The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-17
His Friends Place No Credence
i'm the Report.
That He VIII Quit il He Loses
Ohio Delegation.
HIS SCHEDULE FOR TODAY
Calls for Speeches Ending at
Toledo Tonight.
The President Addressed by a
Big Crowd at Cleveland.

Cleveland. Nav -7.-Refreshed by
comparatively quiet day here and pre-
pared to keep up the fight against the
denomination of Colonel Roosevelt un-
til the end, Mr.. Taft left CleVelano
early today to take up again MS speech
making tour of the state
Friends of the president were COZ. Con
fident today that he was more oeteI-
mined than ever t. make the struggie
for Ohio's 48 delegates to the Repuo-
licau national convention as strenuous
as possible. ~.
cuss reports published here that ne
might abandon tie fight for a re-
nomination if he should lose IN tne
Ohio primaries, men close to him piace
no credence in such a report. They
point to the fact that hundreds OF
delegates to the convention are IN
structed and pledged to Mr.. IaIt anu
that the Taft workers Throughout tne
country have put up their best hght
for him. They figure also on the pit
ter resentment the president mas
shown. toward Colonel Roosevelt ana
few of them would .concede that ne
would ever withdraw IN favor OF ms
predecessor. Talk of Mr. Tafts re-
tirement from the race for a dark
horse in case he loses Ohio is also ais
credited by his friends. Advisers with
him on his Ohio trip say he Will SUCK
in the fight to the end.
The presidents schedule for today
called for speeches at Lorain, Bellevue,
Fremont, Fostoria, Tifin, Carey, Upper
Sandusky, Kenton, F1ndlay BoWhhs
Green and night address at Toledo.
After a day of rest, during which ne
made two talks to working men at To-
cal manufacturing plants and con-
ferred with Senator Burton and other
state leaders, President Taft spoke last
night in the Central armory here to
great crowd.
The care taken to spare his throat
and keep him quiet showed in the
speech ard it was = rejuvenated presf- |
dent that faced the audience in the |
big armCry. He was more emphatic |
in manner and more incisive in speak |
ing than he had cen for the last two |
days.
Brings Laughter and Cheers.
The president made the same sort |
of speech as throughout his Ohio tour,
but at times he varied the argument
for support on his administration.
the need existing for further tariff re-
vision, Mr.. Taft got laugh and a
cheer by remarking:
eff the Democrats will only give me
the money, I'll see that the schedules
which are too high will be revised"
Another remark that brought laughter
was made about the factions of the Re
publican party when the president was
to progressive assistance in
passing the railroad bill.
You can call them progressives if you
ike them, and insurgents if you don't"
he said.
He himself called them "progressives''
many times. When he came to a discus
sion of the postal savings bank bill, how
sver, he said:
1T was opposed by the insurgents; you
see call them insurgents
-dr Taft made some new phrases In
point he called his ideas of constitutional
government wild and ridiculous notions,''
and at another he spoke of Mr.. Roose-
ct "stVrannV 'eyDIOSiV6 n
The president brought again the charge
hat Mr.. Roosevelt, Senator Dixon, his
manager, and the Democrats in
he senate were responsible for the weak
ming of the British and French arbitra-
ion treaties.
II would not be here to bother you to-
hight if it did not concern the American
people more than it does me to defeat
Theodore Roosevelt for the presidency
That was the way President Taft intro
iuced his criticism of Colonel Roosevelt
lere
IF it were a purely personal matter
With me-" he continued. 81 would be con-
ent to abide the verdict of time and
would remain in the White House silent
lnder his misstatements and attacks upon
ne. But more than my own feelings in
he matter is at stake. 1t is of supreme
Importance to the American people,
Indicted Men for t. r..
Bellevue, Ohio, May 17.-In a speech
here today President Taft declared that
20 Roosevelt in his fight for re-nomi-
nation is coming from men indicted by
he Taft administration.
''To say that because a man supports
vou, you are bound up with him is to
Jay something not justified by the mere
act of his support. If it were justi-
led thus, l could say that Roosevelt
ought not to get your votes because all
he indicted people are supporting him
as they are or most of them are.
Mr.. Perkins, director in the steel
md harvester trusts, used influence
n the last administration to present
;uits against them,'' he said. He is
lot influential enough now. He is a
contributor to Mr.. Rooseve1t's political
und."