The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1912-05-04
NEWS OF WORLD
Important Events Of the Week
In Condensed Form.
POLITICAL NEWS.


Merciless denunciation Of President
Taft was Colonel Roosevelts reply.
made at Worcester, Mass, to the pres
idents attack upon him. Some of
Colonel Roosevelt's assertions were
That Prestdent TAFT had not given
the people Of the country a square
DEAL" but that owing to quality of
feebleness" he had yielded to the
bosses and the great privileged inter.
ests." That one part of the presi-
dents attack upon him was "the
crookedest kind of . DEAL and ode.
lberate Misrepresentation" That the
president has not merely in thought,
word and deed been disloyel to our
past friendship. but has been disloyal
to every canon of ordinary decency
and fair dealing, such as should OBJ
tain even in dealing with a mans bit
terest opponents" That the presi.
dents statement regarding the intlu.
ence Of federal oficeholders in the
campaign was mot only an untruth,
but an absurd untruth." That Mr..
Taft convicted himself of insincerity
when he signed the Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill
President Taft donned his fighting
clothes on his Massachusetts trip,
abandoned his policy of silence under
the attacks that Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt has made upon his admins.
tration and, for the first time since
Mr.. Roosevelt announced his candi-
dacy, launched into a bitter denuncia.
ton Of the former president. From
the time Mr.. Taft entered Massachu.
sets and made his first speech at
Springfield until he left the state he
hammered away at Colonel Roosevelt
In all his speeches he made 1t clear
that he is unalterably opposed to Mr..
Roosevelt; that he saw disaster in a
third term in the White House for
any man and that he did not believe
Colonel Roosevelt had given him a
square DEAL"
"The talk about the suppression of
the report is nonsense" said Colonel
Roosevelt in statement setting forth
his connection with the International
Harvester company case. The former
president asserted that at a meeting
with his cabinet, at which William H.
Taft was present, 1t was decided that
the bureau Of corporations be instruct
ed to complete it's investigation of the
harvester company before any suit
was instituted, following the usual
course of procedure in such cases. Mr..
Taft, he added, concurred in this de-
cision.
That the Taft administration Is now
resolved to open it's every gun on
former President Roosevelt has been
indicated by the unprecedented rapid
ity with which Attorney General Wick
ersham rushed to the senate the cor.
respondence dealing with Mr.. Roose
velt's failure to prosecute the harves-
ter trust. Senator Johnson Of Ala.
bama got resolution hurriedly
passed and the correspondence, which
Mr.. Roosevelt's enemies thought
would put him in hole, was promptly
received from the department of JUS
tice.
President William H. Taft has is.
Colonel Roosevelt's allegation that he,
while secretary Of war, had at a cabi-
net meeting approved Mr. Roosevelt's
decision not to Immediately prosecute
the International Harvester company.
President Taft's statement says he
never heard the International Harves-
ter company discussed at any cabinet
meeting and that the records of the
war department will show that he was
out Of the country when the incident
referred to by the colonel occurred.
The New York Herald prints the
following summary Of the contest be-
tween Taft and Roosevelt for the Re-
publican presidential nomination, in
GLIDING the result in New Hampshire:
Taft. 391; Roosevelt, Dol; Cummins,
6; La Toilette, SO; unclassified. 3.
Delegates in Chicago convention, L.
076; needed to nominate, $40. Need
ed to give Taft majority, 14S; needed
to give Roosevelt majority, 239. Dele
gates yet to be elected, 450."
The Missouri Republican state con.
vsntion was concluded at $3.50 o'clock
In the morning, after an all night ses-
sion, with the election Of eight dele.
gates at large to the national conven-
ton instructed for Roosevelt. Thomas
K. Niedringhaus Of st. Louis, Roose.
welt leader, was elected national CON-
mitteeman from Missouri to succeed
Charles Nagel, secretary of commerce
and labor.
Iowa Republicans, In their state and
congressional conventions, threw the
majority of their strength to President
TAFT. rejecting the "favorite son" can.
Aidacy of Senator Albert B. Cummins
Iswa has twenty-six delegates to the
national convention, of which the pres.
idsnt procured sixteen, including the
four delegates at large, and the sena.
tor the remaining ten.
The Colorado state Democratic con.
vention adopted a resolution instruct.
ing Colorado's delegation to the ma.
tional convention to support Champ
Clark until such time as he no longer
was a candidate or until released by
him.
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