The Republican journal., 1909-03-11

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30 drive away foreign capital.
President Taft's message is printed on
another page, and it is just such docu-
mert as was to be expected. He says
that the promises of the Republican plat
form must be kept, and urges quick
revision of the tariff, so that trade will
NOT be injured. He proposes to carry out
sive legislation that will give them per-
manency and at the same time allay bust
ness alarm He suggests graduated
inheritance tax to supply revenue, and
recommends to Congress an economical
out not a cheese pairing policy. He ia
vors a strong army and navy to promote
peace, asks for greater Federal power to
protect aliens, advocates postal savings
banks, is against limiting the injunction
process in the case of labor, and says the
South should be left to solve the negro
problem.
John S. Wise in his book, 'Recolec-
lions of Thirteen Presidents" says of
the presidential election of 1876
To my mind when the Democrats
were iaveigled into submitting the con-
test to commission of which a majority
We're Republicans they gave up their
Ease
This is not a correct presentation of
che matter. The proposition for com
mission came from the Democrats, and
mad the commission been constituted ac-
cor1ing to their plans they would have
had the majority. The commission of
fifteen was composed of three Republi-
can and two Democratic Senator's three
Democratic and two Republican Repre-
sentatives, and five Justices of the Su-
preme Court. The fifth Justice was to
have been David Davis of Illinois, but he
had a presidential bee in his bonnet at
that time and resigned from the bench
TO become United States Senator from
Illinois, hoping thereby to further his
presidential aspirations. Justice Bradley
was then chosen in his place and voted
with the Republicans in the contested
cases, the vote standing 8 to Z. Had
Justice Davis accepted the position there
is every reason to believe that this vote
would have been reversed and that Iilden
and Hendricks would have been declared
elected instead of Hayes and Wheeler.
At noon March 4th Theodore Roosc.
Welt. who for seven years had filled the
highest office in the gift of the American
people became a private citizen, and the
verdict of a great majority of his fellow
citizens is: ''Well DONE The Lowell,
Mass, Courier Citizen says it has nc
sympathy with the hasty comparison of
living officers with the dead; but it be-
lieves that Theodore Roosevelt, no less
than Washington or Lincoln, came tc
power at exactly the right time and die
what was essential to be done in a way
that another President would never have
done it. 1t then makes this admirable
presentation of the man and the situa
ton:
There was no war to be fought. There
was no rebellion to be quelled. There i.
no new nation to be founded and no OLE
nation to be reconstructed. But there
was an insidious dry rot at the heart 0.
things in the shape of a weakened public
conscience and a perilous situation be
setting the free exercise of our boastet
democracy both of which Mr.. Roose
welt attacked. We cannot but believ'
that Theodore Roosevelt saved the Re
publican party from itself; that he ha'
inspired the young men of today with I
new and healthier civic ideal; that ne ha
initiated a needful work, which canno
now be prevented by selfish interest, al
though It may continue with less vehe
mence than before; and finally that
without Mr.. Roosevelt's regime, thi
z,o,., md haalthu idaal Of citizenshi1