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I THE SUXDAY OKCCSOMAX, PORTLAND, AIJKII- 25, 1912. il nniinn ABDUhU UNTRUTH ROOSEVELT'S REPLY Colonel Says President Has "Violated Every Canon of Common Decency." "CROOKED DEAL" CHARGED "Quality of Feebleness" Attributed to Opponent In Speech mt Vorcet. ter. Mm., That Bristles With Invective Throughout. WORCESTER. - Mam, April 27. Merciless - denunciation of President Tart was Colonel Roosevelt's reply last rlsht to the President's attack upon him yesterday. Some of Colonel Roose velt's assertions were: That President Taft had not given the. people of the. country a "square deaV but that owing to a "quality of feebleness" he had "yielded to the bosses and the great privileged Inter ests." That one rart of the President's at tack r.pon him was the "crookedest kind of a deal." and "deliberate mis representation." "Thtt the Presioent 'has not merely In thought, word and deed been disloyal to our past friendship, but has been dliloya: to every canon of ordinary de cency and fair dealing; such as should obtain even In dealing with a' man's bitterest opponents." Stsximst Called "Akamrd latrajta." That the President's statement re garding the influence of Federal office holders In the campaign was "not only an untruth but It is an absurd un truth." Thai President Taft convicted himself of Insincerity whn he signed the Payne- Aldrlch tariff bill. That in speaking of Colonel Roose velt's position In regard to the trust problem. President Taft is "himself guilty of a crooked deal." Colonel Roosevelt said in part: "In thia campaign I regard the Is sues st stake as altogether too Im portant to permit It to be turned Into one of personalities between President Taft and myself. Bui Mr. Taft's speeches yesterday contained state ments that I must answer. Ussuse Gives X Pala. "When, for Instance, he said that I have tndeavored to minimize the lm portanve of my Columbus speech he tmys what he must know to be untrue: tia cannot have read my. Carnegie Hail peen. my speech at t?t. Louis, my Philadelphia and Pittsburg and Louis ville speeches, without knowing that I have elaborated and emphasised what 1 said at Columbus. "Again when ilr. Taft speaks of me directly or obliquely as a neurotic, or s a demagogue, or in similar terms. I shall say nothing, except to point out that if he Is obliged to use such lan guage he had better preserve his own self respect by not protesting that it gives him pain to do so. No man re torts to epithets like these If it really tlves him pain to use them. "I have never alluded to him In terms even remotely resembling these. I have never quoted his private letters or pri vate communications. I have discussed txclusively Ms public actions. Even shere I was obliged to be severe. I vas always parliamentary and never lypocritical. "Nor do I intend today to deviate from this standard. although the I'resldent's speech makes it necessary tor me to speak more plainly on cer tain subjects thjtn I have yet spoken." -CrMkrd Deal," !s;s C'oloael. Colonel Roosevelt referred to Presi dent Taft's explanation of his state ment that "ours Is a Government of all the people by a representative part of the people." "For him to try." said Colonel Roose velt, "to escape the consequences of his statement by saying that he allud ed only to women and children is trifling with the Intelligence of the people. To speak of such action on his part as a 'square deal' is Itself the rrookedst kind of a deal. He is trying to dodge the consequences of his state ment by deliberate misrepresentation of that statement." Colonel Roosevelt denned the po litical boss as the man responsible for the alliance between crooked politics and crooked business which has been responsible for nine-tenths of the cor ruption of American political life. "If there is any such man among my supporters," he continued. "I don't know him. Mr. Taft says that Mr. Klynn. of Pittsburg, is a very bad boss. There Is an element of grim comedy In Mr. Taft weeping over the thought of Pennsylvania being put under the rule of a boss through Mr. Penrose's being ousted from control of the party organ isation." .apart at Beaaea AeeepteaV. The bosses. Colonel Roosevelt de clared, were on the President's side. "Mr. Taft says." he continued, "that in my various campaign I accepted the assistance of these bossee. bo I did when they cfiose to go my way and to support the. f'se rf the people. The trouble with Mr. Taft is that he gets their ass i s at the price of going their way and opposing the cause of the people. "Mr. Taft aid yesterday that never In thought ' or' deed "had he been dis loyal In his friendship for me- It Is . hard for me to answer such a state ment save by calling It the grossest and most astounding hypocrisy. When Mr. Taft made that statement he had Just sent to the United States Senate, on one-half hour's notice, obviously in collusion with the Lorlmer lemocratlc Senator, who made the re quest, papers which were Intended to convey the Impression that I had Im properly favored the Harvester trust by declining to prosecute It in 1907. DUIeraltr la Charge. "When Mr. Taft. obviously to influ ence the Massachusetts primary and obviously in collusion with one of Mr. Lorlmer a Senatorial supporters of the opposite political party, takes the ac '' tlon he did. he has not merely in thought, word and deed been disloyal to our past friendship, but has been disloyal to every canon of ordinary de cency with bitterest opponents. Such conduct represents the very crookedest kind of a crooked deal. "This Is not an exceptional Instance of how he has behaved to me. The same course was followed last Mummer In connection with the Tennessee Coal Iron Company. The assaulta upon me by Mr. Tufts campaign managers made in Washington, under Mr. Taft's very eyes, have been foul to the verge f indecency. But remember 1 am not complaining of these things. I care nothing for Mr. Taft's personal attitude toward me. I allude to It only In pass ing and merely because Mr. Taft lays (Uch emphasis on the matter." ruMtM Misplaced. He Jaya. The speaker . turned to reciprocity, ssvlnc: "Mr. Taft says that I changed front n the reclDrocltv measure. This Is untrue. He publishes a letter of mine, in answer to a letter of his marked confidential." Incidentally, one of the unpardonable sins on the part of any man calling himself a gentleman is to publish confidential correspondence without permission; as to this I care nothing, but I warn Mr. Taft In discus sing negotiations with a foreign power, it Is well not to publish such exposi tions as that In his letter about mak ing Canada only an adjunct of the United States. "In this letter I told him that I would support his reciprocity position. I did loyally support It In several different speeches. At first I took the agree ment on the faith of Mr. Taft's repre sentation. Later, when I came to look up the matter, however, I became con vinced that the reciprocity agreement aa passed by Mr. Taft was unwise and undesirable, because It improperly sac rificed the interests of our farmers and fishermen and because it carried Inde fensible action on paper. ActJoa Forced, Sara T. B. "Nevertheless, because I had stated that I would support the treaty. I said not one word against it until it was demanded. Even then I declined to speak on the subject until in several atates Mr. Taft's managers themselves. In what I can only characterize as un pardonable baseness, began to circulate the fact of my support of Mr. Taft's proposal as a reason why I should not be nbminated. "Mr. Taft says that the Influence of Federsl officeholders In the Chicago convention this year will be less effec tive for any one candidate than ever be fore in the history of the party. This Is not only an untruth, but it Is an ab surd untruth. Never in 30 years' close observation have 1 seen such scandal ous abuse of the patronage as this year. "Some of the abuse of patronage has been done directly by Mr. Taft him self, as In the case of the various North Carolina nominations. Moreover, does Mr. Taft think the people have forgot ten the letter his secretary sent out as to restoring to Insurgent Senators the patronage of which he had de prived them? Having all these facts in view. It Is simply astounding that Mr. Taft should venture the assertion that he has not used the Federal pa tronage to defraud politics. Advtce Twlated. Saya Colonel. "Mr. Taft states that I advised him to have a meeting with Cannon. I ad vised him to meet every one to try to get on with every one. But no less em phatically I advised him to follow my example, to consult freely with all the politicians and to try to get on with them, but where the politicians split off from the people, then to stand with the people and not with the politicians, and It la precisely this that he failed to do. "It Is a most curious thing that Mr. Taft ahoud actually criticise me for not having assailed him about the Payne tariff law. As a matter of fact. I have eagerly endeavored to praise Mr. Taft wherever I possibly could, and I have merely kept silent where I dis agreed. As he now Insists that I should break silence about the tariff law. I will say that I hold him culpably re sponsible for having led the people to believe that he favored a substantial downward revision and that he would work actively for it and for then hav ing tat supinely .by. and allowed hla new ' friends, under the leadership of Messrs. Aldrich and Cannon, to pro duce a bill which made him convict himself of Insincerity when he aigned it." Third-Term Charge Aaawered. Turning to President Taft's statement In regard to a - third term. Colonel Roosevelt declared that the danger lay only In more than two consecutive terms, which might afford opportunity for the executive to entrench himself in power. " . "Mr. Taft, without my permission." he continued, "has quoted entire letters from me written In answer to letters of bis which were marked- 'confi dential.' I shall so far avail myself of his example as to quote four lines of a letter from him to me which was not marked 'confidential.' It was written shortly after he became President. It runs: "l can never forget that the power I now exercise was voluntarily transferred from you to me, and that I am under obligation to you to see to It that your judgment In selecting me as your successor and bringing about the succession shall be vindicated, ac cording to the standards which you and I In conversations have always formu lated.' It Is a bad trait to bite the band that feeds you. . T. R. Says He Hoped for Taft. "No other man in this country was as much Interested as I was in having Mr. Taft succeed. No other man with my principles and convictions has sup ported him for so long a time and has so bitterly regretted being unable to support him for a longer time. I ea gerly sought every opportunity to stand by him and long after 1 refused to acknowledge the fact to myself and struggled to convince myself that he was fit and clutched at every oppor tunity to back him up. "Until less than a year ago I kept desperately hoping that Mr. Taft at least would show himself reasonably fit for the task before him or that. If be failed, someone else would rise to whom the people could turn. Reluc tantly I made up my mind that Mr. Taft could not do the task and I be came convinced that the people of the great West felt that I would be untrue to them if I refused to act - as their standard bearer. "I don't think Mr. Taft means 111; I think be means well. But he means well feebly, and during Ma Administra tion he has been under the Influence of men who are not well meaning, not feeble. It Is this quality of feebleness In a normally amiable man which pre eminently fits such a man for use in high office by the powers of evil." TAFT RENEWS HIS ATTACK OH TEDDY TRIBUTE DUE TO WARREN Memorial Services to Be Held for Titanic Victim. The Sunnyside Congregational Church Is planning a memorial service for to morrow morning at 11 o'clock la honor of Frank M. Warren, who recently lost his life on the ill-fated Titanic. Mr. Warren has been a loyal and de voted friend of this church ever since Its organization 20 years ago. and through bis wise counsels and gener ous support became one of the factors that made the Instltutlan what it la today. The handsome stone edifice at ths corner of East Taylor and East Thirty-second streets. In which the congre gation now worships, speaks of bis en couragement and generosity. The Sunnyside church desires to ac knowledge its debt to this noble man, who. with the other heroic passengers of the Titanic, helped .women and children to safety, while in demonstra tion of truest manhood and self-sacrifice they met the call of death. LI KIN TAXIS RESENTED Serious Disturbances Keult on Kusl Coast of Kwanluog. AMOY China. April 27. Reports were received today from Tungan,' on the east coast of Kwautung province, that serious disturbances have resulted fro or aa attempt to collect the likln. or transit taxes. All traffic In the neighborhood has I been suspended. President Says He Is Forced Against the Wall and Has to Fight. THIRD TERM "DANGEROUS" It Itoosevelt Is Needed for "Job' Now, Why Not Indefinitely? Sug gests Nation's Chief Executive In Speech at Newark. NEWARK. N. J.. April 27. President Taft "here last night renewed his at tack on Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. Carrying his "flghting" campaign Into New Jersey, the President spoke to several thousand persons here, declar ing It was with the utmost reluctance that he had decided to answer Mr. Roosevelt's criticisms. He did not re ply to Mr. Roosevelt's charges in de tail, but tried to make It plain that In his opinion Mr. Roosevelt knew' most of the charges to be groundless. "In ordinary circumstances It is not dignified for the President of the United States to enter into a personal controversy. But I am forced against the wall, with my back to it. and I am bound if I have any manhood to fight. ' Arruatloi Hurts President. The thing that sinks deepest In my heart." said the President. "Is the charge that I am an oligarch and don't believe In the ability of the people of the United States to govern them selves. "If there Is anything 1 have pride In it Is that I am an American cltlxen and part of the Government that has shown itself the finest and best and most beneficial In the world." Taking up the charge that he was not a progressive, Mr. Taft cried: 'I think that progresslvenesa Is deter mined by what is done and not by what la said." In reply to Mr. Roosevelt's accu sation that the President had gone into the White House a "progressive." but became a reactionary by association with ex-Speaker Cannon. ex-Senator Aldrlch and others, Mr. Taft explained It was at Mr. Roosevelt's suggestion that he had consulted these men. Daaarer of Third Term See. "Of all the men In the world who ad vocate practical work In politics The odore Roosevelt is a notable example. Read his works and see how he de tenus himself for his association with 'bosses' because he said they were the men who do things." In closing the President called at tention to what he called "the danger" of a third term. "Are the conditions so peculiar?" asked the President, "that he Is needed to do the Job. as he calls It? Then, why not a fourth term and a fifth?" FIGHT IN BAY STATE RED HOT Tort WJH Continue Campaign Until Tuesday's Primary. BY SUMNER CUKTISS. . WORCESTER. Mass., April 27. (Special.) Theodore Roosevelt hit the fire-bordered trail here last night.. President Taft will dash back to the state Monday and spend the -closrng hours of the campaign that grows hot ter every minute In almost continuous speech-making. . The two central figures in the su preme contest of Republican pre-con-vention period will be fighting each other practically face to face to the eve of the primary day. The result Tuesday will be vital. The whole coun try has Its eyes turned this way. ' President Taft regards the case in Massachusetts so critical that he must lead the last sortie In person. Were It not for engagements elsewhere that could not be broken, the President would have stayed In the state and put In four days Instead of two. He la coming back at the demand of his lieutenants here. Colonel Vitriolic In Reply. . Colonel Roosevelt tonight replied to speeches made by President Taft yes terday. He spoke in the same hall In Worcester in which the President ad dressed the great crowd Thursday afternoon. A vitriolic attack on Taft, an attack far more bitter than the one made upon him by the Nation's execu tive, either here or in Boston last night. Is what the Colonel's parti sans and others listened to. The parti sans liked it and cheered. Others aat In silence or manifested that emotion which will have Its outlet at the pri maries when the Issues have been weighed. Almost in his first formal paragraph, the Colonel paraphrased the shorter and uglier word and applied it to the President. It was In connection with the President's declaration that Colonel Roosevelt had tried to minimise his Columbus speech after he found. It had not taken hold aa expected. From this Colonel Roosevelt Jumped to the Lorlmer case and immediately Indicated a determination to Inject the Issue that cut eo much figure in Illi nois, where Lorlmer lives, into the con test In Maasachusetts. He took back nothing he had insinuated previously in the linking of the names of Taft and Lorlmer. but threw the President's de nial that he had supported or favored Lorlmer back Into his face. Larimer Disclaimer Rejected. Taft's repudiation yot Lorlmer, de clared Colonel Roosevelt, was condi tioned upon Lorlmer's failure to carry Illinois for Taft. He Ignored, or rather rejected. the President's disclaimer that Lorlmer's support was not of his solicitation and sought to make a striking point by asserting that Pres ident Taft never repudiated Lorlmer publicly until Illinois had repudiated both Lorlmer and Taft. Many elements enter Into the pres ent fight, the influence of which can not be gauged by the most expert among the veterans of Massachusetts campaigning. The "mill'' town peo ple are a puzzle to those skilled in po litical diagnosis. They constitute the uncertain spots with respect to Taft's candidacy. - In consequence the Important mill towns will be visited by President Taft Monday. In-visiting these towns the President in most Instances will have the distinct advantage of getting In hla blows after the Roosevelt spear has been thrust. was that of Emil Sanders, a 7-year- Iold boy, who was run over by a Mississippi-avenue car at Killlngsworth and Alblna avenues yesterday at 4:30 P. M. and suffered the loss of his left leg. His other leg was badly crushed ' and he also sustained a number of .. bruises. He was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital. There Is grave doubt that he will recover. The little fellow, at the time of the Accident, was crossing the street. He I was watching a boy on a pony behind him and failed to see the approaching car. He was struck by the steps and thrown under the wheels. At no time was he seen by the 'conductor, who stopped the car when he noted the ex cited movements of passersby. Tho boy lives at 1011 Michigan avenue. While learning to drive an automo bile he had Just bought, W. H. H. Mor gan, stock dealer, accompanied by S. C. Robinson, an Instructor, ran into John Helmboe, a carman, at Tenth and Washington streets, yesterday, causing him to suffer the fracture of his leg and of three ribs. It is thought he will re cover. He was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital. The men In the automobile, were taken to the police station oy Patrolman Ellis, but they were not de tained. Peter Freburg. living at 839 Kast Sixth street North, was struck at Elev enth and Alder streets by an automobile driven by a woman and was rendered unconscious, but not seriously hurt. The - .1 V.f. n h. knanUnl I woman cucjru i . . -" " " f -- but did not give her name. I RATE CONFERENCE OFF EFFORT TO END TWENTY-YEAR WAR FAILS. Railroads Refuse Proposal of Ship pers and Sfatters Stand as Be fore Negotiations Began. SPOKANE, April 27. At a conference held by M. M. Stephens, attorney for the Spokane shlp'pers. Percy Powell, con ference chairman: J. O. Wood worth. representing the carriers, and R. B. I Miller, of Portland, representing tho Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, representatives of the carriers flatly refused tonight to accept an amendment made by the shippers to the proposal of the carriers for a settlement of the rate war, which bas extended over 20 years. The entire matter is now Just where It started before negotiations were be gun several weeks ago. CARS RUN OVER THREE Automobiles Injure Man and Boy and Streetcar Strike Lad. There were three accidents on Tort land streets Friday involving more or leas serious Injuries to three per sons. Ths most serious of these csua WOMEN NOT TO BE JURORS California Attorney-General Holds Law Grants Only Voting Power. SACRAMENTO. CaL, April 27. The women of California have no right to serve on trial Juries, according to an opinion which Attorney-General Webb gave to District Attorney Wachhorst today. The Attorney-General holds that the amendment' to 'the state constitution granting the eelctive franchise to wo men dealt with their political rights and duties alone. The ruling was given In answer to a request from the Board of Supervisors who wanted to place women on the panel of trial Jurors re cently drawn. DR. D. K. PEARSONS DEAD Chicago Philanthropist Snxumbs at Sanitarium. CHICAGO, April 27. Dr. D. K. Pear sons the aged philanthropist, died In a sanitarium at Hinsdale early this morning. Blast Lacerates Lad's Hand. -RAYMOND, Wash.. .April 27. (Spe cial.) Touching a lighted match to a dynamite cap which he held in his hand, the 11-year-old son of J. H. Crosby, a mlllworker residing in River dale, was terribly Injured by the ex plosion that followed which tore three fingers from one hand and badly lacer ated the other. The lad, with a com panion about the same age, discovered a number of dynamite caps, which are presumed to have been left by a care less contractor who had been grading a street in that vicinity. The boys amused themselves by exploding them in a fire until young Crosby conceived the idea of touching one off in his hand. - A Misunderstanding. Judge. First Boarder Will you pass the cheese? Second Boarder How fast is It trav eling? A Paradox. Judge. 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