Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-09
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tained.
Again. the Democratic pa-ty IN CON
gfess and convention shows its desire
to weaken the courts by forblddins
the use Of the writ of Injunction to
protect a lawful business against the
destructive effect of a secondary boy
cott and of interposing a jury in con-
tempt proceedings brought to enforce
| IFS orders and DEGREES. These provis-
ions are really class legislation de-
signed to secure immunity for law
lessness IN labor disputes on the part
Of the iaborers, but operating much
more widely to paralyze tho arm OF
the court in cases which do not in
volve labor disputes at all The hos
tility to the judiciary and the meas
ures to take away its power and its
independence constitute the chief def
mite policy that can be fairly attrihut-
ed to that class of statesmen and re-
formers whose absorption and control
the Republican patty escaped at Chi
eago and the Democratic party Yielded
to at Baltimore.
/ Such innovations Rejected.
The Republican party, Mr., Tafc con
| tlnued, stands for none of these In
IEovations. 1t refuses to make changes
simply for the purpose of making a
change. and cultivating popular hops
that in the change something beneH-
cial, underlined, viii take place. This
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 ac-
complished during his administration,
including 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.
ing which they will be able to see
through the fog of misrepresentation
and demagoguery, will fail to recog.
Enize 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 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 present 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.
Ily advanced to satisfy what is sup
Iposed 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.
tions, and are yearning for that quiet
from demagogic agitation which ig
essential to the enjoyment By the
whole people of the great prosperity
which the good crops and the present
conditions ought 70 bring to us To
them l appeal. as to all Republicans.
to join us in an earnest effort to
avert the political and economic rev.
olution and business paralysis which
Republican defeat viii bring about,
Such misfortune will fall most heav.
lily on the wage Garner. May we not
hope that he will see what his real
interest is, understand the shallowness
OF attacks upon existing institutions
and deceitful promises of underlined
benefits by underlined changes?
May We not hope that the great ma
jo1ity of voters win be able to dis.
tinguish between the Substance Of
performance and the fustian of prom.
ise 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
manufacturer, the storekeeper and the
clerk, the railroad manager and the
| employe--they all make up the people
and they contribute 10 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,
wouId stir them up against the re-
mainder of those whose government
alike this is In other campaigns
before this, the American people have