Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-03
The Late Ex-President Cleveland
on Republican Party.

death he planned the writing of three
articles on the presidential campaign
of 1908. The first article was publish.
ed in the Philadelphia Ledger last
Sunday 1t is doubtful if he wrote the
other articles, none being found. In
this first paper the late President said:
''The Republican Party is certain to
move on to safe victory, sustained
by the popular support of Reforms.
He says of Judge Taft, the Republican
nominee:
''There is fear on my part of being
misunderstood in what am about to
say, but surely the fair-minded man
must realize when he considers my at
titude toward my own party, all now a
prompted by a sense of simple fairness.
Personally and officially I have had the
opportunity of knowing many things
concerning Mr.. Taft that were not a
matter of general knowledge, and with
keen interest I have watched his
large share in the conduct of our ma
tional affairs in very recent years. His
excellence as Federal Judge in Gin
cinati is something not to be under
estimated or overemphasized, for
should he come to the presidential
chair the qualities which made him a
Judge of high ability, which l know
him to have been, will be the most
needful to him as President of the
United States. His high ideas of hon
esty and of relative justice, his great
capacity tor severe labor and his hum
orous wisdom in the face of the serious
problem are attributes equally valuable
and commendatory to a people seek
ing him in whom they may repose the
trust ftheir collective interests while
they turn their increased attention to
their pressing individual demands.
Whatever may be said as TO the
events of the past ten years which are
alleged to have made us world
power, there remains small opportun-
ity for controversy over the essential
features of our conduct in the face of
the problems brought to face us by
those happenings. Now, being self
contained and compact in our politi-
cal geography and federated in our
common interests whenever our do
minion was established, we have be-
come extended and have increased
the span of the arch of our structure,
and must undertake to equate the
widely different concerns ofindividuals
and communities antithetical as TO race,
traditions and modes of life and anti
podal as to location on the face of the
earth. Dwelling OH the unwisdom of
prematurely acquiring colonies is fatu-
GUS. The national duty is neither to
help those colonies for their exploita-
tlon nor to cast them off to void the
burden OF their possibilities. The
questions involved are no more matters
TO be narrowed through the mill of
politics than is the policy of the Pan.
| anna Canal something to be stamped
either Republican or Democratic.
HAS IMPORTANT QUALIFICATIONS.
These questions are fruitful of trouble
| and perturbation, and the primary re-
quislte of the man or men who must
! deal with them is an abundant know
lege of the people of the outlying do.
main. That Mr.. Taft is possessed of
this knowledge as is no other man in
| the country is hardly to be denied;
| granted that he has had extraordinary
opportunities, he has shown himself
| able to improve those opportunities in
manner which it is not extravagant
to say will be bis broadcast claim so far
to enduring fame when the acute visual
uiSCoItloh oI Ine present ana opportune
| shall have given place to the inexor-
able perspective of history in which
the relative values of public deeds to
public duties are completely clarified
and announced to posterity. The
misery and misfortune which an ignor-
ant or obstinate administrator, no
| matter how high the ethical standard
of his motives, could entail upon our
wards of the Pacific and Caribbean
are appalling to contemplate; were
| his administration to be at fault in any
other particular, in those things Mr..
Tafts record shows him To be entirely
dependable"