The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-10-18
TELLING BLOWS.


Gov. Wilson is not an old style or
ator who depends upon rhetoric. HI
lis not progressive" who depends
upon buster and billingsgate to catcf
the interest of the mob. But IN
dignified manner he is striking some
telling blows as the campaign pro
ceeds. He will not fail to impress
sensible persons by such statements
as his speeches in the West in reply
to Col. Roosevelt.
a good example of polite effective
ness is the following:
II understand from the newspa
pers," said Gov. Wilson in his Tope
ka speech, that Mr.. Roosevelt was
distressed by my suggestion the other
day that the United States Steel
Corporation was back of his plan for
controlling the trusts.
HE interpreted my remarks to
mean that they were supporting him
with their money. / was not thinking
about money. l do not know whether
they are supporting him with their
money or not; it does not make any
difference. What l meant was they
are supporting him with their thought
and their thought is not our thought.
l meant, and l say again, that the
kind of control which he proposes is
the kind Of control that the United
States Steel Corporation wants.
Il am perfectly willing to admit
that they think it is best for the coun-
try.
"My point is that this Is method
conceived from the point Of view of
the very men who are to be controll-
ed, and that that is just the wrong
point of view from which to conceive
it,"
AS Gov. Wilson says, the question
of whether Col. Roosevelt's policy as
to the Steel Trust and others is the
policy of the Steel Trust, and the 9TH
ers, desire to see adopted is good
deal more important than the some
what aged, and pretty thoroughly
threshed out, question Of who fur
nishes the funds for the recurrent
Roosevelt campaigns. Even if the
cash were contributed in the form of
widows mites, program satisfac-
tory to the interests to which Gov.
Wilson rerers would not be the sat |
isfactory to majority of the people |
of the United States. 1t would not |
be progressive"
In his abundance of courtesy, Gov.
Wilson does not blame President
Roosevelt for having, as he expressed
It, been taken into camp" by the |
Steel Trust when he was told that a |
panic would be averted If he sanction
ed the absorption of the Tennessee |
Coal & Iron Company, and that a
panic would bring universal catastro-
phe If he didn't sanction that act Of !
lawlessness. The wisest rulers seek
and accept disinterested advice be-
tore taking radical action. If Presi-
lent Roosevelt really believed what
he Steel Trust representatives told
him he might have learned that they
we're not telling the truth if he had
been willing to discuss the matter
With disinterested parties. Gov.
wilson, however, avoids acrimonious /
and contents himself with
out that President Roose-
relt was taken into camp" and
hat he will NOT admit it, and would
,e in fair way to be taken in again
opportunity should offer.
Gov Wilson pitches his campaign
lpon high plane. He does not find
necessary to speak of an opposing
as the most humiliating
character in the United States"
Both the President and the former
President are treated with all due
personal consideration. The Wilson
peechs are more effective upon that
ccount than they would otherwise
Journal. Il
There is one consolation anyway.
t will be year before the contest
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