Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-18
Republican Appeals.

1 PASA>SNA >NFFSS'
The republican national committee will
this week enter upon an extensive cam
paign of advertising in the magazines and
| the weekly press of the country. There
/ is something strangely familiar to repub-
licans, reminiscent of former campaigns.
| in the line of argument followed in these
advertisements. Here is sample para
gra phi:
What have the past three years done
for you? Have you not a better salary, a
better wage, a better job; better clothes.
| a happier home and more pleasures than
you had before Mr.. Taft became Presi-
dent?
''You have ii because Mr.. Taft and his
co-workers have been building up-not
tearing down. Because capital Is being
! freely invested: trade is good; wages are
| gradually being adjusted to new world
conditions; farmers are getting good
prices for their crops and are spending
| the money freely.
/ "Only four years ago, just before Presi-
dent Taft was elected. there was panic
and misery. Capital was tied up in safe
deposit boxes: mills and factories were
sell the goods they made; empty freight
cars filed the railroad sidings; farms
were mortgaged; labor was hungry and
desperate.
lin four short years Mr.. Taft and his
associates have worked wonders. There
is much yet to be done. There are evils
that are uncorrected; wrongs and lnjuS-
tees to be righted But the same wise
ard sane methods that have brought or
der out of chaos, peace out of war and
plenty out of poverty. can be relied on to
continue the good work.
ITO tear off the bandages, reopen the
old sores and destroy the healing that
has taken place, will only set us back to
where We were before Mr.. Taft became
President. We want quiet, not blow and
buster: peace. not war; sane common
sense. not revolutionary or untried the
cries"
The committee is also sending out a
million os, so of copies of quotations from
RoosevetS former eulogies Of President
Taft. The administrations antitrust
record is exploited at length The tariff.
resentative Hill of Connecticut being
much in favor. Representative gRosen-
burg's attack on Gov. Wilson for oppos-
ing in his writings the granting of pen
sions is popular document. Repre-
sentative McCalrs speech against the
| third term for the President of the United
States: a speech clubbing Gov Wilson as
the "anti-Jefferson. anti-foreign, anti
labor. anti-soldier and pro-Chinese can
didate for the presidency; an appeal to
the farmers: denunciation of the initia-
tive and recall President Taft and his
progressive policies, and defense of the
tariff board are included in the vast guam
tity of campaign literature being sent
out by the committee.
In the closing days Of October the
speakers bureau of the national COM
mittee will flood the country with re-
publican spellbnders. The republican
leaders have plucked up courage. have
them war paint on and are going to make
a rafting campaign. Between us and the
gate post, there are indications that the
republican war bags have been replenish-
ed. This is one of the practical and
hopeful signs of the political times and
Is doing q lot to cheer up the boys on
the firing line.
In succeeding chapters YOU will be tald
of what the bull moose and the democrats
are undertaking. Don't do anything yet
that is. don't lay any bets-unti you hear
further. n. O. NJ.