The Bourbon news., 1912-08-20
'NILSON STANDS
ON HIS RECORD
IOSephuS Daniels Invites Close
Study Of Writings.
SANDER WON'T WIN NOW.

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Moral-RooseveIt Also Wrote Books
! and Made Bitter Attacks on Various
Men and Glasses.
New York.-Josephus Danie.s. chair
nan Of the publicity committee Of the
! Democratic national committee. said
today:
Eight years ago during the presi-
/ iculial campaign of 1904 l came to
| New York, and, being a member OF the
Democratic national committee, drop
BED IN at the headquarters of the com
ni.tce. l found the literary bureau of
! lac committee very actively engaged in
! .erl!sing the volumes Of Theodore
/ 3oa>eyelt. When ! saw on every desk
Tie Winning Of the West, The Life
! If InOmas II. Benton ard a half dOz-
an others Of the works Of the then Re
}Hh lean nominee for president l Won
ipr,l whether or not had got into the
/ i@ht place.
vas Immediately set Alright. how
var. when l was informed chat the
/ r",-ry young men were engaged iu
: u.jlg from those books some &C the
J lan: denunciations and bitter crit-
| S..s and attacks made IL Theodore
! ,uoseyelt upon public men and meas
/ res and his aspersiOns upon great rep
sentative bodies of our people, such
( $ WOrkingmen and farmers.
Il found them preparing to send
orth broadcast all over the land such
,XceYnts from the writing OF Theodore
I roosevelt as:
! Cowboys are much better fellows
nd pleasanter companions than small
! 'arners or agricultural laborers. nor
/ 70 the mechanics and wOrkmen of a
"eat city to be mentioned in the same
! 1yeath.'
| "Mr Bryan and his adherents have
/ .nre3led to the basest set in the land
/ re farmers
/ They (wOrkingmen who object to
Overnment by Injunction are not in
Tmpathy with men of good minds and
gund civic morality
Hits Quakers Too.
They quoted from what he said
/ '"Ut the Quakers, that those who
,ou.d not fight were traitors to their
JuEtry
/ They said that when the farmers
! q wOrkmen and the Quakers came to
I !aW what Theodore Roosevelt h; d
-ten about them they would rise
III wrath and indignation and bury
%" Core Roosevelt beneath an ava
,.i-Ee Of votes. They said that R0ose-
Il would not answer that exposure OF
= views, and, Of course, he never did.
creed with them that it was the
"1er thing to do to herald these Ut
.-;nces through the country
~ TO whether or not that sort OF
,npaigning had any effect the result
= campaign eight years ago speaks
- ;.self
Lhe Republican party is attempting
10 today the same sort of thing
IT the Democrats tried in 1908. The
a-GCcrats out-Rodenberged Mr.. Ro.
-hDerg. They were eight years ahead
him in this sort Of thing. 1t didn't
ork with us then, and it will not
TX with them now.
Stands on His Record.
The attempt to attack Governor
wilson because Of certain statements
'hich he made in writing history and
/ commenting upon events of history
they appeared to him as historian
iii fail signally. AS one great metro
'.p!itan newspaper pointed out. Mr.. RO-
'Therg and his kind are simply Blow
against the wind Governor Will
n is running for president on his
ord as a public man, and with that
cord the public is fairly we'll conver-
nt. and it will continue to learn more
he campaign progresses.
lie is running for president on his
r1rd as governor of New jersey
:.:t he said and did in that capacity
,ler than what he wrote as histo-
"a. chrOnicling events and comment
: upon them as they appeared 70 an
partial observer whose duty it is to
re Of things as they are rather than
hey should be or as he would have
~".n.
cur Republican brethren are enti-
Il 70 all the thunder they can make
{ Of Governor Wilson's writings |
re they will read them carefully
III thoroughly. They will be able to
i III 4 great deal of valuable informa-
1n. and when the context is read
ong with the excerpts which have
'pn taken from his works for the
l;'poSe of placing him in a false light
nave no fQar fn tho roCu1tc
-at is needed is a thorough under
anding.
"ingersoll sought to disprove Bible
lths and to assail Holy Writ by the
ne methods which the Republicans
q seeking to assail Governor Will
n
The average business man has awak-
Led to the fact that it is u guui in