The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-22
SENATOR LODGE
DEFENDS TAFT
IN HOME STATE
The Massachusetts Statesman
Opens Campaign in Ohio
With Warm Endorsement
of Administration.
DOES NOT MENTION
BULL MOOSE CHIEF
Predicts Dire Disaster Should
the Democratic Party Be
Returned to Power at
Next Election.

tional and state Republican cam
" paigns were opened here today
and officially put in full swing
at two mass meetings by number of
speakers supplied by the national and
state campaign committees.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Mass,
achusetts delivered the keynote speech
in which he eulogized the Republican
party, denounced the Democratic party
and practically ignored the Progressive
party, The senator unquaifiedly de-
Tended the administration of President
Taft.
The Rev. DR.. John Wesley Hill Of
New York, president Of the Interna-
tional Peace forum, was strong in his
denunciatioD Of Roosevelt and in his
praise for the president.
DR.. Hills Views.
"The line OF cleavage in this cam.
paign which we are opening in the
president g home state is easy to fol
low" declared DR.. Hill "It's the Re-
publican party against the red flag Of
Socialism On one hand, and the black
flag Of free trade on the other hand. y
DR.. Hill declared Colonel Roosevelt
"isn't real progressive, although he
thinks he is.'
Roosevelt Is substituting the red
bandanna for the American flag. That 3
not progressiveness; that's poor adver-
tiBing. You often see the best e1hibi-
tion in side show; Theodore Roose-
velt Is running political side show.
President Taft is not this type Of pro-
gressive- His progress Is not Of con-
versation. but Of conservation; not talk,
but action"
Lodges Keynote Speech.
Senator Lodge called specific atten-
tion to the attempts of the Democratic
house to pass tariff measures which he
claimed would ruin the industries
against which they were directed. He
also criticized the Democrats for nl.
legged crippling of the army and navy.
He concluded as follows:
GAS 1 look over the field of politics
I see but one party which is really COM
mitted to the support Of the constltu-
ton and of the institutions Of the
country, and that party Is the Repub-
lican party. To say that such an atti-
tude stands in the way Of progress is
an absurdity. All the progress that has
been made in this country in fifty
years has been made by the Republican
party. The Republican party came into
being for tho purpose of ridding the
land Of human slavey.
Saved Country's Credit.
"To the Republican party is due the
financial credlt of the country, for it
is the Republican party which fought
for the payment Of the debts and which
sustained the gold standard In recent
years. with the new questions that have
arisen, to what party do We owe the
Sherman act, the Interstate commerce
commi ssion, the law stopping rebates,
the pure food law, and every other
measure which has marked an advance
in government and progress. In the pro.
lection of the rights Of the people 7
They are all alike due to the Repub.
lican party-to Republican presidents
and Republican congresses. Tho Re-
publican party has always been the
party of sane and rational progress I'M
der the constitution, It Is so today. A
party can profit by Its victories and en-
dure defeats if II Is true TO its prin-
ciples; but when principles are aban-
doned, victories are worthless and de-
feats are ruin. Parties come and go,
but principles survive.
Party Will Live.
"If VIC are true to our principles the
party will live on end win many vic.
tories aud be Of service to the people OF
the United States in tho future as In
the past, For these reasons l urge you,
| in copclusion as did at the outset, to
stand for the party which stands for
the constitution and for o progress
which is not revolution. For these rea-
sons I urge YOU to support the Repub-
| licau ticket, from the electors who will
vote for President Taft down through
everv name on tho tickot. The Repub-
| licnn party stands for liberty ms against
| license: for order as against confusion
| for LOYALTY to the great principles OF
iustice and freedom which have bcen
handed down to US from the days of
Washington; in ono word, it stands for
tho constitution which Marshall intor.
| prgted and which Lincoln saved''