The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-15
SAYS TAFT IS IN
FIGHT TO STAY
TO THE END
Director William 3. Mckinley
Defines Presidents Position
WARNS REPUBLICAN PARTY
Says Roosevets Tactics Are Com
hitting Organization to Rank
Socialism.

Washington, April 14.-Director
William B. Mckinley Of the Taft
campaign issued this statement to-
night:
The outcome of the Pennsylvania
primary is plainly indicative Of the
fact that national issues are playing
only a small part in some States in
the campaign for the Republican
nomination for President. Instead of
constructive craftsmanship being put
forth in an effort to solve the prob
lens before the country and as bid
for votes on the ground Of merit a
nationwide campaign of willful and
malicious Misrepresentation. villifi-
cation and assault on the President
of the United States has been sub
sututed. Such a campaign, amount
ing in fact to a conspiracy, made not
only to humiliate the President per
sonally but to commit the Republican
party to rank socialism, has not only
been countenanced but conducted by
former President Theodore Roose-
Welt.
The time has arrived to call halt
on such proceedings
President Taft. always mindful OF
the decencies Of human conduct, be-
lieving that friendship is sacred
thing and that, like truth, it should
be maintained even at a personal sac
ridce, and also believing that the
| American people expect the occupant
of the highest Office in the gift of
the nation. as well as those who have
formerly occupied it, TO respect the
dignity of that Office, has during the
course Of this campaign patiently
submitted to Misrepresentation, viii
fication and insult without reply
The result is that his opponent has
thrown all restraint to the winds
Senator Joseph H. Dixon, the nation
al campaign manager of former Pres
ident Roosevelt, has been permitted
without rebuff from his candidate, tC
insult the President OF the United
States. He has not only been per
mitted to charge the President witt
being "a receiver of stolen goods
without protest but former president
Roosevelt has repeated the charge OF
the stump
The time has come when the Amer
lean people will no longer sit idly by
and see this unfair and malicious per
secution and vilihcation continued by
man and by the friends of a mar
who has already served two terms II
the White House, by the votes of the
Republican party, and who now, not
only in violation of the unwritten Law
OF the republic, but in violation Of
his own solemn promise to the ma
lion, voluntarily given on the night
of November s. 1904, is seeking &
third term on a national platform
so un-Republican in nature that he
dare not discuss II himself. as is
shown by his recent speeches in IL
linois, Pennsylvania and New Hamp
shire.
The fact that this candidate is now
claiming to wear the mantle of Abra
ham Lincoln is evidence that the
acme of demagogism in this country
has been reached.
These States which have yet to
elect delegates to the national con.
vention in Chicago might Just as we'll
realize now that the republic as well
as the Republican party has been
placed in jeopardy by the issues
raised by Theodore Roosevelt They
must realize that the unwritten law
OF the republic that no man shall be
President three terms Is an insur,
mountable obstacle to the success of
any party in any national election in
this country. They must realize that
The proposal of the recall of judges
and OF judicial decisions is not only
un-Republican. but rank socialism.
The duty Of Republicans toward such
a platform and toward candidate
for the nomination on such plat
form is therefore plain.
Including Pennsylvania, which 40
cording to latest advices has given
President Taft at least twenty.one
votes in tho national convention, the
President today has 35i delegates in.
structed for or pledged TO his renom.
nation. He needs only 176 more
delegates to insure his denomination.
He Is already assured of $50 more
delegates, making his support in the
Chicago convention 76i delegates, or
more than 200 majority.
The President is in this fight TO
stay, He will Ne the nominee Of the
Republican convention at Chicago.
In this connection II must not be for.
gotten that he was nominated four
years ago without the votes Of the
States of Illinois, Pennsylvania In.
diana New York or Wisconsin. In
this contest he is already assured of
an overwhelming majority of the
delegates from Indiana and New
YORK and Of a large number Of dele
gates in Pennsylvania. none of which
voted for him in 1908.
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