Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-03-26
TAFT FOR PRESIDENT
HE is A TYPICAL AMERICAN
And Represents The policies OF Presi.
dent Roosevelt In Behalf of The People
DUTY BEFORE POLICY

The people want William Howard
Taft for President because he is an
American through and through. When
he is called upon TO face public
question or q public duty; he does not
ask.
Twill it pay me politically to do
this, or not do that?' but, on the con-
trary, his guiding thought is "What
shall ! do with this question, or this
duty, in the best interest OF my coun-
try?" Finding for himself the answer
to that selfsacrifcing, patriotic, ques-
ton, he acts accordingly. He has sue
cessfully performed every public duty
since that day in January, 1881, when
he received his first public appoint
ment, as assistant prosecuting attor-
ney for Cincinnati, Ohio.
SUCCESS IN PHILIPPINES
The people want Taft because of his
successful organization of the Philip
pine Civil Commission; his admins
tration of the Islands and his adapta-
ton thereto of American forms COVER
ment; his missions in those islands to
various divisions of natives and their
qualifications; his vigorous upholding
of the flag and the submission there
to of the insurrectos; his support of
American education for the people Of
all ranks, classes, conditions and
creeds; his fearless advocacy then and
since and now of the rights of the Fill.
lipinos to equal treatment under our
law,
The people want Taft because they
realize that the success of his mission
TO the Vatican regarding our purchase
of the Friars' lands in the PHILIPPINES
is all the evidenc required to prove
that he possesses diplomatic ability OF
the highest order such diplomatic
ability, strengthened by experience,
as will be needed by whoever shall be
President of this great nation Of ours,
in the years of International anxiety
and American responsibility which
are before us.
PACIFIED CUBA
The people want Taft because when
but recently, revolution threatened our
great trade and investment interests in
Cuba, he hurried down there, and by
diplomacy and candor averted the ca
tastrophe, inducing the malcontents
on both sides TO accept provisional
government at American hands; under
which government the island is peace
full and prosperous.
The people want Taft because,
though vigorously urged by President
Roosevelt to accept Il seat for life on
the bench of the Supreme Court of the
United States-the mosthighly respect
ed judicial body in the world-he re-
manned true to his promise to the peo-
pie of the PHILIPPINES that he would
not leave them until civil government
was firmly established.
A PATRIOTIC CITIZEN
The people want Taft because he is
man in every sense of the word q
man whose word is his bond; man
who impresses his virile manhood up
on other men; man whose work is
never done while there is any of his
country's work to do; a man whose
watchword is duty; a man whose SIM
pie creed is ''My God, my country, my
party, my neighbour" man who is
true husband, good father, and a
patriotic citizen; a man who is loved
by all who know him, feared by all
who oppose his righteous acts, and
praised by all who have watched and
studied his work. ~