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MANAGEMENT OFTHEWAR “IS A
PRIVATE WILSONIAN PARTISAN STRUGGLE”
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TAFT, WILLIAM H. Typed Letter Signed, “WmHTaft,” to NAACP President
Moorfield Storey, thanking for a copy of his letter to [Oswald Garrison?]Villard, expressing
approval about the proposed awarding of a medal to Hawkins, explaining that he suffers
only from discouragement about the conduct of Wilson’s war. 1 page, 4to, personal sta-
tionery, with integral blank; horizontal fold. (TFC)
New Haven, 22 January 1918
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. . . [T]hank you for sending me a copy of your letter to Mr. Villard. I . . . made some
inquiries about Hawkins.They seem to me to show that he is a man worthy of receiving the
medal . . . .
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. . . I am not suffering from a lack of coal or Federal orders curtailing my activities, except so
far as one may suffer from discouragement over the conduct of the war, on the theory that it is a
private Wilsonian partisan struggle, in which no one but partisan Wilsonian Democrats and
Progressives have any concern except to pay the price.”
SUPPORTINGTHE LEAGUE OF NATIONS EVEN
AS OTHER REPUBLICANS HATE HIM FOR IT
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TAFT,WILLIAM HOWARD.Typed Letter Signed, “WmHTaft,” toYale classmate
Howard C. Hollister (“My dear Hol”), relating news concerning friends and relations
including [James] Protus Pigott,Aaron Ferris,“Fanny” [Frances Louise Taft], Horace [Dunn
Taft], “Charley” [Charles Phelps Taft], “Annie” [Anna Sinton Taft], Maria Herron, “Bob”
[Robert A. Taft], Martha [Bowers Taft], etc., and expressing hope that Congress would
adopt the Covenant of the League of Nations. 1
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2
pages, 4to, personal stationery, written
on rectos of two sheets; folds.With the original envelope. (TFC)
Pointe-au-Pic [Canada], 13 July 1919
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. . . The fight over the League of Nations is bitter, but I anticipate that the League will be
adopted. I hope that only a few reservations will be required . . . .The personal and partisan
bitterness which the Republican Senators have displayed toward Wilson, I don’t think has
helped the Republican party. The Senators I think hate me now nearly as much as they do
Wilson. So indeed do all the Republican machine members.While it is not entirely comfortable
to be hated, it is better to be hated for pursuing the right course than it is to be despised for pur-
suing a wrong one. . . .”
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