Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-31
GROVER CLEVELAND
APPROVED Mr.. TAFT
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dSitOCl dSS Sttlu NlttS SlOOu IKE d lOCh III
its partisanship at times when there
are now few who would not admit that
had its stand been one in the grounds
of victory, the consequences to the
country, and particularly to the south
itself, with her undeveloped industries
dependent in their young growth on
stable and favorable conditions at
large, would have been direly unfOr-
tunate and productive Of injury that
cannot be estimated.
There is no suggestion of a senti-
ment Of sdisloyalty on my part to the
elder principles of democracy under
which have striven always to do my
public duty in matters large and
small when / say that there is a large
Indication that the coming years will
bring forth a new ascendency of those
same principles, perhaps under diff
ferent panoply, and perhaps with re-
Incorporation of the decayed fragments
of an organization that failed to serve
its purpose. No political party in any
country has ever been wrecked by
continued consistency with the prin-
ciples that originally made 1t a power,
the rocks on which it fell invariably
being the, errors of opportunist. The
present campaign as a side feature
will have a long step in the progress
to tile readjustment to first principles,
and it Is propitious indeed that there
is no issue of such gravity that those
principles are needed to determine it.
Never has there been a safer time for
the rehabilitation to proceed.
When it became apparent that Mr..
Taft would be the nominee of his par
ty, that Mr.. Hearst and his party would
make a clean cut effort for emplace-
ment as a national factor and not en-
.leavor TO gain any immediate adyant-
age for themselves by any such process
as fusion, in fact would seek to de-
slroy Organism, or rather Mr.. Bryan's
hold on the democratic party, not by
forcing the hold to relax but by les
sening that which he had to hold, con-
lecture as to the result in the Novem-
Der conclusions could be of but one
sort among sensible men. With the
several other parties disorganizing, re-
developing, and procreating, the repub-
lican party is certain, tho with a con-
siderably essened strength, to move on
to a safe victory sustained by the pop
lar support of reforms which should
not rebound to it's glory solely, those
reforms having been the work of de-
cent men of all parties.
There is fear on my part of being
misunderstood in what I am about to
say, but surely the fair minded man
must realize when he considers my at
titude toward my own panty, ALL now
a matter of immutable record, that 1t
is prompted by sense of simple fair
ness. Personally, and officially [ have
had the opportunity of knowing many
things concerning Mr.. Taft that were
not a natter of general knowledge, and
with a keen interest have watched
his large share in the conduct of our
national affairs in very recent years.
His excellence aus a federal judge in
Cincinnati is something not to be I'M
derestimated or overemphaslzed, Tor
should he come to the presidential
chair the qualities which made him a
Judge of high ability. which / know
him to have been, will be the most
needful to him as president Of the I'm
tied States. His high ideals of honesty
and of relative justice, his great ca
pacity for severe labor, and his humor-
Gus wisdom in the face of the serious
problems are attributes equally valu-
able and commendatory to "a people
seeking him in whom they may repose
the trust of their collective interests
while they turn their increased atten-
ton to their pressing individual de-
mands.
Whatever may be said as to the
events of the last ten Years which are
alleged to have made us {, world pow
er. there remains small opportunity for
controversy over the essential features
of our conduct In the face of the prob
lens brought to face us by those hap
penings. Now. being self-contained
and compact in our political geography
and federated in our common interests
wherever our dominion was esta'b-
lished. We have become extended ana
increased the span of the arch of our
structure. and must undertake to
euuate the widely different concerns of
individuals and communities antitheti-
cal as to race traditions, and modes
of life and antipodal as to location on
the face of the earth. Dwelling on the
,lnwistlom of prematurely acquiring
colonies Is fatuous, the national duty
is neither to help those colonies for
their exploitation nor to cast them on
to avoid the burden of their responsl-
bilitiee. The questions involved are no
more matters to be narrowed thru the