Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-04-29
YOU'RE ANOTHER
SAYS COLONEL
Flatly Contradicted Taft in
Matter Relating to
Harvester Trust
SAYS THE PRESIDENT KNEW
Chief Executive Does Not Re.
member Hearing Subject
Mentioned.
lBy Special Leased Wire 10 New Mexicanl

(By Special Leased Wire TO New Mexican)
Boston, Mass, April 29.-Flatly con-
tradicting President Taft, Colonel
Roosevelt during his campaign tour
of Essex county today issued a state
ment replying to that made by the
President last night regarding the
Harvester trust case.
The President had stated that so
far as my recollection goes l never
heard the Harvester trust matter men
toned in any cabinet meeting that
ever attended"
Says Taft Was Present.
Colonel Roosevelt said in his reply,
issued in the form of a statement
written on the train: Il clearly re-
member Mr.. Taft being present at
such discussion and taking part in it. -
He added that the President had
treated this matter ''in way to show
that he subordinates the interest of
the people as a whole to the purposes
of securing political advantage for
himself" Colonel Roosevelt's state
ments in part follows:
Roosevelt Statement.
"Of course Mr. Taft was away, as
every one knows, while I was discuss
ing this matter in personal
interviews with officials of the
department of commerce and labor, in
Guiding the bureau of corporations,
and of the department of justice, but
both before and after he came back,
the matter repeatedly was brought up
in the cabinet and discussed at length
Mr.. Bonaparte has stated in the letter
| have quoted, that Mr.. Taft took the
initiative in approving the course | fol
lowed. My memory is to the same
effect.
"Messrs. Garfield, Strauss, Bona
parte and Cortelyou have stated that
this particular question was discuss
ed more than once in full cabinet
meeting. l clearly remember Mr..
Taft being present at such discussion
and taking part in it. Moreover. l re-
member that Mr.. Taft has now been
President three years and two months
and it is nonsense to say that during
that time he has not had the fullest
opportunity to act on the harvester
case if he so desired
Roosevelt Says Taft Knew About Coal.
when he came back from this trip
abroad | went over with him moi only
this case but every other case of i'm
portance, such as that of the Tennes-
see Coal and Iron Company, which |
thought might by any possibility have
any bearing on the general policy of
the administration. If he thought the
action | took in the harvester case
was in any way inadequate or repre-
hensible, it was his duty when he was
in my cabinet to protest and it was
even more his duty after he became
President to act at once.
"The action, which after three years
of inaction, he actually took last
week, must have been taken in collu.
sion with the Lorimer Democratic Sen
ator who introduced the resolution,
and could only have been taken with
a view to have effect on the Massachu-
sets primaries.
any Attitude Toward Business" .
This case illustrates all the differ.
ences between the attitude of Mr.,
Taft and myself toward big business,
and indeed, towards every species of
business. | handled and have always
handled every question of big business
and of all other business not from the
standpoint of party or factional advan-
tage, and without the least regard to
my own personal fortunes or to the po-
litical fortunes of any one else, but on
it's merits and with the sole object of
helping reach satisfactory solution
of business problems in the interest of
the entire people of the United
| States.
| "Mr Taft has treated this harvester
trust question in way to show thai
| he subordinates the interests of the
people as a whole to the purpose of
securing political advantage for him.
self.''