The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-29
Calling Attention to the Dan
ger of Wilson'S Election.
HARD BLOW TO HOME STATE
Says Democrat Success Would
Be Particularly Disastrous
Affecting Both the Farmers and
the Industrial Workers.

Washington, Oct 2s.-'No man
would care to have his state fail him.
but wholly apart from selfish reasons.
want to see Ohio go Republican by
a large majority" said President Taft
in a letter to Fred A. Geier OF Gin
cinnati, made public today at the
White House. The president attack
ed Governor Wilson and the Demo
cratic party on the tariff question and
said that Ohio would suffer particu-
Iarly if the present tariff protecting
the steel. wool and pottery business
'sThe injury which Ohio would suf-
fer from a Democratic victory would
probably exceed that inflicted on any
other state in the Union; The letter
says: That is clearly shown by the
efforts which our Democrat friends
already have made to rob Ohio indus
tries of the protection which is 50
essential to their continuance. TO say
nothing of their prosperity.
You, Of course, realize how dtsas-
trous the steel bill which was COM
PEELED TO veto would have proved 10
our state.
reduced the duty on raw wool to %
per cent and as for the manufacturers
of woolens. the Democratic bill would
have put them entirely out of busi-
ness, leaving our farmers with no
home market and throwing hundreds
of thousands of employees out Of
work.
Does it not strike you as supreme
" ridiculous for Governor Wilson
vaguely to intimate if he is elected he
will make such a gentle reduction OF
the duties that business will not be
injured, when his party has so recently
put itself on record as attem ptng sucn
reckless changes of the tariff that had
I rot vetoed their measure we would
even now be confronted with a panic?
What Could Wilson Do?
What. think you. could Mr.. Wilson
do in the White House were there Dem
ocrat maiorities in both houses of con-
gress. And especially what could he
do, however good his intentions when
he had been elected on a platform
which declares all tariff imposed for
purposes of protection unconstitutional
During the present session Of con-
gress the Democrats lack control OF the
senate But if Governor Wilson should
be elected it would mean also the cleo
ton of a Democrat majority IN the
senate and then even the compromises
effected by the insurgent Republicans
would seem mild reductions as compar-
ed to what Democratic majorities in
both houses would send to Mr. Wilson
for his signature and which he could
not refuse to sign
"Of course these facts are clearly
realized by the third parry. so much so
that some of their most prominent
speakers have not hesitated to declafe
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
sources information comes
to me that none Of the leaders Of the
third party believes it has the slightest
chance of success and that they realize
that vote for it means vote for the
Democrats. But they are. most of them
SO filled with hatred for the Republican
party, because Il refused to accept
their dictation that they are willing to
bring disaster upon the whole country
simply to gratify their revenge"