The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-01-23

oy All VINO oppose His Righteous
Acts; Praised by All Who Have
Studied His Work.
The people want William Howard
Taft for president because he is an
American through and through, says
Walter ]. Ballard. in the Los Angeles
(CalD Times.
The people want Taft because when
he is called upon to face a public
question or a public duty he does not
ask, will it pay me politically to do
this. or not do that?" but, on the con-
trary, his guiding thought is What
shall | do with this question or this
DUTY, in the best interest of my coun.
try?" Finding for himself the answer
to that self sacrificing patriotic ques.
tion. he acts accordingly.
The people want Taft because he
has successfully performed every pub
lie duty which has been intrusted TO
1881, when he received the 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 flag and the submission thereto
of the insurrectos his support Of
American education for all the people
of all ranks, classes, conditions and
creeds; his fearless advocacy then
and since and now of the rights of the
Filipinos to equal treatment under our
laws.
Diplomatic Ability.
The people want Taft because they
realize that the success of his mis-
sion to the Vatican regarding our pur-
chase of the friar's land in the Phil
ippines, is all the evidence required
to prove that he possesses 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
and America responsibility which are
before us.
The people want Taft because when
but recently, revolution threatened
our great trade and investment inter.
ests in Cuba, he hurried down there,
and ~ diplomacy and candor averted
the catastrophe. inducing the malcon-
tents on both sides to accept provi-
sional government at American
hands under which government the
island is peaceable and prosperous
The people want Taft because,
though vigorously urged by President
Roosevelt to accept a seat for life on
the bench Of the supreme court of the
United States-Lhe most highly re-
spected judicial body in the world-he
remained true to his promise to the
people Of the Philippines that he
would not leave them until civil gov
ernment was firmly established.
Pushing Panama Canal.
The people want Taft because when
the need arose, mainly in the interest
Of speedy construction of the Ameri-
can Panama canal, he accepted the
great Office of secretary of war, and
by personal visits to Panama, by the
cutting of red tape" by care in let
ting contracts and buying supplies, he
is pushing the work to expected com.
pletion at a considerably earlier date
than appeared possible before the
work came under his charge.
The people want Taft because he is
a man in every sense of the word; a
man whose word is his bond; a man
who impresses his virile manhood
upon other men; man whose work
Is never done while there Is any of
his country's work to do; man
whose watchwOrd is duty; man
whose simple creed is my God, my
country, my party, and my neighbour"
a man who is true husband, good
father, and a patriotic citizen; a man
who is loved by all who know him,
feared by all who oppose his righteous
acts and praised by all who have
watched and studied his work,