New-York tribune., 1912-04-18
CONNECTICUT FOR TAFT SAYS BOSSES BACK TAFT
Roosevelt Attacks Presidents
Supporters in Campaign.
SPEECH MADE IN OMAHA
Asserts Lorimer and PenrOse
Recognize in the President
Their Progressive.

Omaha. April Tt IS not u'r" thing
to u.o c,I Instruments TO do dirty work "
said Color, Roosevelt I'm an attack to-
NIGHT I'm % speech ~ IN" Auditorium on
supporters 81 the Taft administrator. IT
f. an cyc,r less nice thing to throw the evil
Instruments aside when thcy arc broken
and loudly make believe that they ar" not
Intentionally used"
Colonel Roosevelt charged that H." rrcsi-
dents managers with the helpless nc
qriosc.ur- of Mr Taft" w,r" rolyirg sole
~ on IN, support ~ the bosses. who stand
for what i, worst IN our political Iifc'
There iz not ono state out Of ten in
which Mr. Tart would hav" any chance II
'h" vote were lcft 10 the people them
selves" no. asserted Later ou the colonel
said.
Outside Of tho delegates that represent
either t'" uuSrrupulpus us" of patronage
or else sheer fraud. Mr.. Iatts strength
would Doc trivial and indeed negligible in
the present contest To profit hy wrong
doing is mighty little better than actually
10 do wrong. and tho administration is
seeking 10 profit hy this wrougd0ins.
Colonel Roosevelt said that Senator Lori
mcr and Senator Pcuro3e rccogniz" in Mr.
Tan the kind Of a progressive whom they
are willing to clasp to their hearts
Remember that the bosses were against
me iu 1905 and 1872 and in 1874 they were
against mo until all opposition 20 m" col
lapscd so that it mo- longer made the slight
est difference whether they were against
me or not
! Colonel Roosevelt continued:
The same thing was true whom was
nominated for VIE President and tho
the people when. fourteen years ago, J was
nominated for Governor. Hut now, rs II
llnois and Pennsylvania hav" shown. the
bosses an" frankly opposed 60 the people.
Colonel Roosevelt said the Taft delegates
iu the Southern States represented nothing
whatever but tho federal oniccholders and
they have not even the shadow of a party
behind them"
"Yot il is upon those states and upon
tho absolute swindiug I'm states Ike Mcm-
gan. Colorado. Indiana and Kentucky and
I'm the city Of New York that Mr. Tafts
whole strength rests he continued.
There S. one feature OF the attitude ~
the administration toward the bosses
which is grimly comicaL When boss de
Iivers a state to the TAFT side, then, no
matter how outrageous ms conduct, no
matter how gross the fraud and tho vlo-
lcuce by which he has succeeded, the ad-
ministratlon has not word of condemns
fiou TO utter But when the boss fails, the
gpokcsmen of the administration make
nervous haste to rcpudiatc the very man
against whom they have not had ON" word
To say while they hoped he was success
| fuI.'
Colonel Roosevelt then took up President
Taft's recent statement that in adyocatinl
| his proposals in regard 10 the courts he
was Laying an impious hand on the ark
! Of the covenant
| The speaker, citing number OF cases III
which hc asserted that TN" courts had
ruled against the rights Of the people said
! Il hold that it is an impious theory "i
! Justice to say that In such cases the people
| shall not be allowed To do justice. ! mold
| that this pretended alarm about the indie
pcndcncc of the judiciary is itself the v"ri-
| est sham"