Omaha daily bee., 1912-05-14
BITTER SPEECH AT CAMBRIDGE
Address Boils Over With Bitter Criti-
cism of the Colonel.
LIKES FOR MAN TO TELL TRUTH
Says Roosevelt is Trying to Honey.
fugle the People.
COMPARISON WITH LINCOLN
Executive Asks ~ Martyred Presi-
dent Would 80 Around the ooun-
try Incorporating Him rs
Roosevelt has Done.

CAMBRIDGE. o., May 13.-In one OF
the most bitter speeches he has made
since he began his active campaign for a
denomination, President Taft here today
held Roosevelt up to ridicule. called him
an intense and dangerous egotist and a
flatterer and demagogue.
Mr.. Taft suggested that there would be
but little hope for the future of this
nation II MFR. Roosevelt were waited to
the skies in chariot, like the prophet
OF old and there was no one left to do
the job Mr.. Roosevelt said the country
needs him to do" .
The presidents speech boiled over with
attacks and criticisms of Colonel Roose-
welt.
You'd suppose there wasn't anybody
in the country to do this Job that Mr..
Roosevelt talks about but himself" said
the president at one point. Its !, !. /,
all the time with him.
Suppose you feed that egotlsm and
vanity and put him in office with a
sense Of power and a disregard Of con-
stltutional restrictions. 1t would be dam
gerous for this country.
Il hold that man a demagogue and a
flatterer who comes out and tells the
people they know II all. I hate a fiat
terer. like a man to tell the truth
straight out and hate TO see man try
to honey fugle the people by telling them
something he don't believe.
do you think that Abraham Lincoln.
to whom Mr.. Roosevelt so often refers,
10 whom he likes 10 compare himself and
TO whom he bears less resemblance thsn
any one I know in the history Of this
country. would have acted as Mr.. Roore-
yelt has and misrepresented me as he
mas?
"Mr Roosevelt promises the millen-
mum. free from bosses. Well then, why
wasn't there a millennium during the
seven years he was in tho White House?
''one Indictment" he said, lis the
character Of the campaign Mr.. Roosevelt
Is carrying on. Personally I feel that
more deeply than any other because !
think hssis 20 be indicted for making the
kipd Of sccusstory and iibelous GAM
palgn which required me. the president
Of the United States IN. order TO save the
cause represent. TO come out on, the
platform and 10 about making political
speeches In my behalf and doing some
thing that modest man dislikes''
pExTER CITY. o.. May ia-"They tell
me this is Roosevelt town" was the
presidents opening remark today to a
crowd that me, his train here to listen
to the second speech of his present cam
palgn tour.
1T is," yelled man on the station
platform. ~,
They say you are against me" con-
tlnued the president, because was In
favor or reciprocity. weil. l was. was
in favor OF reciprocity because | be-
ieved Il to be Tor the good Of the farm
ers and every other class, II would be
greatly to the benefit Of the farmers, bat
the thing is dead.
Now what want to say to you, you
are utterly illogical in opposing me on
account of reciprocity. when the fact is
that before I entered into reciprocity at
all / wrote to Theodore Roosevelt and
consulted him about It and told him all
the arguments both ways. He COM
msnded mo most highly for going into
the business and approved 1t in every
way. Now that he finds reciprocity is
not popular with the farmers he recants
and says that-weIl. he has changed his
mind about IT.
Roosevelt TO visit south Dakota.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D.. May l.-Theo-
dore Roosevelt is coming to South Da-
kota to make a personal fight for the
ten delegates from the state to the re-
publican national convention. He will
make flying visit June l, spending that
day in the state. II Is eSpected here that
Taft and La Toilette also viii visit the
state. The state primary will be held
June l.