The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1912-10-15
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-
tance"-Republica Have Made
the Grandeur of the Country for
Sixty Years.

The address of President Taft to the
Beverly Republican Club Beverly
Mass, Sept. 8, was as follows:
Gentlemen of the Beverly Republl-
can club and, am glad to say, my TEL
low citizens of Beverly, l thank you
for this cordial greeting. This club
suggests one or two thoughts or po-
litical character that / did not touch
upon in the remarks | addressed to
you on Saturday. 1t suggests the ne
cessity for renewed organization or the
Republican party under present condl-
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 point where
it 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 a
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 a misfortune to the
Republican party in the loss OF some
votes, we must be philosophical and
look at this result on it's 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
Republicans. We know that we are
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
constitution, 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 split in the Republl-
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
a permanent party and a permanent
force in this nation for the continu-
ance of the progress that has made 1t
great. No student of history can deny
that the grandeur of this nation and
the height that it has reached among
nations 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
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 a Republican, and who is not,
and when you find man who Is not,
do not count him for the party. One
who is not loyal never helps.
There is no use. gentlemen, temper
izing about this matter. A man is a
Republican or he is not. Is he going
to support the national ticket, and is
he going to support the State ticket?
II he is he is a Republican, and If he is
not he is not Republican. Now, such
a policy may cost us some votes, but
in the not distant future these gentle
men 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 Republi-
cans, but bringing forth works meet
for repentance.