Arizona republican., 1912-05-14
OHIO SPEECHES
 FAIRLY S|ZZLE
President Taft Unmerciful ly Plays Third Termer
 in Addresses
DENOUNCES HIS
 RIVALS COURSE
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STEUBENVILLE. Ohio, May B. Prsident Tafts first day of his final campaign in Ohio which came to an end with a speech here tonight. was marked by the most pronounced verbal assaults upon Col. Roosevelt so far given public utteTance. In speeches filled with indignant attack that bubbed over with uncomplimentary adjectives. President Taft discharged his oratory at his predecessor. He started out in d final campaign to urge the people of his own state to support him at the primaries at Marietta, in a cold rain which, how ever, gave way to q bright sun be- fore noon. Although in substances the speeches delivered by the presi- dent were similar to those delivered in Massachusetts, they differed wide ly at times in the words used to score Roosevelt. one part of a speech which raised a laugh, was delivered at Dennison. and ran something like this: T think it will be dangerous to put a man with ROOseVelts present constitutional views, and with the elatiOn he necessarily feels by reason of getting something that all presi- dents have never gOtten-it will not be safe to put him in the White House again. He says the reason the American people are going to elect him is that he is necessary for the job. l want to call your attention to what the job is which he proposes. It is the millennium which he is going to bring about when he gets into Of flee All bosses are going to dis appear, politicians are going to be fewer and he is going to have fln- ger in every community in every state in every county. and every thing is going to heaven. If that be true the millennium is coming, but If that is the job he is going to do it IS going to take longer than four years. So when he comes here l beg of you ask him whether he will take a fourth or fifth term, or why he shouldn't continue in office for life At Cambridge the president was once more especially bitter.
 CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, May 13-ln | his speech here yesterday President ! Taft suggested there will be put | little hope for the future of the na- tiOn if Roosevelt were waited to the | skies in chariot like the prophet of 1 old. and there was no one left to do l the job Roosevelt said the country 1 needs him to do " The presidents s speech boiled over with attacks and i criticisms of Roosevelt. You'd sup pose there wasn't anybody in the ! country to do this job that Roosevelt talks about but himself" said the | president at one point. Its l, l. 1 all the time with him. Suppose you | feed that egOtism and vanity and put him in office with a sense of power to disregard constitutional restrlc- tions, it would be dangerous for the country
 T hold that man a demagogue and 1 flatterer who comes out and tells the
 people they know it all. I hate a flatterer. I like a man to tell the truth straight out and I hate to see
 man try to 'honeyfingle' the peo- pie by telling them something he
 don't believe"
 Here tonight the president said it
 would he a dangerous precedent to
 rut any man in the presidency three
 terms.
 T suppose if Roosevelt were waited
 to the skies in a chariot as Olden
 times tell us of and he were to dis
 appear from sight, what in the world
 would this country do? Roosevelt lik-
 ems himself to Lincoln"
 Taft then asked Roosevelt to point
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