Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-21
Colonel and President
Having a Sharp Campaign.
TAFT IN OHIO.

| mt itN OfItOs
| DAYTON, Ohio. May 20.-President
Taft's seven days of speech making
Through Ohio came to an end here,
tonight. with a final plea to the Re
lpublieans Of his own state TO support
him at tomorrow's primaries and to
defeat Col. Theodore Roosevelt whom
Mr. Taft dubbed THE Bolter.'
| All day long in practically every
one OF the dozen speeches he made
Mr. Taft called upon Republicans to
consider and keep in mind Mr., Roose-
Ivelt's Cleveland speech. wherein the
/ President said the colonel propheside
a bolt. He continued to predict the
wreck of the party # Mr.. Roosevelt
does not change his attitude and is
mot assured of the nomination by the
Republican National Convention. He
asked Republicans to remember how
long that party had existed, what it
had always stood for and to decide
for themselves whether or not they
wish to see it disrupted to crafty the
ambition of one man."
Mr. Taft had made no predictions
prior TO the primaries in any other
states and he followed this rule, to-
udA. HIS tIltitNS ptiitNt THAT he tltA'i
made a noteworthy effort 20 win Ohio
and many of them were confident that
the result of the trip will be evident
at the polls. Tuesday.
it was a hard day for the President.
The sun was hot and he often spoke
in tl.a full glare of it, His voice was
strong. but the strain OF the long tour
began to tell. In the morning he start
ed ont with unusual vim and yisor
but % night drew nearer he lost much
of his emphasis and while his words
ard phrases directed at Col, Roose-
welt were still angry and biting. his
gestures We're few and his manner was
moro reeitative than oratorical
Tie crowds that turned out. today
Hers fully up 10 the mark set earlier
in the campaign and at several towns
exceeded in the estimation of local Of
ficials any ever seen at political gath
erings. The demonstrations We're live
ly ard there We're manifestations
which brought a smile TO the Presi
dent'e face.
iii. Taft has Travelled almost 5000
miles and has spent six entire days ON
his private car and one day III Cleye-
land. The trip has been as trying as
any he has ever undertaken and Major
Thomas L. Rhoades, his physician.
Willie confident that he will be able To
take up his campaign in New Jersey.
Thursday believed. tonight, that d
rest, tomorrow. and on Wednesday and
part of Thursday. will not come amiss.
Mr., Taft's only engagement. tomorrow.
is one at the polls in Cincinnati and
he expects TO leave that city in the aft
ernoon for Washington.
Most of Mr. Tafts attacks on Col
Roosevelt over his predecessors, threat
to bolt the Chicago convention, were
like the one he delivered. late today
at Xenia- MIR. Roosevelt said at
Cleveland the other night in effect
that he was going to bolt if he were
not nominated, and that when he bolted
If he were not nominated ne would be
the Republican party and those from
whom he bolted would be the boilers
because. he said, Il am the Republican
party organization
There used TO be a King in France
known as the Grand Monarch. who
said The state. ! am it. | am the
state and that is what Theodore is
saying about the Republican parts.
4Nohf 1 NSiiluEt ~ ttlltlk lie IL mistake
en-. | venture to think that the Re
publican party viii get along and live
long after him and that he is not in
dispensable either to the party or the
country It will be sad day in the
history of the country when a man
becomes Indispensable to it. We shall
have to change the form from a repub-
lie to some other form if that be the
case
At Fiqua Mr.. Taft took a shot at
Clifford Pinehot. MFR. Pinehot that re-
liable historian said tn President,
has been going around the country
saving that l got up the Canadian
reciprocity business and figured out
just how it would hurt most bitterly
certain states that had voted agains,
me and | Just took the schedules and
figured them out and arranged them
so as to hit South Dakota between the
eyes and so as to hit Ohio. Well. you
cannot argue with man like that