Show VIGOROUS DEFENSE Straight out from the shoulder At Attorney Attorney Attorney torney General Wickersham delivered the most telling blOWs that have recent recently ly been landed In Jn the realm of politics when he addressed the Hamilton club at Chicago last night Mr Wickersham is a Republican without any qualifications as to party history or any hedging on the cardinal principle of protection The attorney general le ie viewed the first fir t year of ot the present administration and declared that every pledge of the Republican platform of lOS 1908 had been fulfilled to the limit of ot the th extent ext nt of ot executive action Then he challenged all comers corners to point to the accomplishment ot of so much In so short a time by any other administration Mr Wickersham did not merely gen generalize generalize generalize or make mak bald statements He took up the platform promises of Qt the Republican party one by one and pointed to the action of President Taft aft aftIn in each and every case He defended the tariff as a tt revenue producer that had no nc equal and pointed to the figures of at the treasury department to prove Drove his statement He Ho declared that It i was the purpose of at the administration to towage towage wage vage unrelenting warfare upon all Il II Illegal illegal legal trusts and monopolies and in instanced instanced Instanced the prosecution of the Ameri Amen American American can Sugar Refining company and to the cases against the Standard Oil and American Tobacco now awaiting decision In the supreme court count of the United States He took up the Presidents special messages to Con Congress Congress Congress gress recommending amendment amendments to the Interstate commerce law federal In Incorporation incorporation corporation postal savings banks changes to make the employers liability liability ity act more easy to enforce intelli intelligent intelligent gent sent conservation laws readjustment of mail mall rates and revision of ot the cus cue customs customs toms tome laws and expressed the belief that Congress would follow the lead of ofIr Mr Ir Taft By far the significant portion of Mr dr address however related to the Insurgents The time has arrived said sald the attorney general when every Republican an must choose whether or not he was with the Re Republican Republican Republican publican party and the President He was still more emphatic when he said Treason has ever consisted In In n giving aid and comfort to the enemy If Irany any anyone anyone one wishes to Join the Democratic party let him do so but let him not claim to be a Republican and awl work in inand inand inand and out of season to defeat Republican can measures and to subvert the In Influence influence Influence fluence of the Republican President That is precisely what Beveridge I La LaFollette LaFollette a Follette Cummins Dolliver Bristow and others have been attempting to do If Jr these men had been allowed to have their w way y at the extra session of Con Congress Congress Congress gress instead of ot having a tariff law so constructed as to protect the Industries and labor of the th United States the hare bars would have been let down and the country would have haie been swamped with the products of the foreign nations the wool lead leod and other of Utah and other western states would have been teen practically annihilated and the conditions prevailing under the admin administration adminIstration adminIstration of Grover Cleveland would have bave returned eL Attorney General Genera WIckersham be believes believes believes the men who who call themselves s Re Republicans Republicans Republicans publicans should give earnest and loyal loyl support to party measures and prin or go over to the enemy at once and quit bushwhacking One thing is certain The real Republicans do not propose to parley with the individuals above mentioned d In the halls of Con Congress Congress Congress gress on th stump and In the public press they will wUl be met with the necessary necessary sary figures to show the utter fallacy of ot their contentions There will be no compromise with principle no abandon abandonment abandonment ment of the doctrine of protection of home industries and no backward step stepin stepIn stepIn in the policy polley of conservation The in insurgents insurgents Burgents or ar progressives or whatever they may choose to call call themselves have re d the parting of the ways Whether they go or stay will not swerve the regular Republicans from the path of duty or cause the party even temporary embarrassment Com Corn Common Common Cornmon mon decency however should compel thorn them to choose choo at once The Republican Senators who have been upholding President Tafts hands realize that the tariff is a national is issue i issue sue suc not a sectional one They have looked at the tile broad interests ot of the whole people and not of their own little six sic feet square If the alleged pro progressives pro pio progressives would do this their value to the nation would be on the credit side of or the th ledger |