The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-28
Taft Is Bitter Against
Popular Political
Nostrurns.
PAYS RESPECTS TO
RECALL OF JUDGES
Secs in Success Of Present Move
rnent Overthrow of the Courts.
Conservative People Should
Rise and Put End 10 Such
Indefcnsiblc Agita-
ton.

New York. January 2T.-on the eve
of his ,hree-day visit to Ohio, his home
state, President Taft spoke Tonight
at the Waldorf-Astoria to the Ohio
Society OF New York. delivering prob
ably tho most impassoned speech he
has made IN many months. directed
against the "nostrums Of reform" and
particularly aimed at the recall OF
Judges.
In the efforts that, the President
said, have been made TO reform legis-
lation in this country, he saw much
that was good. He saw ;hc faults Of
government in the United states to-
dag and admitted that in trying to
eradicate them much might bc ac-
complishcd by reformers. But In the
effort to make the judiciary responsive
to every within of the people, he saw
destruction. He declared that the
conservative element of the nation
must eventually igct together to
prevent movement that would make
the courts the creatures OF popular
VIII, and might make the decision in
every case, not according with the law
but In accord with what majority
Of the people thought the law should
be.
Time TO End Agitation.
They are having II constitutional
convention in Ohio said the Prcsl-
dent. and l am told that one of the
propositions Is TO propose :hc judicial
recall orators and statesmen are go
ing IN I'D down the country lcnounc-
ins cou', pointing out their corrup,
ma ture. The time is coming In my
lhasment when the conservative pco-
pie OF this country who are IN favor
Of the eternal principles OF justice and
their administration so as to make
! them prevail, should rise 10 meet these
misguided supporters vi al utterly in
dcfens'bio theory, and the agitation
against the courts"
Inc Presidents speech to the Ohio
society was only one OF his many Ell :
gasements here tonight From "ohioo
he stepped over into West Virginia /"
IN the same hotel and addressed tic
New York Society of that name. and
then motored to Sherry's to spcu. To
the Aero Club of America Before re
firing at the home of his brother,
Henry w. Taft. tile President dropped
In at the ball OF the Daughters Of
Jacob at tho Sevcnty-hrst Regiment
hrmorF,to which 10000 invitations had
been Issued. lie Is due 10 leave New
York tomorrow for Cleveland
18th population keen, active.
alert, intelligent and reading. II is
not to be expected that any movement
can escape Ohio or be without its sun
porters in that State" said tie PresI-
dent TO the Ohio Society Hence.
grecnbackery, populisn, free silver at
sixteen to-one. all have held their
sway and found considerable part
of the people who were willing 10
Try tho experiment OF each new doc
trinc, which was 10 take away from
men the necessity for wealth and
labor and make tho deserving rich.
"e have now reached another
, period when another nev' political
nostrifm, or series . fthem is being
preached throughout the country end
have found some Judgment in our dear
old State
Like All Nostrums.
we are told that there is a period
of unrest throughout the country and
| in ONO especially. that the movement
| Is against the things that are, and in
favor of new ideas which are to
metamorphose our entire Institutions
and bring about n condition where
only the Just shall have luxury and
only the undeservinE be poor. Like
all nostrums of this kind, the reform
is not to proceed from the people
themselves in the change OF tho in
divldual. but is to he found In the
machinery OF government under which
the individual lives and has his be-
ing 1t is to impose on the govern
ment a responsibility for the happi-
| ness OF the individual that 1t never
had before.
We are enjoying to-day a greater
per capita holding of property by the
individual than ever In tho history OF
the country. Never before has tho
equality OF opportunity manifested
Itself as il does to-day in Ohio and all
| other sister States.
Not content with this progress,
there are rcformcrs. who now pro-
pose remedies to make rctrograde
steps In politics impossible by the
establishment OF new constitutions,
easily amendable. providing for con-
slant appeals to the franchise and
votes of the people, 70: the recall by
the vote of the people of Judges, and
for the reversal of judicial decisions
by plebiscites.
1T may be questioned whether in
the whole history of propose. political
reforms We have ever had such radical
| suggestions as have proceeded from
Senators ana congressman, Governors
and members of State Legislatures
within the last decade, when attempt
has been made to formulate what this
now progressive system Is and involves.
1t is radical. not so much because it
| affects tho executive and the Leglsla-
ture, and makes them and their tenn
! porary opinions respond quickly in
their changes 10 popular waves of pas
sion. but II is chiefly so because those
who arc its advocates lay their hands
upon our court system and seek to rob
1t OF those characteristics which Sc
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