- — What Roosevelt Was in 1908 BY WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT From Presidency,” by William H. Taft Col ¥, June 3 1808 It to prove how the people wil respond 4 when thelr hour has come for grest ef es which } isugurated be ped : w £ 4 t # ' i © i hat reas sv well disregard any a gine i Le i ke an entirely ew jJroge fall » sll privilege, and he stands preem nently the broad principles of American citizenship which lie at the foun dation of our National Well-leing —THEGDORE ROOSEVELT What Taft Was in 1908 BY THEODORE ROOBREVELT (White House, Washington, June 18, 1008 sted upon the { {eel that the country is indeed lo be congratu « » + 1 do not believe there could be ted to be President. * * * HS / Sf In 1912 Taft Says: ROOSEVELT 18 NOT SAFE At Boston on April 25, 1812, President Taft broke his st extended attack, As es and published ¢ ey 1 he frie 1 this campsig ave ad a not to be selected as 8 oan the former President might successful in the present campaign, to Te oe of the pation for as WARY TerWs BA his y pow to the povernis t, why not Ister? id continued Ove who so Hghtly regards natitulional ples, and especially the ix dependence of the judi impatient of legal restrainis snd of s so naturally wi has so id not safely be trusted with successive ne who understood what liberty Frocecure, & he law % otild terms TEDDY MISEEPRESENTS Boston dispatch dated April 20, 1012, and pu New York Times, April 30.) the right to misrepresant another to get himself } } 1s that man is’ the President shout lished in the matier how nr a his Lowell address 10 he said in conclusion, "but condemn we on other witnesses than Theodore Ro sevelt.’ ‘1 was » man of straw, { have been a man of siraw long every man who has blood in his body and who bas been ms enough represented as 1 have Deen, is forced to fig) AND IS FILLED WITH VANITY AND EGOTISM ( Boston Speech.) i will think he is the whole wnecement he makes you re isn't anybody else in this country ws LL I and + vanity and that epoeliem by giving him “In every ann show, and therefore 1 say you feed tha something that W ashington did not gel, A ferson did not gat, snd Jackson did not gel, and Grant could not get; you sre going ot Continued on Page 16, First Column In 1912 Roosevelt Says: TAFT FAVORS RULE BY SPE IAL CLASS Carnegie Hall speech by Rooses elt, March 21, 1012 It is that we have in this \ g a Ep p the people, who can not be react them and who ought to govern the classes of the people from the ¥ Pe pie TAFT 18 NOT A PROGRESSIVE Times on April 4.) the Progressives supported Mr Taft and he was vi « of special privilege as Mr Penrose 4 anger of New # is 3. Mr essives then and they do mot ut unlike the President, they nretend 10 be Progressives now know whe is a Progressive and who is not. Their judgment in the matter is good After three and a hall years’ association with and knowledge of the President, these and their fellows are now the President's chief supporiers TAFT HAS BEEN FAITHLESS From the New York Tribune of May 19). ts because Mr. Toft has beeen faithless to [ am sgainst Mr. 1 the cause of the American peopl 18 DISLOY AL TO DECENCY AND FAIR DEALING (Col. Roosevelt began his Massachusetts campaign with a speech at Worcester on April 06, 1912. An Associated Press dispatch, dated Worcester, April 26, and published in the New York Times on April 27, says in part:) sft) said that 1 have endeavored to Columbus speech, be says what he * * When for instance, he minimize the importance « must know to be untrue Myr Taft in any speech speaks of me, directly or as & neurotic or a demagogue, or in similar terms, I shall say nothing except to point oul that if he is obliged to use such lan- guage he had better preserve his own self-respect by Dot protesting that it gives him pain to do so No man resorts to epithels like these if it really gives him pain 12 Use them.’ “Cal. Roosevelt referred %o President Taft's explanation of bis wire is & government of all the people by & repre statement that sentative part of the peopi ‘Par him to try,’ said Col Roosevslt, ‘to escape the consequences {Continued on Page 16, Second Column)
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