Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-04-12
President Says Those Are In
sincere Who Act from Desire
to Propose Changes Rather
Than Improve Conditions,
DEMAGOGUES SEEK
UNFAIR ADVANTAGES
Speaker Declares Sensitive
Nerve of Serious Minded Peo-
pie Has Been Touched by
Subversive Proposition,


JBy Morning Journal Speciaa Leased Wire I
New York. April 1l.-President
Taft charged tonight that many Of
those persons who advocated the re-
call of judges or the recall of judicial
decisions are insincere demagogucs
without sufficient knowledge of the
needs for the preservation of the
constitution or its guarantees.
Some OF the men who preach the
recall, he said, were sincere, but all
of them acted from Il desire To pro-
pose changes rather than with any
definite plan for the Improvement of
conditions.
The president was speaking y the
Union League club of New YORK. He
mentioned no names but announced
with emphasis that the sensitive
nerve" of the serious minded people
of the country had been touched by
these proposals and that when they
realized that "impious' hands were
likely to be laid upon the ark of the
covenant, "a profound protest was
heard from all thinking people"
Mr.. Taft came to New York to-
night to keep two engagements. The
first was with fellow. members of the
class of Yale rs, at the University
club; the other with the Union League
club. which recently announced its
endorsement of his candidacy,
IN beginning his speech, the presi-
dent thanked the Union League clubs
of New York and Philadelphia for
their recent endorsement of his cam
didacy. 1t has been unusual for these
crganiza tions, he said to take any
part in pre-convention campaigns.
But" he said, circumstances have
made the present pre-conVcntion
campaign of such character that
both the Philadelphia and New York
clubs have indicated in resolutions a
conviction on the part Of nearly all
their members that there is some
thing at stake in this campaign that
should awaken the interest and arouse
the action of all VINO believe in the
principles and form of goVernmcn
that are embodied in Hur present con-
stitution ana who cherish the insti-
tutions preserved and secured by
that constitution as essential to the
maintenance of liberty regulated by
law.
The necessity that there was for
arousing our people to prevent the
abuses OF corporate privileges and
power. and 10 wrest from concentrat-
ed wealth the exercise of political
4 h. 4
tended such agitation among the peo-
pie have been taken advantage of by
persons, some of them sincere, some
of them demagogues, and all Of them
with an insufficient knowledge of the
necessity in the mainte tenance of liberty
and progress of our constitution and
its guarantees. to propose changes.
rather for the sake of change than
with an definite plan of improving
the body polite
because courts have not manifest
ed as quick perception of the adVan-
tages to he realized from these pro-
posed changes, and in some instances
perhaps have unduly broadcn"d con-
stitutional restrictions. To- declhr.
them invalid il is proposed to change
the whole nature of our judicial syS-
tenn and render it subject To popular
review, either by what is called the
recall OF the judges when their con-
duct on the bench is not approved by
"A majority Of the voting electorate, or
by recall Of decisions and Il reversal
of the Judgment of the judges when
ever they declare invalid "A Legislative
enactment which they deem to be in
violation Of the Fundamental law.
II was not until the sensitive nerve
of the serious minded people Of this
country was touched by the PROPOSE
ton to recall the Judges ur to recall
their decisions. that such people Of all
classes began To realize that impiOus
hands were likelN to be laid upon the
ark Of the covenant. which Is the in
dependence Of the judicial branch OF
our government. \ profound protest
was heard from al thinking people
against the proposal.
Il am here tonight to express my
satisfaction that the members Of this
club have felt IT To- DE their duty to
express to the, public at large their
sense of the crisis through which
our institutions are passing aud the
necessity for guarding rs We would
our liberty ana everything that we
hold dear ia our homes and our life
against the innovations that are -
recklessly advocated by men who pro-
fees TO d. acting In the interest of
reform and progress.
In this contest Tor the prsserra-
fion of cur ancient landmarks of gov
crnment and Tor the security of iif-.
liberty and property involved in the
maintenance of an independent Judi