Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-30
ROOSEVELT IN MASSACHUSETTS.
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/ CQ1fltIlt Win llO8itiNdAf HoNi1i anu IA
| dustrial conditions.
| Col. Roosevelt made 1t clear that he
did not believe the result of his cam
paign hinged upon the outcome Of to-
morrow's primaries.
Mind YOU" he said, 81 believe we
| can win this fight without Massachu-
sets: but | do not want Massachusetts
| to lag behind. l want it to be in the lead
in the fight"
| With his address in Pittsfield, tonight
Col. Roosevelt wound up his campaign
lin Massachusetts,. He made 20 speeches
| going from Boston through towns along
i the north shore to Lawrence and Lowell.
| and then across the northern part of the
| state to the Berkshire hills. lie en-
/ countered snowstorm in the hills of
northern Massachusetts, and a downpour
of rain later in the afternoon. but was
greeted by large crowds at the principal
points on the days run. The theatre IN
which he spoke, tonight, was large
enough to hold only a part of the crowd
which wished to hear him. Between such
speeches Col Roosevelt found time to
prepare a rejoinder to President Taft's
statement of last night in regard to the
/ Harvester trust" case. He contradieted
the President by asserting that the case
was discussed by his cabinet with Mr.
Taft present.
In speaking here tonight, Col Roose
welt said:
| sMr Taft in his speech, today, has an
neunced that ! am trying to stir up class
hatred and excite discomfort. / ask you
| to look for yourselves at my speech, last
Saturday night in Boston, the longest
speech | made in Massachusetts and the
speech in which / developed in detail GER
| tain of the ideas of my Columbus speech.
for which 1 have been most criticized.
| | ask you to see if you can find any
where in that speech any appeal to class
hatred, except hatred of the class of
crooks, political and financial alike.
ask you to hunt through that speech and
| see whether you can find any stirring UP
of discomfort in it excepting of discon-
| tent with trickery, with political despon-
dency, with cheating, with oppression.
81 have, it is true, preached adherence
of Mr.. Lorimer and of all that for which
Mr.. Lorimer stands, and of the kind of
crooked politics and crooked finance
which in combination are responsible for
the production of Mr.. Lorimer. But as
regards most even of the bosses whom
oppose. / have not preached hatred of
them. / do not hate them; l merely wish
them to retire to private life and quit
misgoverning U.S. If they will stop gov
erning us against our will the way We
don't want to be governed, / will very
gladly stop saying anything about them
whatever.
MIR Taft says that / preach class ha-
tired and excite discomfort. Does MI
NJ -ffrr mn afa ma
tired because I ask for a law in New
York to prevent women from being
worked for excessive hours in factories
Does he regard me as stirring up class
hatred because l stand for a workmen's
compensation act? Does he regard me as
stirring up class hatred because l de-
mand that the state and the nation CO.
| operate to make the conditions of life AMI
labor better for wage workers, because
I demand that state and nation cooper
ate to help the farmer, to shape condi-
lions so that the farmer shall have not
only a better chance to do well in the
actual tilling of the soil. but better
chance to combine with his fellows to Sc
cure business advantages and a better
chance to get in the open country the
opportunities for social and Industrial
QEtRiODI1eHI WHICH Will StidDiC ~
keep his boys and girls in the country
instead of seeing them flock to the
towns?
The talk that | am stirring up class
hatred is arrant nonsense. On the
contrary, am advocating action
which will be the most effective kind
OF antidote to class hatred. whereas III
Mr.. Taft's policy of fiabby INDIGESTION
and helpless acquiescence in the
wrong doing of the crooked boss and
the crooked financier is permitted u
continue. there will really grow up
class hatred in this country.
There will grow up very uncom-
Portable and very ugly feeling of dis
content with political, social and in
dustriai conditions.
Mr.. Taft says that his supporters
are not bosses, but patriotic leaders
Is Mr.. Lorimer a patriotic leader Isl
MIR. Patrick Calhoun of California, the
man whom Frank Heiny indicted, al
patriotic leader? Are Messrsf Gug
genheim and Evans of Colorado, pas
triotic leaders? Is Mr.. Penrose of
Pennsylvania patriotic leader? Does
Mr.. Taft mean that Messrs. Gallinger.
Aldrich and Cannon are patriotic
leaders and not bosses? Does Mr.. Taft
mean that Mr.. Cox of Ohio is a pa
| triotic leader?
Il don't care a rap for the terminol-
ogy % the matter. | care for the fact.
If 1t is any comfort to Mr.. Taft to call
Messrs. Lorimer Cox, Penrose. Gug
genheirn. Calhoun, Gallinger and the
rest patriotic leaders instead of bosses.
| let him do so, but | earnestly hope
the plain people will vote against that
particular type of patriotic leaders;
and mind you, if these particular pat
rlotie leaders were not behind Mr..
Taft, MI. Taft would have no chance
of carrying one state in 20 throughout
| this Union. He has practically nothing
| in his campaign back of him, outside
of two or three states, except the sup
port ne gets from Lorimer. Penrose,
| Cox, Guggenheim. GaIlinger and their
like, and from the great sinister spe-
cial interests which stand behind these
bosses.
If you vote for Mr. Taft You vote
| for these men and these interests and