Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-15
 ROOSEVELT IN OHIO.
Tells His Auditors Taft Has Gone
 Over to Enemy.

Canton, O., May 14.-The first day of Colonel Roosevelt's campaign in Ohio ended here tonight with his first pre- pared speech in the state. It was day of crowds and noise and speeches in quick succession as Colonel Roose- Welt was hurried through the eastern part of the state in an effort to keep up with the schedule which had been arranged. This called for thirteen speeches, and the colonel made several more than that. There were large crowds wherever he spoke
 Colonel Roosevelt covered part of the ground which President Taft went over today, and their paths crossed several times.
 The former president renewed his at tack upon his successor. He asserted at the outset that he would not reply to the things which MT. Taft said about him, so far as they were per sonal, but would conf1ne himself to the political principles involved.
 Issue Not One of Personal Abuse.
 new point which Colonel Roosevelt developed was his denial of the right of President Taft to criticize acts of the Roosevelt administration He took the ground that as a member of the Roosevelt cabinet MT. Taft was a part of the administration and as candidate for president he made his campaign with the record of the Roosevelt ad- ministration as his platform.
 Colonel Roosevelt charged that the president had joined the enemy
 T wish to make the issue one of principle, and not of personal abuse" Colonel Roosevelt said
 T see that Mir. Taft yesterday al luded to me as a demagogue, a neu- rotic, f1atterer, an egotist and as en- gagged in honey fogling all of you. This will not tempt me into any retaliation Tn kind. But l wish to point this to you: Four years ago MT Taft had not discovered that I was a flatterer, a demagogue and egotist and engaged in honey -fugling the people, and yet I stood then exactly where I stand now.
 T forget whether it was yesterday or today that Mir Taft made a remark which do not think was in very good taste. as to the possibility of my hav- ing died in the Titanic disaster. He shall have a complete monopoly of calling me a neurotic and a demagogue and testing about what would have happened If I had died on the Titanic, and all the rest of it. I ask your at lCAAlOA OLIy u LlAe great lSSueS ln- volved in this fight"
 Taft Has Changed, Not the Bosses.
 Colonel Roosevelt went on to say that the "bosses' who were against Mr Taft four years ago had not changed but that it was MT. Taft who had changed. In his speech here tonight the colonel said:
 We have not changed position, we progressives, and we stand exactly where we stood four years ago. It is Mir. Taft who has left us and who has joined the enemy. Therefore our atti- tude toward MT. Taft can be expressed in the words of Abraham Lincoln when he said: I will stand with anybody who stands for the right; stand with him while he lssright and part with him when he goes wrong
 T stand by all my administration did. I stand by 1t. and if I am again elected president I shall try to admin ister the government in the interest of all you. the plain people. just as I strove to administer it before. I hope I shall be more successful because I have learned a good deal. The presi- dency is big school and l know whom to trust and whom not to trust"