The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-22
GOVERNOR BOIEs
IN SUPPORT OF
PRESIDENT TAFT

/ The political sensation In Iowa last
week was the letter OF Ex-Governor
/ Horace Boies in which he came 70 the
defense of President Taft and the
prosperity we are ENJOYING under the
republican administration, Here are
markable letter They are worth pom
L dering over by every republican who
is thinking of deserving at this time
the old party that has done so much
for the county.
Says Mr. Boies.
To Destroy Iincoln's Party.
To every man In these United States
who is disposed to assist Mr.. Roose-
veit in his effort to destroy the party
/ OF Lincoln and fill its place with
party of his own | should like to adj
dress these questions one and all II
an answer different from that which
is forced TO my own lips can be CIV
en- to anyone Of them should be glad
Il to hear IT.
1 II this cannot be done the people OF
/ this nation have before them today in
the person of Theodore Roosevelt the
4 man of whom Lincoln warned them
Z psaTed it would require them to be
united with each other, attached to
4 the government and the laws and
i generally intelligent to Illustrate his
designs.
Again it is necessarily true that
q vote which will count for Roose-
4 Welt must also count for Governor
Johnson for second place of honor
49, y - yf-A A nam
4 people. and he is the man whose
cheeks were crimsoned with
shame when he was compelled to
announce TO a waiting world that
President Taft is the most humi
liafing character in American his
tory.
IT WOULD BURN MY FINGERS TO
II CAST a BALLOT FOR ANY NAN
WHO COULD THUS CHARACTER
Il IZE A PRESIDENT oFTHE UNITED
u STATES
II is not as the most humiiiating
character in American history that
President Taft will be remem-
hered. Instead of this. history
will assign to him the place Of a
martyr betrayed by them to bear
the humiliation Of the most abused
4 man In all American public life.
j WHAT is IT, LET NE ASK, IN
PRESENT CONDITIONS THAT
SHOULD MAKE ANYONE WISH TO
Il CHANGE A PRECEDENT THAT
fCUSTOM FOR MORE THAN A CEN
Il TURy HAS MADE THE UNWRIT-
TEN LAW OF THIS NATION?
Our Peaceful State.
We are al peace with all the world,
condition that would not have ex-
, listed one single week in the last year
. with Theodore Roosevelt at the head
!, of the army and the navy of this ma
ton
His impetuous nature would have
hurled one across the Mexican border
and the other into Mexican waters
, without thought of the consequences.
Is Thankful for Tat
When / think of the millions upon
. millions that Intervention would have
, piled upon upon our public and the
unmarked graves of our soldiers that
: would have dotted a foreign land,
can never cease to be grateful that in
] this crisis of the country we have at
the head of its affairs cool, conserva-
tive and thoughtful man.
:. Again, let me ask what is there In
the business affairs of this nation that
should make anyone wish to change
the whole practice of our government
, from its inception to the present day
g by according to one ambitious man a
. distinction denied to every ether of
: her citizens. however illustrious or
: however deserving.
:, WAS THERE EVER A TIME IN
THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY
: WHEN ITS BUSINESS AFFAIRS
; WERE ON A SOUNDER BASIS OR
THE GREAT MASSES OF OUR PEG
PIE MORE PROSPEROUS OR CON
). TENTED!
I Others mr. look to the situation
. from their own standpoint of view
: As far as / am concerned the over
shadowing issue In this campaign is
Theodore Roosevelt. To me his sue
cess would mean an Imminent dan
5 ger TO our form of government, for
g il the day ever comes when one man
1 can I'LL the place of president In this
republic sixteen years out of twenty
. ii viii require but one more step and
that a short one, to make his occu-
pancy e life tenure. and thst day will
mark the downfall of the greatest OF
ali democrases in every country of
the globe and in all the ages of the
world.