Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-10-01

whooping. And again he leased them.
The dares were allowed to pass, because
| the colonel was evidently wrathy and
getting madder; and it was his night,
! anyway and moreover, he was the
colonel.
| knocked the Wilson crowd hard, and
got Wilson" rammed down his throat
again.
IF the Democratic platform was not
program. it was a lying promise" he
charged.
PARLEYS WITH QUESTIONER.
A questioner on the stage fred q
query at him. and the speaker turned
and insisted on hearing what the man
had to say. The confusion ensuing
| prevented him from hearing it until the
questioner was brought to the rostrum
and stood within five feet of the speak
er and yelled at him.
Il will repeat the question to you.
| said the speaker, turning toward his
audience, quoting. why did we repudi-
ate the Republican platform when we
repudiated Mr.. Taft?" But the ques-
broke out anew while the speaker tried
again to get the question straight
| Whatever it was, the audience learned
nothing of 1t, for the colonel declared,
shaking his finger at the questoner,
"Its a foolish question which the man
ought to have been ashamed to ask. 4
sought the Republican nomination on
progressive platform" He was angry
and red in the face.
A complacent inebriate tried to
climb up on the rostrum and occupy
the coioners empty seat, but his coat
tails were pulled, and he tumbled back,
/ IA Hing with a rn<DflndfnR f1nmn to
the floor right under the speakers Ell
bow, stopping the latter's flow of
words while he looked down in aston
ishment. Were having quite little
series of incidents here tonight" the
speaker remarked to his audience.
Colonel Roosevelt seemed heavier
than when he last visited Atlanta.
spectacles, with the same thick lenses.
had replaced the nose glasses.
c. w. Mcclure, of Atlanta, Progress
sive national committeeman for Geor-
gia, escorted the speaker to the ros-
trum and introduced Rev. DIR. Robert
S. Macarthur. pastor of the Baptist
Tabernacle. DIR. Macarthur introduced
Colonel Roosevelt.
Gov. Woodrow Wilson was charged by
Colonel Roosevelt with making state
ments in regard to his position which
were mot merely an untruth, but the
direct reverse of the truth"
The ex-president took up recent state
ments of the Democratic candidate and
denied them flatly. He said that Gov.
Wilson did not believe some of these
things and knew that Colonel Roose-
welt had never said them.
DISCUSSES OPPONENTS.
1T is curious to seen he said here
last night, 'how Messrs. Taft and
Wilson are drawing together in their
hostility to the Progressive party and its
principles.
son the great issues of the day the
Democratic and Republican platforms
are in fundamental sympathy, for in
reality the difference between the two
old parties on these issues is a mere
difference of sound and fury in decla-
nation, there being no difference what
ever in action and hardly a real differ
ence even in proposed action. In their
attitude toward the group Of questions
dealing with labor and with social and
industrial Justice, in their attitudes to-
ward the courts and in their attitudes
toward the trusts, Messrs. Wilson and
Taft stand on the same ground. They
neither of them have one practical prop
osition to make looking toward the bet
terment of a single evil in our social
and industrial life.
1T is doubtless because Mr.. Wilson
has no clear-cut convictions on these
great problems that he is so utterly
vague in his propositions for remedying
the evils which ne admits exist. For
this he is to be pardoned. But he is
not to be pardoned when he deliberately
misstates my position. When quote
Mr. Wilson 1 give his words verbatim, /
as contained in the reports of his speech (
es in newspapers friendly to him."
Mr.. Wilson affects to quote me whenf
he deliberately attributes TO me what T.
have never said, and what ! am obligedt
to say, he must know that / never said.
At Boston day before yesterday he stat-I
ed that had said that it was inevitable
that the trusts should build up an irresis-s
tible power that despair of replacing
the power and that I suggest that wei
try our best to make the trusts good,
pitiful, kind and just and that we trans
fer our own affairs to those who by sub
tlety have combined against US Now.
every one of these statements is simply
not true.
81 DIDN'T SAY IT.
II ask Mr.. Wilson to point where and
when it was that said that 1 wished toI
make the trusts 'pitiful,' or kind HeI
cannot do it, and he knows he cannot dol
it. His statement is an invention. i ask
him to point out where have said that
we are to transfer our own affairs TOT
those who by subtlety have oombinedE
against u.s. He cannot do it and he'
knows he cannot do it. His statement
is an invention. Again, his statement
that I have ever said that the trusts
must be permitted to build up an frresis-
ible power is not merely an untruth, but
is the direct reverse of the truth, and
this Mr.. Wilson we'll knows. Now, Mr.
Wilson has an entire right to attack and
criticise my actual position as strongly
as he chooses. And he has an entire
right, if he thinks it I'm good taste, TO
indulge in personalities about me in
which he has recently indulged-as to
which ] shall not copy him, however.
But he has no right to misquote me and
to attribute to me words which / have
never used.
MIR. Wilson assorted thar I did an