The Washington herald., 1918-10-29

to have no dispute or difference
among ourselves to interfere with our
united Judgment in dealing with the
| foreign problems that are before US.
| As we stood together in war. let us
| stand together until its settlements
are made"
I do not interpret these speeches of
! President Mckinley. 1 leave 1t to his
/ friends who claimed to speak for him
at that time. Just what he hal IN
mind when he voiced these utter
ances.
call your attention also to the
following extracts from a letter
written by Theodore Roosevelt, then
, President, to Hon. James E. Watson,
NJ c.:
The letter is dated at Oyster Bay.
N Y, August 49, 1906.
IF there were only partisan issues
involved in this contest I should hes
itate to say anything publicly in ref
erence thereto. But do not feel that
such is the case. On the contrary. I
feel that all good citizens who have
the welfare of America at heart
should appreciate the immense
amount that has been accomplished
| by the present Congress, organized as
| IL is and the urgent need of keeping
this organization in power. To change
the leadership and organization of the
House at this time means to bring
confusion upon those who have been
successfully engaged in the steady
! working out OF great and compre-
( hensivs scheme for the betterment of
our social, industrial and civic condi-
| tions. Such a change would substi-
tute a purposeless confusion, a vio-
/ lent and hurtful oscillation between
the positions of the extreme radical
and the extreme reactionary. for the
present orderly progress along the
lines Of carefully thouRht-out policy"
On September .. 1908, from Oyster
/ Bay, y. Y. Mr. Roosevelt wrote in
part as follows to Hon. william B,
Mckinley, chairman Of the Repub-
lican Congressional COMMITTEES:
1T is urgently necessary. from the
standpoint OF the public interest. to
elect Mr.. Taft and a Republican Con-
gress which will support him: and
they seek election on a platform
which specifically pledges the party.
alike in its executive and legislative
branches, to continue and develop the
policies which have been not m"-eir
professed but acted upon during these
seven years. These policies can be
successfully carried through only by
the hearty cooperation OF the Pres
dent and the Congress in both its
branches and it is therefore particu-
larly important that there should OBJ
tain such harmony between them. To
fail to elect Mr.. Taft would be a ca
lamity to the coT1trv: a"I il --.-''' :
be folly. while electing him, yet at
the same time to elect 4 -Un. IL. ID,
hostile to him. a Congress. which I'M
der the influence of partisan leader
ship, would be certain to thwart and
baffle him on every possible occasion.
To elect Mr.. Taft and at the same
time to elect a Congress pledged to
support him is the only way in which
to perpetuate the policy OF the govern
ment as now carried on. | feel that
all the aid that can be given to u Is
policy by every good citizen should
be given; for this is far more than a
merely partisan matter"
On August 20, 1910. President Taft
addressed a letter to Mr.. Mckinley.
as chairman OF the National Con-
gressional Committee. giving reasons
why voters in the November elec-
tion should cast their ballots for the
Republican candidates 1t read in
part, as follows:
In view Of the history OF the pres
ent Congress, the return of a Re-
publican majority in the next Con,
gress may well inspire confidence
that the pledges still unredeemed will
be met and satisfied"
The above quotations speak for
themselves. Sincerely yours,
(SigneO JOSEPH P. TUMULTY.
Secretary to the President.