The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-20
TAFT SPEAKS ON THE . REPUBLICAN PARTY Also Speaks on Subject of
 Peace Treaties VIEWS OF THE SENATE Prerogatives of Executive Are Fully as Sacred as the PrerOgatiyes of
 Senate-No Police Guard
 the President
VIEWS OF THE SENATE

New York, December 19.-President Taft completed here tonight round of speak ing engagements, three in number, in which he touched on peace, politics and puritanism. His political speech, which was scheduled to be the chief address of the evening, was before the Young Mems Republican club of Brooklyn, where he told his audience that although there came times 'when the old party seems a little weak and staggers from blows received from the inside and out it's prin- ciples are strong enough when the issue is drawn to carry on the government.
 The Presidents peace speech was made before the Economic club, where he re- iterated his well known arguments in support of the pending arbitration treat ies. From there he was whirled over to dinner of the New England Society of Brooklyn, where he spoke in humorous vein on his Puritan ancestry.
 Until he reached Brooklyn the Presi- dent of the United States had no munich pal police protection with the exception of two bicycle policemen, who did not join the presidential party until it. had left the residence of Henry W. Taft. the Presidents brother, where he is stopping during his two days visit to New York The Presidents customary escort in this city is 10 policemen. There was not even a detail of police at the Astor hotel where the Economic club dinner held forth, but this was remedied when the President arrived at the two Brooklyn dinners, someone having assigned a con- siderable squad to duty there.
 Special interest attached to the Presi- dents speech before the Young Mems D laraT4 r1.,1 c,,f.r. tion's recent repudiation of the New York state leadership of William Barnes, Jr., but no reference was made by the Pres ident to the situation.
 The President made his reference to the party's seeming a little weak" at the outset of his remarks, which were not long.
 > The republican party has shown itself able, and will show itself able,' continued the President, "to meet the responsibili- ties thrust upon It. The American peo- pie are not going to reject it for some thing so uncertain, so untred and diver gent in it's views as those trying to wrest power from it."
 The President referred to the policy of protection, which he said should not be exorbitant or unreasonable, but enough to enable our industries to complete with the industries of other countries and enough to measure the difference be- tween wages paid abroad and wages we want to pay people on this side of the ocean.
 q am not in favor of playing politics for the purpose of putting somebody or some party in hole,'' he concluded, rais- ing his voice and gesturing with em- phass, 'I am in favor of adopting a pol icy. not to attract voters, but for the purpose of putting that policy into stat utes and enforcing them for the benefit of the country. 1 do not believe in states men for platform purposes but in states men who will put a policy through that will do. something for the country not in those who keep saying they are go- ing to do it.
 we have a democratic House and a rominally republican Senate, and l hope I am a republican executive. hope we will have to join issue with the other party and ask the people to allow us to show that we still have the capability to do the best there is for the country"
 Congressman Frank B. Willis of Ohio, who preceded the President as a speaker, said that he brought a message from the people of Ohio that they would stand shoulder to shoulder for the nomination of the President for a second term. This was greeted with applause.
 President Taft made his first address of the evening before the Economic club, where be spoke in defense of "the pending arbitration treaties.
 The President had considerable to say about what the Senate calls it's preroga- tives. T like to remind my friends, the senator's he said, that their powers of prerogatives, or whatever name you may give to the faculties that they get from the constitution, are not any more sa- cred than is the power of the execu- tive-because the source of the power in each case is the constitution, and in respect to foreign matters the executive has the davantage of the Senate little in that the Senate cannot begin to act