The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14
COLONEL VASTLY
PLEASES HIMSELF
Compares His Record on Peace
With That of President
Taft.
CALLS SUCCESSOR INsINCERE
Looking Over His Own Admin
istration, He Is Unable to
Find Flaw.
Special to The Times-Dispatch.

n.
Manchester. y. H., April lS.-colon.,
Roosevelt turned himself mon p,ss,i
dent TAFT IN - new form OF at,acl.
lo-daN' p'cturiaS his own attitude to-
ward International peace as ono Of
sincere and effective action against
one OF talk and inaction on IN. 49,,
OF the President The Colonel d.a ~
name lie President He made bis
speech in Concord, taking the onnnr-
,nh'ty mere, where the President u lit
llc over three weeks aro hod d
Tended his arbitration treaties.
me Colonel reviewed his administra-
t !it and what 1t had accomplished FOR
sJ,,Iaainn "a peace In the Armenian
Japanese war. Cuba and Santo DomIn-
so, and held this up to his auditors
as sreater guarantee OF real world
peace eHort than the Presidents arbi-
ration treaties. which the Colonel con
demned as laying the nations honor
upon to the decision OF an outside
Look back to the seven and a hair
Years when / was President and com
pare what ] said with what / did" he
declared The only promise that is
valuable Is the promise that can be
Kept. ] said Just what | intended 10
DO about peace and did it.
said / never would consent, to
having The United States not act to-
ward other nations with the same scru-
=
tween individuals. | had John Hav
and Eiihu Root in my Cabinet. There
was not one act in the record OF our
dealings with other nations save such
as you and l would expect our sons
TO do toward Others. l did not intend
to have the national submit to wrong
doing between nations There was not
q thing done by the United states
during my administration that was no;
iustifable by the highest standards Of
ethics
Il would not then consent to the
submitting of the national honor to
jeopardy. 1 would not do 1T now, and
never shall do IT.
Every foreign nation knew that
exact It's face value. Under my ad-
ministratlon we made The Hague
court, that had become bund
body, 4 live institution for peace
Every act that | could have submit
ted to arbitration was submitted"
The question as to who made tho
ovcrtures to end the war. between
Russia and japan, whether these ma
tons to the Colonel or the Colonel to
them, the Colonel to-day revealed in
this sentence:
Il was asked by Russia and Japan
10 be the means of bringing them to-
gethcr. Do you suppose" no asked.
that they would have come to this
nation II they had thought that we
weakling at the White House? Never.
Every step / took from Panama on
j was scrupulously careful TO heed the
real moral needs of each situation as
II arose. And by the way, / wish TO
call to your attention that am tho
only President that got the Nobel
prize. and wouldn't have got t II I
had wanted peace just because I was
afraid Of having war.
II would no more agree to having
questions that should not be arhitrated
submitted TO arbitration, as between
nations. than l would the same ques-
lions between individuals"
The cN-Preiidenti went on TO wit
Taft on his progreSSivfness
Roosevelt commented tonight on
President Taftis criticism OF the Roose-
CONTINUED on Fourth PaGeD