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Show TAFT ASSURED I OHIO WILL NOT I TURNJi DOWN H-; Talks to Farmers and Pokes H' . Fun at the Remarkable Tar-iff Tar-iff Revision Proposal of His Opponent. SPniXGFTELD, Obio, May 18. Confident tbat bis appeals to tbe pride of Ohio in nn Ohio pres-ident pres-ident have been of sonic avail B' and tbat his chances for capturing the B state dolcpation to the .Republican B convention lms improved since he crossed the Ohio lost Monday, Pres ident Taft tonicbt closed the week's ennmnioninn with il snfiocll llCrC. campaigning witn a speocn ucrc. When the president makes his last H' speech at Davton Monday niirht, he will have traveled almost 3000 miles in Ohio, will have spoken in every congressional H' district in tlio state and have visited soventy-thrco of its eighty-eight H' counties. In his talks today to the H farmers in tlio counties along the cast-cm cast-cm border from Lake Erie southward, the president's fooling of confidence jH was reflected in his manner. talked about Canadinn reciprocity and about Mr. Roosevelt's tariff revision proposals. Ho bluntly declared Mr. Jloosovolt had changed his opinion in regnrd to reciprocity fo get him votes. The president's opinion of Mr. Itooso-velt's Itooso-velt's tariff reform ideas was concisely set forth at Paulding. Tie said: "Now that Roosevelt has finally to come to answering a question on protection, pro-tection, something which be has avoided for years and years. hc has now rcacbod " a discovery. He is in favor of that kind of protection that will produce a profit in business so that most of it goes through the office I down into the pay envelope oL the wage employee. That is a very good kind of protection if you can get it. "You can promise those things and say that is what you would liko to have, but until he develops a statute which shall show you how he is to do it you and F have a right to say, 'That is all very well, that is painting something to I sell, not to use.' 1: traveling through central Ohio and making mak-ing a dozen speeches. In Cleveland tonight to-night ho epoke llrst in tho Central armory ar-mory and then in tho steel mill district In tho south end of the city. "Mr, Taft la not content," aald Colonel Roosevelt in opening IiIb address at the Centra! armory, "to light this Issue on broad grounds of policy. Yesterday he, in his own person, and through his private pri-vate secretary, made a number of bitter und. Incidentally, untruthful, personal attacks at-tacks upon mc." Defends Dan Hanna. Colonel Roosovelt then discussed the charge of robating on which Mr. Hanna was Indicted and Its subsequent dismissal. Ho said the facts of the caso showed that "there was not tho slightest moral dellriqueiicv on the part of Mr. Henna because of the action for which ho was indicted." , Colonel Roosevelt then said that If Mr. Taft would read the current number of a weekly magazine he would tlnd name after name of men among his southern delegates and supporters who have been Indicted and have even served terms of imprisonment. Ho said that ono Taft candidate for delegate from the District of Columbia, "who is now contesting the scat of tho rightfully elected delegate with Mr. Taft's cordial approval, was not only Indicted, but served a Jail sentence." sen-tence." , , The nowspapcrs, be continued, nave announced an-nounced that In New Jersey next week Mr. Taft is to b0 tho guest of a Taft candidate for delegate who was indicted In connection with the wire pool investigation investi-gation last year. Ho said: "The boss of Atlantic City, the leader of the Taft forces In his county, was indicted and was awaiting disposal of his appeal from a sentence of a year In prison." Colonel Roosevelt also mentioned Patrick Pat-rick Calhoun, who was Indicted In San Francisco. Perkins's Contributions. .Referring to President Taft's allusions to the fact that George W. Perkins of New York hud contributed to Colonel Roosevelt's campaign fund, tho colonel said that Mr. Perkins had given a larger amount to Mr. Taft's campaign fund four years ago and that the. Taft campaign manager had borrowed $15,000 from Mr. Perkins which had never been repaid. Colonel Roosevelt then took up tho charge that he had refused to proaccuto tho International Harvester company, making much the same statements In this connection as In previous speeches. Colonel Roosevelt's reference to the Balllnger-PInchot case was his first extended ex-tended discussion of his case in this campaign. Ho asserted that Mr. Taft "supported Mr. Balllnger against every honest official in the interior department and especially against Glfford Plnchqt and Louis Glavls." "Glavls," he continued, "put into tho hands of the president a detailed report showing that the Cunningham olalms were fraudulent, as every one knew and now admits that they were. Mr. Tat did not read tho evidence In the case and he actually placed tho decision of the case in tho hands of Balllnger and signed the letter prepared by Attorney Oscar Lawler in Balllnger's office, which whitewashed Balllnger and directed the expulsion of Glavls from office. Accuses Taft. "In this letter Mr. Taft stated with the utmost clearness that his decision was the result of Ills own personal reading read-ing of the whole record, a statement which was contrary to the facts, and when the senate voted an Inquiry of the subject and Mr. Taft realized tho political politi-cal importance of having the public remain re-main Ignorant that tho whitewash letter had been drafted In Balllnger's office and that he himself had not road the evidence on January 6. 1910, he answered the popular demand for Information as expressed in the senate's resolution. "Me deliberately suppressed the Lawler Law-ler memorandum upon which his decision was based and sent to the scnato in Its place a brief signed by Attorney General Wickersham dated two days prior to tho president's decision of the case in September, Sep-tember, which was about threo months before it was actually prepared. It was afterward discovered and proved before the Investigating committee by Louis J. Brandcls that this brief, put In evidence by the president before the senate of the United Stales as the basis of tho decision rendered by the cxocullvc as judge in the Glavis-Balllnger case, was not In existence ex-istence at tho Umo Mr. Taft rendered his decision; that at that time Mr. Wlckcr- sham liri1 rinf rVfri rnml flm nv rlnmin' siiam nad not even read the evidence; that the brief had been written after Glavis had been retired to private life." All Claim Victory. COLUMBUS, O-. May IS. Three presidential presi-dential candidates ended a week of almost continuous travel and speaking tonight and rested, while the managers of each of them made claims of coiin victory at the Ohio primaries next Tuesday. Tho state Is oonceded bv most politicians politic-ians to be tlio deciding point In the battle bat-tle for the presidential nomination and especially in the lights of the two native sons, President Taft and Governor Harmon. Har-mon. President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt, among the Republicans, and a score of lesser lights have spent the greater part of the week on trains, while Senator La Follette came last night and there has been no section of the slate neglected. Competition In the Democratic ranks Is scarcely loss keen. Colonel William J. Bryan backed by National Committeeman Harvey CI Garbcr, urging voters to support sup-port Governor "Woodrow Wilson of Xew Jersey to defeat Governor Harmon, toured the utatc just ahead of the Ohio executive. live. Senator La Toilette's national manager, Walter L. House, would mako no prediction, pre-diction, but added to the day's interest by making public a partial list of La Kollette's contributors Chief of these were Charles R. Crane. Chicago, $20,000; Glfford PInchot, Washington, $10,000; Amos R. Pinohot. New York. $10,000; William Wil-liam Kent. California. $10,000: Alfred R. Baker Chicago. $2000; Rudolph Spreckels, San Francisco. $2000, and William Fiynn, Pittsburg. $1000. |