Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-12
PRESIDENT TAFT.

St. Louis Republic:
 -The Republic can eheerfully re- peat today what 1t said of William Howard Taft the day after the Chicas go convention named him for presi- dent. There is consolation and com fort, even for democrats in renewing the declaration that Mir Taft is a great deal better than his party. And in the recollection 5f his good quail ties we are naturally reminded that his public career has offered many examples of forcaful individuality, which gives us encouragement to ex- pect that he will be strong enough to be true to himself as chief executive of the nation and not become a sub seryient servant of bis party leaders
 What will be hopefully anticipated by that great body of independent vot- CTS whose support has made him pres ident with splendid popular majority is that President Taft will strive to bring his party to the platform he wrote himself in his letter accepting the republican nomination and to lead it away from the reactionary princi- pIes to which the party convention at tempted to commit him. The candi- date whose wise political judgment recognized the blunders of the nomi- hating convention and whose moral courage dictated material modifica- tions of its platform should be the kind of man who will continue to lead and refuse to be driven.
 Mir. Taft has beeh elected because the country believes his administra- tion will follow the broad lines of re- publicanism as he interpreted it in his letter of acceptance, and not the narrow partisanship which the party organization formulated and defined at Chicago. The difference is material and in some respects radical, since 1t implies both repudiation of some quite positive declarations and honest ful- Ailments of promises which the con ! vention intended fer campaign effect alone. In the accomplishment of the herculean task which awaits him,
 President Taft will come to his ardu.
 ous undertaking with "a popular conf,
 dence in his personal sincerity of pur. pose which should he helpful stim'
 ulus and a cheering support. The
 best element of both parties will ac
 credit him with an earnest desire to
 redeem the pledges ke has made, and
 will rejoice if he shall succeed 1T
 the endeavor
 A genuine effort to repress the az gressions and control the rapacitys oi
 the trusts; a successful revision o
 the tariff along lines tnat
 mean relief from the expressions O
 injudicious protection; a law to make
 publicity of campaign contributions obligatory; modification of the pres ent statutes for the purpose of regu lating the issuance of injunctions il strikes; a formulation of concret, plan for a more elastic and adopt able system" of currency; a fulfil : ment in material way of the gray obligations that rest on the Americal ; people in their relations to the dt pendencies that came to us throug '- the Spanish war, aye suggestions c the long list of important duties t t which Mir Taft must now turn hi T thoughts with serious earnestness. No president has entered th U White House better equipped for eff $ cient public service than MT. Taf
 and this fact iustifies hope that b L will be equal to 5be onerous unde T. taking circumstances impose on hin l. His natural gifts. the ripe experienc 'f acquire in the numerous official p " sitions be has filled and the admi 70 able temperamentai qualities tn; T. have been invariably manifested
 all his varied relations to public a
 fairs inspire a popular confidenC h which will start his administratic IS under most favorable auspices We s a. sIute the twenty-seventh president st the United States with firm belief IS the integrity of his purposes, an d encouraged by the strength of b
 personality as well as by the cles
 record of an extenoed public caree er look forward to a sincere endeavor Ie redeem the pledges that brought hi ,e victory.