The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-21
Made an Unqualified Defense
of the Administration
and Taft's Reelection.
CAUST|C CRITICISM OF THE
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS- POLICY
Says Tariff Bills Vetoed by Taft were
Dangerous and Revolutionary Tend.
endes Of the day are Shaking tho
Foundations of the Government.

Columbus, Sept. Ex-senator Henry
Cabot Lodge opened the republican
campaign in Ohio today with an un.
qualified defense Of the administra-
tion; and a plea for the reelection
Senator Lodge. after declaring his
pleasure in addressing an Ohio Sath-
friendship with President McKiniey.
The democratic house." he said.
determined to enter upon a career
OF legislation and In order to secure
their legislation they adopted to an
extent never known in our history
ing legislation to appropriation bills.
which hitherto the rules Of both
houses have been carefully framed
to prevent. They started out with
the proposition that they were goine
70 make great economies but when
tne maj account was made up It was
round that the 'economies' all Grip
ment where there were no votes ana
the extravagances in which they
freely INDUCED were poured out law.
ishly where it was thought that large
sums from the treasury would result
IN securing support at the polls. The
economies and extravaganza alike
were determined not by the interests
OF o. tne government or the people but
The speaker asserted that the &C.
tions Of the democratic LEGISLATORS
had crippled the state department to
erect saving Of $4,000: that they
selected this year. when Mexico is in
a ferment of revolution to cut off five
cavalry regiments from the army:
tnat their economy had caused this
C0NnfFV
place among the navies Of the world
with the Panama canal on the point
Of being opened and that their civil
service legislation threatened the dis.
organization Of the service.
Critfcises Tariff Bills.
The democratic tariff measures.
vetoed by President Taft. were criti.
tinued:
But during the last few years an
other question, or rather series of
questions. have arisen. which far
transcend all others. because they in
Voive the fundamental principles upon
which our government and our in.
stitutions rest. These questions have
changes have been agitated and advo-
Gated by men of all parties. This
agitation has divided opinion in tho
two great parties. whether the divis-
ion has been openly declared or not.
Ihese questions are far graver than
any possible question Of economies or
administration. If the proposed con-
into erect they would completely rev.
oluttonize our system and theory of
government as we have known il
since the beginning of our history.
1t ts now seriously proposed to
make the courts dependent upon the
will Of majority Of the voters al
any given moment-a majority which
may be fleeting, temporary or acci-
States were made independent BY
giving to those who sit upon the
bench tenure during good behavior.
and an Independent judiciary has
been. as whole, the great bulwark
of human liberty. II you make your
courts subservient to the will Of a
majority Of the voters at any given
moment, they are no more independ-
ent en- IT than when they were subservient
to the will Of the king and the vital
protection of our individual rights
and liberties vanishes.
All the progress that has been
made in this country in fifty years
has been made by the republican par.
ty. The republican party came into
being for the purpose Of Kidding the
land Of human slavery. To the re-
publican party is due the financial
publican party which fought for tho
payment Of the debts and which sus-
tanned the gold standard. In recent
years, with the new questions that
have arisen. to what party do we
owe the Sherman act. the Interstate
commerce commission. the law stop
ping rebates. the pure food law, and