The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07
Decisive Action of the CAM
paign to Be Fought Out
Between Taft and Roosevelt III
the Buckeye State.
PRESIDENT TO COME BACK
He VIII Return Next Week f0r
Four or Five Days.
He Is Taking a Days Rest IN
His Home Town.

Cincinnati, o., May 7.-Ohio, Presl-
dent Taft's home state bids Ialr 10
become the battle-ground where tle
president and Col. Theodore Roos9-
welt will fight to a finish one OF tne
decisive actions of the present cam
paign for the Republican presldentlal
nomination. Friends of PRESIDENT
Taft with him on his visit to C1ncln-
natl declared that the result OF the
Maryland primaries made it certain
the struggle for Ohio would be nara.
The president will spend more time
campaigning in Ohio than he did IN
Maryland, where he spoke only dur
ing one day. His secretary e. ID.
HiIIes, announced that Mr.. Taft would
return to Ohio next week for four
or five days stay. He will visit most
of the principal towns and cities not
touched on the present trip.
The Ohio campaign will wind up
only a few days before the state prl-
naries, May 81, and from his home
state the president probably will turn
his attention to New Jersey Whlcn
gives her opinion of the presidential
candidates one week later. So far no
invasions by the president of other
states in which primaries are to be
held have been planned.
The president is resting today for
the first time in several weeks, but
tomorrow he starts north on sixteen
hour tour that ends in Columbus late
tomorrow night and on which he will
make at least IA speeches in towns Of
all sizes.
The president was said today not
to be discouraged by the fact that
Roosevelt won out in the Maryland
primaries. Taft spent only one day
uaT- fx,ar Thnrn T7d HxraC n
feel that he had done well, although
other members of his party were lis
appointed.
A Day of Rest.
Cincinnati May 7.-President Taft
for the first time in several weeks, will
today cast aside the cares of Office and
worries of the political stump and en-
joy a day of recreation and rest. A
diversified program has been mapped
out for him official business having no
place on it. The president will hold an
informal reception for his many friends
made during his period of residence
here. In the afternoon he will occupy
a box at the Cincinnat-Philadelp
baseball game.
In the evening Mr.. Taft will attend
the opening of the Cincinnati May
Music festival and while it is the Gus
tom of both himself and Mrs. Taft to
remain through the musical season he
VIII De aDlS " dllGlIQ Only UIlG opening
night the political campaign through
Ohio necessitating the cutting short of
his stay here Mrs. Taft, however will
remain to the end of the festival
Under heavy skies that frequently
spit rain, President Taft campaigned
through southern Ohio yesterday. In
all he made ten speeches, many of them
in a heavy warm spring downpour that
drove the crowds of country folks to
shelter, lessened the carrying power
of his voice, and made his physician,
Major Thomas L. Rhoads, think anx-
iously of Wednesday, when Mr.. Taft
swings north and east again for the
last busy day Of his present Ohio trip
He Talks of Bosses.
Mr.. Taft began the DAVIS work for
the states 4S delegates at NelsonyiIIe.
and ended it at Cincinnati. From the
time he left Parkersburg, w. Va. and
crossed the Ohio river into his homo
state, the president continued to fell
his hearers why he broke silence and
attacked Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
He covered again much of the ground
he went over in Massachusetts aD5
Maryland, but occasionally brought in
new subjects. Most of his audiences
were attentive, and at times demonstra-
tive.
The president talked many times
about the Roosevelt charge that he was |
What bosses are for rne2'' asl,a7 NJ
Taft at Hamden. What bosses. ~ |
I upholding? an
Mr.. Roosevelt says they are all for
me. 1 could go over the list and sbo1,
you a good many for him Tbora
Ar. Flynn, in Pennsylvania. one Of +he
worst bosses they have ever has - -
is strongly for Mr.. Rooseve1+ "iio |
Mr.. Walter Brown, who is a b,,5Si,.S- - |
BOSS IN ONO. He is also for Mr.. Roosa9 |
Welt. The president has no+bino,
with upholding or destrovinf. 10 90
Bosses are made by local c0ndjtin'Ss ases
Would you think that if Mr.. RoosaT,aft
were nominated and elected rro9il5o7-t ~
we would not have any more boSsora |
can not promise YOU aD1- -,
thing If am elected. because 7 9uci
engaged IN going about cutting off ~
headS OF bosses- can not do II nc
not my function 1t is the fnnotiol - Is |
ohe people at home to reform r,atta.'' .tt VI !
,1,,l' uoh recollect IN the seven wears 80
ineouoIe roosevelt was president 49,
~ llts dpaS paSh was strewn with the boiias /
OF 6ead bosses that he had t[i11oS o9uie'S
uoh recall any of them"
roosevelt and Lincoln
On several occasions tba r7..z i
pIOuSht up Mr.. Roosevelt's refor.ae'-lt
TO Abraham Lincoln. ierences
MI roosevelt claims aDoara-+,
P[teLt Iltght Tlght on Abraham I,inco1r,
- ,,-a,,Iiy 1ay MSS, ne said at uamden ~
Moulu lhthk from the wav he - ~ o9
lnat ne was entitled 10 an+,L tdIked 1
said. 4incoln did and |
ask you whether Abr.b.
coih would have treated an. on1olall- LIN.
as he has done me?'' al opponent |
At Chillicothe the presida-4