Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-09
WILL GO BACK SUNDAY
It Is Said He Will Renew Attacks
On Roosevelt Vigorously.
COURSE URGED BY FRIENDS
Hope That President Will Law Stress
on Prosperity Issue in
Coming Speeches.

President Taft returned to Washington
from Ohio at 1 o'clock this afternoon,
well pleased with his survey of the politi-
cal situation in his home state.
The President and his friends do not
ignore the fact that they are going to
have terrific fight in Ohio. but they are
| absolutely confident that the President
will win the great bulk of the delegates.
As Ohio goes, it is believed, so will the
bulk of the delegates to be elected after
that time
The President is so determined to crush
Roosevelt in Ohio that he will spend all
of next week and right up to the day of
the primaries, May 81, among the people
of his state. He will vigorously attack
Roosevelt and his policies. confident that
Ohio will not sanction the former Presi-
dent or his program.
The Prosperity Issue.
Taft republicans today said they hoped
the President would, in his attacks on
Roosevelt, lay stress on the menace to
prosperity that would be created by
Roosevelt's election. They declared that
il Roosevelt were again in the White
House there would be prolonged busi-
| ness depression pending the development
OF his program, and that hundreds Of
cautious capital would be lying in the
| banks awaiting developments. But in the
case of President Taft's reelection it
was predicted that business. which has
been hating during the trust prosecu-
tions. would improve, and there would be-
gin new era of prosperity, such as has
not been since the Mckinley administra-
ton.
In Ohio. where manufacturing employs
numberless men, the labOring man cares
more for work, and plenty of it, than he
does for the distractions Of a master
politician. Consequently he should be
taught what to expect from unsettled
conditions, and 1t Is claimed that Presi-
point out the probable results of Roose-
velt's success. The conviction is strong
that prosperity campaign through Ohio
would do the President and the repub-
lican party more good now than any
other line of argument.
Danger of Tariff Uncertainty.
1t is also asserted that with Col. Roose-
welt in the White House, tariff revision
would again become q muddle. 1t is
charged that Col. Roosevelt has been ex-
ceedingly shy on that subject for years,
but IL he had to face the question he
would probably evolve something that
would attack the foundations of business
and would keep the business world in un-
certainty.
The ground for apprehension as to the
business situation after March 4 next,
with Roosevelt in the White House. 1t
was asserted today, Is too well recog-
nized for the President to ignore the
strength OF the argument in appealing to
the workingman, business man and farm
er of his state in his speeches next week.
The President is not in the least dis
pirited over the prospect of his renomina-
tion by safe majority. He Is count
IT, a~k xvr1t. t.
vention than Roosevelt, and possibly
more than that. That is the minimum
majority he gives himself over the
colonel.
Alleged Vote-Buying In Maryland.
There is a strong possibility that the
President may come out in forcible
charges about the purchase of negro
votes in the Maryland primaries OF
Monday. Charges come from all sides
that although the almost solid white
republican vote of the state was with the
President. the negroes voted in droves
for Roosevelt under the direction of
men who had been given large sums of
money.
1t is charged that in one precinct In Prince
Georges county a federal omceholder,
under the civil service, remained at the
polls all day working for Roosevelt and
polling the negro vote. The negroes
boasted that they got more for their votes
Monday than they had ever done in a
Maryland election before. The whole
thing was so shockingly repulsive, to the
Taft forces. following the warnings OF
Roosevelt to the negroes not to be bought.
that they are contemplating an exposure
| that may double the bitterness now exist
ing in the rival camps
The President will put in this afternoon
and tomorrow disposing of business that
has piled up on his desk during his abb
| sence. Friday night he will leave for
Princeton, N. j.. where he will participate
the next day In the inauguration of the
new president of Princeton. DR.. John
Grier Hibben. He will spend most of
Saturday there. returning to Washington
that night. Then, leaving Sunday night,
the President will be in Ohio again until
| the day of the primary election there.