The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-29

New York, Oct. 90 President
Roosevelt has sent TO c. B. Wolfram,
editor of the New York Herald, a let
ter praising w. H. Taft and Governor
Hughes and predicting the success of
Taft and the Governors reelection.
The letter follows:
"Oct. 81, 1908.
"My dear Mr.. Wolfram thank
you for your remembrance of my birth
day. VIII you let me take this oppor
tunity to thank you in return for the
admirable work you are doing for
clean and honest government by your
support of Taft and Hughes. l have
proud faith in the good sense and con-
scientious devotion TO duty and to
high ideals of my fellow Americans of
German birth or German parentage.
am certain that they will go right if
only the facts can be clearly presented
to them. and, thanks largely to your
efforts, the facts are thus being clearly
presented.
"Mr. Taft stands in the Nation and
Mr.. Hughes stands in the state for
that high order of governmental eff
cheney and that high standard of gov
ernmental honesty, the union of which
is absolutely essential in order to Sc
cure good government.
Each adheres, and has always ad-
hered, in public and private life, to the
most inflexible standard of honesty
and fair dealing as between man and
man. Each represents what is best
in American citizenship. Not one
word of any kind can be truthfully
said against the private or public char
acter of either. Each has the broad
est sympathies for his fellow citizens
for need hardly say the accusations
that Governor Hughes is a narrow and
illiberal man are preposterously false.
81 believe that the victory of the one
in the Nation and the other in the
state is assured by overwhelming ma
jorities, and l thank you for the way
in which by your efforts you have con-
tributed to bring about this result.
with all regards, believe me, sin
cerely yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
DonneIIy Supports Taft.
President Roosevelt made public a
long letter from Samuel B. Donnelly,
secretary of the general arbitration
board of the New York Building
Trades, in which Mr.. Donnelly upholds
the president in his presentation OF the
record of Mr.. Taft as are set forth by
him in letter to P. H. Grace, or
II;
Mr.. Donnelly declares the presi-
dents letter shows Mr.. Taft is not an
enemy of labor, and the presidents
opinion and conclusion should be &C
cepted by labor as complete refuta-
ton of the charges made against Mr..
Taft by his adversaries in the cam
paign. From personal knowledge of
Mr. Taft's record as governor of the
Philippines and in Panama, where he
had extensive relations with labor. Mr..
Donnelly unqualifiedly supports the
presidents estimate of Mr.. Taft's char
acter. Mr.. Donnelly cites an interpre-
tation of the federal eight-hour law
reported in 1907 and Mr.. Tafts longe-
witty pay increase order of that year as
l.
labor Continuing, Mr.. Donnelly says:
The professional Democratic labor
workers who have been on the job in
all recent campaigns are running the
movement in the east. No spontan-
eous movement against Mr. Taft
salaried officers are on the stump
against him. Those of us who remem-
Der the labor conditions during the last
Democratic administrations are of the
opinion that if Bryan is elected, or the
tariff is revised on the proposed Demo
cratic plan of a tariff for revenue
only We will all have plenty of time
for jury duty"
In conclusion Mr.. Donnelly writes:
That Mr.. Taft is an enemy OF labor
| or bears any prejudice toward any
body or class of American citizens is
unbelievable by those who are familiar
with his record and by every man who
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