The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-05-02
PRESIDENT TAFT
RESENTS INSULTS
Attacks OF Theodore Roosevelt
Full of FaIsehoods.
HIS CAMPAIGN UNFAIR ONE
Misrepresentation, Vlllifieation, Abuse
and Assaults OF Roosevelt viii
No Longer Be Tolerated.
Former President Would
Wreck the Party.

After enduring with infinite pa
thence. not only because Of the dignity
Of the high office which he holds, but
also because of the personal friend
ship which he has enjoyed and had
hoped to maintain with former Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt. President
William II. Taft has finally been
forced to resent the misrepresenta-
tons of his actual position on public
issues, the untruths which have been
sttered with respect to his official &C.
tons and to the conduct of this cam
paign and attacks upon him which not
| infreQuently involved his personal
honor as a man as we'll as his integ-
rity as president of the United States.
The president and his campaign
managers have sought throughout
this campaign. by a dignified and fair
| course Of conduct, to maintain the Re
publican party as a militant power
for good in the land, with a view to
another triumphant victory at the
polls in November.
On the contrary. Theodore Roose-
welt and his friends and hackers have
conducted an organized campaign TO
wreck the Republican party. not only
by engendering personal animosities
by attacks on individual leaders OF
the party In various states. but by Of
fering and supporting a national plat
form which is rank Socialism AS a
result Of this situation Director VIII
liam B. Mckinley of the National Taft
bureau. issued the following state
ment to the public on April IA:
The outcome OF the Pennsylvania
primaries is plainly indicative OF the
fact that national issues are playing
only a small part in some states in
the campaign for the Republican NOM
ination for president.
Instead Of constructive statesman
ship being put forth in an effort to
solve the problems before the country
and as a bid for votes on the ground
of merit, q nationwide campaign OF
willful and malicious misrepresenta,
ton, villification and assault on the
president Of the United States has
been substituted. Such a campaign,
amounting in fact to a conspiracy,
not only TO humiliate the president
personally. but to commit the Repub-
lican party to rank Socialism, has
been countenanced and conducted By
former President Theodore Roose-
welt
The time has arrived TO call halt
on such proceedings.
President Taft, always mindful OF
the decencies of human conduct; be-
lieving that friendship is a sacred
thing and that. like truth. II should be
maintained even at a personal sacri.
fee. and also believing that the Ameri-
can people expect the occupant OF the
highest Office in the gift of the nation
as well as those who have formerly oc.
cupied II, TO respect the dignity OF that
office, has, during the course OF thin
campaign. patiently submitted TO mis-.
representation, villification and insult,
without reply.
THE result is that his opponent has
thrown all restraint to the winds. SEN
ator Joseph NJ. Dixon. the national
campaign manager OF former Presi-
dent Roosevelt, has been permitted,
without rebuke from his candidate, TO
insult the president OF the United
States. He has not only been per-
mitted TO charge the president with
being "a receiver OF stolen goods
without protest, but former President
Roosevelt has repeated the charge on
the stump.
"The time has now come when the
American people will no longer sit
idly by and see this unfair and mali
cious persecution and utilization con-
upued by man and by the friends !