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Show ; PRESIDENT WILLFIGHT Says He Has Been Hit Below Belt Asks for Square Deal Portsmouth, O., May 8. "I've been hit bolow the bolt, and I am here to fight," declared Presidont Taft In n speech here today. At Winchester, Seaman and Poble3 the presidont was speaking in Adams county, where Judge A. Z. Blair disfranchised dis-franchised for several yoars nearly 2,000 men for being concorned In vote buying and vote selling. A man on the Btatlon platform at Seaman shouted: "What's he talking to these people for? They're all disfranchised, anyhow." any-how." "I am said to represent tho Intor-csts, Intor-csts, under the influence of special privilege." said Mr. Taft at Peblos. "There is no administration in tho history of the government In which the prosecutions have been so uniform uni-form and havo been so prosecuted without fear and without regard to consequences. "The interstate commerce commission commis-sion reported against Dan Hanna of Cleveland that he was receiving rebates. re-bates. I put him before tho attorney general and tho district attorney and tho grand jury and they found an indictment in-dictment against him. And now ne Is ono of tho patriots that Is loudest In hie denunciation of me and strongest strong-est in support of Theodore Roosevelt "I fololwed the policies of Theodore Roosovoit anu prosccuieu an mr trusts and I wont a little further than that. I prosecuted the Steel trust" and also the Harvester true. Now I " you to give me a square deal." Criticises Roosevelt. Mr Taft started his speechmaking at Batavia, whero he kept up his criticism of Colonel Roosovoit: "Mr. Roosevelt says I am distrustful distrust-ful of the people,'" said the president. presi-dent. "I'm only distrustful of the people peo-ple as a court. Just as 1 would be distrustful dis-trustful of their building a bridge I would send bridge engineers and people peo-ple who knew somchting about bridges." Taking up Mr. Roosevelt's proposal of the recall, Mr. Taft said "lie Is In favor of Innovations and changes that would make the constitution consti-tution worth little more than the paper pa-per It is written on " |