The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-30
Wherever President Taft Spoke
in Massachusetts.
He Was Greeted by a ThrOng of
Interested Listeners.
THEY GIVE ENCOURAGEMENT
With Cries of $50 to 1t, BILL 50
and eyes, Yes"
His Friends Are Given Re-
newed Hope for Today.

Boston, April 3O.-Following close
on the trail that Col Roosevelt used
on Saturday Mr.. Taft Monday swept
on his speech making tour through
eastern Massachusetts, declaring his
administration had been progressive;
that he had favored legislation that
dem onstrated his progressiveness and
that he was as much in favor of gov
eminent by, of and for the people as
any man. All the cities where Mr..
Taft spoke are manufacturing centers
and he dwelt largely on the legislation
beneficial to labor which, he said, his
administration had helped to enact or
which it favored
go to it, Bill" was an expression
that often came from the crowds and
It brought smile always.
Yes, yes,'' was the cry at many
places. when Mr.. Taft declared he was
a believer in popular government but
was not afraid to tell the people that
they sometimes make mistakes.
At Middlesboro, where he spoke
from his train the president brought
In Mr.. Roosevelt's name for the first
time today. He said in part:
II came here reluctantly but I
came from a strong sense of duty. 1t
does not make any real difference to
me whether I am reelected president
or not. so far as my comfort and hap
piness and reputation are concerned.
1t Is No Soft Job.
Il fancy that after having had three
years experience in the presidency
that I could find a softer and easier
place than that and 1 am willing to
trust to the future for vindicatfon
of my name from the aspersions on 1t
that political exigencies have required
from others.
TT is said that all the bosses are
supporting me. I deny it. Mr.. Roose-
welt and I are exactly alike in certain
respects. There is a good deal of human
nature in both of US, and when we are
running for office we don't examine the
clothes or the hair or the previous con-
dition of anybody that tenders his sup
pert and the only way by which he ca
make true a statement that all the
bosses are supporting me and none of
the bosses are supporting him, but are
opposed to him is to give a new definf-
ton of bosses, and that is that every
man in politics that is against him is q
boss and every man that is for him is a
leader
He Names No Names.
TT is one thing to have a great many
men for you whethere of good or bad
character and it is another thing to
make an agreement with a man of bad
character that because Of his support
of you. you are going to do something
that shall not be in the interest of the
people when election comes on. Now I
am not charging that Mr.. Roosevelt
has made any such agreement and
slightest evidence that have.
What I ask you is proof. what I ask
is facts What I ask my friends is a
square deal. Now the people of Massa-
chusetts have to decide and what you
decide is going to be very material in
the contest, whether you approve what
has been done by this presidential adj
ministra ton"
The crowds that greeted Mr. Taft IN
Attelboro Taunton, Fall River, New
Bedford and Brockton, were large and
showed enthusiasm that made the
presidents friends hopeful of the re-
suits at tomorrow's primary.
At Attelboro the presidents cold in
terfered noticeably with his speech but
as the day grew older his hoarseness
was less marked and his voice carried !
well out into the crowds. Leaving
Broc<ton after a speech the president
hurried to Boston and northeastern
Massachusetts to wind up the day with
a half dozen more talks in manufactur- |
Inc cities