The San Francisco call., 1908-09-21
VOTE FOR TAFT
IS MESSAGE OF
THE PRESIDENT
Calls Upon All Citizens to For.
sake Party Ties in the
Coming Election
Points Out the Need of a Re.
publican Executive and
Congress
Ohioan the Man to Garry Into
Effect the New Reform
Laws

III o1E EN- bA1, N T., sept 20
President Roosevelt, in letter to vii
liam B. McKinlay, chairman of the re-
publican congressional committee, mad,
public today, appeals to disinterestee
citizens TO join in movement to cleo
William H. Taft as president and {
republican congress to support him
After reviewing some of the importan
legislation of the last seven years, tn,
president declares that Taft and thu
republican candidates for congress seel
election on a platform which specific.
ally pledges the party TO continue anc
develop the policies which have beer
acted upon for several years past
All the aid that can be given to per-
petuate the policy of the government
as now carried on, the president says
should be given by every good citizen
as 1t is far more than a partisan mat
ter.
sagamore Hill. oyster Bay. n. Y.
Sept. 20. 1905.
Ny Dear Sir. have received 5
your letter of August 2s.
o6 NC Will Gil Ll4dL you Say as
10 the amount of affirmative and
constructive legislation for the so-
clal and economic benefit of our
people which has been accomplished
by the congress during the last
seven years.
The law establishing a national
system OF irrigation was of vital
importance and stands in its line as
second only to the homestead law.
The interstate commerce law has
been amended so as TO make it a
new law with threefold the eff
cheney 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 and labor, together
with the creation of a bureau of
corporations, which marks the be-
ginning of federal control over the
huge corporations doing an inter
state business; the employers la
bility law; the safety appliance
law the law limiting the working
meat inspection law; the denatured
alcohol law; the anti-rebate law:
the laws increasing the powers of
the department of justice in deal
and power, who infract the law; the
law making the government liable
Tor injuries to it's employees; the
laws under which the Panama canal
Was acquired ana is DelnE built.
the Philippines administered and
the navy developed; the laws Gre
ating a permanent census bureau
and reforming the consular service
the law forbidding child labor in
the district of Columbia; the law
providing a commission under
which our currency system can be
put on thoroughly satisfactory
basis; the laws for the proper adj
misinstration of the forest service:
the laws for the admission of Okla
homa and the development Of Alas
ka; the great appropriations for
the development of agriculture. and
the legal prohibition of campaign
contributions from corporations
all these represent but portion of
what has been done by congress,
and form a record of substantial
legislative achievement in harmony
with the best and most progressive
thought of our people.
1t is urgently necessary, from the
standpoint of the public interest to
elect Mr.. Taft and republican con-
gresS which will support him: and
they seek election on a platform
which specifically pledges the party
alike in its executive and legis-
velop the policies which have been
not merely professed but acted upon
during these seven years.
These policies were successfully
cooperation of the president and
the congress in both its branches.
and 1t 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 1t
would be folly, while electing him.
yet at the same time to. elect con-
gress hostile to him. con-
gress which under the Influenced NJ
No ~ 1oodarChfr he
tain to thwart and battle him on
every possible occasion. To elect
Mr. Taft, and at the same time to
elect congress pledged to support
him, is the only way in which TO
perpetuate the policy of the gov
ernment as now carried on.
I feel that all the aid that can be
given to this policy by every good
citizen should be given; for this Is
far more than merely partisan
Both your committee and the ma
tional committee. OF which Mr..
Hitchcock is chairman. are endeav-
oring to secure the active co-opera-
ton on the stump of senators and
congressman. party leaders and in
dependent citizens generally
most heartily join in urging the i'm
portance of such cooperation.
hope that every disinterested prf-
vate citizen, whose sole concern In
politics is o>have the right kind of
man carry out the right kind of
policy: VIII join In backing up your
committee as well as the national
committee in this movement
No service is as effective. as .yal-
liable as the disinterested service
given in such manner by men whose
one concern is for the triumph Of
the principles in which they be-
lfeve, and I appeal with ali the
strength there is in me to such men
to give SUPPORT Sincerely yours.