The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-24
DEMOCRACY OFFERS SET BACK
Republican Leader Claims That the De-
1nand Of the People Today is that
'.Well enough be left Alone. Pays
Tribute to the President.

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the United States, made dignifed
in favor of the republican
platform and the election of President
Taft at the Coliseum on Wednesday
night when he opened the regular re-
publican speaking campaign in the
county. He spoke to crowd which
numbered more than five hundred peo-
pie and his reception was a decidedly
cordial one. Mr.. Fairbanks brought
no rancor for opposing candidates, no
bitter denunciation of men or plat
forms, but confined his remarks Of
more than an hour to discussion of
conditions during democratic and re-
publican rrle and showed the necessity
of continuance of republican policies
in the management of the nation.
The speaker traced the history of
the republican party from the inaugur-
alton of Lincoln down to the present
time and showed that it had been the
party of progress. He spoke Of condi-
tions that followed the election Of
Cleveland in 1892 and how the people
had appreciated the error they made
after it was too late to repair it. He
spoke of the closing of factories, of
the Gripping of industrial life, due to
the false tariff principles if democ-
racy and declared that the nation in
its present prosperous condition should
not be disturbed by change in tariff
Not once during his address did Mr..
Fairbanks refer to Mr.. Roosevelt, Mr..
Wilson or any of the other candidates
for Office. He even overlooked Cover
nor McGovern. In the outset Of his
address he declared that he would
give his attention wholly to national
issues.
Most effective was his appeal for
fair play for the president. He declar-
ed that President Taft had made one
of the best presidents in the history
of the nation and that he had done
much to make the laws of the nation
and obeyed. He spoke of the
prosecution Of the trusts, Of changes
in the tariff law and defended the DO
sition taken by the president on the
Payne tariff bill.
Neither the president nor any one
of his supporters insists that the
Payne bill was a perfect bill,' said
the speaker, s'but we insist that it is
the most perfect tariff bill so far Civ
en- to the nation and if the prosperity
of the nation is to be continued it
must be along lines laid down by the
tariff program of the republican
party"
Mr.. Fairbanks declared that the
sensible people of the nation were now
declaring "let well enough alone. -
The best argument in favor of the
election of republican president he
declared was the record of the repub
lican party and the conditions in the
Industrial world today.
In speaking of the political condi-
tions Mr.. Fairbanks said:
"We submit the cause of the 1epub-
1ican party, feeling that it is entitled
to q continuance of the support of the
people, not only because of what it
has accomplished, but also because of
what it stands pledged to further per-
form. At the outset we can point to
the wide evidences of prevailing pros
perity as warrant for claim upon the
popular support.
"We are hard headed people. We
possess the saving grace Of common
sense. We know, as in sacred times,
that we shall reap as we sow. We do
not, in the final analysis, act upon I'm
reasoning impulse; our conduct is
shaped according to good reason. My
good father, who was a farmer, taught
me as boy to let well enough alone !;
I have always found this brief code
sound one. There is much of pLiloso.
ply in it. It does not stand ia the
way of advance; it means merely this
Don It go at it blindly. Do not throw
aside certain present for an uncer.
tain future
The speaker then went into detail
regarding the present condition Of the
country, giving great praise to the al
ministration of President Taft, saving
it has steadily progressed along
sound, rational lines. It has acted
with the constitution and the law.
holding them to be superior to pres;-
dents and cabinets. =
A long argument in favor of the ad-
ministration tariff policies followed
and it was declared that the tariff
question was never more important
than at the present time. On the trust
question he declared that the republi-
can party was the friend and not the