Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-09
TAFT ENDS OHIO TRIP.
Addresses an Enthusiastic
Throng at Columbus.
HOLDS ROOSEVELT UNSAFE
Accuses His Predecessor Of Misrep-
reservations.
ARBITRATION PACTsNULLIFIED
Declares He Refrained From Oppos-
ing Cannon's Reelection on
Roosevelt's Advice.
HOLDS ROOSEVELT UNSAFE
ADMIRATION PACTsNULLIF1ED

| COLUMBUS, Ohio, May a-President
! Taft ended threerday visit to his native
state here last night with speech at
Memorial Hail. in which he vigorously
denounced Col. Roosevelt's attacks on
| him. The hall was filled to OVERLOOKING
and President Taft was repeatedly inter
| rupted with cheers.
| Immediately after his speech President
| Taft started for Washington. Altogether
Mr.. Taft made seventeen speeches during
| the day. His voice stood up well, but
| grew trife husky just before he reached
Columbus.
| He scored Col. Roosevelt as an advo-
cate of class hatred and man who is
appealing to the element of discomfort.
ut is dangerous to put such a man in
the Office of President he said. ''Mr.
Roosevelt is not safe man for this
country to trust, with his ideas to the
recall of court decisions he declared
with emphasis
| Arbitration Pacts Nullifed.
The President charged that Col. Theo-
| dore Roosevelt, his campaign manager,
Senator Dixon of Montana, and demo-
| Gratis in the Senate were responsible for
the 'emascuIation'' of the arbitration
treaties with Great Britain and France
and that in consequence of their action
| the pacts were so changed as to be of
doubtful utility
For some reason unknown to my puz-
| zle-witted BRAIN said the President,
| "Mr. Roosevelt opposed these treaties
| and by those men who supported that OPP
| uosition, his manager, Mr.. Dixon, and
the democratic votes in the Senate, those
treaties were SO emasculated that it is
difficult to see whether they contain any
| thing of value which ought to be rati-
| fled into treaty. My idea of progress,
| and of the highest progress possible, was
| in those arbitration treaties, because l
| saw in them step toward universal
arbitral court, to which any nation In
the world might resort in order to solve
| a controversy. This was a decided step
| toward that end, as progressive meas
| ure as any that has ever been suggested
| to the American people"
Mr. Taft openly accused Mr.. Roosevelt
of Misrepresentation and misstatement,
and said that in many actions for which
| his predecessor now criticised him he had
been influenced by Mr.. Roosevelts ad-
| vice. and asked the people of Ohio to
give him a square deal.
| Failure to Prosecute Trusts.
The President pointed to the failure
of the Roosevelt administration to prose-
cute the steel trust and the harvester
| trust, and contrasted that with the at
| titude of his own administration, which
has filed suits against both.
| The President said that George w. Per-
| kins "a director of the harvester trust
| and of the steel trust, was instrumental
in preventing the prosecution in the
| Roosevelt days, and then went on to say:
| Mr. Perkins is one of the chief con-
tributors to Mr.. Roosevelt's present
| financial fund. Now, | want to ask you
/ what do you think Mr.. Roosevelt would
say of me il l had not prosecuted the
/ steel trust and the harvester trust and II
i appeared subsequently that Mr.. Perkins
/ was a large contributor to a special fund
I expended for my use? Well, what does
he do on the face Of that?
HE charges me with being in control
of the special interests, with these facts
! staring him in the face. l don't infer
| from these facts anything improper. On
| the contrary, don't believe there Is any
! thing improper. But l do say to him VINO
/ is so prolific in his suggestion OF suSpl-
| cion and SO easy in his charges of inn
proper motives that for him now, with
the evidence before the public, to charge
me with being an agent of the specla!
interests takes that audacious courage
still believe him to have.
Rise in Trust Stocks Natural.
| Replying to the statement that the de-
! crees of the Supreme Court in the Stand
ard Oil and American Tobacco Company
cases were really of benefit to those
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