The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-26
HOUSE ATTACK
 ON WILSON BY
 REP. RODENBERC
Illinois Congressman Digs Into Ancient History to Brand the Democratic Candidate
 In Bitter Pro- Taft Cam
 paign Speech Today

Washington, July 26-''Woodrow Wilson-anti-J Jefferson, foreign, anti-labor, anti-soldier and pro-Chi- nese candidate for the presidency'- was how the Democratic nominee was branded today in the House by Rep resentative William A. Rodenberg, (Rep., LlsO, in a pro-Taft, campaign speech. The address was based upon the books. public letters and addresses of the Democratic nominee and was the first of a. series of Republican campaign speeches against the New Jersey governor.
 Besides denouncing Wilson, Roden- berg violently assailed4 Bryan and in lauding Clark branding as "the acme of perhdy Bryan's betrayal of the Speaker. Most of Rodenberg's speech included quotations from Wilson's his tory of American people, which the member said was written 10 years ago. before the Princetenian ever thought of the White House. !.
 Today, the mantle of the immortal Jeferson rests upon the narrow but classic shoulders of the Princeton pro- lessor. " Rodenberg said.
 Jefferson was taken advantage of. Tor If given an oppor tunity he would certainly have. protested vigor ously, for here is what Wilson said Jefferson was: An aristocrat, who deliberately practjced the arts of politician. Washington found him a guide who needed watching..'.' Is Rodenberg then quoted Wilson's al- legged attack upon foreign immigra- ton in which Wilson. said:
 This coarse crew came croWding in every year in western ports"
 resent the charge" the member said, made by Professor Wilson that American workingmen were driven to make demand upon Congress for this legislation because of their fear of the superior skill and intelligence of the Chinese" :.
 Rodenberg quoted from Wilson's BaccalaureateN sermon at Princeton three years ago 'on. foreign labor. T do not agree with Professor Wilson, ; he continued. "that members of trades unions are unproftablei servants. do not believe the union man is try ireg to give as little as he may for his wages q
 RodehbergS next read Wilson's Flu logy of President Cleveland, for his veto of pension bills. that such 1egis- Iation was unjusti ifiabie. use Of public money and a. greSs. use of scharity .
 f'Professor Wilson may have experi- enced a change of heart,p Rodenberg added, when he himself applied to Andrew Carnegie for a pension, based upon mere service as an educatOr.'1
 Then Rodenberg turned his shafts upon Bryan, declaring: 4
 For Is long and weary years he has been Democracy old man of the sea. Y ** Ase Tn utter disregard of ev5 cry considera ton of .decency and fair play he succeeded in robbing Speaker Clark of the nomination. The impartial historian will write of his base betrayal at Baltimore as mark ing the very acme of perfdy. the cul- imitation of political treachery.'
 Citing the Wilson -Joalin letter, he continued: This was his honest opinion of Bryan and Bryanism. And yet today, he is prepared to don sack cloth and ashes and eat out of the hand of the man whom he denounced as an 'urtried claimer.
 "A few years ago Governor Wilson denounced the initiative, the 'referen- dunn and the recall as revolutionary and destructive of constitutional gov- ernment,. while today he proclaims it as the one panacea.