Show TAFT WINS MICHIGAN Walter Wellman In Chicago Record Record- Herald The development of the Taft movement in Michigan may be ascribed ascribed as as- c to two distinct phases of pubic pub pub- l lic ic ie sentiment The first is the belief among business busi busi- n ness ess and professional proCessional men that Judge Taft would make a strong and stead steady P President resident They admire his character a and nd his services Many of them especially es- es p the lawyers lawyers and and lawyers h here ere lere as everywhere are leaders in politics have politics have met him and formed t heir their estimate of him at close range S These are the tho men who have taken hold lold and given their time and energy t to o the cause Thoy 1 e are for the mos most part I n el VJ In tho Roosevelt Roose S volt velt policies foa y speaking But Dul they hey t look upon the President himself with varying degrees degre-cs bs of approval They are discriminative in their applause applause ap ap- ap- ap and their praise is often accompanied accompanied ac accompanied ac- ac companied b by qualifying additions Some would be glad to have Roosevelt Roose Reese velt elt himself elC the candidate again Others are bitterly to any such proposal Between them and e embracing perhaps the majority of t his this class are those w who o want the Roosevelt work carried on but want I it t carried on in a more quiet way Out of scores of similar expressions i in n this line that have reached my ears the following may be settled as typical I believe in what is called Roose- Roose I believe we should go on trying to make corporations obe obey the law aw trying to punish ra rascality trying to o make railroading and finance more honest trying to stop Wall Vall street from tying up the country's money in Its gambling schemes and all that But Dut I believe this work can be carried carrIed car car- ried ned on successfully without so mu much h beating of or the drum with so much calling of men liars lillIS without running amuck and shooting up the town I believe Judge Taft would preserve all the vital parts of and anel drop some of ot the objectionable part part S S S Tho The second subdivision of public sentiment in this state is that found among the masses of or people 1 l is Roosevelt Roose idolatry pure and simple It Is a feeling that President Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt veiL Is the greatest man the country has had nad in public life since Lincoln All that Rev Mr Dixon and other ministers of the gospel are saying about Roosevelt as a John the Baptist and all that Burke Burko Cockran Cochran says about him as ns the only crusader the Republican can party part has these people believe e Implicitly The They are of or both political parties of all political parties Thc They are sincere enthusiastic almost fa fanatic fa In their faith In the man and his works In their yes eyes Roosevelt can dono do dono dono no wrong He has them completely hypnotized They love him and hate his enemies who brought on the panic in New York for no other purpose than to hurt burt their idol S S S SNow Now the interesting thing Is that these two phases of public opinion ran together nd coalesced In the Taft movement in this state As so soon n as asIt asIt It became known that Taft was was Roosevelt's Reese Roose velt's volts choice the tho masses were for him for that reason and nd no other The most of them would have been for any man upon whose shoulders the mantle of their Idol chanced to fall The business and professional proCessional me men med were not for Taft because Taft was Roosevelt's choice but because the they admired and believed In Taft him him- self With them the secretary of or orwar war stood steed on his own merits And when hen they began practical work for him they found it an easy ta task k became because be be- cause came the masses were of or their way of thinking for a different reason S Hence it is not difficult to understand understand understand under under- stand why and how Michigan has become become become be be- come a Taft Tart state sute |