The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-09-30
GREAT SPEECH BY
SPEAKER CANNON
Tears Insurgent Democrat
ic Soptistry to Totters.
Democratic Capacity to Tear
Down and None to
Build Up.

God, 1t is an era Of peace in this
country. | recite this incident, not
to stir up luminosity, but in the con-
test touching economic policies in the
presence of Misrepresentation in
the presence of falsehood in the pres
enc of denunciation abounding every
where but most in the uplift maya
zines and large portion of the me-
tropolitan press. II Is the time for
the Republican party in Illinois and
all over the country to stand up and
be counted. | pray God to help that
great party keep the Republican faith
whether We succeed or fall. 1t Is
better to fight and fail. standing
true to correct principles and poll
eies of government which underlie
the prosperity of 9O,O0O.OO0 than to
eowardly turn your back to the con-
test flee from the enemy apologize.
and excuse.
We made platform in Chicago In
1908. We nominated and subsequently,
elected Taft. We elected a Repubh-
can House with a nominal majority,
with more than forty, and almost two
thirds majority in the Senate. Taft
Is a great man. He has the judicial
temperament. He would preserve the
coordinate branches of the Govern
ment as the fathers made them-and
wisely made them-for the protection
Of rich and poor, weak and strong.
Taft has performed the duties of his
great office. and he has left it TO
Congress to legislate and to the
court to interpret the law, and he
could not do differently if he were
to try, because God gave him that
Eind of a manhood.
The judicial temperament is not
spectacular; it does not play the
role of an evangel. | want the Pres
ident of the United States-your
President and mine-to stand by his
duties as defined in the Constitution
and cooperate with his party in writ
ing upon the statute book just legisla-
ton keeping his oath of office to see
that the laws are enforced. Taft has
done all those things. | am proud of
the reputation. | am proud of the
achievements of every great Repub-
lean, whether he be in or out of pub
lie life and ] am proud of the rec
ord made by the Sixty-first Congress.
When ii came to the crucial moment
we had bare majority of only five
in the House of Representative
something which perhaps the coun-
try does not und erstand-but We kept
the pledges that Were made in the
Chicago platform. We enacted the
payne tariff law, which has been abu-
sod and misrepresented from every
standpoint. 1t has been so much abus
I'd that some of the children in the
country cry aloud when they wake
up in the night time and say oh moth
r, mother. the Payne tariff law is
about to catch u.s."
When we entered upon the revis-
ion of the Dingley law there We're
some Republicans who said We could |
not make a scientific revision; we
did not know enough we did not have |
sufficient information and they would
ga up and pick out one schedule
or one item in a great Measure that |
includes 5000 items and dsnounce |
and poundzk and stamp on 1t to-
gether If they had had their way
about II we would not have kept the
Republican platform pledge Because
Of the fack OF information; and yet
We received our instructions from the
national convention to enact a new
iariff law.S
whtie it may be wrong in an item
here and there, | want to say to you
hat so long an the human race sur
'ives when II comes to making
great tariff law that assists in gath
ring eight or pine hundred million
1ollars to carry on this Government
hat must be passed by majority of
he House and Senate representing /,
, territory stretching $500 miles from
)ne ocean to the other with complex
md diverse interests, nobody ever has
'r ever will or ever can enact a per-
ect revenue law. The older | get
Ind the more | see of myself and of
men the more strongly | am con-
'iDced that perfection resides with {
sod alone. together with all wisdom 1
nd all power.
There was period of uncertainty [
nd a slackening of industry while We {
rere considering the tariff. dis
he to see the business and produc- {
ON OF the country halted and held
ack for any reason and that Is why
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