The Detroit times., 1912-01-31
TAFT ASKS EDITORS OF
OHIO TO RALLY TO THE
SUPPORT OF HIS PARTY
Makes Personal Plea For Aid
For Republican Principles in
Speech in Columbus
IN AKRON LATE TODAY
Will End Three Days Campaign
With Address Before Board
of Trade There
IN AKRON LATE TO-DAY

COLUMBUS, o., Jan. 31.-A person.
al plea for support for Republican prin.
ciples at the fall election was made
today by President Taft before the
Republican Editorial association of
Ohio.
The editors had just been received
by the president and they sat about
the hotel parlor while the chief execu-
tive stood at big table and talked
In conversational tone.
Il am glad TO be here and to see
you face TO face, or, II II might not
be deemed personal, to have you meet
me and TO meet you in the flesh" said
the president
THE party has had during the last
two or three years a hard time but 1t
is not the first time In it's history
that IL has had to go over rough
places. II Is not the first time in its
history when II has been unjustly at
tackled ard when II has been misun..
derstood by the voters and its own
members; and 1t is not the first time
In the party's history when | verify
believe this coming campaign is to
show that IL has the power in itself
and in the principles that govern 1t to
overcome obstacles and to win victory
again, and show that it Is the real
agency In this whole United States In
which real progress can be based.
The truth Is that we have not had
the whole story told and We have
not been out In such way that the
Issue can be distinctly made and the
facts brought out bearing on that is
sue. There has been a great deal or
fog, but | think when we get stripped |
FOR the fight and get down into the |
arena with only two antagonists, and |
with the parties drawn up on each |
side, we shall be able to show a war |
rant for our continuance in power |
that a common sense and discriminat- |
ing people will not ignore"
The president discussed the infiu- |
ence Of newspapers represented and |
said:
Il wish to extend to all OF you who !
have been kindly to me and sympa- |
thetic, my appreciation of your sup
port II Is sometimes pretty lonely
at washington. lonely because you
feel as II 1t were hard to bring out |
to those who are really interested and |
have a right TO know, the exact pro-
portion OF things, the exact reasons |
why certain things are so, and certain |
things are done, and certain things |
are not done, and you have to wait |
months or year sometimes, to have |
the exact relations Of things under |
stood. There are those who in the do
ing of the things are able to make so |
clear the right they are upholding that |
they do not feel the lack of general |
spread of information on such sub |
ject, but am not one Of those. | was |
educated as lawyer, and as judge.
was never used TO accompanying my |
DEGREES and opinions filed in court |
with interviews explaining what they |
meant and what the motives were for
entering them"
1t had been expected that the Re-
publican editors would pass resolu-
tions endorsing the presidents ad-
or would voice their
OF Taft in some form, but
after the presidents speech, they
simply spent a few minutes talking
with the chief executive and left
taking any formal action.
The president then went to the con-
stitutional convention.
Before the constitutional conven-
tion, the president declared he would
not deliver an address on constitu-
tions or attempt to make any sugges-
tions to the convention.
In physical condition somewhat
weakened from his severe cold and the
effect of mis- long speaking program or
yesterday. President Taft today start
ed his third and last day of CAM
for denomination in his
homo state From a political view
point the most important engagement
Dn the executives program today was
the conference with Ohio Republican
editors This meeting was called for
10 o'clock this morning and editors
from all sections of the state gather
ed to confer with the president.
At 1880 the president addressed
the constitutional convention of
Ohio His talk to that body was
necessarily short as he was TO leave
ut o'clock for Akron, where he
closes his visit to Ohio with an ad-
dress before the board of trade of
that city.
According to the official announce
ment of DR.. Rhoades, the executives
physical condition remains practical
Continued rage Two.