The Sentinel=record., 1912-05-05
TAFT MAKES
 ACCUSATION
WRITES NEW CAMPER IN THE HARVESTER TRUST souARBLE
 DURING HIS SPEECHES.
Accuses Roosevelt of Preventing the Prosecution at Request Of Perkins Who Was His Supporter-The
 Cabinet Story an Error.

Baltimore Md, May 4.-In the clos. ing speech of 14-hour campaign trip through Maryland, President Taft add ed new chapter 70 the history of the Harvester trust here tonight | Speaking to an audience that filled 1 the Lyric theater to the doors, Mir Taft declared Colonel Roosevelt did prevent the prosecution of that trust, after George w Perkins, one of it's directors and now Roosevelt sup porter, had asked that the trust be not taken into the courts; intimated that Charles ]. Bonaparte, attorney general under MT. Roosevelt was mis- taken when he said that he QMr. Taft) was present at cabinet meeting which decided against prosecution and said that the diary of Herbert Knox Smith, then and now head of the bu. reau of corporations, proved that at the time referred to he was on trip around the world.
 Mir. Taft's explanation of the har- vester trust muddle was only one of the many points on which he attacked Colonel Roosevelt. He said his prede- cessor's attitude toward the trusts showed clearly that he would prefer 'despotlsm" that would discriminate between the good and bad trusts, pointed ont how Mir. Roosevelt had changed from his attitude of regard ing his entrance into the presidential race as calamity to that of being an active campaigner for the nomina. ton and insisted that MT Roosevelt was striving to make this campaign one in which the man who had little should be arrayed against him who had more.
 Mir. Tafts Baltimore speech came at the end of day that took him over much of the central and south western part of Maryland. He made seven speeches to crowds that were attentive and that cheered him ire quently
 In practically all of his early speeches, the president brought in the name of Colonel Roosevelt and asked again and again for square deal"
 The presidents Baltimore speech was delivered just before he left for Washington, where he will take breaK. fast and luncheon before leaving for Cincinnati for a short stay.
 Tn it he said in part.
 The truth about the harvester trust is that Mir Bonaparte thought it had been prosecuted George w. Perkins. who was a director in the harvester trust, then director in the steel trust and also a member of the firm of Ntof. gan and company. came over to Wash ington and pleaded with Herbert Knox Smith. of the bureau of corporations, not to bring the suit. and induced MT. Smith to make a report to MT. Roosevelt in which he set forth that the steel trust and the harvester trust and the other Morgan interests had attempted to carry out MT. Roosevelt s idea of publicity and therefore they ought not to be subject to prosecution even though they were technically guilty, threatening that if they were prosecuted, they would fight the ad ministration. The result was that MT Smith made vigorous report on the 21st of September to MT. Roosevelt in which he detailed this conversation , and recommended that no suit be , brought until he had made full in i vestigation. Before this report was made by the assistant district attor ney of North Dakota and by the dis trict attorney of Minnesota that there
 was ground for prosecution the har
 vester trust; that this trust had vio , lated the antitrust law Between , September 2l and the first of Novem
 Der the matter was under considera
 ton and on the seventh of Novembe
 the president directed Herbert Kno'
 Smith to notify MT. Perkins that n' !. prosecution would be begun until aft ]. CT the investigation That settled tn y matter. because that is what Mir. Pei r. kins asked for.
 } Now, MT Roosevelt says that l wa $ present at the cabinet meeting i '- which 1t was decided not to prosecut } the trust until after the investigation
 AS a matter of fact was not in tn