Arizona republican., 1912-02-26
ADVOCATES SECOND
 TERM FOR MR. TAFT
Records of Able and Fearless Presi . dent and of Rough Rider Are
 Carefully Compared.

desire t. see the control of the na-
 tional government retained by our
 arty. I want to compliment you on
 your able leading article and editorial
 iE Sundays paper anent the third
 term ambitions of eX-President Theo-
 dCre Roosevelt
 While d few republicans may he
 displeased with the stand of Mir. Taft
 on the recall of the judiciary. the l great majority of them. whether they agree with him on this question or not. honor him for his unequiVucal stand and respect him the more for | standing by his guns. Mir. Roosevelt. while president preached against these l same things and went SD far as to
 send AIr. Taft. his secretary of war.
 into Oklahoma to advocate their re pudiation Then. when the time came
 to veto that constitution which MT Taft had called d zoological garden of inaccuracies at Mir Roosevelts be- ! hest. he failed to do SO
 MT. Roosevelt rode into popularity
 on a wave of denunciation of every body and everything-by preaching from the hoUsetops his superiority to all others. In now trying to secure
 another nomination. he inferentially
 sets himself up as better than George 1 Washington and Thos. Jefferson. If
 Gen. Grant the most popular man of ' his time was unable to secure d third nomination. l don't believe | Roosevelt will succeed in doing so.
 Further, I believe if he is nominated, ] he will he defeated
 The American people are not fools
 They have had enough of this better
 than thou doctrine" Declaring from
 every stump his high morality and
 his respect for the law. Theodore Roosevelt has done more to create ! a national distrust and disregard for the law by his arbitrary executive
 acts than all the presidents We ever | had.
 ] The laws presume every man inno- cent until proven guilty. Yet the great Theodore discharged two en- | tire troops of soldiers because he could not find the half dozen mis- creants that shot up Brownsville. Here | he actually reversed the law saving to these men that tu secure reinstate- ment and the pensions that your fif- teen to thirty years of faithful ser vice entitle you. that you must prove your innocence.
 i When the joint statehood question
 came up. he declared boldly that the people of Arizona had no rights con gress was bound to respect. that he knew it was best for the two ter i ritorics and that it must pass Then. the committee of Arizona men show ! ed him how little he knew about it. Until shortly. his position on great many public questions was an equivocal one His speech in Phoe- nix on the recall of the Judiciary was ] of this description-it can be con strued either for or against the law His writings on woman suffrage are of the same order. Trimming his sail to the passing breeze he has had such Uhenominal success, that the American people have discovered up on what meat this our Ceasar has fed that he grew so big As you SD aptly sad. MT. Taft by so conscientiously trying tp carry out the pledges of the republican national platform. has richly deserved re- nomination and he will get it. on every proposition advocated by his party, he has rung true and sound. His administration has been won derfully successful one and typical of the hest thought of the American people
 He has reduced the running eX- renses of the government by many millions of dollars:
 He has placed the postoffice de rartment on self-supporting basis for the first time in the history of the nation:
 He has extended the free rural de- livery system:
 He has extended the civu service: He has secured more convi,tons of. violators of the antitrust laws than all his predecessors combined; He has taken advanced steps to secure worldwide arbitration that win make his name immortal. He has advanced the cause of reel rrocity. that handmaid of pro tective tariff that its greatest eX- ponent. the lamented William Me Kinley died advocating in Buffalo: He has done as much as President Mckinley did to cement the reunion of the north and south. by appointing to high and lucrative positions of honor ard emolument southern white democrats tsome of the republican war horses think. too much): He has encouraged rural education of both the whites and blacks in the
 south. giving of his valuable time service on the board of trustees of Tuskogee and Jeannes fund (and this is not the least of his achevementS) While deprecatinE unnecessary waste and expense in maintaining the army
 and navy, he has been consistent
 and firm friend of both these arms Of the national defense:
 He has stimulated in the hearts of officials and laborers alike Consum- ing desire to complete the Panama canal in the shortest possible time 1 consistent with perfection and per manency;
 He has been as firm and sturdy q friend of the reclamation of the arid lands of the west. as he has been of the swamp lands of the
 south:
 On these and all other problems ! that confront the American peop'n l Continued on Page 9