Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-19
CONGRESSMAN TEEC. E. BUTTONS SPEECH
PLACING WILLIAM H. TAFT IN NOMINATION

His capacity for work is enormous,
yet quite as helpful is his equable |
temperament which will not allow the |
annoyances of life to distract or ham
per him. Although OF an aggressive |
personality, he possesses an infinite |
good nature, a charm of manner and |
a Qoise which have made him a mod |
el for exalted station. In the final |
analysis even the highest officials !
must bo judged as men, and under |
the criterion Secretary Taft is now
and viii ever be known for his broad |
sympathies with every grade of hui |
manity and as one invariably actu-
ated by that democratic spirit which |
should characterize a progressive
American. And yet no one can for
a moment hesitate to recognize ais
severity in dealing with wrong do
ings While no honest enterprise
need fear him. no dishonest SCENE
could hope to hide its face from the
light or TO escape punishment.
More than any other of our public
men he has had TO do with our out
lying dependencies and colonial re-
iatiohs. It was he who took in
charge the prosecution of that eolos-
sal enterprise on the Isthmns, the
canal uniting the lesser and the
greater oceans and under his direct
ing hand the completion of this most
stupendous of public works is no
longer vague and distant nope. but
an imminent reality With his ever
ready skin as a paeificator, he re
stored tranquility in the fertile Is
I land of Cuba, so often distracted by
civil strife. In the far-off Philip
pines, under a blazing tropical sky.
he found a people of many races and
tribes, degraded by centuries of mis-
rule and oppression; and fhtre 100 le
not only established the rule of law
and local control in place OF confu
sion and bloody strife, but showed
the way to government, and a.
new recognition of the rights of
man. For peoples and races, like in
dividua1s, under the inspiration of a
friendly guide, may lift their faces
heaFenward and seek to climb the
great worlds altar stairs to nobler
heights of liberty and opportunity
1t is to his lasting honor that his
desire was not to be known as Taft,
the Pro Consul. but as Taft the
Father of the Filipinos," who brought
to them the light of modern ciyiliza-
ZION.
In the larger sphere OF world pol
itics, We are entering into new and
closer bonds VITA all the nations OF
the earth. Who IS better qualified
than he TO lead America to her true
position in this later day when the
boundaries established in the centu
lTies past are becoming less distinct
and Kingdoms and races are begin
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one common destiny.
IL Secretary Taft has exceptional IA
lmiliarity with conditions in the dist
ant Orient-in Japan, in China. We
may rest assured that our traduUua.
friendship with Japan viii continue.
Moreover, the future promises that
the slumbering millions of China win
awake from the lethargy of ages,
and she then will realize that the
4 morning dawn of fTesher life aud
wider outlook comes to her across
the broad Pacific from free America
her tTuest friend and helper. We
covet no sJortion of her territory. We
) desire from her, as from all nations
| increa sed good viii and that mutual
respect which knows neither buster
| nor cringing on either side. Thus in
this new era of larger relations, Sec
iretary Taft, with his comprehension
) of national and international subjects
would furnish a certainty of peace
; and sustained prestige. Under him,
; at home and everywhere, this mighty
r lpeople would have an assured conf
dence in the secure development and
progress of the country and would
rest safe in the reliance that a chief
: executive was at the helm who, in
peace or in war, would guide the des.
: TIMES of the nation with strong
: hand and with gentle, patriotic
heart.
And SO today, in the presence of
: more than ten thousand, and with
> the inspiring thought of the welLnigh
ten thousand times ten thousand who
dwell within our borders, nominate
for the presidency that perfect type
: OF American manhood, that peerless
representative of the noblest ideals
in our national life, William H. Taft,
. of Ohio.