The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-27

 ROASIS TAFT
ACCUSES PRESIDENT OF FALSE TYING AND lNslNcERlTY, ALSO
 A FEW OTHER THINGS.
of a Crooked Deal--"Disloyal and Feeble" Says the Strenuous Colonel.

Worcester, Mass, April 26-Merci- less denunciation of President Taft was Colonel Rooseyelt's reply to the presidents attack on him yesterday. Some of Colonel Rooseyelt's asser- tions were:
 That President Taft had not given the people of the country square deal" but that owing to quality of feebleness," he had yielded to the bosses and the great privileged ln- terests.p
 That one part of the presidents at- tack on him was the crookedest kind of deal" and deliberate misrepre- sentation."
 That the president has not merely in thought. word and deed. been dis loyal to our past friendship, but has been disloyal to every canon of ordi- nary decency and fair dealing such as should obtain even in dealing with a mans bitterest opponents"
 That the presidents statement re- garding the influence of federal of ficeholders in the campaign was mot only an nntruth. but it is an absurd untruth"
 That Mr. Taft aft convicted himself of insincerity when. he signed the Payne Aldrich tariff bill.
 That in speaking of Colonel Roose- velts position in regard to the trust problem, President Taft lis himself guilty of a crooked deal"
 Colonel Roosevelt took up Presi- dent Taft's attack on him point by point, flaying the president in one scathing sentence after another.
 Colonel Roosevelt said in part:
 'iIn this campaign 1 regard the is- sues at stake as altogether too im- portant to permit it to be twisted into one of personalities between Presi- dent Taft and myself. But Mir. Tafts speeches yesterday contained state ments that I must answer. Most of what he said needs no comment from me. When, for instance, he said that have endeayored to minimize the im- portance of my Columbus speech he says what he must know to be untrue.
 Again, when Mir Taft in any speech speaks of me directly or ob- liquely as a neurotlc, or a demagogue or in similar terms I shall say noth- ing except that to point out that if he is obliged to use such language he had better preserve his own self-re- spect by not protesting that it gives him pain to do SO have discussed exclusively his public actions. Even where was obliged to be severe was always parliamentary and never hypocritical. Nor do l intend to deYt ate from this standard"
 Colonel Roosevelt referred to Presi dent Taft's explanation of his state ment, that ours is a government oi all of the people. by a representative part of the people,
 For him to try" said Colone Roosevelt, ito escape the conse ouences of his statements by saying that he alluded only to women and children is trifling with the intelli gence of the people. To speak of suci action on his part as square deal it itself the crookedest kind ola deai He is trying to dodge the conse auences of his statement by deliber ate misrepresentation of that state ment"
 Colonel Roosevelt defined the polit ical boss" as the man responsible for the alliance between crooked poll tics and crooked business.
 "If there is any such man amoni my supporters" he continued, T d' not know him. Mir. Taft says tha Mir. Flynn of Pittsburg Is very Da' boss. There is an element of grin comedy in MT Taft weeping over tn thought of Pennsylvania being put ur der the rule of a boss through Mi Penrose being busted from control c ] the republican organization. , The bosses. Colonel Roosevelt d' , clared, were on the presidents sid' l ''Mr. Taft says he continued, "tha in my various campaigns I accepte 7 the assistance of these bosses So did, when they chose to go my wa : and support he cause of the peopl' 3 The trouble Aith Mir Taft is that h gets their assAftance at the price {