Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-05-14
President AStonishes and
AmuSes Audience by Sharp
and Humorous Anaignment
Of Opponent,
COLONEL'S EGOTISM
BUTT OF RlDlCULE
If Rough Rider Should Go to
White House for Third Term
He Might Want Third and
Fourth.

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Steubenville, o.. May 13.-Presidenl
Taft's first day OF his final campaign
through Ohio, which came to an end
with speech here tonight, was
marked by the most pronounced ver-
bal assaults upon Colonel Roosevelt.
to which Mr.. Taft so far has given
public utterance In speeches that
were filled with indignant attack. that
bubbled over with uncomplimentary
adjectives, Mr.. Taft discharged his
oratory at his predecessor.
He started out at Marietta upon his
last campaign tour, in a cold rain
which finally fled before the sun, urg-
ing the people of Ohio TO support
him in the primaries.
Although, in substance, all of the
dozen speeches the president made
were much like those he delivered in
Massachusetts and Maryland, they
differed widely at times in the words
used to score Mr.. Roosevelt. His
language was unusually piquant and
aroused applause and laughter.
One of the attacks upon Mr.. Roose-
welt which raised a laugh, delivered
at Dennison, ran thus:
II think it would be dangerous to
put man with Mr.. Roosevelt's pres
ent constitutional views and with the
intoxication he would necessarily feel
by reason of getting something that
all the great presidents have never
gotten: it would not be safe to put
him in the White House again.
He says the reason the American
people are going to elect him is be-
cause he is necessary for the job.
That is the description he gives. Well
| hope the American people will not
tnink rtAt ne is necessary FOR the Job
! want to call your attention to what
the job is which he proposes. 1t is
the millennium that he is going TO
bring about when he gets into office.
All bosses are going to disappear,
politicians are going to be fewer. and
he is going To have finger in every
community in every state, in every
county, and everything is going to
Heaven.
IF that be true. the millennium is
coming and if that is the job he is to
do, it is going to take longer than
four years. l beg of you to ask him
when he comes here whether he
would take a fourth term; ask him
whether he is going TO take u fifth
term, and If he should not continue
IN ONCE uuTlnS MS l1ie.
Another sally that brought a re-
sponse was much like that delivered
at Cambridge. Speaking there of the
Job Mr.. Roosevelt said the people
wanted him 10 do, President Taft
asked:
My friends. IL is a dangerous thing
to put in the White House a man for
the third term with his views of the
constitution and with his views of
himself. In every announcement he
makes you would think he was the
whole show and that there was not
anybody else in the country.
1T is !, /, and /, and, therefore, l
say that IL you feed tnat vanity and
that egotism by giving him something
that Washington did not get and
jefferson did not get, and that Jack
son did not get, and that Grant could
not get, you are going to put MIN in
office with sense of power and with
"A view of constitutional restrictions
that will be dangerous to this coun-
try" Mr.. Taft compared Roosevelt
and Lincoln with a smile.
"Mr. Roosevelt likens hii1sc'f to
Abraham Lincoln more and reese bles
him less than any man In the history
of this country" he remarked.
Mr.. Taft called upon the Roosevelt
hackers to find one indictment If he
had done wrong, asked for more facts
and less "lurid headlines and lung
power" and dubbed the campaign
the former president is making
against him "accusatory and libel
lous."
In a joint appeal to the war vet
Grams and to the negroes, Mr.. Taft
charged that under constitutional
system that would permit proposed
measures OF reform" the practical
repeal OF the thirteenth, fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments for which
the veterans fought and which pro-
tect the negro race would depend on
the result Of one election. That was
what Mr.. Roosevelt proposes to do.
he said. by destroying the independ-
ence OF the judiciary.
The presidents reception here was
most demonstrative. He spoke from
a balcony on the Market street side Of
the local theater to a crowd that filled
the street.
Comparatively few Of those who
watched could hear because OF the
cheers and applause that came fire.
quently. The speech was much Ike
those earlier in the day. the presi-
dent attacking Colonel Roosevelt and
appealing for a square deal from
home.
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