The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-01
ROOSEVELT AND TAFT

Charles D. Hi1les, chairman of the Republican National Committee, writ ing as President Taft's representative in the campaign says:
 If President Taft should be defeat ed in November the result will be di- s>ectIy traceable to the prosecution of the Steel Corporation. This asser- ts1n is as easily proved as that two and two make four Here are the facts Judge for yourself.
 On the night of his election in 1 904 President Roosevelt issued a formal statement saying: Under no circum- stances will I again be a candidate for or accept a nomination for the Presidency"
 One September 25, 1910, at Sara toga Springs, N. Y., Colonel Roose- welt indorSed in the most cordial terms the administration of President Taft, the Payne tariff bill and all the merftorious measures enacted during the administration of President Taft, saying; We came here feeling that 1sss have a Sight to appeal to the peo- pie from the standpoint alike of na- tionaI and state achievement. Dur ing the last eighteen months a long list of laws enbodying Legislation most heartily to be commented as combining wisdom with progress has been enacted by Congress and ap- proved by President Taft
 In an article, written over his own signature in the Outlook he had con1- rnsndsd the Paayne tariff bill as bet
 
 In June, 1911, and again on Au- gusut IS. 1911, the former President stated over his signature that he would not bs a candidate for the nomination.
 What. happened between that date in August. 1911 and that other date in February. 1912. on the latter of which MT. Roosevelt announced his candidacy. to cause him to change his mind
 It would not have been any IegisIa- tive matter, for Congress adjourned a few days after the letter to Mir Moore was written, and on February 2z, 7s12. the last session of Congress was too new to have passed any important measure There had been no act of the President which could have changed Mfr. Roosevelt's views-save one
 Late in October. 1911, the Attorney General filed a suit against the steel trust charging violation of the Sher- man law. Among the acts charged against the steel trust was its absorp- tion of the Tennessee Coal & Iron Co.
 
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 Just four years before, on Novem- l ber 4, 1907, President Roosevelt had l promised this corporation immunity l from prosecution, even though they 1 did absorb their chief competitor. Immediately Mfr. Roosevelt began l to write articles for the magazines of 1 which he is a contributing editor" | displaying the greatest indignation l istration- Immediately there began | a series of conferences between Geo. 1 w. Perkins and MT. Roosevelt Der kins being director of the Steel Cor porzttonl, the result of which was that within three months Mir Roose- welt announced that he would accept | the nomination if rendered. to him. With funds furnished by George w. Perkins. as Perkins has himself sworn ir the case of New York, where the aw compelled a statement, Mir. Roosa- welt began an active convass, includ- ing a speaking tour in every state m which he believed he had a chance 70 secure delegates
 And his denunciation of President Taft during that speaking tour ex- ,eeded in malice, hatred and vituper- stion anything that an ex-President las ever said of one of his successors 's fellow citizens Everything that ae had previously said in praise of resident Taft and his Administration re ccntradicted. Over and over he 'sEitihed himself. not alone in con lsction with his references to Mir. rnft. but in the case of alb the sound doctrines he had previously preached -sgarding good government and clean politics 1.