Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-26

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both economic and political reasons. AS
you say, labor cost is substantially the
same in the two countries. SO that you
Whether Canada viii accept sdch reel
procity I do not know, but It is greatly
to yonr credit to make the effort. II
awhile. but It will surely benefit the party
in the end, especially If Q tackle wool,
cotton, etc., as; as you propose; Eyer sr,S y1ogTlrs
Speaking of the Payne tariff bill Mr.,
Taft again defended his course in sign
ing it and declared that 10 have vetoed
it would have broken up the Republi-
can party. ~
"Has Mr.. Roosevelt ever condemned
the Payne bill?' he asked. "Does he
say he would not have signed it If 1t
had beer presented to him under con
ditions that I had to meet7 He has
never said that as far as l know, and
the New York platform Of 1915. adopted
by the convention of which he was a
part, Endorsed the pending bin and ap-
proved its passage. Is it a square
deal, therefore, for him to charge me
with not being a Progressive when all
that l did was TO deal with the party
as it was in Congress and to get as
IlQCu do COQlu Vi Lie AC6tbldt1CAi
promised out of that party, torn as I
was by the factions. OF course I con
ferred with the regular Republican
leaders in the Senate and the House
and through them we redeemed the
promises of the Republican platform to
an extent that no political platform had
v been redeemed before.
Used Those in Power.
in all Mr.. Roosevelt's history he
never failed to use as instruments for
his purpose those whom he found in
power. Indeed throughout his life ne
has defended that course as the only
sensible course to pursue. I have
merely followed his example and / do
not hesitate to point with ~satisfac-
ton to the legislation which has been
enacted in my three years"
Mr.. Taft continued:
Now I find Mr.. Roosevelt coming the
other way, ~denouncing the antitrust law
and denouncing, prosecutions under 1t; He
avs that the decree in the Standard Oil
case is ineffective, that the price of the
stock has gone up. aud in some way or
other I am responsible for the fact that
the price did go up, and that my admins
traitor is to be condemned because that
decree was confirmed In the Supreme
Court. The truth is that the decree as
finally entered and enforced was drawn
exactly as Mr.. Roosevelt's attorney-gen-
eral In the bill which by direction of
Mr.. Roosevelt he filed against the Stand
ard Oil Company had asked that it be
with characteristic holiness and lack
Of facts or evidence and resting on his
false and distorted construction OF my
anguage as to s@9vernnent ~ a Eepresenf
charges that stand for the so-ealled
ing else would serve, the record of my
administration as to suits against rail-
ways to stop INCREASE q rates and suits
them and to punish their directors must
show to a fair-mindcd public that this
administration has no favorites among
~lawbreakers or those seeking special
privileges.
No Third Term.
Mr.. Roosevelt ought not to be nominated
at Chicago, because in such nomination
the Republican party will violate our
masi 9selaf fn no n one shail be SV%g permitted
to hold a third Presidential term.
Mr.. Taft quoted from Mr.. Roose-
velt's statement in November. 1904. the
following:
THE wise custom which limits the
President to two terms regards the
substance and not the form, and under
no circumstances will l be a candidate
for or accept another nomination."
He now says, although his language
does not bear such a construction,
that he meant he would not accept a
nomination for a consecutive third
said the President. He says
so in face of the fact that the most
noteworthy precedent in which the
tradition was asserted and maintained
was that of 1880, when General Grant
was denied a third term four years
after he had left the Presidential ctfice.
1t is not for me to enter into a dis
cussion of the plain meaning of the
language he used. II he had frankly
announced that he had changed his
mind no one would be disposed to hold
him to a promise of that sort merely
because he had made it. The promise
and his treatment of 1t only throw an
informing light on the value that ought