The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-05-29
POINTERS FROM
TEDDY AND TAFT
AS to Just What the 9th
err is Guilty Of.
CERTAINLY A NOTORIOUS PAIR
And Neither One, According
To Others Testimony,
Fit TO be President.
CORRECT VIEW OF SITUATION

Washington, May 25.-When
thieves fall out, just men get theii
due, and when Republican Fresi-
dents and former Presidents fal.
out, the people learn how the.
have been misgoverned.
Since President Taft and fo,.
mel President Roosevelt euteroa
uucu the.r wild scramble for deic
gates to the next nominating con
yenlion. the .peop!e. haye. co!n.e. int.
possession o. the following in'or-
nation. which they never Enaw-be.
fore, except through Improve.
charges or unyerifed rumor5:
That Mr. TAFT, by his oan ad-
mission, has been "a man o
straw"
That NJ. Taft, in his odyocacs
Of Canadian reciprocity, was NO.
thinking, primarily, Of any benefits
that would come to the American
farmer and vase Garner, but tina.
he believed reciprocity would max.
Canada an adjunct" to the Unitec
States, which would transfer hel
important business to New Yorl
and Chicago" BY his own confes
sion Mr.. Taft was scheming to aid
the Big Business interests through
reciprocity.
That George w. Perkins, organ
izer of the Harvester Trust and
member of the Board of Directors
of the Steel Trust, is highly pleas
ed with the Taft method of prose-
cutting the trusts"
That there is a close political al
lance between Mr.. Perkins and Mr..
Roosevelt, as evidenced by the fact
that Mr.. Perkins contributed $l5,-
600 to Mr.. Roosevelt's campaign in
the New York primary this spring.
That Mr.. Taft. in the presen
campaign, made free and unre
stricted use of Federal office-hold-
ers to obtain the nomination.
That Mr.. Roosevelt, while con
stantly writing and giving out in
terviews, while he was President.
all protesting the deepest hatred o.
the trusts, secretly and clandestine-
ly suppressed a report showing that
the Harvester Trust was illegal
and in restraint of trade, and later
ordered a contemplated suit agains
that trust stopped until he gave the
word, which word he never gave.
That Mr.. Roosevelts trip to AT.
RIGA was paid for by Andrew Car
negie, greatest of the beneticiarie'
of the steel tariff.
That Mr.. Roosevelt was so fright
ened by the possibility Of tariff agi-
tation during his more than seven
years of Office, he never made am
mention of tariff, in any of his Off
cial papers or messages except once
when he wrote into one message
that he would discuss the tariff
later" which statement he with
drew from the message before il
was transmitted to Congress.
If the present scramble for Re
publican delegate continues a while
longer, it may safely be said, there
fore, that both Mr.. Taft and Mr..
at the present rate, will
thoroughly demonstrate to the
country that neither one of them is
fit to be President Each day of
their present fight for delegates
throws some new light on the close
harmony between them and the big
interests that are behind them. Mr..
Taft, angered, is telling what he
knows about Roosevelt, and Roose-
welt, angered, is telling what he
knows about Taft, and they are
both telling a whole lot of things
that nobody else ever knew about
either of them.