Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-27
COLONEL BITTERLY
REPLIES TO TAFT
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political party, takes the action he did
he has not really in thought, word
and deed been disloyal to our past
friendship, but has been disloyal to
every canon Of ordinary decency and
fair dealing, such as should obtain
even in dealing with a mans bitterest
opponents. Such conduct represents
the very ~crookedest kind of a crooked
deal, and when Mr.. Taft, within TWEEN
ty-four hours of making Ii, complains
thai he has not been given a square
deal by me, he exposes himself to de-
rision and contempt.
How Taft's Friends Behave.
This lie not an exceptional instance
of how he has behaved to me. The
same course was followed last summer
in connection with the Tennessee Goa
and Iron Company. The assaults upon
me by Mr.. Taft's campaign managers,
in Washington, under Mr.. Taft's
very eyes, have been foul to the verge
of indecency. But, remember, | am not
complaining of these things. I care
nothing for Mr.. Taft's personal atti-
tude toward me. I allude to 1t only In
passing, and merely because Mr.. Taft
lays such emphasis on the matter"
Taking up his accusation that Presi-
Taft had accepted the support of
Senator Lorlmer without protest, the
colonel cried out:
although MI. Taft began by being
against Mr.. Lorimer. I do not know,
and I do not believe, that he has been
against Mr.. Lorimer recently. 1t is u
u - -..--f~-N That Mr. IartrnaT an
astute and powerful man, could have
been ignorant of MI. Tafts attitude il
that attitude had beer n of efficient
opposition to him.
Given Lie Direct.
MIR. Taft says that I changed front
on the reciprocity measure. This Is
untrue. He publishes a letter of mine,
in answer to a letter of his marked
CONFIDENTIAL incidentally one of the
objectionable sins on the part Of any
man calling himself a gentleman is to
publish confidential correspondence
without permission. AS to this I care
nothing, but I warn Mr.. Taft that in
discussing negotiations with a foreign
power it is we'll not to publish such
expressions as that in his letter about
making Canada only an adjunct of the
United States"
TT is a most curious thing hat Mr.
Taft should actually criticise me for
not having ~assailed him about the
Payne tariff law. I have eagerly en-
deavored to praise Mr.. Taft whenever
I possibly could, and where possible I
have merely kept silence where I dis
agreed. AS he now insists that I
oho,.ll hraay ofIanaA about tho tariff
law, I will say that / hold him culpably
responsible for having led h people to
believe that he favored a substantial
downward REVISION and that he would
work actively for 1t, inc for them law
ing sat supinely by and allowed his
new friends under the lead of Messrs.
Aldrich and Cannon, to produce a bill
which made him convict himself of in
sincerity when he signed it."
says Taft Misstated Fact.
when Mr.. Taft speaks of the trusts
he is guilty of deliberate misstatement
of a great and vital fact" the colonel
proceeded. He says I propose to
abolish the antitrust law. | never
made any such proposal. and this he
well knew. When he thus deliberately
misstates my position he Is himself
guilty of a crooked deal"
He characterized the Presidents
statement of the Standard Oil and To
bacco trusts actions as "disingenious,'
pointing out that up to the time of
the rendering of the decree by the
Supreme Court all he did was to carry
through the suits / had begun. Then
he and Mr.. Wickersham took exclusive
charge of the matter, and they de-
clined to appeal back to the Supreme
Court from the order of the Circuit
Court as to the reorganization of the
trusts.
st have never made this issue: but as
Mr.. Taft raises it 1 will say that l be-
lieve the action taken was incompatible
with the theory that the administra-
ton was acting in good faith; for. if
acting in good faith. the least that
could have been done would have been
to permit the case to come back to the
Supreme Court which had declared
these corporations outlaws"
Has People with Him.
ITO test the truth of this statement
all you have to do is to look at this
very contest. The entire machine of
ltiO OiiOChOiNCA0s AN CA1
Federal political machine, the great
majority of the State machines, the
norm majority of all the big bust
ness concerns which in any way repre-
sent or benefit by special interest or
privilege, the great majority of the
veteran political leaders, all that por-
tion of the press, including most of the
metropolitan press-which is subsi-
died or directly or indirectly con-
trolled by the interests-all of these
are against me as one man. 1 have
nobody with me except the people.
Refused Nomination.
81 wish to call attention to the fact
that Mr.. Taft's method of attacking
me on this point is deeply discredit-
able. He says of me that the promise
and his treatment of II only throw an
informing light on the value hat
ought now to be attached 10 IN
promise of this Kind that he may make
in the future Coming from Mr.. Taft
this statement represents a peculiar
~obliquity of moral judgment. He is