New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03
WILSON PASSIVE FRIEND
OF TRUSTS, AYERS 7. R.
Never Had ThouSandth Part of
Opposition He Himself Had,
Declares Colonel.
CENSURED FOR NOT TRYING
Progressive Nominee Will Wind
Up Campaign Monday by
Speeches at Mineola
and Oyster Bay.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune.

by Telegraph to The Tribune
| Oyster Bay, Nov. 2-Colonel Roosevelt
gave out to-day a carefully prepared reply
| TO Governor Wilson's remarks upon the
trust question in his speech Thursday
night at Madison Square Garden. The
| Progressive nominee assails his Demo-
cratic rival for passive opposition"
toward trust reforms, even when "the
Legislature gave him a lead"
| RemarlSing that IT was the clear duty OF
Mr. Wilson ito try to get action in any
event" the colonel says that no opponent
| of trust legislation in the New Jersey
Legislature possessed a thousandth part
Of the influence and control which, while
| he Roosevelt, was President, was exer-
cised by Senator Aldrlch and Speaker
| Cannon.
But" the colonel continues, II never
made any excuses. and by a succession of
| the hardest kind of hammerng fights /
forced through Congress mass Of vitality
important trust and corporation legisla-
| ton"
! Colonel Roosevelts campaign ends Mon
| day with an automobile tour into Mineola,
where he will speak in the afternoon. In
the evening he will appear before his
! townsmen I'm the Lyric Theatre, in Oyster
! Bay. The house has been sold out, and
| genuine Progressive demonstration has
| been planned.
| This afternoon Miss Frances Keller,
chief of the State Bureau of Labor and
! immigration. who has been doing yeoman
work as vote winner for the Progressive
cause. came out to confer with the colonel
| regarding plans for carrying out the plat
! form on social and industrial Justice
"In Wow OF insistenee."
In the statement he issued regarding
| Governor Wilson'S trust views the colonel
says: I'm view Of Mr. Wilson's insistence
upon the importance OF the trust prob
| lem. / desire to call attention to Mr.. Will
sons record on the trust question as Gov
ernor of New Jersey and TO his previous
attitude"
! Colonel Roosevelt quotes from Mr.. Will
sons speeches when running for Governor
/ and later, and the statement continues;
/ In his first message to the Legislature.
/ January IL, 1911 Governor Wilson renewed
/ with emphasis his promise to deal with
! the New Jersey trusts. He described
| them as having slipped out OF control OF
the very law that gave them leave TO Dc
| and can make and unmake them AT
! pleasure he declared: we nave now
/ set ourselves to cohtrol them soberly but
| effectively, and to bring them WITHIN the
| regulation Of the law. There rs great
| obligation. as well as great opportunity
an Imperative obligation from which We
| cannot escape II we would; No man VINO
wishes to enjoy the public confidence
| dares hold back, and If lac Is wise he VIII
! n, a
! There was ample opportunity for Gov
| ernor Wilson TO act either BY securing
| legislative action or by proceeding against
/ the trusts without the Intervention OF the
| The Supreme Court OF the United States
! has sOlemnly declared that the standard
| Oil and tobacco trusts have been guilty
| Of fraudulent and unlawful conduct, when
the New Jersey statute declares 10 be "A
| Tnisdpmeanor Mr.. Wilson has been Gov
! ernor for twenty-five months. lie now
| says that he wishes TO proceed against the
! directors and managers OF these trusts In
! dividually. He has and for twenty-five
months has had as Governor OF New Jer-
sey ample opportunity and every possible
means for thus proceeding against mem
and for more than year has had the
decision Of the Supreme Court as war
ranty for such procedure, but he has
never lifted his finger to take It,
passive Opposition"
Mr.. Wilson had declined to give the
Legislature lead in TINS mater; anu
! when these members Of the Legislature
gave him a lead he still declined 10 llit
| finger in their aid. And naturally, In view
OF this attitude OF passive opposition ON
his part, the Legislature failed TO act.
| Through Senator Beverage and on the
suggestion OF one OF the private citizens
of the country, Mr.. Healy. a head waiter
in one of our hotels, ! asked Mr.. Wilson
certain questions, as follows:
"First-ls It not fact that me eo avs " o OF
! ganized prescribe It's power?
! "Second-Are not all the powers oil
Standard oil and similar monopolies con-
ferred by the laws OF New Jersey?
'Third-Could not these powers nave
been curtailed by amendments TO the New
why has not Mr.. Wilson. as Governor
OF New Jersey, recommended such
amendments| -, A. W.,
son teIegraphed TO one OF his supporters
as follows: A..
pubiican majority In the Legislature maze
= revision OF the corporation laws imPcs,
s,ble and no New Jersey. official could
prosecute or propose a dissolution TOT
breach Of federal statutes.
"This is no answer at ALL" Colonel
Roosevelt says. "Mr. Wilson himself
stated that the Legislature did with sur
prisIng ease what he asked and that Re-
nubllcan and Democratic members actu'
auv introduced bills such as were de-
manded by Mr.. Wilson's explicit prom
lses."
The Roosevelt statement goes on 10
say:
The New Jersey Legislature OF 1911
stood: House, AZ Democrats and 10 hec
nublIcans: Senate. II Republicans and II
I,,hI,can majority against him In the Sen
ate and one Republican Senator, Mr.
Colgate. actually introduced an ANTITRUST
I'M Go that even II he had not been foi-
nu,od nv another Republican Mr.. Wilson
IA a clear majority In both houses II nc
hSd chosen to act. Moreover, II was his
clear duty, to try to get action III any
event
.In the entire Legislature" says Colone
Roosevelt, there was no opponent oil
trust legislation who possessed one-one'
tbousandth part Of the influence and con
troll which. while l was President, wat
overcised by Senator Aldrich in the Sen
I ate and Speaker Cannon in the House.
"Never Made Any Excuses"
"Rut I never made any excuses, and b,
succession of the hardest kind Of ham
mering fights / forced through Congress
mass of vitality important trust anc
CORPORATION legislation; and yet. under In
sriteIy more favorable conditions anc
with an infinitely easier task Mr.. Wilson
did not even attempt to get any action