The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-10-04
They Are Those Credited Up to
Colonel; His Public Acts
Shown.
0odged Tariff Issue During the
Seven Years He Occupied
White House.
BY c. D. HILLES.

Inc eulLOr OF the GaZeCLe puDl1SH-
ed at Oroville, Wash, has SO clever
ly set forth the folly of the third
party movement that / am going to
borrow his ideas and cOndense them.
although / regret that / cannot pre-
sent them in full to as intelligent
class of readers as will see this arti.
Gle.
President Taft, at Winona, said the
Payne tariff bill was the best the
republican party had ever passed
and was damned for it. Theodore
Roosevelt said, in signed article
in The Outlook, that it was better
than any of it's predecessors, and
was applauded for it.
Taft has prosecuted the trusts and
has been declared a tool of the boss
es and the friend of the interests.
Roosevelt exonerated Paul Morton,
a self-confessed rebater, stopped the
prosecution of the Harvester Trust,
promised the Steel Trust immunity
from prosecution, and is running his
campaign with Harvester Trust
money and is acclaimed the friend
of the people and the enemy Of the
interests-by some.
Taft initiated Canadian reciprocity,
secured treaty and has consist
emily defended it, and was damned
by every farmer on the Canadian
border.
Roosevelt wrote Taft: "That what
you propose to do with Canada is
admirable from every standpoint.
firmly believe in free trade with
Canada for both economic and poll
tical reasons" And he is now ask
ing the farmers to. support him be-
cause Taft favored reciprocity.
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Taft carefully examined the rec.
ords in the Herimer case, urged
Roosevelt to help rid the senate OF
Lorimer and enlisted Root, Lodge
and other senators in the fight
against Lorimer. And he was brand
ed as friend of Lorimer before the
convention and has been rebuked
by the senate for opposing Lorimer
since the convention.
Roosevelt, without investigating
the records, refused to sit at the
table with Lorimer, promised the
president to help unseat Lorimer,
has publicly denounced Taft as Lor-
liners friend, and now that Lor-
inner has been expelled, says 81 did
it. 1t was my fight and I won"
And he tells the public that Taft
was weakly, pussillanimously and
ANONYMOUSLY wrong throughout
and some people believe him."
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Taft secured the creation of the
tariff board, the maximum and min.
imum tariff, and the tax on the
profits of corporations, and is de-
nounced by Roosevelt as "the play
thing of Aldrich and the standpat
element, the friend of the interests
and a weakling."
Roosevelt lodged the tariff issue,
throughout his seven and a half
years in the White House, praised
the Payne bill in the highest terms
in his speeches at Saratoga and asks
election on a platform which de-
mands a tariff board, and he is her.
aided as the champion of the con-
sumer-by Perkins and certain poll
ticians
Taft secured the law compelling
the publicity of campaign contribu-
demned by Roosevelt as lin league
with big business"
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Roosevelt spent millions Of dol.
lars in an attempt to gain the repub-
lican nomination, and is running on
a third ticket under the auspices Of
George Perkins, head of the Harves-
ter Trust and director of the Steel
corporation, and Is about to be can
oniZed by his adorers.
Taft has said little, but has Sc
cured forty-five indictments and in
stituted twenty-five civil suits un-
der the Sherman law in three years,
and is pilloried as the protector
and protege of Wall Street
Roosevelt talked all the time about
what he was going to do to the
trusts, secured only twenty-five In
dictments and instituted eighteen
civil suits under the Sherman law
in seven years, stopped the prosecu-
ton of the Harvester Trust and
guaranteed the Steel Trust against
prosecution, and is conducting cam
paign on funds supplied by big ben.
eficiaries of big trusts; yet announc-
ing that he alone is the enemy of
Wall Street.
Taft preached against war, favored
the adjudication of international
disputes and is denounced by Roose-
welt as lacking in patriotism and
promoting war;
Roosevelt, with the help Of his
friends, killed the peace treaties in
the senate, boasts of having seized
the Panama zone and he wears the
Nobel peace prize.
Taft has stood consistently against
the recall Of judges, and is denounc-
ed because he'll not let the people
rule.
Roosevelt ridiculed to a finish
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