Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-05-10
EXTRAORDINARY PERSONAL ATTACK

nothing for MIR. Taft's personal atti.
tudc toward me- alluce to It only in
passing and merely because Mr.. Taft
lays such emphasis on the matter"
Taking up his accusation that Taft
had secured the support Of Senator
LOrimcr without protest, the Colonel
cried out:
Although Mr.. Taft began by being
against Mr.. Lorimer. ! do not know,
and ! do not believe, that he has been
against Mr.. LOrimer recently. II is
out of the question that Mr.. Lorimer,
an astute and powerful man, could
have been ignorant of Mr.. Tafts atti.
tudc II that attitude had been one OF
efficient opposition TO him.
Mr. Taft never intended to raise
his voice against Mr.. Lorimer In Iii.
nois or before the Illinois primary. He
hoped for a victory which could have
only been won by the aid of Mr.. Lori.
mer and his hackers.
Against lorimer
when the primary election in iii.
nois Is. past when Lorimer has been
beaten, when there is no more support
to be gotten out of him, then, and not
until then, does Mr. Taft announce
, that he was against him.
when | went to Illinois was warn
cd again and again not to speak
against Lorimer because there were q
great many people who believed In him
and that would lose their support ii
| | attacked Lorimer. ! answered that
! | would rather lose every delegate in
Illinois than fail to express my abhor
renee of Lorlmer and of all that Lori
mer stood for.
81 denounced when there was dan
| ger in denouncing him. Mr.. Taft, with
out word of protest, accepted sup
' port from the mess and mass Of cor
/ ruption' which a year and quarter
! previously he had denounced. ! think
! that Mr.. Taft acted badly in aCceptinl
Lorimer's support in silence, but
think he has acted much worse in com
/ ing to the front to repudiate LOrimel
/ here in Massachusetts, where hC
! thinks such reputation can help him
after he has thus kept silent about i
when the reputation might have hur
him.
objectionable Among Gentlemen.
4 MIR. Taft says that | changed from
on the reciprocity measure. This II
untrue. lie published letter of mine
in answer to letter of his. marked
Confidential Incidentally, one of Thu
: objectionable sins on the part of an.
man calling himself n gentleman Is T.
4 publish confidential correspondence
without permission. AS to this car
. nothing. but | warn Mr. Taft that 1
. discussing negotiations with a foreig
| power, It is well not to publish sue
expressions as that in his letter abou
making Canada only an adjunct of tn
, United States"
| Roosevelt went on to state that h
3 supported Taft's reciprocity measur
) until he found It was obnoxious to tn
farmers.
. because | had stated that | woul
; support the treaty. ! said not a wOr
against 1t until II was dead" he salt
Even then declined to speak on tn
subject until in several States NJ
Tafts managers themselves, with wha
b | can only characterize as unpardol
Y able baseness, began to circulate tn
y fact of my support of Tafts proposi
g as a reason why ! should not be nom
'' mated
3 Calls Taft an Ananias.
o Punging into the Presidents all
: sion that the influence Of Federal O
e fceholders in the Chicago COnventio
this year would be less effective tina
l. any one candidate than ever before
d the history of the party" ROOseve
$ exclaimed with kissing breath:
q This Is not only an untruth, but a
d absurd untruth. Never in thlrt
d years close observation have ] see
/ such scandalOus abuse of the patrO
y age as this year. Moreover. II Is out ,
II the question that Mr. Taft can real
II be ignorant of what Is being done u
D der him. The outrageous attempt
G debauch the forestry and reclamatiC
d service | can testify to the truth
D. myself. because forest officers ha'
Is forwarded to me letters sent them
e Mr.. Tafts managers.
T. Some of the abuse of patronage h;
been done directly by Mr.. Taft hi
self. as in the case of the YariO
.e North Carolina nominations. MOI
10 over, does Mr.. Taft think that the pc
n plae have forgotten the letter mis- So
al rotary sent out as to restoring to
n surgent Senators the patronage
$, which he had deprived them?"
S After going into detail to she
&c corruption and collision" in the Ke
Dt lucky, Indiana and New York print
re les, Roosevelt took IN the Presiden