The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-26
TAFT MAKES ATTACK ON
 ROOSEVELT
PRESIDENT DoNs HIS FIGHTING CLOTHES AND MAKES STING
 ING SPEECH AT BOSTON.
Says He Sees Disaster in a Third Term and Accuses Former Pres ident of Not Giving Him a
 Square Deal.

Boston, Mass, April 25.-President Taft donned his fighting clothes to- day. abandoned his policy of silence under the attacks that Colonel Theo- dore Roosevelt has made upon him and upon his administration, and for the first time since Mr. Roosevelt an nounced his candidacy, launched into a bitter denunciation of the former president From the time Mir. Taft entered Massachusetts and made his first speech at Springfield, shortly aft CT noon, until late tonight, he ham. mered away at Colonel Roosevelt. The president made nearly a dozesl speeches. Tn all, he made it clear he is unalterably opposed to MT. Roose- welt, that he saw disaster in a third term; and that he did not believe Colonel Roosevelt had given him square deal" He spoke to good sized crowds.
 In his first speeches he seemed to utter his attacks on Colonel Roose- welt with reluctance.
 This wrenches my soul" he said once,
 As the day wore on, however, and he made speech after speech, iii which he denounced Mir. Roosevelt again and again, Mir Taft grew more az gressive in manner. emphasized his words with gestures. and apparently laid aside any feeling of regret he may have felt at this evidence that the long friendship with his former chief, was broken.
 His principal Boston address was delivered in the Arena to a large 'sss..--ce-sS-a -hrA before retiring to his pri- yate IT. he spoke briefly to an over !. aeeting in Symphony hall. His n the Arena was delivered from !. anuscript prepared during the last few days in Washington, care fully gone over by members of hts cabinet. and containing a detailed an swer to many of MT Rooseyelt's charges.
 Taft Denounces Roosevelt.
 President Taft cast aside his policy of avoiding personalities in his cam- paign for renomination and devoted his entire speech on an attack of Col onel Roosevelt and a defense of him. self and his administration against charges Colonel Roosevelt recently had made on the stump.
 Mir Tafts speech bristled with coun- ter charges against his predecessor in the white house He declared MT. Roosevelt had wilfully misrepresent- cd him, had falsely distorted some of his public utterances, had failed to live up to his policy of square deal and had violated a solemn promise to the American neople not to be a candidate for a third term.
 "That promise and his treatment of it." said MT. Taft, "only throw an in- forming light on the value that ought now to be attached to any promise of this kind he may make for the ru- ture7
 Declaring Mir. Roosevelt ought not to be selected as a candidate of any party" Mir Taft said that the former president might now be paving the way, if successful in the present cam paign, to remain the chief executive of the nation for as many terms as his natural life would permit.
 If he is necessary now to the gov ernment, why not later?" asked the president, and continued.
 One who so lightly regards con- stltutional principles, especially the independence of the judiciary; one who is so naturally impatient of legal restraints and of due legal procedure and who has misunderstood what lib- erty regulated by law is, could not safely be entrusted with successive presidential terms l say this sor- rowfully, but l say it with the full conviction of it's truth.
 MT Taft referred to some of Mir. Roosevelt's charges against him as the loose and vague indictment or one who does not know and who de- bends only on second hand informa- tion for his statements"
 The president said his speech to- night was one of the most painful duties of his life. that it was in re sponse to an obligation he owed the republican party which selected him as it's candidate, apAAthe American people who elected hTfh president.
 Tt grows. he said, tout of a phase of national politics and national life that I believe to be unprecedented So unusual is the exigency that or dinary rules of propriety that limit rresident in his public addresses must be laid aside and the cold, nak ed truth must be stated in such 2 way that it shall serve as warning to the people of the United States.
 MT. Taft said Colonel Roosevelt Columbus speech, accepted as his plat form, sent thrill through all th' members of the community" MT Roosevelt, he said, then found that i the nomination were to come to hin he must minimize the importance Q this echarter of democracy" Wltn