The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-03-25
The One Man Fitted by Ability, Experience and
Sympathy to Carry Out the Important Policies
Inaugurated by President Roosevelt
The American People Have Absolute Confidence in the
War Secretary Because They Know What lie
Stands for and What He Has Done.
Demand for Tafts Nomination as Rooseyelts Sue
cessor Sprang spontaneously From All Sections Of
the Country Victory Foregone Conclusion.

or of his party, seems to be foregone
conclusion.
While it cannot be denied that inn
mense impetus to the movement In Ia
vor OF the nomination of Mr.. Taft was
given by the unqualified expression by
the president in favor of the selection
of his secretary of war as his success
sor in the White House, yet with all
due credit to the president it cannot be
said that it was he who started the So
called Taft boom.
Boom Is Spontaneous.
The boom was spontaneous from all
sections of the country. and what the
president did was simply to join in the
procession of those who, with accurate
Judgment, had decided that the best
man to fill Theodore Roosevelt's place
as the executive head of the nation was
MIR. Taft. That the great influence OF
the presidents judgment has done in
calculable benefit to the candidacy OF
Mr.. Taft cannot be denied, yet in the
last analysis it is the people in this
country who choose their presidents
and not the president VINO selects his
successor In indicating a preference
for Secretary Taft the president acted
as Theodore Roosevelt, citizen of the re-
public, rather than Theodore Roosevelt,
president of the United States. He
spoke as hundreds of thousands of
other citizens and voters have spoken
voicing their feelings and exercising
their right to indicate a choice on this
all important question, involving as it
does SO much that is vital to the well
fare of the country and of the party
during the next four years.
His Essential Fitness.
But the president had one advantage
eating his preference; he knew better
than any one else the qualifications
and the essential fitness of the man to
whom he has thrown the great weight
of his prestige; he knew who could
best bear them; he knew, too, the man
who would best appeal by reason of the
principles for which he stands and the
great service which he has given to his
country, to the people of the nation
for support.
While the people of the country have
accepted the presidents high estimate
of Mr.. Taft, they have not done so
without full consideration of the merits
of the secretary of war. They have ex-
amined his record and given approval
of his candidacy. Throughout the can
vass which has now been in progress
with more or less activity for year or
more, Secretary Taft has maintained a
dignity and poise which has COM
branded universal respect
Hardest Worker in Administration.
No duty appertaining to the great
office which he now holds has suffered
from neglect by reason of the fact that
he is candidate for the presidency.
He is still secretary of war, and the
obligations of that Office are the obliga-
lions which command his attention and
which receive his attention. That the
secretary of war is the hardest worked
and the hardest working man connect
ed with the present administration no