The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-04-30


pers which we're intended to convey
the impression that I had improperly
favored the Harvester Trust by declin-
ing to prosecute it in 1907.
Charges Taft DisloyaL
when Mr.. Taft takes the action he
did he has not merely 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 op-
ponents. Such conduct represents the
very crookedest kind of crooked deal.
"This is not an exceptional instance
of how he behaved to me. The same
course was followed last summer III
connection with the Tennessee Coal
and Iron company. The assaults upon
me by Mr.. Taft's campaign managers,
made 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 it only in
passing and merely because Mr.. Taft
LAYS such emphasis on the matter"
Reciprocity Attitude.
The speaker then turned to reciproc-
ity and denied that he had changed
front on the reciprocity measure.
cat first I took the agreement on
the faith of Mr.. Taft's representation"
he said. Later, when I came to look up
the matter, however, I became con-
vinced that the reciprocity agreement
as passed by Mr.. Taft was unwise and
undesirable because it Improperly sac
rifeed the interests of our farmers and
fishermen and because it carried in
defensible action on paper.
= "Mr. Taft says that the influence of
federal offceholders in the Chicago
convention this year will be less ef-
fective for one candidate than ever be-
fore in the history of the party. This
, is not only an untruth, but it is an alb
surd untruth. Never in thirty years
close observation have 1 seen such
scandalous abuse of the patronage as
this year.
Says Taft Abused Patronage.
"some of the abuse of patronage has
been done directly by Mr.. Taft him
self, as in the case of the various North
Carolina nominations. Moreover, does
Mr.. Taft think that the people have
forgotten the letter his secretary sent
out as to restoring to the insurgent
senators the patronage of which he
had deprived them? Having all these
facts in view it is simply astounding
THAT Mr.. Taft should venture the as
sertion that he has not used the fed
erai patronage to defraud politics.
'Mr. Taft states that I advised him
to have a meeting with Mr.. Cannon. I
advised him to meet every one, to con-
suit with every one, to try to get on
with every one. But no less emphati-
cally 1 advised him to follow my ex-
ample, to consult freely with all the
politicians and to try to get on with
them, but where the politicians split
off from the people then to stand with
the people and not with the politicians,
and it is precisely this that he failed
to do.
Payne Tariff Bill
at is malicious thing that Mr.. Taft
should actually criticise me for not
having assailed him about the Payne
tariff law. AS a matter of fact, have
eagerly endeavored to praise Mr.. Taft
wherever I possibly could, and l have
,merely kept silence where 1 dis
agreed. AS he now insists that
should break silence about the tariff
law, will say that hold him culpably
responsible for having led the people
to believe that he favored substan-
tiaI downward revision and that he
would work actively for it, under the
leadership of Messrs. Aldrich and Can
non, to produce a bill which made him
convict himself of insincerity when he
signed it."
Turning to President Taft's state
ments in regard to a third term, Col.
Roosevelt declared that the danger lay
only in more than two consecutive
terms, which might afford opportunity
for the executive to entrench himself
in power.
s.Mr Taft without nv PERMISSION,