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Show TAFT SOOEES ROOSEVELT. President TRft, in closing his campaign cam-paign in Ohio, became more bitter than ever against Col. Roosevelt, and made his accusations moro direct and specific spe-cific than ever before. He referred : again to the Harvester case, showing that Col. Roosevelt continues to falsi fy in regard to that after the proof ia ample that what he states is untrue. The President accused Roosovelt of trying try-ing to play the role in this country of Louis XIV., in claiming to be Prance, by arrogating to himself the full power and credit, of the Republican party and of the Nation. Ho pilloried Roosevelt Roose-velt in that, after having been honored by the Republican party, and so in honor bound to be jloyal to that partyt Roosevelt is now trying to wreck that party and is no longer worthy of being be-ing considered as a Republican. President Taft holds that Roosevelt Roose-velt 's action clearly indicates premeditated premedi-tated plans through fako-contestcd delegations to wrest the nomination from its proper place, by holding a mock convention of his own which will givo him the nomination from delegates dele-gates who have no right whatever to represent tho party. President Taft therefore charges Rooesvclt with party treason and with a deliberate purpose to win by fraud, force and false pretense. pre-tense. President Taft calls specific atten tion to the fnct that Col. Roosevelt "has not seen fit lo answer tho question ques-tion whether if he is nominated and elected, he will discontinue Ihc suit against the Steel Trust and the Harvester Har-vester Trust, nor has he answered the question whether he would accept tho fourth term." These questions go right to the point, and Roosevelt's silence can be construed only as meaning mean-ing that ho will discontinue those suits if he is made President again, and that he will accept a fourth term if he can get it. Replying to tho Roosevelt claim that Dan Ifanna's indictment for rebating was merely technical and involved no moral delinquency, President; Taft called attention to the fact that the discontinuance of the criminal prosecution prose-cution of Mr. JIanna personally was part of a settlement in which the companies com-panies represented by him paid MS,-0U0 MS,-0U0 in fines. The case, therefore, brings up anew the Roosevelt action with respect to Mr. Paul Morton, who also, Roosevelt declared, was only technically tech-nically guilty, and Roosevelt not. only freed Morton from all blame and from all faint of "moral delinquency. " but actually appointed him Secretary of the Xnvy. The case is a pointed illustration illus-tration of the partiality of Roosevelt and of hi determination In protect his personal friends in spite of tho law. just as his-malignant prosecutions of other persons who hail done far less exhibited his malignant ferocity to those whom he chose to consider his enemies. The Ohio primaries arc lo be held today. President Taft has closed in that, his homo Stale, a campaign more thorough, more prolonged, and more timely than he has conducted in any other Slate. He professes himself confident con-fident of getting a majority of the delegates. Wc trust that he may do so, and surely he ought to bo ablo, being be-ing on the ground and having tho advice ad-vice of keen politicians supporting him, to form a good judgment of how the vote will be. Wc hopo that ho is right in his judgment, as lo how Ohio will vote; but. while a defeat in his home Stale would be a keen disappointment, disappoint-ment, it is comfortable to know that he does not need the votes of that State, that ho has ample forco to nominate nomi-nate him without even one vote from Ohio. |