Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-30
Each Seems to DisCredit Statements Credited to the
Other Each Avoids Hard Words Lively Campaign
In Massachusetts,, Where Today's Primaries
Will Not Close Until 9 P. M. Tonight.
TAFT IN MASSACHUSETTS.


Boston, April 29-President Taft end
ed a l2-hour campaign through east
ern Massachusetts, in Boston, tonight.
From the time he began his speech
making al Attleboro with talk on the
tariff until he made his last address
at Melrose and asked for a Square
deal, the President spurred his husky
voice into strenuous action. 1t was one
of the hardest campaign days Mr.. Taft
has passed since he entered the White
House. but members of his party were
confident, tonight, that his second in
vasion of the Bay State viii bring
votes for him to the polls, tomorrow.
MIR. Taft's last long address was made
at Lowell to an audience that packed
the Opera house. So eager was the
crowd TO gain admittance that several
members of the Presidents own party
could not get in until long after he
started to speak.
When he came to talk about the
bosses and MIR. Roosevelt's charges,
some one in the gallery yelled:
He's liar"
No. that isn't in my vocabulary, =
said the President.
Later, when he was referring to the
Lorimer case, the same man evident
" repeated his cry after mention Of
Col. Roosevelt.
He's liar he shouted.
Ny experience on the bench has
taught me the value of words" said
Mr.. Taft One of the most unsafe
things TO do is to go further than to
show the facts. | appreciate the sup
port of my distinguished friend
but must decline to adopt
his vocabulary After deelar-
ing that he was sorry it was necessary
for him to have to mingle in a politi-
cal struggle he suggested an amend
ment of the Constitution so that q
President should serve six or eight
wears and be eneligihle for recollection.
Il think that would prevent this, =
he said.
No man has the right to misrepre-
sent another to get himself up in Of
flee, no matter how humble that man
is" the President shouted at one
point in his Lowell speech. Con
denim me if you WILL" he said in con-
clusion, but condemn me by other
witnesses than Theodore Roosevelt"
Il was a man of straw; but l have
been a man of straw long enough:
every man who has blood in his body
and who has been misrepresented as
have been is forced to fight I ap-
peal to my friends in Massachusetts
who / think believe in square DEAL
In the first half dozen speeches he
made. today. the President did not
mention Col. Theodore Roosevelt by
name although he followed closely
through the state. Saturday and to-
day.
Later in the afternoon. however, Mr.
Taft abandoned his early appeals for
support because of tariff and labor
legislation and once again attacked
Mr., Roosevelt by name.
As he came nearer and nearer to
the coloners footsteps, the President
warmed up to his subject and he at
tackled the colonel time after time He
was not so bitter as in his Springfield
and Boston addresses last week, bat
he continued to tell the crowds what
he thought of some of his opponents
charges, Without going into much
detail the President declared that he
was for government "of. for and by
the neople" explained what he thought
of the charge that he alone uset
political bosses and asked again and
again if he had been given a square
deal by Mr.. Roosevelt.
The crowds were large and They
cheered enough to warm the heart,
of the Taft managers aboard hi.
train. At Lawrence, Haverhill. Low.
ell and Melrose. towns he reached
late, today, the President spoke il
| the rain and where he left his car
drove with uncovered head through
the street.
Practically every town the Presi
| dent visited is a manufacturing cen
| ter and in many places the mills wert
| closed, the schools had declared par
| tial holidays and every preparation
| had been made to welcome the ma
TONS Chief
Interruptions We're frequent, es
| pecially when Mr. Taft asked if h
| had been given a square deal.
| NE, no, yelled someone in almos
every audience.
| He made a decided hit at Middle
boro when man just beneath hin
| shouted:
"Hurrah for Teddy: no, ! mean hur
| reh for William H. Taft"
Il hope you don't make that mis-
| take. tomorrow said the President
laughing. sly
| At Lawrence a girl, Annie Rush
| forth, presented the President bunc
! of flowers from the girls who wer
in Washington at the time the Law
renee strikers appeared before tn
| Continued on Page Twelve.)