Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-10-17
TAFT FLAYS
THIRD PARTY.
Republican Party viii Gain
New Vitality.
DESERTERS WILL COME BACK.
But When They Do Let Them Bring
Forth Works Meet For Repentance"
Republicans Have Made the Grandeur
of the Country For Sixty Years.

Republicans Have Made the 1ranoeuT
| of the Country For Sixty Years.
The address of President Taft TO the
Beverly Republican, club. Beverly,
Mass. Sept 30 was as follows:
Gentlemen of the Beverly Repub-
lican club and. | am glad to say, my
fellow citizens of Beverly, thank
you for this cordial greeting. This
club suggests one or two thoughts OF II
political character that 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 coldi-
tons 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 have it 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 iealouses, the
factions, the qnarrels within the party
that long life and success are apt to
generate. and, while, of course. a third
party is Il misfortune to the Renub-
lican 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 it's 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 Repub-
leans We know that we are n better
set Of men than we are now called by
those who were very glad at one time
to be known as leading Republicans.
We know that we stand In the nation
as the guardian of those institutions of
civil liberty under our constitution, the
preservation of which has made this
nation permanent and great, and that
nothing could come to this country of
greater political injury than such a
split in the Republican 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
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of prosperity in this country by reason
of the vote that we are to have in No
vember, but there is something beyond
November with respect to the Republi-
can party. 1t is essential that we
should continue and revitaliZe 1t as a
permanent party and a permanent
force in this nation for the continuance
of the progress that has made it great.
No student of history can deny that
the grandeur of this nation and the
height that it has reached among ma
tons during the last sixty years has
been due to the guidance and the force
and the energy and enterprise of the
Republican party. We propose to have
that continue. We propose that the
force represented by the Republican
party shall continue useful in the his
tory Of this nation With that in mind,
would urge upon you the necessity
for closing up the ranks, finding out
who is IL Republican. and who is not,
and when you find a man who is not,
do not count him in the party. One
who is not loyal never helps.
There is no use, gentlemen. temporiz-
ing about this matter. A man Is Re-
publican or he is not Is he going to
support the national ticket, and is he
going to support the state ticket? If
he is he is a Republican, and if he is
not he is not Republican. Now, such
policy may cost us some votes, but in
the not distant future these gentlemen
who have deserted us in the hope of
enjoying office. on the one hand. or a
millennium. on the other. will find |
themselves without office, millennium
or party. They will feel bit lonely,
and then when they come back to the
Republican party, as they will come
back, let them come back as Repub-
licans. but bringing forth works meet !
for repentance.