Show TAR I 1 IN TO DUPLICITY OF HIS OVE ONE FRIEND rR IENI lit piles ti to aery iery made alado and produces proof that the bear hunter misrop 11 nii i in this menace to tio cie ditc itc public und anti to prosperity of countr country 11 president resident tatt taft in three speech ape echea in massachusetts 1 april 25 personally a the misrepresentations of theodore roosevelt of the position of the he president with respect to the la Is flies of this campaign with respect to his administration and ot of himself personally the president dent said ha be re fretted te tle t e necessity of plain ly abr it liti old friend to whom he frankly admitted a personal obligation the president said however tat the altu situ illon Uon created by mr roosevelt a personal attacks on him end and hia his administration made further silence the basia basis of the presidents reply to mr ur roosevelt was the well nelt known square deal maxim of mr alf velt As he be answered each Roo roosevelt charge the president inquired giai late e I 1 had bad a square deal in order orde these subjects were treated by the president misrepresentation of the speech speeches first under this heading president toft taft declared that mr roosevelt had deliberately misrepresented him when ho he said mr taft defines the issue when he says that our government Is and should bo be a government of all the people by a representative part of th people the excerpt which mr air roosevelt dt uses Is taken from my sac h at to ledo the president it la Is gar bled I 1 did not say this should be a government of all the people by a rep part of the people I 1 said it Is a it government of all the people bv br a representative pirt part of the people and it Is I 1 pointed out that this sor eminent of ours Is a goi erna aut b the adult voting males in arder to show tho the necessity for constitutional restrictions to protect the non voters among the people ag dunst the possible injustice and ag aggression gres sion of it major majority ltv of the i etem was wa it lionett waa it fair in lit Th theodore eLdore ll 11 aloo to ovelt to seize one q sentence e from a speech to garble it D and ad chen give it a meaning which bo he knew from the context it could not te leir ir do the people of Mass assi ichu te iu think that this la Is a square deal unfair charge as to bora l second in reply to tho the charge that I 1 bosses v ere supporting his bandl dacy president tatt tuft pointed out that milliam ll llam I 1 linn of pittsburgh one of the tle worst municipal bosses that the history of that state knows walter brown of ohio I 1 the only boss in full commission in the state and Willi william atu ward of new lork were sup supporting 9 mr mir roosevelt senator crane of mas alas bachu i whom mr air roosevelt has mentioned president taft said had three times been invited by mr bir roosevelt into his cabinet and that mr sir roosevelt Koo sevelt had invited him to man age his presidential campaign in ado 1001 1 VV IN ben hen I 1 consider the eafern sa with A ith which mr air roosevelt noo sevelt has accepted in hia verlous campaigns the assistance of ale ldrich fr cannou cannon mr ir pen rose mr air quay mr air plait platt mr aker and miny other men said the president I 1 do not hesitate to sa that it Ini involves olves the most audacious ef frontera fron tery on his pirt to attack me be cause men be he cliar as bosses aro are now supporting me lie this Is lecul lady unfair on his part in view of his well known political history an Is an 1 other Ing instance tance of ha from the rule of 1 I square dell fair falie statement statements in lorimer cibit to people of illinois T third in oils connection connett ton president I 1 laft t said mr air had tunde made it appear that a vote cast for in tit illi 1111 I 1 would be a vote for lorimer Lor lnier I 1 iosi have not seen mr air lorimer for two and ht hue e had no communication will 10 or fruin from him he be s ild 1 I did not ask ills his support lie ile did ila not tender it to me any influence he may have given in my favor was uns not because he lie liked me but because b h felt more bit ter toward mr air the prest dent then quoted in full nil a letter he had lind himself written to mr roosevelt on jan 0 6 1011 1911 in which he outlined the step steps be he was taking to have lorimer unseated in the and stating that nn tors hoot lart ll burton rt X alton aron and oth is rs r s bid beeme interested at his hi sug mug lie ile pointed out to mr vilt how they could best work er on the cise vise 1 I make this letter public only to show shor that of oil all the pc plo in the world theodore roosevelt ought to have knon and did know that I 1 wai not a paral partisan tan of lorimer did not chize with ith him and never nover gave mr air roosevelt or any one else t ts i 0 reason to o I 1 had my mind I 1 submit to the people of alint with his intimate knowledge of the facts mr Roo sevelVa linking of my name with Lorina mers ere for the purpose of inducing the peo pid pie of illinois to vote against me on account lf U their fec llo against sens tor lorimer waa was lot giving me A ciare deal change of front on an reciprocity fourth mr noo roosevelt sevelt 1 eald said the dent now seeks to take adian taffe tage of olf the supposed feeling among on the farmer farmers of the country against the reciprocity asree jaent with canada which I 1 made and induced couer A to adopt but which alch canada finally rejected I 1 would not object to t its AS a legitimate argument IQ in a po ideal con troverse tro versy against me end lu la hia his aglor if the fact were nere not that I 1 consulted con him ten da ii before I 1 made the agree ment stated tb the pro and con especially the effect of it on agri cultural cult nril uril product products and ii asked keall him to confer w ith his hn on the out look fool as to its wt wisdom alom and public and let me nip know his anti their judg tient lie replied approving the agree ment rient in the most enthusiastic terms and anti complimenting v re ve e for having brought it forward the president then made public a let ter of hia his own to sir roosevelt dated jan 11 1011 1911 and a reply from air roosevlt noo diat the following day in nil letter tho the president declared he alried the payne tariff bill not only because it was a better law than the dingley law but because it was as a concession by the republican party thit down ward revision waa was necessary feces tary and bo tie cause tle old doctrine that what nhat wao was needed was a chinese wall had been departed from admitting that while it might tern tem por pora arlly rily have a tendency to reduce the cost of food products the president said be he believed it would in the end tend to a stability of food prices toe tae said also we shall ret get a revl ion klon not as heavy a ono one na as I 1 would like hut but a substantial one and bequir alent s to the french reci proc ity treaty between canada and france and probably more on manu fractures fac tures lie ile alan pointed out that canada 1 anthe bulu business ess after the adopt adoption lon of the treaty would then be conducted through the states to this letter mr roosevelt ovelt replied it seems to me that what you to do with canada la Is admirable from every standpoint I 1 firmly believe in tree free trade with y ith canada for both economic and political reason i ae As you may ay labor coit cost la 19 substantially the lame same in the two countries iries so that are amply justified by the platform Ite publican 1308 18 wh ther canada will accept euch such reciprocity I 1 do not know but it Is greatly to your vo ur credit to mace the effort it may damage the Ite publIcan party for awhile but it will surely benefit tho party in the end nd espeLi especially ally if you tackle wool tottan etc is you propone ever yours THEOD I 1 I 1 tint thit mr air courso course on 14 not in accord with the it lucri lull it tit 4 ild the president charais of fraud fifth coni Conn ming the charge that lie bad had rec ehid stolen goods the breid u dent lent the chairge 1 of mr air Roo and clator dixon insult ing 1 unit hist erkal I 1 lie ile pointed out that the ch argi i ith raft rt flronce armce to ken rea h ul 10 bien boell sh iw TI tf to tie I 1 untrue in the ia Ii tupU conff it ditlif lIf here the chauvi 4 ien that it lu new neu lorl tin had hatt i to the courts but 01 not dot take it und and that in lit th the charge 0 fraud WT wi anade I 1 before tn IN polls wf e op nd the truth Is Is the president that it tins has been perfectly evident from front the first that the dellai deliberate plan of senator dixon has been to claim everything eiery thing exultingly and with mith tho ut moat most confidence and to meet the reports ports t of the lection of adverse dele gate 4 by directing direct lne in advance the bringing bri neing of trumped up contests it 14 hardly tie necessary essary to way say that this la Is not in accordance with the square deal the unfounded charge as to the ue use of patronage Patro nag I 1 sixth 1 do not deny said the pree pres ident blent that under the present system of appointments federal will be interested in politics and take part therein and anti will support those to whose whoso appointment they attribute their preferment under present conditions hoi however Never and under the policy which h 1 14 been pursued in this tra flon there are tire in domce today at ae least abt T so 70 per f ent of those who were in office a by appointment under theodore Tb eodore it 01 lt lu ILA view of bis his candidacy it la it mitural that a great number numb r of these officeholders should favor him rather than me and su an b h Is the fact and clr atoo bevel cannot bo be igho ont ant of it lu in spite 0 of tin the vry ernt activity of a number of such otil cers against ne me not a nian of them has been removed the president prisident then i cited the f act ct that federal refe referees in tit control of patron use age in Alabu alabama twi louisiana and Ts T s besides esau governors goe goer nors of states supporting mr air all had hat of tice holdt ra opposing the lent in to view of u ills 1114 extreme fairness in the 1 matter tle president bald said the influx ence of federal in the calcino will be toss ess effect tire for any one candidate than ever before in the history of the paty the president pre adent then inquired if tits treatment on this lesue issue by mr air roose velt vas pas a sample cf of the square dea roosevelt and cannon seventh president taft eald said yr atoo had charged that 1 I desert 1 I the progressive progress iv and became a re IN told how with the approval of sir ilo he lie hod nit had a meeting with joseph G cannon tho the then speake r of thi house houtie with a view to bringing about abut it revision of the tariff this oc burred before a his own inauguration pd pad after he be had ascertained that mr alf cannon uld not be defeated for speaker in the house at that roce tint mr air cannon promised to help mr sir taft redeem the premises of the republican platform subsequently mr air taft interviewed tho republican mem bers of the house committee comm ltee on ways ad means to the same end mr air roosevelt also as a proved of ahn step re ite viewing the passage of the payne law the president then eald said alas mr roosevelt ever condemn ed the payne bill does he tie say ay he h would not have signed it if it it inc a presented to him under the conditions that I 1 bad had to meet lie ile haa has never raid vald that as fur far us I 1 know aad oad the isea aorl ork platform of UK adopted by convention ut of which be wae vas a 41 1 I part indorsed the payne bill and approved iti 1 the president inquired d it thia this aa nas a square deal lie he thin reviewed some ot of th the progressive asive at a of bid his aud and elt nelt over the ants 4 to the interstate hiter otate tom merce a in detail pointing out in bealh instance hit el every e ry 8 single ingle objection mr fr roosevilt now doi made to that law he has cilc it l re ret 1141 including the cointot ree ourt court reaud ates ate hr his own trust record linth stating that tie he bad takui fr rlue inert rt pleasure aure sure in III upholding prud dent it R cosevelt s proRe prosecution cution of illegal trusts trust the president arild now I 1 find mr roo roosevelt comlat the other ltv denouncing th tho law lan and le ie nou nonbeing being under it lie ile says that the decree in the Stan standard dant oil case la Is ineffective that the price of stock has gone up and that mv ad minis raton 1 Is to be condemned because the decree was confirmed confirm cd by the me court the truth N 1 that the decree ai u frailly entered and enforced waa was taran drawn q exactly as mr air ron roo tei welt elt it e attorney attorn ev general in the bill which by direction of mr air roosevelt he bled tiled against the standard oil com company piny had naked that it be drav drawn n the pre president ildene then n decIn declared red that both the decision rhe f standard oil tobacco trust had been ve re than mr air hoo evelt would r c at aid d that corn com condition conditions bad been restored and anti better prices were now being paid than ever before to the tobacco growers and the producers of crude oil concerning mr air proposed plan to abolish the anti law and regulate the trusts be he eald said he had of ro constructive plan whatever except bior the preal den dew to pep ne the good I 1 rom the I 1 bid b id trust a process which off offered ercil no lin stability to busi business neRR and anti amounted to nothing in e end but the establishment of a I 1 benevol Je nevol nt despotism who represents Re prent the interests Inte reit in this contact contest tenth in reply to the charge that he the interests in this con test the president bald said the record tit it his administration afforded the beet best binm t r ills long record vt of prosecutions without fear or favor he said must mut chow to a fair minded public that tills this ida Int baa has no favorites among or abo those e peeling it privileges A menace monaco to the whole business ss community cleanth CleL nth one of the ruil reasons athy i hy mr air lt lexe xe it ought not to be selected a as 4 a candidate of aty ax party la Is the natural distrust the whole bu business sines community will hae bao in re respect hect to tin m which sir lir roosevelt will pro pose poe la in to fleet a it revolution in the Inter of social justice which aleh ha ho advocates so strongly and de firsts no so vaguely declared the president stating that mr roosevelt Roosevel ts a pronouncement with respect to the control of business nt at clr first t mit with faaoi anion anions certain business interests the preal pres dent lent said the program outlined by his columbus speech had so greatly alarmed busin business vas that it could only bontem plat the danger to the security of all business by his threatened und ermIn ing lug of our constitutional government and bid his attack upon the independence of the judiciary 1 I affirm that the nomination of mr air roosevelt would extend through the buil business ness community a feeling of such s trust as to the future as to interfere 11 nth ith the good times which if buil business nesi la let alone and present conditions continue will expand into the most en cou raging prosperity and this will bring happiness happ nesa to wage camera earners who are more injuriously affected bv dis turbin ince cp of business than any other member of the community president Pret ident on third term la in conclusion the prisident took up the third term issue quoting mr air Roo nevella announcement that he would under no circumstances be a candidate again the president sad if tie lie had hail frankly announced that he had changed his mind no one would be to hold him to a promise of that kort merely because he be had made it the promise e and his hi treatment of it only 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