Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1912 — HOW TAFT AND ROOSEVELT LOOK AT EACH OTHER. [ARTICLE]

HOW TAFT AND ROOSEVELT LOOK AT EACH OTHER.

President Taft’s View, ‘•Condemn if you will, but condemn me by other witnesses than Theodore Roosevelt.” ‘‘l was a man of straw, hut I have been a man of straw long enough; every man who has blood in his body and who has been misrepresented as I have been is forced to fight.” *My letter about Lorimer Was written a year before I knew the colonel's hat was in the ring. I say that Mr. Roosevelt had no right tc misrepresent me in that regard.” “As President-of the United States am I not entitled to as square a deal as the humblest citizen, and am I not to have my language construed in connection with the rest of my speech?”

Opinions of the Colonel. “If Mr. Taft’s policy of flabby indecision and of helpless aequiesoenee in the wrongdoing of the erooked boss and the crooked financier is permitted to continue there will really grow up class hatred ,in this country.’’ “He (Mr. Taft) has practically nothing in his campaign hack of him except the support he gets from Lorimer, Penrose, Cox, Guggenheim, Ga'linger and their like and from the great sinister special interests which stand behind these bosses.” “A year and a quarter ago Mr. Taft meant to l>e against Mr. Lorimer. The trouble with Mr. Taft is that he only meant well feebly. * So, far from opi>osing Mr. Lorimer, he ended by keeping absolutely quiet about him, and almost every Taft man in the Senate became a supporter of Mr. Lorimer.”