The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-04-27

Worcester. Mass, April 26-Merci- |
less denunciation of President Taft
was Colonel Roosevelt's reply tonight
to the presidents attacks upon him
yesterday.
Some Of Colonel Rooseyclt's asser-
tions were:
| That President Taft had not given
| the people OF the country a square
| deal" but that owing TO u quality
or feebleness' he had yielded to the
bosses and the great privileged inter-
csts."e
That one part of the presidents at
| tack upon him was "the crookedest
kind Of dcal' and deliberate mis-
representation
That the president "has not merely
in thought. word and deed been dis
loyal to our past friendship, but has
been disloyed to every canon or or
dnary decency and fair dealing such
as should obtain even In dealing with
a mans bltterest opponents"
That the presidents statement re-
garding the influence of federal office
holders In the campaign was mot only
an untruth but II IL an absurd un-
TRUTH
That the president convicted him
self OF insincerity when he signed the
Payne -Aldrlch tariff bill.
That In speaking of Colonel Roose-
velt's position In regard to the trust
problem. Mr. Taft is himself guilty or
crooked deal.
Colonel Roosevelt then took up Mr..
Taft's attack on him. point by point,
assailing the president in one scath-
ing sentence after another.
When Colonel Roosevelt reached
! Worcester he found the streets
thronged. A band and torchlight
procession escorted him to Mechanics
hall. where he delivered his main
speech. Later he addressed an
overflow meeting.
Colonel Roosevelt said In part:
Statements to Answer.
''In this campaign | regard the is
sues at stake as altogether too i'm
portant to permit 1t to be twisted
| into one of personalities between
President Taft and myself. But Mr..
] Tafts speeches yesterday contained
I statements that | must answer.
p when, for instance, he said that
I have endeavorcd to minimize the i'm
portancc OF my Columbus speech, he
I says what he must know To be VI true
Q he cannot have read my Carnegie hal
speech, my speech at st. Louis, ms
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and Louis.
: vile speeches, without knowing that
y have elaborated and emphasized What
| said at Columbus.
again, when Mr.. Taft In an,
speech speaks Of me directly o'
obliquely as a neurotic or a demo
! gogue, or In Similar terms, | shall sa,
I nothing, except that to point out tha
\ II lie Is Obliged to use such languag,
he had better preserve his own self
respect by not protesting that 1t give
him pain to do so. NJ man resorts
to eplthets like these if It really give
him pain to use them.
II have never alluded to him II
terms even remotely resembling these
s have never quoted his private letter
or private communications. hav
discussed exclusively his public actions
Even where / was obliged to be sc
vere / was always parliamentary an
never hypocrtical.
;, Nor do l intend today to deviat
- from this standard, although the presi
~ dents speech makes 1t necessary 10
= me to speak more plainly on certai
q subjects than have yet spoken"
40 Colonel Roosevelt referred to Presi
n dent Taft's explanation of his state
al ments that "ours Is a government Z
al all the people by a representative pal
ed of the people"
rs TrfIing.
us
id, "For him to try" said Colonel Roose
at welt, ITO escape the consequences I
cd his statements by saying he allude
mt only to women and children. Is triflir
ng with the intelligence of the people. I
at speak of such action on his part as
Ter square dear Is itself the crookede
kind of q deal. He Is trying to dodi
Ith the consequences of his statement
100 deliberate Misrepresentation of tn
as statement
nd Colonel Roosevelt defined the polii
est cal boss, "as the man responsible {
no the alliance between crooked politi
up and crooked business which has be
responsible for nine -tenths Of the co
ruption Of American political life.'
Grim Comedy.
,r,s III there Is any such man among J
on supporters he continued, Il do 7
Nv know him. Mr.. Taft says that
ave Flynn Of Pittsburgh ID q very b
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