The Washington times., 1912-04-10
TAFT'S DEFEAT
AT ROCHESTER
NOW CERTAIN
Bosses Must Draft Hughes
If Roosevelt Sentiment
Is Stihed.
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form because do not favor the renom;;
ination of President Taft" continued
aTaft's ali right" shouted a delegate.
illinois is all right. too answered
convention that 1t had no right to de.
nounce those who voiced the unrest OF
the people as agitators and socialists.
Socialism has spread in this country
because the people have come to, real
ize that both the great parties nave
been unresponsive to the need OF econ
The unrest could not be stilled or the
march Of socialism stayed by denounc.
ing men as agitators or socialists, said
what we need at this time is not
rhetoric; what we want Is remedies.
Don't turn your backs on the men who
propose these remedies, men who are
doing their duty.
Roosevelt Is Defended.
Il protest as Republican against
that man Roosevelt, with his splsndid
service, his Intellectual administration
and his political progress being head
lined as political patent medicine
man. You know what kind OF political
medicine he prescribed in his admins
tration.' ...
Mr.. Iendersast was continually cheer
THE initiative. referendum, and re-
after state adopted them to seek relief
from existing conditions everywhere
They have been employed, they have
had the effect of increasing representa-
tive government. instead of destroying
Congress jamming through bill. with
only few days n,oe eSnsideration; tas,r o.r,.,n
hour, the bill passes, no matter what
is In It and that's representative gov
eminent.
Let's come near home, don't want
10 hurt anybody's feelings. We have a
legislature, God bless it, toward the
end of the session the committee on
rules takes charge of legislation. Att.
The committee on rules sits tight,
sometimes II let's bill come out, and
sometimes it don't, and yet that is rep
resentative government.
Not Horrible Spectre.
The initiative is not the horrible
spectre Mr.. Wadsworth would have you
imagine. He will have to broaden out
bit If he hopes to be elected governor"
(Cheers).
MIR. Prendergast described the deliber-
ate process of applying the referendum
and made sport of the contention of
the stand-patters, that the recall and
the initiative would be dominated by
Taking r Roots charge that
the re make towards of
judges, 1fgast declared, amid
great a. at the judge who was
made q, - by the recall was a
Can you stop the progressive opinions
as believed In by. the people of the
is what happened yesterday In Illinois"
The comptroller gave concrete exam,
pss of how ths recall spd
ers have not had the time to ex-
n to you these practical examples Of
operations Of the peoples minds"
gaid. r. =
hat is our duty today? No mat
low much l may be criticised for
statement. I am going to make
Il spite of all that has transpired,
W Of the results in States where
tenttal primaries have been held,
going to say that in my Judge:
Mr.. Taft cannot be reelected
dent. Why the failure in the
orm to mention reciprocity, IL
are going to run on the Presi-
5 Administration? Why don't
do so?"
Jeered BY Bosses.
When Mr.. Pendergast mentioned the
primaries in New York county, the
New York county organization jeer-
ed him. The comptroller had so
sharply grasped tn efeelings of the
bosses that they were no longer able
TO conceal their annoyance. The
spcdhcI HuIt SdHl hOeulB IeellNBS
by reciting that Roosevelt without
an organization. this with the press
practically a unit against him, had
received the votes of 10000 men. They
said he would be beaten six to one
that he would not receive as many
votes as signatures on his petitions.
he got twice as many.
MY prayer Is that the party will
assert Itself as the progressive party
Of Lincoln and will recognize that
circumscrl rlbed by the boundaries OF
New York. but are as broad as the
Mr.. Prendergast received a great
the "old Guard" He put the crowd
IN good humor. He got laugh when
yesterday to a patent medicine man
was meant for Governor Wilson
lie defined a Democrat as a mar
the East would be able to convert the
West. 1t had done 1t in 1876, Hedges
pointed out. referring to the battle
."I differ very widely from some OF tn,
doctrines of Mr.. Roosevelt. but woulC
be unfair to my sense Of justice If
did state that Mr.. Roosevelt made al
the people think at the same time on tn,
duties of American citizenship"
Hedges Differs From Colonel.
But l ul1er from his ideas, 1 carr
not much for one, two or forty terms
they cannot survive the Constitution.
will the people ruler" Prendergas
asks.
"I'll leave them to answer"
Let's get down to business, are w
going to nominate TaftA'
Cries of Yes" and "NLo."
Are we going to elect him."
Cries of "Yesr'
Well, that's one idea we've settlet
for Prendergast
The crowd enjoyed Hedges more thal
a moving picture SHOW, with the adde
comfort that the entertainment wa
free.
The convention had developed into
circus, and Hedges played the clowr
There Is no question of his being