The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-06-20
THE WEATHER :
Western Oregon-Cloudy; probably
showers and warmer.
TAFT.

BY the grace OF clean, renown, i'm.
disputed ability and perfect fitness
backed by the ardent friendship and
cordial sponsoring Of Theodore
Roosevelt, William Howard TAFT, war
secretary Of the nation, has been
named as the nominee Of the Repub-
lican party for the office Of President
of the United States.
There are those who will urge that
the undisguised championship OF the
President, has been mainly response
Bile for the choice of Mr.. Taft, and to
a certain extent this is true; but no
man may deny, successfully, the es-
sential fact that the great Ohioan pos
sesses within himself, all the qualities
indispensable in the great game and
function of president making; that as
man, citizen, scholar, jurist, diplomat
ist, cabinet officer, he is not equipped
superbly for the great post. If this
were not so Theodore Roosevelt never
would have endorsed him and her
aided him to the people as the best
available man before them; nor, il
Taft's qualifications not of the
very highest order would the people
have suffered their President to name
him and counsel their support of him,
profoundly as the Americans revere
and trust their chief executive.
William H. Taft, by deep study
and ripened interest has mastered the
last detail of administration of admin
istrative life and processes; by asso-
ciation and experience he has taken
over the wisdom OF the tried and
proven; his mind and heart and hand
are trained to the pursuit and execu-
tive of great duties; he has been too
long the trusted representative Of his
famous chief, the man nearest the
core of American administrative life
and action, to lack insight and definite |
knowledge Of the tremendous trust |
that now calls him.
Away up here in the far northwest
ern corner Of the vast realm he |
stands for, his name and character
are as fair and familiar as Roosevelt's |
own; no one doubts, nor denies, nor
disparages him; his candidacy appeals |
with force and certainty and perfect |
clarity, to every informed citizen of |
this section ,as to those in closer |
touch with him; he is the practical
and plausible candidate of the party; !
not because Mr.. Roosevelt has said |
so, but because he is honored with !
that officers supreme confidence, as
the President himself is honored with
the undertaking and justified faith of
the American electorate.
Taft is no weakling, nor substitute
man, no stalking candidate; and we
waits upon him, or them, who shall
thus rate him, in, or out, of the presi-
dency; that he will be devoutly true
to the policies established by the
present President need not be doubt
ed, for he has counselled them and
helped in the fixing of them, and will
adhere to them on the simple ground
Of their justice and cleanliness and
wholes someness, and not because they
are dubbed "Rooseyeltian" by the
men who are squirning beneath the
penal power Of their enactment. He
will be made president of the country !
in due time and by major vote that
will mean much to him; as much as it
meant to his predecessor 81 months
ago. He is logically in line for the
great office, fit and ready for it, and
the people of the land are squarely,
and gladly, at his elbow. He will
make a great campaigner, and a great
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