Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-15
WOULD CARRY OUT
ROOSEVELT POLICIES
Taft the Logical Candidate for
Pre- sident.
His Training, Ability and Temperament
Point Him Out as the Right
Man for the Place.

It is rather warm weather to dis :
cuss politics, but there are SOM
things the voters should be consider
ing and about which they can be
thinking even when busted with their
own affairs. For the time will prob
ably never, come in America when
men will not be busy with other con
Germs than politics. Politics must in
measure be incidental to business,
but it will never do for the Ameri-
can voter to neglect political matters.
He ought to be interested, and his
| interest must be keen and active If
the country is to make the progress
it should.
This country has given the most
pronounced evidence possible of its ap-
prevail of the policies of President
Roosevelt. He not only received the
! largest majority ever given to presi-
dent but also the largest percentage
of the electoral and popular votes.
In every test of public sentiment the
people have shown Enthusiastically that
they are with President Roosevelt;
that they favor his policies.
If he voters endorse, as they certain
Iy do the policies of President Roose-
velt what should be their attitude in,
the presidential contest as between,
Taft and Bryan. 1t is fortunate
! indeed that both candidates are clean.
and honorable men in their personal
lives. There ought to be no per-
sonalties in the campaign as between
two such good men. 1t ought to be-
contest of principles.
There is back of Bryan his record
as an extremist, his record OF mis-
taken public policies. The voter OF
his country will not forget that Mr..
Byran was wrong in urging the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at a.
ratio of Is to L; that he was mistaken
in his anti expansion policy; that his
| free trade ideas were not PRACTICAL
and would have harmed our national
interests and that his announcement
roads. involving $12, 900, 900. 900 in
crease in the public debt, and a 1000.
900. 900 increase of the government
employees was to say the least un-
wise. The business interests of this
country would fall into state of
doubt, sshesitancy and lack of confidence
in the future should Mr.. Bryan be
elevated to the presidency, and that
Notwithstanding the fact that he is a
man of clean life and high ideals in
his personal life
William H. Taft is a man as clean
in life and of as high and noble ideals
as any American pubic man. He is
practical man, logical and sane. He
has had the requisite experience to
fit him for the high Office of the presi-
dencY. He has been a federal judge,
u. S. commissioner to the Philippines.
and virtually governor general Of
those islands. secretary of war and
while doing all these has had many
important and deIicate matters to
handle, such as settling the insurrec-
ton in Cuba, and control of the con-
struction Of the Panama canal. ALL
these great trusts he has managed
with signal ability and success. He
has shown himself to be large man,
capable of handling the largest in
terests of the federal government in
any crisis. By training he is the
best fitted man in public life for the
presidency of the greatest nation of
the earth. He is man of rare tact
as we'll as splendid ability. He has
been nominated for the presidency on
platform that distintly and plainly
declares fol- the Roosevelt policies,
and that stands for progressive ideas
in government.
But that the voters may have no
uncertainty about the matter, Presi-
dent Roosevelt has openly and often
declared that he favored William
Taft for the presidency, because he
believed him to be by training
ability and temperament the best
| fitted man in the United States, not
even excepting himself, to carry what
are known commonly as the Roosevelt
policies, which the people have en-
dorsed. to their logical and proper
conclusion in the enactment Of con-
gress and their enforcement by the ma
ton s executive. A vote for Taft is
vote for the Roosevelt policies; and
Mr.. Taft's candidacy has the unqualt-
fed approval of the president, and the
convention that named him for that
high Office was dominated by Mr..
Roosevelt's friends. and the friends OF
what have been known as the Roose-