The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-05-14
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SUBJECT
OF President Taft's Speeches In
Ohio Yester day
BEFORE LARGE AUDIENCES
President Devoted Large Share OF
His Addresses to Rdicule of
Col. Roosevelts Pretensons

President Taft's first day of his
final campaign tour Of Ohio, which
came to an end with a speech at
Steubenyllle last night, was marked
by the most pronounced personal as
saults upon Col. Theodore Roosevelt
to which Mr.. Taft so far has given
public utterance. In speeches which
were filed with personal attack and
with uncomplimentary adJectiVes.
Mr.. Taft discharged his oratory at
his predecessor in the White House.
He started out upon his last can
vass to urge the people Of Ohio to
support him at the primaries on the
2lst, at Marietta, in cold, hard
rain, which kept up several hours,
but finally fed before the sun. Late
yesterday, when he spoke at Denni-
son, Uhrichsvlle, st. Clairville, Bel
laire and Bridgeport the weather was
fair and the crowds came out in sum-
mer attire.
AT many points the president
touched the steel manufacturing dis
trict of Ohio, which his political ad-
vlsers openly said was opposed to his
denomination, but the crowds were
large enough and frequently demon
strative enough 10 make his Ohio
friends feel bit optimistic. AL.
though in substance all OF the dozen
speeches the president made yester-
day were much like those he deliver.
ed in Massachusetts and Maryland.
they differed widely at times in the
words used to score Mr. Roosevelt.
These were unusual and piquant and
gave his hearers opportunity for ap-
plause and laughter which seldom
failed
One Of the attacks on Mr. Roose-
welt which raised laugh, delivered
at Dennison late yesterday, ran like
this. 81 think IL would be danger.
out to put a man with Mr. Roose-
velt's present constitutional views
and with the intoxication he would
necessarily feel by reason OF getting
something that all the great presl
dents have never gotten, II would not
be safe to put him in the White
House again He says the reason the
American people are going to elect
him Is because he is necessary fol-
the job That is the description he
gives. Well, | hope. the American
people will not think he is necessary
for the job.
II want to call your attention tC
what the job is which he proposes tC
undertake. II is the millennium that
he Is going to bring about when hI
gets into Office. All bosses are go
ing To disappear, politicians are goinl
TO be fewer, and he is going to have
a finger In every community in every
state, in every county. and every
thing is going to heaven. II that b,
true the millennium is coming, and 4
that Is the job he is to do IL is goinl
TO take longer than four years.
beg OF you TO ask him when he comes
here whether he would take fourtl
term; ask him whether he is goinl
to take a fifth term. and why h
should not continue In office durinl
his life"
Another sally which brought
similar response was made at Cam
bridge. Speaking there OF the jo
MIR. Roosevelt said the people wantel
him TO do. President Taft asked
Suppose Mr.. Roosevelt were waite
to the skies in chariot like tn
prophet of old and were to dlsappea
from sight, how do you suppose thi
country would get along anyhow
My friends, IL is dangerous thing {
put in the White House n man 70
the third time with his views {
the constitution and with his view
of himself In every announcemeI
he makes you would think he wa
: the whole show and that thei
wasn't anybody else In the country.
IT'S !, |, |, and therefore say thu
4 II you feel that vanity and thi
egotlsm by giving him somethir
that washington did not get and Je
ferson did not get and Jackson d
not get and Grant could not get, "
\ are going to put him in Office with
|; sense OF power and with a view
4 constitutional restriction that will
4 dangerous to this country" NJ
Taft compared Col Roosevelt al
President Lincoln with a smile. IN
Roosevelt likens himself to Abraha
4 Lincoln more and resembles him lie
than any man In the history OF III
4 country" he remarked during q
u day
\ Mr.. Taft called upon Roosevelt
hackers to find one indictment II
had done wrong asked for mo
facts and less "lurid headlines a
\ lung power" and dubbed the ca
A paign the former president is maxi
against him "accusatory and lib
lous." The president further sal
II LET Mr. Roosevelt point out WI
thing ! have done or failed to do l
der the influence of anybody a
II then / will say that he has made
II point. but while he continues mer,
In general denunciation that
4 bosses are all for me and all agail
him. say he is conducting ca
paign that Is not worthy the m
u who has had the veneration. the
Z spect and the honor put upon him
the American people"