The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-09-30

| worthy 10 become MS successor III the
! presidency.
! As you must know. President TAFT
secured the general acceptance OF the
plan oil scientifically Uniformed revision
OF the tariff and the first establishment
OF a non partisan commission to get
/ the facts on which to base such re-
vision. He vigorously enforced the
/ Sherman antitrust law without fear
or favor. and the results in this fled
of the first three years of his admins
tration are far beyond those OF any
preceding administration. The Sher-
man law has been fully interpreted and
| its meaning and power made clear to
| the whole business world President
/ Taft has accomplished much more than
am of his predecessors ever attempted
1 for the restoration of normal competi-
| ton in business. He has effectively
grappled with the worldwide prob
lem of the high cost of living by seek
| ing the establishment of an interna-
tional scientific commission to dis
cover the causes and suggest the
! remedies. and this is the only way in
which this problem can be honestly
dealt with
Advantages for the Farmers and Work
erS.
President Tafts administration has
been remarkably effective in advancing
the welfare of farmers and all workers.
Not in many years have the farmers
been so prosperous as during this adj
ministration. The great necessary con-
ditions for the real welfare of the
workingmen have been much i'm
proved. The first of these necessary
conditions is certainty of employment.
This is bound to be dependent on
normally prosperous business condi-
tions. Under President Taft the effects
of the panic of 1907 (often called the
Roosevelt panic) have been rapidly
overcome, business confidence has
been restored and prosperity renewed. |
Business men know that period has
begun which, if not checked by politi- |
cal disturbances, will be a time of |
greater industrial activity and develop |
ment than we have known in many |
years. The next great necessity of the
workers is sufficiently liberal COM
pensation for their labor. This must
depend on the profits of business en-
terprises. President Taft has been
foremost in the effort to maintain rea-
sonable profits. To maintain them is
to maintain and increase the prospect
of higher wages.
A model law of employers liability
and workmen's compensation, in ac-
cordance with the report OF commits
sion appointed by President Taft. was
recommended by him and its adoption
urged; and he Is now plan
ming to put a similar law into opera
lion in Panama. He secured the en-
lctment of a child labor law for the
District of Columbia, and of the safety
appliance act to protect railroad en-
)loyes. He secured the establishment
If the bureau of mines for the protec-
ion of miners. Through his admins
ration great frauds on the people
through the misuse of the mails have
)een broken up, a postal savings bank
las been established, and the longde-
tired parcels post system begun The
PRESIDENT has also secured remarkable
in the administration of the
-arious departments of the govern
nent. He has pushed the work on the
Panama canal toward an unexpectedly
rapid completion. He also recon-
nended and secured the law taxing the
let earnings of corporations. These :
re only some of the more important ,
of President Taft.
Governor JOhnsOn's HypOcritical State
ments About Fraud.
You again show your persistent uh-
airness in your speech at Syracuse
I. Y. OH September 6, before the New
FORK state convention of your new
bird party. You again make the state
nent that at the republican nationtl
onvention two delegates from San
francisco were unfairly seated. and
ou say in effect that the two dele
ates not seated were stolen away from
he people of California. Why will YOU
ot state this case fully and fairly?
,ou are familiar with all the facts.
Why do you not show that the national
ommittee. under the terms of the con
ention call and party precedent i'll
ational affairs. had to guarantee to
ne people of every congressional dis
'iot the right to select their delegates
} the national convention. and thus
ould not do otherwise than seat the
elected district delegates? You
now very well that the national com
ittee and national convention must
stablish the rule of representation for
il the states and that rule must be
inform for all in order to avoid chaos.
lille California regulates its own af-
IRIS only. You know very well that
e new primary law of California
ent into effect after the call for the
ltional convention was issued ana
at it was absolutely impossible for
e national committee when 1t assem-
ed to repudiate the terms of its own
IL, on which the republicans OF all the :
ates had acted. You know very well ,
at the national committee and the
tional convention can only act, as
ey have acted, in obedience to the
ne-honored, American principle of
ijority rule. You know very well ,
at the national committee and the \
tional convention have no powers of l,
preston, that, subject to the consti- :
ion and statutes OF the United States i,
cir organization is practically vol
tary association whose customs ana
les are changed whenthe major -
of the members wish it, and that no
tie has the right or power to dictate -
associations of citizens from all the
ltes.
If you hold to the idea that the votes
districts and every other considera-
n ought to yield to the will of the
-ers as expressed in the statewide
ctions, why do you not apply this
"a to Massachusetts as well as to o
lifornia? You know very well that
the statewide vote at
primaries was for President Taft
very substantial majority, but that
ween eight and nine thousand
es for Taft delegates at large were
own out because of technical err
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