The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1912-05-02
PRESIDENT TAFT
! RESEn1S INSULTS
Attacks Of Theodore Roosevelt
/ Full Of FaIseho0ds.
PATIENCE IS EXHAUSTED.

l1isrspress rtatier. vilisieatien. Abuse
and Assaults Of ths Rough Riding
Colonel Will Not Lonssr 81 Toisr-
atsd-Formsr President Would Wreck
the Party.
After enduring with infinite patience
not only because Of the dignity Of the
high ofice which he holds. but also be.
cause Of the personal friendship which
Aeshas enjoyed and had hoped to main
tuin with former president Theodore
Roosevelt. President William II. Taft
has finally been forced to resent the
Misrepresentation of his actual posi-
tiOn on public issues. the untruths
which have been uttered with respect
to his official actions and to the con-
duct Of this campaign and attacks
apon him which not infreIuently in
VOWED his lerso.a! horror as a man MS
we'll as his integrity as president Of the
United States Is
The .presiden. and his campaign man
ayers have sought throughout this cam
pairn by dignife;l and fair course Of
conduct to maintain the Republican,
party as militant power for good in
the land. with II view to another tri-
umphant victory nj the polls in No
vember
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 Offering
and supporting national platform
which IL rank socialism. As result
Of this situation Director William B
Mckinley of the national Taft bureau
issued the following statement to the
public on April IA:
'"The outcome of the Pennsylvania
primaries Is plainly indicative Of the
fact that national issues are playing
emily small part in some states in the
campaign for the Republican nominal
:iOn for president.
instead Of constructive statesman
ship being put forth in an effort to
solve the problems before the country
and as bid for votes on the ground
Of merit. q nation wide campaign Of
villful and malicious .nisrepresenta-
ZION. utilization and assault on the
president Of the United States has
been substituted. Such a campaign.
amounting in fact to conspiracy. NOT
emily to humilia.e the preside..t person
ally but to commit the Republican par
" to rank socialism. has been tOunte-
nanced ard conducted by former Pres
tdent Theodore Roosevelt.
The time has arrived to call halt
on such proceedings.
president Taft. always mindful Of
the dtS.encies of human conduct. be-
neving that friendship II a sacred thing
and that. like truth. It should he main
tained even nj personal sacrifice. and
also believing that the American peo-
PIE expect the occupant Of the highest
e61ce In the GIFT of the nation. as vel.
% those who have formerly occupied
4. to respect the dignity Of that office.
Has during the course OF this campaign
patiently submitted to misrepresenta-
don. yili6cation and insult without re-
ny.
1.-The result il that his opponent has
uhrown all restraint to the winds. Sem
ator Joseph NJ. Dixon. the national
sNf frNevv vDv1nsat.
dent Roosevelt. has been permitted.
without rebuke from. his candidate t.
insult the president Of the United
States. He has not only been permit.
I'D to charge the president with lN'tng
n receiver of stolen goods. without
protest, but former President Ro0se-
welt has repeated the charge on the
stump.
THE time has now come when the
american people will no longer sit idly
By ard see this unfair aud malicious
3ersecution and utilization continued
by 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
sunwritten law Of the republic. but In
violation Of his own solemn promise
to the nation. voluntarily given on the
night of Nov. 8. 1904, is seeking, a
third term on a national platform 80
unrepublican in nature that lie dare
not discuss it himself. as Is shown by
his recent speeches IN Illinois. Penn
aylvania and New Hampshire.
1.-THE fact that this candidate is now
claiming to wear the mantle Of Abra-
nam Lincoln is evidence that the acme
Of demagogism in this country has
been reached
.Those states which have yet to
elect delegates to the Republican ma
tional convention in Chicago might
lust as we'll realize now that, the re-
public 40 well az the Republican party
has heen placed In Jeopardy by the
Issues raised by Theodore Roosevelt.
They must realize that the unwritten
NV Of the republic that no man shall
sbe president thrfe terms h an insur.
/. n0nmtab,e obstacle to the success of