The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-14
Declares Roosevelt Thinks Him.
self Whole Show
NOBODY ELSE IS |, J. |"
Taft Defends Reciprocity and Says He
Believes 1t for the Good of Farm
ers--Started Days Campaign
at Marietta.

Steubenyille, o., May l4.-Presiden
Taft's first dav OF his final campaign
swing through Ohio ended here last nigh
with speech marked by the most pro
nounced verbal assaults upon Col. Roose
welt to which Taft so far has given
public utterance. The president
speeches were filled with indignant at
tacks bubbling over with uncomplimen
tary adieetives. He started the Obi
campaign at Marietta in a cold rain
which lasted for hours. At DennisoI
he said; mfr Roosevelt says the Amer
lean people will elect him because HI
is necessary for the job want to cal
your attention TO the job he proposes
He is going to bring about the millennium
when he gets into Office. All bosses vii
disappear. Politicians will be fewer. u,
is going to have a finger in every com
munity in every state.
Everything is going TO be heavenly
If that be true it win take more thar
four years, | beg you to ask him whel
he comes here whether he would take
fourth term, or fifth term, and why
he should not continue in office during
life, In every announcement he makes
YOU would think he was the whole. show
and that there wasn't any body else il
the country. 1t is !, ], j."
They tell me this is a Roosevelt
town. was the presidents opening re-
mark yesterday 10 a crowd that met his
train at Dexter City to listen to the
second speech of his present campaign
tour.
1T is yelled man on the station
platform.
They say You are against me" con-
tinued the president, because | was in
favor Of reciprocity. Well I was. | was
in favor of reciprocity, and | was in IA.
yor OF il because / believed it for the
good OF the farmers and every other
class"
Just az Mr.. Taft finished that sen
tence the train started 10 pull out Stop
the train" said the president, to the
delight of many of his hearers, Il want
10 talk to these people"
1--WE sell of our foodstuffs and agri
cultural products to Canada four times
what they sell to us" declared Mr.. Taft
after the crowd had walked forward and
surrounded his car again. "They cannot
raise corn up there; they can only rase
the hardest cereals. and ii would be
greatly to the benefit Of the farmers
but the thing is dead. Now what /
want TO say to you-you are utterly IL
logical in opposing me on account of
reciprocity when the fact is that be-
fore | entered into reciprocity ] wrote
to Theodore Roosevelt and consult I'd
about ii and told him all the arguments
both ways. He commended me most
highly for going into the business and
it in every way. Now that he
finds that reciprocity is not popular with
the farmers he recants and says that.
well, he has changed his mind about it.
II would not have all your votes it
| had to take back what really be-
lieved was for your interest, whether
you like it or not and whether you give
me your votes or not. But appeal 20
you whether it is square deal for
man to change right in the neck when
he wants votes, although we both were
for reciprocity. Now that is a condition
would like 10 have you study. 1t IS
4 dead issue, and | see no reason for
voting one way or the other so far as
is concerned, but | ask for
4 square deal"