The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-21

The man whom he chose as his suc- cessor was nominated as the candi- date of the Republican Party against William Jennings Bryan, the leader of the Democratic Party, easily the second most popular American living, and the contest promised to be a close and exciting one.
 It IS an interesting study in politi- cal psychology to observe the cam pa1gn devotion of MT. Taft to Roose- welt and the Roosevelt policies
 In his speech of acceptance, deliv- cred at Cincinnati on the 22d day of September, Roosevelt, the idol of the American people, seemed to be upper most in the mind of Candidate Taft. Around Roosevelt and the record of his administration and the progress s1ve ideals which had begun to take
 the form of settled policies the can didate builded the chief strength of an otherwise ordinary discussion of issues. In one of his tributes to ! Roosevelt in this speech he said:
 He demonstrated to the people by what he said, by what he recon- l mended to Congress, by what he did the sincerity of his efforts to com
 mand respect for the law, to secure equality of all before the law. and to save the country from the dangers of a plutocratic government, toward which we were fast tending Tn this work MT. Roosevelt had the support and sympathy of the Republican Par ty, and it's chief hope of success in the present controversy must rest on
 the confidence which the people of the country have in the sincerity of the party's declaration and it's platform | that it intends to continue his poli- cies."
 The speech covers 28 printed pages in the Republican campaign textbook, and in the course of it President
 Roosevelt and his policies were refer red to 26 times. The candidate then l had very clear conception of these progressive policies, and the high fa- yor in which they stood with the Am | erlcan people. In whatever he said, wherever he spoke, in all that he wrote during that campaign period he kept the militant figure of Roose- Welt always in the center of the stage
 steadily in the glare of the spot l light. The American people were
 never allowed for one moment to for | get that he was the chosen instru- ment to fulfill the great purposes of the great man who had committed to his hands the work of his administra- tion, finished and unfinished
 The people elected MT Taft in the belief that he would hold fast to all that MT. Roosevelt had gained for the public, sustain his forces in the | field, re-enforce and support them, re-
 yoke no orders, reverse no action, but apply himself to crystallizing into
 statute law the public opinion, which President Roosevelt organized as a great creative force throughout the land.
 On Thursday, December 2, -909 President Taft's first message on gen. eral legislation was presented to Con- gress and the country. It was docu- l ment of 40 printed pages. The man and his policies so often quoted and discussed in Mir. Taft's speech of ac-
 ceptance and in his addresses during the campaign were twice referred to in his first message on general legis- lation. Once he is mentioned as "my predecessor" who directed attention to the courageous condition of the work house and jail in the District of Co., lumbia"; and once again, where Pres ident Taft, realizing the weakness of his position and the necessity of bol- stering his advocacy of a doubtful proposition, leans on Roosevelt and says that following the course of my distinguished predecessor, earnestly recommend to Congress the consid- eration and passage of a ship-sub- sidy bill" That was all. Throughout the 40 pages of his first general mes sage he found no space to say a word for the great measures that had made the name of his predecessor revered
 and loved everywhere in the United