ROOSEVELT AND TAFT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 73, 26 March 1912, Page 7

ROOSEVELT AND TAFT

UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY BITTER ATTACK BY EX-PRESIDENT MR, TAFT, HE SAYS, STANDS FOR THE BOSSES. By Telegraph.— Pre*i Association.— Copyright. (Received March 26, 8 a.m.) NEW YORK. 25th March. Mr. Roosevelt, speaking at Portland, bitterly attacked President Taft. who, he said, was not only unprogreesive, but reactionary. "The President," remarked Mr. Roosevelt, "s|tands for bosses and money power, not for the people." Mr. Roosevelt is receiving many letters threatening hi« life. The police are specially guarding him. MR. TAFT AGGRESSIVE. The President (slated the Washington correspondent of The Tittles on the 13th of last month) has freed himself of the reproach that his political speeches lack fire and aggressiveness. Iv his address last night at the Lincoln dinner of the Republican Club in New York, he spared neither the Democrats nor his Republican opponents. The Insurgents, he said, were political emotionalists or neurotics— extremists who, by their proposals to allow the Judiciary to be dismissed, or its idecisions revoked by popular vote, and by the other unconstitutional reforms which they advocate, threaten to bring the country into conditions that can only be paralleled in the French Revolution or in the bubbling anarchy that once characterised the South American States. The Democrate, the President continued, by their unpatriotic military and naval policy, and by their general disability to favour a unanimous or constructive programme, are once 'more showing their inability to do anything except the wrong thing at the right time (for their opponents). The White House Republicans are overjoyed at the Bpeech, which they consider to strike the keynote of the President's campaign. In regard to the Republican platform the President made it clear that he is ready to fight his fight upon fundamental progreissiveness and orthodox Republicanism, and that, if he ia Tenominated by the Republican Party, he will stand for government by the Constitution ; for low protective duties scientifically prepared; and for a general policy of careful progress.