The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-09
KANSAS COAAENT
cLEvELAND ON TAFT.

me strongest campaign document
that will be put out during this cam
paign is letter of the late ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland. This is but one of the
three articles Mr.. Cleveland planned to
write. No trace of the other two have
oeen found among his papers and the
chances are he did not get to them.
Inc letter referred to was written be-
Iore any party made its presidential
nomination, but after it was definitely
settled who would be the candidates or
the democrat and Republican parties.
MT CleVeland's first letter is an open
lndorsement Of Taft, mainly because
Ia1t is man of experience in national
analrs. The following is his tribute to
MI. Tart as federal judge and states
man: 81
Personally and officially I have had
the opportunity of knowing many
things concerning Mr.. Taft that were
not matter of general knowledge,
and with keen interest have watch
ed his large share in the conduct OF
our national affairs in very recent
years. His, excellence as a federal
judge in Cincinnati is something not
TO be underestimate or overempha-
sized. for, should he come to the
presidential chair. the qualities which
made him a judge of high ability,
which 1 know him to have been, will
De the most needful to him as presi-
dent OF the United States. His high
ideals of honesty and of relative JUS
t1ce, his great capacity for severe
labor, and his humorous wisdom in
the face of the serious problem are at
tributes equally valuable and COM
mandatory to a people seeking him in
whom they may repose the trust Of
their collective interest, while they
turn their attention to their pressing
individual demands
Always a tariff reformer. Mr.. Cleve-
lands idea was that that important
issue must wait and make room for
legislation which deals more with the
sessions, temperance, gambling, social
ism and such things. After commend
ing Mr.. Taft's knowledge Of conditions
in our foreign possessions, Mr.. Cleve-
land ends the subject as follows:
The misery and misfortune which
an ignorant or obstinate administra-
tor, no matter how high his ethical
standard of his motives could entail
upon our wards of the Pacific and the
Caribbean are appalling to contem-
plate; were his administration to be
at fault in any other particular, Mr..
Taft's record shows him to be entire
ly dependable"
Compared with European powers.
Mr.. Cleveland did not see where we
are any more world power now than
we were sixty years ago. Because of
this he sees the greater necessity for
the wisest craftsmanship in the con-
duct of our foreign affairs. He saw,
however, an end to the inflated re-
form wave which has been sweeping
over the country:
But when the misadventures of
parties misled by sophisticated, SYM
pathy mad leaders, trumpeting false
calls to reform. the treacherous dis
tortions of sentiment by subordinating
private interests and the well-meaning
but overheated laundering of the i'm
petuous are all met and ordinated,
there must rise the final good, for the
hand of the Almighty lives to hold
and guide, steadily, unwaveringly and
eternally secure, and through His in
finite mercy we Shah come to the full
fillment of our mission, foretold with
our birth, n9bly begun in our youth,
for the uplifting Of our race and our
brothers of the favors not our own
AtchiSOn Globe.