The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-06
TAFTs STRONG LANGUAGE.


HAMILTON, Mass, August 20
President Taft began the presidential
campaign of 1912 today, his friends
believe, in a speech that breathed
defiance and condemned the attempt
Of the "insurgent' Republicans and
the Democrats combined to revise
several schedules of the present tar
i'll at the special session of Congress
just closed
The President singled out Senator
La Toilette of Wisconsin, Speaker
Champ Clark and Chairman Under
wood of the House Ways and Means
Committee as leaders of the attempt
ed revision, and charged them with
playing politics.
Several times he referred by name
to La Toilette, but mentioned the
other insurgent Senators merely as
La Follettes' associates"
Taft indicated that he regarded the
proposed revision as injurious and
dangerous to business, but made it
plain that if the tariff board in De-
cember reported that downward re-
vision of the cotton and wool sched-
ules should be made he would recon-
mend a reduction.
First Gun of the Battle.
Standing on the broad terrace CT
Congressman a. P. Gardeners farm
with Senator Lodge and other Massa-
chusetts Republican leaders, the
President seemed to scent the smoke
of the coming battle. Many of the
five hundred members of the Essex
County Republican Club, gathered to
listen, thought they heard the key
note" speech of the coming campaign,
and their cheers were loud and long.
Senator Lodge supplemented the
Presidents tariff remarks by a few
words, while two of the three candi-
dates for the Republican nomination
for Governor of Massachusetts,, Lieu
tenant Governor rockingham and
Speaker Walker spoke also.
The President said in part
81 am here to speak words of en-
couragement as to the outlook for Re-
publican success. You have a state
election Immediately before you, into
which it seems to me national issues
ought to enter. We have just finished
an extra session of Congress and the
matters considered were of such i'm
portance toN the commonwealth of
Massachusetts that l do not see how
the people of the state can withhold
an expression of opinion upon them.
The extra session of Congress was
called for the purpose of confirming
the Canadian reciprocity treaty, which
it did by support made up of voters
from both parties. / have no doubt
that Massachusetts, by both parties,
would confirm its adoption.
Tariff For Politics Only
Our Democratic friends, however,
were not content to allow the session
to pass with the accom- lishment of
the purpose for which it was called.
They assisted-most of them-in the
passage of the reciprocity bill, be.
cause they believed in its usefulness,
and in so doing they united with the
Republican support and did not play
politics in its passage. I am very
sorry to say, however, that, having
pursued a purely statesmanlike course
with reference to reciprocity, they
did play politics of the most ire
sponsible character in respect 20
| three tariff bills, which, by uniting
with certain Republicans in the Sen
ate, they were able to pass and pre-.
sent to the Executive for his sigma
! ture.
"The bills bear internal evidence of
| the fact that they rested on a basis
of not tariff for revenue only but
tariff for politics only The first
the wool bill-was introduced in the
| House by Mr.. Underwood the Demo
cratic leader, with the statement that
it was a free-trade bill and was MOI
intended to provide protection to The
wool or wooden industry, but that the
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