Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-05-18
President Says He is Tired of
Being Lied About and As
sails Methods Employed by
Opponent,
HANNA AND BROWN
COME IN FOR SCORING
Roosevelt Charged with Re-
sponsibiIity for Defeat of
= Peace Treatiesi Third Term
Would be Dangerous,
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Toledo, O., May live got tired
of being lied about and held up to
the country as having violated every
rule of conduct when l am not con-
scious that | have violated any,
shouted President Taft here tonight
to a crowd that filled the Toledo audi
torium.
Mr.. Taft's speech was one of the
most bitter and one of the most plain
spoken that he has MADE since he
began to answer the charges of Col
onel Theodore Roosevelt. and to use
hot shot OF his own. The president
bluntly charged that Walter Brown
OF Toledo, one of the Roosevelt lead
ers here, has ceased to be Tart sup
porter because the president refused
to accept his recommendation for
judicial appointments. He declareq
that the opposition to him Of Dan r.
Hanna. of Cleveland came as a con,
sequence OF indictments against Mr..
Hanna by the Taft department OF
Justice.
The president reached Toledo more
than two hours late.
The presidents unusual bitterness
toward Mr.. Roosevelt was apparent
from the first. He launched immedi-
ateiy into accusations of unfairness
upon the part OF his predecessor.
"The memory of the names Mr
Roosevelt has called me-" said the
president, "still fingers in my ears
Since the time he began his persona
attacks upon me he has used all tht
epithets be could think OF, sncli es
no president has ever been subjected
to by man who had two terms IN
that office"
Mr.. Taft called the tariff Views OF
Mr.. Roosevelt ridiculous and labelled
his scheme" for tariff that would
make a division of pront between the
laborer and the employer catch
penny phrases"
Neither Mr.. Roosevelt nor any
body else" declared the president,
could ever draw such bill. He was
in the White House seven years and
never tired TO revise the tariff.
Coming to Ohio and to Walter
Brown, the president said
II have had Walter Browns sup
port In the past and II was effective,
but Walter Brown and | differec
about judicial appointments and |
thought | knew more about them
than he did.
"Mr. Dan Hanna was indicted un-
der the rebate law and after that
date the Cleveland Leader and all his
papers turned against me.
1T little lies In MIR. Roosevelts
mouth to say that | am tied up with
M interests when the evidence that
has been brought in the Harvester and
Steel trust cases. also right in Ohio,
shows where he stands"
Mr. Taft, for the first time. fatty
charged that Mr.. Roosevelt, his cam
paign manager, Senator Dixon, and
democratic senators prevented the
ratification OF the peace treaties as
they originally were put before the
senate.
who defeated those treaties?" he
asked. shaking his fist. 1T was
Theodore Roosevelt. Senator Dixon
and the democrats
What | am afraid OF, said the
president. "is the danger that you and
the whole country will be blurred IN
your vision OF the true issues by Mr..
Roosevelt's attacks on me and THAI
men will go on voting for Mr.. Roose-
welt because they believe what he says
of me and forget the danger that Hes
In putting him in the White House for
a third term