Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1912 — DR. DENT ATKINSON’S REPUBLICAN SPEECH [ARTICLE]

DR. DENT ATKINSON’S REPUBLICAN SPEECH

College Professor Spoke to Fair Sized Audience Friday Night and Told Mnny Plain Truthg. ..... " - i - Dr. Dent Atkinson, of Oberlin, Ohio, where he is a professor in the university, and who was sent here by the Republican national committee, spoke to an audience of about two hundred people at the Princess Airdome Friday night. Dr. Atchinson discussed the three leading candidates for the presidency and the effect that the election of each would have upon the business of the country. He said that the democratic tariff plank was identical with the plank of that party in 1892, the enactment of which into law created a depression that is fresh in the minds of all who lived through it. He made a comparison of the prices of farm products during the lean years of Cleveland’s second administration and also a comparison of wages. He showed conclusively that the farmer and the laboring man is much better off today He showed the dangers of experimenting with the policy again. He spoke of the campaign of Roosevelt to procure the Republican nomination for the presidency and of his disappointment. He said that Roosevelt was no longer the dignified man of a few years-ago. He quoted the language of J. Adam Bede, who said at Oklahoma €i,ty Thursday that Roosevelt was now giving “daily exhibitions of the St. Vitis dance on a ragtime platform.” He told of the high endorsement that Roosevelt had given Taft and of his desertion from his own endorsement because of his ambition to again become the president. He recounted the statement of Taft following the passage of the PayneAldrich tariff measure that it was the best tariff law the country ever had. He also stated that the president had said that certain schedules were too high. He told of the president’s loyalty to principal and his devotion to the right at all times. Taken all in all the speech was a very able one and it served to put considerable vim into his auditors, especially with his central thought of letting “well enough alone.” And this is the keynote of the campaign, not from a standpat standpoint, but meaning that the Republican party has made such a success in prompting prosperity that it and edCTusted with enacting into law the demands of the people. 'Dr. Atchinson speaks at Monticello tonight.