Deseret Evening News | 1910-01-29 | Page 8 | Wade H. Ellis on Taft Policies

WADE B FL ELLIS ELLISON ELLISON ON TAFT POLICIES Take No Heed of Insurgents on I The One Hand Nor of Stand Patters on the Other GET INTO MIDDLE OF THE ROAD Tillie or of Defenders of Can or 01 Nor XOI Mn o ulry J Incident Cleveland 0 Jan H HI I Bill I Ills assistant to the attorney gen general general eral and old friend and neighbor of oC President Taft TaCt when the In Cincinnati tonight arose at a ban banquet of time the Tippecanoe club to ex explain explain plain the viewpoint or of an administration tion man on policies and presen tda oven events ts Pa Pay no heed to time the insurgents gents on the tho one hand nor to the on the other said Mr Ellis Take Talco no counsel from Crom those who defend or AI to time the right ot of you ou nor to those wino who would emphasize the tho pro program program gram of oC La Follette or magnify the tho Pinchot Incident to the left of oC you ou Get Into time the middle or of the road rond and stand shoulder to shoulder for tho performance of oC the B pledges to the tho people under the leadership of oC William H Taft ran After Arter declaring that the tho majority le a d In Congress I atc are rallying to the tho president Mr Ellis continued I hat arc aro the Roosevelt policies IJ Is raft for them or against them What hat were Limo tho promises or of the tho last Republican can enn platform Is Taft them or breaking them Let us him 11 Imy his works First and foremost ot of the tho Roosevelt policies Is n a vigorous und and impartial enforcement of oC tho law lias HIlS the preel dent dont or flickered In that dut duty The Tho countr did not expect a 11 blind I indiscriminate drive at wealth simplY because It Is wealth Mr II Ellis cited the cases of oC John P n Walsh and Charles W Morse to prove that the tho man higher up LI is LInot I not being shielded b by this tion lie He Instanced time the paper board trust Irus Indictments the sugar In ht nn r 1 time the In the tho lower court against time tho Standard Oil company and the American Tobacco company ns as evidence or of the activity or of the administration In that lion tion rr r Ellis defended the presidents attitude toward the tho tariff bill and criticized time tho Democrats for offerIng no hill bill of oC their own They contented themselves with making a noise about work some one else had constructed he said ad adding adding ding that the present Increase In the tho cost or of living Is not even remotely re related related to the tariff and Is due to other different causes which Waldo find their manifestation today In every overy civilized country countr on the globe The Roosevelt policy of closer tOV gov government supervision over corpora corporations engaged In interstate commerce Mr Ellis said aid was being carried on b by Mr Ir Taft In his to Congress for tor n a federal Income tax anti federal charters Mr 11 Ellis Eliis praised the tho presidents mC ato o on o n conservation and called nt at attention to his activities In time tho mat tor ter of oC n a postal savings bUlk bank law economy In pUblic while service protection of engaged In hazardous cal lings of Injunctions by federal CedOTal courts and pUblIcation of oC expenses Mr 11 Ellis concluded With this record of fidelity Rn and achievement Is there nn any Rep Republican tonight who apologize to his pride or his 1115 conscience for the faith that Is In him When this record Is known and debated Is there thero any danger that lime tho American people will nt Ill I withhold their ther verdict of oC well lone done j