The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-02-07
THE PEOPLE WANT TAFT.

After reading President Roosevelt S
late special message, it is difficult to
see how any person in sympathy with
the progress that has been made by
the republican party under this adj
ministration could fail to hope for the
nomination and election of William
| Howard Taft as the Roosevelt sue
cessor. After reading that message,
it is difficult to see how anybody who
desires to see the presidents policies
continued, could consistently fight for
the nomination of any other man than
the man whom the president has
shown the country to be his choice.
President Roosevelt has never had
confidence in La Toilette. He has al
ways felt that same suspicion in the
Wisconsin fire-eater's sincerity that
has dscredited La Toilette everywhere.
For La Toilette has been a persistent
and everlasting ofiice-seeker. He is
first for La Toilette and after that he
public will applaud the most loudly.
President Roosevelt has never had
confidence in La Toilette. He has
made it clear to the people Of this
country that great mistake would be
made were La Toilette to be even
thought of for the presidency. He has
made it still clearer that the man in
whom the people can place their con-
fidence is Secretary of War w. II.
Taft.
And it is not surprising that people
who endorsed the presidents recent
message should see consistency now
in lending their utmost support to the
man whom the president most desires
to continue the work that Roosevelt
has begun.
The people want William Howard
Taft for President because he is an
American through and through.
The people want Taft because when
he is called upon to face a public ques-
ton or public duty, he does not ask,
will it pay me politically to do this,
or not do that?" but, on the contrary
his guiding thought is What shall I
do with this question, or this duty in
the best interest of my country?" Find
Ing for himself the answer to that self.
sacrificing patriotic question, he acts
accordingly.
The people want Taft because he
has successfully performed every pub.
lie duty which has been intrusted to
his charge, since that day in January
1881, when he received his first public
appointment, as assistant prosecuting
attorney for Cincinnati, o.
The people want Taft because of his
successful organization of the Philip
pine civil commission; his administra,
ton of the islands and his adaptation
thereto of American forms of govern.
ment; his missions in those islands to
various divisions of natives and their
pacification; his vigorous upholding of
the nag ana the submission thereto of
the insurrectos; his support of Ameri.
can education for the people of all
ranks, classes, conditions and creeds;
his fearless advocacy then and since
and now the rights of the Filipinos
to equal treatment under our laws.
The people want Taft because they
realize that the success of his mission
to the Vatican regarding our purchase
OF the friars' lands in the Philippines,
Is all the evidence required to prove
that he possesses diplomatic ability of
the highest order-such diplomatic
ability strengthened by experience as
Will be needed by whoever shall be
president of this great nation of ours,
In the years of international anxiety
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