The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1912-02-15

0AC iViiOWihS IhooCldtC dud well
chosen language last week in it's
editorial columns, under two sep
arate articles headed President
Taft, !" and People Should Draft
Roosevelt:
"There is a wide diversity of
opinion as to whether or not
President Taft s administration
has been success. Members of
the ultra-radical set declare the
administration to have been a
failure. They point out the aban.
donment of the Roosevelt poll
cies promised in his letter of ac-
ceptance, his reciprocity failure
his tariff mistakes, his alignment
with the reactionary forces and
his refusal to recognize progress
sive appointments. AS a matter
of fact, history tells us Of no
President who satisfied even his
own party. President Taft ac-
cepted his high office. with an
evident determination to give a
good administration of it. He
stepped into the shoes that had
just been worn by a man of such
commanding figure as to chal-
lenge the admiration of the en-
tire world. Roosevelt had been
given republican congress with
which to shape his policies. Taft
has had to contend with demo-
cratic majority and with the dis
cordant factions of his own pol
itical faith. In the face of that
he has been strong. The social
ed abandonment of the Roosevelt
policies was less an abandonment
Of those policies than a failure
to carry them out due to the
radical difference in the tempera-
ment Of the two men. His "re-
ciprocity failure" can in no just
sense be considered the Presi-
dents fault. His tariff mis-
takes are but repetitions Of the
tariff mistakes that all presidents
have made when dealing with
that great subject. President
Taft has had the good grace to
admit having made mistake in
his Winona speech. Not more
than five presidents of the Unit
ed States have shown greater
wisdom in the administration OF
the office than has President Taft
None have exhibited finer de.
votion to their country and none
have assumed an unpopular pc,
sition with a greater degree OF
unselfishness than he. He lacks
something of the aggressive spirit
with which Roosevelt, Emperor
William, Bismarck and their
kind have achieved such vast
and far reaching results. He is
still man of great ability and
unquetsioned patriotism"
1.-THE fact that ExIPresident
Theodore Roosevelt is not can.
didate for the presidency is one
great reason in itself why the
people should draft him for that
position. The sentiment against
a third term (even admitting
that Roosevelt has had two
terms) should not constitute a
bar to his election. The people
of the United States are less con-
cerned today with the keeping
Of precedents than with getting
results. Times have changed
since Washington and jefferson
felt that two terms were enough
for any man. The political prob
lens of today are so much vaster
than they were hundred years
ago, that there is no real com
parison. No other man since
Lincoln has proven himself such
an able advocate of the people.
The mere fact that he has already
served as president for the great
er part of two terms, is a poor
excuse for substituting a man for
president who has less ability to
cope with the rising tendencies
that threaten our institutions.
The repeated cries that Roosevelt
Is about to make himself the die
tator of the American people,
and that to elect him again
would open the way for him to
enter upon life term, are both
puerile and without foundation.
So long as he best represents the
best judgment of the majority of
the people, he should be continue,
IN the presidency. And no ne
seriously questions the result to
anyone of assuming to dictate
terms to the American people
that are not for the best inter
ests of the people,"
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