The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-05-03
PRESIDENT TAFT
RESEN7S INSULTS
Attacks Of theodore Roosevelt
Full Of FaIsehoods.
HIS CAMPAIGN UNFAIR ONE
Misrepresentation, vlIilhcation, Abuse
and Assaults OF Roosevelt Will
No Longer b Tolerated.
Former President Would
Wreck the Party.

After enduring with infinite pa
tiencs. not only because Of the dignity
Of the high ONCE which he holds, but
also because of the personal friend.
ship which he has enjoyed and had
hoped to maintain with former Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt. President
William H. TAFT has finally been
forced to resent the misrepresenta-
tons Of his actual position on public
issues. the untruths which have been
uttered with respect to his official 90
tons and to the conduct of this cam
paign and attacks upon him which not
infrequently involved his personal
honor as . man as well as his integ-
rity as president Of the United States.
The president and his campaign
managers have sought throughout
this campaign. by . dignifled and fair
course Of conduct, to maintain the Re-
publican party AZ . militant power
for good in the land. with q view to
another triumphant victory at the
polls in November.
On the contrary, Theodore Roose-
welt and his friends and hackers have
conducted an organised campaign to
wreck the Republican party, not only
by engendering personal animosities
by attacks on individual leaders Of
the party In various states, but by Of
fering and supporting q national plat
form which 10 rank Socialism. Al q
result Of this situation Director VII.
liam B. Mckinley Of the National Taft
bureau, issued the following state
ment to the public on April II:
"The outcome Of the Pennsylvania
primaries 10 plainly indicative of the
fact that national Issues are playing
only . small part In some states in
the campaign for the Republican nom.
ination for president
Instead Of constructive statesman
ship being put forth in an effort to
solve the problems before the country
and as bid for votes on the ground
Of merit, . nationwide campaign Of
willful and malicious misrepressnta-
ton. villihcation and assault on the
president Of the United States has
been substituted Such a campaign.
amounting in fact to . conspiracy,
not only to humiliate the president
personally, but to commit the Repub-
hcan party to rank Socialism, has
been countenanced and conducted BY
former President Theodore Roose-
Welt
THE time has arrived to call halt
on such proceedings
President Taft. always mindful Of
the decencies of human conduct: be-
heving that friendship II a sacred
thing and that. like truth, It should be
maintained even at q personal sacri.
nee. and also believing that the Ameri.
can people expect the occupant of the
highest office In the gift of the nation,
as we'll as those who have formerly oc,
cuDied 1t. to respect the dignity of that
office, has. during the course of this
campaign. patiently submitted to mis-.
representation. villincation and insult.
without reply.
THE result Is that his opponent has
thrown all restraint to the winds. Sen.
ator Joseph NJ. Dixon. the national
campaign manager of former Presi.
dent Roosevelt. has been permitted,
without rebuke from his candidate. to
insult the president Of the United
States. He has not only been DER.
mitted to charge the president with
being a receiver Of stolen goods
without protest, but former President
Roosevelt has repeated the charge on
the stump
"The time has now come when the
American people will no longer sit
idly BY and see this unfair and mali.
cious persecution and villification con-
tinued by man. and by the friends