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Show kkkkfl . B REGRETS OF ALL TRUE REPUBLICANS. 1 The Taft campaign committee is sending out to the whole 1 country extracts from an editorial which appeared in the North H Americari on May 13, 1908, praising William Howard Taft. The H Philadelphia paper is now a strong advocate of Theodore Roose- B velt for President and a vigorous opponent of Taftj. H Explaining its change of front, the North American virtually H voices the sentiments of hundreds of thousands of Republicans who, H within the last four years, have witnessed a surprising transforma- H tion iu Mr. Taft and have met with deep disappointment in the H weak and vacillating attitude of President Taft on problems of H nation-wide importance. What the North American charges will H appeal to all Progressives and to those not Taft partisans, as an 1 -unanswerable indictment of the present occupant of the "White H House. The North American says: H , We admit candidly that wo deceived our readers In our advocacy of H Mr. Taft for tho nation's chief, because wo were so uttorly deceived our- H selves In our failure to detect the chamoleon nature of the man. chanrr- H ing color In accordance with tho hue of each new emlronment H In alt slncorlty. wo considered William Howard Taft as a strone H ;4Lmeri1can; and not as a mere carnate mirror of such strong Americans H nrMnd ?lm.' aS on stood Roosevelt and Pinchot and Wiley and Gar- H field and the small brave band of progressives In congress We failed H JnCJCe h ,, Int.U,rn- b,e, aS 8uJe to bcomo just the reflector of Aldrich H and Cannon and all then kind, with whom his unscrupulous brother hedged H aim around as soon as the dominant presence of Roosevelt departed. M wu.?66 V ?' Is W thouBht. ith Intimate knowledge of the H William Howard Taft who personally declared to us that. If elected his K Hp incessant effort would Lo to crush Aldrlchism and Cannonisni out of our PPp national legislature. Bi "We 8Pko uC the 1Ir- Taft who told to us his personal onlninn nf vi I m son Aldrich of Rhode Island and his views of the" SSiSd Sn?Jof of 1 money and credit We wore not speaking of the President Taft So avow I - ing Ignorance of finance, has publicly pledged his next term if it bo Svnn I K l h m', t0 8UI?port of Wal1 street'8 most- "tanlc, liberty-wrocklng scheme 1 U h ?V W?V 1U ,8' 0fA Mr- Taft Wh0 Peraonoiy toUi to Ss hisTdeas 1 m about such fair and honest downward revision of unjust tariff schedules I ? in recognition of a universal demand, as would bring about a cessatin 5 1 of agitation for at least a decade during which lull of business peace there I I would bo brought into being a real, scientific, non-partisan, permanent J properly empowered commission that would remove honest protection from 1 K all future j)eril of political attacks. uroiecuon irom ' "We were not talking in 1908 of the President Taft who signed thi I I ?fHyie;A1,dr,w breederJ f business uncertainty and depression; proclaimed 1 - Aldrich, in his exposed Ignorance, our greatest statesman: declared th I I ft!,iul.tv thf L-CSt rff f b"l V0 paSScd'" and witbln e nion admit eS I m that Its most important schedule was "Indefensible" uiniuca m ! "We taed, in 1908, of William Howard Taft, the friend and lovai niiv 1 j of President Roosevelt We did not talk of President Tafr til Sin.-'i V I brother of Charles Taft of Cincinnati teu WJ "Wo ,thonf ht we 7!1"0 lkinS of the Taft who carried a Roosevelt W message to Akron and denounced the dirty machine of Georgo B Cox thA I 1 divekcoper-banker, and C. P. Taft, that bosB- political partner We did I II J1?1" tQat.W WCre talkins of a Prcs'nt Taft who would lend his I , J high office to indorsement of the Cox scoundrelism and Journey far to vote It for the civic filth ho had onco honored himself by repudiating and which W 'I " cn a Presldent ' the United States could persuade tho people of his own city longer to tolerate. fl 3 thongh,t ?or talking of the friend and admirer of tho con-I'll con-I'll servation gospel of Pinchot and Roosevelt, and of an enemy of all that m I Ballinserism means We spoke according to Mr. Taft's own utterances m ,11 personally expressed to us. We never dreamed of the possibility of the HI sickening record of antedated documents In tho admlnlstra- ion's "attempt Hi 3 (Continued on Page Eight.) r il f H EEGRETS'.OF ALL TRUE REPUBLICANS B " M (Continued from Page Four.) H to sraooth the passage of tho Morgan-Gupgenhcinier syndicate to mastery H. of tho Alaskan public wealth. H "Wo talked, in 1908. of tho Mr. TRft who. wo liad every reason to H holiove sympathized In tho great victory that had been won by the cstab- H lishment of pure food laws. Wo did not know wc wore praising a prcsl- H dent who would annul his own father's decision, to please makers of fraud - H ulent conspiracy, andjould sustain tho conspirators who finally have dri- H en Haroy "Wiley fromnhe public sorvicc H "Wc talked of the Judge Taft who had handed down the decisions H In tho Addyston Pipo company case and. tho Thplan contempt case Wo H did .not know that we were talking of a president who would appoint a H Knapp and an Archbald to the bench of a new court, in order to emascu- H, late the efficiency of tho Interstate commcrco commission. H "Wo talked Df tho Mr. Taft, bitterly opposed for nomination and H ' election bv Aldrich, Cannon, Galllnger, Tawney, Fairbanks, Knox, Pen- H rose and all tho precious 'allies' Wo did not know that wo were talking H of a president who would soon havo them for his trusted counselors and H -managers a president who. even while he was penning his signed classill- H "cation of Theodore Roosevelt with Lincoln and Washington, was planning H close alliance with the virulent enemies of the policies to which Mr Taft H was pledged and ostracism of all who, for seven years, had assisted in the H creation of those policies. H "Tho list of our errors of judgment in 190S is almost unending. J3ut. H most assuredly wc did not know thai wo were talking of a man who H would bo capablo ever of betraying his political creator by declaring in H 'favor of government of tho American people by a class and asserting that H 'all people arc not fitted for self-government " |