Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1908 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

THE PRESIDENT’S WORD ON HIS SUCCESSOR ■. • v** . - n't ■ " ‘ # . . iImmediately upon receiving news of the nomination of Secretary Taft for tha presidency, President Rcoaevelt said: “I feel that the country is indeed to be congratulated upon the nomination of Mr. Taft. I have known him Intimately for many years and I have a peculiar feeling for him because throughout that time we worked for the same object with the same purposes and ideals. “I do not believe there could be found in all the country a man so well 'fitted to be president. “He- is not only absolutely fearless, absolutely disinterested and upright, but he has the widest acquaintance with the nation’s needs without and within and the broadest sympathies with all our citizens. Ha would be as emphatically a president of tha plain people as Lincoln, yet not Lincoln himself would be freer from the least taint of demagogy, the least tendency to arouse or appeal to claaa hatred of any kind. "He hat a peculiar and intimate knowledge of and sympathy with tha needs of all our people—of the farmer, of the wage worker, of the business man, of the property owner. - - k ■ “No matter what a man’s occupation or social position, no matter what his creed, his color or the section of the country from which he * comes, if he is an honeat, hard-working man, who tries to do his duty toward his neighbor and toward the country, he can rest assured that he will have In Mr. Taft the meet upright of representatives end the most fearless of champions. "Mr. Taft stands against privilege and he stands pre-eminently for the broad principles of American citizenship lie At the foundation of bur national well-being.”