of the past
eight years on the lines so carefully
and so wisely laid down in the plat
form of 1908"
The occasion was the celebration
by the club of Appomattox day.
Without attempting to draw too
close an analogy between the con-
ditions which existed after the
meeting between Generals Grant
and Lee on this day as years ago,
and those confronting Taft on his
accession to office, the speaker said
that there were points of similarity
"The danger from armed resist
ence to constituted authority" he
said. lis open and mnifest, and is
met by simple, obvious methods.
The dangers to free institutions
arising from the concentration of
great wealth and vast power in few
hands is far more insidious than that
arising from open revolt against
government, and methods by which
those dangers may be met and
averted are less obvious and more
subject to misunderstanding than
the work of resisting force by force.
The work of framing and enacting
laws adequate to the need but not
injurious to the legitimate interests
of national enterprise and industry;
the daily work of administering
these laws and Of endeaVoring to
carry on the great, increasingly
complex business of government
without perpetual turmoil and COM
motion, but none the less efficiently
and adequately. is far less attrac-
tive to spectacular imagination. and
can only be done by men who are
content to endure misrepresenta-
ton of their acts and to look to the
future rather than to the present
for vindication of their motives
and a justification Of their deeds
WILL STILL PROSECUTE
TRUSTS.
The attorney general referred to
the tariff bill as "a distinct step