Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-27

BY Collision With lorimerteS.
Worcester, Mass, April 27.-Merci-
less denunciation of President Taft was
Colonel Roosevelt's reply last night
, to the presidents attack upon him yes
! terday. Some of Col Roosevelt's as
sertons We're:
That President Taft had not given
the people of the country square
deal but that ewing to quality
of feebleness" he had yielded to
the bosses and the great privileged in
terests.'
That one part of the presidents at
tack upon him was the crookedest
kind of a DEAL and deliberate mis-
representation
That the president has not merely
in thought, word, and deed been dis
loyal to our past friendship but has
been diSloyal to every canon of ordi-
nary Gecency and fair dealing such as
should obtain even in dealing with
mans bitterest opponents"
That the presidents statement re-
garding the influence of federal office
holders in the campaign was mot
only an untruth but il is an absurd
antruth.'
That Mr.. Taft convicted himself
Of insincerity when he signed the
PAYNE Aldrich tariff bill
That in speaking of Col. Roosevelts
position in regard to tine trust prob
lem. President Taft rs himself guilty
of a crooked deal
Answers Taft Point by Point.
Col Roosevelt took up President
Taft's attack upon him point by point,
faying the president in one scathlns
sentence after another
When Col. Roosevelt reached here. at
the beginning of his Massachusetts
trip. he found the streets thronged. A
band and a torch light procession es-
corted him to Mechanics hall. where ne
delivered his main speech. Later ne
addressed an overflow meeting.
Both of these meetings were crowded.
and his hearers again and again
c.,eered Mr.. Roosevelt for several min
utes following some Of his most en-
phatic statements.
Regrets Personal Issue.
M Roosevelt. in beginning his main
address. said he regretted that per-
sonalities had entered into the presi-
Dental fight.
'.In this campaign regard the issues
at stake as altogether too important
to permit them to be twisted into one
Of personalities between President TAFT
and myself" he said. But Mr.. Taft
speeches yesterday contained state
ments that must answer.
Most of what he said needs no
comment from me. When. for instance,
he said I have endeavored to minimize
the Importance Of my Columbus speech,
he saws what he must know to be un-
true: he can not have read my Car
negie hall speech. my speech before the
massachusetts lower house. my noon
day speech at ST Louis. my Philadei-
phia and Pittsburgh and Louisville
speeches. without knowing that have
elaborated and emphasized what l said
at Columbus.
"Taft Loses Self Respect"
again. when Mr.. Taft in any speech
speaks Of me directly or obliquely as
neurotic. or a demagog. or in similar
terms. shall say nothing. except to
point out that If he is obliged to use
such language he had better preserve
his own self-respect by not protest
ing that 1t gives him pain to do So
mo man resorts to epithets like
these If 1t really gives him pain to use
them. / have never alluded to him in
term. even remotely resembling these.
II have never quoted his private let
,ers or private communications. / have
discussed exclusively his public ac-
tons Even where was obliged to be
IL 1ioY n n
and never hypocritical. Nor do I In
tend today to deviate from this stand
ard, altho the presidents speech makes
it necessary for me to speak more
plainly on certain SUBJECTS than have
vet spoken"
drifting With PEOPLES Intelligence"
Colonel Roosevelt referred to 'Presi-
dent Tafts explanation Of his state
ment that ours is a government OF all
of the people by representative part
Of the people"
For him to try" said Colonel Roose-
welt. ito escape the consequences OF his
statements by saying that he alluded
only to women and children Is trifling
with the intelligence Of the people.
Taft Disloyal 70 Dsesney.
"Mr. Taft said Thursday that never
in thought, word. or deed had he been
disloyal in his friendship for me. 1t
is hard for me to answer such state
ment save by calling it the grossest
and most astounding hypocrisy. When
Mr. Taft made that statement he just
sent to the United States senate. on
half an hours notice, obviously in col
fusion with the Lorimer democratic
senator who made the request, papers
which were intended to convey the i'm
preston that I had improperly IA
vored the harvester trust by declin-
ing to prosecute it in 1907.
When Mr.. Taft. obviously to influ-
ence the Massachusetts, primary, and
obviously in collision with one Of Mr..
Lorimers senatorial supporters Of the
opposite political party, takes the ac-
ton 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 de-
cency and fair dealing such as should
obtain even in dealing with a mans
bitterest opponents.
Such conduct represents the very
crookedest kind os crooked deal.
Refers 20 Steel Charge.
This is not an exceptional instance
Of how he has behaved to me. The
same course was followed last sum-
mer in connection with the Tennessee
Coal and Iron Company.
1.-THE assaults upon me by Mr.. Taft's
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