The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-10

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paid every two weeks. I have S. Some
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Here is praise from Sir Hubert:
President Theodore Roosevelt wrote
from the White House to William H.
Taft March Is, 1905:
My belief is that of all the men that
have appeared so far you are the man
who is most likely to receive the Re pub
lican nomination and who is, I think, the
best man to receive it.
After Mr.. Taft had been nominated
for president. MR.. Roosevelt said June
Is. 1908:
Il do not believe there can be found
in the whole country a man SO well fitted
to be president. He is not only abso
Iutely fearless, absolutely disinterested
quaintance with the nations needs with
out and within. and the broadcast SYM
pathies with all our citizens
He would be as eTnphafically a presI-
dent of the plain people as LINCOLN, yet
not Lincoln himself, would be freer from
the least faint of demagogy, the least
hatred of any kind"
Mr.. Roosevelt wrote to Conrad Koflrs
of Helena September 8, 1908:
I'm Mr.. Taft we have a clean man who
combines all these qualities to degree
which other man In our public life
since the Civil war has surpassed
The Success Magazine made public an
interview with Mr.. Roosevelt Septem-
Der 1s 1908, in which he said of Mr..
Taft:
Taft invariably does do the ordinary
things and ne does them exceptionally
well. That is why I say he will make one
of our greatest presidents.
a letter from Mr.. Roosevelt to Wit
liam p. Mckinley September 90 1908,
was made public in which the president
SAID.
1T is urgently necessary from the
standpoint Of the public interest to elect
Mr.. Taft and a Republican congress
which will support him.
Mr.. Roosevelt issued a statement
September u, $685. in regard to the
Foraker disclosures in which he said of
Mr. Taft:
His attitude on this question. as well
as on countless other questions, convinced
was the man prominently fit in point
of uprightness and character, OF fearless
and aggressive honesty and Of fitness for
charnpioning the rights Of the people as |
a whole to be president
And yet some impetuous insurgents, |
disappointed over the i'll prospects of
their leaders and typical men, like La
Toilette cannot seem to understand /
why Colonel Roosevelt refuses to be a |
candidate or make that public state |
ment which they are demanding or
saying Roosevelt loves the country
Do YOU suppose that Colonel Roose- |
Welt wants to be always running for |
pre- lent or telling this people whom
they should have for president? These |
are impertinent questions and Colonel
Roosevelt has been asked his share
There is a decidedly interesting lot |
of lively Democratic news today in |
connection with the presidentian situa- |
ton.
Mr.. w. J. Bryan is quoted as saying: |
Il think it would be suicidal to nomin- |
ate Harmon or anyone else favored by /
Wall Street. Does that eliminate Har- |
mon?
Joseph w. Folk of Missouri and /
Champ Clark of Missouri exchanged
courtesies in a long distance telephone |
conversation today, resulting in the |
withdrawal of Folk in the interest of
Clark.
In Washington this morning Repre- |
sentative Dies of Texas hits Mr.. Bryan !
few cracks and brings out roars of
laughter and applause when he says: |
Il am almost ready to join Cover |
nor Wilson in his desire of finding |
some decent and orderly manner of
knocking Mr.. Bryan into cooked |
hat"
Mr.. Bryan LAID himself OPEN to |
attack by charging that thirteen |
Democrats in the house who voted /
against the proposition to require |
publicity on all recommendations on I
judgeships appointments were I'M |
worthy Democrats. Mr.. Dies seems |
to have added a great deal to the |
gaiety of things in the halls of con-
gress today and proved himself a /
sharp dealer in epigrams, for here is /
a sample of what he gave out:
Mr.. Bryan has led the Democrats /
through three disastrous defeats. II
he had spent as much time reading !
law as he had attacking Democrats in /
public life. he would have know that /
the proposed law would be unconsti- /
tutional and infringement of the /
presidents rights. When the people /
are ready to give us more power says
Dies, sit is a calamity, il not a crime, i
for Mr.. Bryan to sow seeds Of dis