The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-24
BECOMES WEARY
OF FALSEH00DS
President Declares He Is Being
MisrepTesented.

Toledo, O., May 18.-"Pve got tired
being lied about and held up to the
country as having violated every rule
of conduct when | am not conscious
that | have violated any," shouted
President Taft here in the course of a
speech to crowd that filled every
available seat and blocked the aisles
at the Toledo Auditorium.
Mr.. Taft's speech was one of the
most bitter and one of the most plain
spoken that he has made since he be.
gan to answer the charges of Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt and to use hot
shot of his own. -, 3
The president charged that Walter
Brown of Toledo, one OF the Roosevelt
leaders here, had ceased to be Taft
supporter because the president re-.
fused to accept his recommendation
for judicial appointments He de.
clared that the opposition TO him on
the part OF Dan Hanna Of Cleveland
came as consequence of indictments
against Mr.. Hanna by the Taft de.
partment of justice. ....
The president reached Toledo more
than two hours late and many of the
crowd in the Auditorium had been
waiting far longer to see and hear
him. After he entered the hall hun
dreds of persons remained outside un-
able to gain entrance and besieged
the police. When the doors finally
were thrown open again and those
who wished went in they made so
much noise that Mr.. Taft had to stop
speaking for more than five minutes.
His appeal to the crowd for a square
deal and his attacks on Mr.. Roosevelt
were cheered in emphatic fashion.
1t was the most demonstratiye gath
ering Mr.. Taft has addressed ON, his
present trip.
Catches Fancy of Hearers.
The presidents unusual bitterness
toward Mr.. Roosevelt was apparent
from the first. He launched immedi-
ately into accusations of unfairness
upon the part of his predecessor that
caught the fancy of his hearers and
and handclapping.
''The memory of the names Mr..
Roosevelt called me-" Said the presi-
dent, still fingers in my ears. Since
the time he began his personal attacks
on me he has used all the epithets he
could think of and all the names in
the calendar, such as no president has
ever been subjected to by man who
has had two terms in that Office"
Mr.. Taft called the tariff views of
Mr.. Roosevelt ridiculous and labelled
his scheme" for tariff that would
make division of profits between the
laborer and the employer catch pen
ny phrases"
Coming to Ohio and to Walter
| Brown the president said:
81 have had Walter Browns support
in the past and it was effective, but
Walter Brown and differ about judi
cial appointments and | thought
knew more about them than he did.
"Mr. Dan Hanna was indicted under
the rebate law and after that date the
Cleveland Leader and all his papers
have turned against me.
1T little lies in Mr.. Roosevelt's
mouth to say that l am tied up with
the interests when the evidence that
| has been brought out in the harvester
and steel trust cases and also right
in Ohio shows where he stands"
What | am afraid off, said the
president, lis the danger that you and
the whole country will be blurred in
your vision of the true issues by Mr.
Roosevelt's attacks on me and that
men will go on voting for Mr.. ROOse-
welt because they believe what he
/ says of me and forget the danger that
! lies in putting him in the White House
! for third term"
He brought in the names of Mr..
Drown and Mr.. Hanna in practically
every one of fourteen speeches dur
ing the day