New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-23
H|LLES SAYS WILSON
INVITES D|STRUST
Declares He Is PurpoSely Blind
to Achievements of the
President.
CALLS HIS SNEERS FOOLISH
Chairman Asserts Democratic
Candidate Knows Taft
Has Sailed Ship to
Prosperity.

Chairman Hilles Of the Republican Ma
tional Committee took exception yester-
day to the statement made by Governor
Wilson in Delaware the other day that
the ship of state under President Taft did
not have a pilot.
Governor Wilson knows" declared
Chairman Hlles, that President TAFT
not only knew the political, industrial
and demagogic shoals In the course he
was pursuing, but kept his ship away
from them. He knows that President
Taft sailed a direct course TO the harbor
of prosperity and that his statecraft
enabled him to avoid the uncharted reefs
which personal egotism and political am
bition sometimes create and which make
mischief for the pilot who has not the
set purpose TO steer straight by the Con-
stitution."
Mr.. Hilles added:
Governor Wilson avoids the record. OF
President Taft's administration. lie 4e-
libeTately ignores the fact that with the
Presidency there came TO President Tart
grave and complex problems. tie falls 70
give the President credit for solving these
pIODltlllb. lS lHlS INC pOslAlOh lDI VI ma
10 take who asp!res 10 be President OF the
United States?
Every business man knows that Presi-
dent Tafts administration has steered
through and away from the effects Of the
panic OF 1901 into the beginning Of period
of prosperity and industrial progress
During President Tafts administration
business confidence, which had been
shaken, was restored and prosperity de-
veloped.
IL IL foolish OF Governor Wilson TO
sneer at our prosperity and President
Taft's administra Does he wish TO
invite comparison with the last Demo
cratic administration Was that admin
istration stsered successfully? More than
any other administration during Governor
Wilson's lifetime, that one rolled and
drifted. Did II steer or move from dis
tuTbance and depression 10 confidence and
prOgress2 Quite the contrary! II drlfted
Into disturbance and crisis, and not until
after the decisive defeat I'm 1896 OF the
Democratic party and Mr.. Bryan. now
Governor Wilson's foster father and pre-
ceptor, did business confidence and pros
perity begin to revive.
II Is no reelection upon tho ability or
character Of President Cleveland To recall
these things With far moro experience
20 his credit than Governor Wilson has
to-day. President Cleveland could not es-
tabliSh or promote business confidence
and prosperity during a Democratic ad-
ministratIon.
Referring 10 the statement OF Governor
Wilson that n 'Do Nothing" party was
IN power. Chairman Hilles declared that
the achievements OF President Tafrs adj
mlnistration were so many that II was
out Of the question TO mention them IN
a short space. He then went on 70 emu
merate few Of them, and added:
These, are only some OF the. more. Inn
portant achievements Of President Taft
In what Democratic administration can
Governor Wilson show anything 10 COM
pare with #? What guarantee can Gov
ernOr Wilson give that II elected he will
do for the American people a 1.-THE Of
what President Taft has donc2 n Gov
erUor Wilson does not know Of those
things which President Taft has done II
speaks III OF his interest I'm the problems
Of the day. II he does know and mis-
states them he asks for the votes OF the
American people IN a spirit which must
invite distrust.
John Raymond Harlan and ex-Congress-
man ]. Adam Bedc, the team OF truth
tcllcrs' who followed Colonel Roosevelt
throughout tho West, will take the stump
again in New Jersey Tomorrow night.
They will also speak in that state on
Friday and Saturday Next week they
will speak in Pennsylvania. West Virginia
and possibly Ohio.