The Van Buren press., 1912-05-18
Taft fiays Roosevelt.


Ohio, WHICH came ~ ali end wit
"a speech here tonight, was mark
ed by the most pronounced verb
al assault upon Col. Roosevelt L
which Mr. Taft has so far give
public utterance. In speeahe
that we're filled with indignant al
tack, that bubbled over with un
complimentary adjectives, Mr.
Taft discharged his oratory at hi
predecessor in the White House
He started out upon his last cam
paign TO urge the people of Obi'
10 support him in the primarle'
of May 81, at Marietta, in a cold
hard rain, which kept up for sew
eral hours, but which finally fee
before the sun.
Although, in substance, all o
the dozen speeches the presiden
made today were much like those
he delivered in Massachusetts
and Maryland, thsy differed wide
~ at times in the words used Il
score Mr.. Roosevelt.
One of the attacks on Mr..
Roosevelt which raised q laugh
delivered at Dennison late today,
ran like this:
81 think it would be dangerous
to put man with Mr.. Roosevelts
present constitutional views and
with the intoxicatlon he would
necessarily feel by reason of get
ting something that none of the
great presidents ever got-into
the White House again.
HE says the reason the Amer
ican people are going to elect him
is because he is necessary for the
job. Well, / call your attention
to what the job is which he pro.
poses. 1t is the millennium that
he is going to bring about when
he gets into office. All bosses
are going to disappear, politicians
are going to be fewer and he is
going to have q finger in every
community in every state, in eve
ry county aud every thing is going
to be heaven.
"If that be true, the millennium
is coming and if that is the job he
is to do, it is going to take long.
er than four years. | beg Of you
to ask him, when he comes here,
whether he would take Il 4th term
aud why he should not continue
in Office during his life.'
Another sally that brought a
response was that delivered at
Cambridge. Speaking of the job
Mr.. Roosevelt said the people
wanted him to do, Mr. Taft asked:
"Suppose Mr.. Roosevelt were
waited TO the skies in chariot
like the prophet Of old and were
10 disappear from sight, how do
you suppose this country would
get along anyhow
My friends, it is dangerous
thing to put man in the White
House for the third time with his
views of the constitution aud with
his views of himself. In every
announcement he makes you
would think he was the whole
show, and that there wasn't any.
body else in the country. It's |,
|, |, |, and therefore say that
if you feed that vanity aud that
egotism by giving him something
that Washington did moi get and
Jefferson did not get and Jackson
did not get and Grant could not
got, you are going to put in Office
q man with a sense Of power and
with view Of constitutional re
striction that will be dangerous
10 this country
Mr.. Taft compared Roosevelt,
and Lincoln with u smile. "Mr
Roosevelt lkens himself to Abra
ham Lincoln more and resembles
him less than any man in the his
tory Of this country" he remark
ed vt one time in the day,
Mr.. Taft asked Roosevelt back
ers for more facts and less "lurit
headlines and lung power" ant
dubbed the campaign the former
president 10 making against hin
"accusatory aud libclous."
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