The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-04-30
7. R. ONLY WANTS -.
BOSSES TO Be GOOD
Colonel winds Up Massachu-
sctts Campaign With a Last
Word to President.
NOW AS TO CLASS HATRED
Mr.. Roosevelt Says It's Such
Doings as Taft's That Make
Class Hate Glass.

PiTrsPIEip. Mass. April -"Minc
you. think We can win without Massa
chusetts. but don't want to have to draf
Massachusetts along behind us I wan,
Massachusetts, to pull us along" wa.
Col Roosevelt parting Injunction be
fore he left the State tonight on the eve
Of the Presidential preference primary.
day. SO had the President At times they
almost crossed tracks.
The President had come into the Stat,
preceded by his denial Of Roosevelt Z
statement Of the President's responsi.
bility in the Harvester affair. The Colone
had come back at this early in the morn
ing with a abatement s1uarely contra.
dieting the President 3 denial.
On top OF this. before the day was fin
ished. the President had branded the
Colonel as a etirrer Of class hatred. The
Colonel. who had every word he President
was saying about him in one part OF the
State flashed to him by telegraph so tha
he could have the last word in the Massa
chusetts duel in his final speech at Pitts
field. tonight fired back at Pittsfield thai
he wasn't any instigator Of class hatred
except that he did hate the bosses Bu
he didn really hate them all; in fact n
liked some. ne declared only he JUS
wanted them to he put out Of business.
The Colonel's final attack on the Presi
dent. left for his Pittsfcld speech a
night. was comparatively mild. He tool
his texts from the President speeche,
during the day
MIR Taft says preach class hatred
and excite discomfort Does Mr. Taft
regard me as stirring up class hatred be
cause ask for law in New York to pre-
vent women from being worked for ex.
cessive hours in factories.- he ask
The talk that | am stirring up class
hatred is arrant nonsense he went on
Il am advocating action that will be
the most effective antidote to class hatred
whereas il Mr.. Tafts policy of flabby
indecision and Of helpless acauiescence
in the wrong doing Of the crooked boss
and the crooked financier is permitted
to continue there will grow up q very
uncomfortable feeling. a very ugly dis
content with political. social and industrial
conditions
WI hott duLlOulCeu tudt i d!n Ty1HR
TO stir up class hatred and excite discon.
tent. The only class hatred am stirring
up ia hatred for the class Of crooked
politicians backed by crooked fnanciers
am against that class Of crooks I have.
it is true. preached adherence OF MIR
Lorimer and OF all that for which MIR
Iorimer stands
But as regards most Of even the bosses
whom ! oppose I have not preached
hatred OF them do no. hate them.
| do not hate Mr.. Penrose But Id like
to see him retired to private life. don't
hate the bosses. Some Of them | like.
But I want to see them retire to private
life and quit misg overning us. II they
will stop governing us against our will
the way We do not want to be governed
will be very glad to stop saying anything
about them whatever
The Colonel grinned broadly and re.
Sarded as a gem a qu citation ffom one
OF the Taft speeches whi ch referred 70
the Colonels list of TAFT bosses a. ~patri-
otic leaders
MIR. TAR saws his supporters are not
bosses bur patriotic leaders" said the
Colonel. Bully for Mr.. Taft Then
he went on through his list.
is MIR; Lorimer patriotic leader? Il
Mr.. Patrick Calhoun Of California. tn,
man whom Frank Heney indicted. a
patriotic leader; don't care a rap 70,
/ the terminoogy Of the matter. | care fol
/ the fact. Mind you il these particula
patriotic leaders were no, behind Mr.
/ 1af, Mr.. Taft would have no chance o
carrying one State in twenty Throughout
this Union. He has practically no, min,
in this campaign back Of him. outside O
two or three States. except the support h
gets from Lorimer. Penrose, Cox, Gug
genheiIn, Gallinger and their like
! IF you vote for MIR. Taft you vote 70
these men and these interests and you vii
range Massachusetts in support Of them
| If you can salvc your consciences by call
ing the men have above named patrioti,
lea ders instead of bosses then there /.
urgent need that Massachusetts, shoul,
get back again closer 10 the standard O
conscience that she has had in the past
Il don't want you in Massachusetts t,
go back on us.
We're with you,- came yell
81 think you are" answered the Colonel
Pittsheld gave the Colonel a good vel
come. The snow that covered the Berk
shires 10 the east had stopped falling an
the Colonel spoke to crowd Of severa
thousand in the open square. He mad
his set speech in the theatre.
Mr.. Roosevelt's day was uneyentful
Though his reception was highly cordia
and in the big manufacturing towns en-
thusiastic. there was nothing Of that bi
outpouring that flooded the towns /
Pennsylvania the day before the land
slide for the Colonel there.
Men who were with Mr. Roosevelt o.
his Pennsylvania trip felt that il crowd
are an indication Of primary strength tn
Colonel has no landslide coming his wa
tomorrow. But the current Of feelin
for the Colonel displayed to- day. the wis
ones think, makes it certain that he ha
State.
Mr. Roosevelt's Massac achusetts com
mittee in their zeal had made a schedul
Of nineteen speeches for him to-day
All morning and in the early afternoon
he was in the big textile and shoe manu-
featuring district and drew crowds o
from 5000 to 5000 in Lynn. Newbury