Arizona republican., 1912-02-13
Also Spurious Progressives
Come in For Attention by
the Nations Chief
Executive
DELIVERS WARM
CAMPAIGN TALK
President Clearly Outlines
His Position in a Speech
In New York Last
Night.
I ASSOCIATED Press DiSbatchl

NEW YORK. Feb 12-President
Taft brought his celebration OF Lin
coins birthday 10 a close tonight
with political speech at the Re
defiance 20 the democratic party.
declared his belief that the republi
cans will triumph in November and
made i plain that he had little
sympathy with those of his faith
who call themselves prOgressives.
The speech came at the end OF q
strenuous dav that took him to
Newark and Orange. y. j.. and
which gave him six hours in New
York 70 attend political dinner and
attend two banquets He is due
back at the capital early tomorrow.
In his address before the Repub-
liCan club tonight President Taft
said: Men praise Lincoln today
and attack the republican party. al
together forgetful Of the fact that
i'm Lincoln's life the man and the
party were 50 closely united in aim
and accomplishment that the history
Of one is the history of the other
Z
fifty years. witty one or two excep-
tons. has been H., history of the
republican part
With the effort to make selection
of candidates er ctment of legisla-
tiOn. and the Je, lions of courts de-
pendent upon TIE mOmentary passions
of people necessarily indifferently
informed as 20 the issues presented
without opportunity given them or
time To study and that deliberation
that gives security and common
sense 70 government of the people
such extremists would hurry us into
condition which could find no par
allel except in the French revolution
or in that bubbling of anarchy that
once characterized the South Amer
lean republics
such extremists are not progress
,ives-they are political emotionalists
or neuroucs who have lost the sense
Of proportion. that clear and candid
consideration Of their own weakness
a. a whole and that clear perception
Of the necessity for checks upon
hasty popular action which made our
people who fought the revolution
and who drafted the federal consti-
tuition the greatest self-gOverning
people the world ever knew
We have permitted the establish
ment of corporations and the acqui-
sition of power through the corrupt
ing use of money in politics so as at
times to give a few dangerous con-
troll of legislation and government:
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progress against such abuses has
been made in this regard Statutes
have been passed. notably the anti
trust law and the interstate COM
merce law amendments to restrain
the misuse Of privileges conferred by
charter and there is nothing in the
future of the country To prevent and
everything in the principles and his
tory of the republican party to fore
cast progress in this direction"
DENVER. Feb. 12--Adherents Of
President Taft We're in overwhelm-
ing control Of the meeting of the
state committee here today. and by
an overwhelming vote OF the COM
mittee rejected an amendment to
the motion endorsing Taft, which de-
clared Roosevelt to be the choice of
the Colorado republicans. The re-
solution favoring holding presidential!
preference primaries by counties was
y statement given out by
Roosevelt adherents asserts the meet
ing o. the state central committee
was packed by federal office hold
ers.'' alleging that no fewer than
thirty pOstmasters appointed by
President Taft were i'm attendance
NEWARK, Feb. 12-william
Meyers. believed To be demented, was
arrested ut the court house late to-
day shortly after President Taft Wis
tied here He was in the crowd
that greeted the president, and is
alleged to have been overheard
boasting that in two boxes he was
he had enough dynamite
To blow up the building Opening
the boxes at the police station Of
ficers found two drv cell batteries
and several hundred empty en-
velopes. Mevers will be examined as
to his sanity.