Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1912 — Eulogy by Senator Brown Keynote to Taft Campaign. [ARTICLE]

Eulogy by Senator Brown Keynote to Taft Campaign.

An Indianapolis dispatch, dated January 25th, says; Achievements of President Taft’s administration were defended Thursday evening by Senator Norris Brown, of Nebraska, at the annual banquet of the Republican-edi-tors of Indiana. The speech was regarded as a key - note of the administration efforts in launching a country-wide campaign. Republican party leaders from all over the state attended the banquet. Senator Brown reviewed what had been accomplished and laid the great est stress on the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, railroad regulation, direct election of United States senators, income tax amendment, enforcement of .the anti-trust law, and the peace treaties. “The Payne law has closed nolaetory,” Senator Brown said; "it has

reduced the wag# of no man; it has denied labor not a single opportunity; under it the farmer has prospered, it has in no way impaired the general prosperity of the people. - f ’ And yet the law can be improved. It should be Improved, a schedule at a time, and this wilF be done If the president and the republican party have their way. “If the press of the United States would tell the whole truth about President Taft,” said the senator in conclusion, “there would not be enough democratic votes in the electoral college to make a quorum.”