The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-24
Mr.. ROOSEVELT
LAUDS TAFT.
True Friend Of Reform and
Foe Of Abuses.
NAMES HIM POLITICAL HEIR

Republican Candidate Stands For
Same Policies as Present Admins
tratien-Can BE Trusted to Do Justice
to Both Capital and Labor-A Cham
pion Of the Right and True Repre-
sentative Of All the People.
In the following letter of President
Roosevelt TO Mr.. Conrad KOhrs Of |
Montana he tells why voters should |
support William II. Taft at the polls.
Mr.. Conrad Kohrs of Helena, Mont, |
is an old time Montana cattleman and
one Of the most prominent citizens OF
Montana. He and the president came
into close relationship more than twen-
ty years ago, when they were both
members of the Montana Stock Grow
ers' association, the president being at
that time the representative OF the
little Missouri stock growers in the
association. The intimacy has been kept
up ever since. Mr.. Kohrs Is one or
the pioneer citizens Of the northern
Rocky mountain region and one Of the
men who has taken leading part IN
its great development.
Mr. Kohrs' letter was called forth by
Mr.. Bryan's statement that he (Mr.
Bryan was the presidents heir ana
natural successor:
Sycamore Hill.
oyster Bay, N. Y, Sept. 9. 1908.
NV Dear Mr. Kohrs-I have received
vour letter about the candidacy OF Mr.,
Taft the man who feel is in an especial
| sense the representative Of all that IN
| which | most believe In political lie
Every good citizen should desire to see
| both prosperity and justice. prosperity
| and fair and righteous dealing as between
| man and man. obtain permanently IN inns
| great republic. AS people we are justly
proud of our business industry, of our en-
| ergy and intelligence in our work. and II
| is entirely right that we should ask our
| selves as to any given course OF cohduct
.'Vill it be profitable?' But it Is also no
less emphatically true that the bulE OF
our people, the plain people VINO touhu IN
Abraham Lincoln their especial champion
| and sDokesman, regard the question. is
this morally right?" as even more impor
| tant than the question, rs TINS pFohId
4 ble?" when applied to any given course OF
conduct Indeed, in the long run our peo-
| ple are sure to find that In all dealings
| alike In the business and political world
what is really profitable is that Whlch Is
| morally right. The last rev years haNe
| seen a great awakening or the puohc con
science and the growth OF STERN ueNel
mination to do away with corruption ana
| unfair dealing, political. economic social
IT is urgently necessary that TINS srea'
reform movement should go on. But nc
reform movement is healthy II II goes OF
by spasms, II it is marked by periods OF
frenzied advance, followed, as such peri
Ods of frenzied advance must always W
, followed, by equally violent PERIODS OF re
; action. The revolutionary and the reac
, tjonarv really play into one another
hands TO the extent that each by his eX
cesses necessarily tends to arouse sucl
disgust, such a feeling OF revolt IN TN
r minds of quiet people as Temporarily
restore the other to power.
= To hermit the direction of our pubic al
fairs to fall alternately into the hanas o
| reyolutionaries and reactlonarles' vi th
o extreme radicals of unrest and OF tne ols
oted conservatives who recognize III
a wronps to remedy would merely mea
that the nation had embarked on IeVer
4 Ish course of violent oscillation Whlc
/ would be fraught with great temporal
~ trouble and would produce no adequat
G GOOD in the end The true friend OF re
form. the true foe Of abuses. Is the ma
o who steadily perseveres IN Fls"tlli
:, wrongs, in warning against ABUSES w
II whose character and training are sue
that ha never promises what he cannc
nerform. that he always little more ina
T. | makes good what he does promise an
that. while steadily advancing. ne neVs
u permits himself to be led into looi'sh g
y. cesses which would damage the very caus
B he champions. In Mr.. Tart we nays
d man who combines all OF these quah''
to a degree which no other man III VI
IL nublic life since the civil war mas su
nassed. To a flaming hatred OF inJusuc
'c 10 a scorn of all that is base and mean'
Is a hearty sympathy with the oppresse
he unites entire disinterestedness' cou[at
both moral and physical OF the very ms
est type and a kindly generosity OF natu
IL which makes him feel that all OF ms -
If low countrymen are in very Uuth
friends and brothers. that tnelr niteIe9
n are his and that all his great quallties d
to be spent with lavish freedom IN tnt
s. sarvice The honest man OF means,
l. honest and law abiding business man. c'
" feel safe in his hands because OF the We
f. fact that the dishonest man Oh gre
wealth, the man who sWindles OF Fops
e, fellows, would not SO much as care "
- fend his evil doing in Mr.. Iatts presen,
A' The honest wageworker, the hohest
r. boring man. the honest farmer, the nom
h. weans can feel that in a peculiar ser
nv taft will be his representative
W cause of the very fact that ne mas
.t same scorp for the demagogue that ne
for the corruptionist and thae ne Wo'
at Sront threats of personal violence IRON
mob with the unquailing and loLty INC
IS, ference with which ne woup troht
~ bitter anger Of the WealthiesI anu III
laL ,oH,arfnl cornoFations. Broad though
+hios are there Is in him not
siiehtest tinge of weakness. No consid
sS. alton of personal interest, any more u
| of fear for his personal safety. coulo mi
ldL him swerye a hairs breadth from
M course which he regards as right and
0S' the interest OF the whole people.
M have naturally peculiar interest,"
T., the success of Mr.. Taft ana IN seeing
aI1 backed by majority IN Dotn houses
congress- which will heartily support
1ly nolicies- For the last ten years, Will
,,1c have been governor Of New York
,~1 nrasident I have been thrown into
rolL closest intimacy with him, and ne an
have ON every essential point stooo
We heaYtiest agreement, shouider 10 stloul
;4b we have the same views as to what is
A0N manded by the national Interest ana
OF or. both within our own borders aho
- regards the relations OF TINS nauoH
the other nations There Is no fight for
oenov and fair dealing which | h
LILY vaged IN which have not had his he
hn test and most effective sympathy and
mort and the policies for which 81
his are are his policies as much as mine,
II is not possible In the space OF
letter to discuss all the many and
r ! nitelv varied questions OF moment
which Mr. Taft as president would
to deal Let him be judged by VIVA
has himself done and by what the al