The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-21
PLEA FOR TAFT.
President Roosevelt Writes a
Letter to Mckinley.
Urging Importance of RepubIf.
can Success In November.
HIS OWN POLICIES
OWN POLICIES
Are the Issue in the Campaign
He Says.
Continuation Thereof Depends
Upon the Result.


Oyster Bay. Sept. 21.-President
1rooseVet In a letter to William B.
N1chllley' chairman of the Republican
eonsiessional committee, just made
pupnc' appeals to disinterested citizens
~ 'o4ii with the national Republican
ooiiiiiilttee and the congressional conn
-, IL ittee IN movement to elect w. H.
Iart as president and a Republ,can
congress to support him. After review
ing some of the important legislation
OF the past seven years the nras,dsnt
declares that Mr.. Taft ana the Re-
publican candidates for congress seek
election on platform which specifi-
cally pledges the party to continue ana
develop the policies which have bean
acted upon for seven years past.
All the aid that can be given to per-
petuate the policy of the governments
as now carried on, the president savs.
should be given by every good citizen
as 1t is far more than a partisan mat
ter.
The letter is as follows:
sycamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N. Y,
My Dear Sir:-I have received vou~
45ae 45.eer OF august 2S. I agree with all
tnat you say as to the amount of af
nrmatlve and constructive lerislation
Tor the social and economic heneflf of
our people which has been accomplish
eo py congress during the last seven
years. The law establishing q national
system of irrigation was of vital Inn
portance, and stands in it's line as Sec
ond only to the homestead law. The
INTERSTATE commerce law has been
amended so as to make it a new law
with three-fold the efficiency Of fha old
law. The enactment of the pure food
law was of almost or quite eoual i'm
portance. The creation of the depart
rnent OF commerce and labor, together
with the creation of a bureau of cor
porations, which marks the beginning
or federal control over the huge cor
porations doing an interstate business.
the employers liability law, the safety
appnance law, the law limiting the
working hours of railway employees. the
meat inspection law, the denatured al
cohol law, the anti-rebate law, the laws
increasing the powers of the depart
ment OF justice in dealing with those
regardless of wealth and power. who
infract the law, the law making the
government liable for injuries to it's
employees, the laws under which the
Panama canal was acquired and is be-
ing built, the Philippines administered,
and the navy developed, the laws Gre
ating permanent census bureau and
reforming 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 thoroughly salts
factory basis, the laws for the proper
administration of the forest service.
the laws for the admission of Okla
homa and the development of Alaska
the great appropriations for the devel-
opment of agriculture. the legal prohi-
bition of campaign ontributions from
corporations-al these represent but a
portion of what has been done by con-
gress, and form a record Of substantial
legislative achievement in harmony
with the best and most progressiya
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 Legislative
branches, to continue and develop
the policies which have been not
merely professed but acted upon during
these seven years. These policies can
be successfully carried through only
by the hearty cooperation of the
president and congres in both it's
branches, and it is therefore peculiar
ly important that there should obtain
such harmony between them. To fail
to elect Mr.. Taft would be calamity
to the country; and it would be folly,
while electing him, yet at the same
time to elect a congress hostile to him.
a congress WHICH unQ6I lu0 lnnu0nC0
of partisan leadership would be cer-
tain to thwart and baff1e him on ev-
cry possible occasion. To elect Mr..
Taft, and at the same time to elect a
congress pledged to support him, is
the only way in which to perpetuate
the policy of the government as now
carried on. 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 a merely partisan
matter.
Both your committee, and the ma
tional committee, of which Mr.
Hitchcock is chairman, are endeavor-
ing to secure the active cooperation
on the stump of senators and con-
gressmen, party leaders and indepen-
dent citizens generally. 1 most heart
lily Join in urging the Importance OF
such cooperation. / hope that every
disinterested private citizen, whose
sole concern in politics is to have
the right kind of man carry out the
right kind of policy, will join in back
ing up your committee as well as the
national committee in this movement.
No service is as effective, as valuable,
as the disinterested service given in
such manner by men whose one con-
Germ is for the triumph of the prin-
ciples in which they believe; and ap-
peal with all the strength there Is In
me to such men to give such support.
Sincerely yours.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Hon. VIM. B. Mckinley, chairman Re-
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