The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-11
Reads the Insurgents Out of the
Republican Party.
CALLS THEM TRAITORS
Tells Them to Go to Democrats
Where They Belong.
Reviews First Year Of the Taft
Administration.

Chicago, April III speak to an as
scmbly of loyal Republicans. am suro
voice your thouEht when I say the
time of running with the hare and
hunting with the hounds is over. and
every one must choose whether or not
he is for the president and the Repub-
lican party. He that hath no stomach
for the fight let him depart. Treason
has ever consisted in giving add and
comfort to the enemy. II anyone wish
es to join the Democratic party let him
do so. But let him not claim to be
Republican and in and out of season
work to defeat Republican measures
and to aubvert the influence of the Re
publican president"
In these words, speaking before the
Hamilton club, at its Appomattox day
banquet, Attorney General Wickersham
read the insurgents out of the Repub-
Ecan party.
The speech was the most vigorously
worded defense of the present national
administration that has been uttered.
Purporting to be a review of the years
york of the Republican party under
President Taft, it contained an attack
upon the insurgents as traitors and
a formal declaration OF war upon them
Applies a Quotation.
Mr.. Wickersham went to Shakes
peare's Henry v" to get suitable
as a Taft Republican and referring to
the Republican of the LaFollette, Cum
Minis and anti-Cannon stripe he quo
ted:
1--WE would not die in that mans
That fears his fellowship to die with
us"
In another portion of his address he
referred to. as the enemies of the Tar.
policies. those members of congress
who strove to magnify their own par
ticular importance at the expense or
PARTY loyalty and party bonor:
A reference to the Pinchot-Bailinser
row was contained in the following ex-
tract of that portion of the speech
which discussed conservation:
1.-The theory that an executive officer
can set aside or suspend the operation
or the laws of congress, because in his
opinion their application would WORK
injuriously to the public Interests IS
cne which finds no foundation in con-
stftutioDal government. If such power
is to exist it must be conferred in ex-
plicit terms by congress-
On Roosevelt Policies.
The sneaker, while praising the Roose-
welt administration for it5 urageouN
and determined attack upon those
abuses of privileges and power. upon
which has been reared aggreSations CT
capital whose existence thre ateneu the
stability of the republic, and giving
it credit for setting higher standard
of business morality and obedience 10
law" said that in the attainment OF
its ends 1.-The country had been shaken
to its foundations"
And after reviewing the success or
the government in obtaining 4S conYic-
tions in the sugar trust frauds, Mr.
Wickersham demanded tr1umpnantiyS
What other administration can point
to the accomplishment of so much In
so short a timer"
"Is it not time he asked Immediate
ly afterward. that those who call
III Efr
ouetting with the Democratic party and
io;n in carrying to fruition under our
wise president the work OF chncnlnE
the reforms of the last eight years.
The occasion was the Appomattox day
banouet of the Hamilton club at the
Congress hotel, which gave occasion
for striking parallels between Tart ana
Grant and Taft and Lincoln. For the
most part however, oratorical nights
were dispensed with, and he mailing
was done by a carefully constructen.
well connected argument. typlcai
| lawyers brief. relieved only py occa-
sional defiant challenges to faultnnd-
| ers to produce facts or figures snow
| ing how the administration action coulo
have been improved on ana olrecI IN
qualified assertions that every pieusSS
made in the Republican plat1orh h@u
His defense of the administration
was the most comprehensive and ag-
gressive that has yet been maze: anu in1
and ex cathedra- Practically every
matter of legislative or executive pol
lev of the administration that has been
the subiect of controversy was toucheo
| on to a greater or less extent.
Claims for Administration.
Hero are his claims for the adminis-
tration summarized:
4 tariff commission which will make
| for a new and better tariff law.
A corporation tax, which VIII also
| lead to federal supervision or corpora
tions and give an autnorisa,lNS ,rn51esSa 1ssA.,
| ticaI basis fo- future tarim Legislation
| Injunction and dissolution proceed-
ines successfully prosecuted against
| the Standard Oil and American TO
| bacco companies. - .,.,
Successful prosecution OF sugar trust
| for customs frauds. -, ..,o-,
| A saving of 00.0Oo to the govern n
| ment by retrencnmenI anu SS"O' -
eARgt6oi bRgtSorization of $50. 900 irrigation
| bonds. -,a.sor,,
/ nledees were reviewed and disposed u
| with the statement that they had peeh
| racommended in special messages 10
| congress and were now depended OF
| the action of that body. not on that Oh
the president and his advisers.
shows What Taft Has Done.
| First setting out the pledges made by
| the party before election, the speaker
| aat ont the difficulties under which II
| had to work comparing the SITUATION
1 10 that of reconstruction days arter tnd
civil war and then took up In turn tns
| tariff. conservation, trusts, corporatlon
| tax. finances, interstate commerce, etc.
| skiIlfuIly presenting the administrator
side of each through the emphasis lato
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