Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-12
'TAFT ON FUTURE OF
REPUBLICAN PARTY
Expresses Belief in Ultimate Su-
premacy and Outlines
Its Policies

| Ex-President Taft. in remarkably
| clear and forceful article in the cur
rent issue Of the Saturday Evening
Post, sets forth what he believes to
be the future of the Republican party.
In the last campaign "the Republican
candidate" says Mr.. Taft, did not
prove to be a strong vote getter. He
had been subjected to such severe
criticism and bitter attack for nearly
four years, and his personality and
motives and sympathies had been SO
represented or misrepresented to the
American people that many Repub-
licans preferred Mr.. Roosevelt as q
man and were not embarrassed by the
new doctrines he was proclaiming be-
possible danger under the influence Of
responsibility of power.
| Many Republicans were affected
by the unfair accounts Of the pro-
ceedings of the Chicago convention,
colored to give the impression that in
justice had been done by the controll-
ing majority. Mr.. Roosevelt is
genius in the matter of securing pub
| llclty for what he says, and his per-
| slstent attack on the convention, cir
culated with all skill, had great
| effect"
OF the future of the Progressive
| party MIR. Taft says:
| "Those of use who believe that Mr..
| Roosevelts new theories of govern
ment will seriously impair that which
we hold essential to the maintenance
OF liberty regulated by law are justi-
fled in thinking that the most impor-
tant thing to the country is to defeat
! the Progressive party in presidential
| elections"
| Admitting the possibility of the re-
election of President Wilson, the
writer is optimistic as to the ultimate
supremacy of the Republican party
and concerning it's future policy he
says:
I'VE must direct our energies
toward the amendment of the present
banking and currency act that shall
furnish an elastic medium auto
matically adjusting itself to the needs
OF business, without giving too arbi-
trary control to the government;
wise system for conservation of our
national resources; the reform of
Judicial procedure, eliminating it's de-
lays and reducing its COST the greater
supervision of the business of and
interstate business, and the continued
enforcement of the antitrust law;
laws providing workmen's compensa-
ton for interstate railroad companies
and regulating the relations between
them and their employees, to prevent
strikes, so far as possible, and to Sc
cure safety in operation for the public
and the employees the taking of all
local federal officers and all but de-
partment heads and under-secretarie
out OF politics by putting them in the
classified service; the improvement of
rivers and harbors by a completed
plan, and a levee system for the
Mississippi; the enactment of model
laws for the District of Columbia. as
to the control of public utilities; the
maintenance of the public health, on
the use of child labor, the regulation
OF tenement-house construction inves-
t1gation and arbitration of labor dis
putes, and the conduct of vocational
education, of Fairgrounds, and OF
charitable and penal Institutions; the
enlargement of the bureau of educa-
tion into means of publishing to the
world the exact condition of education
In every State, with view to stimu-
latlng much-needed progress in thor
ough primary and vocational training:
the stimulation of the merchant ma
rine; the creation and maintenance of
permanent tariff commission, with
adequate power to report the facts as
to the operation of the tariff; the
adoption of budget system and a
plan for making government admins
troflon economical, and efficient; the
maintenance of an adequate army and
navy; the comforting on the federal
government power to perform our
treaty obligations to aliens by punish
Ing those who violate them; the adop-
tion and pursuit of a foreign policy
that shall give us influence to aid
China and our American neighbors I'm
maintaining just and peaceful govern
ments.
These are some of the constructive
reforms to which the Republican party
will address itself when it shall secure
again the mandate of the people: but
before and of higher Importance than
all of these is the rescue of the coun-
try from the serious danger to which
1t is exposed in this attempted under
mining of our stable civil liberty