The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-10
.FOULKE SUPPORTS
JAMES {. WATSON
IN PUBLIC SPEECH
Continued From Page One.)

to have it rolled back to a lower depth
than ever. Personal ambition he
would surrender, but not the public
welfare. The great work must go on;
it must go on under the leadership of
one able to conduct it to a success
full issue. Therefore it was close to
his heart that his successor should be
man competent and willing to carry
out the policies he had inaugurated
and which the people had approved.
He knew better than any other hui
man being the man who was best
qualified for the task. He knew who
had been the most valuable man in
carrying out the good work of his own
administration. For years that man
had sat at his council board; he knew
the Utmost workings of his heart.
Hence the president said in effect to
the people of this country: 'If you
want my policies perpetuated, here
Is the man" Mr.. Roosevelt has been
bitterly criticised for advocating the
nomination of Taft. He would have
neglected his supreme duty had he
failed to tell, he would have f1inched
from his highest opportunity had he
failed to tell us clearly and unequivo-
cally who was the best man to carry
out his policies. There is nothing
equivocal about Theodore Roosevelt;
he said what he believed. The people
took him at his word and William
Howard Taft is the candidate of the
Republican party.
No man ever came to the presiden-
tial office with such an equipment.
Washington had been merely SOL
der, Lincoln a country lawyer. Taft
has been not only a lawyer and judge
but governor of a vast province with
nearly ten millions of inhabitants, a
diplomat and cabinet minister, the
head Of department performing the
most important administrative duties
of the government. In everything he
| has tried he has been successful, and
he has solved some of the most diff
cult problems ever presented to hui
man ingenuity and tact. 1t is a good
! thing for the president to be lawyer
! and to understand the way that the
/ law has of looking at social problems.
! And yet if a man be nothing but a
! lawyer he may not make a good pres
! ident; mere judicial or legal career
narrows mans horizon. Our. great
est presidents have not been those
who have been greatest at the bar.
/ To round out statesman a great
deal else is needed, executive ability.
| tact in dealing with men, deep human
| sympathy, broad horizon and execu-
tive will These are exactly the things
Mr. Taft prominently possesses.
! What have we upon the other side:
/ The greatest talker and dreamer of
| modern times, a man whose title to Of
| flee is his persistence in spite of his
own overthrow of nearly ali the polit-
/ ical ehimeras to which he had sought
! to harness his car-the free coinage OF
silver. the bogy of anti-imperialism
| the initiative and referendum and the
government ownership of railways.
But most impossible of all is his pro-
ject for the determination of the
trusts embodied in the Denver plat
form. VIII some of my democratic
friends tell me one good thing apart
from his speeches that Bryan has ever
done for the American people? He
is the epitome of abandoned policies
/ Taft of those that have already been
engrafted in legislation or are now
in process of accomplishment. Per-
haps Bryan's empty record is not al
together his fault. He has been kept
from accomplishing his pernicious pur
poses by the voice of the people which
relegated him to private life. And YET
in spite of their repeated decisions
against him, he now pretends that the
issue of this campaign is the question
shall the People Ruler" He may fee
assured that they will.
Matter for Contribution.
A great furore has been made by
Mr.. Bryan in regard to campaign con
tributions. The democratic party de
mands the names of the contributor.
must be published. Mr.. Taft accede,
to the demand, but Bryan claims tina