The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15
Sen. TOWNSEND
WARMLY DEFENDS
PRESIDENT TAFT
PRINCIPAL SPEAKER AT REpue, /.
CAN RALLY IN ADRIAN, MICH,
PRAISES ADMINISTRATION.
ROOSEVELT POINTED WAY"
Strenuous One Comes In For Kindly
Mention, But Speech Was Argument
For Presidents Re.nomination-"one
Good Term Deserves Another"
ROOSEVELT POINTED Way"
by Associated Press.)

Roosevelt pointed the way; President
William H. Taft has travelled the
road, declared Senator Townsend at
Republican rally here last night, in
the course of an endorsement of Presi-
dent Taft, his policies and his admins
Tatl0n. Colonel Roosevelt was men,
toned frequently in the Senator's
speech, but not in criticism. In Presi-
dents Taft administration the Senator
declared he found so much to COM
mend and so little to condemn that
he wondered why any republican
should be in doubt as to his duty.
Two classes of men. Senator Town
send said, were opposing the re-nom-
nation and reelection of Mr.. Taft.
First, the great malefactors Of
wealth, he declared, they insist that
the President is unsafe and that legit-
innate business is threatened. I sub
nit, no honest business man in this
country, big or little, has any fear of
law. Only offenders who know they
have violated the law, are now crying
out against the Presidents policy of
enforcing the statutes.
There is another class of men op-
posing the President and they have
opposed every act, either directly or
indirectly which he has proposed.
They are men who make a profession
Of reform and insist nothing is gen.
uine that does not have their name
h'oNu in the bottle
Senator Townsend referred to the
"fancied grievance" of the farmers
a-a'nst President Taft because of his
stand on Canadian reciprocity and the
Tariff. ~ have hopes and I still have
faith that the American farmer will
realize soon that the President is his
real friend" he said.
The achievements of President
Taft's administration Sena4or Town
send took up in detail. He defended
the President for his stand on the
Tariff revision of the extra session OF
congress. Bills were framed so hur-
riedlv he said, that Congress itself
did not know what was in them.
And when the Cotton bill went to
tbe President an investigation showed
that some of the duties had actually
been raised instead of reduced" de-
olared the Senator. He commended
the work of the Tariff board unre-
servedly.
Republican party platform pledges
for Monetary reform, a Postal saw
ings system. the enforcement of the
sherman antitrust law, an Employers
Liability law. the creation of Bureau
of Mines, Conservation of Natural re-
sources and regulation of interstate
railroads, had all been fulfilled or were
in process of fulfllment, he said
senator Townsend devoted large
norton of his speech to extoliing the
presidents conservatism and he point
od N the revolution in Mexico, trou-
bles in China and Central America
and the treaty abrogation with Rus
Instances where lack of con-
servatism would have been Of great
.ooronce The Russian negotia-
.,,ons he said, demonstrated more
thon ANYTHING else the qualifications
of Mr.. Taft for the presidency
The pending arbitration treaties
18th ENGLAND and France Senator
.rownsend endorsed saying IL they oia
ot already guard the constitutional
nOs ,,r,.a o. the senate he would vote for
.tbem with such amendments
second term for its presidents
,os a,wavs been the rule for the Re-
n,,h,,cau party except in two cases
president Hayes and President hoose-
volt. neither desired re-nomin"''0"
he said. H.. os q nartv
,.'~,n ,be precedent of re-nominat-
ing in man who has 3l given an. a s0'd rour an.
mjnistration Is a WISE one p,ss,.
years is too short a time in" '0b ts,nrs Se,|
dent to accomplish the Things