Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-04-27

the Party.
After enduring with infinite patience
not only because of the dignity of the
high office which he holds. but also be
cause of the personal friendship which
he has enjoyed and had hoped to main
tain with former president Theodore
Roosevelt, President William III. Taft
has finally been forced to resent the
Misrepresentation of his actual posi-
ton 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
upon him which not infrequently in
volved his personal honor as a man as
well as his integrity as president Of the
United States.
The president and his campaign man
ayers have sought throughout this cam
paign by a dignified and fair course of
conduct to maintain the Republican
party as a militant power for good in
the land, with a view TO another tri-
umphant victory at the polls In No
yember.
On the contrary Theodore Roose-
welt 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 a national platform
which is rank socialism. AS a result
of this situation Director William 3.
Mckinley OF the national Taft bureau
issued the following statement to the
public on April IA:
1.-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 nomina
ton 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 nation wide campaign of
willfu and malicious misrepresenta-
ton, utilization and assault on the
president of the United States has
been substituted Such campaign.
amounting in fact to a conspiracy, not
only to humiliate the president person
ally but to commit the Republican par
ty to rank socialism, has been counte-
nanced and conducted by former Pres
ident Theodore Roosevelt
"The time has arrived to call a halt
on such proceedings.
president Taft, always mindful Of
the decencies of human conduct, be-
lieving that friendship is sacred thing
and that, like truth, 1t should be main
tanned even at a personal sacrifice, and
also believing that the American peo-
Pile expect the occupant of the highest
office in the gift of the nation, as well
as those who have formerly occupied
it, to respect the dignity of that office,
has during the course of this campaign
patiently submitted to misrepresenta-
ply.
1.-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 permit
ted to charge the president with being
"a receiver of stolen goods without
protest, but former President Roose-
welt has repeated the charge on the
stump.
1.-THE time has now come when the
American people will no longer sit idly
by aud see this unfair and malicious
persecution and vilifcation continued
by man and by the friends of u
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 nation, voluntarily given on the
night of Nov. s, 1904, is seeking a
third term ON a national platform so
unrepublcan in nature that he dare
not discuss it himself, as is shown 10y
his recent speeches in Illinois, Penn
sylvania and New Hampshire.
'"The fact that this candidate Is now
claiming to wear the mantle of Abra-
ham Lincoln is evidence that the acme
of demagogsm in this country has
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 rs the Republican party
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-
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