New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-21
Mr.. Taft's Final Appeal.

President Tafts seven days of speech
making through the state ended in Day.
ton tonight with a final plea to Repub-
leans of his own state to give him their
support and to defeat Theodore Roose-
welt, whom Mr.. Taft called THE bolter
Mr. Taft appealed in practically every
one of his dozen speeches he made to-
day for Republicans to consider and keep
in mind Mr.. Roosevelt's Cleveland
speech, in which, the President said, he
prophesied bolt. He continued TO pre-
dict the wreck Of the party II Mr.
Roosevelt did not change his attitude.
Mr. Taft asked Republicans to remem'
ber how long that party had existed and
what it always had stood for. and TO de-
eide for themselves whether or not they
wished to see it disrupted 10 CRAFTY
the ambition of one man
Mr.. Taft has made no predictions be-
fore any Of the primaries I'm other states
have been held, and he followed this rule
to-day. His friends believe he has made
noteworthy effort to win ohio, ani
many Of them were confident the result
of the trip would he evident at the polls
o-morrow.
The crowds that turned out to-day
were fully up to the mark set earlier In
the campaign. and in several towns es-
ceeded in the estimation of local officials
any ever seen there at political gather
ings. The demonstrations were lively,
and some frequently brought smiles 10
the President
Mr.. Taft has travelled almost three
thousand miles. and has spent six entire
days on his private car and one day in
Cleveland The trip has been as trying
TO the President as any he has ever uu-
dertaken. and Major Thomas l.. Rhoades,
his physician, while confident that he
will be able 10 take up his campaign In
New Jersey on Thursday, believed to-
night that a rest tomorrow and on
Wednesday and part Of Thursday would
not come amiss. Mr.. Tafts only en-
gagement tomorrow is TO go 10 the
polls in Cincinnati, and he expects 10
leave that city in the afternoon for
Washington.
Roosevelt the "Grand Monarch"
Most of Mr.. Taft's attacks on Colonel
Roosevelt for his threat to bolt the
Chicago convention were alike. Here
is one delivered late to-day in Xenia:
Mr.. Roosevelt said at Cleveland the other
night in effect, that he was going to bolt
If he were not nominated, and that when
he bolted il he were not nominated he
would be the Republican party and those
from whom he bolted would be the boilers,
because. he said, Il am the KepupHcah
party organization.
There used to be a king in France
known as the Grand Monarch" He said.
The State am it.. i am the State" and
that is what Theodore is saying about the
Republican party.
venture TO think that the Republican
party will get along and live long after
him, and that he is not Indispensable either
sad day in the history of the country when
a man becomes Indispensable TO It, we
shall have to change the form from re-
public TO some other form II that De the
case.
In Piqua Mr.. Taft took shot at Gif-
ford Pinchot, saying:
Mr. pinchot. that reliable historian, has
been going around the country saying tnst
got up the Canadian reciprocity business
Sud s,i,iariy ,S certain states that had voted
sgainst me. and / just took the schedules
and | figured them out and arranged them
SO as TO hit South Dakota between tne
sS,as and so as to hit Ohio Well you cam
not argue with a man. like that.
Turning to Mr.. Roosevelts comment
ON the way delegates have been selected
IN many states, the President said, in
Hamilton, the Roosevelt contests ere
made as the basis Of campaign OF
bluff" adding:
Mr. Roosevelt says We are resorting to
fraud and force and everything else In get
ring delegates. Those are just general state
ments He does not back them up with