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Show ROOSEVELT'S PROVED FALSITY. It is Surely a humiliating spectacle I to see tbe man who was President of the United States for more thnn BCVCD veais, parade himself before the oun-try oun-try making vindictive assaults upon the present President of the United States, and indulging in willful falsehoods to the supposed disadvantage of the President. Presi-dent. Tbe refuge sought by Col- Roosevelt Roose-velt in his defense against the subser vient. action which he ordered iu the postponement, of the Harvester trust proBecution was that Mr, Taft, as ouc of his Cabinet, had advised this postponement; post-ponement; and Roosevelt stated it as J his recollection that the matter was submitted to a Cabinet meeting, and that it was Taf't's own motion which prevailed in advising the postponement. Now comes President Taft showing bv dates and facts that be was not present in Washington al the time when this matter must have conic before be-fore the Cabinet, if it came before that bodv at all. He states also that he has no recollection whatever of any such matter being presented to the Cabinet at any time. In this he is supported by Senator Root and Secretary Wilson, who were both members of the Rooso velt Cabinet at tbe time when the Har. vester trust must have been considered in the Cabinet, if it was there considered consid-ered at all, and both ,sa that no such tiuestion was c er submitted to the Cabinet. So here js Roosevelt telling a deliberate deliber-ate and malicious falsehood in au attempt at-tempt to relieve himself of the odium of stopping the Harvester trust prose cut ion. by shouldering off upon President Presi-dent Taft the blame for such postponement. postpone-ment. Iu this he is completely ocr-whelmcd ocr-whelmcd by the prompt production of proof that nothing of the kind svas true. President Taft could not, have been present at a Cabinet meeting during dur-ing the time indicated, because he was not rn Washington at that time, and two others of the f'abinet officers authorize au-thorize tho denial that there was ever any such question submitted to the I 'abinet. ' clOlllCC. It is a. humiliating oTerthrow for Roosevelt, and one which ought to cover cov-er him with shame and humiliation. It ought, also to 6top bis vituperative mouth for the, whole of the present ampaieo. His reiteration of his recol lection, and his continued insistence that Mr. Taft as a member of his Cabinet, Cab-inet, mttat have known about the postponement post-ponement of the Harvester trust, prosecution, pros-ecution, i a tribute to his vindictive obstinacy, but min to whatever may bo left of his moral reputation. |