The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-05-25
CAMP A|GN IN NEW
JERSEY NEARS
ITS CRISIS
Roosevelt Appears To Have
Most of the Enthusiasm
IMMENSE CROWDS HEAR
New Jersey Ballot Occurs on Tues
day Afternoon and Canvass VIII
End at Noon That Day

SOmervllle, N. j., May 20 nave
enough delegates to renominate me
at the Chicago convention That
was President Taft's declaration yes
terday to score or more republicans
who met him at the luncheon given
in his honor by State Senator Joseph
S. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey in
this city The presidents second day
of campaigning through New Jersey
was one of the hardest he has ever
put in. For more than five hours yes
terday afternoon he motored over
dusty New Jersey roads, talked to
thousands of persons who commute
in and out of New York each day and
kept up his attacks on Col. Theodore
Roosevelt.
The crowds which met the presi-
dent were large and fairly demonstra'
tive. His "commuteh" audiences
were unusually enthusiastic and al
though he started out in the morning
with but little Of the fighting spirit
he showed in Ohio, he warmed up as
the day grew older and before he
made his last speech of the day at
Jersey City last night he was in his old
stride and was talking about MI.
Roosevelt in every speech.
1T is very unwise and dangerous
thing to depart from that wise ira
dition that limits a president to two
terms" said the president in a ty-
pical speech in Plainfeld late yester-
day. 1T is especially unwise With a
man of Mr.. Roosevelt's type with his
| capacity for appealing to the people;
his ability to arouse the elements that
are disturbing in the community.
preaching a doctrine of discomfort,
with his powerful personality, with
his unsound constitutional views aud
with his impotence Of legal restraint
1t would be a calamity to put rim in
the White House again.
'He has that power of centering up
on himself the thought that he is
equal to anything. 1t developed Sat
urday night in Cleveland that he pro
poses to be nominated at Chicago ard
he did not propose to have anybody
take the nomination away from him,
and II they did, and II they prevent
Ills liOubh ut iClA Ant
convention, those remaining would be
boilers, and why? Because, he said
I am the republican party organiza
ton
"My friends. do not cite that by
way of ridicule, | only cite II to show
the character of the man and to what
he has developed these RECEIPT years
Etfln fnt hn his
expression and upon his purpose
and say to you in all sad conviction
that were he allowed to hold a third
term, in violation Of that wise tradit
ion, intoxicated as he would be will
the sense OF power coming from the
comforting upon him of an office ant
an honor that has been denied to al
the most illustrious presidents o.
the country. II would not be safe L
have him there and under these con
ditions. Those who love the republic
must see TO 1t that no such risk ad
heres to It."
1--WE are going to beat the polite
lans right out in New Jersey mex
Tuesday" said Col. Roosevelt at tn,
close Of his second days campaign II
that state. when we got through
with them in Pennsylvania there was
MT enough left of them to put In |
coal scuttle. 1t will be about tn,
same thing here" Col. Roosevelt
travelled yesterday from New York I,
Atlantic City and thence across tn
southern part OF the state to Camden
From there he went to Trenton 70
his final speech Of the day.
The crowds which turned out L
hear him were large and enthusiastic
In some places the combined effort
of the policemen and firemen were o
no avail in keeping them back. TIL
people swarmed about him, cheering
and struggling to get close enough I,
shake hands with him. The crowd
in some places were so dense that IN,
colonel was obliged to pitch in will
both arms TO fight his way out.
Col. Roosevelt did not mention tn
name of President Taft in any Of hi
speeches during the day trip. Il
Camden, where he spoke last night II
the same armory in which the presl
dent made an address Thursday nigh
he replied to statement which NJ
Taft was reported to have made" MI
Taft says that II my proposal for
referendum on judicial decisions wer
adopted" said the colonel "ther
would be nothing to prevent legii
lature from repeating the 18th, lat
and 18th amendments to the constltI
ton and disfranchising the negroes
II is impossible to treat such STATE
ments as either sincere or serious
at is sheer nonsense You Nigh
just as we'll speak of recalling ID
vote by which the 13 original state
adopted the constitution. Suppos
that the income tax amendment
the constitution is adopted Do,
Mr. Taft think that two or thrC
states could recall that amendmei
after II had become a part OF the co
stitutlon7 II is difficult to reply Sc
iously to such nonsense"
In his other speeches Col. Roos
welt mixed politics with various 9th
things. some Of which bore no rel
ton to the issues OF the campaign. |
was in a rollicklng mood. and laugh
and chaffed with his audiences.
told stories OF his experiences In I
"cow country" and during the Spa
Il