The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-21
Commits Himself as Approv-
ing RooseveItian Ideas and
Endorses Judge Taft in Sim
cere Tones.
PLEDGES HIS SUPPORT
TO CAMPAIGN ISSUES.
Action Will Go Far Toward
Placing Barnard in True
Light With Wayne County
Voters.

when the election of Judge Taft
to the presidency becomes more and
more assured. as | believe 1t will be,
the mills, and industries of this ma
ton will reopen and the working man
will come into his own again. We
never had a better candidate for presi-
dent than Judge Taft. In him we
have a candidate for whom we can Of
fer no apology. Every thing Mr.. Taft
has undertaken he has carried to a
splendid successful conclusion. There
is no man in the nation with greater
ability to cope with the questions that
present themselves in the minds of
the entire people. | want to say, my
fellow republicans as your candidate
for congress, tonight, l stand on the
policies of Theodore Roosevelt.
stand on the platform of the republi-
can party and in it's broader sense as
lexpounded by our candidate Judge
Taft. If elected | promise you l will
do everything in my power to carry
| forward these great policies, that will
do more for the people than anything
ever before attempted in this nation" "
Such was the declaration of Judge
William o. Barnard, republican nom
! inee for the congress from the sixth
district at meeting of the political
workers in this city yesterday. 1t
binds him irrevocably to the policies
of President Roosevelt and will go far
towards obliterating the false light in
which he has been placed in this coun-
ty by political opponents. The state
ment was made last evening and in
the afternoon it had been preceded
by similar announcement.
Judge Barnard proceeded to inform
the party workers of the city and
county that he is not only a supporter
of the policies of Theodore Roosevelt
but if elected will do everything in
his power to aid in their continuation
under Judge Taft. Mr.. Barnard con
tinued by stating that of all the can
didates before the Chicago conven
ton he could not have been better
pleased than with the selection of the
Ohio jurist and ex-secretary of war
He paid high tribute to the ability o
Taft and left no doubt in the mind:
of all present that he will make hi:
fight on the doctrines of Presiden
Roosevelt and the republican plat
form.
Walter S. Ratliff, the republican
candidate for representative for the
state legislature spoke at the meeting
vigorously denied that he is opposed
to county option as has been charged
and offered as an explanation of hi.
action at the legislature last fall tina
he felt the bill should have been am
ended to make possible the purchas,
of alcohol for such purposes as Nigh
be needed in instances like that whicl
prevailed at his farm west of the cit,
where an insectary is conducted b,
the government and where the liqui,
is needed for purposes far more prac
tical than as an intoxicant. Mr. Rat
lift declared that he stands fairly an,
squarely on the republican state plat
form. He concluded by stating, Il an
for local option with the county
unit" This statement binds Mr.. Raj
lift and also makes his stand clea
for the race of representative. some
thing which it has not been since hi
! announcement that he would run 70
reelection.
;. All the republican precinct commit
teemen, members of the Wayne cour
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