The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-30
TAFT PLEADS
SQUARE DEAL
WINDS UP STRENUOUS CAMPAIGN
IN Observation-Disclosures
MIGRATE THEODORE.
CONDEMN NE BY OTHER
WITNESSES THAN ROOSEVELT
rresiaent Thinks The Nations Chief
Sho-id be Ineligible to Reelection
Roosevelt Continues to pop off Social.
ism And Anarchy.

Boston, April 30.-President Taft
ended twelve hours campaign
through Eastern Massachusetts in
Boston last night. From the time he
began his speech making at Attleboro
with a talk on the tariff until he made
his last address at Melrcse and asked
for square deal" the President
spurrad his husky voice into strenuous
action. 1t was one of the hardest
campaigning days Mr.. Taft has spent
since he entered the White House, but
his friends were confident last night
that his second INVASION of the Bay
state will bring votes for him to the
polls today
Mr. Taft's last long address was
made at Lowell to an audience that
packed the opera house. So eager
was the crowd to gain admittance that
several members of the Presidents
own party could not get in until after
he started to speak.
When he came to talk about the
bosses and Mr.. Roosevelt's charges,
some one in the gallery shouted.
Hes a liar"
No, that isn't in my vocabulary"
said the President Later, when he
was referring to the Lorimer case, the
same man evidently repeated his cry
after a mention of Col. Roosevelt's
name.
My experience on the bench has
taught me the value of words" said
Mr.. Taft. 81 appreciate the support
Of my distinguished and enthusiastic
friend, but I must decline to adopt his
vocabulary"
After declaring that he was sorry it
was necessary for him to have to
mingle in a political struggle, he sug-
gested an amendment Of the Constitu-
tion SO that a President should serve
six or eight years and be ineligible for
reelection.
81 think that would prevent this"
he said.
NO man has the right to misre2re-
sent another to get himself in office,
no matter how humble that man is,"
he shouted at one point in his Lowell
address. Condemn me if you will"
he said in conclusion, "but condemn
me by other witnesses than Theodore
Roosevelt.
81 was a man of straw; but | have
been a man of straw long enough
every man who has blood in his body
and who has been misrepresented as
| have been is forced to fight. l ap-
peal to my friends in Massachusetts,
who I think believe in a square DEAL"
In the first half dozen speeches yes
terday the President did not mention
Col. Roosevelt's name, although he fol-
lowed closely over the path his pre-
decessors made through the state Sat
urday and yesterday.
As he came nearer to the Colonel's
footsteps, however, the President
warmed up to his subject and assailed
the Colonel time after time.
Practically every town the Presi-
dent visited is a manufacturing CEN
ter and in many places the mills were
closed, the schools had declared par
tial holidays, and every preparation
had been made to welcome the ma
tion's chief.
He made decided hit at Middle
boro. when a man just beneath him
shouted: "Hurrah for Teddy; no, 1
mean hurrah for William H. Taft"
Il hope you don't make that mistake
tomorrow" said the President, laugh
ing.
It was at Lawrence that the Presi-
dent came closest to the Colonefs
trail He stepped into the band stand
on the common just few hours after
Mr.. Roosevelt had left it.
The President sounded a new note
at Hoverhill in replying to Mr. Roose-
yers charge that he only came out
AGAINST Senator Lorimer of Illinois
after he was defeated in the primaries
in that state.
@Mr. Roosevelt says that did not go