Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-30
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NJ REPUBLICAN Dfs4FFECTfON.
Democrats who did everything they
could to encourage opposition to the
nomination Of Mr.. Taft at Chicago.
hoping for disaffecti9n and d%issension
in the republican ranks that would
benefit the democrats in November.
must be chagrined and disappointed
to find all the republican leaders
cheerfully acquiescing in the voice OF
the Chicago convention and preparing
to give the ticket enthusiastic and
loyal support. Not only has the dis
sension predicted by the enemy failed
to develop. but, on the contrary, every
prominent republican who figured as
a candidate before the convention has
given assurance OF active work for the
nominees.
No surprise need be occasioned by
the announcement that Senator Fora
ker will AXE the stump for Mr.. Taft.
Mr.. Foraker has always prided himself
on his party loyalty. He is a fighter
who has beer prominent in his party
for a generation and has often made
vigorous, sometimes bitter, fights in
conventions for his favorite, and
against the winner, but he is a repub-
lican and has never failed to abide by
the action of the national convention.
Vice President Fairbanks and
Speaker Cannon have both publicly
pledged their active support TO the
ticket named at Chicago and will both
take the stump during the campaign.
Senator Knox, Immediately upon the
conclusion of the first ballot at b
cago, sem Mr.. Taft his cordial con-
g%ratulations and later, in an address
before a Philadelphia republican club,
paid a glowing tribute to the ability
integrity, judgment and good sense
of the nominee.
Democratic hopes have also received
a rude shock from the statement OF
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin, ex-
planning his position and pledging ac-
tive support to the republican ticket.
Colonel Bryan has been making a
strong bid for the support OF the La
Toilette following, but Mr.. La o
lette has made it plain that while
he believes some of the platform dec
larations should have been more rad
zeal, he will be for Taft earnestly and
ardently. He declares that he is abb
solutely convinced that needed re-
forms, both in legislation and in po-
litical methods, can come only through
the republican party.
Governor Hughes of New York, ad-
dressing the Republican club of New
York City with approval of the Chi
cago convention, said:
The republican party is never in a OF
a man able and equipped for his task, for
the great task of governing a free people
in constitutional method. But there never
has been a man called to that task with
the equipment of William Howard Taft.
That is the plain fact. His record may be
examined with a microscope. His long ca
reer in public office, from carly manhood,
in various spheres of activity, may be sub
jected to the most rigid scrutiny, and out
Of all Of it will only come an enhancement
OF respect for the nan WHO so nohly
~typirios what we regard as capacity for
craftsmanship.
And il is because l believe that in the
leader selected by the convention We not
only have a man notably equipped, but
we have a true and sympathetic friend OF
the people, a man who will be a leader
ia all honorable progress, a man who
will devote his great abilities to the solu-
ton OF the problems which confront MS, a
man who will be unrescrvedly a true Amer
lean. yielding to none in his desire to pre-
serve pure and uncorrIptcd the constitu-
ton of the United States and the stream
of authority undefiled. that I yield sup
port and every earnest e%ndeavor on my
part to secure the election Of william How
ard Taft.
All this makes it plain that the men
whose political ambitions were not IA
! vored by the convention at Chicago
are not disaffected. They realize the
Importance of united party action
against folly and ill-considered ideas
of government and the necessity of
adherence to republican principles as
essential to the maintenance of repre-
sentative, constitutional government,
AS a result, not a note of dissension
worthy of consideration has come from
any republican in high standing. All
the leaders are lining up for the bat
tie with the determination to repeat
the victories of 1896. 1900 and 1904.
IF GRATITUDE COUNTS