The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-27
PRESIDENT TAFT REJOINS.

PRESIDENT TAFT REJOINS.
President Taft is certainly making
it hot for Roosevelt in Massachusetts,.
His speeches have the true ring; they
are the absolute truth spoken by an
honest man who knows what he is
talking about and understands the rules
OF evidence and how to get at the facts
Roosevelt is justly stigmatized as a
man who takes up rumor and second
hand gossip, treating it as fact, and
in his own interest betraying personal
friendships and assailing the party
which has honored him so much
The President not only presents for
chilly the record Of Roosevelt's du-
plicity and changes of position on va.
rious matters, but he shows that Roose-
vclt has been not only making false
| statements, but statements willfully
| and knowingly false. 1t is fearful
arralgnment against man who seeks
| again the exalted office Of President
of the United States, and the arraign-
mcnt rs all the more severe because of
| President Taft known equable TEN.
permanent and caution of utterancc.
Others might accuse Roosevelt and 90
| over the same ground against him that
President Taft has done, but no one
| could do the work with such solid force
and such convincing power as Presi-
| dent Taft has done; this because Presl-
dent Taft knows Roosevelt better than
almost any one else could possibly know
him, and because Taft is man who
weighs his words, and knows not only
feet of it.
The portion Of President Taft IS
speech which dealt with the third term
proposition, and the likelihood Of
Roosevelt always considering that he
was needed in the Presidential chair,
so that the people would never be rid
of his candidacy as long as he lives,
was not only fine example of sound
political exposition, but was fore
cast OF danger that the people must
necessarily heed,
As Il complete refutation of all OF
the President and against the RepubH-
can party and it's administration, Pres
| ident Taft S reply to Roosevelt is not
only conclusive but overwhelming 1t
was a deep grief to President Taft to
be obliged to undertake this work. The
ties between the two men have been
so close, the admiration and respect
which President Taft has had all along
for Col. Roosevelt. has made him re-
luctant TO assail Roosevelt by name or
specifically TO expose his reckless char
acter and wanton assaults and defa-
nations. And it would have been i'm.
possible for Taft to have taken this
course if Roosevelt had not been a
wanton, ruthless aggrcssor. But, as
| the President SAYS, it was a duty'tha
he owed not only TO himself person
ally, and also as leader of his party,
but to tho country at large. For, since
| Col. Roosevelt has been acting under
false prctenses, and has been wantonIy
and wickcdly assaling Republicans
right and left. it was imperative that
someone should enter the arena in re-
ply, and President Taft, as the titular
head Of his party, was evidently the
man to do it. That he has done his
work with e1pcrtncss and strength
there cannot be the least question
AT the same time. il seems necessary
to say that something more than dc
fensc is required. There should be an
aggressive, a positive fight made
sgainst Roosevelt The sort OF fight
that Representative Gardner Of Mas.
sachusctts is making showing mp
Roosevelt 8 derclctons. his PARTIAL
ties, his wauton untruthfulncss, is the
sort Of thing that viii break Roosevelt
down with the people. Roosevelt has
been claiming all the virtues, and in
his own acts and personality has been
incarnating in his own person many OF
the worst political vices His assur
ancc OF immunity TO the Steel Trust
when IT nnlawfully absorbed the Ten
nesseo Coal and Iron Company. was
one of The most flagrant abuses that
President could possibly commit. and
the Ike OF which was never committed
before by President Of the Unit ID
Stntcs. His callinr of OF tn. pro.e
| cuLIOn of $40 Harvester Trust. Lis snu.