Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-10
TAME INSURGENTS,
/. DON'T GUST THEM,
IS TAFT'S ADVICE
Declares RecaICitrantS Still Have
Chance to Redeem
Themselves
WONT QUARREL WITH THEM
President Addresses League of
Republican Clubs as TituIar
Leader of the Party
WON'T QUARREL WITH THEM
ASSOCIATED Press1
ASSOCIATED Press1
W AsHINGTON, April 9.-William
w Howard Taft spoke tonight be-
fore the League of Republican

A~A'7'NeANhfSNA
" AsHINGTON, April 9.-william
| w Howard Taft spoke tonight be-
fore 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 glad the Re-
| publican party still lives" that he did
not want to read any man out of the
| party, but "by their deeds they should
be known"
Tonight" he said, 1--WE are reading
nobody out of the party. We want alt
! of them in the ranks and they have
| the opportunity to establish their
| claim to Republicanism by that which
they shall do in both houses of con-
/ gress by helping to enact the legisla-
/ ton which is now before them.'
/ with all due Difference to the distin-
! guished members of the senate and
/ house who surround me-" the president
continued. 'I want to say that think
| this is not exactly the time for speak
| ing except in the two houses of the
! legislature This is the time for do
| ing things"
"The time has come" said the pres
| ident, "for doing, and voting and pass
| ing the measures placed before this
| congress.
"Those," he continued, ain the senate
ton we seek in order to redeem the
pledges of the party have the right to
stand with the party as Republicans.
eff they don't. we won't quarrel with
| them. They have right to their
| opinions, and I do not wish to assume
that they are not as sincere as I hope
l am myself in Republicanism.
FALSE REPUBLICANS
mo man has a right to read another
/ % h. TD,..s ~ To 1a
himself out If he is at all disloyal and
If he cannot by his own works show
| his colors."
The president was talking straight
from the shoulder. He emphasized his
remarks with forceful gestures.
you see," he continued, 81 am in no
defiant spirit tonight" At this the
president laughed aloud at his own
words, starting the chorus of laughter
from his hearers.
IT want everybody in the ranks; L
want the help of all Republicans, even
if some may have slipped away a little.
want them all back to help that grand
old party-and I say this with all due
| Difference to our Democratic friends
upon which the real progress of this
country depends"
The president, when he concluded,
was given great ovation. He was
| followed by Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge of Massachusetts,, who took up
the tariff bill, of which the president
had not spoken.
Senator Lodge based n brief speech
on a book called 1.-THE Promise e
American Life" by Herbert Croly,
which he said. is a very interesting
and elaborate study of the nations
history and of the Problem which
now confronts us"
After reviewing Mr.. Croly's book, Mr..
Lodge said:
"A party is made national, not by
the locality in which it receives it's
vote, but by the policies which it ad-
vocates and the Republican party is
today as national in its policies as it
was in the beginning when its cry was
that freedom was national and slavery
sectional The success of the Republi-
lican party now, as at all times, de-
pends in the last analysis on its fl
deity to its principles.
WARNS AGAINST COMPROMISE
"When in the past it has wavered
or compromised 1t has never had any
real success and it has frequently lost
ground.
"The two leading policies of the Re
publican party today are: Protec-
ton to American industry and labor,
and government regulation and su-
pervislon of the great combinations
of capital which have grown up in
the conduct of our transportation and
our industries.
ITO those principles the party must
remain true No party ever prospered
by denying it's beliefs"
Senator Bradley of Kentucky, the
third speaker, declared that Kentucky
Republicans would stand by the pres
ident and the party.
1.-THE cry should not be-" he said,
that the Republican party has saved
the country, but that the Republican
party has been and is the country.
Without it we should have no coun-
try"
Representative Nicholas Longworth
Of Ohio minced no words in describing
the forthcoming political struggle.
1.-THE time soon will be at hand" he
said, ''when we shall enter on a cam
paign of vast consequence. 1t may in
volve not only the success or failure of
the administration of President Taft,
but it may involve the integrity of the
Republican party
"We are engaged now in passing
legislation which causes wide differ
ence of opinion, is not discord, in the
ranks of the party clothed with re-
sponsibility for that legislation
"The Republican party cannot af-
ford to have it's bona fde questioned
It cannot afford to have the sincerity
of it's pledges doubted.
is TAFT MAN
"I am a Taft man-not on the sur
face. but through and through" con-
tlnued Mr.. Longworth. II am not
willing to use his name as a cloak for
my support of other men and other
interests. 1 am not willing to praise
him in public and work against him
in private"
John Hays Hammond, one of the or
ganizers and promoters of the league
and president of the National Repub-
lican league; Hon. John G.. Capers OF
South Carolina, Representative w. b.
Mckinley of Illinois, Representative
Duncan McKinlay Of California, Presi-