Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-09-30
1MR. ROOSEVELT
/. LAUDS TAFT.
True Friend of Reform and
Foe of Abuses.
NAMES Him POLITICAL Heir

Republican Candidate Stands For
Same Policies as Present Admins
: tration-Can Be Trusted to Do Justice
to Both Capital and Labor-A Cham
pion OF the Right and True Repre-
sentative OF All the People.
In the following letter Of President
Roosevelt TO Mr.. Conrad kohrs of
Montana he tells why voters should
support William II. Taft at the polls
Mr.. Conrad Kohrs of Helena, Mont
is an old time Montana cattleman and
one Of the most prominent citizens of
Montana. He and the president came
into close relationship more than TWEEN
ty years ago, when they We're both
members of the Montana Stock Grow
ers' association, the president being at
that time the. representative of the
little Missouri stock growers in the
association. The intimacy has been kept
up ever since. Mr.. Kohrs is one of
the pioneer citizens of the northern
Rocky mountain region and one of the
men who has taken a leading part in
its great development.
Mr.. kohrs' letter was called forth by
Mr.. BryaIs statement that he ONT!
Bryan was the presidents heir and
natural successor.
sse~ Sycamore Hill,
Oyster Bay N. Y, Sept. 9, 1908.
NV Dear Mr.. Kohrs-I have received
your letter about the candidacy of Mr..
Taft, the man who feel is in an especial
sense the representative OF all that In
which most believe in political life.
Every good citizen should desire to see
both prosperity and justice, prosperity
and fair and righteous dealing as between
man and man, obtain permanently In this
great republic. AS people we are justly
proud Of our business industry, OF our en-
ergy and intelligence in our work. and 1t
is entirely right that we should ask our
selves as to any given course OF conduct,
will it be profitable?" But it is also no
less emphatically true that the bulk OF
our people, the plain people who found IN
Abraham Lincoln their especial champion
and spokesman, regard the question. is
this morally right?" as even more impor-
tant than the question, lis this profita-
ble?' when applied to any given course OF
conduct. Indeed, in the long run our peo-
pie are sure to find that In all dealings,
alike in the business and political world,
what is really profitable IS that which Is
morally right. The last few years have
, seen a great awakening Of the public con-
science and the growth of a stern deter
mination to do away with corruption and
unfair dealing, political, economic soc1al.
1t is urgently necessary that this great
reform movement should go on. But no
reform movement is healthy II 1t goes on
by spasms, if it is marked by periods OF
frenzied advance, followed as such peri
DDS of frenzied advance must always be
followed by equally violent periods OF re-
action. The revolutionary and the reac-
n 11xy al int n1n q
hands to the extent that each by his ex-
cesses necessarily tends to arouse such
disgust, such a feeling OF revolt, in the
minds of quiet people as temporarily to
restore the other to power.
To permit the direction of our public at
fairs to fall alternately into the hands Of
revolutionaIfes and reactionaries. of the
extreme radicals OF unrest and of the big
Oted conservatives who recognize no
wrongs to remedy, would merely mean
that the nation had embarked on fever
ish course Of violent oscillation which
would be fraught with great temporary
trouble and would produce no adequate
good in the end The true friend of re-
form, the true foe Of abuses, is the man
who steadily perseveres in righting
wrongs, in warning against abuses, but
<yhose character and training are such
than he never promises what he canno,
perforr1 that he always a little more thar
. makes good what he does promise and
that, while steadily advancing, he never
permits himself TO be led into foolish ex
cesses which would damage the very cause
he champions In Mr.. Taft We have e
man who combines all Of these qualities
to a degree which no other man in oul
public life since the civil war has sur
passed. To a flaming hatred Of injustice
to a scorn of all that is base and mean, tc
a hearty sympathy with the oppressed
he unites entire disinterestedness, courage
y,J,y- tool Of thn Upr iJh
est type and kindly generosity Of nature
which makes him feel that all of his fel
low countrymen are in very truth Ms
friends and brothers. that their interest!
are his and that all his great qualities arr
to be spent with lavish freedom in thei
service The honest man of means, thu
honest and law abiding business man, cal
feel safe in his hands because OF the yer.
fact that the dishonest man of grea
wealth. the man who sWlndles or robs hi
fellows, would not SO much as dare to de
ferd his evil doing in Mr.. Tafts presence
The honest wageWorker, the honest Ia
boring man, the honest farmer, the homes
mechanic or small trader or man or sma
means can feel that in a peculiar sens
Mr.. Taft will be his representative be
cause Of the very fact that he has tn
same scorn for the demagogue that he ma
for the corruptionist and that he Woul
front threats Of personal violence from
mob with the unquailing and lofty 1ndlf
ference with which he would front tn
hitter anger of the wealthiest and mos
powerful corporations Broad though hi
sympathies are. there is in him not tn
slightest tinge of weakness. No consider
ation Of personal interest, any more tina
of fear for his personal safety, could max
him swerve a hairs breadth from tn
course which he regards right and
the interest Of the whole people.
I have naturally a peculiar interest
the success of Mr.. Taft and in seeing hi
backed by a majority in both houses
congress which will heartily support
policies For the last ten years while
have been governor of New York an
president. 1 have been thrown into TT
JIosest intimacy with him, and he and
have on every essential point stood
heartiest agreement, shoulder to shoulde
We have the same views as to what is az
nanded by the national interest and hon