Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-15
TAFT IN YOUNGSTOWN,
ROOSEVELT IN CANTON,
END A STRENUOUS DAY

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. May 15-Colum-
biana,. Stark, Mahoning. and Trumbull
counties were wide awake yesterday
when President Taft hot on the trail of
Roosevelt, during the afternoon, and pre-
ceding him into many towns during the
morning. waged the hottest day of his
campaign so far.
The President spoke at Alliance, Can
ton. Massillon, Akron, Kent, Ravenna,
Warren and Niles and finished his sched-
ule here last night The train last night
carried the President to GAINESVILLE
Entering this city last night six hours
after Theodore Roosevelt had visited it,
President Taft quoted from Roosevelt's
speech and answered him in kind.
The Taft train was more than an hour
late, and when he arrived at the Park
Theater he found a throng of more than
1,6OO people who had been waiting for
hours. The streets of the town. too, were
lined with crowds.
Il hear that Roosevelt said here today
that he was in favor Of tariff which
will put the profits of a business into
the pockets of the employees" said the
President. There never was and never
will be such a tariff. This is a mere
sham issue. I want to break some bub-
bles of pretense that have been held up
to the American people, and this is one.
Theodore Roosevelt doesn't understand
what liberty regulated by law is. He is a
man of great ability, but of little con-
stitutional restraint, and is impatient of
legal restraint. He is a dangerous man
to lntOxicate with the compliment of a.
third term
He continued to fay the colonel
throughout the day. and in his Canton
speech, where the largest throng of the
day waited, he referred to his late cOun-
cilor with touch of sarcasm as "Theo-
dore''
At Canton he said:
II say that of all persons we have had
in this country 1t is. more dangerous to
put Theodore Roosevelt into a third term
now than any other man."
Roosevelt Ends Day at Canton.
CANTON, May 15.-Before a great au-
dience and almost within sight of the
mausoleum containing his predecessors
sarcophagus, Col. Roosevelt last night
used the names of William Mckinley and
Abraham Lincoln to sustain his conten-
ton that his successor had departed from
the faith and was no longer true to
ancient traditions.
Mckinley, he declared. with meaning
sarcasm, did not mistrust the people, nor
sheer at them as rabble or a mob.
Neither he nor Lincoln had the fear of
the tyranny Of the majority" declared
Col. Roosevelt, using Taft's expressions
against him.
He entered into an elaborate defense
of his position on the recall of judicial
decisions and read from the writings and
speeches of Lincoln to show that he was
justified in advancing the doctrine. Not
only was he not an enemy Of the Consti-
tuition, he insisted, but he went on to
charge that it was the very persons who
made the accusation who were opponents
OF that instrument.
Before his audience at youngstown.
where hundreds are annually manned or
killed in the great steel mills, he quoted
the overturning Of the workmen's COM
pensation act in New York and the in
valuation of the tenement law in Illinois
to support his contention, and then asked
sarcastically IL he was an anarchist.
He also advocated a bureau or OH
Ger for the purpose Of supervising INDUS
tries protected by the tariff. to the end
that the benefits accruing therefrom
might be divided with the wage worker.
His object, he said, was to see that the
proper share of the profit got into the
pay envelope, and did not all stop at the
mill Office" In effect, this PRONUNCIATION
resembles the Australian plan, and it was
well received by the many workers to
whom he spoke concerning 1t.