The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-26
TAFT MAKES ATTACK
 ON ROOSEVELT
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non, MT. Penrose, Mir. Quay, Mir. Platt MT. Foraker and many other men in fluential in politics, I don't hesitate to say that it involves the most auda- clous effrontery on his part to at tack me because men he character. lzes as bosses are now supporting me and to charge me on that account with helping machine politics"
 MT Taft charged MT Roosevelt and his supporters during their recent campaign in Illinois linked his name with that of Senator Lorimer
 | ' have not seen Mir Lorimer for two years and have had no communi- | cation from him. Any influence he may have given in my favor was not 1 because he liked me, but because he felt bitter toward MT. Roosevelt. | Without further circumstances of knowledge it would have been unfair and unjust for MT Roosevelt to at tempt to draw down on me the popu- lar indignation against Senator Lor- inner and thus to carry the state of Illinois against me; but it was pecu- liarly unfair in MT. Roosevelt to do this when he knew what he did know as to my actual attitude toward Sena- tor Lorimer"
 MT Taft then read letter he wrote to Colonel Roosevelt, January 6, 1911. in which he said he wanted the move ment to oust Senator Lorimer to suC ceed. The letter marked personal follows:
 The White House, Washington, D. C., January 6, 1911.
 My Dear Theodore: 1t comes to me, perhaps without foundation, that you are going to write strong ar ticle on the Lorimer case and publish 1t in the Outlook. 1 have been doing everything l could legitimately to have the closest examination made in, to the Lorimer case. l have read as much of the evidence as 1 could get at and am convinced there was a mass Of corruption upon which his election was founded that ought to be stamped with the disapproval of the senate But l want the movement to oust him to succeed. 1 have urged different senators to read the records carefully and after talk with Root, Burton and knute Nelson and Crawford and some others, l believe We are going to line up good many of the regular re- publicans on the side of what 1 con slider decency and honesty in politics
 Tt has leaked out that l have been taking some interest in the matter and l fear 1t has not helped the situ- ation generally because of that strong feeling of clubdom in the senate ana. that resentment against outside inter- ference, which nobody who is not III. | timately acquainted with the situa- tion can understand the weight of it. 1 was talking with Borah this morn ing. l have consulted good deal with him on the subject and he and l agree that it would be unwise either for you or me to come out now agalnsr Lorimer and in favor of his being busted; that it would enable those who are determined to keep him in | especially among the democrats, Bail ey and others, to use atf-argument against outside interference that would hold a number of democrats and would deprive us of the strength we should get by a quiet presenta- tiOn of the full facts on the floor of the senate, from the senate itself. Root is going to make a speech. So is Burton, and l believe Lodge will do the same thing. Now nothing would have stronger weight than speeches from them, whereas if eith- CT you or l came out with an attack it would enable the friends of Lori mer to shift the subject from the tainted character of his seat to the independence of the senate in acting as the judge of the qualifications of it's own members.
 il suggest, therefore, that if you have an article on this subject, you hold 1t until the issues are more plainly made by speeches on the floor of the body where the contest is to be won. l want to win. So do you. This is my excuse for writing to you. Sincerely yours,
 CIVILIAN H. TAFT. "P S.-Of course 1 may be misin- formed as to your purpose in the mat ter. Since dictating the above, I have i had the telephone conversation with you. but let it go."
 Mir. Taft added that by the tele- | phone conversation and by subsequent | correspondence with Mir Roosevelt, he would not publish. unless Mir Roosevelt desired, he learned that no such article was contemplated, but MT Roosevelt said he would assist | in the matter in other ways
 'l have never given MT. Roosevelt or anyone else the slightest reason to suppose l had changed my atti tude."
 MT. Taft charged that Mir Roose welt was now seeking to take advan 1 tage of the supposed feeling among the farmers of the country agaInst re ciprocity with Canada. He said nc i consulted Roosevelt ten days before he made the agreement with Canada and that the latter approved the agree ment in the most enthusiastic terms
 President Taft next referred to Mir Roosevelts charges that the presi dent had been receiving "stoler goods" and had profited by the us, of dirty instruments" to get delegates No instance said the president "has been brought to my attention in whicl specifications of fraud have been sus tained by the evidence. Charges mad, by Senator Dixon of Kentucky in al historical and insulting open lette to me were shown to be wholly with out foundation in the Kentucky con