The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-05-02
TAFT AND ROOSEVELT
EXCHANGE AMENITIES

EXCHANGE AMENITIES
In his Worchcster, Mass, speech
last Friday President Taft said that
Roosevelt had wiIfully misrepre.
sented him, had falsely distorted
some Of his public utterances had
failed to live up to his policy Of a
square deal, and had violated sol.
emn promise to the American PEG.
! pie not to be IA candidate for Il third
term.
/ THAT promise aud its treatment, -
/ said Mr. Taft, "Only throws an IN.
/ forming light on the value that
( ought now to be attached to any
| promise of this kind he may make
for the future"
/ "lf he ROOSEVELT is neccs sary
now to the government, why not
later?" asked Mr. Taft, and then
/ said: "One who so lightly regards
constitutional principles, and espr.
clally the Independence of the Judi.
clary; one who Is so naturally i'm
/ patient of legal restraints OF due lc-
/ gal procedure, and one who has 50
misunderstood what liberty rcgu-
lated by law is, COULD NOT 81
SAFELY ENTRt STED WITH SUCCESS
SINE PRESIDENTIAL TERMS. | say
TINS sOrrowfully, but with the full
conviction Of its truth"
lie accuses Col Rooaevelt of
garblinE al excerpt from his Toledo
speech, aud asks: "Was it honesty
was il iair of Theodore Roosevelt to
seize one sentence from IA speech, to
garble it and then to give ii mean
| ing WHICH HE KNEW from the con-
text 1t could not bear? Do the peo-
OF Massachusetts approve such
methods Of warfare?'
Mr. Taft charged that Roosevelt
was now seeking to take advantage
of the supposed feeling among farm
ers against the Canadian reciprocity
measure urged by him, and then
quotes letter from Roosevelt to
show that he, too, approved the
measure, as follows: Dear MIR.
President: 1t seems that what you
propose to do with Canada Is admir-
able from every point of view. |
firmly BELIEVE IN FREE TRADE
with Canada for both economic and
political reasons. A you say, la
Dor costs substantially the same in
the two countries, so that you are
amply justified by the platform.
Whether Canada will accept such IA
reciprocity ! do not know, but 1t In
greatly to your credit to make the
effort"
In speaking of the Payne. Aldrich
tariff law, Mr.. Taft again defended
his course In signing it, and that to
have vetoed ii would have broken
up the Republican party. He was
afraid that Speaker Cannon might
oppose revision of the tariff, and
that MIR. Roosevelt had requested
him to have an interview with Mr.
Cannon. Then said: HAS Mr.
Roosevelt even condemned the
Payne bill? Does he say he would
not have signed it II it had been pre-
scented to him under conditions that
1t had to meet. He has never said
that AS far AS | know, and the New
York platform of 1910 adopted by
the convention, of which he was a
part, indorsed the pending bill and
approved its passage"
of Federal patronage, and of fraud
in New York and "stolen goodsn in
Kentucky were referred to and de-
MED. at is the policy" said Mr.
Taft, "of the Roosevelt campaign
to claim everything and to meet adj
verse reports by charges of frauds
and trumped.up contests.
These and other subjects were
taken up by the President to show
Mr.. ROosevelt's unfairness and un-
worthiness.
Roosevelt Retorts,
Col. Roosevelt the next day spoke
at the same place, Worchester,
Mass, and waxed lGrid in his reply
to and denunciation of President
Taft, applying to him such phrases
as "absurd untruths," "dcliberate
Misrepresentation ''crookedest
kind of deal, y foul to the verge
of decency," and "the gross est and
most astounding hypocrisy.x Here
are some of his bon mots:
"Mr. Taft says that in my various
campaigns | accepted the'as sistance
Of these bosses. So did, when
they chose to go my way and sup
port the cause of the people. Tie
trouble with Mr.. Taft is that he gets
their assistance at the price of go
ing their way and opposing the
cause of the people. -
"Mr. Taft said yesterday that
never in thought or deed had he
been disloyal in his friendship for
me. 1t is hard for me to answer
such statement save by calling it
the grOssest and most astounding
hypocrisy. When Mr.. Taft made