The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-05-02
PRESIDENT TAFT
RESENTS INSULTS

ship which he has enjoyed and had
hoped to maintain with former Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt. President
William H. Taft has finally been
forced to resent the misrepresenta.
tions Of his actual position on public
issues, the untruths which have been
uttered with respect to his official ac-
tions and to the conduct of this cam.
paign and attacks upon him which not
infrequently involved his personal
honor as a man as well as his integ-
rity as president of the United States
The president and his campaign
managers have sought throughout
this campaign. by dignified and fair
course of conduct, to maintain the Re
for good In the land. with view to
another triumphant victory at the
polls in November
On the contrary, Theodore Roose-
velt and his friends and hackers have
conducted an organized campaign to
wreck the Republican party. not only
by engendering personal animosities
by attacks on individual leaders of
the party In various states. but by Of
fering and supporting a national plat
form which Is rank Socialism AS
result of this situation Director Will
liam B. Mckinley of the National Taft
bureau. issued the following state
ment to the public on April IA:
"The outcome Of the Pennsylvania
primaries Is plainly indicative of the
fact that national issues are playing
only a small part In some states in
the campaign for the Republican nom-
lnation 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, a nationwide campaign Of
willful and malicious misrepresenta-
ton, villification and assault on the
president of the United States has
been substitute q Such a campaign.
amounting in fact to conspiracy.
not only to humiliate the president
personally. but to commit the Repub
lican party to rank Socialism, has
been countenanced and conducted by
former President Theodore Roose-
velt
"The time has arrived to call halt
on such proceedings.
President Taft, always mindful of
the decencies of human conduct; be-
lieving that friendship is a sacred
thing and that. like truth. II should be
maintained even at a personal sacri-
fee. and also believing that the Ameri-
can people expect the occupant OF the
highest office in the gift of the nation,
as well as those who have formerly oc-
cupied 1t, to respect the dignity of that
office. has. during the course of this
campaign, patiently submitted to mis-
representation, villification and insult.
without reply.
THE result is that his opponent has
thrown all restraint to the winds. Sen
ator Joseph NJ Dixon. the national
campaign manager of former Presi-
dent Roosevelt. has been permitted.
without rebuke from his candidate. to
insult the president OF the United
States. He has not only been per-
mitted to charge the president with
being a receiver Of stolen goods.
without protest but former President
Roosevelt has repeated the charge on
the stump.
"The time has now come when the
American people will no longer sit
idly by and see this unfair and mali
cious persecution and villifcation con-
tinued by a man. and by the friends
of a man, who has already served two
terms in the white house, by the votes
of the Republican party. and who now.
not only In violation OF the unwritten
law of the republic, but In violation
OF his own solemn promise to the ma
ton. voluntarily given on the night OF
November 8. 1904. Is seeking third
term on a national platform so un-
Republican In nature that he dare not
discuss 1t himself. as is shown by his
recent speeches In Illinois, Pennsyl-
vania, and New Hampshire.
"The fact that this candidate Is now
claiming to wear the mantle of Aba
ham Lincoln Is evidence that the acme
os demagogism in this country mas
been reached
Those states which have yet to
elect delegates to the Republican ma
tional convention in Chicago might
Just as well realize now that the re-
public as well as the Republican par
ty has been placed in jeopardy by the
issues raised by Theodore Roosevelt.
They must realize that the unwritten
law of the republic that no man shall
be president three terms. is an insur-
mountable obstacle to the success or
any party in any national election in
this country. They must realize that
the proposal of the recall OF judges
and of judicial decisions Is not only
un-Republican but rank Socialism.
The duty of Republicans toward can
didate for the nomination on such