Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-04-16
TAFT AROUSED
BY ROOSEVELT.
CAMP PA|GN PLAN
Manager Mckinley Says the
Colonel Has Thrown Re-
straint to the Winds in In
sulting the President.

Washington, D. c., April 15.-Presi-
dent Taft has on his war paint and will
fight Colonel Roosevelt to the last ditch.
The Pennsylvania returns stirred his
fighting spirit. After a conference
with the president and a number OF
his friends Director Mckinley has given
out the following statement:
THE outcome of the Pennsylvania
primaries is plainly indicative of the
fact that national issues are playing
only small part in some states in
the campaign for the republican nomi-
nation for president.
Instead of constructive statesman
ship being put forth in an effort to
solve the problems before the country
and bid for votes on the ground Of
merit, villification and assault on the
president of the United States has
been substituted. Such campaign,
amounting in fact to a conspiracy not
only to humiliate the president per
sonally, but to commit the republican
party to socialism, has not only been
countenanced, but conducted by for
L
Time Arrives to Call Halt.
''The time has arrived to call halt
on such proceedings.
president Taft, always mindful OF
the decencies Of human conduct, be-
lieving that friendship is sacred
thing and that, like truth, it should be
maintained even at personal sacri-
flee, and also believing that the
American people expect the occupant
OF the highest Office in the gift of the
nation, as we'll as those who have
formerly occupied it, to respect the
dignity Of that office, has during the
course OF this campaign patiently sub.
mitted to Misrepresentation, villifica-
tion and insult without reply.
The, result. is that his opponent has
thrown all restraint to the winds. Sen
ator Joseph M. Dixon, the national
campaign manager of former President
Roosevelt, has been permitted, without
rebuke from his candidate, to insult
the president of the United States. He
has not only been permitted to charge
the president with being receiver Of
stolen goods, without protest, but for
mer President Roosevelt has repeated
the charge on the stump.
"The time has now come when the
American people will no longer sit idly
by ard see this unfair and malicious
persecution and villifcation continued
by man and the friends of man who
has already served two terms in the
white house, by the votes of the repub-
lican party, and who now, not only in
violation of the unwritten law Of the
but in violation Of his own
solemn promise to the nation, volun-
tarily given on Nov. 8, 1904, is seek
ing third term on national plat
form so unrepublican in nature that
he dare not discuss it himself, as is
shown by his recent speeches in 1lli-
nois, Pennsylvania and New Hamp-
shire.
"The fact that this candidate is now
claiming to wear the mantle Of Abra-
ham Lincoln is evidence that the
acme Of demagogism in this country
has been reached. +....
'"Those states which have yet to
elect delegates to the republican con-
yention in Chicago might just as we'll
realize now that the republic. as we'll
as the republican party has been placed
in jeopardy by the issues raised by
Theodore Roosevelt. They must real
ize that the unwritten law of the re-
public that no man shall be president
three terms is an insurmountable
obstacle to the success Of any party
in any national election in this
country.
"They must realize that the proposal
of the recall of Judges and of judicial
decisions is not only unrepublican, but
is rank socialism. The duty Of re-
publicans toward such platform and
toward a candidate for the nomina-
ton on such a platform is therefore
plain.
Says Taft Will Be Nominated.
Including Pennsylvania, which, ac-
cording to latest advices, has given
President Taft at least 21 votes in the
national convention, the president has
today 364 delegates instructed for or
pledged to his denomination. He needs
only 176 more delegates to insure his
denomination. He is already assured
of 1872 more delegates, making his sup
port in the Chicago convention 746
delegates, or more than 200 majority.
"The president is in this fight to
stay. He will be the nominee of the
republican convention at Chicago. In
this connection it must not be forgot
ten that he was nominated four years
ago without the votes of the states Of
Illinois, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New
York or Wisconsin. In this contest
he is already assured Of an overwhelm.
ing majority Of the delegates from
Indiana and New York, and of a large
number of delegates in Pennsylvania,
none of which voted for him In 1909"
If President Taft did not See this
statement before it was issued he was
told what 1t would contain. 1t is url-
derstood that he is now willing for war
to begin in earnest. Senator Penrose
has notified Mr.. Taft that Taft men