William Howard Taft Signed Letter. Autograph ALS. Без бренда

William Howard Taft Signed Letter. Autograph ALS. Без бренда
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Характеристики

Autographed Letter from President William Howard Taft to his friend lamenting the current state of the Republican Part. It reads in part:


"I am very hopeful the Progressive party is disintegrating, but the danger I wish now to avoid is the return of the prodigal sons and the killing of the fatted calf in such a way that we are to sacrifice our principles in order to retain them. If so, I shall cease to be a Republican."

The return of the of the prodigal sons is clearly a reference to Teddy Roosevelt who upon failing to win the nomination for the Republican Party against Taft the incumbent, ran on the Progressive Party ticket. With the party split, Woodrow Wilson won the presidency. 

It would be another five years before the Progressive party finally dissolved and its dissidents rejoined the Republican party.  In 1920, the Republicans retook the White House with the election of Warren Harding.