Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1909 — “THIS MAN TAFT.” [ARTICLE]

“THIS MAN TAFT.”

The Des Moines News, a Republican paper which is classed as Senator Cummings’ organ, had this to say a few days after Mr. Taft made his speech on the tariff: “He praises Aldrich as a statesman and names him for leader of financial legislation, and speaks a good word for Cannon and Payne. He argues for the tariff bill, admitting that he got bis figures from Aldrich and Payne, men who stand elbow to elbow with Rockefeller and Morgan. He attacks Gov. Johnson, of Minnestota, for arraigning the west against the east, and then makes a speech in the west in which he places himself squarely in line with the interests of the east and tries to justify a tariff that was exclusively in behalf of the eastern interests and in which the Interests of the west were Ignored. Shades of Theodore Roosevelt! May the ghosts of the wild animals he has killed in Africa ever haunt him for having foisted onto the country this man Taft!”