The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-29
Hancock Department

!" iihltdllons on Inc importation al
} sugar AMI tobacco. THIS p,ovlso,
has been fulfilled.
| IL declared for postal savings banl
4 system and snch a system is now 20,
Jaw.
) IL commended the Sherman Anti
trust INV and condemned tic failure
III other administrations To enforce
It's provisions President Tatt has en-
forced that law as !. Leve, was Ell
forced before AMI lac has shown nc
partially, By this course he has sc
cured some If his most bitter enemies
! 1t demanded help to workers by es.
tablisling an eight-hour day, a cEil-
Irens bureau and an my estigation OF
Foreign contract labor conditions \
OF these are now accomplished facts. &.
II commended the Employers Liabil
ity Act. That act has been strength.
ened under this administration. and a
workman's compensation act has pass.
ed the Republican Senate ana rs nov.
being held NJ in "a Democratic house.
| 1t committed the party TO the con
- '"N''Ai VI Jul Itil IfNbuIfN6 d't
more real constructive progress has
been made IN this matter during the
last three years than during any pre-
Nious administration. This administra-
ton has been conserving and not talk
ing merely.
1t indcrsed all proper efforts to 81
cure the peace Of the world and
President Taft mas done more To bring
about this condition than any other
living American
1t approved the civil service Jaw
and the president prevented an crnac-
collation. of that law by vetoing a bill
passed by both hoJscs whose effect
would have been to destroy most of
the benefits If that scrN ice.
It approved The railroad legislation
on the statute books, but asked that
tho interstate commerce law be
amended so as to give To railroads the
right to make traffic agreements, sub
jet 10 the approval IF the Interstate
Commerce Commission, and that les;is-
'aticn he enacted to prevent the over
issue of stocks ana bonds by inter
state carriers ''hc president carly H.
his administration urged uron Con-
grcss by message to it. the necessity
and desirabilty of such actor. but
Congress refused To- take il.
This is a partial record Of the pres
"nt administration i'm its. relations to-
the platform upon which it went into
power. Lock over the history Of the
country and see if there is another
administration with better record of
performance.
The beginning of the insurgcnt
movement occurred during Roosc-
velts administration. but he was 4
regular and the insurccnts with the
exception of five or six of the most
conservative OF which | was one
were not with President Roosevelt
The disposition Cf the political pro-
fessional insurgcnt is to artagorizc
the administration IL his own party.
lie can obtain nctoriaty i'm no othcr
manner 50 wei and from the day Mr.
Taft became president until now he
has had bitter, Unrelenting opposition
from members Of his own r.arty.
II will be remembered that in con
sequence during the congressional
i'm 1910 enough Republicans
throughout the country remained
away from the polls to enable the
Democrats L. secure the house of rep
rcsentatives and to REFUGE the Rcpub-
lican ma FORTY IN the Senate TO about |
eight And yet | repeat, that even
with Congresses Sc constituted, Presi-
dent Taft has more real progre ss.ve |
legislation t. the credit of his admin |
than has any other president |
since Lincoln.
! shall vote for him because ne is |
more a statesman than he is a politi- |
clan II this fact had been reversed |
he would now be practically unop-
posed for re election.
| shall support President Taft be-
'ause a careful. unbiased and intelli-
gent study of all the candidates for
president compels me to select him
as the sanest the most practically
the most Inseli,sh. and
he most reliable of them all.
shall support him because under
lis administration the general pros
)erity of all our people has never boon
lpon such a sound business basis.
| shall support him because of some
If the enemies he has made Every
great corporate law breaker. every
who has been indicted I'M
Ter President Taft's administration
or violating the law is opposing him
I is true that many of these NAL fac-
ors OF great wealth" prefer reform
low with Jacobs voice, yet mcthnlSs
can still detect the hand of f.sau.
| shall support Taft because he is
he duly certified nominee of the Re-
publican party. and while | deprecat-
many convention methods, including
.ume which attended the conventions
# 1872 1905 and 1904. yet after care
ully reviewing all the evidence ] am
satisfied that the convention which
enominated Mr.. raft was quite as
rec FROM bossism and coercion as any
,ther convention held this year.
am Republican. The Republican
,artv has some unworthy men among
Is leaders, but no other existing party
las fewer of this class. Its principles