The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-08-09

signed to secure immunity Tor law
iessness in labor disputes on the part
Of the laborers, but operating much
more widely to paralyze the arm Of
the court In cases which do not In
volve labor disputes al all. The hos
tility to the Judiciary and the meas
ures to take away it's power and its
independence constitute the chief def
mite policy that can be fairly attribut-
ed to that class Of statesmen and re-
formers whose absorption and control
the Republican party escaped at Chi
cago and the Democratic party yielded
TO at Baltimore.
Such Innovations Rejected.
The Republican party, Mr. Taft con
tinued, stands for none of these in
novations It refuses to make changes
simply for the purpose Of making
charge, and cultivating popular hope
that in the change something benefi-
cial, underlined, will take place The
Republican party believes in progress
along the lines upon which we have
attained progress already.
The president then devoted some
time TO a review of what has been &C
complished during his administration,
including a warm defense Of the Payne
tariff bill In conclusion he said:
I cannot think that the American
people, after the scrutiny and educa-
ton of three-months' campaign, dur
Jag which they will be able to see
through the fog Of Misrepresentation
and demagoguery, will fail to recog,
niZe that the two great issues which
are here presented to them are, first,
whether we shall retain, on a sound
and permanent basis, our popular con
stitutional representative form Of gov
eminent, with the independence OF
the judiciary as a necessary key to the
preservation Of those liberties that
are the Inheritance Of 1000 years, and,
second, whether we shall welcome
prosperity which is just at our door
b. maintaining our pTeSSnt economic
business basis and by the encourage
ment of business expansion and prog
ress through legitimate use of cap
ital.
Appeal to All Conservatives.
| know that in this wide country
there are many who call themselves
Democrats, who view, with the same
aversion that we Republicans do, the
radical propositions of change in our
form of government that are reckless
ly advanced to satisfy what is sup
posed to be popular clamor. They are
men who revere the constitution and
the institutions of their government
with all the love and respect that we
could possibly have, men who depre-
cate disturbance in business condl-
tons, and are yearning for that quiet
from demagogic agitation which is
essential to the enjoyment by the
whole people of the great prosperity
which the good crops and the present
conditions ought to bring to US. To
them 1 appeal, as to all Republicans,
to join us in an earnest effort to
avert the political and economic re-,
olution and business paralysis which
Republican defeat will bring about.
May we not hope that the great ma,
iority of voters will be able to dis.
tinguish between the substance OF
performance and the fustian of prom
Use; that they may be able to see that
those who would deliberately stir up
discomfort and create hostility toward
those who are conducting legitimate
business enterprises, and who repre-.
sent the business progress of the
country, are sowing dragons teeth?
Who are the people? They are not
alone the unfortunate and the weak
they are the weak and the strong,
the poor and the rich, and the many
who are neither, the wage Garner and
the capitalist, the farmer and the pro-
fessional man. the merchant and the
manufac:U the storekeeper and the
clerk, the railroad manager and the
ploye--they all make up the people
and they contribute to the running OF
the government, and they have not
any of them given into the hands OF
anyone the mandate to speak for them
as peculiarly the peoples representa-
tive. Especially does not he represent
them who, assuming that the people
are the unfortunate and discontinued
would stir them up against the re.
mainder Of those whose government
alike this is. In other campaigns
before this, the american people have
been confused and misled and diverted
from the truth and from a clear per-
ception of their welfare by specious
appeals to their prejudices and their
misunderstanding, but the clarifying
effect of a campaign of education, the
pricking Of the bubble of demagogio
promise which the discussions of a
campaign made possible, have brought
the people to clear perception of
their own interests and to a rejection
of the injurious nostrums that in the
beginning Of the campaign, it was
then feared, they might embrace and
adopt So may we not expect in the
issues which are now before us that
the ballots cast in November shall
show a prevailing majority in favor OF
sound progress, great prosperity upon
protective basis, and under true con-
stitutional and representative rule BY
the people?
Only If in Order.