Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1912 — Difficult to Reconcile Newspaper’s Different Views. [ARTICLE]

Difficult to Reconcile Newspaper’s Different Views.

The Fowler Republican-Leader helped to defeat William Howard Taft. It copied copiously from the Chicago Tribune; it indulged in criticism of the president dor two or three years, it criticised him for signing the Payne measure, it praised Beveridge and lauded Roosevelt. In the issue of last week, after the defeat of the president had been accomplished it said: President Howard William Taft is defeated for president, and will step down and give way to President-elect Wilson on March 4th and while doing so he leaves a record far above the average records of former presidents and history will so record it. Mr. Taft, as an American citizen and its chief executive has not received the credit for what he has done for the nation during his cabinet and presidential positions,- bat.-_on._the other hand has been betrayed and abused by a certain element. On the day of his defeat, last Tuesday, the country was at peace with al 1 nations of the earth and without a doubt the iy>st prosperous on earth.” Such belated praise shows a peculiar betrayal by the editor of the Re-publican-Leader. If the quoted paragraph expresses Bro. Carr’s true estimate of President Taft he should have had the courage to have said as much during the time he was a candidate. It is quite probable that many who opposed, the election of Mr. Taft will have cause during the coming four years to wish they had stood by him, wlitf*e others will wpnder how they were ever brought to a frame of mind to thus oppose their own prosperity. President Taft is not injured in theleast by the defeat. The sympathy wasted on him by some newspapers should be conserved to offer later to the Ameriuan people for their folly in retiring him as their servant. t '