TLS signed “Wm. H. Taft,” three pages, 8 x 10.5, personal letterhead, August 6, 1915. Letter to newspaper correspondent Gus J. Karger, in part: "Victor Murdock's ebullitions amuse me, but I am rather more interested in Roosevelt's announcement that he still intends to remain a Progressive. Of course this is a safe thing for him to say, because he can take it back at any time, but it still is an indication that his visit to the West has not impressed him with the feasibility of his becoming the candidate of the Republican party. The truth is I think he begins to see that Wilson's chance of election is much greater than it was, and he had no idea of casting his lot with an unsuccessful canvass. In this of course he makes a mistake. He is a young man, with great ability, and with a very faithful following, though it has become much smaller of late. If he had the foresight and unselfishness to come into the party and work hard, and be useful in his canvass, he might entertain a very strong hope of being the party's candidate not at the next election but at the following. As it is, he is likely to stay out and support the leadership of Johnson in a third and dwindling party, and thus become less and less important in National politics." In very good condition, with scattered soiling and toning, rusty paperclip impressions, and a bit of dampstaining.
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