Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-05-05
Threat to Fight Prevented Proseou.
ton of Harvester Combine.
CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS NEXT
President Asks What is Real Mean
ing of These Events.
INNovAToR IS ABROAD IN LAND
Recall of Judges Would Mean Par
tissn Decisions In Lipe with
Views of Party I'm Control
of Government.

ELKToN, Nd, May L-Speaking TO
several hundred people here today. Presi-
dent Taft, for the first time since he
began his attacks on Theodore Roosevelt.
strongly intimated that much of the
support the colonel is receiving comes
from the trusts and the interests"
MIR. Roosevelt says am owned by the
interests" said Mr.. Taft. What l at
tempted to do in my administration was
TO carry out Mr.. Rooseyelt's policies
and one OF those policies | thought to
be the prosecution OF the trusts under
the antitrust law and so ] gave orders
to the attorney general to prosecute every
trust that he found violating the law.
and tho only difference between me and
Mr.. Roosevelt is that l prosecuted the
steel trust and prosecuted the harvester
trust and he did not.
Now. am not making any charges
against Mr.. Roosevelt because he did not.
He changed his mind about the operation
OF the antitrust law. and he thinks now
that its operation is not good and he
criticlses me because | prosecuted the
Standard OIL company and the tobacco
company in the supreme court and got
DEGREES there. He says these DEGREES
are not worth anything.
Views of Mr.. Perkins.
Mr.. George Perkins, a director OF
the harvester trust and director Of the
steel trust says that those prosecutions
A. ,,nt .r.o,,,t a. aaxtbtno rfa ,o.N
think so now, but when he wrote letters
urging that no suit be brought against
the harvester trust. he thought that
prosecution might injure Il.
''In Mr.. Roosevelt's present attitude.
suppose ! had refused to prosecute the
steel trust and that i had refused to
prosecute the harvester trust; suppose
that there came out statement showing
that Mr.. Perkins had said; II you prose-
quently they were not prosecuted; then.
after that. suppose Mr.. Perkins had con-
tributed largely to the campaign fund OF
myself. what do you think Mr.. Roosevelt
would have said of me?
Would he not have come down on me
with thousand of brick and said: Here
now you see he Is controlled by the in
terests.'
And yet Mr.. Roosevelt has the cour-
age-I shall not call 1t anything else-has
the courage. after that chapter. to charge
me with being under the particular con-
troll Of the interests.
Consorted with Bosses.
BALTIMORE. May L-President Taft
began his fight for the support Of the
Maryland voters In Mondays presidential
primaries today with speeches at Hyatts-
Vile and Laurel. In which he once again
attacked Colonel Theodore Roosevelt ac-
cused him Of mis-statemen and mis-
9uotion Of his speeches; said Mr.. Roose-
welt consorted with the bosses he now
preached against for seven years while
be was in the White House. and assailed
bitterly and at length Mr.. Roosevelts
doctrine Of the recall Of judges and de-
:isions.
I'm a man Of peace" shouted the
president at Hyattsyille." and ] don't
sant to fight But when I do fight /
want to hit hard. Even a rat in a cor
Ter will fight"
The president said he deprecated the
necessity that forced him to come out In
political campaign like an ordinary
nndidate.
eff only my person ambition was con
lerned,' he said, IF only my personl
reputation was at stake. should not
.other you. but consider that | repre-
snt q cause.
Innovafor Abroad I'm Land.
THE innoyatot is abroad in the land
md we are told that there are new things
hat should be introduced. for instance
he recall Of judges. II this policy is
dopted It win mean that in democratic
pears the decision upon laws will be
lemocratic and In republican years they
VII be republican. So we'll have a vary
ug interpretations Of the constitution de-
,ending on a single vote
II am courageous enough to come out
md tell the people what they already
,now-they recognize the short cominss
& sudden decision Of the people"
"An / ask is a square deal" said the
resident. ",xf Roosevelt believes In re-
srrtng to the standards Of sport as
uaxims Of life I don't object to IT. But
II / ask Is that he give me square
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