Arizona republican., 1912-05-11

erately Misrepresented Him In This
 Campaign-DecIares Him Menace to
 Republic and to Prosperity.
 President Taft in three speeches in Massachusetts on April ? personally answered the misrepresentation of Theodore Roosevelt of the position of the president with respect to the is sues of this campaign, with respect to his administration and of himself per sonally. The president said he re- gretted the necessity of speaking plain ly about his "old friend,' to whom he frankly admitted a personal obliga- tiOn. The president said, however, that the situation created by MT. RooSeveIts personal attacks on him and his administration made further silence intolerabIe.
 The basis of the presidents reply to Mir. Roosevelt was the well known square deal" maxim of MT. Roose- welt As he answered each Roosevelt charge the president inquired. Have I had q square deal?" In order these subjects were treated by the president Misrepresentation of the Presidents
 Speeches.
 First.-Under this heading President Taft declared that MT. Roosevelt had deliberately miSrepresented him when he said. MT. Taft defines the issue when he says that our government is and should be a government of all the people by a representative part of the people"
 The excerpt which MT. Roosevelt uses is taken from my speech at To- ledo," said the president. Tt is gar bIed- l did not say this should be a government of all the people by rep resentatiye part of the people. l said it is government of all the people by a representative part of the people, and it is. I pointed out that this gov ernment of ours is a government by the adult voting males in order to show the necessity for constitutional restrictions to protect the nonvoters among the people against the possible injustice and aggression of a majority of the voters. Was it honest, was it fair in Theodore Roosevelt to seize one sentence from a speech to garble it and then give it meaning which he knew from the context it could not bear? Do the people of Massachu- setts think that this is a square deal?"
 Unfair Charge as to Bosses.
 Second.-In reply to the charge that ''bosses' were supporting his candi- dacy President Taft pointed out that William Finn of Pittsburgh, "one of the worst municipal bosses that the history of that state knows;" Walter Brown of Ohio, the only boss in full commission in the state," and William Ward of New York were supporting Mir. Roosevelt. Senator Crane of Mas sachuSetts, whom MT. Roosevelt has mentioned, President Taft said, had three times been invited by MT. Roosevelt into his cabinet and that MT. Roosevelt had invited him to man. age his presidential campaign in 1904.
 When I consider the eagerness with which Mir. Roosevelt has accepted in his various campaigns the assistance of MT. Aldrich, MT. Cannon, MT. Pen rose, Mir. Quay. MT. Platt, MT. For aker and many other men," said the president. 'I do not hesitate to say that it involves the most audacious eff frontery on his part to attack me be- cause men he characterizes as bosses are now supporting me. This is pecul- iarly unfair on his part in view of his well known political history and is an other instance of his departing from the rule of a square deal"
 False Statements In Lorimer Case to
 People of Illinois.
 Third.-In this connection President Taft said Mir. Roosevelt had made it appear that a vote cast for Taft in Hi nOis would be a vote for Lorimer. 'I have not seen Mir. Lorimer for two years and have had no communication with or from him." he said ''I did not ask his support. He did not tender it to me. Any influence he may have given in my favor was not because he liked me. but because he felt more bit ter toward Mir. Roosevelt" The presi- dent then quoted in full a letter he had himself written to MT. Roosevelt on Jan. G. 1911, in which he outlined the steps he was taking to have LOrimer unseated in the senate and stating that Senators Root. Burton, Nelson and oth- CTS had become interested at his sug- gestion. He pointed out to Mr. Roose- welt how they could best work togeth- CT on the case.
 "I make this letter public only to show that of all the people in the world Theodore Roosevelt ought to have known and did know that was not a partisan of Lorimer, did not sympa- thize with him and never gave MT. Roosevelt or any one else the slightest reason to suppose I had changed my mind. I submit to the people of Mas sachusetts that, with his intimate knowledge Of the facts. MT. Roosevelt's linking of my name with Lorimer's for the purpose of inducing the peo- pie of Illinois to vote against me on account of their feeling against Sena- tor Lorimer was not giving n1e a square deal.
 Change of Front on Reciprocity.
 "Fourth.-Mr. Roosevelt" said the