The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-04-10
Supporters Urged to Work to
Land His Delegates.
MUST ATTEND THE CAUCUSES
President 6Ixby and GrondaiI Taking
Precautionary Measures to Pre-
vent Hitch In Endorsement.

to by the Minnesota Taft league to
see that none but straight out Taft
men are chosen as delegates to the
national convention.
The letter is issued to the members
of the Taft league and to the republi-
can voters of Minnesota, and is a
strong presentation of the reasons why
William H. Taft should be nominated
and elected to the presidency. 1t reads
as follows:
To the Members of the Minnesota
Taft League and the Voters of Min
nesota:
There never was an occasion when
the duty of republicans in Minnesota
was as clear as it is today. That 1T
will be done, enthusiastically and uni
versally, we have no doubt. There is
but one danger, and that is the same
against which we must always guard
Nothing but neglect, conviction that
Minnesota will be all right in any
event, failure to carry out the will
of the people at the conventions, can
prevent the presence at Chicago Of a
solid and instructed delegation from
Minnesota for Taft. 1t is the first
duty of every republican to see that
his share in this work is performed.
Taft Is Growing.
The acceptance of William II. Taft
as the logical nominee of the party,
has been empha sized at the primaries
already held, by practically unanl'
nous Taft delegates to the county
conventions, and this sentiment is now
so general that even the dullest must
see it and even those opposed admit
the inevitable. When Mr.. Taft came
prominently forward as a candidate a
year ago, many predicted that it was
too early. No man, they said, could
stand the test of being in the focus
of public attention for so long a
period without the waning of interest
or the discovery of unavailable quail
ties Anderi an : inquiry so searching.
The test has been made, and at no
moment has Mr.. Taft ceased to in
crease his popularity to demonstrate
his fitness. to strengthen the hold
that he has upon the hearts and
minds of the American people. He is
the only representative republican can
didate before them today.
Without word of disparagement
for Others who are seeking this great
honor. it must be said that Mr.. Taft
alone is, at this time, the proper and
desired leader for the great party that
represents the nations progress and
the peoples hope. Each of the others
has some one quality or some local
popularity, for which he stands. Taft
is national He is representative. He
embodies the whole of the party's
policy, the new ideas that have come
to the front, the progress toward i'm
partial justice and equal right, the
surbing of the oppressive strong-all
that has come to be summed up in
that fine American phrase "the square
deal"
Popular Will Manifest.
At no period in our history was the
will of the people ever made so clearly
manifest in advance of the event The
American people want continuance
of the magnificent work so intrepidly
carried forward by President Roose-
Welt. They want the new ideas main.
tanned and worked out in legislation.
They mean to see that corporations
are regulated, that favoritism is end
ed, that the working man and the
farmer shall be equally guarded with
the wealthy by the law, that Justice
and equity and fair mindedness,
equally removed from the rapacity of
monopoly and the virulence of an
archy, shall be symbols of American
government To this great achieve
ment Secretary Taft is pledged not
only by his word, but also by that
assuring guarantee, his record and his
character.
His Deserving Services.
This is the man who has never
failed a friend or taken unfair advan-
tage of foe This is the man whose
clear judgment and judicial mind
placed him on the bench before his
was thirty. This is the man who
cheerfully resigned the ambition of
n1eJlme IOE service on Tile DcHch "
give himself to the difficult task of
restoring order m the Philippines.
This is the man TO whom we owe
the solving of our Island problem, and
distant people owe heir first concep-
ton of real freedom This is the
man who saved Cuba from insurrec-
ton, who made business enterprise
instead of a political job of the Pana-
ma canal, who has directed sagely and
brilliantly the fortune of our army.
Where is. there another with like
breadth and variety of experience?
Where is there another so trle to the
people and to his own best self?
The American people have come to
his support with the same enthusiasm
that they have shown toward our
great president. They mean to nomi-
nate and elect him. He is taking the
country by storm. Minnesota must