The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-30
BATTLE IS over
1t Only Remains to Hear the
Voters Verdict
On the Fierce Political Contest
in Massachusetts.
FROM END TO END OF STATE
Taft and Roosevelt Fired
BrOadsideS at Each Other
All Through the Final Day of
the Campaign.
FROM END TO END OF STATE


Massachusetts, in Boston last night
From the time he began his speech
making at Attleboro, with talk on
| the tariff, until he made his last ad-
dress at Melrose and asked for
! square deal,' the president spurred
his husky voice into strenuous action.
1t was one of the hardest campaign
days Mr. Taft has spent since he en-
| tered the White House. The members
of his party were confident that his
second invasion of the Bay state will
bring votes for him to the polls today
Mr. Taft's last long address was
made at Lowell to an audience that
was the crowd to gain admittance
that several members of the presidents
own party could not get in until long
after he started speak
When he came to talk about the
bosses and Mr.. Roosevelt's charges,
someone in the gallery shouted:
He's a liar
mo. that isn't in my vocabulary"
said the president.
Later when he was referring to the
Lorimer case, the same man, evidently,
repeated his cry after a mention of
Colonel Roosevelt's name.
He's a Iiar,' he shouted.
MY experience on the bench has
taught me the Value OF WOfOS, SdIu
Mr. Taft "One of the most unsafe
things to do is to go further than to
show the facts. I appreciate the sup
port of my distinguished and enthusiasts
tic friend, but I must decline to adopt
his vocabulary"
A Way to Stop 1t.
After declaring that he was sorry it
was not necessary for him to have to
mingle in political struggle, he sug-
gested an amendment of the consti-
tuition so that a president should serve
six or eight years and be Ineligible
for reelection.
Il think that would prevent this"
he said.
mo man has the right to misrepre-
sent another to get himself in office, |
no matter how humble that man isl
the president shouted at one point in
his Lowell address.
Condemn me if you will" he said
in conclusion, but condemn me by
other witnesses than Theodore Roose-
welt.
II was a man of straw: but I have
been a man of straw long enough;
every man who has blood in his body
and who has been misrepresented as L
have been. is forced to fight. I ap-
peal to my friends in Massachusetts, |
who I think believe in a square deal"
In the first dozen speeches the presi-
dent did not mention Colonel Roose-
closely over the path his predecessor |
made through the state. Late in the |
afternoon, however, Mr.. Taft abandon
ed his early appeals for support be- |
cause of tariff and labor legislation and |
again attacked Mr. Roosevelt by name |
Practically every town the president !
visited is a manufacturing center and |
in many places the mills were closed, |
the schools had declared partial holt |
days, and every preparation had been
m a n fn yXyn1o fI1o
Interruptions were frequent especial |
ly when MIR. Taft asked if he had been
given square deal.
No. Nor yelled someone in almost |
every audience.
He made a decided hit at Middleboro. |
where man, just beneath him. shout |
ed:
'Hurrah for Teddy; no I mean hurrah |
for William H. Taft"
Il hope you don't make that mistake |
tomorrow" said the president. laugh
ing.
He Makes 1t Personal.
Pittsfield, Mass, April 3O.-s.If Won
vote for Mr.. Taft you vote for these
men, said Colonel Roosevelt here
after referring to Senators Lorimer, |
Penrose, Gallinger and Guggenheim. |
He declared that the president had |
back of him, outside of two or three |
practically nothing in his campaign I
states, except the support he received !
from those men, land their like and |
from the great sinister special inter- |
ests which stand behind these bosses"
Colonel Roosevelt devoted a large |
part of his speech to a reply to the
things President Taft had been say
ing during the day at the other end |
of the state. At intervals on his
journey across the state the colonel
presidents speeches and in the latter |
part of the day he entered upon long
distance debate by retorting to Mr..
Taft's statements.
Colonel Roosevelt said the president
had asserted that the colonel was
stirring up class hatred. This, Colonel
Roosevelt denied.
The talk that stirring up class
hatred is arrant nonsense" he de-
clared. In this same connection he
said:
IF Mr. Tafts policy of fIabby in
decision and of helpless acQuiescence
in the wrongdoing of the crooked
boss and the crooked financier is per-
mitted to continue, there will really
grow up class hatred in this country.
There will grow up very uncomfort-
able and very ugly feeling of discon-
tent with political, social and indus
trial conditions"
Can Win Without 1t.
Colonel Roosevelt made it clear that
he did not believe the result of his
campaign hinged upon the outcome
of today's primaries.
Mind you" he said, IT believe we
can win this fight without Massachu-
sets. But I do not want it to be
behind 1 want it to be in the lead in
the fight"
With his address in PittsfieId Col
onel Roosevelt wound up his cam
paign in Massachusetts,. He made 20
speeches, going from Boston through
towns along the north shore to Law
renee and Lowell. AND then across
the northern part of the state to the
Berkshire hills. He encountered a |
snow storm in the hills of northern
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