The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-20
PRESIDENT DEFINES POSITION IN
REGARD COMING CAMPAIGN
FOR NOMINATION.
GOV. BASS, ROOSEVELT
SUPPORTER, A LISTENER
Progressive is That Progressive Does"
An Epigram Reiterated by the
Speaker-President Was Greeted by
Large Crowds and Makes 20 Talks.

Boston, March 20.-,"All that the ad-
ministration wants is square deal"
said President Taft, speaking yester-
day from the steps of the Concord, n.
H., statehouse, near the close of his
two days New England visit
During his stay in Boston and in
New Hampshire, the President spoke
to twenty audiences, stating definitely
his attitude on the tariff, his reasons
! for opposing the recall of judges and
decisions, and his continued hope of
ultimate arbitration.
His speech-making activities yester-
day took him to Nashua, Manchester
and Concord. Some of his most en-
phatic remarks on progressive" meas
ures were delivered from the portico
of the Granite State CAPITOL with Gov
Robert p. Bass, one of Col Roosevelt's
most ardent supporters, as a respect
full listener.
The people of Southern New Hamp-
shire seemed eager to see and hear
the President. Gov. Bass greeted him
in Concord and escaped him through
the Statehouse.
Progressive is that progressive
does" was an epigram that President
Taft reiterated. He also gave con
else outline of his idea of the adoption
of the principle of the recall of judges
and of decisions.
Adopt such measures" he said
"and you will have a government ol
special interests. You would have q
Constitution that is to be applied al
one time and not applied at another
That, my friends, is nothing but gov
ernment of special interests that has
not the conformity of law and consti
tution,and is the most tyrannical form
of government we can have.
"This question of a change in judi
ciary of this country means that we
NAV recall judges that we do not like
if they happen to decide against us;
or if they happen to decide ques
ton one way we may submit it to
popular election to decide whether the
b court decided right or not am II
favor of the people, but do not think
the people are charged with the knowl
edge of the law as the Supreme court
of New Jersey or as the Supreme
court of the United States.
Il believe in popular government
but I believe in popular government
ordered by constitution and law. The
people who vote are only one-fourtt
of the people, and they are in tha
sense representative of the people
and if we are going to trust that quar-
! ter, with power over all the people
] then they have to be limited by consti
tutional restriction. And they are linn
tied by constitutional restriction un
2 der our Constitution When the ques
l ton is to be decided whether the!
: have transgressed those restrictions
: we have to have somebody decide in
dependent of them and Independent o
) everybody. And that is the necessit!
: for an independent judiciary.
l "You give up an Independent judi
/ ciary and you might as we'll give VI
| your Constitution. know enough
= about the common sense of the Amer
) lean people to know that they will
never give up the Constitution, an
they are rot going to be honeyfugle'
out of it by being told that they are fl
, to interpret nice questions of consti
tutional law just as well or bette
than judges. The American peopl
: are great people because they ca
r stand having the truth told to then
I about themselves without getting ma
J. about it and without turning on tn
, man who tells the truth"
Returning to Boston in the earl
evening, President Taft made brie
call at the dinner Of the New Eni
land Street Railway club. He left a
n s p. m. for Washington.