Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27
Colonel Roosevelt PrOfuse With Epithets and De-
 nunCiation in Speeches at Worcester
"BAD TRAIT TO BITE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU'
Exresdent Applies Trte Saying to His Successor in Office Declares Taft Guilty of Crooked Deal and Dis loyal to Ordinary Decency-AlsO Adds Him to Mem bersbip of His Rapidly Growing Ananias Club.

MLlGA MtlG llAtlANAFN Al NNANEH NNHN impression that l had improperly favored the Harvester trust by de- clining to prosecute it in 1907"
 Colonel Roosevelt repeated the as- sertion that Mir. Taft. as a member of his cabinet, had approved the de- cision to delay the Harvester com- pany suit.
 "CrOokedest Kind of Crooked Deal"
 When MT. Taft, obviously to influ- ence the Massachusetts primary and | obviously in cOllusion with one Of 1ir. LOrimer'E senatorial supporters of tha opposite political party takes the ac- ton he did, he has not merely in thought, word and deed been disi0yal to our past friendship but has been ! disloyal to every canon of 0rdinarv | decency and fair dealing such as should obtain in dealing with a mans | opponents Such conduct represents | the very crookedest kind of a crooked ! deal, and when Mir. Taft. within 2f | hours of taking it. complains that he | has not been given a square deal by me, he exposes himself to derlslon and | contempt.
 Care Nothing for Tafts Personal Atsi- 1 tude.
 i This is not an exceptional instance | of how he has behaved to me The sarna ! course was followed last summer in l connection with the Tennessee Coal e. | Iron company. The assaults uDbm ms | by Mir. Tafts campaign managers, made in Washington. under Mir. Tafta | very eyes, have been foul tO the verge of indecency. But, remember, I am | not complaining of these things. I cara nothing for Mr. Tafts personal atti- ! tude toward me: I 2llude to it only in passage and merely because MT. Taft lays such emphasis on the matt
 ter"
 Changed His Mind on Reciprocity.
 The speaker then turned to the sub- ject of reciprocity.
 MT. Taft says that I changed front on the reciprocity measure" he be- gan. "This is untrue. He publishes q ! letter of mine in answer to a letter of his marked Confidential Incidentally | one of the unpardOnable sins on the | part of any man calling himself l gentleman is to publish confidential 1 correspondence without permission. as
 to this l care nothing, but ! warn MT. Taft that in discussing negotiations
 with a foreign power it is well not to publish such expressions as that in
 his letter about making Canada only
 an adjunct of the United States. In
 this letter I told him I would support his reciprocity proposition. ! did lOy- ally support it in several different speeches At first I took the agree ment on the faith Of Mir Tafts repu-
 ta1on. Later when l came to look up
 the matter, however. l became con | vinced that the reciprocity agreement
 as passed by MT. Taft was unWise and
 undesirable, because it improperly sac rificed the interests of our farmers and
 fishermen. and because it carried indH- l fensiole action on paper. Nevertheless.
 because had stated that ] would sup-
 port the treaty ] said not one word
 against 1t until it was dead. Even
 then I declined to speak on the subject,
 until in several states Mir. Taft's man
 agers themselves. with what l can only
 characterize as unDardonabls baseness,
 began to circulate the fact of my sup port of Mir. Taft's proposal ag n reason why 1 should not De nominated.
 Taft's Assertion Simply Astounding.
 MT. Taft says" Colonel Roosevelt
 continued, that the influence of fed
 eral office holders in the Chicago con
 Vention this year will be less effec-
 tive for any one candidate than ever
 before in the history Of the party.
 This is not only an untruth, but it ia
 an absurd Untruth. Never in thirty years close observation have J seen ! such sCandalOus abuse of the patron
 age as of this year Some of the abuss
 of the patronage has been done d.
 rectly by Mr. Taft himself. as In the
 case of the various North Carolina nominations. Moreover. does Mir. Taft
 think that the people have forgotten the letter his secretary sent cut na
 to restoring to the insnrgent senators
 the patronage Of which he had dc-
 prived them? Having all these motH
 in view, 1t is simply astounding that
 Mr. Taft should venture the assertion
 that he has not used tho federal pat-
 ronage to defraud politics.
 Advised Him to Follow "My Exanpla.s e
 "Mr. Taft states that advised him
 to have a meeting with Cannon
 advised him to meet everyone Co con i suit everyone, to try 10 get on with i everyone. But no laag omphatically I , advised him to follow my exampla te
 consult freely with ell the politicians
 and to try to get on wish them. but
 where the politicians split of from the people then to stand with tho people
 and not with the politicians, and if . is precisely this that he failed to do.
 1t Is a most curious thing that Alr. Taft should actually characterize me
 for not having asa-siled him about the Payne tariff law, As a matter of fact I have eagerly endeavored Co praiss
 AIT, Taft wherever I posaibly could, and where possibly l have disagreed. "l Hold Him cuIpably Respoaslhls. D "As he now insists that l ahould 3 break silence about the taYtf law, [ will say that 1 held him eutpahly re- Hponsibie for having led the people ts
 believe that he fa4aFed 8 substantial
 downward revision, and that hs would
 work actively far it and far then hay
 ing sat supiRely by and ailaEed his
 new friends under the lead ef AldFteh h f and Cannon, te praduee a bill which
 made hiH convict himself af iBsiBeer f ity when he signed it. When Bir. Taft ' speaks af the trusts he ia guilty af | deliberate FRisstatemeRt af a great and , vital fact. He says l PFapass ta abel - r ish the antitrust law, l never made F any such proposal. and this he well 3 knows. VtheR he thus deliberately
 misstaIea nay Pasiti9R he is himself
 guilty af a cracked deal"
 F Danger Only ia oensssusius Terms, I Turning to President Hsfrs state { meRts ia regard ta a tlzird terra, C0l- onel Roosevelt declared that the dan t ger lay in only mere than tive con D secutiHe terms, which might affard ae- ] partunitY for the executive ta tmtrameh Q himself ia power.
 n l sAfr Taft With ant uar upruafrufnu fl