Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-05-06
BLAMES TAFT
FOR ARCHIBALD
Roosevelt Says Appointment
Was Made to Get Pennsylvania

Oyster Bay, N. Y, May 6.-Colonel
Roosevelt in a statement Issued here
says In part:
With Tafts personal opinion about ms
I havs no concern beyond pointing out
the sufficiently obvious fact that he never
discovered I was dangerous 70 people
until ] had been obliged TO come to the
conclusion that he was useless to the
people. But his specific statements as to
the trusts, tho crookedness IN selecting
delegates and the Lorimer incident ! shall
once again answer.
Mr.. Roosevelt hen repeats What he
has already said concerning the har-
member of the cabinet at the time Mr..
Taft knew all the facts.
Mr.. Taft, says ! ave said that the an
thrust law ought to be repealed. Mr..
Taft we'll knows that this lie not true. ]
have always explicitly stated that II ought
to be kept on the books and really IN
forced mot merely no=ninally enforced,
as has been done by Mr.. Taft in the
Standard OIL and tobacco trust cssss)
against all trusts Huilty OF snttsoofal prao-
tices, but ! have always said and now
say that by itseif the ANTITRUST law WILL
never solve the problem Of dealing with
the great corporations and that TO con-
troll the great Industrial interstate cofpe-
rstions we should hays 9 law aAin to the
present interstate commerce law, but
without the mischieyous interstate COM
rnercs court.
Mr., Taft says that i c~ritioise him be-
Gauge he prosecuted the standard OH and
tobacco companies to the supreme court
and got decistons there. On the contrary,
Mr.. TAFT knows we'll that I criticised him
not for havfns thur Continued the prose
oution Of the suits that / had begun,
but b~cAuse after he had got these asct-
sons he then permitted the department
Of Justice 20 to shape matters that tbs
result was q complete nuliihcatioh OF all
the good results - his suit.
compatible with any sincere purpose real
~ to enforce tho antitrust law, ~ a
result Of his action the stocks Of ths cor
porAtions in question rose greatly In vsl-
ue, the rise In the Standard on stocks
bsins over 100, ooo,9oo. Mr.. Taft can hArd-
iy hevt failed to notice that following his
institution OF a suit against the harvester
trust harvester stock went up two points.
EviAsntty Wall Earsst has made up Its
mind that Mr.. Tafts prosecutions ore fabs
prosecutors, whereas tbs bitter hostility
Of Wal street to nae shows how lively 10
its memory OF the fact that prosecutions
were really prosscuttons and hurt the
persons prosecuted.
Tho Archibald case (now before congress
owing to tho fact that congress forced
the presidents hand shows that Mr..
Taft appointed on the new commerce
court, at tho request OF Mr.. Penrose, a
Judge whose unftnsss for the ONCE had
already been brought before him. AND
what has since happened to ths Judge Is
merely what Mr.. Taft might have fore
seen II he had considered the interest Of
the people instead of being intent on try
ing to secure the delegates from PENN
s~ylvania by placatlng the Pennsylvania
boss.
In Kentucky and Indiana and In New
York city and elsewhere Mr.. Taft KNOWS
well that the delegates elected for him
represent barefaced frauds. He stands
guilty of connivance at and conformation
OF these frsuds.
With regard to Lorimer, Mr.. Roose-
welt practically repeats what he has
already said with regard to Taft's
support of the Illinois senator.