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Show il TAFT FEARS I f Says Democratic Victory jf In Ohio Would Be ral ' Disastrous. l "Washington, Oct. 29. "No man f& i "would care to have h!s state fail him, MM J but wholly apart from selfish rea- v J sons, I want to sec Ohio go Repiibll- gK ;, , can by a largo majority," said Prcsl- SR f dent Taft In a letter to Fred A. Geier MO t of Cincinnati, made public todav at MH J r the White House. The president at- it i t tacked Governor Wilson and , the irfllFi Democratic partv on the tariff cjues- vfl fit tl9n and 8alcl that 0hl wuld suffer i "iJI t Particularly if the present tariff pro- t u t tecting the steel, wool and potterv I fjl ' business were disturbed, i 1 I f "The Injury which Ohio would suf- I CI" for fr0m a Democratic victory would JU probably exceed that Inflicted on any jZ&J g other state in tho Union " iSS j Tue letter says "that is clearly j . shown by tho efforts which our Dcm- ocratic friends already bnrc mado to roh Ohio industries of the protection which iB so essential to their continuance, con-tinuance, to say nothing of 'their pros-perltj'." pros-perltj'." ' You, of course, realize how disastrous dis-astrous the steel bill which I waB compolled to veto would have proved to our state. Hunt Wool Industry. "In their wool bill the Democrats struck a vital blow at the wool industry. in-dustry. Tho Democrats reduced the duty on raw wool to 29 per cent and as for the manufacturers of woolens, the Democratic bill would havo put them entirely out of business, leaving leav-ing our farmers with no home market mar-ket and throwing hundreds -of thousands thou-sands of employes out of work. "Does it not strike you as supremely supreme-ly ridiculous for Governor Wilson vaguely to intimate that If ho Is elected he will make such a gentle reduction of the duties that business will not be Injured, when his party has so recently put itself on record as attempting such reckless changes of tho tariff that had I not vetoed their measure, wo would even now be confronted with a panic? "What, think you. could Mr. Wilson do in tho White House were thcro Democratic majorities In both houses of congress? And especially what could he do, however good his intentions, in-tentions, when he had been elected on a platform which declares all tariffs tar-iffs Imposed for purposes of protec tion unconstitutional? Aro Now Helpless. "During the present session of congress the Democrats lack control of tho senate. But If Governor Wilson Wil-son should bo elected It would mean also the election of a Democratic ma. Jority in the senate and then even the compromises effected by the insurgent insur-gent Republicans would seem mild reductions to Mr. Wilson for his Big nature and which he could not refuse re-fuse to sign. "Of course these facts are clearly recognized hy the third party, so much that some of their most prominent promi-nent speakers have not hesitated to declare that the election of Governor Wilson would mean financial disaster. And yet they aro working for nothing other than that tho election of Mr WIlBon and a Democratic congress. From absolutelv dependable sources information comes to me that none of tho leaders of the third party believes It has the slightest chance of success and that they realize that a vote for It means a vote for the Democratic party. But they are, most of them, so filled with hatred for the Repub-I Repub-I lican party, because It refused to ac-1 ac-1 cept their dictation that they arc willing to bring disaster upon the whole country, simply to gratify their revenge." |