New-York tribune., 1912-01-30
In Keynote Speech in Cleveland
President Tells Republicans
Pledges Have Been
Fulfilled.
FOR SANE TARIFF REVISION
Points to Law Enforcement,
Peace Treaties and Passage of
Progressive Measures as
Features of Admin
istration.

three-day visit to Ohio began in Cleve
land to-day, and before he retired to his
private car tonight the President had
spoken on peace or arbitration, talked
Ohio politics with some of the leading
Republicans of the state and sounded the
Keynote" for the coming Presidential
campaign.
The feature Of the Presidents first
day in his own state came in the evening
at the Mckinley Day banquet given by
the Tippecanoe Club at the Chamber Of
Commerce Addressing six hundred and
fifty Northern Ohio Republicans, the
President made a stirring appeal to the
Republican party TO stand by its guns
and rest confident that it has carried
out the pledges it made to the people
of the United States. He declared that
he faced the future with equanimity and
IN the belief that the judgment Of the
country would prove him right in his
opinion. To his hearers il appeared that
a keynote speech" on which the coming
campaign might be fought to finish
was being delivered. The President said:
Looking over the record of what has
been done. il seems to me that we are
armed with the facts and with things ac-
cOmpEshed sufficient to meet our enemy
in the open field, and to overcome MN
in the Judgment of ar impartial umpire.
No Occasion for Fear.
IT seems to me that there is no oc-
casion for the Republicans of this coun-
try 10 fear the issue, with their knowl-
edge of the progress that has been mace
in the last four years, with their adop-
ton of progressive principles indicated
in their platform of 1903 and in the
nroposals of the administration since
that time. They must, If they would
serve the country well, discriminate oe-
tween what is really progressive ana
useful and what is utterly at variance
with sound constitutional government
and economic policy.
On this, the natal day of William Nc
KinIey let US take new vows in behalf
ef the arand old party, standing by the
Constitution. standing by the rights OF
liberty, and property of the Individual,
and wiiina TO face defeat many times In
behalf Of the cause Of sound eonstItu'
tional government.
ETeSlQHnI dll NdS HdlhlNoHp'' ~
a cold that made his voice husky, but
he gave comprehensive review OF the
achievements of his administration. BY
the attention he devoted to the tariff
and the attempts made since 1908 10
revise it he indicated his willingness
10 go into the campaign on this issue
alone. The Democratic party, he said,
had mistaken the results of the 1910
election. and had inferred from its
victory that the United States must
abandon the principle of protection and
set up that of tariff. for revenue only.
He said
Our Democratic friends are mistaken.
The election of 1910 was not a deClara-
tion in favor of tariff for revenue or
free trade. This is shown by the fact
that the Democratic vote was less
rather than greater than it had been
I'm the presidential election. The defeat !
of the Republican party came not from
an increase in Democratic votes. but
from a detection of Republican votes,
t. e. Of its own members who stayed
al home and refused TO stand by the
party in what they regarded as fail
ure TO redeem its pledges.
unseientifc Revision Dangerous.
Discussing his vetoes of the wool and
cotton revision bills passed by Congress
at the special session last summer, the
President admitted that the wool sched-
ule the cotton schedule and possibly
others of the Payne-Aldrich law were
too high, but said that unscienttGc
revision was a much greater evil than
a delay in gaining real revision. lie
said:
We should be entirely willing, upon
the issue Of whether these bills ought
TO have passed in the form in which
they were drawn, with the little infOr-
nation as 10 their effect which Con-
gress had or was able TO furnish the
Executive. to go before the country
and invite the verdict of the people.
am confident that on this issue the
people will be with US, and that our
friends the enemy are entirely mistaken
in their Interpretation Of recent popular
expression. We are not welded TO any
particular rates, and wo are quite willing
as a party to re-examine any rates in the
liaht OF proper information, should the
mandate Of power again be given TO the
Republicans so that the party shall con-
troll the executive and both houses.
Aside from the benefits which the
creation of a Tariff Board by the Payne
law there were many others that grew
out of that law to which the Republican
party could claim credit. Among these
he named the Court of Customs Appeals.
with authorization to construe the tariff
act; the maximum and minimum clause
OF the law. which enables this country To
prevent discrimination against American
trade. and the corporation tax. which IS
bringing many millions of revenue each
year TO the government
Reviews Other Features.
Leaving the tariff the President more
briefly reviewed the other accomplish
ments OF his administration. He began
with the railroads The interstate com
merce act he said has been strength
ened since he has been in the White
House so that life and effect" have
been given TO orders OF the Interstate
Commerce Commission. with the result
that railroads cannot minimize or ig-
more" them
Commerce Court, he said. was ere