The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-05-24
TAFT DECLARES
I. r. DANGEROUS
BITTER ATTACK MARKS
OPENING OF N, J. TOUR
President Criticises Coloneps
Constitutional Views as
Unsound.
Urges That No Other President
Has Ever Sought Third Term
of People.

TRENTON. N. J.. May 23.-Presi-
dent Taft began his New Jersey cam
paign tonight with speeches at Cam
den, Burlington and Trenton. The
president showed the effects OF his
hard campaign through Ohio. and
spoke with less emphasis than he did
last week
At Camden. where he addressed a
crowd that filled the armory. he once
again deprecated the entrance OF a
and attacked Colonel Roosevelt in the
same bitter language he used before.
Mr.. Taft started his New Jersey
tour from Philadelphia, where he
spent most OF the day. At the Cam
den armory the President spoke
standing on a table. His speech at
Camden was much like all the others
he made, he regretting being drawn
! into the fight He declared he was
not campaigning for his own advance
term. but said:
i am here to warn you that in this
! preliminary contest before the Chi
cago convention there is a crisis in
your country's history that ought TO
eRNA JC1 W oNNANANy W PAEN0hN NhN
dangers that threaten us as a consti-
tutional government And IL Is be-
cause OF the undeserved accusations
against my administration and I'M
founded aspersions against me which
have been used to mislead the people
as to the real issue that Is now pend
ing. that have felt IT necessary to
come out and meet those accusations
| and ronal Nhaan and
plain that the real issue IL before the
people Of this country at this time.
Il claim-perhaps I am wrong about
it-but claim that this has been a
business administration that has gone
I along enforcing the laws. and doing
the best II could and keeping the bal
ance on the right side Of the ledger.
Attacks Roosevelt.
In regard to Col. Roosevelt. in part,
he said:
Il am opposed to Mr.. Roosevelt also
because. and that is more serious than
the other, because of the unsound
constitutional views that he has held,
and that he promises TO put into state
constitutions. and IL ne puts them into
state constitutions they necessarily
will go into federal constitutions.
And finally, am opposed TO him
because his nomination will be a de.
parture OF tradition that has been
recognized by Washington, by Jeffer-
son, by Jackson. by Lincoln, by Nc
Kinley. and was preserved In the
case OF Grant by the people against
the will OF Grants friends: and has
been approved by Theodore Roose.
welt. II was approved by him in 1904
and It was reinforced by him IN 1908
| appeal from Theodore Roosevelt
now TO Theodore Roosevelt then.
appeal In the same way to those re
marks with which he commended me
20 the American people. so eulogistic
so superlative that cannot read
them now without blushing, and
say that both with respect to his
opinion Of me and with respect 10
the constitutional question. or rather
the traditional question OF two terms
that his judgment then was very
much sounder than IL Is now and that
II you depart from that tradition and
give him a third term. there IL not
the slightest reason at all why you
should not give him a fourth term
and n a fourth term then the bar
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