Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-05-03

ated-Former President Would Wreck
the Party.
After enduring with infinite patience
not only because of the dignity of the
high office which he holds. but also be
cause Of the personal friendship which
he has enjoyed and had hoped to main
tain with former President Theodore
Roosevelt, President William ii. Taft
has finally been forced 10 resent the
misrepresentation Of his actual posi-
ton on public issues, the untruths
which have been uttered with respect
TO his official actions and to the con
duct of this campaign and attacks
upon him which not infrequently in
golved his personal honor as a man as
well as his integrity as president of the
United States
The president and his campaign man
ayers have sought throughout this cam
paign by dignihed and fair course of
conduct 10 maintain the Republican
party as "A militant power for good in
the land. with a view to another tri-
urnphant victory at the polls in No
vember
on the contrary, Theodore Roose-
welt and his friends and hackers have
conducted an organized campaign to
wreck the Republican party. not only
by engendering personal animositles
by attacks on individual leaders of the
party In various states, but by Offering
and supporting national platform
which Is rank socialism As a result
Of this situation Director william Is.
Mckinley OF the national Taft bureau
Issued the following statement to the
public on April IA.
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 nomina
tion for president
Instead of constructive statesman
ship being put forth In an effort to
solve the problems before the country
and as a bid for votes on the ground
OF merit nation wide campaign OF
willful and malicious misrepresenta.
ton, vilihcation, and assault on the
| president Of the United States has
| been substituted. Such a campaign
amounting in fact to a conspiracy not
only to humlliate the president person
ally but TO commit the Republican par
ty TO rank socialism, has been counte-
naneed and conducted by former Pres
| ident Theodore Roosevelt
'The time has arrived to call a halt
ON such proceedings
President Taft, always mindful of
| the decencies of human conduct, be
lieying that friendship is a sacred thing
and that. like truth, Il should be main
tanned even at a personal sacrifice. and
also believing that the American peo-
| pie expect the occupant of the highest
Office in the gift OF the nation. as well
as those who have formerly occupied
It, to respect the dignity of that office,
has during the course of this campaign
patiently submitted TO misrepresenta-
ton. ylifcation and insult without re-
ply.
''The result is that his opponent has
thrown all restraint 10 the winds Sen.
ator Joseph NJ Dixon, the national
campaign manager Of former Presl-
dent Roosevelt, has been permitted,
without rehuke from his candidate to
insult the president Of the United
States He has not only been permit
ted 10 charge the president with being
a receiver OF stolen goods without
protest. but former President Roose-
welt has repeated the charge on the
stump
"rhe time has now come when the
American people VIII no longer sit idly
hy aud see this unfair and malicious
persecution and vilihcation continued
by man aud by the friends % a
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terms 10 the White House by the
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