St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-10-30
ENTHUSIASTIC RALLY
Good Crowd Heard Ex.-Lieut.-GOv-
Slack and Congressman Greene
Discuss Campaign Issues.

Town Hall was well filed last
Thursday evening when the first
republican rally in the national cam
paign was held. F. Fl. Brooks, pres
ident of the ST. Johnsbury Taft and
Sherman Club presided and intro
duced A. j. Maxham, the veteran
republican campaign singer, who
sang a selection and was obliged to
respond to an encore.
Pres. Brooks said that up to two
weeks ago it looked as though the
Taft men in st. Johnsbury were
afraid to identify themselves with
their leader but noN they were
ready to stand up and be counted
and work actively for their cause
until election day. The man who
had been the most influential in
bringing about this change was Ex-
Lieut-Gov. L. P. Slack, who would
address the meeting.
Mr.. Stacks Address
Mr.. Slack declared that he was
glad of an opportunity to discuss
the obligations of the American cit
izen and that he should lay aside
all personalities and speak of What
is best for our interests?" He spoke
of the record of the republican party
and showed how the democrats
when they were in power from 1898
to 1897 not only used up the surplus
the republicans had accumulated to
be applied on the payment of the
war debt but were obliged to issue
bonds four times to pay the rum
ont
When you go to the ballot box you
should not vote away the bread and
butter from your wife and children.
The democratic party in this cam
paign has made the same declara-
tion they did in 1892 that a pro-
tective tariff is unconstitutional. In
view of the results of their laws
when they made this declaration in
1892 do you want them to tinker
with the tariff again?
Pres. Taft stands for tariff com
mission as he realizes we must have
a tariff for revenue and the protec-
ton of American labor. The dem
ocrats have voted against this be-
cause they do not want light when
they tinker with the tariff.
He then spoke of Mr.. Roosevelt's
being a republican until he was
kicked out of the Chicago conVen-
tion. Then he got light mighty
quick.
This administration has made
good. The tariff has been revised
downward as promised, trusts have
been dissolved. Not one was dis
solved while Pres. Roosevelt was in
Office but several of the largest ones
have been dissolved by Taft. Who
do you think really stands between
the people and the trusts? He then
read Mr.. Roosevelt's tribute to Pres.
Taft made before he desired Taft's
job and said that as for him he
proposed to stand by Taft and Sher-
man.
Congressman Greene
Prof Markham sang again and
Congressman F. L. Greene of ST.
Albans was introduced. Congressman
Greene said he was in no physical
condition to make a speech and paid
a warm tribute to the late D. ].
Foster. He said he wanted to deliver
a message to the young men. You
are living in a crisis of American
history when the disruption of a
great political party and business
is threatened. Our nation must hold
together today with the same in
tensity as in the time of the Civil
War. There always come periods of
unrest and we are now going
one but there is no cause
for disruption of the party. The re-
publican party was formed as the
result of the period of unrest from
1850 to 1850 and the first man to
call a republican convention to order
was Lawrence Brainerd of St. AL
bans. But the republican party at
that time stood for a great principle
the same as it has always stood.
The trouble today is that nothing
succeeds like success and the sue
cess of the republican party has
brought to it men who have sought
to use it for their personal benefit.
But we should not set fire to our
house from the outside to clean it
but should clean it from the inside.
The campaign ought to be carried
on in a better spirit. Clifford Pin
chot is a good man but he can't see
the woods because the trees are SO
thick. The trouble with Roosevelt |
is he did not know enough to stop
when he had got done. He has been
a great man for this country but now |
he is a menace. Other men have
made mistakes and Mr.. Roosevelt |
Is making his now.
About so often some one wants a |
change but you cannot destroy a |
great party like the republican party |
without just cause. Parties go to I
pieces on moral crises and the re-
publican party today deserves just as
loyal support as In the days of Lin
coin. Remember young man that
IN tearing down the republican par
ty you are destroying what your /
fathers reared and you should not |
ay thoughtless hands upon it.
Mr.. Markham sang again and the
meeting was closed.
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