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Show H FUTILE OBJECTIONS. PPJ' Objections against Judge Taft as a PPJ; candidate are not lacking but they are Ht either so Insignificant that they are PPJ' not worth considering or they are so PPJ Important that he gladly meets them PHrf with personal explanations. Of the PH first class Is the feeling that the K Brownsville Incident may cause Taft PH to lose some of the states where the PPJ: negro vote is an important element. PH This is hardly possible for the negroes PPJ would havo nothing to gain by switch- PH ing to the democratlo party. More- m over Mr. Taft's feelings toward the PH , negro have ever been of the most cor- PH.' ' dial and sympathetic. He knows him PH: intimately for ho was reared In Cln- PH' cinnat) practically a southern city, PH where he was brought Into dally con- H tact with him. Then again certain m people weakly contend that Mr. Taft PH was ungenerous in mentioning Gener- PPj: al Grant's drinking habits when he B was giving a eulogy of him. They H maintain that this will alienate the Grand Army vote. The Grand Army men, however, have sense enough to see that the mention was made In order or-der that the orator might show his hero to be as great a victor in moral lines as he was In the fighting of real battles. A really serious objection comes from the labor unionists when they maintain that certain of his decisions, de-cisions, rendered while he was on the bench, are unfriendly toward them. This objection Mr. Taft has met fairly and squarely. He maintains that tho use of injunctions is at times an absolute abso-lute necessity, that It helps the eipe dltlous and orderly conduct of legal affairs, and that there Is no reason for dispensing with It because. It has sometimes been abused. All falr-mlnd-cd labor unionists will admit that Judge Taft has never abused the power pow-er and that he Is a fit man to sec that It Is properly used. They are coming more and more to realize that no class of men stands more In need of the protection pro-tection of the Jaw than do laboring men. Public opinion is always with them so long as they keep their organizations organ-izations within the limits of law and order. The American people arc so thoroughly In favor or maintaining law and order that anyone who champions cham-pions them so faithfully and forcibly as Judge Tart cannot fall to win their approval. Time and again Mr. Taft has contended that the starvation of a nation "cannot be a lawful purpose of combinations even if the starvation be effected by lawful means. This has the ring of sound, common sense and fair minded people, whether laboring men or lawyers, will stand by such principles. By maintaining that he Is the upholder of injunctions so far as they fill a necessary place In the execution exe-cution of law and order, Mr. Tart has won more friends than Bryan with all his theories and ptomlscs. Another objection to Mr. Taft that all have now prattcally outgrown has been the plea that he Is "another man's man." In many respects ho docs resemble Mr. RooseveJt and It would be very regrettable if he didn't, but with every speech that Mr. Tart delivers, he shows how strong is his personality. Until he became a candidate his work was done quietly but effectively. None or the splurge that characterizes many public men, but It was none the less a strictly Individual career, due to Ids own plans, his own efforts, and to him alone is the glory for the large amount or public good that he has brought about at home and abroad. |