The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-14
Letter to Convenient Friend Sets Forth Qualifications of the One Man for
 the Presidency.
REVIEWS HIS RECORD
Combines All Necessary Qualities to Degree Unsurpassed in Any Public Official Since
 Civil War.

Oyster Bay. N. T., Sept i3,-A letter written by the president to Conrad Kohrs. of Helena. Mont. an old-tlne friend, was made public tonight. The communication, 1t was explained, was called forth by William j. Bryans statement that he was the presidents heir and natural successor. The letter follows:
 Sagamore Hill,
 oyster Bay, \. Y. Sept g. 1908. My Dear Mir Kohrs
 have received your letter about the candidacy of Mir Taft the man who I feel is in an especial sense the rep- resentative of all that in which mos, believe in political life.
 Every good citizen should desire to see both prosperity and justice, pros iperity and fair and righteous Geaiing as between man and man. obtain per- manently in this great republic As people we are justly proud of our business industry, of our energy and intelligence In our work, and 1t Is en- tirely right that i've should ask our serves as to any given course of con duct, "Will it be profitabe?' But lt Is also no less emphatically true that the bulk of our people. the plain people who found In Abraham Lincoln their especial champion and spokesman, re- gard the question, Is this morally rght?" as even more important than the question. Is this profitabla?' when applied 10 any given course of conduct Indeed. 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 right The last few years have seen great awakening of the public conscience and the growth of q stern determination to do away with corruption and unfair dealing, politic' economic, social It Is urgently neces- eary that this great reform movement should go on But no reform movement is healthy If 1t goes on by spasms, fl 1t is marked by periods of frenzied ad- vance. followed, as such periods oi frenzied advance must always be fol. lowed, by equally violent periods of re- action The revolutionary and the re- dictionary really play into one another { hands, to the extent that each. by his cxcesses necessarily tends to arouse such disgust such feeling of revolt in the minds of quiet people, as terl porarily to restore the other 10 power To permit the direction of our pubii' affairs to fall alternately into tl' hands of revolutionaries and reaction aries, of the extreme radicals of unres and of the bigoted conservatives wh recognize no wrongs to remedy, voul' merely mean that the nation had cnl parked on a feverish course of viocn oscillation which would be fraugnt v'rl great temporary trouble, and woul produce no adequate good in the "5d The true friend of reform the true fo of abuses, is the man who steadil perseveres in fighting wrongs, In war ring against abuses, but whose char acter and training are such that h never promises what he cannot per form, that he always a littls nor than makes good what he does prom ise, and that, while steadily advancing he never permits himself to be led In to foolish excesses which would dam age the very cause he champions. l Mr. Taft we have a man who combine all of these qualities to degree whic no other man in our public life sine