Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-10-05
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MIKES WARN 'Eftl 70 CIV. JOHNSON

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md suggest the remedies. and this is
the only way In which this problem
Ican be honestly dealt with.
AdvaAteess ts< ~ Farmers aNo
WOekers.
President Taft's administration has
been remarkably effective in advanc.
Ing the welfare OF farmers and all
workers. Not IN many years hive the
Farmers been 50 prosperous as during
this administration. The great neces.
sary conditions for the real welfare
Tor the workinemen Nave been much
improved. The Arst of these neces.
sary conditions Ia certainty of en-
Iployment. This ID bound to be de.
pendent on normally prosperous bust.
ness conditions. Under President
Taft the effects OF the panic Of 1907
I(often called the Roosevelt panic)
have been rapidly overcome, business
confidence has been restored and
prosperity renewed. business men
know that a period has begun which,
II, not checked by political disturb.
ances, will be a time Of greater indus
trial activity and development than
we have known for many years. The
next great necessity Of the workers Ia
sufficiently liberal compensation for
their labor. This must depend on the
profits Of business enterprises. Presi.
dent Taft has been foremost in the
effort to maintain reasonable profits.
To maintain them Is to maintain and
Increase the prospect of higher wages.
A model law OF employers liability
and wOrkrnen's compensation. In ac-
cordance with the report OF Il com.
mission appointed BY President Taft,
was recommended by him and its
adoption strongly urged; and he Is
now planning to put q similar law In
to operation in Panama. He secured
the enactment OF q child labir law for
the District Of Columbia, and of the
safety appliance act to protect rail-
road employees. He secured the estab.
lishment OF the Bureau of Mines, for
the protection OF miners. Through his
administration great frauds on the
people through the misuse Of the
mails have been broken up. n postal
savings bank has been established,
and the long.desired parcels post sys.
tenn begun. The president has also
secured remarkable economies IN the
administration Of the various depart
mcnts OF the government. He has
pushed the work on the Panama cana
toward an Unexpectedly rapid compile
ton. He also recommended and Sc
cured the law taxing the net earn
ings Of corporations. These are only
some of the more important achieve
ments of President TAFT. n
Gov. J~ohnson's t4ypoerticai state
nents about Fraud.
You again show your persistent un
fairness in your speech at Syracuse
~. Y, on September 9Th, before thu
New York state convention Of you
new third party. You again make thu
statement that at the Republican M
ti0nai convention two delegates from
lSan Francisco were unfairly seated
land you say in effect that the two
delegates not seated were stolen away
from the people or California. why
will you not state this ase fully and
fairly? You are familiar with all the
facts. Why do you not show that the
irrational committee, under the terms
lOf the convention call and party pre-
cedent in national affairs, had to guar
|antee to the people or every congress
|sional district the right to select thell
delegates to the national convention
and thus could not do otherwise than
seat the duly.elected district dele
Egates? You know very well that the
national committee and national con
,ventiOn must establish the rule OF
representation for all the states and
that the rule must be uniform for all
in order to be fair and avoid chaos,
while California regulates It's own at.
airs only. You know very we'll that
the new primary law of California
went into effect after the call for the
national convention was issued and
that it was absolutely impossible for
the national committee when it rs.
sembled to repudiate the terms Of it's
own call, on which the Republicans OF
all the states had acted. You know
very we'll that the national commit.
tee and national convention can only
act, as they have acted, in obedience
to the time-h0nored, American prin.
!, ciple Of majority rule. You know very
; we'll that the national committee and
national convention have no powers
Of oppression, that, subject to the con.
J stitution and statutes of the United
States, their organization Is practical.
ly q voluntary association whose Gus.
toms and rules are changed when the
majority OF the members wish 1t, and
that no state has the right, or power
ITO dictate to associations Of citizens
from all the states.
If you hold to the idea that Votes by
districts and every other considera-
ton ought to yield to the will OF the
voters as EXPRESSED in statewide cleo:
lions, why do you not apply this idea
to Massachusetts Is we'll as 70 Cali.
fornia? You. know very well that In
IMassaohasetts the statewide vote at
1.-The primaries was for President Taft
oby L. very substantial majority, but
That between eight and nine thousand
Iyptes for TAFT delegates at large were
thrown out. because OF a technical err.
ror in marking the ballots. You know
very we'll, and you know TINT even
Mr.. Roosevelt admitted it publicly at