Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-04-27
BECAME VIOLENTLY PERSONAL
IN A POLITICAL SPEECH IN
MASSACHUSETTS,.
AN INFAMOUS ARRAICKMENT
His Speech Would BE Discrcdit ia
the Dirtiest Campaign Orator
I'm Any Country.

WORCESTER, Mass. April &C.
Merciless denunclation of President
Taft was Colonel Roosevlts reply to
the presidents attack upon him yes
terday. Some OF Colonel Roosevelt's
assertions were:
That President Taft had not given
the people of the country square
deal, but that owing to a quality OF
feebleness he had yielded to the bosses
and the great privileged interests"
That one part of the presidents at
tack upon him was "the crookedest
kind of deal' and deliberate mis-
representation"
That the president has mot merely
in thought, word and deed been dis
loyal to our past friendship, but has
been disloyal to every canon OF ordi-
nary decency and fair dealing such as
should obtain even in dealing with
mans btterest opponents"
The presidents statement re-
garding the influence of federal office
holders In the campaign was mot only
an untruth, but it is an absurd un-
truth"
That Mr.. Taft convicted himself OF
insncerity when he signed the Payne
Aldrich tariff bill.
That In speaking of Colonels Eoose-
velt's position in regard to the trust
problem, President Taft 'is himself
guilty of a crooked deal"
Colonel Roosevelt took up President
Taft's attack on him point by point,
flaying the president in one scathlne
sentence after another.
What He Said.
Colonel Roosevelt said in part:
"In this campaign I regard the Is
sues at stake as altogether too impor-
tant to permit 1t to be twisted into
one Of personalities between President
Taft and myself. But Mr.. Tafts
speeches yesterday contained state
ments that must answer. Most OF
what he said needs no comment from
me. When, for instance, he said
have endeavored to minimize the i'm
portance Of my Columbus speech, he
saws what he must know to be untrue.
Again Vhen Mr.. Taft I'm any
speech, speaks of me directly or
obiquely as a neurotic, or a dema-
gogue, or in similar terms, ] shall say
nothing except that to point out that
II he is obliged to use such language
he had better preserve his own self
respect by not protesting that it gives
- a.. 10 n 1iCnlGGan
exclusively his public actions Even
where ! was obliged to be severe,
was always parliamentary and never
hypocritical. Nor do | intend to de-
viate from this standard"
Trfling with the People.
Colonel Roosevelt referred to Presi-
dent Tafts explanation of his state
ment that ours is a government OF
all of the people by representative
part of the people"
"For him to try" said Colonel
Roosevelt. Ito escape the consequences
of his statements by saying that he
alluded only to women and children
Is trifling with the intelligence Of the
people. To speak OF such action on
his part as a square deal Is itself the
crookedest kind OF deal. He Is try
ing to dodge the consequences or his
statement by deliberate misrepresen-
tation of that statement"
Colonel Roosevelt defined the po-
litical boss as the man responsible
for the alliance between crookedest
politics and crookedest business.
"If there Is any such man among
my supporters" he continued. 81 do
not know him. Mr.. Taft says that Mr..
Flynn Of Pittsburg Is very bad boss.
There is an element of grim comedy
in Mr.. Taft weeping over the thought
of Pennsylvania being put under the
rule of a boss through Mr.. Penrose
being ousted from control of the party
OF ganization."
How He Gets the Bosses.
The bosses. Colonel Roosevelt de-
clared, were on the presidents side.
''Mr. Taft says" he continued. that
In my various campaigns | accepted
the assistance of these bosses. SO I
did when they choose to go my way
and support the cause Of the people.
The Trouble with Mr.. Taft Is that he
gets their assistance at the price OF
going their way and opposing the
cause Of the people"
"Mr. Taft said yesterday that never
In thought. word or deed had he been
disloyai in his friendship for me. It
Is hard for me to answer such state
ment. save BY calling It the grossest