New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-11
Harlan and Bede Find the
Third Term Sentiment There
Is Rapidly Dying Out.
GREETED BY GREAT CROWDS
Taft Truth Tellers" on Colo.
nel's Trail Convinced the
People Have Repudiated
Presidents Opponent.
fBy relegraph to The tribune. !


Houghton. Mich, Oct. 1O.-There is Gu.
mulative evidence to-day Of the sweep Of
Taft sentiment in Michigan. John May
nard Harlan and j. Adam Bede, the Taft
truth tellers" on the trail of Roosevelt,
addressed five meetings during the day.
and at each a larger number of voters
were present than heard the colonel twen-
ty-four hours before. Their enthusiasm
showed that the people of Michigan have
repudiated the third term candidate
At Stignaec, Marquette. Houghton and
Calumet meetings were addressed by the
Taft speakers. At Marquette more than
twenty-five hundred persons gathered at
the station to hear them, and 30 per cent
Of them were voters. In Houghton to-
night the Amphidrome was packed to the
doors.
The meeting at Calumet was significant
in its enthusiasm. The Taft speakers
did not mince words. Mr.. Harlan pointed
out that Roosevelt had denounced Judge
Parker in 1904 as a liar because he had
dared to assert that Roosevelt's campaign
was being financed by corporations. He
quoted Senator Scott's testimony Of yes
terday before the Senate committee as
proving that Roosevelt was aware of the
contributions. Then he demanded to know
IL any one In the audience had heard that
Roosevelt had apologized to Judge Parker
for calling him a liar.
Mr.. Bede called attention to the fact
that In his whole political career and In
his personal life no charge had ever been
DreflFrad IN ha f,.ta
dent TAFT and that he stood to-day before
the country untainted and unafraid.
30 far as Michigan is concerned Rooss-
welt sentiment is dying rapidly. There Ia
no reason to suppose for a moment that
Tart Will not carry the state, and this is
emphasized by the readiness OF the voters
to hear the truth as presented by Harlan
and Bede and to express their apprecia-
ton OF It,
Roosevelt and the Tariff.
In his speech in Calumet Mr.. Harlan
took up Roosevelts tariff record, saying:
Does anybody know what is Rooseyelt's
position on the tariff? II so, 1 wish he
would tell me.
We know ne was a standpatter Of the
deepest dye while he was President. He
never lifted finger to have the tariff re-
vised downward, upward or sidewise. He
hushed up every attempt of others toward
tarin revision. He never made the slight
est effort 10 open a foreign market To-
American products or manufactures
though when he was taking his oath OF
ONCE eleven years ago, almost In the pres-
ence OF the dead Mckinley, he promised
the American people that he would carry
out the policy which had just been am
nouDced by Mckinley looking TO an ex1
pansion or our foreign trade by the usd
OF the maximum and minimum schedule
About the middle OF his second term id
was announced that President Roosevelt
would deliver an address at Indianapolis
declaring his position and purpose as n
the tariff and its revision. He prepared
his speech. and put into the hands OF the
press associations for publication after
delivery. The speech was in print, ready
for publication. He went 10 Indanap polls,
was conveniently taken i'll, his only I'LL
ness reported during his two terms, and
returned TO Washington forthwith. The
speech died a-borning, killed" and hur-
led, and has never been resurrected. Posi-
sibly IL Is being preserved for posthumous
publication.
who recalled that tariff speech of
Theodore Roosevelt? Was IL any OF the|
big interests who had contributed to his
colossal campaign fund In 1904. who, he
would now have US believe, are oppos-
ing him In this campaign?
"Since Roosevelt seems to be tongue
tied on the tariff. why wouldn't 1t be n
good idea for his committee to bring forth
his undelivered Indianapolis tariff speech
and publish 1t now as a campaign doou-|
ment?'