The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-30
WILL AID BUSINESS
Enthusiastic Nomination Of Taft viii
Do Most to Restore General
Public Confidence.
Cleveland Financial Paper Vigorous
Iy Declares Support Of ohlo's Can.
dldate, Because II Believes Rooss.
VeIt Policies Must Be Continued for
Good of Business.

uIodte' eecauSe u Believes Roose
VeIt Policies Must Be Continued for
Good of Business.
1908 is now here.
Everybody is now facing the New
Year with all the hope and confidence
and fortttude that they can summon
The strenuous days which were ex
perienced during the weeks from the
18th to the 2Cth of October, and which
threw Wall street and the country
into a state OF uncertainty and panic
are over, but that this new year is
still fraught with perplexing problems
of politics and finance no one in the
country can doubt. says the Cleveland
Commercial Bulletin. in u leading
article.
So closely are the questions of
financial prosperity and the national
election allied that the Commercial
Bulletin believes that It Is quite with
in the realm Of financial newspaper
TO give It's readers the best informa-
tion and the best advice that it can
obtain for the solution OF both these
questions.
Those forces which. either inten.
tlonally promoted the disturbance al
most volcanic at New York last Oc.
tober were apparently aimed at Presi-
don't Rnn0nNnlN H,,k
tended, evidently, that the dynamite
cartridge should extend further than
the White House door
Continue Roosevelt Policies.
There are many reasons. however,
why the policies OF President Roose-
welt, the best authorities on finance
and statesmanship agree, should be
continued.
In advocating the nomination and
election of Secretary Taft, as Presi-
dent Roosevelt's successor, the Com
mercial Bulletin is acting on its own
responsibility. guided by the best
opinions obtainable from the leaders
Of financial thought throughout the
country.
1t has taken up this work entirely
on its own initiative. guided by its
own conscience and believing that the
one great solution to the whole com.
plicated problem Is to be found in the
nomination and election Of a candi-
date, whose whole political history
gives evidence of the greatest sin.
cerity and ability to fulfill those
things which for these past years
President Roosevelt has SO vigorously
initiated.
1t is very natural thing that in
this emergency of national affairs
that the entire country should look to
the state Of Ohio for its solution.
There has never been crisis in
American affairs when the state of
Ohio did not produce the Man of the
Hour" 1t produced one at Apo
matox when General U. s. Grant re.
turned the sword to General Lee and
brought back peace to a distracted
nation.
Great Sons Of Ohio.
Never since the days of Abraham
Lincoln to the time of Theodore
Roosevelt has the Republican party
ever found a president of these Unit
ed States who was not native of
Ohio. Once in that interim New York
produced Grover Cleveland, but Grant.
Hayes, Garfield. Harrison, Mckinley,
were all natives of Ohio. Mr.. Roose-
welt himself owed his accession to the
Office from the fact that he
had been selected on the same ticket
with an Ohio candidate.
II one leaves the history of the
presidential succession he will find
in the whole list of cabinet officers
many notable sons of the Buckeye
state. Who was there greater than
Mr. Salmon P. Chase, Mr.. Lincoln's
secretary of state? Who was there
greater in those crucial hours Of the
rebellion than Edwin NJ. Stanton?
And on down through the list Mr..
Taft's father-AlphOnso, who was at,
torney general under President Grant,
John Hay, who, though not an Ohioan
born, found his wife and home in this
state; Mr.. Justice Day. and Secretary
Sherman are all notable examples of
Ohio's greatness.
Wipe the names Of Ohio men out of
American history and there is little
of it left. >|.,
Why Taft Is Popular.
That's one good set Of reasons why
all the states are looking now in this
New Year of 1908 to Ohio to provide
4 candidate who can meet Mr.. BRYAN
next November.
Let us take some expressions for |
our belief in the fitness Of Mr.. Taft's
from 80 eminent an au-
.hority as Mr.. Henry Litchfleld West
who has something to say in recent |
number of the Forum. on "The Next
Presidential Campaign"
"The battle Of 1908" says Mr. West,
is to be Of the individual against IN.
renched corporate monopolies; and,
lnless the signs of the times are
strangely misleading, the individual
Will be successful. 1t is this feeling
10 universally prevalent and this con-
lition Of affairs which makes Secre.
ary Taft SO popular because he gives
assurances that he will, If elected,
continue the policies which President
Roosevelt has inausurated.
up to the present time Secretary
Taft is the only Republican candidate
OF the presidential nomination who
las openly avowsd his Endorsement
i these policies He has ranged
himself on the side Of the progressive
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