The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-30
FORAKER BUCKS
THE TAFT BOOM
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action at this time so that the whole
country may be advised what Ohio intends
to do next year.
4 see it stated almost every day in
the newspapers as a reason for the claim
that Ohio has only one candidate for the
presidency, that | have not at any time
announced my candidacy for that office.
II Is true that have never made any such
announcement. A candidate for the presi-
dency must assume. first, the great and
serious responsibility of leading his party
In the national campaign, and If success
lul, as we hope and expect to be, he must
then assume the grave and serious re-
spOnsibilities of administering the exec
utive offices. These responsibilities arc
so grave and so serious that any man
might well feel highly cOmplimented and
greatly hOnOred to have his fellow Citi-
zenS name him in such connection but
at the same time they are so grave and
SO serious that any ordinary man might
well hesitate to proclaim himself quail
fled for such responsibility, or prefer at
least to wait until invited by his party as
sOciates to take upon himself such Tespon-
SlbilitieS. Such a position is at least more
in keeping with the high dignity of the
office. Besides, it gives his party asso-
ciates an opportunity to declare their de-
lberate. unbiased and unembarrassed
judgment, which he should be willing to
both wait for and abide.
Announcement Not Necessary.
1T is beca use I entertain opinions of
TINS hiiU IifdL nave not mace any an
nouncement OF any candidacy for any Of
flee, and, in view of what may be In
Ierred from these expressions. l do not
deem it necessary that l should. But this
is not matter TO be settled by senti-
ments Of state pride, cOmmendable as they
are. If there were not any differences of
opinion among Republicans. state pride
would properly have great weight, but
today there is a wide difference among
Republicans on question Of the most vi
tai character.
Il do not refer to the regulation of
railroads and trusts and corporations en-
gagged in interstate commerce and large
aggregatiOns Of capital, for on that point
there is no substantial difference of
opinion among Republicans, except as 20
the methods that should be resOrted to
Tor such regulation. l believe in such
regulation and was one of the first advo-
Gates of it. but | have always advocated
methods that are consistent with the con-
stitutiOn and the spirit of our institu-
tons. In this connection l am happy
to be able to point to the fact that 1
helped. az one Of the Subcommittee of
three, to frame and put into its present
form the Elkins law, which is now uni
veTsally conceived to be the most effec-
tive and expeditions statute that has ever
been enacted on this subject, worth,
measured by practical results, more than
ali other such statutes combined.
All Tariff ReVisionists.
THE question I refer to is not, there
lOIe, EtBuIdtioh Oi trusts, railroad ana
interstate commerce, about which, as |
have. said, we are all united, but the
tariff question.
Every Republican has a right to
espOuse any view he may entertain, and
inasmuch as Governor Harris represents
that such Is his view. | do not wonder
that he prefers Secretary Taft as his
candidate for the presidency, for on a
number of occasions Secretary Taft has
taken pains to announce that he is in
favor of an immediate revision of our
tariff, l observe also that most of the
leading supporters of Secretary Taft in
our state entertain similar views, ac-
cording to the expressions / have seen
attributed to them in the newspapers, no
tably among them Ex-Governor Herrick
and the Hon. Theodore e Burton
when. therefore, We are asked to com
nit ourselves to the candidacy of Sec