The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-07
TAI 7 CHARGES
HIS OPPONENT
WITH UNTRUTH.
Begins Fight for Ohio Dele
gates by Denouncing Roose-
welt and So-Called Bosses
Supporting Him.
CROWDS TURN OUT
IN SPITE OF RAIN
President Again Calls Atten-
ton to the Threat of Perkins
and the Backing Down
of His Predecessor.
BY International News Service.


~ INCINNATI, May 6.-Driviug
rain at most OF the places where
" lie stopped did not deter Presi-
dent Taft. who arrived here TO-
night, from getting into the political
battle i'll southwest Ohio. All day, be-
fore crowds varying from 800 to $500,
the president defended his administra-
stion, denounced Roosevelt and boss
ism-Ohio bosses in particular-snd
discussed trust regulation
p. G. Laylin, chairman of the Re-
publican executive state committee;
Gen. C. II. Grosvenor, former repre-
sentative from Ohio, and a delegation
of state organization men accompanied
the president 8 special. Today's speak
ing tour, which will be followed by a
strenuous campaign swing Wednesday
and another after the president
Princeton trip next week, indicates
that he will have the fight Of his polit-
zeal career.
Starts Fight at Once.
The president began his fight well
today by opeuly assailing Walter f.
Brown. chairman Of the Ohio state
central committee, the Roosevelt lead
er, and Dan r. Hanna. son of the late
Mark Hanna, and owner of several
Ohio newspapers, rs well as supporter
of the colonel.
am man of moderate words, ~
the president said at Hamden, where
he spoke after making addresses at
Nelsonville and Athens, f'but some
times I have to restrain myself All I
can say is that anybody who says L
am not in favor of popular government
says something that is not true; that
is all
In his speech at Jacksonville lie made
his first attack on Walter Brown when
he said:
Roosevelt Bosses.
ttYou have Walter Brown in this
state. He is the only active boss who
is hustling around in this state to get
Roosevelt elected with view TO en-
larging his power. What bosses am
upholding' / could go over the list
and show you good many for him.
There is Mr.. Finn i'll Pennsylvania,
one of the worst bosses they ever had,
who is strongly for Mr.. Roosevelt
Walter Brown, who is budding boss
in Ohio, is also for MIR. Roosevelt.
am not blaming him for accepting that
support any moro than | am to be
blamed for accepting the support that
comes to me. Mr.. Roosevelt does not
ask any body who comes to support him
whether he has a certificate from any
Young Mems Christian association as
to his good moral character. He says,
Il would like your support. I will
make no agreement with you, but l
will accept your support glad
" and gratefully and 1 will believe
that when you tender me your support
that is an indication of your good
Now that is all that there
is in this boss business.
Asks Pertinent Question.
s'Bosses are made by local condi-
tions and the president has to accept
the senators and congressman who arc
sent TO Washington. Would you think
that if MI Roosevelt were nominated
and elected president we would not
have any more bossesf
Z" Mr. Roosevelt charged ME with be-
ing subject to the control of special
privileges, Well, ! deny il. 1 have
every trust, every railroad
md every leading man, whether it be
Dim Hanna or Mr. Gary, at the head
,f the steel trust, against whom indlct-
nents were found. The administration
las followed the lead of Theodore
in his policies IN every re-
,pect but one, and that one was that
[ directed the prosecution of the steel
rust and also the prosecution OF the
trust,
t'Now, under these conditions-when
here is a published statement by MI
Perkins of the steel trust aud harvester
rust that if he were prosecuted or his
company were sued, that they would
light, no suits were brought against
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