The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-02

HepupiCdn Sdnoiodto otaHon TOT
Same Policies as Present Admins
tration-Can Be Trusted to Do Justice
to Both Capital and Labor-A Cham
pion Of the Right and True Repre-
sentative of All the People.
In the following letter OF President
Roosevelt 10 Mr.. Conrad Kohrs Of
Montana he tells why voters should
support William III. Taft at the polls.
Mr.. Conrad Kohrs Of Helena, Mont,
IS an old time Montana cattleman and
one Of the most prominent citizens OF
Montana. He and the president came
into close relationship more than twen-
ty years ago, when they were both
members of the Montana Stock Grow
ers' association, the president being at
that time the representative OF the
little Missouri stock growers In the
association. The intimacy has been kept
up ever since. Mr.. Kohrs Is one OF
the pioneer citizens Of the northern
Rocky mountain region and one OF the
men who has taken a leading part In
It's great development.
Mr.. Kohrs' letter was called forth by
Mr.. Bryans statement that he (Mr.
Bryan was the presidents heir and
natural successor:
Sycamore Hill.
oyster Bay, N. Y. Sept. 8. 1903.
NV Dear Mr.. Kohrs-1 have received
your letter about the candidacy OF Mr..
Taft the man who feel Is In an especial
IN IN nf
which I most believe in political life.
Every good citizen should desire to see
both prosperity and Justice, prosperity
and fair and righteous dealing as between
man and man. obtain permanently In this
great republic. As II people we are justly
proud OF our business industry, OF our en-
ergy and intelligence In our work. and II
is entirely right that we should ask our
selves ms to any given course of conduct,
"Will Il be proftable?" But II Is also no
less emphatcally true that the bulk or
our people, the plain people who found In
Abraham Lincoln their especial champion
and spokesman. regard the question, rs
this morally right?" as even more impor-
tant than the question, us this protita-
ble?" when applied to any given course OF
conduct Indeed, in tho long run our peo-
pie are sure to find that in all dealings,
alike in the business and political world,
what is really profitable Is that which ~
morally right. The last few years have
seen "A great awakening OF the public con-
science and the growth Of stern deter
mirstion to do away with corruption and
unfair dealing. political, economic, social.
1t is urgently necessary that this great
reform movement should 20 on. But no
reform movement Is healthy II II goes on
by spasms, If IL is marked by periods or
frenzied advance followed, AS such peri
DDS Of frcnzied advance must always be
followed. by equally violent periods of re-
action. The revolutionary and the reac-
tionary really play into one anothcr's
hands to tho extent that each by his ex-
cesses necessarily tends to arouse such
disgust, such a feeling or revolt. In the
minds of quiet people as temporarily to
restore the other to power.
70 permit the direction OF our public af.
fairs TO fan alternately into the hands OF
revolutlonaries and reactionaries, of the
extreme radicals of unrest and of the big
oted conservatives who recognize no
wrongs to remedy would merely mean
that the nation had embarked on fever
ish course of violent oscillation which
would be fraught with great temporary
trouble and would produce no adequate
good In tho end. The true friend OF re-
form, the true foe OF abuses, Is the man
who steadily persevercs In rlShting
wrongs, in warning against abuses, but
whose character and training are such
that he never promises what he cannot
perform that he always n little more than
makes good what he does promise and
that while steadily advancing. he never
permits himself to he led into foolish ex-
cesses which would damage the very cause
he champions. In Mr.. Taft we have
man who combines all of these qualities
TO n degree which no other man In our
public life since the civil war has sur
passed. To a flaming hatred of injustice,
to scorn OF all that is base and mean, 10
n hearty sympathy with the oppressed,
he unites entire disinterestedness, courage
both moral and physical OF the very high.
est type and n kindly generosity OF nature
which makes him feel that all OF his fell
low countrymen are in very truth his
friends and brothers. that their interests
arc his and that all his great qualities are
10 be spent with lavish freedom In their
service The honest man OF means, the
honest and law abiding business man, can
feel safe in his hands because OF the very
fact that the dishonest man OF great
wealth. the man who swindles or robs his
fellows. would not so much as dare to de-
fcnd his evil doing I'm Mr.. Tafts presence.
The honest wageworker the honest la
boring man. the honest farmer, the honest
mechanic or small tyader or man OF small
means can feel that In n peculiar sense
Mr.. Taft will be his representative be
cause or the very taCt tnat ne mas Nnc
same scorn for the demagogue that he has
for the corruptionist and that he would
front threats OF personal violence from
mob with the unquailing and lofty indlf-
ference with which he would front the
bitter anger OF the wealthiest and most
powerful corporations. Broad though his
tympathies are. there Is In him not the
slightest tinge OF weakness. No consider
alton OF personal interest. any more than
n fear for his personal safety, could make
aim swerve hairs breadth from the
course which he regards as right and I'm
the interest OF the whole people.
I have naturally n peculiar interest I'm
the success OF Mr.. Taft and i'm seeing him
backed by n majority In both houses OF
congress which will heartily support his
policies. For the last ten years. while
have been governor Of New York and
president | have been thrown Into the
closest intimacy with him. and he and
have on every essential point stood In
heartiost agreement. shoulder to shoulder
| We have the same views as To- what Is dc
nanded by the national interest and hon
~. both within our own borders and as
ycgards the relations OF this nation with
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