The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27
He Plays the President ill One Scathing Sen- tence After An
 other
TAKES UP CHARGES 1 POINT BY POINT IN
 LENGTHY ANSWER
President Taft Carries His Fighting Campaign Into New Jersey and Renews His Attack on His
 Former Friends = He
 Loses No Vigor

Worcester, Mass, April 26.--Mercleas Accommodation of President Taft was Colonel Roosevelt's reply to the Presl- dents attack upon him yesterday. some of Colonel Rooseye1t's assertions were:
 That President sEaft had not given the people of the country "a square deal" but that owing to a quality of feebleness" he had yielded to the bosses and the great privileged inter- ests"
 That one part of the Presidents at tack upon him was "the scrookedest kind of deal" and deliberate miss representation"
 Taft Himself Is Disloyal
 That the President "has not mers- ly in thought word and deed been dis loyal to our past friendship, but has ieen disloyal to every canon ol ordi- nary decency and fair dealing such IS should obtain even in dealing with rlan's bitterest opponents"
 That the Presidents statement re- gaFding the influence of federal office holders in the campaign was not only an untruth. but it is an absurd un- truth"
 That NIT. Taft convicted himself Of lnsincerity when he signed the Payne- Aldrich tariff bill
 That in speaking of Colonel Roose- velt's position in regard 10 the trust problem. President Taft lis htmse.f guilty of a crooked deal.'
 Colonel Roosevelt took up President Tafts attack on him point by point, flaying the President in one scathlns sentence after another.
 
 Issue Is Not Personal
 Colonel Roosevelt in part said
 eIn this campaign I regard the, is- sues at stake as altogether too im- portant to permit il to be twisted into one of personalities between Pres- ident Taft and myself But Mir. Taft s speeches yesterday contained state- nents that 1 must answer. Most of what he said needs no comment from ire When, for instance. he said that have endeavored to minimize the inn portance of my Columbus speech, he says what he must know to be un- true
 Again, when MT. Taft in any speech speaks of me directly or obliquely as a neurotic. or as a demagogue or In similar terms l shall say nothing ex- eept that to point out that if he Is obliged to use such language he had better preserve his own self respect by not protesting that it gives him pain to do so. l have discussed exclusively his public actions. Even where [ was obliged to be severe 1 was always par liamentary and never hYpocritieal. Nor do 1 intend to devate from this stan dard"
 Colonel Roosevelt referred to Pres ident Tafts explanation of his state- mont that ours Is a government of all of the people by representative part of the people"
 Makes Charge of Crockedness
 aFor him to try" said Colonel Roosevelt, "to escape the consequences of his statement by saying that he al- luded only to women and children Is trifling with the intelligence of the people To speak of such actipn on his part as square deal is itself the crookedest kind of deal. He is trying to dodge the consequences of his state ment by deliberate misrepresentation of that statement"
 Colonel Roosevelt defined the polit- | ical 'boss" as the man responsible for the alliance between crooked poll itics and crooked business"
 If there is any such man among my supporters" he continued, T don't know him MT. Taft says that Mir. Flynn of Pittsburg is very bad boss. There Is an element of grim comedy in MT. Taft weeping over the thought Of Pennsylvania being put under the rule of sboss through Mir. Penrose being busted from control of the party organization"
 The bosses, Colonel Roosevelt ae- clared. were on the Presidents side. MT Taft says he continued, "thatj in my various campaigns l accepted' the assistance of these bosses. So I did when they ,chose to go my way