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President Taft Delivers Address at
the Banquet of the National
League Of Republican
Clubs.
GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS
Present Congress, He Declares,
Marks the Rising Tide Of Pro-
sress that was Started
Under Mckinley.
Gate City Leased Wire service.]

[Gate City Leased Wire Service.l
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-PesiHent
Taft tonight made public his defini-
tion of progressive republicanism'
and gave definite notice of his
friendly feeling toward that end of
the party.
The occasion was his first political
address of the congressional CAM
paign, a Keynote, speech delivered
at the banquet of the National League
of Republican Clubs. A progressive
republican, according to the views OF
the chief executive, is "one who
recognized existing and concrete
views and who is in favor of practical
and definite steps to eradicate them
Three times during the speech he
referred in complimentary words to
Ex-P President Roosevelt. first thank
i ing him as the executive whose ad-
ministration marked a rising tide OF
progress" for the party, again as
being chiefly instrumental in Or
/ ganizing a crusade against political
| corruption. and finally, without men
tion of his name, as "heatening'' the
cause of republicanism "by a brave
declaration of principle in the con-
vention at Saratoga.
There was no reading out" OF in
surgents in the presidents speech, no
repetition of his Winona, Minn. ut
x terances. Instead, the president
sought to leave the impression that
,ae work in congre SIS had been achiev-
ed by a united party. After enumer-
ating the legislation enacted last ses-
sion, he declared:
"The extraordinary athie3enelit
of this cons ess may fa 'ly re SAID 10
be part of great republican move
ment. AS al shared in tho work sc
we .,l, must share i'll the satisfac-
ton of accom-: lishmen S, 1t marks tha
rising tie q progress that began at
the end of the democratic panic
when William Mckinley was our
leader. and that continued through
out the two administrations of Theo'
dore Roosevelt.
1T is peculiarly republican dis
tinction that our party has been able
to place on the statute books far
reaching remedial legislation touch
ing the very vitals of our social ano
, economic structure without fnvolv
ing the counry in financial disaster.
"A party of true progress is not
PARTY of radicalism. 1t is not party
of ultra conservatism"
''It is possible" the president salt
in conclusion, Gin such govern
ment as ours to lose through misap
!, preparation and misunderstanding. Bu
mistakes of this kind are not
manent Let us constantly remem
Der that if we stick to our princi
pies, if we insist upon efficiency IL
government, if we perform our prom
ises in the future as in the pas
when opportunity offers, if we stan'
shoulder to shoulder in the deter
mination to carry on the work o
progress as we have understood it
then. because we are an effectlv
and progressive party. because we d
know how p:Utically 3 carry on ou
,e government, because we hav
is principles by which we propose t
O. stand in the face of victory or de
feat, we shall certainly be continue
% in power"
al The president arrived in New Yo-
N over the Pennsylvania ct $50 Snd
= 4 O'Clock was mingling with a selet
assemblage of New York republican
with the National Republican club.
- He intends TO remain at the HON
40 of his brother. Henry w. TAFT,
We New York until late tomorrow afte
noon when he will leave for Bever
IS for a two weeks vacation. Mrs. Tai
oi who reioined him, left tonight Fl
- Beverly.
Congressman Nicholas Longwort
who preceded the president, made
&c plea for a united, progressive repu
UP lican party. He declared that
spoke as a progressive republica
re and he placed Taft and Col. Rooseve
at at the head of what he called t
OF progressive wing of the republic
party
lat He declared that there are thr
es- divisions in the party today insm
ents. progressives and radicals a
as that the first and third are now me-
Va ing into the second fathered by Pr
on ident William Howard Taft. He II
he ed everyone to rally to the support
ion the president and tie former pre-
dent.