Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — WILSON STANDS ON HIS RECORD [ARTICLE]

WILSON STANDS ON HIS RECORD

Josephus Daniels of Democratic National Committee Wants Voters to Make an Investigation. WILL WIN LEGION OF FRIENDS Slander Is Not to Play a Part in Democratic Campaign, Declares Publicity Chairman. Ne%’ York, Aug 8. —Josephus Daniels, chairman of the publicity committee- of the .Democratic national committee, said today: “Eight years ago during the presidential campaign of 1904 I came to New York and, being a member of the Democratic national committee, I dropped in at the headquarters of the committee. I found the literary bureau of the committee very actively engaged in perusing the volumes of Theodore Roosevelt. When I saw on every desk ‘The Winning of the West,' The Life of Thomas H. Benton' and a half dozen others of the works of the then Republican nominee for president, I wondered whether or not I bad gotten into the right place. "I was immediately set aright, however, when I was informed that the literary young men were engaged in culling from tho.se books some of the many denunciations and bitter criticisms and attacks made by Theodore Roosevelt upon public men and measures, and his aspersions upon great representative bodies of, our people, such as workingmen and farmers. “I found them preparing to send forth broadcast all over the land such excerpts from the writings of Theodore Roosevelt as: “ ’Cowboys are much better fellows and pleasanter companions than small farmers or agricultural laborers; nor are the mechanics and workmen of a great city to be mentioned in the same breath.’ “ 'Mr. Bryan and his adherents have appealed to the basest set in the land —the farmers.’ “ ‘They ( workingmen who object to government by injunction) are not in sympathy with men of good minds and sound civic morality.' • “They quoted from what he said about the Quakers, that those who would not fight were traitors to their country. , “They said that when the farmers and workmen and the Quakers came to know what Theodore Roosevelt had written about them they would rise up with wrath and indignation and bury Theodore Roosevelt beneath an avalanche of votes. They said that Roosevelt would not answer that ex posure of his views, and, of course, he never did. I agreed with them that it was the proper thing to do to herald these.utterances through the country. “As to whether or not that sort of campaigning had any effect, the result Of the campaign eight years ago speaks for Itself. “The Republican party is attempting to do today the same sort of thing that the Democrats tried in 1908. The Democrats out-Rodenberged Mr. Rodenberg. They were eight years ahead of him in this sort of thing. It didn't work with us then and it will not work with them now. Stands on Record. “The attempt to attack Gov. Wilson because of certain statements which he made in writing history and in commenting upon events of history as they appeared to him as historian, will fail signally. As one great metropolitan newspaper pointed out, Mr. Rodenberg and his kind are simply •Blowing against the wind.’ Governor Wilson is running for president on his record as a public man, and with that record the public is fairly well conversant, and it will continue to learn more as the campaign progresses. “He is running for president on his record as governor of New Jersey, what he said and did in that capacity, rather than what he wrote as a historian. i chronicling events and commenting upon them as they appeared to an impartial observer whose duty it is to write of things as they are rather than as they should be or as he would have them. , * “Our Republican brethren are entitled to all the thunder they can make out of Governor Wilson’s writings. I hope they will read them carefully and thoroughly. They will be able to gain a great deal of valuable information and when the context is read along with the excerpts which have been taken from his works for the purpose of placing him in a false light, I have ho fear as to the results. All that is needed is a thorough understanding. - - “Ingersoll sought to disprove Bible truths and to assail Holy Writ by the same methods which the Republicans are seeking to assail Gov. Wilson.”