The Sentinel=record., 1912-09-29
ROOSEVELT SAYS HE HAS MADE STATEMENTS WHICH ARE UNI
 FOUNDED AND UNTRUE.
DIRECT REVERSE OF TRUTH
Is the Mild Manner in Which the Strenuous Candidate Accuses the Democratic Candidate With
 False Utterances.

Atlanta, Ga. Sept. Ex-Governor Woodrow Wilson was charged by Colo nel Roosevelt here tonight with mak- ing statements in regard to his posi- ton which were mot merely an un- truth, but the direct reverse of the truth"
 Speaking before a large crowd here tonight, the former president took up recent statements of the democratic candidate and denied them fiatly. He said that Governor Wilson did not be. lieye of these things and knew that Colonel Roosevelt had never said them.
 Colonel Roosevelt spent the day in campaigning across Alabama and Georgia. In spite of rain which fell steadily until the day was almost done, he was received at the larger places by crowds which cheered him as the bands played Dixie"
 At Macon, where he spent an hour this afternoon, he spoke to several thousand persons. Colonel Roosevelt reached Atlanta this evening and will remain here over night.
 Tt is curious to see,' he said here tonight, "how Messrs. Taft and Wilson are drawing together in their hostility to the progressive party and it's prin ciples. On the great issues of the day the democratic and. republican plat forms are in fundamental sym pathy for in reality the difference between tue two old parties on these issues | is mere difference of sound and fury in declaration, there being no differ ence whatever in action and hardly a real difference even in proposed ac tion. In their attitude toward the group of questions dealing with labor and with social and industrial justice, in their attitudes toward 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 proposition to make looking toward the betterinens of single evil in our social and in dustrial life.
 Tt is doubtless because MT. Wilson has no clear convictions on these great problems that he is so utterly vague in his propositions for remedying the evils he admits exist. For this he is to be pardoned. But he is not to be pardoned when he deliberately mis- states my position. When l quote MT. Wilson, give his words verbatim as contained in the reports of his speech es in newspapers friendly to him. MT. Wilson fails to quote me when he de- hberately attributes to me what l have never said and what am obliged to say he must know that never said. At Boston day before yesterday he stated that I had said that it was inevitable that the trusts should build up an irresistible power;' and that I suggest that we try our best to make the trusts good, pitiful, kind and just and that we transfer our own af- fairs to those who subtlety have combined against us Now, every one of those statements is simply not true.
 q ask MT. Wilson to point where and when it was that I said that l wished to make the trusts 'pitiful.' or kind He cannot do it, and he knows he cant do it. His statement is an invention. I ask him to point out where have said that we are to transfer our own affairs to those who by subtlety have combined against us He cannot do it and he knows he cannot do it. His statement is an in- vention. Again, his statement that l have ever said that the trusts must be permitted to build up an irresistible power is not merely an untruth, but is the direct reverse of the truth; and this NIT. Wilson well knows. Now, MT. Wilson has an entire right to attack and criticise my actual position as strongly as he choses And he has an entire right, if he thinks it is good taste. to indulge in the personalities about me which he has recently indulg- ed--as to which 1 shall not copy him however But he has no right to mis- quote me and to attribute to me words which have never used.
 MT. Wilson asserted that 1 did an illegal thing in order to build to an irresistible power, in permitting the purchase by the United States Steel corporation of the Tennessee Coal & Iron Co. As to this, I only need to refer to my testimony before the Stanley committee, where I went into every detail of the transaction. It is simple nonsense to say that did an illegal thing Mir Wilson does mo- believe 1t himself and never would dream of making the statement except in campaign arguments.
 T do not know whether MT. Wilson in my place would have actel as did: hut do know that If he had not so acted it would have been because ne lacked the nerve boldly and man. fully to meet a great national crisis lin such fashion that the interests Of