The Washington bee., 1912-03-30

Sir In common with majority
of the Republicans OF Arizona, l be
Geve who desire to see the control
of the national government retained
Inv our party, | want to compliment
YOU on your able leading article and
editorial in Sundays paper anent the
third term ambitions of ex-President
Theodore Roosevelt.
While a few Republicans may be
displeased with the stand OF Nj TAFT
ON the recall of the judiciary, the
great majority of them, whether they
agree with him on this question or
not. honor him for his unequivOcal
stand and respect him the more for
standing by his guns. Mr.. Roosevelt,
while President preached against
these same things and went so Tar as
to send Mr.. Taft, his Secretary OF
War, into Oklahoma % advocate
their reputation. Then, when the
time came to veto that constitution
which Mr. Taft had called a Zoolog-
ical garden of inaccuracies at MT.
Roosevelts behest. he failed TO do so.
Mr. Roosevelt rode into popular
ity on d wave of denunclations OF
everybody and everything - by
preaching from the hOusetoPs his SUI
periority to ali others. In now try
ing to secure another nomination, he
inferentially sets himself up as better
than George Washington and lhos.
Jefferson. If Gen. Grant, the most
popular man of his time was unable
to secure a third nomination, ! don
believe Roosevelt will succeed IN
doing so. Further. ! believe if he IS
nominated. he will be 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 mnO-
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 to secure
reinstatement and the pensions that
your fifteen TO thirty years OF faithful
service entities you, that you must
prove your innocence.
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 terri
tories 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 a
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 phenomenal success, that the
American people have discovered
upon what meat this our Caesar has
fed that he grew so big.
As you, so aptly said, Mr.. Taft by
SO Conscientiously trying to carry out
the pledges of the Republican national
platform. has richly deserved a re
nomination and he will get it. On
every proposition advocated by his
party, he has rung true and sound.
His administration has been 4 won
derfully successful one and typical OF
the best thought OF the American
people
He has reduced the running ex-
penSes of the Government by many
million, of dollars.
He has placed the poStoilcc de
partmcnt on a sclT-s staining basis
for the first time in the history OF
the nation
He has extended the free rural de
livery system.
He has extended the Civil Service
He has secured more convictions OF
yiolators OF the antitrust laws than
all his predecessors combined.
he has taken advanced steps to
secure worldwide arbitration that
viii make his name immortal
He has advanced the cause of rcci-
pr0city, that handmade of a protec-
tive traiff. than its greatest exponent
the lamcnted William Mckinley died
advocating I'm 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 and emolument Southern white
Democrats (some of the Republican
war horses think. too muCh).
He has encouraged rural education
OF both the whites and blacks i'm the
South. giving of his valuable time
service on the board of trustees of
Tuskegee and Jeanues fund land this
Is not the least of his achievements.
While deprecating unnecessary
waste and expense In maintaining the
army and navy, he has been d consis-
tent and firm friend of both these
arms of the national defense.
He has stimulated in the hearts of
officials and laborers alike a consum-
ing desire to complete the Panama
Canal IN the shortest possible time,
consistent with perfection and per
manency.
He has been as firm and sturdy a
friend OF the reclamation OF the arid
lands of the West, as he has been of
the swamp laands of the South.
On these and all other problems
that confront the American people,
he has been a straightforward,
staunch and dependable advocate.
If thus carrying out the policies of