Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-29
ATTENTION is CALLED
TO PROGRESSIVE VIEWS
Speaker Mentions Gov Wilson by
Name Several Times.
PRESENT PROSPERITY Is CITED
Warns Against Danger to Country
That Would Result if Protec-
tive Tariff Were Removed
by Democrats.

BEVERLY. Mass, September 2S-Pres-
ident Taft made a direct plea today to
republicans to vote the republican ticket
and not desert the party at the polls in
November. in order to defeat the third
party and Mr.. Roosevelt 1t was the
first prepared political address he has
made since his speech accepting the Chi
cago nomination. 1t was delivered from
temporary stand erected on the grounds
at Paramatta before the republican clubs
of Essex county and hundreds of resi-
dents of Beverly.
The President devoted particular at
tentlon to the third party for the first
time since its formation. He mentioned
Mr.. Roosevelt and Gov. Wilson several
times by name in connection with their
views on political or economic subjects.
There is one issue in this campaign of
even greater fundamental and permanent
Importance to the government and the
people than the tariff and prosperity"
said the President, beginning his attack
upon the third party THAT is the pres
ervation of the institutions of civil liberty
as they We're handed down to us by our
forefathers in the Constitution of the
United States and the state constitu-
tons. which We're modelled after it.
Many New Theories.
A third party has split off from the re-
publican party, not for any one principle,
or,indeed, on any principle at ALL but mere
ly to crafty personal ambition and VEN
Seance. and in the qualification of that per-
sonal ambition and vengeance every new
fad and theOry-Some of them good some
or them utterly preposterous and imprac-
tcable, some of them as socialistic a
anything that has been proposed i'm the
countries of Europe. many having no
re latfon to national jurisdiction or DO, y
have been crowded into a platform in or
der to tempt the votes of enthusiastic
supporters OF each Of these proposed re-
forms.
This new party is not united on any
cohesive principle. and is only kept to-
sether by the remarkable personality of
its leader. Were he to die. the party
would go to pieces, for the cause of
which so many glibly speak is utterly
incapable of definition in view of the
azy-quIlt character of the platform.
But there is running through the entire
declared policy OF the third party an en-
tire Willingness TO destroy every lilnita-
ton OF constitutional representative gov
ernment In order that, by short cuts.
these various reforms. inconsistent as
they may be. and many of them are,
with each other, may be accomplished
by the decree of a benevolent despotism,
to be supported by the acclaim of hero
worshiping, emotional, undiscrminating,
superficfally minded and non-thinking
people.
No Chance of Success.
fortunately there is not the slightest
chance of the success of the
to defeat the republican party,
possibility that it will be disappointed.
1t has been suggested that republicans
should vote the democratic ticket in order
to defeat Mr. Roosevelt. Men who do
this will act most blindly. for their votes.
though unnecessary to defeat Mr. Roose-
welt. will aid the cause of the democracy
with whom they have no sympathy. cs-
pecialy in the policy of tariff for revenue
only, bring disturbance Of business and
an end Of prosperity
There Is no need of our being put upon
the defensive. The flood of unjust dc
nunciations I" which the republican party
has been subjected has no real fotInta
ton or justification. 1t is We VINO should
he in the forefront. affirming our right
10 continue to represent the people in
authority III government. because OF what
we nave done. and because of the assur-
ancc. by what we have done of what
We shall continue to do in tie future
AouCucS Ou prosperity.
The burden of much of the President
speech was proserity. He began by point
ing out how the nations mills and facto-
res are humming with business; declared
that protection and republican rule arc
responsible for this. and asked his hear
ers II they remembered the days of 1885,
and 1897. when, he said, Interference witt,
the country's economic policy brought on
hard times. Passing on to the tariff.
President Taft said:
change in our tariff is not neces-
sarily destructive. 1t depends upon the
principles upon which the change is
carried out. But in this campaign we arc
met on the platform by our adversaries.
the democrats. by the proposition that
the protective tariff is unconsti,utional
and we may therefore assume thar in rho
opinion Of the democratic party no tariff
which does protect or which is drawn tn
protect ought to remain on the statute
DOCKS. Now, IL this declaration of the
platform means anything We must accent
II as indicating an intention radically to
cnanSe our economic policy and that
makes certain the disturbance of business
the frightening of capital, the closing of
factories and the coming of hard times.
Refers to Gov. Wilson.
Now. a distinguished leader of the
ucA'oSidiiC party, 1ON. wilson, has not
dwelt with any tremendous emphasis
upon the provision of the democratic
platform that declares a protective tariff
unconstitutional, and he has hastened to
assure the business community that if
the change comes, and if the tariff is to
be reduced. it must be done in such a
way as not to interfere with business
We cannot assume that the leader of
the democratic party is to depart from
the course of the majority in Congress
Indeed. the legislation of Congress. so
far as it was democratic, and as far as
it got until it was either defeated in the
Senate or met with a veto by the exc
cutive, seemed to have Mr.. Wilson's full
approval. and we are. therefore, able to
gauge what he regards as legislation that
will make the transition and yet rot hurt
business. by reference to the tariff bills
of the late Congress.
''The suggestion that comes at times
from Gov. Wilson that this change is to
be made in a tender. conciliating and
modifying way, with sweet reasonable