NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering THE CAMPAIGN for the presidency developed no new or startling situations during the last fortnight—except that Roosevelt commenced a line of attack upon Wilson similar in...
...He declared that "No honest man has the right to stand with the men who stole the nomination from the people in the convention of the Republican party...
...Referring to Bryan's recent question, "How many terms may the President of the United States serve...
...As to the number of non-consecutive terms a President might have, every argument in favor of any limitation of the terms of the President can refer only to consecutive terms...
...On the 24th, in the primaries, Smith wag overwhelmingly defeated by Representative William Hughes...
...During the Chicago convention McGovern worked with Roosevelt in an attempt to control the convention in Roosevelt's behalf and later in the state convention of the Republican party in Wisconsin he was insistent upon having his choice for chairman of the State Central Committee named by the delegates, but was unsuccessful...
...Bryan "Trails" Roosevelt William Jennings Bryan entered into the campaign with speeches and syndicated newspaper articles in which he pointed out: "There is little difference between Mr...
...James W. Wadsworth, formerly speaker of the legislature, was selected as the candidate for lieutenant governor...
...Any third term talk which refers to non-consecutive terms is an utter absurdity...
...They both favor imperialism and they both prefer national to state remedies...
...I don't believe any man who knows the facts can question the integrity or the principles of the man who new presides in the White House...
...The Washington Star quotes Roosevelt as having made the following remark to his friends before starting on his present western tour: "I will eat the vitals out of the old Republican party and frame up the organization for myself in 1916...
...It would not be difficult for men who think as Mr...
...if either one will write out his views on the subject the other will have no difficulty in endorsing them...
...He denied that his plan is in the interests of the Steel Trust, supporting his denial by pointing to the fact that while he was President he constantly advocated the very method he is now putting forth "for handling the trust question," adding that it is "practically the principle applied in the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...In Georgia Roosevelt angrily attacked Wilson for, as he claimed, misrepresenting his campaign utterances...
...Governor McGovern is running on a progressive Republican platform...
...The chief point of dif-ferece on national issues seems to be that they both want the same office...
...His resignation as Member of Congress was commented upon in the official bulletin of the American Federation of Labor as "a distinct loss to the labor movement, and is to be regretted, as his services have been exceedingly valuable to labor throughout the country...
...Later in a prepared interview, President Taft repeated that he believed he would be le-elected...
...Taft and Mr...
...and they have been equally partial toward the claims of contributors...
...In making this announcement, Governor McGovern follows out to its conclusion the course he mapped out prior to the Chicago convention, when he joined the Roosevelt camp, although elected by the voters of Wisconsin as a progressive Republican delegate pledged to Senator La Follette's candidacy...
...Complaining that the nomination was stolen from him at the Republican convention in Chicago, he said, "It has been said, 'Oh well, of course this is bad but you should stay in the party and reform it.' The only way to reform that kind of men is with a club...
...Men who seek expediency rather than pursue principle took him up for a little while and pretended to follow him and then rejected him—not because he was not the genuine champion of their principles, but because they apparently saw their interests lie in another direction...
...He gave as explanation of the phenomenal growth of trusts during his administration as President the assertion, "It is not in accordance with the facts to say that they grew faster during my administration than during any other, if by growth is meant a growth in illegal trusts, for most of the growth referred to was merely a growth of corporations due to the general prosperity, but the reason why there was any growth in illegal trusts at all * * * was that we were not given the proper law for dealing with them...
...The speech of Mr...
...Bryan commented on Roosevelt's record in the following words: "A year ago Roosevelt never raised a hand to help La Follette in his fight with Taft and La Follette is a thousand times a better reformer than Roosevelt ever was...
...After a battle in which Senator Root opposed direct nominations and former Senator Depew opposed direct election of United States Senators, a platform was adopted, praising the administration of President Taft and denouncing "the proposal of the so-called Progressive party to choose judges because of their known views on matters likely to come before them" and favoring the submission "to the voters in 1916 a constitutional amendment enfranchising women...
...Governor Francis E. McGovern of Wisconsin, the Republican candidate for Governor, has announced his intention of voting for Theodore Roosevelt for President...
...I have noticed several Taft badges in your town (Joplin, Mo...
...In one speech Governor Wilson traced the growth of the progressive movement in this country and referred to the early stirrings of insurgency in the west...
...Taft except as to leadership, and leaders can "be changed more easily when we secure presidential primaries...
...Roosevelt Assails Wilson In his speeches as reported by the press, Roosevelt promised if he were elected he would call a special session of Congress immediately in an effort to put into effect the "human welfare" planks of the platform on which he is running...
...Roosevelt are not far apart...
...Mr...
...The Waters Pierce Company represented to the federal Department of Justice that "we have shown that every subsidiary company is absolutely dominated and controlled by the majority owners of the stock of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey...
...Bon" Smith Beaten Governor Woodrow Wilson's fight fight against the nomination of former United States Senator James Smith Jr., as the choice of the Democratic party for United States Senator, was successful...
...He did not choose the company, it was made before...
...Charges were made in testimony taken at the Waters Pierce-Standard Oil litigation in New York that both the spirit and the letter of the Supreme Court decision "dissolving" the Standand Oil trust are being violated...
...He declared that Wilson and Taft "stand on the same ground...
...There never was a more yellow performance and they took just the right color to commemorate it...
...News Worth Remembering THE CAMPAIGN for the presidency developed no new or startling situations during the last fortnight—except that Roosevelt commenced a line of attack upon Wilson similar in character to his campaign against Taft before the convention...
...Roosevelt, without committing himself to any view concerning a limit upon the length of service of a President, said, "As far as I am concerned I should be glad to have the recall for the President...
...They both take the side of the trusts against the people, and the trust magnates are divided between them...
...Roosevelt is an eleventh hour progressive—hardly that, for he did not do as they did in the biblical parable, come at the eleventh hour and call for a penny...
...If he has gotten into bad company, it is no fault of his...
...Mr...
...Wilson asserted," he continued, "that I did an illegal thing in order to build up an 'irresistible power' in permitting the purchase by the United States Steel Corporation of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company...
...Taft and Mr...
...He said, "Mr...
...He never found any way of checking them, and he thought it was inevitable that the Steel Corporation should buy the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, and that the chief executive should consent to an illegal thing in order to build up an irresistible power...
...I feel myself close kin to those men who have been fighting the battle of progressive democracy, for no matter what label they bear we are of one principle...
...They agree in applauding the decision of the supreme court emasculating the criminal clause of the anti-trust law...
...Taft Issues Statement President Taft got into the campaign last week by declaring in a speech at Beverly that Roosevelt's party would destroy the constitutional safeguards of the nation, establish a despotism and that Roosevelt's course is one of vengeance...
...Roosevelt and Mr...
...It is simple nonsense to say that I did an 'illegal thing.' " Roosevelt's assertion that Wilson was not truthful and that "his statement is an invention" was received with hisses...
...And he said the only condition upon which the Democratic party can gain the confidence of the nation "is that it should have itself through and through absolutely committed to the progressive policy...
...Were he to die the party would go to pieces, for 'the cause' of which so many glibly speak is utterly incapable of definition in view of the crazy-quilt character of the platform...
...Roosevelt do to get together but for their hatred of each other...
...Perkins' support of his own candidacy he passed over with the explanation that Perkins was interested in "human welfare...
...In convention the Michigan Republicans adopted resolutions endorsing the administration of President Taft and pledging him the state's electoral vote...
...They agree on the tariff...
...Hughes was Wilson's choice for Senator...
...Wilson which Roosevelt assailed so bitterly and in such a way as to carry the impression that Wilson had deliberately and untruthfully misquoted Roosevelt's word's, was in part as follows: "I do not wonder the leader of the third party thinks that trusts are inevitable," said Mr...
...As to this, I need only refer to my testimony before the Stanley Committee...
...which were of the appropriate color of yellow...
...This new party is not united on any cohesive principle, and is only kept together by the remarkable personality of its leader...
...He repeatedly placed Wilson in his Ananias club, asserting that he "directly inverted the truth...
...Then there arose," he continued, "that sturdy little giant in Wisconsin, who is now such an indomitable, unconquerable champion of progressive ideas all along the line...
...He said, "The third party has split off from the Republican party, not for any one principle or indeed any principle at all, but merely to gratify personal ambition—and vengeance...
...and he criticized the program put forth by Roosevelt, Gary, Perkins and the Steel Trust which in effect is to legalize monopoly and carry to its uttermost extreme the well-known Roosevelt policy of dividing the trusts and monopolies into "good" and "bad...
...He despairs of displacing the power, and all he can suggest is that we try our best to make trusts good, pitiful, kind and just, by which we transfer our own affairs to those who by subtlety have combined against us...
...He assailed Governor Wilson for criticizing the "legalized monopoly" trust plan that is the backbone of the Roosevelt campaign...
...And he promised that "if the country will give the Republican party a complete victory in its congressional as well as its presidential ticket, a proper tariff revision will be speedily effected, with knowledge of the facts ascertained by a tariff commission which will harm no one and remove its present defects...
...I mean Senator La Follette...
...NEWS NOTES — Job E. Hedges was nominated as candidate for governor of New York at the Republican convention last week...
...Wilson is the Buchanan of the present industrial situation in the United States...
...He declared that the big trusts were supporting Wilson and Taft...
...In one speech Wilson said, "I want to pay my tribute of personal respect to the President of the United States...
...I do not believe there are many chapters of personal history in the records of parties in this country more difficult to reconcile with principles of honor than that...
...The man who puts that badge on him proclaims he has a yellow streak in him somewhere...
...Instead of that, he comes at five minutes of twelve and asks for the whole thing...
...Wilson Urges Progressivism Governor Woodrow Wilson continued his speaking campaign, discussing the trust, labor, agricultural, tariff and other problems demanding solution and explaining wherein he proposed to break the backbone of monopoly and restore competition—regulated competition— competition that is so controlled by the strong arm of the government that no powerful concerns may by illegal methods, intrigue or injustice, destroy weaker rivals...
...On several occasions he heatedly charged Wilson with deliberate misrepresentation of his (Roosevelt's) position on public questions...
...On essentials Mr...
...They equally owe their elevation to office to the 'bosses' and to the funds contributed by predatory interests—funds contributed for the purpose of securing a continuation of favors...
Vol. 4 • October 1912 • No. 40
