Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1912-10-03
TAFT's OPINION OF COL. Ro0sE
WELT

Il may be puZZle-Wltteu.
But whether | am puzzle-witted or not,
| know the difference between truth
and fiction; / know what square deal
is; and / know that he does not resem-
BILE Abraham Lincoln in any respect. -
cat Gallon the President who had
been talking of Col. Roosevelt, said:
:" Il may be puzzle-witted, but |
know the difference between plain
truth and plain fiction, and there are
some people | do not think do ~
New York Tribune, May Is.
Indicted Men Support Roosevelt.
In his speech in Bellevue President
Taft declared that much of the support
now being given to Col Roosevelt in
his fight for a denomination was COM
ing from men indicted by the Taft ad-
mnistration-New York Tribune, May
IS.
Constitutional Government in Danger
Speaking in Cleveland, Ohio, accord
ing to dispatch dated Cleveland, May
Is, and published in the New York Tri-
bune of May II, President Taft at one
point called the colonel idea of con-
stitutional government wild and ri
| diculous notions" and at another he
spoke of Mr.. Roosevelt IS "tyranny"
and explosive inconsistencies.
Roosevelt Treacherous to Party.
| hos M
yet seen fit to answer the question
whether, if he is nominated and elect
ed, he will discontinue the Steel Trust,
nor has he answered the question whe-
Their he will accept fourth term. =
New York Tribune, May 20.
Changed Views to Catch Votes.
g can not change my views just to
gain votes as Mr.. Roosevelt has done,"
New York Tribune, May %.
Roosevelt's Defeat Averts Calamity
To Nation.
June 22.-President Taft gave the fol-
lowing statement to the New York
Times tonight:
|
on to sieze the Republican party and to
make it the instrument of reckless am
bition and the unsettling of the funda-
ment principles of our Government was
so sudden and unexpected that time was
not given clearly to show the people
and the party the dangers which con-
fronted them. #''-New York
Times, June 80.
A Dangerous Demagogue.
"The issue presented to the conven-
ton, over which your chairman pre-
sided with such just and even hand,
made crisis in the party life. A
faction sought to force the party to
violate valuable and time honored
tradition by intrusting the power of the
Presidency for more than two terms
to one man, and that man one whose
recently avowed political views would
have committed the party to radical
proposals involving dangerous changes
in our present constitutional form of
representative government and our in
dependent judiciary. -
Roosevelt Plan Reactionary and With
out Merit.
President Taft referred free
ly to some of the ploiceis that were
enunciated by the former President be.
fore the Ohio constitutional convention.
Utterly without merit or utility and
reactionary instead of progressive,
crude, revolutionary, fitful, and unsta-
BILE were the terms in which the Presi-
dent referred to the recall method of
reversing judicial construction of the
Constitution.
II have examined this method of re-
versing judicial decisions on constitu
tional questions with great care.o
President Taft said. 81 do not hest.
tate to say that it lays the ak to the
root of the tree of freedom and sub
jects the guarantees of life, liberty and
property without remedy to the fitful
impulse of temporary majority of an
electorate. New York Times, March
Roosevelt Not Safe.
At Boston on April 25 President
Taft first broke his silence on Roose.
welt.
Declaring that Mr.. Roosevelt "ought
not to be selected as candidate of any
party" Mr.. Taft said that the former
President might now be paving the
way, if successful in the present cam.
paign, to remain the Chief Executive of
the Nation for as many terms as his
natural life would permit.
"If he is necessary now to the Gov.
eminent, why not lateri" asked the
President, and continued: Zone who
% lightly regards constitutional princi-
pies, and especially the independence
of the judiciary, one who is so natur.
ally impatient of legal restraints and