The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-04-15
ALL WELCOME,
SAYS TAFT
PRESIDENT REFUSES TO READ
ANY ONE OUT OF REPUB-
LlCAN RANKS.
Arms Open to All Who Assist in Re.
deeming Republican Pledges =
Wickersham Speaks at Chicago,
Declaring Time to Choose Has Ar
rived.

Washington, April 9.-President w.
H. Taft sounded recall to wandering
Republicans tonight in speech deliv-
cred to the League of Republican
Clubs for the District of Columbia at
| it's sixth annual banquet. He told the
insurgent congressman their standing
in the party would depend on them
selves and the votes on Republican
Legislation during the next two months.
Al the present time he recognizes both
regulars and insurgents as Republi-
cans.
Incidentally and by inference he in
formed Speaker Joseph G. Cannon and
Representatives John Dalzell and Ser
emo E. Payne they could read no Re-
publicans out of the party. He con-
tended that was beyond any individual
or set of individuals and rested with
the Republican himself. by their
fruits We shall know Them" he ex-
claimed amid cheers.
II am glad" began the President,
| ito have my senses testify to me that
the Republican party is still alive.
am glad to testify by coming here my
sense of the importance of the League
of Republican Clubs as an instrument
| by aid of which the regular organiza-
lions of the States are put to their
trumps to see to it that they do their
duty and that the league is not the
whole thing.
Time for Doing, Says Taft.
"Your president has announced that
the President may make keynote
speech I don't like to say he had no
authority so to speak. Before l am
through you will be convinced he was
misinformed. With reference to the
distinguished members of the Senate
and House here tonight, l think it is
not exactly the time for speaking ex-
cept in the two houses of the legisla-
ture. This is the time for doing, for
voting, for passing the measures to
which the Republican party is pledged.
Tonight we are reading nobody out
of the Republican party. We want
them all within the ranks. They have
the opportunity to establish their
claim as Republicans by what they do
as legislators to enact the legislation
the party demands. BY their fruits
We shall know them.
| "Those men who in good faith stand
to the legislation and seek to redeem
party pledges have the right to stand
in the party as Republicans. If they
don't want to help with this legislation
we shall not quarrel with them. 1t is
| their privilege to vote and speak as
| they will. We desire them as Repub-
licans and l don't want to say any
thing to separate them from us or to
assert that they are not as sincere in
their Republicanism as am myself.
No One Can Read Out Another.
"No man has the right to read an
other man out of the Republican par
ty. He reads himself out if disloyal
Ii not disloyal he can by his words and
| acts snow his loyalty.
81 am in no defiant spirit tonight. 1
want all in the ranks; want the help
or all. Whether in the past they have
slipped away little, want them back
to help that grand old party upon
which the real progress of the country
depends. 1t is not that the Democrats
are not patriotic or good citizens It
is that the Democratic party does not
mean compact, cohesive body of men
who can make progress in this coun-
try. The Democrats have not had the
discipline; they have not had the ex-
perience. When the opportunity was
thrust upon them they divided up and
left us where the Republican party
had to come in and show it's adaptable
ity to govern and legislate.
II look forward with considerable
philosophy to the threatened invasion
of the halls of Congress by the Demo-
Gratis. This is threatened by my
friends Champ Clark and Henry Wat
terson. hope and believe it is not
coming, but if it is 1 am confident
that when once it comes and has been
here for two or four years, it will mean
another long lease of power for the Re-
publican party.
Arms Open to All.
I'VE are not here to create schism.
We are here to hold out our arms to
all Republicans to assist in redeeming
our pledges. After that there will be
time to go before the people and argue
out our party differences and ask the
suffrage of the people as in the past on
our record"
Representative Nicholas Longworth,
of Ohio, son-in-law of former President
Roosevelt, made a severe attack on
Senator Beverage and the insurgent
band in Congress. This address was
in marked contrast to the conciliatory
tone of the Presidents speech.
WICkERSHAM SAYS TIME
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