New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29
"CRAZY-QUILT" PLATFORM
Planks of the Progressive
Declaration Denounced as
Being Utterly Pre-
posterous and I'm
practicable.
NO HOPE IN DEMOCRATS
Executive, in Speech at Beverly, De-
clares Their Rule Would Bring
Commercial Disaster-Ex-
horts Republicans to
Stand by Party.

SCand by Party.
Beverly, Mass. Sept. 2S.-Presldent
Taft made direct plea to-day to Re-
| publicans to vote the Republican ticket
| and not to desert the party at the polls
/ in November in order to defeat the
third party and Mr.. Roosevelt 1t was
/ the first prepared political address the
| President has made since his speech
accepting the Chicago nomination. II
/ was delivered from temporary stand
erected on the grounds at Parramatta.
Mrs. Taft and the Presidents aunt,
| Miss Della Torrey. stood on the ycr-
anda and listened. The Presidents au-
| ditors were the Republican clubs OF
! Essex County, but hundreds of rest
/ dents OF Beverly came to hear him as
well The lawn In front of the speak
! ing stand was filled with closely
| packed crowd. The Presidents re-
marks were received with the utmost
| enthusiasm.
! Mr. Taft devoted particular attention
to the third party for the frst time
| since its formation. He mentioned Ny.
| Roosevelt and Governor Wilson several
| times by name, but only in connection
with their views on political or eco
! nomic subjects. His references to the
7 third party, and particularly his re-
: mark that its platform was OF crazy
quilt" character. brought immediate
| and loud applause.
Aside from his views Of the new
! party, the President talked almost ex-
q clusively Of the trusts. the tariff and
! prosperity. He defended his policy Of
! trust prosecutions and maintained that
B the best proof that il was not injurious
TO sound business was the prosperity
/ that he now sees everywhere in the
! country. He pointed out that business
men are conforming to the Sherman
law and added that so long as the law
/ is on the statute books it must be en-
! forced
| No Prosperity Without Protection.
The President related the tariff close
! ly with prosperity and asserted that
there could hardly be prosperity with
out protection. He attacked the Demo-
cratic platform and paid his respects
! to Governor Wilson for his tariff views,
which he declared could hardly stand
the prosperity test.
There is one issue in this campaign
of even greater fundamental and per-
manent Importance to the government
and the people than the tariff and pros
perity." said the President, beginning
his attack upon the third party. That
| is the preservation of the institutions
OF civil liberty as they were handed
down to us by our forefathers in the
Constitution OF the United States, and
the state constitutions, which were
modelled after ii.
"A third party has split off from the
Republican PARTY not for any one prin-
ciple or. indeed, on any principle at
/ all, but merely to crafty personal am
! bition and vengeance; and in the graf
| ification of that personal ambition and
vengeance every new fad and theory,
some of them good, some OF them 1T
terly preposterous and impracticable;
some of them as socialistic as anything
/ that has been proposed In the countries
of Europe, many having no relation %
national jurisdiction or policy. have
beer crowded into platform in order
To tempt the votes of enthusiastic sup
porters of each OF these proposed re-
/ forms.
Depends Solely on Leader.
This new party is not united on any
| cohesive principle, and is only kept to-
gether by the remarkable personality
OF its leader. Were he to die the party
| would go to pieces, for the cause, OF
which so many glibly speak. is utterly
incapable of definition in view OF the
crazy quilt character OF the platform
But there is running through the
entire declared policy OF the third party
an entire Willingness TO destroy every
limitation of constitutional representa-
tive government in order that by short
cuts these various reforms Inconsistent
as they may be-and many OF them are
with each other, may be accom-
plished by the decree of a benevolent
despotsm. to be supported by the ac-
claim of hero worshipping. emotional
undiscriminating, superfcially minded
and non thinking people
Continuing his argument, Mr. Taft
said:
The reason why the movement cannot
succeed is that the great bulk of our peo-
pie are not emotional, Understanding.
superiicially minded, non-thinking or
hero-wo orshipping They have the virtue
of the second sober thought. They have
the underlying common sense that. after
full discussion enables the scales TO fail
from their eyes. and to see the danger