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Show TAPT GROWS EMPHATIC President Taft ia getting in solid work in iiis present igoroua campaign. Savins begun on the aapoaurea of Roosevelt's hypocrisy, falsity, and "n-Bcrupulo,U8ness, "n-Bcrupulo,U8ness, and having recognised publicly the personal animosity and vtndicti vonesfi which Eooeevelt is displaying dis-playing .maitisi iiiin, President Tafl gTOWS ill power daily, and is ma kin- B doep impression npon Ihe public. He was ajspecially happy i" bla speech of Prlday nia'at at Newark, New Jersey, where he dealt Witll tlie third term proposition ESxplaining, aa the fad is, that be did not seek the personal campaign cam-paign whl li Roosevelt lias forced upon him. he stated thai he was bound to Sgbtj having been driven t.i the wall. This is a plain, candid statement of pact Roosevelt haa driven blm to the wall, and it. i necesarv for him to vindicate bia manhood and strike back, .t Newark, President Tafl plainly charged Roosevelt with seeking 60 make himself dictator of ihe Republic, and paving the Way to usurp the Prefll. denCV for life. This would mean both d social and political revolution Wbal is there that calls for this upturn 0! the Government, this setting aside o; the Constitution 1 What is there in the conditions so peculiar that something else must be done besides continuing the Governhient aa We have had 111 But, to make sueh an overturn aa the Roosevelt propositions require, would be unite impossible in tour years. U itooac oil is 1 lected mal e this o er- I in 11. il would therefore be uocessary t continue him in office yet another i.-rm iii order to complete the change which he is urglngi ainl so on .at the end of every term there would still be something more to do, and Ihe demand lor Roosevelt would ! constant as long as be might !i i'i-st JI;1 . -11111111 1 his rule in Mexico, li RoOBCVell is the only man in the coun I I v competent to fill 1 he office of President Presi-dent now. when are we bkelv to c1 9t have an- one competent to Buecood him" Evidently the frame of mind oi tllOSO who are for RoOBOVelt this year would require tham to be for Rootrevelt whenever Roosevelt wants the office. life terra would be not only dosir uble under those conditions, but prac Lieally compulsory. But when it comes i, the idea thai there ia bul one man hi the Republic 'ompet.Mii. to be iU President, then it is time for the Re public lo end, and it must end thCn .mm I there! Roosevelt ovidontlj thinks BO, and be thinks that he is the man 1 0 end ii bv I lie OStabUshmCUt of a die- tatorship in hie own person. But the Republic, fortuuatolj '"or Itself, is not reduced to any such extremity as th1 Roosevelt idea would imply. 'There is mt only ample material to seleet o President from public men in both parties, par-ties, but their an abundance of able, patriotic men who would do well in the Presidential chair, who have never yet been mentioned, and, in fact, have sever figured in politics or public life, rii. Republic is vast, rich, varied, and bat svcrythiiig needful including the iien and women who are competent to do everything that the Republic needs to have done, and who will fec that the Republic is preserved. It is au idle prosumptiou in ajij man to consider himself the only one who is fit to be President. is a distinct poverty of mind and distrust of the public for a.n man to Bo aaaert, or for any Pet of men to band therasolvea together and say that there ia but one who can till the Presidential office. All such ideas mean distrust of 'h Republic, and a preparedness of mind t" accept a complete com-plete change, even to the extent of ' low 11 a dictatorship i l"' Bet up by thai one man who only is competent to bold the helm of state. President Tafl does well to remind the public of these things, and to show the seitish greed andi contemptuous in-difference in-difference to the lawa and foundations of the Republic, of the man who puts himsclt in the position of claiming to be the only one competent to be chief executive of this Republic 'Ihe natural nat-ural consequence of this Bprt of taa would be that the Republic would o to the dogs when Roosevelt dies, ns he in usi die at. some time in the ordinary course of nature. But, if the life of the Republic hinges upon the life of some one man, then its tenure of ex- isl ia trail indeed, and necessarily short. We should be flad to see President Taft. take up the positive derelictions of Roosevelt in such matters 'is he may have knowledge of, and he undoubtedly undoubted-ly knows of a good manv. The public knows Roosevelt's lawless policy toward to-ward the Steel trust, ami his subserv- icnl timorousnesa in presence of the Morgan threat of withdrawing support from his- administration in ease he be L'un the Harvester tmsi suits. These are the tbinga to press against Roosevelt Roose-velt before the people, for they com pletelv crush all hi claims of love of the populace and desire to serve them faithfully and truly against the "interests;" "in-terests;" for precisely the reverse is the ease He 18 the and n la f e of the interests, the tool 01" the Steel trust, the timorous protector of the Harvest er trust. These things should be pressed upon the public by President Taft, and others like them, as there are undoubt-edlv undoubt-edlv other cases, so that the wind will be completely released from the inflated in-flated windbag that has been emitting such volumes of hot and foul air. |