President TAFT VICTOR RECORD # 5559 Farmer & the Republican Party 1908 speech
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Feb 14, 2025
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President William Howard Taft
Victor Records # 5559
The Farmer and the Republican Party
Label: Victor Record Number: 5559 Date: 1908 Speed: 78rpm Size: 10" Artist: voice recording of William Howard Taft Side A: "The Farmer and the Republican Party' Side B: blank Jacket: n/a Sleeve: n/a Other Label Text: Awarded first prize Buffalo, St. Louis, and Portland Expositions; Victor Talking Machine Co. Condition: Some light scuffing/scratching, but nothing that will significantly impact play
Some light damage to label on the back
PLAYS WELL - please listen to an actual recording of this disc being played
This is a fantastic piece of political memorabilia ~ and particularly relevant today, even after all these years. This was a speech made by candidate Taft, in Kansas City, MO in 1908. He would later go on to become the United States' 27th president. The following is a transcript retrieved from Wikipedia - though you can listen to this actual disk being played on my victrola by clicking the movie on this listing:
- As the Republican platform says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country. The prosperity of the country rest peculiarly upon the prosperity of agriculture. Just now, one of the strongest hopes of returning good times is based on the business which the farmers’ crops are to afford. The Republican party during the last twelve years has accomplished extraordinary work in bringing the resources of the national government to the aid of the farmer. He is vitally interested in the restraining of excessive and unduly discriminating railroad rates, in the enforcement of the Pure Food Law, in the promotion of scientific agriculture, and in increasing the comforts of country life as by the extension of free rural delivery and the building of good roads. The free delivery in the postal service now reaches millions of our citizens and will be extended until every community in the land receives its full benefits. Everyone recognizes the essential and economic advantages of good country roads maintained more and more largely at public expense and less and less at the expense of the abutting owner. The policies of the present administration have most industriously promoted all these objects and cannot fail to commend themselves to the farmers’ approval. It is difficult to see how with his intelligent appreciation of the threats to business prosperity involved in democratic success at the polls he can do otherwise than give his full and hearty support to the continuation of the policies of the present administration under Republican auspices.
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