The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-17
They Can, and They Dare.


to most explicitly declare the sentiment of who
uncertain as to party policy and to utter the hope that
the national leaders shall speak in uncertain sound
Can President Taft Speaker Cannon and the United States
senators from Illinois define the principles of genuine Re-
pubhcanism-and dare they do it, Those the ques-
lions which the Chicago paper asked
If ever there a time when clear speech in the
matter needed that time is The whole country
has been misledand by the who opposing both
the President and his best friends LaFoette Cummns
and host of others responsible for the general inn
preston that the tariff pledges of the Republican national
convention We're not kept And they kept Not only
was the tariff revised but it revised downward On
the necessares of life the rates we're reduced in both
number and total of percentages On the Injuries the
rates of tariff increased And because rates were
reduced increase of mporations brought increase
of revenue The two purposes of American tariff
served Labor protected and the revenues of the
nation were provided
Make of that. The tariff was revsed-DOWN-
WARD! Yet these who have dared the President to
speak plainly responsible for the misunderstanding
wherever it exists throughout the nation.
There is not phase of public policy of possible
interest to the nation in which the plain word has not
been uttered No need daring President and and
speaker to sound the battle cry has been sounded and
that with absolute cearness No who wants to know
what is the policy of the Republican party what is the
desire and purposes of the leaders be in the slightest
doubt In of speeches throughout the nation Pres
dent Taft has declared the policy of his administration
far he control the of In his speech
to the manufacturers convention he stated again. and in
admirable form, the exact stand he had TAKEN the stand
he has occupied from the beginning and the stand where
he will certainly be found to the very end
Gentlemen may declare Senator Cummns has de
clared that they will rather leave the Republican party
than follow the leaders of that party They seek be
greater than their party and there is only thing for
them to do The choice is with them If they can not
sink their personal opinions to the extent of following
where the of party opinion directs they should
60 then they should axe their secession clear and final
And they may take their comforting the fact that
Henry NJ. Teller concluded much the same thing
And Chairman Thurston said when Teller and Cannon
and Dubois and the rest of them marched dramatically
from the convention hail. There to be still enough
delegates to proceed with the business What is the
further pleasure of the convention Cummns and La
Toilette may make their declaration of independence
and they will go to join Teller and Fred Dubois and J.
Frank Cannon. And there is no limbo bottomless in
all creation that to which they consigned themselves
We believe in party management. We believe in party
control We believe in party leadership. And
party election managed an administration
without discipline 1t is the fate of the Republican party
to have been right wise and successful have
fed fat lot of who Overestimate themselves Car
red to greatness by the party which has achieved they
turn against for better earth than the de-
sire to dictate The spendors of the conqueror drift
them in dreams and they seek emnence which can
be accorded to American political Ife-no nor
in American government, either There must be czars
There be despots. The will of the people must be
obeyed And those who best obey that will direct the
that fair and just arrangement stab the friend who helped
them and lose forever the opportunity for that service
which might be theirs.
The word has been uttered. The President has stated
his position The speaker of the House has made clear
his loyalty to the Republican party-and his perfect
obedience to that party too Opponents may conure with
They may declare the party failed to keep its
pledges and seek to with odum the names of
Adrieh and Cannon But lies will not blacken the face
of truth and the people will not successfully be led by
insurgents
The word has been said The policy of the Republican
party has been declared and will be followed And the
Republican party will go forward under its present leaders
until the people themselves select and other leaders
And there is but treatment for insurgents there
here, anywhere else. Grant said to Packenham 'No
terms but absolute and unconditional surrender move
your works in hour" And Veksburg fell
Men who fight the party organization fight for their
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Men who love the party help the
leaders, and become themselves leaders. But never by
treason. Never by falsehood Never by ngrattude
In Washington, in Illinois, in Utah and everywhere
else there is but word for Republicans That loyalty
to the party If they not give that they be
Republicans If they they will certainly give of their
off fo at