Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-14
ROOSEVl = COR TAFT
President Writes = Denying
Bryan's Claims ~ hip.
COMPANIONS IN wORR oRM
Years Of Association in Efforts of
Progressive Administration.
UNITY OF THOUGHT AND ACTION
No Serious Disagreement as to Policy
Ever Existed.
ANSWERS DEMOCRAT ASSERTIONS
Fullest Possible Endorsement Given to
Taft as Man 90 Garry on COnser-
vative work of American
Government.

OYSTER BAY, Sept lS.--A letter written
by the president 10 Conrad Kohrs OF
Helena, Mont, an old friend. was made
public tonight. The communication, 1t was
said, was called forth by William ]. Bryans
statement that he was the presidents heir
and natural successor.
Mr.. Conrad Kohrs Of Helena. Mont. ls
an old-time Montana cattle man and one
Of the most prominent citizens of Montana.
He and the president came into close re-
lationship more than twenty years ago
when they were both members Of the Mon
tana Stock Growers association, the pres
ident being at that time the representative
OF the Little Missouri Stock Growers In the
association The intimacy has been kept up
ever since. Mr.. kohrs Is one of the pioneer
citizens OF the northern Rocky Mountain
region and one OF the men who has taken
a leading part in its great development
The letter follows;
SYCAMORE HILL. OYSTER BAY. N. Y.
Sept. 0. lsOs.-My Dear Mr. Kohrs: 1 have
received your letter about the candidacy
OF MIR. Taft, the man who feel is in an
especial sense the representative OF all that
in which most behave in political life.
Every good citizen should desire to see
both prosperity and justice, prosperity and
fair and righteous dealing as between man
and man, obtain permanently in this great
republic. As a people we are justly proud
OF our business industry, of our energy
and intelligence In our work; and It is
entirely right that we should ask ourselves
as to any given course Of conduct, will
Il be profitable?' But Il Is also no less en-
phatically true that the bulk OF our people,
the plain people who found in Abraham
Lincoln their especial champion and spoles-
man, regard the question, rs this morally
right?" as even more important than the
question, us this profitable?" when APP
piled to any given course of conduct. In
deed, In the long run our people are sure
to find that in all dealings, alike in the
business and the political world, what is
really profitable is that which Is morally
fight The last few years have seen great
awakening Of the public conscience and the
growth of a lsteans sdetermiDatio to do away
With corruption and unfair dealing, politi-
cal. economic. social II is urgently neces-
sary that this great reform movement
should go on. But no reform movement is
healthy II It goes on by spasm; IL 1t is
marked by periods OF frenzied advance. fol-
lowed, as such periods of frenzIed advance
must always be followed, by equally VIC
leul ptIlouh VI IedCeiOns
Extremes Arouse Disgust.
The revolutionary and the reactionaTy
really play into one another's hands, tC
the extent that each by his excesses neces
sarlly tends to arouse such disgust. such q
feeling of revolt. in the minds Of quie
people, as temporarily to restore the othel
10 power To permit the direction Of oui
public affairs to fall alternately into tn,
,1g 80 Int orto.
OF the extreme radicals of unrest and of tn,
bgoted conservatives who recognize NJ
wrongs to remedy, would merely mean tha
the nation had embarked on a feverIsl
course of violent oscillation which would b,
fraught with great temporary trouble, ant
would produce no adequate good In the end
The true friend of reform, the true foe o
abuses, is the man who steadily perseverei
In rightlng wrongs, in warning agains
abuses, but whose character and traininl
are such that he never promises what In
cannot perform, that he always a littl,
more than makes good what he does prom
Use, and that. while steadily advancing, II,
never permits himself to be led into foolisl
excesses which would damage the yer,
cause he champions.
Qualifications Of MIR, Taft.
In MI Taft We have man who comblne
all OF these qualities to a degree whicl
no other man in our public life since tn
civil war has surpassed. To a flamlnj
hatred OF injustice, to scorn of all tina
Is base and mean, to a hearty sympath,
with the oppressed. he unites entire dis
interestedness, courage both moral an
physical of the very highest type, and
kindly generosity of nature which make
him feel that all OF his fellow -countryme
are in very truth his friends and brothers
that their interests are his, and that a
his great qualities are to be spent wit
lavish freedom In their service. The homes
man OF means, the honest and law-abdin
business man, can feel safe in his hand
because Of the very fact that the dishones
man OF great wealth, the man who swinde
or robs his fellows, would not so much a
dare to defend his evil-dolng in Mr.. Taft
presence. The honest wage-worker, tn
honest laboring man, the honest farmer
the honest mechanic or small trader, O
mau OF small means. can feel that in
peculiar sense Mr. Taft will be his repre-
sentative because Of the very fact that h
has the same scorn for the demagogue this
he has for the corruptionlst and that h
would front threats of personal vIolenc
from a mob with the unquailing and loft
indifference with which he would front III
bitter anger Of the wealthiest and mos
powerful corporations. Broad though hi
sympathies are. there is In him not III
slightest tinge OF weakness. No considers
ton OF personal interest. any more tha
OF fear for his personal safety, could max
him swerve hairs breadth from n
course which he regards as right and
the interest Of the whole people.
Always szSEsEssS P=s=.ss=s-
have naturally peculiar interest in n
success OF MIR. Taft. and in seeing hi
backed BY majority In both houses
congress which win heartily support h
policies. For the last ten years. while
have been governor OF New York and pres
dent ! have been thrown into the close
intimacy with him, and he and / have {
every essential point stood in heartic
agreement. shoulder 20 shoulder. We hal
the same views as 20 what Is demands
by the national interest and honor bol
within our own bsEders. ana as regards Il