Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-09-10
A PEN PICTURE OF TAFT.
IRA EIbcrtus Hubbard Inditcs Few
pithy Sentences in Favor of the
Republican Candidate.

Republican Candidate.
The best thing in the whole career Of
theodore Roosevelt, says Ebert Hub
hard in the Era of East Aurora. y. y,
In his peaceful ahdicaton in favor Of
william Howard Taft.
And the one thing which proves the
greatness Of Taft is that he has been
able to curb and control the rough rider,
who few months ago was intent on
shooting up the business interests of the
country. Taft has been big enough to
allow the Explosive one to think he was
It The best way to manage a terna-
CANT we are told, is to let her believe
she is managing YOU Only In that way
is peace possible. There are notches cut
In the butt of Taft's pistol; IN fact, Taft
does not tote a shooting iron-he does
not have to-he has his smile.
If Theodore and his misguided friends
could have stampeded the Chicago con-
vention for the rough one they would
have done so They tried II all right
the nag was flung out the banner with
the portrait was waived iut the spec
tacles. teeth and cooked hat were all
Knocked into cooked hat by the silent,
stolid. manipulating hands of the dele
gates The carefully planned, spontane-
Gus uprising died natural death. The
stampede was expected and the prepar-
edness put to sleep, not by opposition,
but by a cold, silent smotherins indif-
ference
The programme was to use Taft as a
stalking horse. The programme failed.
Taft turned out to be alive. strong. use
ful trained and obedent equine-ohedi-
ent to the best Will of the people He
weighs 1900 pounds. is a Quarter-bred
Norman, sound in wind and limb, will
pull anything YOU hitch him to. does not
scare a the cars and Is safe for women
and children.
Taft is not a preacher nor a soldier
He Is a lawyer, business man and
diplomat. His religion is of a safe and
sane brand He will not NEEDLE and in
terfere with things that are none Of his
He lays no claim to being better morally
and ethiCally than the average law-ahid-
Ing citizen. He realizes that no man Is
SO wholly right than he can afford to say
that another is wholly wrong. He does
not call people bad names lie is mod
est kindly. human, humane. sympathetic
toward men and dumb animals He is
disposed 70 give everybody their own
way. but II it should come to n crisis-a
great question o. national principle-he
would have his.
With Taft for president We are safe
from government by impulse. The gas
engine runs by explosions, but our gov
eminent is not gas engine and let US
pray that It shall never become one.
With Taft as president the angel of
progress will move steadily forward, and
prosperity will be ours such as this tired
old world has never seen. Taft has not
only shown his ability to rule his own
spirit but he has quietly battered those
who were pledged to revolution and by
Il had nothing to lose. Well did that
chaplain pray. Free us, on God, from
the re'gn Of the lingo. the demagogue
and ne undesirable citizen" Taft has
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Tar will 20 into tho White House with
tho st equipped mind Of any man who
has err held that office. except one, and
tNn' nan was Thomas Jefferson
HIS life has been preparation for
mis- me thing. Taft is the only presi-
dortsl candidate who has ever looked
the property of your Uncle Samuel over
thoroughly. He knows America and he
knows the world
Ahead of him there are few little
aim cult!cs and one Of the first OF these
will be with Theodore Roosevelt When
. Teddy reminds Bill in plain words, keyed
high that he must do this and that be-
cause II was Teddy who hath made him.
and not he himself. Teddy will find his
easy going man a background for an ad-
vortsemcnt of the Prudential Insurance
Company. Taft l repeat, has already
done our country a great service. He
has done 1t so gently, carefully and we'll
that we can hardly realize the henefic-
ence of his act, And he has done 1t 90
naturally that he himself probably
could not tell how he did It. II accused
Of 1t he would smile and declare an
alibi
Taft is pledged to the policies OF Roose,
welt, but he is not pledged to his methods
nor his manners. Socialism is right. but
there IL right and a wrong way to in.
troduce It. Reform Is beautiful, but
wrong methods in reformation mean bru
'nlity. tyranny and death. Let the sleep
ing beauty be awakened by a kiss rather
t'Han by the aid of the big stick
Taft is a big man-big In body. big II
nina big in heart, He is a wise man
and as men go. believe a good man.
WINE; not indifferent to honors, Tai
mas no lust for power or place. He ha'
tne INTERESTS of all the people at heart,
Tatt Will give as that peculiar thing o
"hicn we have heard 80 much and seer
30 h'te- square deal. Prosperit,
smiling IN Mother Hubbard wrapper
Is Just around the corner,