The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-29
FEARING AROUND
THROUGH STATE
President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt
In Massachusetts, Today on
Eve Of tho
Primary.
BOTH CLAIM VICTORY
Roosevelt Denounced by Son Of LIN
coin for Pervertlng and Mlsap-
plying Words OF the
Emanclpator.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
BOSTON, April 2s.-The president
Of the United States and the only liv-
ing ex-president, both striving for nom.
ination in the first presidential pri-
maries of Massachusetts,, today crossed
each others trails in their eleventh
hour whirlwind campaign in the midst
Of the Bay state.
1t was q verbal duel for ballots such
as Massachusetts never witnessed be-
fore, on the eve of any election. And
while the president and ex-president
were lambastlng each other, repre-
sentatives Of Speaker Champ Clark
and Governor Wilson, of New Jersey,
were working in all the larger cities
and towns in the interests of primary
votes for the nomination for president
by the democratic party.
Local headquarters of the Taft or
ganization and the headquarters Of
Roosevelt, Wilson and Clark frankly
admitted that the Massachusetts, pri-
mary vote tomorrow will mean even
more than Pennsylvania This was
more pronounced at the respective re
publican headquarters than at the of
fees of Wilson and Clark.
The real fight is between Taft and
Roosevelt. Publicly both sides are
claiming victory. Roosevelt. after q
day spent at the home of w. Sturgis
Bigelow preparing ,teday's speeches
began his days campaigning at $40
He left Boston from the North station
at o'clock, speaking first from the
rear platform at Chelsea.
President Taft reached Providenc,
at six this morning From here oI
he followed along the same fightins
lines adopted by him here In his Arena
speech in his denunciation of hi
rival, and plea for votes. He plannet
to cover the same itinerary the colon
| ell took Saturday.
Taft at AttIeboro.
ATTLEBORO, Mass. April 29-
President Taft, following T. RS trai
through the factory district Of Mass
achusetts, abandoned his personal a,
4 tack on his predecessor here and cor
! fined himself to his administration
labor record-employer' liability an
| workmen's compensation.
! The president also claimed for tn
\ Payne Aldrich tariff the credit for th
| prosperity of this busy jewelry mar
ufacturing town. Although 1t was
a. m, big crowd packed the static
grounds to hear Taft. He said /
4 part:
4 Zone of the things that labortn
men and working men have the rigr
4 to complain of Is the common la
. liability of masters and employers
those of their employees who we're Il
;ured. The law seems TO have bee
drawn at time when conditions wei
entirely different and the laborin
man and the workingman did not hay
fair chance when he brought su
, for injuries, sustained in employment
, Now that relation of employe to eI
, ployer has been looked after by VIII;
) is called an employers liability ac
, That established the fellow serval
, rule and in every way gave fair'
. chance to the injured workingme
But not content with that, and in c
S der to make the injuries which Il
& laboring men and the workingmt
5 may suffer, real basis for insuran'
c in their behalf, we have appointed
congressional commission which hi
recommended workman's compens
;. ton act by which unless a man voln
r tarily and willfully Injuries himself
y receives compensation at fixed ra
Y according to his wages and accordil
q to his injury no matter what the c
cumstances were under which that
y jury was received.
Now, my friends, | am very sor
that am talking with such fro
l. like throat, but I appeal to You
u make allowance for the condition
y the throat and attribute to me a b
ter will than the roughness OF :
throat would indicate
y Onslaught on Roosevelt.
y PROVIDENCE. R. l, April 20
10 President Taft started out from he
early today in special train for
final swing through Massachusetts,
fore the crucial primaries tomorrc
The first speech was delivered at
+. tlehoro at $40 a. m. and the itineri