The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-22
Colonel Roosevelt Did 1t Last Night
In Topeka Speech When
He Lambasted the
Professor.
CHALLENGE TO ANSWER
Between Speeches In Kansas, Judge
Thompson is Given Initiation In
to the coloneps
Ananias Club.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
TOPEKA, Kas., Sept 21-Colonel .
Roosevelt held up Democratic Candi- |
date Wilson before a monster aud
lence here tonight, lambasted the New
Jersey executive for 'smisstatements of |
Facts and inversion of the truth" /"
picked his policies to pieces and
wound up with the challenge that the
former president of Princeton answer
the Roosevelt answer if he could
The speech was the most studied
assault the colonel has yet made on
his democratic opponent 1t bristled
with epigrams, with some very point
ed phrases recalling the famous
short and uglier word'' with some
characteristic sallies Of humor and
closed with a glowing eulogy of the
progressive policies.
The Topeka speech was the second
Set address of the day made by the
progressive candidate Mostly he rest
| ed. At Ottawa he signalized his en-
try into Kansas by adding another
member to the already crowded
'Ananias club"
Judge w. H. Thompson, the demo
tcratic senatorial candidate, was the
/ victim and his statement that it cost
! Sl6.00O,000 in campaign funds in 1904
Ito elect Roosevelt was the specific
] Jlntterance which Roosevelt said elect
Led the wouldIbe senator.
At Topeka Roosevelt started in to
! aianswer Wilson for his speech yester-
day at Detroit but wound up by max
ing general criticism of the views
expressed in several Of the democratic
candidates recent speeches
At Detroit yesterday Mr.. Wilson
made statement which purported
to be an answer to what said in
Colorado" the colonel said 81 say
tpurported, because it was in no shape
Or way an answer at all.
Mr.. Wilson did not venture defin-
itely to answer one statement | made
nor did he venture to state definitely
his own position, Moreover, SO far as
his utterances can be said to contain
any statement at all, it is simply a
misstatement of the facts am quot
ed as saying that | had said that did
not suggest the platform although on
another occasion / had stated that
had suggested it while was presi-
dent. Mr.. Wilson is in error. new
4 er made any such statement. He
states further that the trusts grew
faster during my administration than
with the facts; the Illegal trust pros
Ipered because we were not given the
proper law for dealing with them.
Mr. Wilson is now doing his best to
prevent such law being given. The
failure of this government efficiently
+ to grapple with the trusts is due al
I most exclusively to the attitude of
r men like Mr.. Wilson. Mr. Wilson has
, not made one single constructive rec
ommendation of the slightest value,
! he is occpying the same attitude OF
confused obstruction to efficient
action which has been common both
to we'll meaning doctrinaries and to
the able and adroit trust lawyers who
find their most efficient allies in these
doctrinaries Mr. Wilson states his
position in rather a disingenius form
for he says it is a matter of Inference
from what say that had said that
it was not possible to check the
s,nremacy Of the trusts Now If Mr.
Wilson does not know that this Is an
absolute misstatement it is due to his
deliberate refusal to read what ] have
said and what the platform has said
"Mr. Wilson contends by saying that
our prosopal is to say to the trusts
: that they are beneficient and big but
not cruel This is such preposter
: GUS statement that | suppose Mr.
: Wilson must have had theory that
he was funny when he made it,
. "Mr. Wilson's knowledge of what
!, did as president was gained from the
!. seclusion of the class room at time
when he was still taking the position
!, of an ultra-conservative and was be
i ing carefully groomed for the presi
] dency by Mr.. George B. Harvey ant
! other representatives of the Wal
street interests.
! 1--WE progressives are practical mer
d and we are making our practice con
j. form to high ideals, for unless ideal
!, ism and practical common sense gc
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