The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-12
PERKINS, ATTITUDE
 TO BULL MOOSE IS
 SIGNIFICANT FACT
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 | said there ought to be an industrial commission, before whom gentlemen de- siring to combine should lay they plans and that if they were accepted, that should exempt them from the opera | tions of the clause of the Sherman act forbidding combinations in restraint of trade In other words he wants a commission which will permit, under regulation, the process of combinations and monopoly and, therefore, l take it l for granted that that Is what is in the third party's thought and in its pro- gramme, because I am interested not in where MT. Roosevelt's money comes from. but where his ideas come from, and see multiplying signs that his ideas come from those who have set up monopoly and who naturally wish to maintain it, I am no more in favor of a gentlemanly monopoly than one that is rude and impolite."
 Ideas on Competition The governor brought forth in the same speech his ideas on regulating com petition.
 You will say. will you set up com petition by statute?' I am not as innocent as I look,' said the nominee. ''I am not
 maintaining that you can command men to compete, but I do say that you can remove the now insuperable impediments to competition, that men are allowed to compete in any way they choose, which ought not to be. No body of men who control 75 per cent of the Iron mines of
 the country ought to be allowed to dis criminate in the prices at which they sell their iron as between those who are in the combine and those who are not; because we cannot allow the raw ma terials and mineral sources of this coun- try to be monopolized and privately con- trolled No combination of men ought to discriminate between retail dealers. I, therefore. have promised myself to do everything in my power, whether elected to office or not, to expose and destroy the monopoly of enterprise in the United States
 The governor added that "the monopoly
 of enterprise meant "the monopoly of political power
 Republican Theory of Government 'aThe republican theory of government I challenge you to disprove it," continued the nominee. lis a theory of government
 through board of trustees, through a
 selected number of big business men or the country who know a lot that you
 do not know, and who take it for granted
 that your ignorance would wreck the pros perity of the United States and the ann bition of MT. Taft and MT. Roosevelt is to be elected President of the board Of trustees.
 q have been president of one board of trustees and do not care to have an other on my hand. I want to be President of the people of the United States. There was many time when l was president of the board of trustees of university when the undergraduates knew more thu | the trustees did; and it has been synf- bol in my thoughts ever since that IT I could have handled the people who con- | stituted Princeton university l could have | carried it forward much faster than could under a majority of the board of l trustees"
 1 In his speech at Orrville the governor l referred to the late Mark Hanna as the
 man who stood for ''the concentration of ] economic control'' at the same time that he stood for .the concentration of polit- 1 teal control of the United States 1 The governor said Senator Aldrich was l Mr. Hanna's successor in exercising this
 kind of control" Governor Wilson was
 given a great ovation when introduced | by Mayor Newton D. Baker of Cleveland
 The Central armory was packed to the
 doors.
 Introduces Democracy ''The vision of the democratic party, which he declared had preserved 1t from alliance with and domination by special I privilege, was the burden of an address
 hero tonight by Governor Wilson. He performed what he designated as q ceremony of introduction of the demo-
 cratic party to some of his hearers who
 are not well acquainted with 1t, and
 after an explanation of what he con
 tended were its principles, expressed
 the hope that the introduction had been successful,
 Tt has been here all along he said but you weren't paying any atten- : ton. You are just now beginning tt take notice, because there was solid rhalanx, solid organized rush line i between you and the horizon The whole horizon was shut out from you 1 by the towering figures of men whe held closely and firmly together Tn or
 der to dominate the situation. But now their lines are broken little bit ol the horizon can be glimpsed ana be- i yund these towering figures you see th' great resurgent mass of the America lpeopie, and you sec certain gentlemen | I hope modest gentlemen, trying tt speak for them.
 Purified Through Fire
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