Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1912-10-04
Taft on Roosevelt

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and reactionary. instead of pro-
gressive, crude, revolutionary,
fitful, and unstable were the
terms in which the President re-
ferred to the recall method of re-
versing judicial construction OF
the Constitution.
II have mined this method
of reversing judicial decisions on
constitutional estions with
care" President Taft said. !
do not hesitate to say that it lays
the ak to the root of the tree OF
freedom and subjects the guaran-
tees of life, liberty, and property
| without remedy to the fiftful i'm
pulse of a temporary majority OF
an electorate.
ROOSEVELT NOT SAFE.
At Boston on April Is Presi-
| dent Taft first broke his silence
on Roosevelt.
Declaring that Mr.. Roosevelt
Ought not to be selected as
candidate of any party" Mr..
Taft said that the former Presi-
dent might now be paving the
way, if successful in the present
campaign, to remain the Chief
| Executive of the Nation for as
many years as his natural life
| would permit.
IF he is necessary now to the
Government, why not later .
i asked the President, and continu-
ed: ''One who so slightly regards
constitutional principles, and es-
pecially the independence Of the
judiciary, one who is so natural.
ly impatient of legal restraints
and of due legal procedure, and
who has so misunderstood what
liberty regulated by law is, could
not safely be trusted with success
sive presidential terms.
Mr.. Taft quoted from Mr.
Rooseveit's statement in 1904 the
following:
THE wise custom which limits
the President to two terms re-
cards the substance and not the
form; and under no circumstance
will I be a candidate for or &C
cept another nomination"
He now says, although hi:
| language does not bear such a
construction, he would not accept
a nomination for a consecutive
third term" said the President.
He says so in the face Of the
fact that the most noteworthy
| precedent in which the tradition
was asserted and maintained was
that of 1880. when Gen. Grant
denied third term four years
after he had left the presidential
Office.
DON'T TAKE RoosEvELr's rEsrI'
MONY.
mo man mas the right to mis-
represent another to get himself
up in Office, no matter how hum
| BILE that man Isl" the President
shouted at one point in his Lo'
we'll address.
ROOSEVELT PROTECTS HARVESTER
AND STEEL TRUST.
Mr.. Roosevelt's chief theme
is to attempt to stir UP class feel.
ing and hatred and to array those
who have not much against those
who have mora plea most dan.
Lgerous TO make in a community
and one which in his calmer
moments, when not seeking an
Office, he would deprecate in
others as emphatically as he pur-
sues the course now.
With his power of including
the people to support him, with
the opportunity that President
has. and as active as he is to per-
petuate his power, he becomes a
real danger.
And with his little regard for
constitutional restriction, his lit.
tie regard for the due process of
Jaw, l can not but think that
there is great crisis in the coun-
try's history involved in the ques-
ton whether now for a third term
he shall be the nominee of the
Republican Party and be elected
to the Presidency"
| RoosEvEIr's PATH NOT sTREwN
WITH DRAD BOSSES.
What bosses are for me r.
asked Mr.. Taft at Hamden. Mr..
Roosevelt says they are all for
me. / could 60 over the list and
show you q good many for him.
There is Mr.. Finn in Pennsy1-
vania, one of the worst bosses
they have ever had in that State.
Walter Brown, who is budding