The Cairo bulletin., 1908-04-12
pREMONITION WAS FELT
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can candidate for president, as fol
lows:
Six Republican governors and four
teen Republican legislatures in sue
cesslon have controlled the affairs OF
the state, and during this period our
progress has been such that today we
lead all the states of the nation, not
only in wealth and population. but in
education, In internal improvements,
in commece, in manufacturing in the
promotion of science and of art, and in
onf care of the comfort and the well
fare of the helpless and unfortunate.
For the past l5 months, several of the
of the state government
have been in thecontrol of the Demo
cratic party We invite a close scru-
tiny and comparison of the present
administration of those offices with
any of the administrations which have
preceded it since 1894. We ask
or not it was the part of wis
dom to fail to continue tried and faith
full servants whose integrity and eff
cheney had been attested and to place
the aaffirs of those important depart
ments in the hands of those who now
administer them Two years ago the
people called from private life to the
one untried in public
affairs. He came to his great office
free from political obligations and en-
Without reservation he
freely and frankly proclaimed his pol
cies and announced his intentions to
the people. He entered upon his ad-
with the same intelligent
purposes, deliberate Judgment, cour-
lgeous spirit and indomitable energy
Which made him a leader at the ablest
oar in the United States.
Without becoming a participant in
larty management, he summoned the
larty tc a renewed devotion to its
principles and to a clear realization of
Is responsibilities. He has maintain.
ID a high standard of public service
md high test of efficiency.
He has Insisted that legislative or
Executive action to be intelligent and
ust must be predicated upon estab,
ished facts and that therefore ade.
uate investigation must precide ac-
ior.
He has freely discussed public
uestions before the people and has
ot hesitated to appeal to them for
heir approval and support. The re-
ponse has always been instant and
He has insisted that II
the duty Of Republicans protesting
llegiance to party of moral ideas
nd patriotic purposes, to support
assures that are for the moral bet
and moral up-lift of cur PEG
lie. His administration has received
ot only the unqualified approval of
is own party but the communication !,
( the people of the state without re- !
ard to political affiliatiOn. As inves-
gator and as governor, he has pro.
1undly Impressed the people of the
nitro country.
1T was natural that his party would
'ok to him as one worthy to receive
le highest honor within the gift of
ne people. Determined, however. that
o suspicion of ambition should in,
uence his administration as governor
g persistently refused to become
but yielding finally to an
demand, without fea-
nd without hesitation, he boldly and
'eely declared his views upon nation
questions Upon his record as a
tizen, as public servant and as
epublican, we present him for the
loughtiul consideration of the party
New York gave the Nation Theo.
ore Roosevelt and she offers a worthy
lecessor in the person of Charles e.
.ughes."
The or hairy, aoge CoaanL