The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-19
President Taft Spoke in Billy Sunday Tabern-
acle to Crowd Which Was So Big That
He Was Embarrassed.
ROOSEVELT KEEPS UP HIS ATTACK
Elk President Also Played Before Big Crowd and Made
Some Remarks About His
Successor.

procity is now a dead issue and won't
occur again for generations going
to influence you farmers against me.
But | will have to stand it. | cannot
change my mind nor sacrifice my own
self respect either for votes or for Of
fice."
AT Urbana, Taft replied to Roose
velt's claim of the credit for the bu-
reau of mines bill. The bill,'' said
Taft, was introduced in the house by
Huff of Pennsylvania on January IL.
1910. 1t passed the house January %,
the senate May 2, and was signed by
President Taft on May 16. 1910,
Roosevelt dined with the German en-
peror on May 10. He spoke before
the Berlin university on May II and
did not reach the United States from
Africa until month after the bill
was signed -
Roosevelt is Bitter.
CLEVELAND, May 1S.--Colonel
Roosevelt renewed his attack on
President Taft here tonight Before
10000 persons who iammed the Cen
trail armory where the president
earlier in the week attacked him. the
I ex-president replied to the president.
Roosevelt vigorously attacked TAFT
for his participation in the Ballinger
"whitewash this being his first ex-
tended reference to Ballinger during
the present campaign.
Mr.. Taft supported Mr.. Ballinger
against every honest official in the
interior department and especially
against Clifford Pinchot and Louis
{ Claws" Roosevelt said.
i Roosevelt declared CLAWS put into
the hands of the president detailed
report showing that the Cunningham
claims We're fraudulent, as everyone
now admits they were.
Taft did not read the evidence in
the case and he actually placed the
I decision of the case in the hands of
I Ballinger's friends and Attorney Oscar
4 LawleT, and signed the letter prepared
4 by Lawler in Ballinaer's Office, which
whitewashed Ballinger, and directed
the expulsion of CLAWS from office
i Roosevelt continued In this letter
Taft stated that his decision was the
4 result of his own personal reading OF
the whole record a statement which
was contrary to fact. Mr. Taft, in
other words, put the decision of the
case and the official lives of Ballinger
/ and OF the young public servants who
had accused Ballinger, wholly in the
hands of Ballinger himself.
He deliberately suppressed the
Lawler memorandum upon which his
decision was based. and sent to the
senate in its place brief signed by
Attorney General Wickersham, dated
two days prior to the presidents de-
cision of the case in September, which
was about three months before it was
actually prepared 1t was afterwards
discovered and proved before the in
vestigating committee by Louis j.
Brandeis that this brief put in evil
; dence by the president before the
senate of the United States as the
: basis of the decision rendered by the
executive as Judge in the CLAWS
: BdIllngeT case was NOT III existence at
the time Mr. Taft rendered his de-
I, cision, that at that time Mr. Wicker
: sham had not even read the evidence.
: that the brief had been written after
j CLAWS had been retired to private
y life, to bolster up Mr.. Taft's unjust
decision.
}, IF instead of being a president of
q the people. who was betraying the in
/ terest of the people, and who then
t covered his betrayal by suppressng
: and altering the facts, Mr.. Taft had
$ been president of hank, and had
Q acted towards the stockholders and de
It positors as he actually did act towards
d the people, he would have been In i'm
e minent danger of having the matter
i laid before the district attorney
q Replying to Taft's statement that
e the friends OF constitutional govern
n ment'' would control the Chicago con
vention, Roosevelt said: The friend:
IS Of constitutional government to whom
n he refers are Messrs. Penrose, Lori
e. mer. Guggenheim. Barnes, Ballinge
j? and their associates and instruments
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