Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-05-19
President Travels Over Nearly
Three Thousand Miles in
Home State and Speaks in
Seventy-Three Counties.
ROOSEVELT COMES
IN FOR SCORING
Chief Executive Charges 0p-
ponent with Having Faced
About on Reciprocity in Or
der to Win Votes.

IBy Morning journal Special Leased wire.1
Springfield. O.. May 1S.-Confident
that his appeals TO the pride OF Ohio
in an Ohio president have been of
some avail and that his chance for
capturing this states delegation to the
republican convention has improved
greatly since he crossed the Ohio river
last Monday President Taft tonight
closed the weeks campaigning with a
speech here.
When the president makes his last
speech at Dayton Monday night he
viii have travelled about three thou
sand miles in Ohio, Will have spoken
in every congressional district In the
state and will have visited seventy
three of its eighty eight counties.
Ohio politicians who have talked
with Mr.. Taft say that never in the
states history has there been such
campaign. In his talks today to the
farmers in the counties along the
western border, from Lake Erie south
ward, the presidents feeling OF confi-
dence was reflected In his manner.
Although he used plain language
about Colonel Roosevelt and the Ohio
losses. his old smile was again In evil
dence and he talked enthusiastically of
the coming election with friends on
board his private car.
no the farmers today the president
talked about Canadian reciprocity and
about Mr.. Roosevelt's tariff revision
proposals. He bluntly declared Mr..
Roosevelt had changed his opinion in
regard to the reciprocity to get him
votes and charged that he was paint
ing something to sell and not TO use"
when he made public his tariff pro-
posals.
Mr.. Taft's voice stood up well un-
der the strain of dozen speeches and
his advisers felt certain tonight that
he would be able to finish the cam
paign next week without inconveni-
ence. with IA day of rest tomorrow at
the home of his brother. c. T.. Taft.
in Cincinnati.
At Lima an old soldier, who sat
near the platform rose every time the
president asked a question and usually
had an answer ready that showed his
approval of Mr.. Tafts administration.
When the president came to dis
cusslon of the Lorlmer case and Mr.
Roosevelt's charges against him in
connection with 1t he wound up by
asking IL Abraham Lincoln would have
acted In that matter as Mr.. Roosevelt
has acted.
"He would have dropped dead
first" shouted the veteran.
In the course Of his speech at Ur-
bana tonight the president answered
for the first time another of Mr..
floosevelt's charges. He said;
II observe that Mr., Roosevelt says
the mining bureau bill passed In his
term. He says I am tired of Mr.. Taft
aiming everything that | have done
well, these are the facts The bill
for the establishment of the bureau
Of mines was introduced In the house
by Mr. HUFF of Pennsylvania on Janu-
ary II. 1910. II was passed by the
house January 25. and by the senate
on May 2. and signed by President
Taft on May l6 1910. Roosevelt dined
with the German emperor on May 10.
He spoke before the Berlin university
On May i2 and did not reach the
United States from Africa for a month
after the bill was signed"