Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-04-26
FINDS MISREPRESENTATION
FAILS TO LIVE UP TO HIS POLICY
OF THE SQUARE DEAL, SAYS
EXECUTIVE.
SUGGESTS He IS PARTYLESS
Uttcranccs Falsely Distorted, ano
Solemn Promise Against Third
Term Broken.

BOSTON. April 25.-President Tafg
tonight cast aside his policy of avoid
ing personalities in his campaign for
denomination and devoted his entire
speech to an attack upon Colone'
and his administration against
charges Colonel Roosevelt recently
made on the stump.
Mr.. Tafts speech bristled with
counter charges against his predeces-
sor in the White House. He declared
that Mr.. Roosevelt had wilfully mis-
represented him; had falsely distorted
some OF his public utterances; had
failed to live up to his policy of a
square deal and had violated "A solemn
promise to the American people not
to be a candidate for "A third term.
THAT promise and his treatment Of
| IT," said Mr.. Taft, "only throws an
informing light on the value that
! ought to be attached to any
promise of this kind he may make
for the future
Planning to BE Dictator.
Declaring that Mr.. Roosevelt Ought
not to be selected as a candidate of
any party" Mr.. Taft said that the
1 former president might now be paw
| ing the way. if successful in the pres
ent campaign, to remain the chief eX-
ecutive of the nation for as many
terms as his natural life would permit
IF he is necessary now to the gov
ernment, why not later" asked tho
president and continued:
zone who so lightly regards con-
stitutlonal principles, especially the
independence of the judiciary; one
who is so naturally impatient of legal
restraints and of due legal procedure,
and who has so misunderstood what
liberty regulated by law Is, could not
safely be entrusted with successive
presidential terms. | say this sorrow
fully but | say it with the full con-
viction of its truth
Mr.. Taft referred to some of Mr..
Roosevelts charges against him as the
loose and vague indictment of ono
who does not know and who depends
only upon secondhand information
for his statements"
\ Painful Duty.
The president said his speech to-
night was one Of the most painful
duties Of his life that it was in re-
sponse to an obligation he owed the
republican party which selected him
as its candidate, and to the American
people who elected him president
1T grows" he said, "out Of a phase |
Of national politics and national life
that | believe to be unprecedented in
our history So unusual is the eX-
igency that the ordinary rules Of pro-
priety that limit president in his
public addresses must be laid aside /.
and the cold, naked truth must be
stated in such a way that it shall serve /.
as warning to the people of the
United States
Mr.. Taft said Colonel Roosevelts
Columbs speech, accepted as his plat ,
form. sent thrill Of alarm through .
all the members of the community /
Mr.. Roosevelt, he said. then found /
that If the nomination were 10 come /
to him he must minimize the import /
ance Of this charter Of democracy" /
without giving up the principles an
nounced in his Columbus speech, the
president said Mr.. Roosevelt rele-
gated TO an incidental place and
changed his campaign to one of criu-
cism OF Taft and the Taft admins
tratlon.
Rcfutes Tcddy's Charges.
one by one the president took up
eleven charges made against him by
Colonel Roosevelt and sought to re-
fuie them. In two instances he quoted
from correspondence between himself
and Colonel Roosevelt and said he
was prepared to make other letters
public II Mr.. Roosevelt desired.
by excerpts from nv speeches. Mr.. 4
Roosevelt has charged that 1 am one
who has publicly announced that 1
am In favor Of an aristocracy Of po-
litical bosses. and that / am linked
with political bosses In seeking my
lie charges hat the
patronage - the government is being .
shame. .ssiy used 80 secure by renomi-
nation. end tbpt IN the conven IONS
and primaries whloh have been held
fraud and violence haze been sys- J
used 90 defeat the will OF '
the people iie says am reaction {
airy. that was nominated hy pro-
and after election ioired The ,
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