The Cairo bulletin., 1912-03-12
|NAcE[ lAUDS
| ] TAFT AS MAN
DOING DUTY
Secretary ef Commerce. and Labor
! Deel.kes President Has
Kept AH Pronises
EFFORTS NOT APPRECIATED
Executive Has Continued Policies Of
Predecessor, But Has Re.
ceived no Credit
EFFORTS NOT APPRECIATED

luuinHoPVlAS, Moish Ai'.iA q
speech lauding President Tafts ad-
ministration as complete fulfill
ment of all the Republican platform
pledges Of 1908 and a strict con-
tinuation of the policies inaugurated
by President Roosevelt, Secretary
Nagel of the Department of Com
merce and Labor tonight, made a
vigorous attack on the advocates of
such governmental changes the
initiatiye, referendum and recall.
4 Secretary Nagel declared that pub
lie men were attempting to "eonfuse
the public mind" that they were
.sbusy making pr0pgisa which
they cannot be successfully heidi,
that the recall OF judges would
make trimmers of men," and deter
men of independence and capacity
from accepting positions of trust"
1T was conceivable fifty years ago
that as a result of our internal strife
there might have been two repub-
lies" he said. 1T Is conceivable to-
day that If some Of the suggestions
impatiently put forward at this time
are to prevail, the question may arise
whether or not there shall be one re-
public. Z Against such contingency,
1t behooves every citizen to set his
face In absolute disregard Of every
other condition, personal or politi-
cal"
Taft Efforts Not Appreciated.
The efforts OF President Taft to
carry out the pledges of the party,
he said, had brought no aid from his
Republican critics.
During the last three years." said
Secretary Nagel, during period of
unfailing struggle to realize and
bring into action every pledge that
was made In the name Of the Repub-
lican party, there has been scarcely
a word of approval by them of those
things accomplished. Scarcely a
hand was raised to help lift the bur-.
den which the party by their con-
sent and approval had assumed. ~
Instead they have filled the air
with nostrums, the acceptance OF
which they pronounce to be the sole
test of progressive spirit. Instead of
aiding to fulfill what has been sell
emnly promised in the name OF the
people it has proclaimed that the
initiative. the referendum and the
recall Of officials including judges.
and judicial decisions from now on
shall be the test OF progressive Re-
publicanism.
Secretary Nagel denounced the
charge. that President Taft had
abandoned the policies of the last
administration. He declared that
not one of those things for which the
critics of the administration were
now contending had been embraced
in the last Republican platform.
"lf the recall Of judges and de-
cisions had been embodied in that
platform" he said, ut is safe to say
that there were men then as there
are men now, who could not stand
upon such plank and who could not
support these principles as subver-
sive of the fundamental principles of
representative government"
To President Roosevelt, said Sec
retary Nagel, belonged the credit for
arousing the people to realization
of the value of the laws to protect
them against monopolies and combi-
nations. Colonel Roosevelt first
brought the interstate commerce
laws into full effect he said, and
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