Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-05-10
when ROOSEVELT LET LOOSE And TOLD
WHAT HE NOW thinks OF PRESIDENT taft

AldriCh tariff law. ~
Wrote His Own Condemnation.
"If Mr.. Taft will look back to his
own speech at Bath, before election,
and compare It with his Winona
speech he will find his own condemna.
ton written large he declared in
tones of contempt.
IT is a most curious thing that Mr..
Taft should actually criticize me for
not having assailed him about the
Payne tariff law. have eagerly en-
deavored to praise Mr.. Taft whenever
possibly could and have merely kept
silence where 7 disagreed. As he now
insists that should break the silence
about the tariff law, will say that |
hold him culpably responsible for hay.
ing led the people to believe that he
favored n substantial downward revi.
sion and that he would work actively
for II and for then having sat supnely
by and allowed his new friends, under
the lead of Messrs. Aldrich and Can.
non, to produce a bill which made him
convict himself of insincerity when he
signed it.
Aldrich-c Cannon Only Tolerated.
Roosevelt maintained that he toler.
ated the support of Senator Aldrich.
Cannon and other standpatters only
when they were for the right kind OF
legislation" such as the railroad bill
when Mr. Taft speaks of the trusts
he Is guilty of deliberate msstatC,
ments of a great and vital fact" the
Colonel proceeded "He says | pro
pose to abolish the antitrust law.
never made any such proposal, ana
this he well knows. When he thus de-
liberately misstates my position he is
himself guilty of a crooked deal"
I lie characterized the President
statement Of the Standard Oil and to
baccO trust actions as "disingenuous.
! up to the time of the rendering OF
the decree by the Supreme Court" hi
continued, "all he did was to carry
through the suits had begun Fher
he and Mr.. WiCkersham took eXclu
sive charge of the matter, and they
declined to appeal back to the Su
preme Court from the order of the Cir
cult Court as to the reorganization o
the trusts.
81 have never made this issue, bu
as Mr.. Taft raises it will say that
believe the action taken was incom
patible with the theory that the ad
ministratiOn was acting in good faith
for, in acting in good faith, the leas
that could have been done would hav
been to permit the case to come baCI
to the Supreme Court. which had de
| clared these corporations outlaws"
, About That Third Term.
: Taking mp President Taft's struc
} ures upon the third-term ambition. tn
. Colonel adverted to his own utteranc
2 after the 1904 election, and went on
D "Now. as a matter of fact, the dal
4 ger to this country from the thir
i term can only come rom a malTs b,
I ing so intrenChed in power by succe
e siye terms that II is impossible to 90
him out. When a man Is out of ofllC
@ the fact that he has once been in tn
G office can have, and does have, no pc
e sible effect in securing him a sing
delegate.
4 "ro test the truth of this statemeI
/ all you have to 90 Is to look at tn
!. very contest. The entire machine {
G the Federal ofice-holders, the entil
:. Federal political machine, the grei
/ majority of the State machines, III
/. enormous majority of all the big bus
@ ness concerns which in any way re
i resent or benefit by special interest {
/. privilege, the great majority of Il
q veteran political leaders, all that pc
ton of the press - including most
/. the metropolitan press, which is su
(. sidZed or directly or indirectly co
n trolled by the interests - all of the'
II are against me as one man. ! hay
n nobody with me except the people.
It Places Hope in Voters.
IL have not the slightest chance
II a nomination except insofar as in &c
y tain States and certain Compression
II districts In other States, the plain pc
a. pie are able to assert their wish,
" against the big interests. the profe
y siOnal politicians, the subsidized pres
D. the Federal oficeholders, the bosses
o high and low degree.
m THE leaders on my side are youI
If men who are fighting for an ideal, al
re we have not a particle of hope exec
" IN our belief that the plain people a
with us. and we know that unless tn,
Is are overwhelmingly with us we shi
n. not be victorious.
rs