Show the Philadelphia North The straightforward speech of a friend never can be considered rightly as presumption or Exalted as is the of President of the United it does not exempt William Howard Taft from truth-telling that he and the but above all needs to A news service with good is believed to be the chosen vehicle to disseminate inspired statements from the White sent broadcast the other day the announcement that President had become convinced of the existence of a conspiracy to discredit your administration in order to make Theodore Roosevelt the next President of the United The story runs that you have led to believe that all the expressions of discontent concerning your affiliation with Cannon and all the censure of various actions of members of your all the chill in the West and the disheartened suspension of decision regarding you everywhere are proofs a from President we entreat yon to it has been known that before you ever took the oath of office it was the purpose of certain whose political skins have been saved by grace of your good to delude you into credence of that conspiracy We never thought that the worst they could do would make a real man like yourself admit by his actions a belief in such a AVe are yet loath to believe that you have been so Here is straight talk the variety never popular in If such a conspiracy the North American would know all about it from its And if there were present need for such a this newspaper would be in it and of it even if standing would be fully acquainted with all the plans and of those all the progress We do not speak as an outside but with full knowledge We are and with no trumpet when we say that this newspaper is recognized everywhere as an unwavering advocate of the progressive became known as and now are assailed under the name of We have close relations with the men in and out of Washington who are devoted to the perpetuation of those We know their their their We know what we are talking i And just because no other metropolitan Eastern newspaper supported your candidacy so warmly and no other such Eastern newspaper more frankly expressed its opinions of the tendencies of your you can afford to listen when we tell you a brazen effort is being made to trick you by a shameless But never for one moment have we been for Roosevelt for President in j 01 We do not want to for Roosevelt next We want to be for Only one living man can prevent this newspaper from being an early-and-late of the reelection of And that man is neither insurgent nor That man is William Howard To say that we were not apprehensive that you were being surrounded by influences when we examined the personnel of your cabinet would be to state what is not When we learned the inside- truth about the formation of your cabinet we were alarmed for you and for the The influences back of the-man's record and the importance of his office in illation to the policies' you were pledged to carry out appeared to us nine months ago as a menace to you and to the The appointment of Hitchcock to be in view of his utter unfitness for the was disconcerting to your The professional relations which your attorney-general had held with the Sugar-Trust in connection with the prospective prosecution which we knew long would be inevitable because of evidence with which we were 1 his appo seem to us Those bal of the MacVeagh knew were not While he was an unknot save that he came a family of honorable and compe tent we could find no ei rant for believing him a st man and economist aMe to cop with A Id rich and his allied agent n of street's when you were a can k in 1908 you did not defeat it Bryan It took men to defeat Bryan had ft to run against Roosevelt in West and against Taft in tit hp The West took an at his word that you would cam out his and voted for ar Roosevelt policies' and for yon fi The predatory interests in je East believed you would all carry out Roosevelt's i ly least not with vigor and thor B All the da all the favor of Wal ye street and all the other discredit ors' of your honorable sincerity cei who supported you could not m in 1908 you did not defeat pit the electoral votes if the Roose- is velt policies had not been the real an candidate against Bryan in the is You were nominated and yon w were elected because you ven identified completely with tk policies of and jot gained the whole-heart support of countless bj sides the North W k cause they believed you to be tin the who never would falter in the completion and perfection of the work Roosevelt was best equipped i but for the furtherance o which we believed you the bett You have but you W J not lost that It can destroyed only by the only conspirators against tricksters' under pretense j vindication of your too ing that yon are too pure in ft purpose to consent to they would have you do if ca by its are striving make you stultify yourself set your against the o j practical furtherance of the Pj cies which you honestly desire |