The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-03-17
President Taft's Message.


ton or not, and the result was large
attendance.
President Taft's Message.
President Tafts telegram to the edi.
tors was as follows:
The presidents telegram follows:
March IA, 1910. George C. Rankin,
Esq, President Illinois Republican
Editors Association, Springfield, ILL.,
Sincerely hope that you will have a
full meeting; that there will be har-
mony and that the Republican editors
of Illinois will stand by the action of
the Republican congress and Repub-
lican administration in reference to
the tariff bin and other progressive
legislation. The expression of meet
Ing like the one you have called, arts
ing from a normal, sane and patriotic
Republican attitude, will have much
influence for good in Illinois and the
rest of the country.
IL, s@s WILLIAM H. TAFT.
Speaker cannon's Letter.
Speaker Cannon's letter was charac-
tSt'SIAS Vi thC sNehSIdDle statesman. IL
was as follows:
..'@ SPEAKERS ROOM,
House of Representatives,
,'..- Washington, d. c.,
March 9, 1910.
Dear Mr.. Rankin: II
have your favor of the Sth instant,
informing me that there will be a
meeting of the Illinois Republican
Editorial association at Springfield,
March Is, and inviting me to give you
a word of encouragement and sugges-
ton.
| thank you for the courtesy, but |
feel that there is no occasion for me
either to advise or encourage the Re-
publican editors of Illinois who have
been potent factor in the politics of
the state since before the Republican
party was formally organized. II I
am not mistaken, the Republican con-
vention of 1856, at Bloomington, was
| preceded by the meeting of the Anti
Nebraska editors at Decatur, and it
was that little gathering, called to pro-
mote the great convention, that fair
ly launched the Republican party as
force in the politics of Illinois.
Since that time, through more than
half century Of most remarkable
| history. the Republican editors of ILL
nois have been the most forceful ad-
vocates of the policies of Lincoln
which were formulated to a large ex-
tent at the Decatur meeting, attended
by Lincoln not as an editor, but as one
deeply interested in the questions at
issue The party then organized has
so interviewer its history with the his
tory of the United States and the his
tory of civilization In the last half
century, that 1t Is difficult to distin-
guish as to what is from. the Repub-
lican party, what is from our Ameri-
! can idea of government, and what Is
simply modern political development
in our civilization; for the policies of
The Republican party have been writ
ten into the legislation of the coun-
| try and even into the fundamental law
OF the land, and have largely inspired
the formulation of the policies of mod
ern civilization.
| suppose there are few of the ed
itors living who met at Decatur in
| 1856, but the younger men who have
taken their places have a glorious
! heritage to inspire them with visions
| Of glorious future, for the party of
! Lincoln has greater reason to hold
fast to the policies of Lincoln than
any other political party in this cOun.
try ever had TO hold fast to the ten.
cts which it first adopted.
Under these policies have been
worked out the moral and material re-
| generation of the United States. There
| has been development under each Re-
publican administration from Lincoln
| to Taft, and while new lines of legis
| lation and administration have from
time to time been adopted, they are
all for the development of the car.
dinal principles of the party, and made
necessary by the phenomenal progress
OF the people under these policies.
The Republican party has not dis
carded any of its principles, nor has
il sought new issues simply for the
purpose of catching the crowd ever
ready for novelties, Where IL has
added new planks to its platform, 1t
has kept its pledges. That 1t is now
working out into law the pledges of
the last National Republican conyen,
ton is not, therefore. surprising. II
was expected for that convention
voiced the win of the majority of the
| American people. President Taft met
the first pledge in this platform the
day after his inauguration. by calling
the Sixty-first congress in extraor
binary session to revise the tariff, and
the Republican maiorities In house
and senate. cooperating with the pres
ident placed the Payne tariff law on
the statute books August 5. or within