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Number 12 
Volume 10 March 22, 1912. 
President Taft 1913-1917. 
President Taft will be the Presi- 
dent of the United States in 1913- 
1917. In one month Mr. Taft has 
made gains that no student of politi- 
cal affairs would have dared to hope 
six weeks ago. There is only one 
way to account for them, that is, by- 
the inevitable reaction which has 
followed the announcement of Theo- 
dore Roosevelt’s willingness to ac- 
cept the Republican nomination. Mr. 
Taft is a man of quiet ways and it 
has taken time for the public to 
awaken to the realization of the 
power of his brain, the sagacity of 
his judgments and the iron in his 
will. No one who heard Ex-Presi- 
dent Roosevelt and President Taft 
address the legislature of Massachu- 
setts, can fail to see the surpassing 
genius and ability of William How- 
ard Taft. It is not often that Massa- 
chusetts becomes the battle ground 
in a Presidential Campaign but 
strangely enough, the republican 
campaign was launched by a strange 
turn of events in the House of Re- 
presentatives in Massachusetts. Ex- 
President Roosevelt addressed that 
body the very day he announced his 
candidacy. He presented his case, 
the Judicial Recall and other sundry 
Rooseveltian interests. The defence 
of his position was listened to re- 
ending in 
spectfully, for Roosevelt was and is 
a great man. The applause was 
hearty but hardly more than his 
honorable position as the former 
President of United States de- 
manded. It was evident that neither 
the doetrines of Roosevelt nor the 
personality of Roosevelt were over 
popular. This result was increas- 
ingly unfortunate for Mr. Roosevelt, 
coming as it did, on the day he came 
back from Elba. On Monday, Wil- 
ham Howard Taft appeared in the 
same arena and the contrast was 
marked. These two addresses will 
abide. The address of Mr. Roose- 
velt will live because of the marvel- 
ous answer it ealled forth from that 
giant among men, William Howard 
Taft. Whoever heard these two ad- 
dresses has a priceless experience to 
cherish. In twenty-three minutes 
President Taft gave expression to 
the fundamental principles of our 
government, exposed the fallacy of 
the Roosevelt judiciary reforms, ap- 
proved the Presidential Primaries, 
and laid bare the errors of socialism, 
defended the legitimate rights of 
capital and denounced the infring- 
ment of personal right and property 
privilege and championed the Con- 
stitution of the United States. It 
was a memorable event. It was the 
psychological moment and Taft re- 
deemed the apportunity beyond the 
wildest hopes of his sincerest 
friends. It was an oceasion and Mr. 
Taft arose to it. The address is im- 
mortal. It is a classic. It is more 
than a campaign speech, or a cam- 
paign doctrine. Such are temporary 
and pass with the campaigner’s vic- 
tory or defeat. Principles only were 
discussed with hereculean power by 
Mr. Taft. Because of the success 
which was attained, the address of 
Mr. Taft in the discussion of those 
great subjects, marks the end of an 
era. There is no question now in the 
minds of the best men in our land, 
that the presept President is the 
greatest man in intellectual power, 
judicial diseretion, social sense and 
justice and might of will that has 
occupied the President’s chair since 
the days of the immortal and be- 
loved Lineoln. This country has been 
through two great crises, the first, 
the establishment of 
a free country, the second, in ending 
in the abolishment of the slave traf- 
fie and the third, now, concerns the 
great economic problem. That crises 
is at hand and Mr. Taft’s address 
- requirements. 
‘have done this. 
will live because in chaste language, 
he gives expression to the deep 
democratic convictions of the Ameri- 
ean people. Mr. Roosevelt disap- 
points, Mr. Taft surprises. He is a 
man the times demand. 
The Presidential Primaries. 
The State of Massachusetts has 
passed the Presidential Primary Bill. 
This act provides each citizen with 
an opportunity to express his in- 
- dividual preferences for the party 
nomination. This does not make a 
radical change in the method of the 
election of the President. It only 
provides an opportunity to each citi- 
zen to express his choice. The pas- 
sage of the Presidential Primary was 
urged as a progressive party meas- 
ure and was endorsed enthusiasti- 
cally by the Roosevelt workers in 
the republican party. It has been 
claimed and is still claimed by them, 
that such a primary bill will result 
in the voters of Massachusetts reg- 
-istering their will to have Theodore 
Roosevelt receive the nomination of 
the Republican Party. But unfor- 
-tunately Mr. Taft has spoken the 
final word, endorsing the bill as 
sane and conserving the will of the 
people. Mr. Taft’s bold advocacy 
of the bill stole the Rooseveltian 
thunder. The new primary law will 
demonstrate without equivocation, 
the loyalty of the citizens of Massa- 
chusetts to William Howard Taft. 
Mr. Taft’s warning comes at the 
psychological moment and_ should 
receive the careful thought of the 
citizens of Massachusetts. ‘‘I am 
sure it (the Primary Bill) makes 
proper provision to meet the obvious 
I am glad that you 
The question of 
how delegates are to be elected to 
any political convention, or how 
nominees are to be selected by a 
party, was originally a matter of 
merely voluntary and party adjust- 
ment, but so important to the publie 
at large did the character of the 
candidates to be selected by each 
party become, that the state has 
properly interfered, so as to throw 
safeguards around the exercise, by 
by all of those who belong to a 
party, of their privilege to have a 
voice in the choice of their party 
candidates. . That in order 
that they may accomplish the good 
they are intended to accomplish, 
they should be safeguarded by effee- 
tive provision as to the party eligi- 
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