Charlevoix county herald., 1912-11-02
FOR PRESIDENT
"A STATESMAN
VIM. n. Taft, a World Figure,
Statesman and Judge.
REFUSES TO PLAY POLITICS
For This He Has Been Maligned and
sIandered by self-seekips Poll
ticlans and DisgruntIed Wire Pull
Iers-American People Coming to
Realize His Greatness.

For President of the United States:
William Howard Taft.
For sident:-James School
craft Sherman %, ~r $500.
This is the national ticket of the
Republican party for the elections Of
1912. 1t is the same ticket with
which the party went confidently be-
lore the nation in 1908 and won a
splendid victory. With full conf
dence the party again proposes its
ticket to the nation, knowing full we'll
that complete realization by the
voters of the country of the pros
perity benefits that have accrued
from the Taft administration will re-
suit in an emphatic endorsement OF
Mr.. Taft.
1t is a peculiarly desperate effort
that has been made to discredit the
accomplishments OF the Taft admin
istration. 1t is peculiarly futile in
that it will not bear the light Of close
scrutiny and an examination of facts.
Even the most determined opponents
of William Howard Taft admit that
he is a great statesman. He is ad-
mired and respected by all Ameri-
cans. About the worst thing his OPP
ponents have ever said OF Mr.. Taft
personally is that he is of too ju-
dlcial a temperament to be presi-
dent And that isn't very bad. To
most people who stop to think the
matter over it seems to be good
quality in a president to have a jul
dicial temperament; temperament
which induces him to investigate all
sides of a question and to weigh its
merits before arriving at decision.
Mr.. Taft might have made some
friends by playing politics" at times
and doing some things which his
judgment did not approve as being
eminently right, but he preferred to
be right.
The world at large looks upon Will
lam Howard Taft as one of the great
est statesmen and diplomats that the
United States has produced since 1t
took rank among the nations. His
life has been spent in laboring in be-
half of the American people. He has
settled tremendous problems in Cuba,
Panama, the Philippines; has brought
to remarkably successful conclusion
delicate diplomatic dealings with @ari-
Gus powers; has ruled the Philippines
so tnat 10 lllS udy NC - INC Hioe~i
American to them.
Mr. Taft has done many other
things that have commanded the re-
spect and admiration OF the entire
world, and all Americans have been
proud of his international fame. Peo-
pie abroad cannot understand why a
statesman with the brilliant record
| that Taft has made, and who has
written his name indelibly on the
pages of history by his great work
| for international peace, should be as
sailed as Taft has been. Few Amer
| leans understand it either when they
| stop TO give the whole political situa'
| ton serious and thorough conSidera-
| ton.
| President Taft was born in Cincin-
natl 50 years ago and is the son of
Alphonso Taft, who was secretary of
war in Grants cabinet He graduated
/ from Yale, and for a short time was
a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati,
| studying law at the same time. 1t
was at this stage of his career that
! he first attracted wide attention. He
| stepped into the limelight when he
walked into the Office of black
| mailer named Rose, who had vicious
/ ~ attacked the elder Taft in his
newspares, asd thrasied him. Rose
left 0nossnati That night and never
~etsrasI sSrerc.
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