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Show TAFT BREAKS HIS SILENCE AND HAND-LES HAND-LES ROOSEVELT WITHOUT GLOVES X Convicts Roosevelt of Having Misrepresented Him And Qnrblcd His Utterances. Sees Only Disaster in Third Term And Intimates Roosevelt Aims to Become Permanent Perm-anent Dictator. At Boston Thursday evening President Presi-dent Toft donned his fighting clothes abandoned his policy of. silence under the attacks that Colonel Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt has nuulo upon him and upon his administration, and for tho first time slnco Mr. Roosevelt's an nounccd candidacy, launched Into a bitter denunciation of tho former President. Mr. Taffs speech bristled with countercharges coun-tercharges against his predecessor In the, whlto house. Ho declared tha.t Mr. Roosevelt had wilfully mlsreprc; sented him, had rnlsely distorted some of his political utterances, had failed tollvo up to his. policy of a square deal and had violated a solomn promise prom-ise to tho .American people not to bo a, candidate for a third term. Seeking Life Tenure. "That promlso' and his treatment of it," said Mr. Taft, "only throws nn informing light . on tho value that ought to be attached to any promlso of this kind he may make for tho future." fu-ture." Declaring that Mr. Roosevelt "ought not to bo selected as a candldato of any party," Mr. Taft said the i former President might now be paving tho way, if successful in the present campaign, cam-paign, to remain the chief executive of tho nation for as many( terms as his natural life would permit. "If he Is necessary now to the government, gov-ernment, why not later?" naked the President and continued: , I "One who so lightly .regards con-J con-J stkutlonnl principles and especially the Independence of the Judiciary, ona who is so nnturallyjmpatlent of legal restraints and of due prpceduro and who has so misunderstood what liberty lib-erty regulated by law Is, could not safely, be Intrusted with successive piesldentlal terms. I say this sorrow-fully, sorrow-fully, but I say It with the full conviction con-viction of its truth." Performs PalnfuJ Duty. Tho President aald. that his sneooh tonight was one of the most pMnlul duties, of his lit'?, that It was in response re-sponse to an obligation ho owed tho Republican party, which selected him as Its candidate, find to the Ameil tan leoplo who elected him President. Presi-dent. "It grows," ho snid, "out of a yt&io of national politics and natlonnl life taut 1 believe to no unprecedented In our history. So unusual Is the cx'g-ency cx'g-ency that the ordinary rules ol propriety pro-priety that limit and restrict a Pros ideut In his public addresses must ho laid asldo and the (old, naked truth must bo Btated In such a way that It will serve as a warning to the people of the United States." Mr. Taft said that Colonel Roosevelt's Roose-velt's Columbus speech, accepted as his platform, "sent a thrill of alarm through all the members of tho COm-l... COm-l... - munlty." "Mr. Roosevelt," ho said, "then .found, that If the nomination were to come to htm he must minimize- tho Importance of this charter ot Democracy, and must find some other issue upon which to stand. "Without giving up the principles announced in his Columbus address, the President snld Mr. Roosevelt relegated rele-gated them to nn Incidental place and changed his campaign to one ot crllt-cWm crllt-cWm of Taft and the Tnft administration. administra-tion. Refutes All Charges. One by one the President toolt up tho eleven charges mado ngalnst him by Colonel Roosevelt and refuted them. In two Instances he quoted Irom correspondence botween himself And Colonel Roosevelt and Bald he was prepared to make other letters public If Mr. Roosevelt should desire. Refused Third Term. I resident Taft quoted Colonel Poos-ovelt's Poos-ovelt's refusal of a nomination for n third term, announced in November, 1904. At thnt time the colonel said:' "The wise custom, which 'limits the Provident to two terms, regards th. substance- and not tho form; and under un-der nu circumstances will I be n candidate can-didate for or accept another nomlna Hon." Turns Right About Faee. "He (Itoosevelt) now says, al though his lauguugo does not benr such a construction, that ,he 'meant he would not accept n nomination lor a consocutlve third ternd said the President. "He says so lnfacc oi the fact that the most noteworthy precedent pre-cedent in which the tradition was asserted as-serted and maintained was that of 1SS0, when General Grant was demeu n third ternWour years after he hud left the presidential office." Favored Canadian Reciprocity In 91 Mr. Taft quoted a letter from Colonel Col-onel Roosevelt dated January 12. 1911, In which he said: "Dear Mr. President: It seems to mo that what you propose to do with Canada Is admirable from every stand point. I firmly believe. In reciprocal (rude vith Canada for both economic avl political reasons. As you say, labor la-bor cost Is substantially tho samo In Continued on Page 4. Taft Breaks His Silence; Handles Hand-les Rooseveltjfithout Gloves (Continued rrom page one) tho l'o countries, bo that you are amply Justified by the platform. Whether Canada will accept Buch reciprocity,' rec-iprocity,' I da not know, but It Is greatly great-ly to your; credit to make tho effort. It may damage tho Republican party fo a while, but it will surely benefit the party in the end atjr, especially if you tackle wool, cotton, etc., as yoji propose. Ever yours, "THEODORE, ROOSEVELT." Rca"n(s' His 'Approval 'n interest of Votes. , ThePresldent added: "Now In the exigency 6f his contest con-test tor tho nomination, and with tne purpose ot accentuating the supremo feeling ot the farmers agalnBt me has recants his approval of the agreement oil' tbe ground that it would mot have been a square deal for the farmers, a circumstance which, he intimates, escaped h,lm when h In a desire to support my administration had pp-proved pp-proved the agreement.- I submit that Air. Roosevelt's course on rectprocltj Is not in accord with the square dal.' In answer to tho Roosevelt chargo that "Mr. Taft was in favor of nn llgarchy of bosses," Mr. Taft said: "That is not true. As with Mr. Roosevelt Roos-evelt whjle runninf for tho presidency I accept all support Uiat comes to me.' In answer to tho chargo that "The patronago ot the government Is being used to securo Mr. Taft's renomlna-tlon," renomlna-tlon," Mr. Taft said, "Seventy per cent ot Ihe officeholders were appointed by Mr. Roosevelt and favor-him." |