The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-10-17
TAFT FLAYS
THIRD PARTY
Republican Party Will Gain
New Vitality
DESERTERS WILL RETURN
But When They Do Let Them Bring
Forth "Works Meet for Repen-
neutrality-suspicious. Have Made
the Grandeur of the Country for
Sixty Years.

The address of President Taft to the
Beverly Republican Club, Beverly,
Mass, Sept. 3, was as follows:
Gentlemen of the Beverly Republi-
can club and, am glad to say, my fell
low citizens of Beverly, l thank you
for this cordial greeting. This club
suggests one or two thoughts of po-
litical character that l did not touch
upon in the remarks | addressed to
you on Saturday 1t suggests the ne
cessity for renewed organization of the
Republican party under present condi-
tions. The Republican party has been
successful for many years. / think
the last national defeat we suffered
was in 1892, and that is twenty years
ago. We have reached a point where
1t was natural that there should be
some gentlemen who were convinced
that their position in the party was
not all that they thought they
were entitled to and therefore they
were in favor of sloughing off into
third party. Now, the danger in the
continuance in power for a long time
to the party itself is the jealousies,
the factions, the quarrels within the
party that long life and success are
apt to generate, and while, of course,
a third party is misfortune to the
Republican party in the loss of some
votes, we must be philosophical and
look at this result on its good side as
we'll as on its bad side.
| conceive In respect of the life of
the Republican party that secession of
a third party is going to give us new
vitality in the very feeling of fight
that the injustice of the claims of the
third party will arouse in us as real
Republicans. We know that we are a
better set of men than we are now
called by those who were very glad at
one time to be known as leading Re-
publicans. We know that we stand
in the nation as the guardian of those
institutions of civil liberty under our
the preservation of which
has made this nation permanent and
great, and that nothing could come to
this country of greater political in
jury than such a split in the Republi-
can party as would destroy it.
The Importance of this campaign in |
Its immediate result is great | could |
hardly state with more emphasis than
really believe the crisis that we now
face with reference to the continuance
Of prosperity in this country by reason
Of the vote that we are to have in No
Vember, but there Is something be-
yond November with respect to the
Republican party. 1t is essential that
we should continue and revitalize It as
permanent party and a permanent
'orce in this nation for the continu-
lnce OF the progress that has made it
great. No student of history can deny
hat the grandeur Of this nation and
he height that it has reached among
lations during the last sixty years has
'een due to the guidance and the force
ND the energy and enterprise of the
republican party. We propose to have
hat continue. We propose that the
orce represented by the Republican
arty shall continue useful in the his
Dry of this nation With that in mind.
would urge upon you the necessity
or closing up the ranks, finding out
Who is Republican, and who is not,
nd when you find man who is not.
o not count him for the party. One
'ho Is not loyal never helps.
There is no use, gentlemen, tempor-
ling about this matter. A man is a
,epublican or he is not. Is he going
support the national ticket, and is
g going to support the State ticket?
he is he is Republican, and if he is
OF he is not Republican. Now, such
policy may cost us some votes, but
the not distant future these gentle
len who have deserted us in the hope
enjoying office, on the one hand. or
millennium, on the other, will find
emselves without office, millennium
party. They will feel a bit lonely. !
Id then when they come back to the \
epublican party, as they will come \
lck let them come back as Republi- =
ms, but bringing forth works meet q
repentance. II