Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1912 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mr. Voter, Be Fair with • This Man. WHllam H. Taft President Taft, in an article headed “The Supreme Issue,” in the current number of the Saturday Evening Post, deals with various questions of the campaign rather than a single subject. Speaking, in the introduction, of the solemn responsibilities of his office, he says: “To me there came as a heritage the noble records of those who had gone before—Washington and Lincoln, Grant and Garfield, McKinley and Roosevelt, great presidents and great republicans. ’ ’ Bound by his oath as president to uphold the constitution, he says: “I have spurned every attempt to undermine that great bill of rights which is indispensable to the preservation of our liberties ; and no man can say I have ever faltered, even when, as in more than Qne instance, the course to which I was fledged forfeited a certain popular approval or impelled the criticism of'the thoughtlessxor of that far greater class, those too greatly occupied in the turmoil of our industrial progress to investigate and reflect.” He declared his faith in the republican policy of protection, and says-that on that policy he stood four-square, heedless of unjust criticism, whether from the standpat element of the party, which opposed all revision or from the radicals who wished him to approve any measure lowering the duties, regardless of injury it might inflict. His reason, above all, for approving the Payne tariff bill, he says, was because it provided the machinery by which alone a just and intelligent revision of the tariff could be effected —a tariff bo«rd. No such body of progressive legislation has even been achieved, or even proposed by any party, he says, as that embodied in the railway rate bills of this and the last administrations. He mentions also acts passed for the protection of labor on railroads and the workmen’s compensation act, passed by the senate, but held up by - the house in order, he says, to prevent this administration from having the credit for it. Concerning the Chicago convention the president says: “No consideration of party weal or personal ambition Would for a single instant tempt me to stand before the American people as the presidential candidate of a great party, did I not know that there was no stain or flaw resting on my nomination; did I not know from the most painstaking examination of the evidence that the reckless assaults on the integrity of that nomination are as baseless as they are vicious; did I not know that eyery candid and unprejudiced observer, who will devote the time and patience necessary to an examination of the proceedings of the republican national convention, must pronounce that nomination conferred upon me without stain and without defect. ”

Electrical Repairs. If you have electrical work of any kind, wiring, repairing, motor installation, etc., see Jim Rhoades 4k Co., or Phone 227. ’■ / Rensselaer will have some difficulty in winning the northwest Indiana football championship this fear if the defeat administered to Chicago Heights is any indication. Morocco scored 56 points to 0 for their opponents.