The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-05-24
Attacks Of Theodore Roosevelt
Full Of faIsehoods.
IS EXHAUSTED.
Misrepresentation, viI~ification, Abuse
and Assaults Of the Rough Riding
Colonel Will Not Longer Be ToIer-
ated-Former President Would Wreck
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 II. 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
we'll as his integrity as president Of the
United States.
The president and his campaign mar
ayers have sought throughout this cam
paign by a dignifed 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
vember.
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 q national platform
which Is rank socialism. As q result
Of this situation Director william B.
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
willful and malicious misrepresenta-
don, %viliication and assault or the
president Of the United States has
been substituted. Such a campaign.
amounting in fact { 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
AIop% TAnAAorc Doouoro1k
1.-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 a sacred thing
and that. like truth. it should be main
tanned even at q personal sacrifice, and
also believing that the American peo-
pie expect the occupant Of the highest
Office in the gift Of the nation. as vel!
al those who have formerly occupied
1t, to respect the dignity Of that Office.
has during the course Of this campaign
patiently submitted to misrepresenta-
tion. ~vilification and insult without re-
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 Oh the
stump.
THE time has now come when the
American people will no longer sit idly
by and see this unfair and malicious
persecution and utilization continued
by a man and by the friends Of a
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. 8, 1904. Is seeking a
third term on q national platform so
unrepublican In nature that he dare
not discuss It himself, as Is shown by
his recent speeches In Illinois, Penn
eylvania 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 demagogism in this country has
been reached.
Those states which have yet to
elect delegates to the Republican ia.
tional convention In Chicago might
lust 40 well realize now that the re-
public as well as 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-
obstacle to the success of
any party In any national election In
this country. They must realize that
the moposai Of the recall Of judges
and OF judicial decisions IL not only un-
ronnhlican hut rank socialism. The