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Show HOLDS ROOSEVELT RESPONSIBLE President Taft Charges That His Predecessor Prevented Bringing Suit Against Harvester Combine. Haltimore. In the closing speech of a fourteen-hour campaign trip through Maryland, President Taft added a new chapter to the history of the harvester trust here Saturday. Speaking to an audience that filled the Lyric theatre, Mr. Taft declared that Colonel Roosevelt did prevent the prosecution of that "trust" after George W. Perkins, one of its directors direc-tors and now a Roosevelt supporter, had asked that the trust be not taken Into court; asserted that Charles J. Itonnparte, attorney general under .Mr. Roosevelt, was "mistaken when he said that he (Mr. Taft) was present pres-ent at a cabinet meeting which decided de-cided against prosecution." and said the diary of Herbert Knox Smith, then and now head of the bureau of corioraions, proved that at the time referred to he was on a trip around the world. |