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Show PRESIDENT TAI"T HITS BACK. 1 1 is good to sec that President Taft is not disposed any longer to rest, quiet under the dure, iuuucuducs, and .insolent, .inso-lent, unfair attacks hii-h Col. Roosevelt Roose-velt is making upon Jiini. In his ail-dress ail-dress to the Union League club of New York on Thursday evening, he i-amo back in great style upon KooxrAoU, without naming him. lie ret erred a I length to the attacks that are making upon thc courts and the judkiarv ystem of the country, ami pointedly slated that most of those making these attacks are insincere in-sincere demagogues who an; acting without knowledge of what they arc do'ng. This hits off Roosevelt exactly. Roosevelt is clearly the most blatant, dangerous demagogue that lias ever appeared ap-peared on the large lield of National politics in the United States, lie is utterly insincere, reckless, and unscrupulous, unscru-pulous, a menace to the republic. Unless Un-less he is put flown politically, he is going to be a terror to the Nation. Ho is at all times a. peril to it. and a danger dan-ger to the stability of our institutions. In referring to demagogues who nre acting without knowledge, President Taft must certainly have had Col. Roosevelt especially in mind, for noj one else so fills the measure of that description as does Roosevelt. And while it is admirable in President Taft to refrain from personality, it is not admirable in hini to sit meek and dumb while Roosevelt iudulges in his blatant personalities, his reckless charges, and iu his insiucere, ignorant, and turbu-! lent diatribes, We are glad that President Pres-ident Taft is able thus forcibly, while impersonally, ro dress down this reck-j less stumper in a way most deserving upon his misdeeds. |