The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-09-17
SEEKS PARTY UNITY
APPEAL IN PRESIDENT TAFT'S
RECENT LETTER.
Chief Executive Shows How impor-
tant It 10 to the Country That
Republican Government Con-
troll Shall Continue.

President Taft's letter to Chairman
Mckinley has had the effect Of placing
the campaign on the high level OF
patriotism and making party unity the
stepping stone to party success. In
concluding his recital OF the results
thus far attained by the Sixty-nrst
congress the president says:
1T is Of the utmost Importance to
make this a campaign of education as
to facts and to clear away the clouds
OF Misrepresentation that have OBJ
scured the real issues and have made
1t difficult to secure for the Repub-
credit due them from the country for
the tremendous task they have &C.
complished. If this is brought clearly
home to all voters, and especially to
the young men now voting for the
first time. and they become i'm
pressed. as they ought to be by this
record. with the difference in the gov
ernmental efficiency and capacity OF
the Republican and Democratic par
ties, they will enroll themselves with
the party of construction and progress
rather than with the party Of obstruc-
ton and negation, and the resulting
legislation of the Sixty-second con-
gress will vindicate their choice"
AS the president truly says at the
outset of his letter: THE question will
be not what complexion Of Republican
ism one prefers, but whether 1t is
better for the country to have the Re-
publican party control the legislation
for the next two years and further re-
deem its promises. or to enable a
Democratic majority, In the house
either to tnterpose veto to Repub-
lican measures. or to formulate and
pass bills to carry out Democratic
principles"
The great issue. then, is whether
the Republican or Democratic party
Is to be In control of the next house
OF representatives. and the president
has given US all a platform on which
to stand. has sounded a keynote and
given us rallying ground where all
irresponsible political party Of inca
pacity and reputation. Mr.. Taft
makes it clear that the constructive
work OF the Republican party would
not only be halted but perhaps an
nulled by a Democratic house of rep
resentatives.
Regarding the tariff the president
reiterates his wellknown views ex-
pressed at various times during the
past year. He emphasizes the turn
ing of a deficit of $58.O00,0OO into a
ovrDl,,o ~ eos mn nm. oo11u attention
to the splendid operation of the maxi
mum and minimum feature and the
work of the tariff board. adding that:
"All ans-conservative. pro-
gressive and radical-may well abide
the situation with respect to the tar
III until evidence now being accumu-
lated shall Justify changes in the
rates."
In particularly happy vein does the
president enumerate and discuss the
work Of the last session of congress:
the advanced railroad legislation, the
postal savings bank act. the conserva-
ton measures and particularly the
laws affecting labor. On this latter
point he says:
1.-The Republican party at the last
session of congress again exhibited its
deep and sincere interest in the gen
eral welfare of the working men and
women of the country by adding i'm
portant enactments to its already long
record Of legislation on this subject" !"
And then he mentions the long list
Of bills passed and pending in the in
terest of the working classes, adding:
mo more important legislation in the
interest of human life has ever been
enacted by congress than the laws of
the recent session."