The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-05-22
WOULD RULE Or
RUIN THE c. D. P.
So Thinks President Taft
Of Roosevelt.
SAYS TEOOY'S OUT OF RUNNING
And Republican PARTY ShOuld
And Republican Party Should
Be Glad Of lt-SOme
Bitter Talk.
TAFT THINKS 7. Il. WILL BOLT

Cincinnati, May 19.-In most
bitter ana scathing denuncia,ion
of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Presi-
dent TAR tonight declared that the
certainty of his defeat for the Re-
publican nomination must be
source OF profound congratulation
TO all patriotic citizens" declared
that his predecessor in the White
House would wreck the Republican
party if he should be chosen by the
Republican National Convention,
and compared Mr. Roosevelt to
Louis XIV. of France, who said:
The state, | am it,"
The attack was in the form of
statement. Mr.. Taft said:
"On Thursday last gave a state
ment to the press in which | said
that with $40 Taft delegates then
elected to the convention, and with
the immediate prospect of the cleo
ton of enough to exceed the neces-
sary $40, the success of the cause
of constitutional government SEEM
ed assured. The delegates elected
since that time have confirmed this
conclusion.
"Mr. Roosevelt's speech at Cleve-
land shows him in such a light that
the certainty of his defeat for the
Republican nomination must be a
source of profound congratulation
to all patriotic citizens who can
now see the utter wreck that he
would have made of the party, If
nominated, and the great danger
to which the country would have
been exposed had there been any
chance of his election to a third
term.
"Mr. Roosevelt says that he is
the Republican party, and that if
the Republican National Commit
tee, in passing on the credentials of
delegates for the preliminary roll
in the convention. shall hold to be
unfounded his many fimsy con-
tests, he will decline to abide the
judgment of those having authori-
ty. The inference from this is that
he will bolt the convention because
a duly constituted Republican Ma
tional Committee shall, after a ju-
dicial investigation, refuse to seat |
his contesting delegates. If his |
edict is to be needed, then the hold |
ing of any convention at all is per-
functory and superfuous.
1.-The arrogance of his statement .
that be is the Republican party and |
that failure to comply with his |
views aud wishes puts those doing
so in the attitude of boilers, finds |
no parallel in history save in the
famous words of Louis XIV, The
State, am it
at is on a par with his declara-
lion that I typify and embody the
element of the age
with clearly traceable premedi-
alton he projected contests without
he slightest reason therefor, in
many cases weeks after the regular
had been heli, merely
% make a basis for a campaign of
bluff and buster. Now he threat
Ems that unless this campaign thus
carried on is recognized as sue
,essful. and unless honestly elected
delegates shall be thrown out in
iufficient numbers to give him
he will break from the
party End try to ruin that which
he cannot rule.
81 appeal to all Republicans to
Jay whether man who assumes
his attitude does not forfeit his
lain to any right to become a can
'idate in Republican convention.
IGNORED with the nomination to
he Presidency by that party, and