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TAFT, William H. Typed letter signed ("Wm. H. Taft"), to Clarence H. Kelsey, 23 May 1916. 2 pages, 4to, on personal stationery.
TAFT PRAISES TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S "NEVER SAY DIE COURAGE" AND RAILS AGAINST A "FEATHERHEAD" PROFESSOR FOR SUPPORTING TR AT THE GOP CONVENTION. "It is an indication of Roosevelt's 'never say die' courage and tenacity that he is keeping up the fight," Taft tells a New York friend. "I can not think he will be successful, although the wobbling character of men impresses itself on one as one grows older. Still I think the men were pretty well selected, and there are enough of the leaders so anxious to prevent Roosevelt's nomination that they will be driven into the support of Hughes, although they do not take Hughes with any great satisfaction. I think Roosevelt is bound to accept Hughes."
Taft then vents his "disgust" at "something I did here." A Professor Bingham had approached him about becoming active in politics, and Taft referred him to a local party leader, Colonel Ullman, and Ullman in turn made Bingham a delegate to the convention. "Without regard to the fact that I helped him in and that Ullman is an anti-Roosevelt man, and that he is only an alternate, he now comes out for Roosevelt. This shows why an academician is not fitted for politics. He is a featherhead when he goes into the maelstrom. He has no substance." The professor, naturally, "thinks he is doing God-service and is courageous and independent," but he does not realize, "because he can not see beyond his nose, that with Roosevelt nominated, and defeated as he would be, we would have Roosevelt and Perkins as old men of the sea on the shoulders of the Republican party...with Roosevelt as a perennial candidate. This will be Bingham's only venture into politics. Nobody will ever trust him again because he has not shown either judgment or loyalty."
TAFT PRAISES TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S "NEVER SAY DIE COURAGE" AND RAILS AGAINST A "FEATHERHEAD" PROFESSOR FOR SUPPORTING TR AT THE GOP CONVENTION. "It is an indication of Roosevelt's 'never say die' courage and tenacity that he is keeping up the fight," Taft tells a New York friend. "I can not think he will be successful, although the wobbling character of men impresses itself on one as one grows older. Still I think the men were pretty well selected, and there are enough of the leaders so anxious to prevent Roosevelt's nomination that they will be driven into the support of Hughes, although they do not take Hughes with any great satisfaction. I think Roosevelt is bound to accept Hughes."
Taft then vents his "disgust" at "something I did here." A Professor Bingham had approached him about becoming active in politics, and Taft referred him to a local party leader, Colonel Ullman, and Ullman in turn made Bingham a delegate to the convention. "Without regard to the fact that I helped him in and that Ullman is an anti-Roosevelt man, and that he is only an alternate, he now comes out for Roosevelt. This shows why an academician is not fitted for politics. He is a featherhead when he goes into the maelstrom. He has no substance." The professor, naturally, "thinks he is doing God-service and is courageous and independent," but he does not realize, "because he can not see beyond his nose, that with Roosevelt nominated, and defeated as he would be, we would have Roosevelt and Perkins as old men of the sea on the shoulders of the Republican party...with Roosevelt as a perennial candidate. This will be Bingham's only venture into politics. Nobody will ever trust him again because he has not shown either judgment or loyalty."