The Washington herald., 1912-03-24
ROOSEVELT now
ATTACKS TAFT's
CLOSE FRIENDS
Says that They Are Bosses
Who Misrepresent the
People.
DOES NOT MINcE WORDS
In His Speeches in Maine He Men
tions by Name Men Whom
He Denounces.
DOES NOT MINCE WORDS

his Carnegie Hall address. He not only
asserted that he took direct issue with
the President because the latter be-
IIeves in a privileged caste and in an
aristocracy and plutocracy, and does
not, therefore, believe in the rule of
the people as Abraham Lincoln did.
but he said that the Presidents chief
adherents misrepresented the people.
There Tere his words:
THE chief present adherents of the
President, gentlemen like Senator
Penrose. Senator Gallinger. Mr..
Barnes. Mr.. Mckinley, Mr.. Tawney,
and their associates, are precisely
theory, would be, as they to a GER
tain degree already are. the repre-
sentative part of the people which
governs the rest of the people-and
which does not really represent them
at all, but misrepresents them
Cannot support the President.
4 Because the President, continued Mr..
Roosevelt, will not believe that the peo-
pie can govern themselves, and insists
that they must be ruled by privileged
class, the progressives do not feel that
the President, however good his inten-
tions. can properly represent them.
Speaking of the tremendous influence
of the courts, Mr.. Roosevelt said:
In no other English-speaking coun-
try, not in England or Canada or Aus
trslia,- nor in any subdivision of Can
ada, nor yet in France, nor Germany.
nor any other great civilized nation, are
the judges given such power. In all
these nations, in, for instance, every
p commonwealth of the Dominion of Can
AIDA, just across the borders here in
Maine, the legislature holds the repre-
sentatives of the people are supreme over
the courts in such matters
Now 1 do not ask that We go as far
-
far All / ask is, where the legisla-
ture and the court disagree as regards
the constitutionality of laws such as 1
have mentioned, that then the people
themselves, representing the ultimate
sovereignty, shall step in and decide for
Constitution which they made for their
own use is to be construed in order TO
bring about Justice
UNFOLDING the Constitution.
Mr. Roosevelt insisted that this could
not be called a mob cry and that his
method involved no attack upon the in
tegrity of the courts. Then he added:
4 am upholding the Constitution. 1
am working for respect for the laws;
and my shortsighted opponents in oppos-
ing the theory l advocate, and failing TO
provide any adequate substitute for il,
are doing all they can to discredit the
CONSTITUTION ana 10 excite
among the people with their laws.
7 believe in individual character. in
dividual initiative, as the most important
element in any mans well-being. But
also believe in invoking the collective ac-
lion of all of us where the individual ac-
tion of no one of us can by itself avail.
-, The Value of Government.
4 regard government as the biggest
organized social agency for human bet
terment. We must use it cautiously for
human betterment, but we have the right
to use it when it becomes necessary. The
tremendous industrial and social changes
Of the last few decades have been such
that our governmental processes have
had hard work TO keep up with them In
this country this has been largely be-
cause the courts have blocked the legis-
lative efforts to keep abreast of these
social and industrial changes, such block
ing being due. very largely to the peculiar
slant. Of mind Of various well-meaning
judges"
Audience Demonstrative.
The audience was Representative through
out the coIoners speech. He was fire.
quentIy interrupted with applause. When
he alluded to Wall street and its opposi-
tion to his campaign the crowd yelled.
You're all right, Teddy. We're with
you!''
The brusque reference to President
Taft as espousing boss leadership evoked
wild applause.
Cordial Reception in Boston.
While Roosevelt on his visit to Boston
a month ago TO organize his fight in
Massachusetts met with a chill, the trip
to-day was Just the opposite. When he
arrived in South station in Boston at
$50 o'clock in the morning, more than
an hour late, he found throng of 1000
waiting for him. He was cheered as he
made his way to an automobile. At the
Boston and Maine Depot. where he took
train for Portland, an even greater and
more enthusiastic crowd was on hand.
Policemen had to make path for the
colonel
Good boy, Teddy yelled a Iusty piece
of lungs as Roosevelt swung onto the
train. The colonel waved his hand, with
a satisfied smile, and disappeared into the
car.
Tha colonel was met on the train by
Judge Benjamin Lindsay, OF Denver. who
has been getting inside information on |
the status of the Roosevelt boom in the |
West The judge urged upon Roosevelt |
the necessity of extending his Western |
trip of next week. He advised the |
colonel that he ought to make speeches
movement is gaining headway. For the |
moral effect on the general situation, |
Lindsay argued, Roosevelt must try to |
break down the La Toilette strength in |
Nebraska. Roosevelt promised to consult |
Senator Dixon. II is possible that other
States farther West of Nebraska may be |
invaded by the colonel before he is /
through with the Western trip.
Greeted by Mill workers.
At South Lawrence. Mass. where the
mill strike has been going on. throng !
Of Loo clustered at the depot to cheer
Roosevelt.
The colonel had but a minute to hurry
TO the platform of his car and greet the
mill workers.
Were with you. Teddy" they cried as
the train steamed away.
At Haverhip. Mass, another large
throng was waiting.
s The stations at Dover. Exeter, ana New
Market, n. H., were thronged with ]