The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-04-30
TAFT
RESENTS INSULTS
Attacks Of Theodore Roosevelt
Full Of FalSehOOds.
PATIENCE is EXHAUSTED.

Misrepresentation, v%iliFeation, Abuse
and Assaults of the Rough Riding
Colonel VIII Not Longer 30 ToIer.
atsd-Formsr President Would Wreck
the Party.
After enduring with infinite patience
not only because of the dignity Of the
high Office which he holds, but also be-
cause Of the personal friendship which
he has enjoyed and had hopedto main.
tain with former President Theodore
Roosevelt, President William Il. Taft
has finally been forced to resent the
Misrepresentation Of his actual posi-
ton on public issues, the untruths
which have been uttered with respect
to his official actions and to the con-
duct of this campaign and attecks
upon him which not infrequently In
volved his personal honor as a man as
we'll as his integrity as president Of the
United States.
The president and his campaign man.
ayers have sought throughout this cam.
paign by a dignifed and fair course of
conduct to maintain the Republican
party as a militant power for good in
the land, with a view to another trt-
umphant victory at the polls in No
vember.
On the contrary, Theodore Roose.
welt and his friends and hackers have
conducted an organized campaign to
wreck the Republican party, not only
by engendering personal animosities
by attacks on individual leaders of the
party in various states, but by Offering
and supporting a national platform
which is rank socialism. As a result
Of this situation Director William B.
Mckinley Of the national Taft bureau
Issued the following statement to the
public on April IA:
THE outcome Of the Pennsylvania
primaries is plainly indicative of the
fact that national issues are playing
only a small part in some states in the
campaign for the Republican nomina.
lOn lot president.
Instead Of constructive statesman.
ship being put forth in an effort TO
solve the problems before the country
and us a bid for votes on the ground
of merit, a nation wide campaign of
willful and malicious misrepresenta.
ton, vilifcation and assault on the
president of the United States has
been substituted. Such a campaign.
amounting in fact to a conspiracy, not
only to humiliate the president person
ally but to commit the Republican par.
ty to rank socialism, has been counte.
nanced and conducted by former Pres.
ident Theodore Roosevelt.
1.-THE time has arrived to call a halt
on such proceedings.
president Taft, always mindful Of
the decencies of human conduct, be.
lieving that friendship is a sacred thing
and that, like truth, it should be main.
tanned even alta personal sacrifice. and
also believing that the American poo.
pie expect the occupant of the highest
office in the gift Of the nation, as well
as those who have formerly occupied
1t, to respect the dignity OF that office,
has during the course OF this campaign
patiently submitted to misrepresenta-
ton, vilihcation and insult without re-
ply.
1.-THE result is that his opponent has
thrown all restraint t. the winds. Sen.
ator Joseph NJ. Dixon, the national
campaign manager of former Presi.
dent Roosevelt, has been permitted,
without rebuke from. his candidate to
insult the president of the United
States. he has not only been permit
ted to charge the president with being
"a receiver Of stolen goods without
protest, but former President Roose-
welt has repeated the charge on the
stump.
1.-THE time has now come when the
American people VIII no longer sit idly
by and see this unfair and malicious
persecution and utilization continued
by a man and by the friends Of a
man who has already served two
terms I'M the White House by the