The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-10-10
Failure 10 Elect TAFT Would be
Calamity. Says Mr.. Roosevelt

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public recently.
II have received YOUR letter oi
August IS agree with all tina,
YOU say q. to the amodnt OF afir.
NATIVE and constructive legislation
tor the social and economic bcnc.
TT OF our people which has been
accomplished by the congress dur.
ing the last several years. The
Law establishing n national system
NJ irrigation was OF vital impor.
lance. and stands in its line as
second only to the homestead law.
The interstate commerce law has
been amended so as to maxi it a
new law, with three. fold the Ell.
cheney oi the old law. The enact.
mcnt Ui the pure TODD Law was OF
almost OF quite equal importance.
The creation OF the department
OF commerce and labor, together
with the creation OF q bureau OF
corporations, winch marks the I've.
ginning OF federal control over the
hug, corporations dong an inter.
state business, the employers
liability law, the safety appliance
law, the law limiting the working
hours OF railway employees, the
meat inspection law, the dcnaiur.
I'd alcohol law, the antl.rchatc law,
ia. laws increasing the powers OF
III" department OF justice in deal.
ing with those, regardless oi wealth
and power, who IniraCt the law,
the law making the government
liable Tor injuries To- its employees,
the laws under which the Panama
canal was acquired and - being
built, the Philippines administer.
ed, and the navy developed, the
laws creating "A permanent census
bureau and reforming ihc consular
service and the system OF natural.
lzation, the law iorbidding child
labor IN the District OF Columbia,
the law providing a commission
under which currency system
can he put on "A thoroughly salts
factory basis, the laws tor the pro.
per administration oi the forest
service, the laws Tor the admission
o. Oklahoma and the development
OF Alaska, the great appropriations
Tor the development oi agriculture,
the legal prohibition OF campaign
contributions from corporations
all these represent but a portion
OF what has been done hy congtess.
and torn a record OF substantial
legislative achievement IN harmony
with the best and most progressive
thought OF our people.
1t - urgently necessary, from
the standpoint OF the public inter
est, to elect MIR. TAFT, and a re.
publican congress which will sup.
port him; and they seek election
on a platform which specifically
pledges the party, alike IN It's cxr.
cutlvc and Legislative branches to
continue and develop the policies
which have been hot merely pro.
iessed but acted upon during these
seven years. These policies can
be successfully carried through on.
~ by the hearty cooperation OF
the president and the congress IN
both its branches, and II is there.
tore peculiarly important that there
should he obtained such harmony
between them.
To fail to elect Mr.. TAFT would
Ice a calamity to the country; and
It would he folly, while clectng
HIM, yet at the same time to elect
a congress hostile to him, a con.
grcss which under the influence OF
partisan leadership would be Ger.
tain 10 thwart and battle him on
every possible occasion. To elect
Mr.. TAFT, and at the same time
TO elect a congress pledged to sup.
port him, IS the only way in which
to prrpctuate the policy OF the gov.
eminent as now carried on. ieel
that all the aid that can be given
to this policy by every good citi.
zen should be- given; Tor this is lar
more than a merely partisan mat.
ter.
Both your committee. and the
national committee, OF which Mr..
Hitchcock is chairman, are endeav.
oring to secure the active cooper.
alton on the stump OF senators and
congressman, party leaders and
independent citizens generally.
most heartily Join in urging the
importance OF such cooperation.
hope that every disinterostod
private citizen, whose sole concern
in politics is to have the right kind
OF man carry out the right kind oil
policy, will Join in backing up youI
committee as well as the national
committee in this movement. Nc
service Is as effective, as valuable,
as the disintercsted service given
in such n by men whose one
concern is Tor the triumph oil the
principles in which they believe.
and | appeal with all the strength
there is in me to such men to Civ,
such support;
Sincerely yours,
Theodore Roosevelt"