Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-14
President Says Opponent is
Intense and Dangerous
Egotist and a Flatterer
and Demagogue."
SEES DANGER IN
FEEDING HIS VANITY
Says He Would be Danger
GUS if Put In Office With
Sense of Power and Dis
regard of Restrictions.

Cambridge, O., May 13.-In one OF
the most bitter speeches he has made
since he began his active campaign
for denomination, President Taft
here today held Roosevelt up to ridi-
cule, called him an intense and dan.
gerous egotist and q tiattererer and
demagogue
Mr.. Taft suggested that there would
be but little hope for the future OF
this nation If Mr.. Roosevelt were watt.
ed to the skies In chariot, like the
prophet of old, and there was no che
left to do the job Mr.. Roosevelt said
the country needs him to do
The presidents speech boiled over
with attacks and criticisms Of Col.
Roosevelt.
You'd suppose there was not any
body In the country to do this Job that
Mr.. Roosevelt talks about but him.
self" said the president at one point,
Its !, !, !, all the time with him."
Dangerous TO. Give Him Power.
Suppose you feed that egotism and
vanity and put him in once with e.
sense OF power and disregard OF
constitutional restrictions. It would
be dangerous for this country.
I hold that man, demagoeue.
and fatterer who comes out and tells
the people they know It all. hate
2 f1atterer. I like a man to tell the
truth straight out and hate to see, a
man try to honeyfugle the people by
telling them something he doesn't b..
lieve -
Contrasts Roosevelt and Lincoln,
do you think that Abraham LIN
coin, TO whom Mr.. Roosevelt so often
refers, to whom he likes to compare
himself and to whom he bears less
resemblance than any one know in
the history of this country, would
have acted as Mr.. Roosevelt has and
misrepresented me as he has?
Mr.. Roosevelt promises the millin-
cum, free from BOSSES Well. then.
why wasn't there milleneum during
the seven years he was in the white
house?
"One indictment, he said. 'is the
character of the campaign Mr.. Roose.
velt is carrying on. Personally feet
that more deeply than any otner bs
cause think he Is to be indicted for
making the kind Of accusatory and
libelous campaign which required me,
the president Of the United States. In
order to save the cause | represent. to
come out on the platform and 60 about
making political speeches in my behalf
and doing something that a modest
man dislikes.
Begins Day at Marietta.
Marietta, O., May 1s-with his fight.
ing blood up, President Taft today be-
gan In Marietta his one thousand mile
speech-making campaign round OF
Ohio, which will take him into prac-
tically every corner OF the state. His
campaign will end only a few hours
before the polls open for the voters to
register their preferences for presi-
dent on May Fl.
His voice apparently In the best OF
shape, for the next ten days work, and
in the best sort OF physical condition,
according to Major Rhoades, his physi-
clan. Mr.. Taft started his trip with
speech here
Discusses Reciprocity.
Dexter City, O.. May 13.-"They tell
me this is Roosevelt town." was the
presidents opening remark today to
crowd that met his train here to listen
to the second speech OF his present
campaign tour.
at is," yelled man on the station
platform.
They say you are against me-" con.
tinued the president, because I was
in favor OF reciprocity. Well, was.
I was in favor Of reciprocity because 4
believed 1t to be for the good OF the
farmers and every other class. It
would be greatly to the benefit Of the
farmers, but the thing is dead. Now,
what want to say to you, you are
utterly illogical in opposing me on
account Of reciprocity when the fact is
that before entered into reciprocity
at all, wrote to Theodore Roosevelt
and consulted him about 1t and told
him all the arguments both ways He
commended me most highly for going
into the business and approved 1t IN
every way Now, that he finds reci-
procity is not popular he recants and
says-well, he has changed hts mind
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