The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-31
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the candidate accurately and will have
deem given fair opportunity in that
time 70 judge which party offers the best
argument for the next term
From his optimistic look into the flu
=-ure the president turned to the past
and the present and his voice. husky
as It was, rose to a higher pitch He
spoke OF the Democratic victory at the
polls in 1910 and declared that this was
not the fault Of the Republican party.
but of disanection within its ranks
Who are the persons who are going
UP and down the country distributing
these vieWS2 Whose lungs have been
used for years in condemnation and
denunciation2 Were there any regular
Republicans? Haven't they all been
shooting at the old Republican party
and the old administrations
Asks for Squarye Deal
Nov I think We are getting to a
point when we are to get our innings
Wen deal not in prophecies and not IN
unfounded denunciation. Dur with facts:
Let Us get down to facts and then II
they beat US on the truth, We take
our beating. But let us have square
hearing and a square deal and ask
them to brush aside the fogs of denun-
ciatiOn-''
Mr.. Taft said that it made him i'm
patient to hear people talk about the
way his administration had enforced
the antitrust laws.
We have some lawyers who under
stood that enforcement of the law
meant it's enforcement in the courts
and not in the newspapers and we en-
forced it I don't claim any particular
credit for its enforcement Now we've
forfeited the support of business be-
cause we have enforced the law That
is enough to make one impatient
Those men who thought its enforce
ment would interfere with business
have been seeing ghosts. 1 would say
to you that our record at washington
is good and we are entitled to the
next four years of administration. why
not go before the electorate and ask
for a vote of confidence? We do not
promise to give entry to the millen-
MUM. We will not make every man
rich or every man poor who may have
gained his wealth dishonesty. We will
not revolutionize the constitution and
have a heaven on earth, because 1
don't believe any man who says he
can do such a thing.
Can't Change Human Nature.
But we are progressing step by
step. We are improving by reasonable
methods and by statutes and laws di-
rected at evils, but we cannot work by
legerdemain and change human ma
made by hand, but by bringing effort
to bear to improve the individual We
cannot make over a people by mere
machinery.
W = are progressive III the SCnSC
that we are making progress all the
time. But We are not progressive, if
that means the overturning of the
constitution and all the guarantees of
life, liberty and property and all the
checks on the momentary passion of
the people
Il am glad came here 1 had an
impression that you did not know in
Ohio that you had a president from
Ohio, or if you did you were glad soon
to forget it. I'm glad I came here
and heard this glee club encourage its
candidate I could wish you had an
other candidate more eloquent and
more forceful, who could lead you on
at a more impressionable leadership,
but you could not have one more
deeply appreciative of the kindness
and loyalty and interest you have in
the Republican party"