Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-03-12
Messages Of Congratulation
Received Following Pres
ident's Toledo Address on
Recall Of Judges.
ROOSEVELT'S NEW
DOCTRINES ARE HIT
In Speech at Chicago Satur-
day Night President Says
Judicial Recall is Begin
ming Of New Despotism.

] AAeeooui &, d., NldTCl Il----Wltl moro
congratulations in the form or mes
sages slowed away In white house
portfolios than he has received on any
recent trip, President Taft passed
through P1ttsburg today on his way
/, east from Chicago and Toledo. Most
OF the messages of praise referred to
his Toledo speech Friday night in
which he denounced the recall OF
judges and the recall of judicial decis.
lon. Discussing the trip the president
said:
The reception accorded me by the
people of Toledo and Chicago puts me
! under deep sense of obligation to
| them. The discussion Of questions OF
government brought forth many sym.
pathetic assurances and the American
| citizens of foreign birth or descent OF
whom several great audiences were
composed seemed especially interested
and concerned in the outlines of con.
stitut1onal problems. The spirit OF
optimism, of faith in our institutions,
OF confidence one In another, Is as
strongly in evidence today as at any
time in the history Of our country"
Taft's Chicago Speech. N.
| Chicago. March 11s--In an s.atllress
thefere the Swedish. American Repanli-
lean league Of Illinois President Taft
Saturday night assailed the new doc
trines advanced by Theodore Roose.
velt as the beginnings and mani
festations Of a despotism.'
The president was the chief speaker
at the annual banquet OF the league.
and it was late at night before he end
ed his strenuous day here.
Such government" said Presi.
dent Taft in discussing the recall Of
judicial decisions, as advocated by Col
Roosevelt in his Columbus speech,
would lack in uniformity OF law.
which is essential to Justice, and
would produce that confusion anl
those exceptions In the appliance OF
law which are the beginnings and
manifestations of a despotism
The president eliminated from COM
sideration as real progressives these
who look to socialism for relief from
present day evils in government; de.
clared that his distinguished prede.
cessor' deserved most of the credit
for awakening the public to the need
for action, and argued that progress
sive is as progressive does" pointing
to some Of the achievements Of his ad.
ministration to prove that it has quail
fed under that respect.
"The term progressive" said the
president. includes all OF those who
have been moved to efforts OF reform
by the necessity for legislative and
governmental action to deprive cor.
porate capital and undue vested
privilege of it's political power and to
bring about proper popular and gov
ernmental control and regulation OF
k1,<S, ffol
and for legitimate purposes.
Handsome is as handsome does"
said he, quoting the old maxim An
administration which has been sue
cessfully progressive in deeds is en-
titled to the approval of the people.
The present republican administra-
tion in what it has accomplished in
legislative and executive action Is able
both in the way of avoiding unneces.
sary disturbances Of business, in the
way OF regulating the use Of corporate
capital and privilege and preventing
its abuses, and in the preservation for
the public OF what belongs to it, as
well as in ameliorating the legal status
of certain classes OF the people and
in increasing the functions Of the gov
ernment for the benefit Of the whole
people"
Many Radical Remedies.
Turning from those he considered
progressives to those he held too radi-
cal in their desires for governmental
changes, the president continued:
"The progressive movement has as
sumed the character of a crusade, and
many radical remedies were suggested
the carrying out of which would only
be less destructive than the threatened
fatal course of the disease. There were
many who long attacked our present
institutions as the basis Of all injustice
and inequality, and their voice became
louder and more distinct and was
listened to with much greater favor
than ever before in the history OF the
country.
.''The growth of socialism in this
country Is noteworthy incident il.
showing the extreme to which many
would 60 in the solution Of the prob
lem which am discussing.
'taThe fntility OF every secialistic
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