Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-04-30
TafI reads ns folloMs.

Tart reads as follows:
Believing as we do that a contin-
uance OF the policies advocated and
being carried out by Theodore
Roosevelt is essential to the futnre
we'll being or this country. and be-
lieying further. that the Secretary
OF War William II. Taft is to be
found the man best fitted TO carry
out and continue these policies and
finding that Secretary Taft has been
weighed and found not wanting In
every position OF public trust TO
which he has been called: and furth-
er believing him to be the best fit
ted by character. education and ex-
perience TO administer the affairs of
this government.
We. therefore. hereby express our
hearty and earnest approval of his
candidacy for the presidency, and I'm
struct the two delegates from this
district to vote for the nomination
of William Fl. Taft for president"
Every one is familiar with the
history OF the Brownsville affair.
Secretary Taft. after an exhaustive
investigation. reported to the presi-
dent that the negro troopers were
undoubtedly guilty of the crime OF
shooting up the town, killing one
man and seriously wounding others.
n nt
assassins." He declared that the
soldiers who were not engaged i'm
the shooting, but who must have had
knowledge OF II, and who refused
to give evidence as to which of their
fellow soldiers did the shooting,
were equally guilty with the real
assassins. He recommended that
every member of the three compa-
MES involved be discharged with -
honor. Acting upon his recommen-
dalton President Roosevelt discharg-
ed the three companies from the
service of the United States. The
action has been reviewed by the
United States senate, and those who
have followed the proceedings have
little doubt that the action was full
ly justified The only objection is
that the punishment was not suff-
GENTLY severe. The popular belief
is that the real assassins, and those
who protected them, should have
been hanged summarily.
NOW tba % tho INigIi,
congressional district, in convention
assembled, find that Secretary Taft
has been weighed and not found
wanting in every position OF public
trust to which he has been called.
Then they Immediately reweigh him
and find him wanting by solemnly
asking congress to nullify the most
important act of the secretary's Of
fetal career
If Secretary Taft characterized
innocent men as midnight assas-
SINS and had them discharged
without honor" from the army. he
is certainly of such narrow mind
as to be an unfit candidate for pres
ident of the United States. II re
has really not been found wanting
In any position of public trust to
which he has been called, as one
portion of the resolution adopted
would have the voters believe, It was
mighty unseemly thing for Re.
publican convention to demand tina.
congress nullify his most important
official act.
Whichever horn of the dilemma
they choo2e to take, the Republicans
of the Fifth congressional distr,c,.
have come mighty near convincing
the public generally that, IT least in
convention, they are mighty solicit
tous about the negro vote. and :hat
they are willing to sacrifice primer
pie and plain honesty to secure that
vote.-Huntington Advertiser.