Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1908 — PRESIDENCY A FAMILY AFFAIR [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENCY A FAMILY AFFAIR

Son-In-Law Longworth Leto the Cat Out of the Bag.

As It is understood that the Taft family is related to the Longworth family, the public declaration of Nicholas Longworth, President Roosevelt’s son-in-law, that the presidency is to be kept in the Roosevelt and Taft families is a matter for other persons to take notice of. In order that there may be no charge that it is all a “Democratic lie,’’ the following dispatches are reproduced from the Indianapolis Star, Republican state organ: Rock Island, 111., Oct. 2.—Theodore Roosevelt for president again eight years from now, was the declaration of the president’s son-in-law, Congressman Nicholas Longworth, in a speech today here on the grounds of the Tristats Exposition to an audience of several thousand persons, who cheered the sentiment again and again. Mr. Longworth’s statement was made during the course of a eulogy and defense of the president's administration. He first proposed that the Republican leader for the next eight years be W. H. Taft, the nominee for president, who, if elected, as the speaker declared he was confident he would be, should be returned to that office for a second term.

Following Mr. Taft as president, seriously declared Mr. Longworth, Theodore Roosevelt should be returned to the chair for the next eight years.

Evansville, Ind., Oct 4.—Congressman “Nick” Longworth, who, with James S. Sherman, spent a great deal of his time today reading from th,e various newspapers of the country references to his speech at Rock Island. 111., Friday, in which he declared Taft ought to be elected president for four years and then returned for another four years, and at the end of that time give way to Roosevelt for two more terms.

Congressman Longworth said he made the statement in all seriousness and he was delighted that most of the papers “played up” the story on their first page. Congressman Longworth cut out all dispatches on the Rock Island address he could find and especially those that had been run on the first page of the various papers, and said he would send them to Mr. Roosevelt.

The congressman smiled, and as he tucked the clippings into his vest pocket, replied: "There is another one for ‘Teddy.’ 1 ■will have a raft of them to send him and I feel certain he - will be delighted.”