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Show REPLIES TO i I VuloIIUIhi i Roosevelt Gives Name J H of Taft Family Favor- J M N ing Third Term H Defiance, O., May 17. When'Colj tH onel Roosevelt learned of tho out, J H como of the Republican state convoy I dLI tlon in Washington Wednesday, as Tl result of which two sots of delcgr;fc H arc to bo sent to the national con. H vention he denounced tho action oj H tho Taft supporters as "scandalous. H At Paulding he said: .H "Tho most scandalous thing our op, H ponents havo recently tried and f alio H In is to steal from tho people o( H Washington tho delegates of tha( H state. Wherever we hold primarlcj H In that state wo beat them. Whorj H they wero strongest we beat them twq H to one. Where they were not sn B strong we beat them about eight tu H one. They bad no chance ot any kind. H and so they have endeavored to steal H what they could not earn, to try njj ' 1 threat to 'get what they could not ge;j H from tho people." '1 Large crowds met Colonol Roosevelt .H during tho day. At Lima, while ha 'IH was speaking, a man exclaimed: H "What about the third term?" IH Colonel Roosevolt whirled about and ll pointed his finger In the direction o5 lH tho questioner. Il "You can't ask me any question, you H foolish creature, that I can't answer," iH he said. "1 will answer you by quot- H ing the words of President Taft's fa- 1 He then read a letter written by Judge Alphonso T,ift, the president's jH father, to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Ar- ,1 ter noting Judge Taft's opinion in ref- H crencc to Grant's candidacy for a jH third term, that the only danger lay H In the use of federal patronage for the H purpose of procuring a third consecu- jH tivc term, ho said that Judgo Taft's H name headed the list ot members ot IH a Grant third term club H "Down among the list of members H conies the name of a bright young rep- IH representative of tho family, Chnrles IH P. Taft." he said. "The whole Taft H family was In that movement. I will H appeal from son to tho father and ask IH you to accept the sound common sense IH which the father spoko as to tho rl- IH dlculous folly of raising any talk about IH a third term when the terms are not IH consecutive, and the man out of power jH has no early means of influencing a H single offlco holder, a single privileged H representative of the privileged class." IH |