The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-19
ON THE WAR PATH
Roosevelt Fighting For His Cause
in Nebraska

in Nebraska
Omaha. Neb, April ls.-"lt is not
nice thing to use evil instruments
in order to do dirty work, said Col
Roosevelt in an attack last night in
speech at the auditorium upon sup
porters of the Taft administration
1T is an even less nice thing to throw
the evil instruments aside when they
are broken and loudly make believe
that they are not Intentionally used.
Col Roosevelt charged that the pres
idents managers, with the helpless
acquiescence OF Mr., Taft were rely
ing solely upon the support OF the
bosses who stand for what is worst
in our political life There is not
one state out of 10 in which Mr.
Taft would have any chance il the
vote were left to the people them
selves, he asserted
Later on he said Outside of the
delegates that represent either the
INSCRIPTIONS use OF patronage or else
sheer fraud. Mr. Taft's strength would
be trivial and indeed negligible In the
present contest To profit by wrong
doing" he added. lis mighty little
better than actually to do wrong and
the administration is seeking to pro
III by this wrongdoing."
In his address last night Col. Roose
welt said that Senator Lorimer and
Senator Penrose recognize in Mr..
Taft the kind OF a progressive whom
they are willing to clasp to their
hearts Remember that the bosses
were against me in 1908 and 1912 and
in 1904 they were against me until
all opposition to me collapsed; SO
that II no longer made the slightest
difference whether they were against
me or not" The colonel continued
THE same thing was true when
was nominated for vice president anC
the bosses were forced reluctantly I,
follow the people when II years age
! was nominated for governor. bu
now. as Illinois and Pennsylvania
have shown, the bosses are frank.
opposed to the people"
Col. Roosevelt said the Taft dele
: gates in southern states representa-
= nothing whatever but the fedora
= Office holders and they have not eve
4 the shadow of party behind then
i Yet II is upon those states and upo
4 the absolute swindling in states Xix
81 Michigan, Colorado, Indiana and Ker
II lucky and In the city of New Yor
that Mr. Taft's whole strength rest
81 There is one feature of the attitud
g of the administration toward the bo
SEES which Is grimly comic When
boss delivers a state to the Taft sid
then no matter how gross the frau
and the violence by which he Ia
r succeeded the administration has n,
q n word of condemnation to utter. Bl
d when the boss fails the spokesman
the administration make nervol
haste to repudiate the very ma
against whom they have not had OF
word to say while they hoped he W,
successful"
Col. Roosevelt then took up Pre-.
II dent Tatts recent statement that
advocating his proposals In regard
the courts he was laying an impiol
hand on the ark OF the covenant
The speaker, citing n number of G
SEES In which he asserted that d
courts ruled against the rights OF q
people said: u hold that II is an Il
pious hand on the ark OF the cove
ant The speaker citing a numb
OF cases In which he asserted th
the courts ruled against the rich
OF the people said; Il hold that Il
an impious theory OF justice to s
that In such cases the people sh
not be allowed to do justice. he
that this pretended alarm about {
independence OF the judiciary Is
self the veriest sham"