Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-05
TAFT HINTS INTERESTS"
ARE BACKING HIS RIVAL
Declares Roosevelt Plans "Benevo-
lent Despotism" Toward Trusts.
LATTER DEN0UNCEs BOSSES
Asks Support Of Plain People and
Voters Of Both Parties in the
Fight Against Menacing
Monopolies.

BALTIMORE, Md, May 4-The Mary
land primary campaign closed tonight
and the state chroniclers call it the
hottest ever waged within Maryland
boundaries. The sixteen votes which the
state will have in the national conven-
tions will be determined by the personal
preference for presidential candidates ex-
pressed by the people Monday.
For the republican preference the
struggle is between President Taft and
Theodore Roosevelt and both these can
didates were in the state tonight leading
the fight to the last hour.
After bisecting the state from north
10 south yesterday Col. Roosevelt cross
ed 1t today from east to west and de-
F. lIyered his parting shot tonight at Cum
berland on the edge of the Alleghenies
lie charged that bosses in both the
republican and democratic parties have
combined 10 defeat him.
Taft Saved Ammunition.
The President saved his ammunition
until the last day of the campaign. He
entered the state early this morning. and
after blazing trail almost to the north
ern boundary and back again. made his
last appeal in Baltimore tonight.
For the first time since he began his
attack on Theodore Roosevelt, President
Taft in his speech at Elkton toda,
strongly intimated that much OF the sup
port the colonel is receiving comes from
the trusts and the interests"
vigorously conducted. All the candidate.
whose names VII appear upon the pri
mary ballot, Taft. Roosevelt, Clark
Harmon and Wilson. have visited the
state during the short three weeks chat
have intervened since the new primary
bill became law. The Baltimore papers
have carried columns Of political adver-
tsing and political rallies have been
of almost daily occurrence Throughout,
the state.
Although, the city Of Baltimore con.
tains nearly half the population of the
state, the apportionment of delegates tc
the state convention relegates the prin-
cipal interest in Mondays contest to the
country districts and adds to the uncer.
tainty of the outcome.
Bound by the Unit Rule.
Baltimore has but twenty-eight OF the
129 state delegates. The candidate fol
whom the primaries instruct the majority
OF these delegates will go to Chicago ol
Baltimore with the sixteen Maryland ma
tionai delegates bound to them by the
unit rule. The delegates from each
county to the state convention are in.
structed by the preference vote of thet,
several counties. In the city of Baltimore
the Legislative district is the unit instead
OF the county.
While the ballots in many counties bea,
.ns names or opposing state delegate.
nominated by the committees fayorinf
the various presidential candidates tht
state uelesates elected must obey the ex
pressed preferences Of their constituents
regardless Of these afiliatiOns
New Harvester Chapter.
In the closing speech of a fourteen
hoAr campaign through Maryland Presi
dent Taft added new chapter to III.
history of the harvester trust here TO-
night Speaking to an audience that filled
the Lyric Theater to the doors. Mr.. Tai
declared that Col. Theodore Roosevelt
did prevent the prosecution of tina
trust after George w. Perkins, one o
its directors and now a Roosevelt sup
porter, had asked that the trust be no
taken INTO the courts; intimated tina
1haries j. Bonaparte. Attorney Genera
under Mr. Roosevelt was mtstaken'
when he said that he tMr. Taft wa
present at abinet meeting which de
cided against prosecution. and said tha
lne diary of Herbert Knox Smith, thel
ana now head of the bureau of corpora
IONS. proved that at the time referred Z
ne was on trip around the world.
Cites Change of Attitude.
Mr.. Tafts explanation of the har
Nester trust muddle was only one O
the many points on which he attacke,
col Roosevelt He said that his pre-
oecessors attitude toward the trusts
showed clearly that he wished to per
fect benevolent "despotism' tina
would discriminate between the goo,
and the bad trusts, pointed out hoy
Mr. Roosevelt had changed from hi
attitude OF regarding his entrance int
the presidential race as a calamity I,
that of being an active campaigner 70
the nomination. and insisted that MI
Roosevelt was striving to make thi
campaign one in which the man VIII
had little should be arrayed agains
him who had more. In concise form h
listed the achievements of his admins
tration and the charges which MI
Roosevelt has made against It, declar
ing that in his term In the White Hous
there had been more progressive legis
1atfon enacted than in any previou
Presidents term since the civil war.
Makes Seven Speeches.
Mr.. Taft's Baltimore speech came at tn
end OF a day that took him over muc
of the central and southeastern part Z
Maryland. In all he made seven speeche
TO crowds that were attentive and ths
cheered him frequently. For most Of II
trip he travelled In his private car. b,
just before turning south to Baltimore h
motored for thirty miles over dusty road
that added perceptibly to the huskines
of his voice. In practically all Of h
early speeches delivered at Hyattsvill
Laurel. Elkton. Aberdeen. Belair an
Hayre de Grace the President brought
the name Of Col. Roosevelt and aske
again and again for square deal"
The Presidents Baltimore speech ws
delivered just before he left for wasl
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