The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-27

going their way and opposing the cause of the people.
 MT. Taft said yesterday that never in thought, word or deed had he been disloyal in his friendship for me. It is hard for me to answer such q statement, save by calling it the gross est and most astounding hypocrisy. When Mr. Raft made that statement he just sent to the United States sen ate on half an hours notice, obvious ly in collision with the Lorimer demo- cratic senator who made the request, papers which were intended to convey the impression that l had improperly favored the harvester trust by declin- ing to prosecute it in 1907.
 When Mr. Taft takes the action he did, he has not merely in thought, word and deed been disloyal to our past friendship, but has been disloyal to every canon of ordinary decency and fair dealing such as should op- tain even in dealing with mans bitterest opponents. Such conduct represents the very crookedest kind of a crooked deal.
 "This is not an exceptional in stance of how he has behaved to me. The same course was followed last summer in connection with the Ten nessee Coal and Iron company The assaults upon me by Mir Taft's cam paign managers, made in Washington under Mir Taft's very eyes, have been foul to the verge of indecency. But remember am not complaining of these things; I care nothing for MT. Taft's personal attitude toward me; allude to it only in passing ana merely because Mir Taft lays such emphasis on the matter"
 The speaker then turned to reel procity. saying:
 MT. Taft says changed front on the reciprocity measure. This is un- true. He publishes a letter of mine in answer to a letter of his marked confidential" Incidentally, one oi the llnpardonahle sins on the part oi any man calling himself gentleman is to publish confidential correspond ence without permission; as to this care nothing"
 | Mir Roosevelt said he at least diC not say one word against MT. Taft'' reciprocity measure until 1t was dead 'Even then," he said, T declined tC speak on the subject until in seyera states MT. Tafts managers themselves began to circulate the fact of my sup port of Mir Tafts proposal as req son why I should not be nominated
 He declared that ill 30 years ol close observation he had never seen such "seandalous abuse of the patron age as of this year"
 MT. Taft states that I advised him to have meeting with Cannon" said the speaker. T advised him to mee. everyone, to consult with everyone, to try to get on with everyone. But nc less emphatically l advised him to fol low my example, to consult freely with all the politicians and try to get on with them, but where the poll ticians split off from the people, then to stand with the people and not with the politicians; and 1t is precisely this | that he failed to do
 q have eagerly endeavored to praise Mir. Taft wherever I possibly could and I have merely kept silence where 1 disagreed. As he now insists thai should break silence about the tariff law. l will say that hold him culpably responsible for having led the people to believe he favored a substantial downward revision and that he woult work actively for 1t, and then having sat supinely by and allowed his new friends, under the leadership of Al drieh and Cannon. to produce bil which made him convict himself o insincerity when he signed it"
 Turning to President Tafts state ment in regard to third term, Col onel Roosevelt declareA that the dan ger lay only in more than two con securive terms which might afford of portunity for the executive to intrencl himself in power.
 ''Mr Taft, without my permission, he continued, has quoted entire lei ters from me, written in answer to lei ters of his which were marked Conf dentiar; l shall so far avail mysel of his example as to quote four line of letter from him to me which wa not marked Confidential; it was wri ten shortly after he became presiden 1t runs.
 CT can never forget that the powe I now exercise was voluntarily tran
 ferred from you to me. and that l al . under obligation to you to see to that your Judgment in selecting m