Show fAVORS HOUSE ClEANING Herbert Parsons Glad GIad the HIe Opportunity is Offered Even Though it Came Game by Accident New York March 22 If we do not clean up things in our party the people will clean the party out and deserved deservedly i is ly so s I Herbert Parsons former president of I I Ithe the Republican county committee of New York county and friend of Theo Theodore Theodore Theodore dore Roosevelt thus advocated a thor thorough thorough thorough ough housecleaning at Albany In an address tonight at a dinner In his hon honor or given by his former associates on the committee President Taft was a guest at the banquet coming in lato late Mr Parsons said saidA A crisis exists because many of the party believe there has not been hon honesty honesty honesty esty and common decency on the part of men In important positions who call themselves Republicans Whatever judgment senators may feel in conscience conscience conscience ence bound to give in the trial now proceeding at Albany the public is con convinced convinced vinced there has been crookedness in high places Many men deplore such a revelation revelation tion I do not For years those of us active In politics have heard of these things The thought of them has nau nauseated nauseated nauseated seated us The proof was lacking as asis asIs asis is so often the case in politics though we privately believed in the tho truth of the rumors Now we have a chance to tu clean house An accident has given us the opportunity There was tremendous cheering when President Taft arrived He spoke in lighter vein and said in part This is 19 Herbert Parsons show and andI I am here to speak about him Herbert Parsons and I have been friends for years I took him to the Orient and I brought him tack back because I knew he hf was too tuo valuable to leave out there |