Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-09-05
WILSON STANDS
ON HIS RECORD
JOsephus Daniels Invites Close
Study Of Writings.
ISLANDER WON'T WIN NOW.


reau Points Out Errors of Campaigns
of Previous Years and Finds a Good
Moral-Roosevelt Also Wrote Books
and Made Bitter Attacks on Various
Men and Glasses.
man Of the publicity committee of the
Democratic national committee. said
today:
Eight years ago during the presi-
Dental campaign of 1904 1 came to
New York, and, being a member of the
Democratic national committee, l drop
ped in at the headquarters of the COM
mittee. I found the literary bureau of
the committee very actively engaged in
perusing the volumes of Theodore
Roosevelt. When 1 saw on every desk
The Winning Of the Vest The Life
of Thomas 81. Benton and a half doz-
en- others of the works of the then Re
publican nominee for president l Won
dered whether or not I had got into the
right place.
II was Immediately set Alright, how
ever, when l was Informed that the
literary young men were engaged in
culling from those books some Of the
many sdenunciations and bitter criti-
cisms and attacks made by Theodore
Roosevelt upon public men and meas
ures and his aspersions upon great rep
resentative bodies of u people. such
as Workingmen and farmers.
II found them preparing to send
forth broadcast all over the land such
excerpts from the writing of Theodore
Roosevelt as:
"'Cowboys are much better fellows
and pleasanter companions than small
farmers Or agricultural laborers. nor
are the mechanics and workmen of a
great city to be mentioned in the same
breath
"'Mr. Bryan and his adherents have
appealed to the basest set in the land
the farmers.
""They (workingmen who object to
government by injunction) are not in
sympathy with men of good minds and
sound civic morality
a, Hits Quakers Too.
""They quoted from what he said
about the Quakers, that those who
would not fight were traitors to their
country.
"They said that when the farmers
and workmen and the Quakers came to
know what Theodore Roosevelt had
written about them they would rise up
with wrath and indignation and bury
Theodore Roosevelt beneath an ava
lanche Of votes. They said that Roose-
welt would not answer that exposure of
his views, and, Of course, he never did.
I agreed with them that it was the
proper thing to do to herald these ut
terances through the country.
GAS to whether or not that sort of
campaigning had any effect the result
of the campaign eight years ago speaks
for itself.
"The Republican party is attempting
to do today the same sort of thing
that the Democrats tried in 1908. The
Democrats out-Rodenberged Mr.. Ro.
denberg. They were eight years ahead
OF him in this sort Of thing. It didn't
work with us then, and it will not
work with them now.
Stands on His Record.
sThe attempt to attack Governor
Wilson because of certain statements
which he made in writing history and
IN commenting upon vents of history
sas they appeared to him as historian
Will fail signally. AS one great metro,
politan newspaper pointed out, MIR. Ro.
denberg and his kind are simply Blow.
ing against the wind Governor Will
son is running for president on his
record as a public man, and with that
record the public is fairly we'll CONVEX.
SAINT, and it will continue to learn more
as the campaign progresses.
He is running for president on his
record as governor Of New Jersey
what he said and did in that capacity
rather than what he wrote as a histo.
rian, chronicling events and comment.
ing upon them as they appeared to an
Impartial observer whose duty it is to
write Of things as they are rather than
las they should be or as he would have
them.
"Our Republican brethren are enti-
tied to all the thunder they can make
eout Of Governor Wilson's writings. l
hope they will read them carefully
and thoroughly. They will be able to
gain a great deal Of valuable informa-
ton, and when the context is read
along with the excerpts which have
been taken from his works for the
purpose Of placing him in a false light
/ have no fear as to the results. All
THAT Is needed is a thorough under.
standing.
%"Ingersoll sought to disprove Bible
truths and to assail Holy Writ by the
same methods which the Republicans
are seeking to assail Governor Will
son."
The average business man has awak.
ened to the fact that it is a good In.
vestment to give some Of his time to
political affairs. This is one of Democ.
racy's best signs of victory.