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Show TAFT ATTACKS THE RECALL AND i ITS ADVOCATES Declares Most of Latter Are Insincere Demagogues Who Are Acting Without Knowing Know-ing What They Are Doing. STIRRING SPEECH MADE IN NEW YORK Mentions No Names, but Leaves His Detractors to Apply His Rerilarks in Any Manner They See- Fit. N-EW YORK. April 11. President Taft charged tonight that many of those persons who advocate the recall of Judges or the recall of Judicial decisions arc Inalncero llcmagogues, acting without sufficient knowledge of the need for preservation of the constitution or Its guarantees. Some of the men who preach the recall, re-call, be said, were luslnccro, but all of them acted from a desire to propose changes rather than with any definite plan for the Improvement of conditions. The president was speaking to the Union Ijeaguc club of New York. He mentioned no names, but announced with emphasis that the "sensitive nerve of tho scrlous-mlndcd people of the country had boon touched by those proposals" and that wwhen tho realized that "Impious bunds were likely to be laid upon the ark of tho covenant" a profound protest was heard from "all thinking people." Mr. Taft came to New York, tonight to keep two engagements. The first was tho fellow members of the class of Yale. '7S. at the University club; the other was at the Union League club, which recently re-cently announced Its Indorsement of his candidacy. Thanks the Club. In beginning his speech .'tho presld-snt thanked tho Union League clubs of New York and Philadelphia for tho recent Indorsement of his candidacy. Tt has been unusual for these organizations, ltd said, to take any part in prc-conventlon cnmpalgnn. "But," he added, "circumstances "circum-stances have tiki dc tho present prc-conventlon campaign of such a character that both the Philadelphia and Now York clubs have indicated in resolutions a conviction on tho part of nearly all their members that thero 1s something at slake In this campaign that should awaken the Interest and arouse the action ac-tion of all who believe in tho principles princi-ples and form of government that are embodied In our present constitution and who cherish the Institutions preserved and served by that constitution as essential to the maintenance of liberty regulated by law." The president continued: Some Demagogues. The necessity that there was for arousing our people to prevent the abuses of corporate privilege and power, and -lo wrest from concentrated concen-trated wealth the exercise of political control, and the success that has attended at-tended much agitation among the peoplo have been taken advantage of by persons, some of them slnocre, some of them demagogues, and all of them with nn lnsufl'clent knowledge knowl-edge of the necessity for tho maintenance main-tenance of liberty and progress of our constitution and Its guarantees, lo propose changes, rather for the sake of change than with any definite plan of Improving tho body politic. Decausc courts have not niunlfestcd as quick perception of the advantages to bo realized from those proposed changes, and In some Instances have perhaps unduly broadened constitutional constitu-tional restrictions to declare them Invalid, In-valid, It Is proposed to change the whole nature of our judicial system and render It subject to popular review, re-view, either by what 13 called the recall of the Judges when their conduct con-duct on the bench Is not approved by a majorfty of the voting electorate or by a recall of decisions and a reversal re-versal of the judgment of the Judges whenever they declare Invalid a log Islatlve enactment which they deem to be in violation of the fundamental law. Profound Protest. It was not until the sensitive nerve of the Hcrious-mlndcd people of this country was touched by the proposition proposi-tion to recall the Judges or to recall their decisions, that cuch peoplo of all classes began to rcnll;:o that Impious Im-pious hanrla were like to bo laid upon the ark of the covenant which Is tho independence of the Judicial branch of our government. A profound protest pro-test was heard from all thinking people peo-ple agalnsl the proposal. 1 am hero tonight to express my satisfaction that the members of this flub have felt It to bo their duty to express to the public at largo their sense of the crisis through which our Institutions are passing, and the necessity ne-cessity for guarding, an wo would our liberty and everything that we hold dear In our homes and our life. (Continued on Pago Four.) TUFT ATTACKS THE RECALL VIGOROUSLY ( (Continued from Page One.) against tho Innovations that are no recklensly advocated by men who pro-fcBsr pro-fcBsr to be acting In the Interest of reform and progress. In this contest for the preservation of our ancient landmarks-of government govern-ment for the. nccurlty of life, liberty, and property Involved Jn the maintenance main-tenance of an Independent Judiciary, we may from time to tlmo Kufffir a temporary defeat, but those of ub, and they arc most of us, who have an abiding faith In tho Judgment and good sense of the American people, peo-ple, may well have confidence that In the end the real benefit of, tho people will prevail, and that they will defend and protect these Institutions that havo served them so long and so well. |