The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-26

ficeholders would be less effective for any one candidate than ever before
 Mir. Taft said Roosevelt was not only enjoying the support of many federal officeholders. but the patron age of a number of state governors. which was being used for him, with businesslike manipulation that lacks nothing in effectiveness.
 Dealing with MT Rooseyelt's s charges that he had become a reac- tionary, the president said it was on Mir Roosevelt's advice he had his first meeting with Speaker Cannon.
 q had been afraid that Mir Can non might oppose a revision of the tariff and 1 looked about immediate ly after my election to see where 1t would be possible to secure votes enough in the caucus to elect another speaker. l found it was impossible. At the request of President Roose- welt, had an interview with MT. Can non in which he agreed he would help me redeem the promises of the republican platform. This ar rangement with Mir. Cannon was with the knowledge and emphatic approval of MT. Roosevelt"
 Speaking of the Payne tariff bill, MT. Taft again defended his course in signing it and declared that to have vetoed it would have broken up the republican party.
 Has MT Roosevelt ever condemn ed the Payne bill?" he asked. Does he say he would not have signed it if it had been presented to him under conditions l had to meet? He has never said that as far as l know, and the New York platform of 1910 adopt ed by the convention of which he was a part, indorced the pending bill and approved it's passage. Is it square deal, therefore, to charge me with not being a progressive when all l did was to deal with the party as 1t was in congress and to get as much as I could out of the legislation prom ised out of that party, torn as it was by factions? We redeemed the prom ises of the republican platform to an extent that no political platform had ever been redeemed before.
 
 "In all Mr Roosevelt's history he never failed to use as instruments for his purpose those whom he found in power"
 MT Taft referred to the strength ening of the interstate commerce act, Certain amendments suggested by the administration were defeated These amendments MT. Roosevelt had de. nounced as vicious As a matter of fact, MT Taft said, all the things con tained in these amendments had been recommended by Mir Roosevelt and had been promised in the plat form of the republican party.
 In view of his support of these very provisions in his messages and elsewhere" said the president, lis it a square deal for him now to describe them as vicious ?''
 Mir Taft warmly defended the com merce court, saying it had reduced judicial delays from two years to SIX months.
 MT. Taft quoted from Mir. Roose velts statement in November, 1904 the following
 ne MlSe GuSbOui W uiNli llilllo Ii' president to two terms regards th' substance and not the form; and un der no circumstances will I be a can didate for, or accept any nomination.
 He says now, although his Ian guage does not bear such 9 constrnc ton, that he meant that he would not accept a nomination for con secutive third term" said the presi dent.
 ''If he frankly announced that he had changed his mind, no one would be disposed to hold him to a promise of that sort merely because he had made it. The promise and his treat ment of it only throws an informing light on the value that ought now tC be attached to any promise of this kind he may make for the future"