Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-29
TAFT SEES RUIN IN
WILSON ELECTION
Declares Country Is in Danger
of Panic Should Jersey Gov
ernor Win Presidency.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.-'No man
would care to nave his state fail him,
but wholly apart from selfish ason
! want to see Ohio go Republican by
II large majority said President
Taft, in a letter to Fred A. Geier, of
Cincinnati, made public today at the
White House. The President at
tackled Governor Wilson and the
Democratic party on the tariff ques-
ton and said that Ohio would suffer
particularly if the present tariff pro-
tecting the steel, wool and pottery
businesses were disturbed.
''In his letter President Taft said:
THE injury which Ohio would suf-
fer from a Democratic victory would
probably exceed that inflicted on any
other State in the union. That is
clearly shown by sthe efforts which
u Democratic friends have already
made to rob ohio industries of the
protection which is so essential to
their continuance, to say nothing of
their prosperity.
Does it not strike you as supreme
ly ridiculous for Governor Wilson
vas ugly ~ llllilldlt TIA IL lie IL
elected he will make such a gentle
reduction of the duties that business
will lot be injured, when his party
has sosreeently put itself on record
as attempting such reckless changes
of the tariff that | had not vetoed
measures we would even now be con-
fronted with "A panic?
sAVhn think NnIt could Mr. NNi1eon
do in the White House were there
Democratic majorities in both houses
of Congress, majorities made up in
large part of the same men who
passed the steel and wool and the
cotton and free list bills which I
was compelled to veto, and vetoes of
which he has himself criticised? And
especially, what could he do. how
ever good his intentions, when he had
been elected on a platform which de-
clares all tariff imposed for purposes
of protection unconstitutional?
what would happen to the pottery
industry if the Democrats were in
control of both houses and of the
White House? You and | know how
important that industry is to the well
fare of thousands of Families in
Ohio. The man engaged in that in
dustry in the United States receive
an average wage of 24.S cents an
hour. In England they receive only
II cents an hour and in Japan, one
Of III greatest competitors, only 3.25
cents an hour. Even with the present
tariff Japan is sending hundreds of
thousands of dollars worth of pot
terry into this market every year, SO
that 1t is not hard to foresee what
would become of the industry were
the Democrats to win.
"Of course these facts are clearly
realized by the third party, so much
so that some of their most prominent
speakers have not hesitated to de-
clare that the election of Governor
Wilson would mean financial disaster.
And yet they are working for nothing
other than the election of Mr.. Wilson
and a Democratic Congress. From
absolutely dependable sources infor-
nation m TO me hat none of the
leaders of the third party believes il
has the slightest chance of success
and that they realize that a vote for
it means a vote for the Democrats.
But they are, most of them, so filled
with hatred for the Republican party,
because it refused to accept their die
tation. that they are willing to bring
disaster upon the whole country
simply to crafty their revenge"