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Show SJirS INDICTED IN SUPPORT EX-PRESIDENT H Tart Tells the Ohio Voters That Magnates in Shadow 1 of Penitentiary Contrib- ule to Roosevelt Fund. SHOWS BOSS ISSUE IS FAKE AND FRAUD Claimant Declares That "We ' Are the Real Republicans," . Men "Who Are True to Principles of Lincoln." f-H ObEDO, Oliio, May 17. President I Taft adopted new offensive tuc- I tics against Colonel" Roosevelt today. In practically every one of fourteen speeches ho made the president used an argument of particular interest to Ohio and to the northern part 'of tho state, bringing in continually tho names of Dan It. Hanna of Cleveland and Valtor Brown of Toledo, two leaders of tho ffooscvelt movement. At Tiffin the president called "Mr. Brown "the only boss now in active commisrion in the state," and charged that $r. Hanna. "with unlimited wealth," was allied with special in-) in-) crests." but yet war. recognized by .Mr. Roosevelt as a patriot, not a boss. "I am not attacking Mr. Roosevelt because Mr. Brown supports him," said the president. "He is just like mc and iust like any other person in poli- : ties. He takes the support of any man who comes to him, without asking him for a certificate of character from tho Voung Men's Christian association." I Roosevelt's Supporters. At Bellevuo Mr. Taft said: . "To sav that becauso a man supports sup-ports vou you are bound up with him, is to say something not justified by the more facts of his support. If it were 'justified thus, J could "say that Mr. "Roosevelt ought not to ect your votes i because all the indicted pooplo are supporting sup-porting him as they arc, or most of them. "Mr. Perkins, a director in the steel and harvester "trusts, used influence" in the last administration to prevent suits against them." he said "He is not influential enough now. .He is a contributor to Mr. Roosevelt's .political fund." Issue of Campaign. "Roosevelt says the real issue of tho campaign is boesism, but he is mistaken," mis-taken," declared Mr. Taft at Lorain. "During the seven years ho was in pffico did you hear of Theodore Roosevelt. Roose-velt. d3'ciug his bauds with the blood of the bosses? Did you hear of the colonel going out with his elophaut gun and shooting any bopses? No, you lid not. Bossism i6 a false issue and a tihani." The president defended tho Pajrnc Aldrii'h tariff bill, upheld his administration admin-istration and denounced the recall and third term. Mr. Taft made the last speech of tho day in' Toledo. Makes Bitter Speech. "I've got tired being lied about and held up to the country as having violated vio-lated every rule of conduct when I am "not conscious thnt T havo violated an j'." shouted President Taft bore tonight, to-night, in a speech to a crowd that-filled that-filled the Toledo auditorium. Mr. Taft's speech wna one of the most bitter and one of the most plain-spoken plain-spoken that he has made since be began be-gan to answer the charges of Col. Roosevelt Roose-velt and to uec hot shot of his own. Tho president bluntly charged that "Walter Brown of Toledo, one of the floosovcll leaders here, had ceased to be a Taft supporter because the president presi-dent refused to accept his rocommonda- Man for judicial appointments. He de- HH dared that the opposition to him on iH the part of Dan Hanna of Cleveland H enmc as a consequence of indictments PH against Mr. Hanna by the Taft dopart- IH mcnt of justice. Resents Personal Attacks. "The memory of tho names that Mr. Roosevelt has called mc," said the president, "still lingers in my ears. Since tho time he began his personal at-IH at-IH tacks ou mc he hns used all the opt- H thets he could think of ucb as no il .president has been subjected to by a "man who had two terms in that office." Mr. Taft called the tariff views of Mr. Roosevelt ridiculous and labelled hi "scheme' for a tariff that would make a division of profits between the laborer and the employer "catch-penny phrases." "Neither Mr. Roosevelt nor anybody rise," declared the president, "could eer draw up such a bill. He was in the White House seven vears and never tried to revise tho tariff." Mr. Taft. for the first time, flatly HiRrgod that Mr. Roosovelt, haia campaign cam-paign manager. Senator Dixou, and Democratic, senators prevented the ratification rati-fication of the peaco trentv as it originally orig-inally was put before the "senate. |