The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-05-02
I. R.. ANSWERS TAFT
CALLS IT "cRooKEDEsT KIND OF
DEAL" AND "DELIBERATE
MISREPRESENTATION"
BIG STICK IS WELDED.
Declares Taft Has Yielded to Bosses.
Signing of Tariff Bill Act Of
~lnsincerity, Ayers
Colonel.

Worcester, Mass, April 29.-Merci-
less denunciation of President Taft
presidents attack upon him Thursday.
Some of Colonel Roosevelt's asser-
tons were: T..
That President Taft had not given
the people of the country a square
DEAL" but that owing to a quality of
feebleness" he had yielded to the
bosses and the great private inter
ests."
That m part of the presidents at
tack upon him was "the crookedest
kind of a DEAL" and deliberate mis-
representation"
That the president has not merely
in thought, word and deed been dis
loyal to our past friendship, but has
been disloyal to every canon of ordi-
nary decency and fair dealing, such
as should obtain ever in dealing with
a mans bitterest opponents"
That the presidents statement re-
garding the influence of federal Office
holders in the campaign was mot only
an untruth, but an absurd untruth."
That Mr.. Taft convicted himself of
insincerity when he signed the Payne
Aldrich tariff bill.
That in speaking of Colonel Roose-
velt's position in regard to the trust
problem President Taft lis himself
guilty of a crooked deal"
Colonel Roosevelt took up the presi-
dents attack on him point by point,
arraigning the president in one sen.
tence and then another.
When Colonel Roosevelt reached
here at the beginning of his Massa-
chusetts trip, he found the streets
thronged. A band and a torch light
procession escorted him to Mechanics
hall, where he delivered his main
speech. Later he addressed an over
flow meeting.
Refers to Speeches.
Colonel Roosevelt in part said:
Again when Mr.. Taft in any speech
speaks of me directly or %obliquely as
a neurotic or a demogogue or in SINH
lar terms / shall say nothing except
to point out that if he is obliged to
use such language he had better pre-
serve his own self-respect by not pro.
testing that it gives him pain to do
so. No man resorts to epithets like
these if it really gives him pain to
use them. / have never alluded to him
in terms even remotely resembling
these. l have never quoted his priv
ate letters or private communications.
/ have discussed exclusively his pub
lie actions. Even where l was obliged
to be severe / was always parlia-
mentary and never hypocritical. Nor
do l intend today to deviate from this
standard, although the presidents
speech makes it necessary for me to
speak more plainly on certain subjects
than | have yet spoke.
Definition Of Government.
Colonel Roosevelt referred to Presi-
dent Taft's explanation of his state
ment that "ours is a government of
all of the people by a representative
part of the people" .
For him to try" Colonel Roosevelt
said, ito escape the consequences of
his statements by saying that he al
luded only to women and children Is
trifling with the intelligence of the
people. To speak Of such action On
his part as a square dear to my belief
is the crookedest kind of a deal. He
is trying to dodge the consequences
of his statement by deliberate misrep-
resentation of that statement"
Col. Roosevelt defined the political
boss" as "the mar responsible for
the alliance between crooked politics
and crooked business, which has been
responsible for nine-tenths of the cor.
ruption in American political life.
IF there is any such man among
my supporters" he continued, II do
not know him. Mr. Taft says that
Mr.. Finn of Pittsburg is a very bad
boss. There is an element of grim
comedy in Mr.. Taft weeping over the
thought of Pennsylvania being put un-
der the rule of a boss through Mr..
Penrose being ousted from control of
the party organization"
The bosses, Col. Roosevelt declared,
were on the presidents side.