Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-04
Declares He is a Protection
ist and He Absolutely Re
fuses to Recede a Par
ticle From That Posi-
tion.
EXECUTIVE PARTY
REACHES DENVER
Mr.. Taft is Lavishly Enter
tanned in That City Where
He Delivers Two Ad-
dresses, Each of Grave
Import:

DENVER, Colo, oct. 3.-Following
one Of the busiest days since his trip
began, President Taft took an auto
mobile ride tonight for two hours,
most of the time the machine hurtling
along at a speed of thirty-five TO
forty-five miles an hour. After the
speaking and greeting politicians all
day. the president left late tonight for
Cheyenne He made two important
speeches during the day, the first to
the public lands convention and the
second to members of the republican
organization, including the state CEN
trail committees and various county
committees. He talked politics to the
republican committeeman and outlined
the position of the republican party
as he interpreted it.
we favor progress and construc-
tion," he said. we favor prosperity.
and are doing nothing that viii in
terfere with the business growth of
the country, provided the growth is
d4tIS lN6ANlilldtt ililtS anu NlllA4n Alit
statutes There is no desire on our
part to hit corporations just because
they are corporations. If they are
contributing to the growth Of the
country, furnishing a large wage fund
for the support of wage -earners and
showing enterprise, we encourage, and
do not discourage them.
Il think all republicans agree upon
the question of the tariff We favor
a tariff that will enable the manu-
facturers of the country that are de-
pendent upon the tariff TO live and
meet the competition of other cOun-
tries. / am not apologiZing for block
ing bills that failed to sustain that
measure of respect to tariff prOtec-
ton"
The president took fling at some
tariff reformers" when he said: There
seems to be some nisconceptiOn re-
garding my duty in respect to sign
ing the tariff bills passed at the re
cent session Of congress, on the part
of those gentlemen not in favor Of
republican protection, but i'm favor Of
democratic tariff for revenue or free
trade. 1t would be entirely consistent
for them to sign any bill reducing the
tariff because they are opposed to the
tariff generally 1 do not belong to
that class; l was elected as a pro-
tectionist."
He said he is perfectly willing to
sign any bill complying with the re-
publican platform. on which he was
elected, and hoped the people realized
the sincerity of "our promises, if they
see fit to continue us in power"
THE fact is he added, the defec-
tion from the republican party in the
last congressional election was not due
to an increased number of democrats
1t was due to a detection of repub-
licans who insisted we had not per-
formed our promises. Now, if we go
ahead and show them that is Just
what we are doing. it seems to me we
are not over sanguine in expecting
that those republicans. who withhold
their votes. will return and place them
where they belong"
In his speech before the public
lands convention the president pleaded
for q reasonable attitude on the part
of cOnservatiOnists generally. He
urged them not to lose everything by
claiming too much. He frankly stated
he disagreed with many views adopted
by the convention. He thought the
fetish age of conservation had passed
and the country is now ready to set
tie down calmly and consider what
it ought to do to preserve the natural
national resources
Arriving at Denver this morning the
president was entertained at break
fast at the Country club under the
auspices of the Yale association. He
was then driven about the city. visit
ing the Denver university and a num-
ber of schools. In the afternoon he
went to the baseball park. where he
presented a number of trophies to
members of the Denver team, winners
in the Western league. Later he Wis
tied the Press club and became an
honorary member of that organiza-
ton Tonight he was banqueted by
the chamber of commerce.
GOULD is A LOSER.