Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-30
REPUBLICAN LEAGUE TO
GIVE RECEPTION TO TAFT
Eleventh Annual Convention in
Session-President Ham,
mond Makes Address.


can political activity shifted today TO
New York city. which welcomed body
of voters Of that party from all over the
country, here to attend the eleventh an
nual convention Of the National Republic
can League The leading feature of to-
days session in Carnegie Hall will be an
address to young voters" to be delivered
by Col. Theodore Roosevelt late in the
afternoon The convention will be car
ried over TO tomorrow.
4 parade Of The delegates will be held
and in the evening following a reception
to President Taft at the Republican Club.
Mr.. Taft will be the guest of the club at
a banquet in the Hotel Astor and deliver
an address which is expected to be an
important political utterancs.
Southern Delegates Present.
Large delegations from Georgia and
North Carolina have been sent to the
convention and states nearer by were
even more largely represented.
The notables who were welcomed in
Guided something like two-score republic
can governors of states. United states
senators and representa- tNes in congress
and several of these Will address the
gathering. Representative Nicholas Long
of the speeches at Saturdays session
John Hays Hammond. president OF the
league. presides over the sessions OF lhe
body, which has membership OF more
tina, COCOON. comprised in $50 CLUBS
and representing every state and territory
In the Union.
President Hammond's Address.
In his opening address President Ham
mond discussed the republican policies
and gave much attention to the tarln
He referred to the differences of opinion
in the republican ranks over recent tarln
les islation, and said that Notwithstanding
these differences all the republican leaders
stand unqualifiedly for the basic principle
of protection as against the policy OF
free trade advocated by democratic lead
erS.
Referring to the Presidents action
when the Payne bill came to him from
Congress he said:
The high and patriotic motives which
induced President Taft to sign the Payne
tariff law are not yet fully understood
and therefore are not as yet appreciated
by the people of the country 1t was by
the PRESIDENTS masterful character that
the Payne tariff bill was finally SO modt-
fled by Congress as to approximate hon
estly the promise of revision made in the
Chicago platform. A President less high
minded and less patriotic than President
bill and in that way to have won the
plaudits Of his countrymen as a Presi.
dent OF great force Of character-'one who
had the courage of his convictions. But
what would have been the result If this
bill had been vetoed? In the first place,
the relatively high tariff under the Ding
ley law would have remained in force; III
the second place, the -eto would have been
a staggering blow to the restoration of
confidence and to the renewal Of national
prosperity. inasmuch as 1t would. have re-
suited IN uncertainty as to the nations
policy regarding this great economic
problem Besides causing disaster to the
country, 1t would have resulted in four
years OIL a republican administration with
Congress hostile to the executive, the
inevitable consequence of which would
have been that all the other great pro-
gressive measures vital to the welfare
of the country would not have been
passed, entailing. therefore. irreparabe
injury to the nation and great loss of
political capital to the republican party.