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PRESIDENT HITS BACK IN FIGHTING FASHION BITTERLY ASSAILS ROOSEVELT AM) DEFODS HIMSELF. President Taft Vigorously Declares Himself Wilfully Misrepresented by Roosevelt. Boston, April 25.?President Taft donned his fighting clothes today and, abandoning his policy of silence under the attacks of Col. Roosevelt had made upon him and his administration, for the first time since Mr. Roosevelt announced bis candidacy launched into a bitter denunciation of the former president. From the time Mr. Taft entered Massachusetts and made his first speech at Springfield, shortly after noon, until late tonight, he hammered away at Col. Roosevelt. The president made about a dozen speeches. In all he made it clear that he is ' * ?? J T> unaiteraDiy oppuseu 10 i>n. nuwscvca, that he saw disaster in a third term in the White House for any man; and that he did not believe Col. Roosevelt had given him a '"square deal." He spoke to good sized crowds in all the cities where he made set speeches and at the towns and villages where his train stopped briefly the people flocked around his private car and listened with close attention. The president spoke at Springfield and Paimer, twice in Worcester, and at Xatick, South Framingham and several smaller towns. In the beginning he seemed to utter his attacks on Col. Roosevelt with reluctance. "This wrenches my soul," ne saia once. ? As the day wore on, however, and he made speech after speech, in which he denounced Mr. Roosevelt again and again, Mr. Taft grew more aggressive in manner, emphasized his words with gestures and apparently laid aside any feelings of regret he may have felt at this evidence that the long friendship tttJ+V. io f/vt?mor dtionininn was; hrrvVpn n itii uio iv* uivi > ^ ? His principal address was delivered in the Arena, to a large crowd, but before retiring to his private car he spoke briefly to an overflow meeting in Symphony hall. His speech in the Arena was delivered from manuscript, prepared during the last few days in Washington, carefully gone over by members of his cabinet and containing a detailed answer to many of Mr. Kooseveits cnarges. Counter Charges. Mr. Taft's speech bristled with counter charges against his predecessor in the White House. He declared that Mr. Roosevelt had wilfully misrepresented him, had falsely distorted some of his public utterances, had failed to live - ? - - ? ? 1 ? ? ~An 1 r? Up 10 HIS pOIXC'V ui il S?J.Uctlc ucai auu had violated a solemn promise to the American people not to be a candidate for a third term. "That promise and his treatment of it," said Mr. Taft, "only throw an informing light on the value that ought now to be attached to any promise of this kind he may make for the future." Declaring that Mr. Roosevelt "ought not to be selected as a candidate of any party," Mr. Taft said that the former president might now be paving the way, if successful in the present campaign, to remain the* chief executive of the nation for as many terms as his natural life would permit. "If he is necessary now to the government, why not later?" asked the president, who continued: "One who so lightly regards constitutional principles, one who is so naturally impatient of legal restraints and of due legal procedure, and who has so misunderstood what liberty regulated by law is, could not safely be entrusted with successive presidential terms. I say this sorrowfully, but I say it with the full conviction of its truth." Mr. Taft referred to some of Mr. Roosevelt's charges against him as the "loose and vague indictment of one who does not know and who depends only upon second hand information for his statement." A Painful Duty. The president said his speech tonight was one of the most painful duties of his life, that it was in response to an obligation he owed the Republican party, which selected him as its candidate, and to the American people who elected him president. "It grows,'-' he said, "out of a phase ' - - i i: of national pontics ana national me that I believe to be unprecedented in our history. So unusually is the exigency, that the ordinary rules of propriety, that limit a president in his public addresses, must be laid aside and the cold, naked truth be stated in such a way that it shall serve as a warning to the people of the United States." Mr. Taft said Col. Roosevek's Columbus speech, accepted as his platform, "sent a thrill of alarm through I r I all the members of the community.", '.Mr. Roosevelt, lie said, then found that j if the nomination were to come to i him he must minimize the importance i of this "charter of democracy." With- | ! out giving up the principles anuounc! ed in his Columbus address, the presi- j! | dent said, Mr. Roosevelt relegated j I them to an incidental place and chang- j j ed his campaign to one of criticism of j j Taft and the Taft administration. One by one the president took up i j eleven charges made against him by j Col. Roosevelt and sought to refute | them. j ROOSEVELT DENOUNCES TAFT. Replies to President's Attack Upon Him?Says Taft's Statement "Absurd Untruth.^ Worcester, Mass., April 26.?Denunciation of President Taft was Col. Roosevelt's reply tonight to the president's attack upon him yesterday. ; Some of Col. Roosevelt's assertions i were: That President Taft had not given | the people of the country "a square j | deal," but that owing to a "quality of i feebleness" he had "yielded to the i bosses and the great privileged interests." That one part of the president's attack upon him was 'the crookedest ! kind nf a deal" and "deliberate mis representation." That the president has not merely i in thought, word and deed been disloyal to our past friendship, but has jbeen disloyal to every canon of ordinI ary decency and fair dealing such as i should obtain even in dealing with a man's bitterest opponents." Calls it "Absurd Untruth," That the president's statement re- j gardmg tne lunuence ut icueiai vmw | I holders in the campaign was "not on1 ly an untruth, but it is an absurd untruth." That Mr. Taft convicted himself of I ; insincerity when he signed the Payne1 Aldrich tariff bill. That in speaking of Col. Roosevelt's position in regard to ~ne trust problem. President Taft j "is himself guilty of a crooked deal." Col. Roosevelt took up President Taft's attack on him point by point, j flaying the president in one scathing ! sentence after another. i When Col. Roosevelt reached here at I the beginning of his Massachusetts itriD he found the streets thronged. A I band and torchlight procession esicorted him to Mechanics' hall, where ; he delivered his main speech. Later he addressed an oversow meeting, i Col. Roosevelt said in part: "In this campaign J. regard the isi sue at stake as altogether too import- j : ant to permit it to be twisted into one: | of personalities between President11 OT,^ mvcolf Rut Mr. Taft'S ! I itlH auu ? i speches yesterday . contained state-! ! ments that I must answer. When he \ i I .said that I have endeavored to mini-; mize the importance of my Coumbus i speech, he says what he must know | | is untrue. j "Again when Mr. Taft in any speech I ~ x Tn o 1 speaks or me (lirecuj ur uunqucij ! a neuretic or a demagogue, or in sim- j ilar terms, he had better preserve his j own self-respect by not protesting that j it gives him pain to do so. I have j j never alluded to him in terms even remotely resembling these. I have i never quoted his private letters or j i private communications. I hae dis-1 ' cussed exclusively his public utter- J ances. Even where I was obliged to j be seere, I was always parliamentary j - J T . ? ! and never hypocritical. i\or uo i m- i tend today to deviate from this stand- i : ard, although the president's speech ; makes it necessary for me to speak! more plainly on certain subjects than ! I have yet spoken." j "Crookedest Kind of Deal." Col. Roosevelt referred to President Taft's explanation of his statement that "ours is a government of all of i the people by a representative part of | people." "For him to try," said Col. Roose elt, "to escape the consequences of his otQtomonts hv savins: that he alluded J WlUbVuiviiVK; iw w _ l only to women and children is trifling with the intelligence of the people. To speak of such action on his part as a j 'square deal' is itself the crookedest j j kind of deal. He is trying to dodge j ; the consequences of his statement by i i deliberate misrepresentation of that j i statement." | Col. Roosevelt then defined the poli- j j tical "boss" and continued: Declares "Bosses" for Taft. ! "If there is any such man among my i t /in Tint Irnnw him." ! suppui LCJl ?, X uv uwk The bosses, Col. Roosevelt declared, J were on the president's side. "Mr. Taft said yesterday that he j never in thought or deed had been dis- j loyal in his friendship for me. It is j . : hard for me to answer such a state- i ment, save by calling it the grossest i and most astounding hypocrisy. When Mr. Taft made that statement he had just sent to the United States senate, on half an hour's notice, obviously in collusion with the Lorimer Democratic Have you seen display of Mer I have by far th China, Cut Glass, Sterlii tures in the city. If of anything I would be call and see me before BUY BETTER GOODS AT TO MAYES' E THE HOUSE OF A THO I nmiT/im KCiUUlLU Confederate Macon, Ga., n .,11?IUIlMUi I ? m. - Ml??S? I MJM Account above occasion Line, the Standard Railroad special reduced round trip ral \ SELLING DATES, and 8tli. 1912. FINAL LIMIT, To n point not later than mi 1912, unless deposited iginal purchaser, with Jos Agent, No. 414 Fourth not later than May 15th fee of fifty cents limit June 5th, 1912. ? llll II ill? ? For rates, schedules, ri on local Ticket Agent, or a; T. C. WHITE, Genen wmmmaBmmmmmmmKmmBmmmmmmmmmmmBmammmmammmmmmmm STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, alley COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. Blocl Court of Common Pleas. vevei C. E. Stephenson, Plaintiff, against d recoi Mary J. Mabry, Harry Mabry and T bcrr John M. Kinard, Defendants. at p: t By an order of the Court herein, I Te will sell to the highest bidder, before the ~ ^tl/Mion o f Vort-horrv R f! 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Sligh the eed dated November 7, 1908, and *ded in the Clerk's office for New- c 7 County in Deed Book No. 17, lest< lge ISO. rms of sale: One-third cash and COI1 balance ori a credit of twelve j _ _ :hs; the credit portion to be sd-\ iViaC I by a bond of the purchaser and j Will jrtgage of the premises, with in-! - " ' - " -1- iV. P ;t irom tne oay or saie ai uie iate , n per cent, per annum, payable an-' ly, and providing for insurance i ?tc., tie house on said lot and assign : of the policy to the Master as ad-! nal security, and providing also1 0 per cent, attorney's fees in case i Election or suit by an attorney.! :haser may pay all his bid in ( , if he so desires. Purchaser to, Cor papers and recording of same. ( H. H. RIKARD, j er for Nev,'berry County, S. C. oehh Ill lllllll i IIWII III I Bill I III?53HBBBE? tund Trip Excurs o MACCfl VIA? outhern R Premier Carrier of t :count of Annua dted Confederate 4ay 7-91 n account of the above occasi way announces very low roi s to Macon, Ga., and return, ti< 6th, 7th and 8th, and for tra ve Macon before noon May 9l ling until May 15th, 1912. t may be had by depositing ti< :ee of fifty cents, until June o nanm!ftn/] of manv nnmttt s?T O pwi lliliiVU Uk UitMtJ J#V?UkW i Macon obtained. Round stations in this territory as fol \ ? \ 1 bbeville iken atesburg 1 onaius dgefield reenwood )hnston ewberrv eesville Dortionately reduced jfares fr< >ecial train will be operated^ i lacon, May 6th, on the follow: v. Spartanburg v. Greenville r. Central DINNER? v. Central r. Atlanta ( v. Atlanta r. Macon Decial coaches will leave Co r 6th, and be attached the spei rtanburg and one at Seneca, or the accomodation of Vetei i Columbia and Charleston ai Southern parts of the state, es operated, leaving Columbia 8:3 3ii 8:00 a. m. May 6th, running via Augusta and Georgia ] ton 6:00 p. m. Extra coaches be operated on other trains a. or further information, pullr , call on nearest ticket agent, < / MEEK. A. t P. A, A.HJ ? / # Atlanta, Ga. ion Fares I HA 1 v J ailwav he South. I Reunion 4 %' i Veterans 1912 ~~ ' , on, the Southern ind trip excursion I 4 :kets on sale May . ins scheduled to th, 1912, good reExtension of final :ket and payment r 5th, 1912. Stop- ; id side-trip fares trip fares from a (lows. p t - $4.10 - 3.10 - - 3.75 - - 4.50 4 - - 3.40 - 4.10 3.40 4.65 3.85 )m other stations ? rom Spartanburg ^ ing schedule. 1 10:45 a. m. 11:45 a. m. 12:45 p. m. 1:15 p. m. j. T. 4:30 p. m. 4:45 p. m. 7:45 p. m. ilumbia 7:10 a. m. ... ' ciai train,j one^ai rans and visitors , nd other I points in :tra coaches^ will \ 0 a. m. and Charge through to^ MaRailroad arriving and sleeping cars s may belneeded. > nan reservations, or ,CKER,T.P.I . Ga. ' ' j