The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-04-30
TAFT IN BAY STATE.
ASKS SQUARE ZEAL
GREAT CROWDS TURN OUT .
TO HEAR THE PRESIDEN
Continues to Deny in Emphatic
Terms Charges Made by
Roosevelt.
Members of Party Confident of
Victory at the Primary
Today


BOSTON. April 2e.-President Taft
ended a l2-hour campaign. through
eastern Massachusetts, In Boston to-
night. From the time he began his
speech making at Attleboro with a
talk on the tariff until he made his
last address at Melrose and asked for
a square DEAL" the President spurred
his husky voice into strenuous action.
IL was one of the hardest campaign
! days Mr.. Taft has spent since he en-
tered the White House. but members
OF his party were confident tonight
that his second invasion OF the Bay
state will bring votes for him TO the
polls tomorrow.
Mr.. Taft's last long address was
made at Lowell TO an audience that
packed the opera house. So eager
was the crowd to gain admittance that
several members OF the Presidents
own party could not get in until long
after he started to speak.
When he came to talk about the
bosses and Mr.. Roosevelt's charges,
someone in the gallery shouted He's
liar"
No. that isn't in my vocabulary"
said the President. Later. when he
was referring to the Lorimer case.
the same man evidently repeated his
cray after a mention OF Colonel
Roosevelt's name.
Hes a liar" he shouted.
No Strenuous Epithets.
| MY experience on the bench has
taught me the value OF words" said
Mr.. Taft. "On eof the most unsafe
things TO do is to go further than 70
show the facts. ! appreciate the sup
port OF my distinguished and enthusi-
astic friend. but | pust decline to
adopt his vocabulary"
after declaring that he was sorry
II was necessary for him 10 have to
mingle in political struggle. he sug-
gested an amendment OF the constitu-
ton so that President should serve
six or eight years ana be ineligible
for reelection.
Il think that would prevent this"
he said.
"No man has the right to misrepre-
sent another 10 help himself. no mat
ter how humble that man is" he
shouted at one point in his Lowell
address. Condemn me II you will, -
he said in conclusion. but condemn
me by other witnesses than Theodore
Roosevelt
II was a man OF straw. but I have
been a man OF straw long enough.
Every man who has blood in his
body. and who has been misrepresent.
ed as ! have been. Is forced to fight.
appeal TO my friends in Massachu-
setts. who. think. believe in a square
deal"
In the first half dozen speeches to-
day, the President did not mention
Col Theodore Roosevelt by name. al.
though he followed closely over the
path his predecessor made through
the State on Saturday and to-day.
Late in the afternoon. however. Mr..
Taft abandoned his early appeals for
support because OF tariff and labor
legislation. and again attacked Mr.
Roosevelt by name.
TAFT Warns Up TO Fiqht.
As be came nearer and nearer "a
d the ColoneIs footsteps. the President
warmed up 20 his subject and as
sailed the Colonel time after time
He was not as bitter a. In his Spring
field and Boston addresses last week
but continued 20 tell The crowds what
he thought of some % his opponent's
charges without going into much
1, detail. the President declared that no
! was FOR government %. FOR and hy
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