The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1908-01-30
GOVERNOR KIBBEY.
Expresses His Views and Endorses Taft
to Succeed Roosevelt.

AAS 'A~HS VI AdLtOAdl
81 am for William H. Taft for
PRESIDENT" said the governor, sand
Judging from the expressions voluu-
tarily made to me from all sections
of the territory, the republicans OF
Arizona are practically unanimous
tor Taft. In this attitude the repub-
licans of Arizona are in harmony
with the republicans of the country
generally.
There are, of course, strong rea-
sons why our great secretary of war
has become the popular choice since
Mr.. Roosevelt took himself out of
consideration for the nomination.
Judge Taft has had a large share in
making American history during the
past ten years. Longer ago than
that, as United States Judge in Ohio,
he had impressed observing lawyers
with his profound knowledge of the
law, with the patriotic convictions
which controlled his actions, and with
the uprightness and courage with
which he discharged all the duties
which fell to him. And when Presi-
dent Mckinley sent him to the
Philippines, as his personal repre-
sentative on the Philippine commits
sion, Judge Taft began to attract the
attention of his countrymen every
where, and soon after, indeed, the
notice of statemen throughout the
world.
From the very beginning of his
task in the Philippines his strong in
dividuality and strength of character
were manifest. His uniform good
nature and tact and his candid hon.
esty soon won the confidence of the
Filipinos, and he hadsin many ways
shown such a fitness for the work of
the Philippines followed as matter
of course. In that position his ex-
otraordinary executive talents, his
sturdy self-reliance, his ready grasp
and solution of new and untried prob
lems-and, again, his plainspoken
honesty-accomplished more for the
American government in two years
than had been achieved for Spain in
four hundred years. Despite the
prophecies of army officers and news
paper correspondents that the pacif-
cation of the island would be an i'm
possibility, and that endless warfare
there would be our lot. Governor
Taft did succeed in pacifying all the
tribes that had made any approaches !
to civilization; he astonisEed the |
world by the readiness with which he
settled the troublous question of the |
friars lands and church property in |
the archipelago, in a way that was |
pleasing to the Filipinos, pleasing to
the church authorities at Rome, and |
pleasing to the American people 1t
has been freely predicted that this
question would not admit of satisfac-
tory settlement, but Taft settled it
and, of course, settled it right. Only
few weeks ago he personally opened
the first Filipino congress, and the
islands are now on the high road to
selfgovernment.
SIT was when Taft was making
good in such remarkable way in
our far-eastern possessions, that ;
President Mckinley predicted that I
the people of the United States {
would some day make William Taft
their president !
''Called home by President Roose- t
welt to take the portfolio of war, a G
very difficult position because of large t
problems still in process of settle b
ment in our islands and because of a
new questions for our government in o
Cuba and in the Panama canal zone, b
Judge Taft brought to his new duties c
a new superb fitness which the event f
has admirably demonstrated. He Fl
has again made good in way that t.
has led many of the worlds best k
judges to pronounce him one of the a
greatest constructive statesmen of o.
our time RI
"One of the things for which Judge b
Taft is most notable is the excep- zc
ional sanity which distinguishes all al
If his work and all of his words. He in
S one of the best balanced men in m
public life. His personality appeals OF
o the American people. He is We
'lainly honest, frank, sincere and al
We know where he tn
lands on all the questions of the
ay. Indeed, he is the only candi- ii,
ate who has had the bravery to lie
tate his positiop-the other candi- ha
ates are staying in the high grass. pr
o be-sure, other candidates indulge de
platitudes and take strong ground stl
n undisputed propositions, but no Sc
andiGate but Taft has ventured out tn
the beaten path. What other tic
andidate for example, has dared TO DO
and up, as Taft did in his great Bos- pc
IN speech the other day, and rebuke ms
wealth on the one hand, col
I'D on the other hand rebuke the of
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