The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-28
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TAFT GROWS EMPHATIC.

II Having begun on the exposures Oh
Roosevelt g hypocrisy. falsity, and I'M
scrupulousness, and having recognized
publicly the personal animosity ana
vindictiveness which Roosevelt is dis
playing against him, President Taft
grows in power daily. and is making a
deep impression upon The public. lie
was especially happy in his speech OF
Friday night at Newark, New Jersey,
where he dealt with the third term
proposition Explaining, as the fact IS,
that he did not seek the personal cam
paipn which Roosevelt has forced upon
him, he stated that he was bound to
fight. having been driven to the wall.
This is a plain, candid statement ol
fact. Roosevelt has driven him 10 the
wall and il is necessary for him TO
vindiratc his manhood and strike back.
| At Newark, President Taft PLAINLY
charged Roosevelt with seeking to
make himself dictator of the Republic,
and paving the way to usurp the fresi-
dency for life. This would mean both
| social and political revolution. What
is there that calls for this upturn OF
the Government, this setting aside OF
The Constitution! What is there In the
conditions so peculiar that something
else must be done besides continuing
the Government as we have mad ~
But. TO make such an oHcrturn as tue
Roosevelt propositions require, would
he quite impossible i'll four years. II
Roosevelt is elected 10 make tins over
furp. il would therefore be necessary
To continue him in Office yet another
term i'm order TO complete the change
which he is urging, and so on AT the
end of every term there would still be
something more to do, and tho demand
for Roosevelt would be constant AS
long as he might live, Just as DlaH
continued his rule in Mexico. If
Roosevelt is the only man in the coup
try competent 10 fill the office Of Ircsi'
dent now, when are we likely to ever
have any one competent TO succeed
him'
Evidently the frame Of mind OF
those who are for Roosevelt tins year
would require them TO be for Roosevelt
whenever Roosevelt wants the oftlce.
4 lie term would he not only dcslr
able under those conditions, but prac-
ticaIly compulsory. But when it comes
To the idea that there is but one man
in the Republic competent to be ITS
President. then ii is time for the Re
public TO end, and it must end then
and there Roosevelt evidently thinks
so, and he thinks that he is the man
TO end il by tho establishment OF die
tatorship in his own person. But the
Republic. fortunately for itself, IS not
reduced TO any such extremity as the
Roosevelt idea would imply. There Is
not only ample material TO select a
President from public men in both par
ties, but there ia an abundance of able,
patriotic men who would do well in the
Presidential char, who have never yet
been mentioned, and, in fact, have
never figured in politics or public life.
The Republic is vast. rich, varied, and
has everything necdful including tue
mcu and women who arc competent to
do everything that tue Republic needs
to have done. and who viii see that the
Republic is preserved. 1T is an idle
presumption in any man to consider
President. VI is a distinct poverty OF
mind and distrust Of the public for
any man to So assert, or for any set oil
men TO band themselves together and
say that there is but one who can fill
the Presidential Office. All such ideas
mean dIstrust of the Republic, and a
preparedness of mind to accept a COM
plete change, even TO the extent of al
lowing a dictatorship to be set up by
that one man who only is competent TO
hold the helm of state.
President Taft does well TO remind
the public of these things, and to show
the selfish greed and, contcmptuous in
difference to the laws and foundations
of the Republic. of the man who puts
himself in the position OF claiming to
be the only one competent TO be chief
executive Of this Republic. The nat
ural consequence of this sort of talk
would be that the Republic would go
TO the dogs when Roosevelt dies, as he.
must die at some time in the ordinary
course Of nature. But, If the life oil
the Republic hinges upon the life of
some one man, then its tenure Of ex-
istence is frail indeed, and necessarily
short.
We should he glad TO see President
Taft take up the positive derelictions
of Roosevelt in such matters as he may
have knowledge of, and he undoubted-
" knows Of good many, The public
knows Roosevelt s lawess policy to-
ward the Steel trust, aud his subserv-
lent timorousness in presence of the
Morgan threat of withdrawing support
from his administration in case he be
gun the Harvester trust suits. These
are the things to press against Roosc
velt before the people. for they com.
pletely crush all his claims Of love Of