VOL. TWHV« »>'MlOJ To-day. abonera.»uAAll. . . . ..^ . '»,./«'~l. To-morrow, probably fair and cooler. NEW-YORK. SATURDAY. APRIL 27. 1912.-SIXTEEN PAGES. T»I>tá'«l^ nvr í'fYT In City of Xew York. Jergey City sad BelI KlLh. 0>L» i.Jta^ll tXftiWHUU. TWO CENTS.

TITANIC'S ROCKEfSSEEN, BUT ÚSELE.

Californian's Wireless Man T(Senate Committee Ship'sOfficer Said Morse Sig¬

nals Were Ignored.

NOT LINER'S, SAYS CAPTA

Inquiry in Washington Dra

Greatly, Despite Efforts tc

Expedite It by SeparateExaminations of

Witnesses.'.:i->tn The Tribune »Bereau.1

Washington, April M..The Sen

«ub-'-ommittec which is investigartin Tltanl» disaster, sat fur six hoi

tn-rla>. ni«">st of which time was wast

Despite th» pressure which has been i

upon the chairman. William Air

Smith, t«» Induce him l" >xpo«lite i

hearings, the) «iras?«'«! miserably, S«

«tor smith being supported during i

h-iig morning session by the près»onlj ««ne other member of the aub-coi

.it".. Senator »Fletcher, of r'loriDmi:ifr the afternoon »several other ro<

i. rg of thi sub-committee came In.The greater part «.f the morning m

aiou ".»s devoted to »taking P. \.

.Franklin over »ground he covered wh

h<- vas "" ih< stand b«-fore, the appcf>nt efforl ««f the chairman »being t«> s

cure from this ofl.c*r an admission th

he vas dereli-rt In his duty i<» the pubbecause he dM not give official confirmnnp t«, report' of the slnklof the TH inlc which reached himihr .ri Ing after the disant»

Fails to Trap Franklin.

Mr franklin insist«-.1 Id-day. as

rii«i before, that h« had devoted eve

sitare to souring authentic inform

Hon. and that he «li«l noi feel warrant»m announcing th- - hip's lu« untilhad »received definite Information, whl<i-eai''!»-! him from th« capta n of U

»Olympic about f o'clock that evenln

river ""l over sgatii the chairman ol

rlo-uab thought he had trapped M

Frark'i" oiilj lo have II pointed u

that til-- hitter's statements v.»

j-'crfer« gecord with th-ose which h» mai

on the «tat'd last llondajThe chairman »lien put <»n the gtai

.Smest Olli, who deecrlbed himself*e«'ond donkey en»glnemsn on the Cal

fornian. The chairman read to 13111 U

«ffldaM» mad« b« him ami asked If

«as true In f\er\ »particular, «'ill ail

N whs Gill alleges thai the dlstrrocki-t«. ,,f Hi« Titanic were plainljby the officer« of th« Californien, ¡luhü hlenself -;>.* th« Tltanl.i thai t;

'üptai'i '.» th« Callfornign wag inform«three times that «rock» ts wore being fiream) refused to star» hi« ship, * hose .

gi|.ei t\ere l«il- QUI, who made fgfmm a «favorable impression, waa n<

examine»! at any length, but a questtewhich »Senator Burton dire« ted to th

eperator on thi Callfornlan this sfteinoon brought out the f«a< I that GUI ha

toM the operat'.r he hsd eipeeted to i«

,Pi-e ,t.MS"> fop h's story

r.aiptiiin's Story Impressive

¦Stanley Lord captain "f the Callf«->rniaii. told «>n th« witness -»anddirect and straightforward story, whlclwon the respect and confidence of th

nautical men present, He said he liaiseen rockets, but that they wer" fir«-i

by a mysterious stranger which «rag 11plain sight of the Callfornlan for a «on

siderable «.»art of the night,*thai 'In¬nere not distress rocketa and thai hi:ship was between nineteen and one-naland nineteen ami three-quartera mil-««from the point where the Titanic sankHe said that bla wir»les- operatoi

went off duty about 11:1 ~» p. m.. anr

that had he had a wireless operator <>i

duty when the Titanic sent (>»it her- "i

Q D" call he would certainly haviheard it and the Callfornlan could haviiea«hed the scene of the disaster withiitwo and a half hours. The Titanic'.«lirst signals l««r aid were sent out alK»:L'.-,

II« learned as soon as the Wlrel«88|operator went on duty, about ó o'clockMond.«\ morning, that the Titanic ha»lsunk and immediately steamed to th«fcctne. arriving there as the <"arpathiawas pickinsr u|> the last boat. Ilcsteamed around th« sj,ot in circles forabout two hours, hut saw no floatingbodies.He denied that his cmploj eis, tin- Ley-

land company, h subsidiary company ofthe International Mercantile MarineCompany, had placed any obstacles inthe way of big coining to Washingtonto »testify, Senator Smith having putinto tin- record a report to the contraryearlier in the day. Captain Lord was

finally excused and left immediately forXîoston, whence he is to sail to-morrow.

Operator Tells of Messages.Cjrril F. Kvans, wireless operator <»n

the Californian, being «worn, gave some

information regarding his communica¬tions with th«- Titania. He said heheard the Titanic sending private mea¬

t-ages to Cape Rac* so late asthe night of the disaster; that he had"*nt to the Titanic «ailier that eveninga message advising that ship that th«-Californian was surrounded by he andthat it had stopped for the night.Evars told of having been awakened

*l«out fi o'clock Monday morning by thefourth officer, who «aid to him: "There'sa ship been firing rockets in the night.Mease see if there is anything the mat¬ter." Kvans said he went immediately tohia instrument and «ailed for informa¬ron. He was told by the Frankfurt, andImmediately thereafter by the Virginian,'hat the Titanic t»ad sunk. He secured'he position of the Titanic and, whenthis aas reported to Captain Lord, theCallfornlan started immediately T»,r the«K*ne.

Kvans told of the gossip on the Cali¬fornian regarding the rockets seen inthe night, and said the fourth officer toldhlrn he had used the. Morse signals in an.ffort to get in communication with the

Ceatlauad m fourth page, flrat roluma.

ÏAffOECLARES heIS FORCED IO FIGH

President Deprecates That 0Holding His High Office Shouli

Be Placed in Such aPosition.

STIRS BIG NEWARK AUDIENC

Roosevelt s Charge That Hean Oligarch Draws Heated Response.Cheered When He

Asks if Misrepresenta¬tion Is a Square Deal.

President Tafl renewed his attackTh«sodote Roosevelt lust night. speakithis time to an audience of nearly sevthousand persona in the 1st RegimeArmor* In Newark.And every minute li«^ was encoueag

t«. go ««n and "sunk it to him."This \\ ¿is especial!} true when I

rit ildenl told win ii«- was repl) lugth«- bitter attacks of Mr, Roosevelt

"l could stand the charge« against r

of all sorts," he said, "charges that

net conve) anj honor t«> me. becauaath,' Presidency 1 have learned t«« bear-j*.«.. deal. A tender skin has becomethickened hide bj th« experience. Ifconsulted mj own wishes I wouldsilent under his personal attack« ai

trust to th«' future t«» wort ««'it ni> vidicatlon,"Bul i i present a cause. I am a It

publican, and r« presenl the Ropulican party and the principle ««f llbertregulated bj law und opposition to ai

principle thai destroys the Judiciary.'annul afford t<> lel that cause suffer 1imi having tho charges agalnal ine n

luted bj th« facts.must answer the charge« of The«

dor« Roosei It. it Ih no! pleaaanl an

it is im ,-i dignified position for tlPresiden! of the United St«t<?. Bui<ii«i not seek It. I urn forced against tl

wall, with m' latch lo It, und >f 1 ha-,

nn> manh.I l am forc«?d t« fight.*'Here the audi« nc< brok« Into tremei

Inns heering, lîo i"i lilm!" ih«'

¦ri."I. "Soak n lo ii m " «;¦« at him!Vnd Presld« n< Taf4 laimediatel

"soaked H lu him' »ui ihe Question <

U8l of 11" i" "i'i'. Prom then o

he attacked Roosevelt's sophistical i*a

Boning and aimed \ i- luUS Mows ;,

i;,,,,... « elt's personal trails.i. t us on i'i'T the \ lolation of tl»n

tradition thai limits an.i man to twterms in Ihe Presidency." he said The

pit and th« ;>>.. ernors wh-. then la a popula

call for him becaus« he It th« only macan «i" ''" Job An th« condition

so peculiar thai tl r« Is another Jothan to r«.'- the government? lf that »

ao, there .. revolution of th«-« aoclaon lltions of th« ountri and it eouldn'

h«- done I i'.'ir years not In one ternlmt in two or three

No Rn-.pf,,» fr,, Leoal Piocesse*.n ou brea dov n thia tradltion,

with »uch charming and Intenaper oi alit; Theodore Roosevelt woul«ha\< i" difficulty im creating th" «amnecessit) every four yeara For a maiv ho Is in ture so Impatient o

constitutional restric!.a and la«ks re

; ' f« du« I« gal pi "« eases, II la noi,, break dov, n this va hi..hie tradl

ti«i-« l.-¦ there such a n< cessity that ) «««

are Willing t,. run th« risk forbade bjWashington and Jefferson and .Ia«ks,,iii'.iii you nol gel along '.«-ith s.une «m«

else, and not require a man with such ;

ló' "i i. peel for constitutional prin¬cipleThe President a/as inadvertently In-

troduced !«v job u«-dg« a oui of the pre-lared order. Mr. Hedges was nearinfthe end of Ms speech and was explain«lug t«. th« Prealdent lhal "These (th«ludience) «'ere nol the minions oí y

corporation, ground down int«» the dualof oligarchy. These are the real thin.and they «re waiting for you."The words seemed th«- signal the audi¬

ence was waiting for. They got on thehf« t luiui then on tii«- chaira, and cheer«*and waved Hags and threw their hats itthe air, and demanded the Prealdent Mr

Tafl wanted Mr. Hedges to finish his

speech, but the audience would nol ba*«ii su. Then th<- chairman triad t<» mak.a sei Introduction, but the people woul«]not have him, either. Tiny demandedtli" Prealdent, and would n««t «-ease theircheers and calls f«>r him until he camet«» the front of the platform and sign«'<Jthat h«« wh« ready t«i talk.

Taft Denies Ho Is an Oligarch.ll<> referred hriefly to many of Mr.

Roosevelt's charge«, Including his al¬leged friendship for Senator I>irlm«r. olIllinois, and f<-r the bosses In otherstat« s, and denied heatedly that he was

an oligarch, as Colonel Roosevelt hadcharged."The thing that sink« deepest into my

heart." said Mr. Taft, "is the charge thatI am an oligarch and do not helieve inthe ability of the American people togovern themselves. If there is anythingof which I am proud it Is that I am an

American citizen and a part of theAmerican government, that has shownitself the finest and the best and themost heneil« lal in the world."Taking up tho charge that he was not

a progressive, the President «aid he didnot think a progressive could be Judgedby his looks or his appreciation ofpoetry.When the President said he bellevel

that "proKressiveness Is determined hywhat is done and not by what is «aid"the audience interrupt«^ him by pro¬longed cheering.He cited numerous Instances in which

ho said his \ ords and meaning had beendistorted hy Colonel Roosevelt, eachtime winding up hia argument by inquir¬ing, "Is that a square deal?" and neverfailed to evoko a. storm of cheers.

Says Roosevelt Advised It.

Referring to Mr. Roosevelt's statementthat h«- had gone into tho Whit« Housea progressive and had since becorn« a

rcaitionary through his asstaiatlons

1 .intlBii«-«! <io iMM'oad i»a«r, »Ulli column

A YEAR AGO.

"Ever yours, Theodore."

Uncle SamHas His OwnLittle Moonshine Srill

li is run m the 1 reasuryBuilding at Washington andthe obieot is 10 krep 'begovernment experts up to dale,that thev may combat thetricks of certain wary, un¬

scrupulous disftllcis An in

leresting article on various

Forms «of rnoonshining \mIIAppear in livm,vr"V'. -

Sunday Tribune

JUSTIFIES TITAMC'S SPEEDCornell Profesor Says Course of

Officers Was Not Unwisel«ha, g V Y April 'J'«. »Prof«

OorRe R. McDerraott, professor of n ival'architecture at Cornell Fnlvei Ity, > t«

«rrltten t.. . 'hairingn Si Ith of tinata gub i ommlttee which Is Inv»th« Titanic disaster, declaring that Ifan] mistake «or «bad ludgmem .>¦ it ihownupon tho pai i "i* th.' ¦ oh«servation ol the Iceberg II «a- thaiheini was swung to port, instead of driv¬ing the veaaal h»sad on lo the i"»« \

.jquare blow on the how would hav<cauaed far leaa »aatnage, ho d«¦¦; »t.'i.

than a glancing blow.Profeaaor Mi DermolI appai.

thought that th« Tltanl« ofllcerg had not

»been unwise in steaming at full si¦... Inthe |ce region, for he d«éelared II itlarga sinn I« ordinarily under i»« «ttei ron«

trol when »going ;»t speed limit than when

moving slowlyThe writer urged thai the commltl o

deal gently with the survivor« of thedisasti-r. He s.ud that in all hin "».an

travel of nearly thirty yeara he had s«' n

only on«» h«»at on which then- had notbeen hijiiio sort of lifeboat drill ut somo

tune during th« voyuK''

MONKEYS DO WELL IN COLDTailless Ones Thrive, Quaker City

Zoo Men Find.[By T«legraptj I« Th« Trtben«

Philadelphia, Ar»rll L'H..The annual re¬

port of the hoard of dire« torn of the Zo¬

ological Society »>f »Philadelphia, madepublic to-day, shows that ih«- experi¬ment tried this winter of »keeping flft««nmonkeys in an outsldo «ago was suc¬cessful, not a single monkey receiving aamuch as a cold. It was shown that onlythe tailless monkeys »an stand the «oldweather, as the others get their tailsfrost bitten.The report show««») that the bin h rata

was increasing. Among the hahy ani¬mals were one monkey, three plgtailedma<aqu»'S, four prairie wolves, two »grayfoxes, live raccoons, six praiiio doga,one red deer, one Am« rican «Ik, lourJapanese deer, seventeen garter sna'ti-s,seven «»»pperheads and Bve ground rat¬tlesnakes.

URGES DRINKERS^ LICENSESHeyburn Suggests Permits for

Those Frequenting Saloons.[Prom Til's Tribun« Hnreaii. |

Washington, April 26.- A novel methodof regulating drinking was suggestedby Renator Hey burn lo-day, when the<x«iso bill for tho District of Columbiawas under consideration in the S«-nato.He proposed that, Instead of licensingthe saloons, Congress should provide forissuing licenses to drinkers. This, hesaid, would do away with the treatinghabit, the worst feature «»f the drinkproblem.Too much attention, Senator Hej burn

insisted, was being directed i,, thesaloonkeepers and too little to the. menwho pHtr«»nlze the saloons. Ninety percent of the bartenders und managers ofshIixuis and distilleries do not drink atall, lie added. He suggested that tinslicense be Issued for a small fee andbe noti-transferabla jKor thai tired feeling In the Sjumg try

Angostura ¦ltte»"S. s famous Ionic. -A'b't.

BOV OF NINE OWNSTRYING 10 SAVE CHUM

Youngster, Aged Six. Falls OffPi.-, and Older Larl Slips

from Raft.

PATROLMAN RESCUES ONE

Then Divos in Vain Effort to

FhhI Ihr Bmall Hero In¡dent of Spring's Call

on E;ist Sulr.1 "ne Terertoiekj »«.is ,» nine >ear

old bo\, »bably did »not even.

kn«iu what I eord "herotam meantbran « i '¦ m him ame to

natantly, and a ith««ut a se.-.

',» 'i thought h« cllmtatd down g deck »pilet night il," Tsi'lor Tan j

k i ved, hut Barney va«»,

«It owned\« i, sar« old was pin

Ing with 'Abl< Feldman and Barney in"» th«- tenement h« the; live in

..,« So .'. i. idl ¦. Even In theiimrV: ril little h.>\ s. and

her void has the ripple of waterin it. th» plash of ¦» se In mlng i" ol, thetinkle of s i »i. m»

. »Let's go «I"" n t" the river," said Bar«ney, and In .» few minute« thej wer-

playing "follow my leader" on the Rut-gtreel docli Th« flee! »Barney was

th« h der and mad» straight for th.«« .-»ritisr pi«-« e on the Aral dare. Th»'othersfollowed, small i<¡<.« trailing In thorear. There was ;, splash and ,i S'-reairt,

(nul Isidur ici m the a »ter. The otherbo i 11 «i down at him mm he gtrug-gled.

"»;e» a "i. \i.¡.\- yelled «Barney, and

then, to Ii Id» "Or ih ihe i if! I'll set

you'¬ll« lambered doe »» th» plia »and

f.'.I one side "i th<- raft, as Isldorclutched the other «-n»i Barney »reachedover and »began ti> pull the timben tohim. Bui ih" raft tipped end nearlyturned over, and »Barney slid int<» thewater laidor, »loo, l»»st his dutch, andii.iih \\'i« »screaming in the river, as menhurried to th-' «.»It;»' of the dork, »mo

of them was Patrolman John Duggan,whom i.r. athhss Able had found inWater street The policeman strippedoff his co.if. threw his helmet away anddived, »grabbing laidor, and passed hmiup to waiting hands. Haiu«.v had ls-

appeared, »and although Duggan «lived«again and aaareh»ad th«- iiv»sr near thedock, lie never found »the little boy.

I»r. Mulfoiil curled ui> Isidor lu theblankets of a «Gouverneur Hospital am«bulanca, and took hlra t<» the Madisonstreet station. After an examination itwaa ghown he bad luffred no harm fromllie «lucking.

LINER GRAZES ICEBERGEmpress of Britain Narrowly

Escapes Titanic's Fate.Halifax. N. S.. April 26..A giant i.e-

berg similar to that which sank tho

Tltaiii»- threatened disaster to the Ca¬

nadian Pacific llnei Kmpress of Britain,with 1,460 passengers aboard, which ar¬

rived her«' to-day from Mverpool.l'iss'Uigcis s.iy that on Wednesday

last at 1») a. m. the vessel, while in lati¬

tud«' 4*5 north, longitude 47 west, was

¦waived just in time to avoid a serious

».ollisloii. Fortunately the ship was

steaming slowly at th«« time »>. <mUM of

a dense fog. Suddenly the lookout

.sighted ¦ »grant k<aberg ahead, He rang

for full speed astern, and the englimsWerg revers« <1 I »espite this the v«»sselstru» k the berg a glancing blow, but was

not badly »lamaged.There were many passengers on deck,

und, all being familiar with the Titanic'sfate, many were panicky until assuredthat there was DO danger. The scene

v.iis only :'.'<»» milis from where the Ti¬tanic struck ami sank.The Biliipr.« of Britain s»raa bound

from l.lv.-rpool t«> Quebec, but becauseOf the pr« vahune of Kiilf 1» »' <J<>» k»'»I her«'iiislci.l of at «.Jin-o« «

aANTEDILUVIAN WHISKEY

for every occaalou--su«:lablllty, sickness or

emergency. turtles Krön, New York.A«l\t.

¦

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WAR ON CRIMINALS SPREAD!Louisiana Will Enact Law fo

Their Sterilization.I! T« | iptj IO Th« Trihun»

Me« <>rle.-ins. April "»'.. That femal««s urii ¡is male hahituai criminalshould i"- deprived of the power of r«

production was the sene« of a reaolutioiadopted tu-«ia' by tiie Louisiana stat«Medical As.iati««n. The assoclatioiurged the early passage of a law lo thlieffectThe law almost ..ertainl.'. will he en

acted when the Loultaans Leglslatun"¡'.r-ts next month, a numher «>f th«members of both houses airead» havinfpledged themselves to support a statut«slmllHr to the laws of New York, «ire

ron, indiana and ConnecticutThe State Medical Ass.iatlou gav«

instructions fbr each of the parish ni'd-leal aocteUcs to take up the work an«"

hold op**'1 sessions, urging the advisabil¬ity of the 'aw Hs a protection tu society

-« . .

LITTLE HUNGARY FIRE SCAREBlazi» in a Planing Mill Drives

Out tho Diners.Borne dancera In Liberty Hall, which is

..n the tup flour of th«- building better

known to fame us the Little Hungarvrestaurant, gave the -first alarm for a

'fir«-- last night, which for a while threat¬ened t«« lean «"it th" café, and resultedm a three-alarm «all for apparat tía n«Iseveral cloae eacapea from deathTher«' were .«I¦. »¦ 'r "tie hundred and

twenty-five »¡lancera in the hail and aboutthe same number in the restaurant he-

low, when a girl, who was sifting in a

window seat with her partner, lookedout across the «lark roofa toward Suffolkstreet and saw flames in a planing millon the thin! floor, occupied by the NewYork Carving Company and the Man¬hattan W<»«d Turning Company. Two

alarms were turned in at once, and a

few minutes after the firemen arrivedanother alarm was sent In. Lines ofhose were pull«,I m through the res¬

taurant, which by this time ha«! beenemptied ««f its diner«, and a squad offiremen had run up t<» the fourth floor ofthe burning building, which faced «ui

Suffolk str«-et. to get out S'liu.« girls whoWet*« employe« of Llttl« Hungary andslept in the building. The girls badbeen rescued earlier by Max Cooper«steln. an employe of the restaurant.«mo «>f the most frantic scrambles In

all the excitement of the fire was madeby employe« Of Llttl« Hungary in a suc¬

cessful efffirt to rcscii». the picture ofColonel Roosevi-it.

GETS BABY FINGER PRINTSFaurot, After Experiment, Sure

Lines Never Change.An experiment of world-wide Impor¬

tance was made yesterday by CaptainFaurot, head of the Bureau of CriminalIdentification at i'olico Headquarters,when lie went to Rellevue Hospital, tookthe finger prints of a two weeks' oldbaby, and found them Just aa charac¬teristic and distinct as those of an adult

person at any age.A large company Of physicians and |»o-

Ihe officials was present an«I saw the

experiment performed. Captain FaurotIs now positively certain not only thatthere are no two sets of finger printsalik«! In the world, but that those madeby a baby at the time of Us birth willremain his peculiar property until the

day of hi« death. Captain Faurot sug¬

gests that the linger print system has

by this experiment been proved of the

utmost practical value, not only In theidentification Of criminals, but In the

identification of persons for any purposewhatsoever.He predicts that |t will soon he in use

in every police department, hospital,bank arid business house, and that coun¬

tries where the passp<irt system Is in

vogue may safely shift to the fingerprint systtm.The captain suggests that th«: system

he put Into use in New York In all ma-

t.«mitV hospitals as an Instant and eft«.<¦-

live identification of future citl/«ns.

MAILLARD'S BREAKFAST COCOA.liest all-season beverage. Woml-rfiilly

sustaining and nourishing Advt.

ROOSEVELT CALLSTAFT FALSIFIER

President, He Declares, Has Given Him "theCrookedest Kind of a Deal.*'

TORRENT OF HOT DENUNCIATION

"Absurd Untruths," "Disloyalty to Every Canon of De¬cency and Fair Dealing** and "Yielding to

Bosses** Charged.Worcester, Mass., April 26..Merciless denunciation of

President Taft was Colonel Roosevelt's reply to-night to thePresident's attack on him yesterday. Some of Colonel Roose¬velt's assertions were:

That President Taft had not given the people of the coun¬

try a "square deal," hut that, owing to a "quality of feebleness,"he had 'yielded to the bosses and the great privileged interests."

That one part of the President's attack on him was "thecrookedest kind of a deal" and "deliberate misrepresentation.'*

That the President "has not merely in thought, word andthai been disloyal to our past friendship, but has been disloyalto every canon of ordinary decency and fair dealing, such as

should obtain even in dealing with a man's bitterest opponents."That the President's statement regarding the influence of

federal office holders in the campaign was "not only an untruth,but it is an ahsurd untruth."

That Mr. Taft convicted himself of insincerity when hesigned the Payne-Aid rich tariff bill.

That in speaking of Colonel Roosevelt's position in regardto the trust problem President Taft "is himself guilty of «

crooked deal."Colonel »Roosevelt took up President Taft's attack on him

point by point, denouncing the President in one scathing sen-

iince after another.

Worcester. Mass.. April 2»i. When

President Roosevelt reached Worcei

at. the beginning of his trip through MSSChusetta toda-, he found the str«

near the station thronged. With a hi

and a torchlight procession as escort

was taken to V, .chanics' Hall, wheri

delivered his main speech. Feveral th

sand persons were unable to gain adrr

StOB. Later «"olonel Roosevelt addres

an overflow meeting in Sa lern SquiRoth audiences received hfm enthusitlcalty.

*'oionel Rooaevelt'a speech in part %

as follows."In this campaign ! regard th«» ISSI

et stake as altogether too Importantpermit it to be twisted into one of psonalities between President Taft a

myself. But Mr. Tafts speeches yesterduntamed statements that I must t

suer. Most of what he said needscomment fr< m me. When, for instan

he said that 1 have endeavored to milmize the Importance of my Cotumtspeech h'-> s : s what he must know to

untrue, he cannot have read my «"arr

gie Hall speech, my speech before t

Biaaaachuaetta lower house, my noondspeech at St. I.nuis, my Philadelphia a

Pittsburgh and Louisville spee«Mies wit

«.nf knowing that I have elaborated a

emphasized what I said at Columbus."Again, when Mr. Taft in any spee

speaks of me directly or obliquely as

neurotic or a demagogue, or in símilterms I shall say nothing except thatpoint out that if he |a obliged to u

BUCh language he had better preserhis own self-respect by not prot.tilthat it gives htm pain t«> do so. No m;

resorts t«> epithets like these if it real

gives him pain to u?^ them."I have never alluded to htm In tern

even remotely resembling these. I ha«never quoted his private letters or prvate communications, i hav« diacuaaiexclusively his public actions. Evrwhere I wns obliged to be severe, I ws

always parliamentary, and never hyp«critical. N«»r «io ! int«m«l to-day t«i de\

ate from this standard, although thPresident's speech makes It necessar

for me to spesk more plainly on certalsubject« than I have .vet spoken."

Not Square Deal. Says Roosevelt.Colonel Roosevelt referred to Presiden

Tuft's explanation of his statement tha

"ours Is a government of all of the peo

pie by a representativa part of the pe.,

pie."'"Kor htm to try," saiil Colonel Rouse

velt, "to escape the cntiseipien« es of histatements by saying that he allude,only to women and children Is triflimwith the Intelligence of the pe«iple. T«speak of such action on his part as i

's«|uare deal' is Itself the erookedest kin«

of deal. He is trying to dodge the con

s.^quences of his statement by délibérât«

misrepresentation of thnt statement."Colonel Roosevelt defined the política

"boss" as "the man responsible for th«

al!ian«e between crooked politics an«

crooked business, which has been respon¬

sible for nine-tenths of the «nrruptioi:in American political life.

"If there is any such man among my

supporters," he continued. "I do no|

know him. Mr. Taft says that Mr. Flinn,of Pittsburgh, is s very bad bog«. There

is an I'tement of grim comedy In Mr

Taft weeping over the thought of Penn¬

sylvania being put under the rule of a

boss through Mr. Petirose being ousted

from control of the party organization."Colonel Roosevelt said Mr. Fhnn had

told him h«' was supporting him because

he believed Ihe former Pnsldent was

tho only loader in public life who was

"earnestly and in practical fashion

v.«irking for greater Justice in matters

Ituiustriul."The bosses, Colonel Roosevelt declared,

were on the Presiileut's side. "Mr. Taft

siyn," the x-President continued, "that

in my various campaigns I accepted the

aaaMsUaCS Of tins.« Imssos. So I didwhen they chose to g<» m\ «ray, and to

support the cause of the people. Thetrouble with Mr. Tuft is that he gets

their assistance at the price of goingtheir way and opp«jstnK the «a«i«<» <«f

the people.Hard to Answer Statement.

Mr Taft said yesterday that never

in thought, word or deed had he been

disloyal in his friendship for me It ishard for ma to answer such a statementsave bv calling It the grossest and mos'

astounding hypocrisy. When Mr Taf»made that statement he had just sent »«»

to the United States Senate, on half an

h»»ur's notice, obviously in collufio'i a jththe Lorlmer Democratic Senator a homade the request, papers which a *«...

intended to convey the impression thatI had Improperly favored the Harvestertrust by declining to prosecute || in

1M7 '"

rolonel Roosevelt repeated the asser¬

tion that Mr. Taft, as a member of hit»"abinet. had approved »he decision todelay the Harvester company suit

' When Mr. Taft." he went on. obvi¬

ously to influence the Massachusetts prlmary, and obviously in collusion wflk'one of Mr. Lorim*r's Senatorial sup

porters of th» opposite política] part>.tak«3« the a«'tlon he did, he has not

merely In thought, words and deed been

disloyal to our past friendship, but hasbeen disloyal to every canon of ordinary

dacoDCjr and fair dealing such as shouldobtain even in dealing with a man's bit¬terest opponents. Such conduct repre¬sents the very crookedest kind of a

¡crooked deal, and wh«n Mr. Taft, withintwenty-four hours of taking it. «'«.»m-

plains that he has not been given m,

¦quart deal by me. h» exposes himself to

»ierision an»l contempt."This Is not an exceptional InrtailC* of

how he has behaved to me. The game

courte was followed last summer in con¬

nection with the Tennessee "Coal «anairon »Company. The assault» upon me

by Mr. Taft's campaign managers, madein Washington under Mr. Taft's varyeyes, have taten foul to the verge of in¬decency. But. remember, I am n»»t com¬

plaining of these things; í care nothingfor Mr. Taft's personal attitude tow.iid«me; I allude to it only in passing amimerely heiause Mr. Taft lays eu« h em¬

phasis on the matter.

Reciprocity Under Discussion.The speaker then turned to the sub¬

ject of reciprocity."Mr. Taft says that I changed fr.mt

on the reciprocity measure," he began."This It untrue. He puhlislies a letter«>f mine, in anawar to ¦ letter of hi«marked 'confidential.' Incidentally, one

of »h« tinpanlotiable sin« on the part ofany man «-ailing hlms««lf a gentleman Ist" publish confidential correspondencewithout permission; as to this I care

nothing, but I warn Mr. Taft that Indiscussing negotiations wlih a foreignlower it Is well not to publish such ex¬

pressions as that In his letter aboutmaking Canada Only »an adjtinct of theUnited States.

In this letter 1 told him that I wouldsupport his reciprmlty proposition. Idid loyally support It In several differ¬ent speeches. At first I took the agree¬ment on the faith of Mr. Taft's repre¬sentation. I ¿a ter. when I came to look

up the nuttier, however. 1 became con¬

vinced that the reciprocity agreementat passed by Mr. Taft was unwise andundesirable, because it Improperly sacri-tl< cd the interests of our farmers andfishermen and because it «-arried Inde¬fensible action on paper."Ne "e heless, because I hud stated

that I would siippijrt the treaty, I saidnot one word against it until it was

de.ul. Even then I d«scllned to speakon the subject until In several statesMr. Taft's managers themselves, withwhat «an only »'haracterlze its unpar¬donable baseness, began to circulate thetact of my support of Mr. Taft's pro¬posal as a reason why I should not l»a

nominated."Mr. Taft says," Colonel Roosevelt

continued, "that the influence of federalofficeholders In the Chicago convention