The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-12
HOCH IS FOR TAFT.
Ex-Governor Reviews Administration
of President.

The following letter from Governor
FIoch reviews the opposition to Presi-
dent Taft in the following letter
Il wantto go on record as saying
that no more unjust, untimely or I'M
Republican movement has ever been
inaugurated in Kansas than the
plan to humiliate President Taft and
TO rob him of a well earned renoml-
nation. It can have but one erect
namely to injure the Republican par
" for a party like a man, can not
do an unjust thing without suffering
the penalty of such an act 1t Will
hurt the party more than 1t Will us
intended victim. 1t is part OF the
policy which has already lost us two
congressnan in Kansas, lost US the ma
tional house and will ultimately lose
us the state and national If persisted
what has William H. Taft done to
deserve this kind of treatment at the
hands of Kansas Republicans? what
has he done that his old chum ana
chief promoter, four years ago, Theo-
dore Roosevelt the most ambitious
man in America, should now be asked
to turn upon him and rend him ? Moth
ing absolutely nothing He mas put
this government upon a business baSlS
and turned an enormous deficit Ior
which his predecessor had no remedy,
into a surplus. He has done more to
enforce the Sherman law than has
been done since its passage 20 years
interests than all the hOuse-top re-
formers in America, because he has
been steadily going after them IN
practical laWyer-like, statesman-nke
manner and it is common talk in the
east where I have mingled much IN
the mast two months, that the trusts
fear his persistent prosecutions 1ar
more than they fear the pyrotechnlcs
of the spectacular colonel. His recent
Recommendations along the civil ser
vice lines are the most sweeping and
business-Hke ever made to an Ameri-
can congress
combe bills was courageous and right
and are being indicated every day in
congress. Take the hypocrisy of the
Democrats on the famous schedule <
for example. The president insisted,
in harmony with the prior professions
of these Democrats, as we'll as his own,
upon waiting for the report OF the ex-
pert nonpartisan or bipartisan board
scheduled by laow to report in De
cember but no. they must give the
poor tariff ridden people immediate
relief But now that the exhaustive
report of the board is before them and
this some consistent president is beg
ging them to act on schedule K, they
cody delay wool relief and are hero
ically attacking the steel schedule
What was the hurry last fail If there
is no hurry now on wool legislation ?
How much are the people suffering
from steel tarins2 Wasn't Taft righT
when ne vetoed those DlllS
passed, as every one knows, for petty.
partisan purposes? Was not that bril-
liant Democrat, John Temple Graves,
right when he said, recently, that
William Howard Taft would be known
in history as our great peace presi-
dent2 Can anyone estimate the far
reaching benefcence of his great place
movement Does Kansas desire to
interpose in the interest of a belliger-
ent Rough Rider who is opposing this
wise and Christian policy2
Were not Taft and the Topeka
Capital right on the Canadian recipro-
city question and did not the adverse
vote in Canada vindicate their belief
that it was at least a good American
policy?
Originally was not for Taft, I was
for Hughes, but Taft has proven more
progressive than Hughes and has
grown upon me as he has upon fair
people everywhere and there is Meth
er sense nor fairness in the fight that
Is being made upon him.
Progressive epublicanisn, dear to
my heart. cannot permanently pros
per by this unworthy movement. /
cannot believe it represents the sober