The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-21
Writes Letter to Chairman of
Republican Congression-
al Committee.
CALAMITY is POINTED OUT.
TAFT'S FAILURE AT THE POLLS
WOULD CAUSE THE MUST
HAVE REPUBLICAN, HOUSE TO
ASSIST HIM IN WORK.

Oyster Bay, Sept. 21.-President
Roosevelt has written a letter to Will
liam B. Mckinley. chairman of the re-
publican congressional committee, de-
failing what has been accomplished
during his administration and showing
the necessity of electing a congress in
thorough accord with Mr.. Taft. The
presidents letter is as follows:
Sycamore Hill, Oyster, Bay, n. Y,
Sept. 9.-My Dear Sir: l have received
your letter of Aug. %. | agree with
all that you say as to the amount Of
affirmative N constructive legisla-
ton for the social and economic enc
fit of our people which has been &C
complished by the congress during the
last seven years. The law establish
ing a national system of irrigation was
of vital Importance and stands in its
line as second only to the homestead
law.
The interstate law has
been amended SO as to make it a new
law, with three-fold the efficiency of
the old law. The enactment of the
pure food law was of almost or quite
equal Importance.
The creation of the department of
commerce Inc labor. together with the
creation of a bureau of corporations,
which marks the beginning of federal
control over the huge corporations do
ing an interstate business, the employ
ers' liability law, the safety appliance
law, the law limiting the working
hours of railway employees, the meat
inspection law, the denatured alcohol
law, the anti-rebate law. the laws in
creasing the powers of the department
of justice in dealing with those, re-
CARELESS of wealth and power, who in
tract the law, the law making the gov
eminent liable for injuries to it's en-
ployes, the laws under which the Pana-
ma canal was acquired and is being
the navy developed, the laws creating
a permanent census bureau and re-
forming the consular service and the
system of naturalization, the law for
bidding child labor in the District of
Columbia, the law providing a COM
mission under which our currency sys-
tenn can be put on a thoroughly salts
factory basis, the laws for the proper
administration of the forest service,
the laws for the admission of Oklaho-
ma and the development of Alaska, the
great appropriations for the develop
ment of agriculture, the legal prohibit
tion of campaign contributions from
corporations-all these represent but a
portion of what has been done by on
legislative achievement in harmony
with the best and most progressive
thought of our people.
Necessary to Elect Taft.
1t is urgently necessary, from the
standpoint of the public interest, to
elect Mr.. Taft, and a Republican Con-
gress which will support him; and
they seek election on a platform which
specifically pledges the party, alike in
its executive and legislative blanches,
to continue and develop the policies
which have been not merely professed
but acted upon during these seven
years. These policies can be success
fully carried through only by the
hearty cooperation of the President
and the Congress in both it's branch
es, and it is therefore peculiarly i'm
portant that there should obtain such
harmony between them.
To fail to elect Mr.. Taft would be a
calamity to the country; and it would
be folly. while electing him, yet at the
sauna f;p,a 10 D1npf n Ccrrroce hostile
to him, a Congress which under the in
fluence of partisan leadership would
be certain to thwart and battle him on
every possible occasion. To elect Mr..
Taft, and at the same time to elect a
Congr\s pledged to support him, is
the only way in which to perpetuate
the policy of the Government as now
carried IN. l feel that all the aid
that can be given to this policy by ev-
cry good citizen should be given; for
this is far more than a merely parti-
san matter.
Both your committee, and the ma
tional committee, of which Mr.. Hitch
cock is chairman, are endeavoring to
secure the active cooperation on the
stump OF senators and congressman,
party Daders and independent citi-
zens generally. I most heartily join
in urging the Importance of such CO.
operation.
I hope that every disinterested pri-
vste citizen. whose sole concern in
politics is to have the right kind of
man carry out the right kind of pol
icy, will join in backing up your COM
mittee as we'll as the national COM
mittee in this movement.
No service is as effective, as valua-
BILE, as the disinterested service given
in such manner by men whose one
concern is for the triumph of the prin-
ciples in which they believe; and l ap-
peal with all the strength there is in
me to such men to give such support.
Sincerely yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
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