New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-20
Mr.. Taft Asserts Nation Is To Be
Congratulated, as Roosevelt
Rule Spells Ruin.
LIKENS HIM TO LOUIS XIV
Statement on Eve of Final Days
Fight for Ohio Says Third
Term Candidates Posi-
tion Has Only One
Parallel.

COIlpdleu lHSOuOTe Roosevelt 10 LOUIS
XIV tonight in a statement issued on
the eve of the final days fight in the
Ohio Presidential preference primaries.
Not only did he attack the coloners per-
sonality but he went further and ques-
toned Mr.. Roosevelt's right to a nomi-
nation from the Republican party and
asserted his belief that Mr.. Roosevelt
would bolt. The President said:
"Mr. Roosevelt says that he is the Re-
publican party, and that if the Repub-
| lican National Committee, in passing on
the credentials of delegates for the pre-
lininary roll in the convention, shall
hold to be unfounded his many flimsy
contests, he will decline to abide the
judgment Of those having authority.
"The inference from this is that he will
bolt the convention because a duly con.
sttuted Republican National Committee
shall, after judicial investigation, re-
fuse to seat his eontestins delegates. II
his ediot is to be needed, then the hold
tory and superfluous.
( The arrogance of his statement that
he is the Republican party and that
failure to comply with his views and
wishes puts those doing so in the atti-
tude Of boilers finds no parallel in his
tory save in the famous words Of Louis
XIV: The State. ! am it
"It is on a par with his declaration
that 4 typify and embody' the progress
sive sentiment Of the age.
With clearly traceable premeditation,
he projected contests without the slight
est reason therefor, in many cases weeks
after the regular conventions had been
held, merely to make basis for cam
paign of bluff and buster. Now he
threatens that unless this campaign
thus carried on is to be recognized as
successful, and unless honestly elected
delegates shall be thrown out in sufii-
cient numbers to give him a majority.
he will break from the party and try 70
ruin that which he cannot rule.
~ appeal to all Republicans TO say
tude does not forfeit his claim to any
raht to become a candidate in Repub-
Iican convention.
"Honored with the nomination 10 tho
Presidency by that party. and with ths
most sacred obligations resting upon him
to be loyal to its organization. to re-
spect the rules governing its national
convention and to recognize the author
ity Of the committees duly appointed
under its traditional policy, he fiouts in
advance the decision of all these and
announces that, unless he is nominated.
the interest of the party and the inter
est of its members are to be sacriflced
and only his selfish ambition is TO be
consulted II cannot he that Republi
cans will countenance such breach of
party fealty. such treason 10 the partys
properly constituted government ana
sucb defiance of the will Of its major
ity."
In opening his statement President
Taft referred 10 the claims of delegates.
saying;
"On Thursday last | gave a statement
TO the press in which | said that with
$50 Taft delegates then elected TO tie
convention and with the immediate
prospect of the election of enough TO
exceed the necessary 80 the success Of
the cause of constitutional government
seemed assured The delegates elected
since that time have confirmed this con-
clusion.
Mr.. Roosevelt's speech at Cleveland
shows him in such a light that the Ger
tainty Of his defeat for the Repu5lcan
nomination must be a source of pro
found congratulation to all patriotic clt-
zens. who can now see the utter wreck
that he would have made of the party II
nominated and the great danger to
which the country would have been oN-
posed had there been any chance OF DIS
election TO third term
In ending his statement the President
discussed several matters in dispute ne
tween himself and the colonel. He said:
MIR. Roosevelt reiterates the unfound-
cd statement that | held conferences
with him, or in the Cabinet concernihs
tho treatment of the steel trust and or
the Harvester trust. So clearly nave
made the proof that those questions
were completely disposed of while l was
out of the country, and that therefore
I could have had no part in any con-
ference on the subject, that 90 NOT
think II necessary to refer to the matter
again. Mr.. Roosevelts statements IN
this regard are mere assertions. with
out reference TO record or contemporary
Mine were based on both
"Nr Roosevelt says that Mr.. Dan
Hanna's indictment for rebates was for
a mere technical violation of the law
and involved no moral delinquency. the
fact is that the discontinuance OF the
criminal prosecution of Mr.. Hanna per-
sonallv was part of a settlement IN
which the companies represented py MI
Hanna paid S143,00O of fines. This
would seem TO exceed a mere technical
violation of the law.
"Mr. Roosevelt has not seen ht TO an
swer the question whether, II he Is nomi-
mated and elected he will discontinue
the steel trust, nor has he answered the
question whether he will accept fourth
term"
aNTEDILUvlAN WHISkEY.
Whether in a highball or straight nothing