Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-14
TELLS REASONS FOR
FAvORIHG OHIOAN
Writes Old-Time Montana Friend
Why He FdvorS Taft Candidacy
and Why Republican Nominee
Should Succeed Him in
the White House.

oyster Bay, Sept. 14.-A letter
Conrad Kohrs, of Helena, Montana,
an old friend, was made public last
night. The communication was called
forth by the statement of w. ]. Bryan
that he was heir to the president pol
tcies and his natural successor in OF
fee.
Mr.. Kohrs is an old-time cattleman
and one OF the most prominent clu-
gems OF Montana He and the presi-
dent came into close relationship
more than twenty years ago when
they were both members of the Mon
tana Stock Growers association, the
president being at that time the rep
resentative of the Little Missouri
Stock Growers association.
President Roosevelt Roosevelts let
ter is as follows:
My Dear Mr.. kohrs:
[ have received your 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 life.
Every good citizen should desire to
see both prosperity and justice, pros
perity and far and righteous dealing
as between man and man, obtain per-
manently in this great republic. AS
a people We are justly proud OF our
business industry, of our energy ana
Intelligence in our work; and 1t IS
entirely right that we should ask our
selves as to any gwen course of con-
duct, 'Will it be profitable?" But 1t
is also no less emphatically true that
the bulk OF our people, the plain
people VINO found in Abraham Lincoln
their especial champion and spokes-
man, regard the question, as this
morally right?" as even more i'm
portant than the question, is this
profitable?" when applied to any Civ
en- course of conduct Indeed, in the
long run our people are sure to find
that in all dealings, alike in the busi-
ness and the political world, what Is
really prof table is that which is NOR
ally right. The last few years have
seen a great awakening of the public
conscience and the growth of stern
determination to do away with cor
ruption and unfair dealing, political,
economic, social. 1t is urgently nee
essary that this great reform move
ment should go on. But no reform
movement is healthy if it goes on by
spasms if it is marked by periods of
frenzied advance, followed, as such
periods of frenzed advance must al
ways be followed, by equally violent
periods of reaction. The revolution
AIRY and the reactionary really play
into one another's hands, to the ex-
tent that each by his excesses neces-
sarily tends to arouse such disgust,
such a feeling of revolt, in the minds
OF quiet people, as temporarily to re-
store the other to power. To permit
the direction Of our public affairs to
fall alternately into the hands of rev.
oluuonaries and reactionaries. of the
extreme radicals of unrest and of the
bigoted conservatives who recognize
no wrongs to remedy, would merely
mem tlat the nation had embarked
on IcNerish course of violent osciI-
latioH which would be frauSht with
great temporary trouble, and would
produce no adequate good in the end.
The true friend of reform, the true
zoe Of abuses, is the man who steadily
perscyercs in ghting wrongs, in
warning against abuses, but whose
character and training are such that
he never promises what he cannot
perform, that he always little more
than makes good what he does prom
tse, and that, while steadily adyanc-
Ing, he never permits himself to be
led into foolish excesses which would
damasa The very cause he champions.
In Mr. Taft we have a man who COM
bines all of these qualities to a degree
which no other man in our public life
since the Civil war has surpassed. To
a flaming hatred of injustice. to a
scorn of all that is base and mean,
10 hearty sympathy with the op-
pressed, he unites entire disinterested-
ness courage both moral and physical
or the very highest type, and a kindly
generosity of nature which makes him
feel that all Of his LOW countrymen
are In very truth his friends and
brothers, that their interests are his,
and that all his great qualities are to
b. spent with lavish freedom in their
service. The honest man of means
the honest and aw-ab.ding business
man, can feel safe in his hands be-
cause OF the very fact that the dis
honest man OF great wealth, the man
who swindles or robs his fellows,
would not so much as dare TO defend