The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-14
TAFT WR0THY IN:
OHIO SPEECHES
Pleads With Voters Not to
Give Roosevelt Anoth-
er Term.

Columbus, Ohio. May 14.-Presi-
dent Taft's first day of his final
campaign swing through Ohio, which
came to an end with Il speech here last
night was marked by the most pro-
nonnced verbal assaults upon Colonel
Th"od"rc Roosevelt to which Mr.. Taft
$" far has given public u%ttcrance. In
speeches that were filled with indie-
nant attack. that dubbed over unco,n
rlimentarv adiectives. MIR. Taft dis
charged his oratory at his predecessor
in the white house.
III" started out upon his last cam-
paisn TO urge the people of Ohio to
support him in the primaries of May
II. AT Marietta in a cold hard rain
which kept up for several hours but
which hnally fled before the sun.
Late today when nc spoke at Denni-
son. ST. Clairsville. Bellaire and
Bridgeport. the weather was fair and
the crowds am out in summer attire.
NJ many points the president touch
ed the steel manufacturing district of
OH" which his political advisers OPEN
ly said was opposed to his re-nomina-
f1on. the crowds. however. were large
enough and frequently demonstrative
enough to make his Ohio friends feel
Il bit optimistic.
Although i'm substance all of the
dozen speeches the president made to-
day We're much alike those he deliver
ed in Massachusetts and MARYLAND,
they differed widely at times i'm the
words used To score Mr.. Roosevelt
th"s" were unusual and piquant and
gave his hearers opportunity for an
plauSe and laughter which seldom fail
cd Ia come.
one ot the attacks on Mr.. Roosevelt
Which raised a laugh delivered at Den
nlSon late today ran like this: IL think
IT would he dangerous to put a man
With MIR. RooSeVelt's present constitu-
tional views and with the i~ntoNication
flc would necessarily feel by reason of
getting something that all the great
presidents lave never gotten, il would
not be safe to put him in the white
house again.
II says the reason the American
people are going to elect him is be-
cause he is necessary for the job. That
is the description he gives. Well, I
hope the American people will not
think h a he is necessary for the job.
want tn call Your attention to what
the job is which he proposes. 1t is
the millennium that he is going to bring
about when he gets into office. All
bosses are going to disappear. politici-
ans are going to be fewer. and he is
going to have a finger i'm every COM
MUMMY IN every state, in every county
and everything is going to heaven.
"lf that he true the millennium is
coming and that is the job he is to do
it is going to take longer than four
Years. heS of YOU To ask him when
he comes here whether he would talk
a fourth term. ask him whether he is
going to take a fifth term and why he
should not continue in office during his
life"
Another sally that brought a re-
Spouse was much like that delivered
at Cambridge. Speaking there of the
JOB Mr.. Roosevelt said the people
wanted him to do President Taft ask.
ed: Suppose MIR. Roosevelt, were
waited to the skies i'm d chariot like
the prophet of old and We're t disap-
pear from sight. how do YOU ppos
this country would get along anyhow?
MY friends, it is Il dangerous thing
to nut in the white house a man for
the third term With his views Of the
constitution n With his views Of
himself. In every announcement he
makes YOU would him he was the
show and that there wasn't any
body else in the country. Its I. r. I.
and therefore | say that if YOU feel
That vanity and that cgotiSm hy Civ
ing him something that Washington
did not get and Jefferson did not get
and Jackson did rot get and Grant
f''ujh MOI get. You are gOing to nut
him in office with a sense of power and
with 4 view of constitutional r%estric-
ton that will he dangerous 10 this
country"
Mr.. Taft compared Roosevelt and
Lincoln with a smile. mir. Roosevelt
likens himself t" Abraham Lincoln
more and resembles him less than any
man i'm the history IF this country" he
remarked during the day.
Mr.. Taft called upon the Roosevelt
arkcr to find n indictment if he
had done wrong. asked for more facts
and less "Llrid headlines and lung
power and dubbed the campaign tho
former president in making against
him "accusatory and libellous."
In a joint appeal to the war voter
ans and to tho egrne Mr.. Taft charge
co that under constitutional system
that would permit proposed measures
OF Reform of the practical repeal
of the 18th. 1ith and 18th amend
ments for which the beteranS fought
and which profec, the negro race
would depend OF the result of one
election.
Let MIR. Roosevelt point out what
thing ! have done or failed to do IN
7 will say that he has mad Il point.
cral denunciation u say that the boss
| say he is conducting a campaign that
is not worthy tho man who has had
tho veration, the respect and tho hon
or put upon him by the American peo-
Pile"