Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-04-27
Colonel Scores President in Bit
ter Denunciation for Having
Used Private Letters in BoS-
ton Speech.
BAD HABIT TO BITE
HAND THAT FEEDS
'Chief Executive is Spoken Of
as Having EQUALITY of Fee
bIeneSS' That ''Has Yielded
to Bosses" and Interests.

fBy Morning Journal Special Leased Wire
Worcester Mass. April 26.--Mer-
! ciless denuneiation of President Taft
was Colonel Roosevelts reply tonight
| To the presidents attacks upon him
yesterday. Some OF Colonel Roose-
Vclt's assertions were:
| That President Taft had not given
| the people of the country a square
deal" but because of n quality of
| feebleness." he said yielded to the
bosses and the great privileged in
| terests.'
That one part of the presidents at
tack on him was the crook kedest
kind of dear and deliberate mis-
representation"
That the president has not merely
in thought, word and deed, been dis
loyal to our past friendship, but has
been disloyal to every canon of ord-
nary decency and fair dealing such as
should obtain even in dealing with "A
mans bitterest opponents.
That the presidents statement re-
garding the influence Of federal Of
ficeholders in the campaign was mot
only an untruth. but it is an absurd
untruth."
That President Taft convicted him
self of insincerity when he signed
the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill.
That in speaking of Colonel Roose-
velt's position in regard to the trust
problem President Taft is himself
guilty of a crooked deal"
dent Taft's attacks on him point by
point. assailing the president in one
scathing sentence after another.
When Colonel Roosevelt reached
here at the beginning of his Massa-
chusctts trip. he found the streets
thronged, A band and "A torchlight
procession escorted him to Mechanics
hall where he delivered his main
speech. Later he addressed an over
flow meeting
Colonel Roosevelt said in part
In this campaign | regard the is /
sues at stake as altogether too Inn |
portant to permit il to be twisted into |
one of personalities between Presi- /
dent Tart and myself. But Mr.. Tafts |
speeches yesterday contained state
ments that | must answer. Most of
what he said needs no commend from
me.
when for instance he said that
have endeaVored to minimize the
of my Columbus speech,
he says what he must know to he
untrue; he cannot have read my
Carnegie hall speech, my speech at
St Louis, my Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh and Louisville speeches,
without knowing that | have elabo-
rated and emphasized what ! said at
Columbus.
Again when Mr.. Taft in his at
tack speaks of me directly or OBJ
liquely as a nurOtic or a dcmagogue
DR. in similar terms, ! shall say moth
ing, except To point out that II he IL
obliged to use such language he had
better preserve his own selfrespect
by not protesting that 1t gives him
pain to do so. No man resorts To
spithets like these IL II really gives
him pain to use them.
Il have never alluded To him In
erms even remotely resembling
hese. | have never quoted his private
etters or private communications.
-
Ictions. Even where I was Obliged to ,
Do severe. | was always parliament
AIRY and never hypocritical.
Nor do | intend today To deyiate
rom this standard. although the !
residents speech makes 1t necessary {
or me to speak more plainly on GER
ain subjects than I have yet spoken.
Colonel Roosevelt referred to Pres 9
dent Tafrs explanation of his state !
nent that ours is "A government Of
n the people by a representative !
art of the people {
For him to try" said Colonel I
to escape the consequen- p.
es of his statements by saying that :
e alluded only to women and chill n
ren H. trifling with the intelligence "a
Z the people. To speak OF such action y
n his part as square dear IL IL II
Elf the crookcdest kind of deal.
IT, Is trying 10 dodge the conseauen- n
e. OF his statement by deliberate !,
OF that statcipcnt.
Mr. Taft said yesterday that never
! thought or deed had he been dis-
wal IN his friendship for me. II Is
ara for me t. answer such a state
rent. save by calling d the grossest :,
nd most astounding hynocrisl.
rhen Mr.. Taft made that statement
q had Just sent 10 the United states
snatc on half an hours notlce. pa !"
ers which were intended a. convey
h. impression that ! had improper as
favored the Harvester trust by N
cciining to prosecute u in ises. IN
When Mr. Taft. obviously to in ~
uence the Massachusetts primary ~
nd obviously in collision with 81