The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-20
Governor Answers Asser- tions of Roosevelt in
 Detroit Speech
ny COBB CALLS ON WILSON AT HOTEL
Nominee Uses Football Language in Defining Political Problems of the Day-Gets a New
 Special Car

Detroit, Mich, September 19.-Trusts lorrished more under former President Roosevelt's administration than under any other in the history of the country. This was the way Governor Woodrow Wilson .eplied in a speech here tonight to as- sertions of Colonel Roosevelt at Trinidad, Colo, yesterday, taking exception to the democratic nominee, declaration that dur ng the recent investigation by the House. Messrs Gary and Perkins suggested the blank in the progressive republican plat orm proposing federal commission to regulate the trusts.
 .T understand that the leader of the third party" said the governor, has re- gently said that he did not suggest this change just the other day, that he had suggested 1t while he was President, in ,ne of his messages to Congress, during hat same term of the presidency in which rusts grew faster and more numerously han in any other administration we have had, and that his conclusion was he doesn't say this but this must be the nference-that his conclusion was that the trusts had come to stay, that wasn't possible to put them out of busi- hess, it wasn't possible to check their su- premacy; that all you could do was to accept them as necessary evils, and ap- point an industrial commission which would tell them how they were to do their business, not an industrial commission which should tell you how other men should be admitted into the field of com t,,A fpd ri giOp which should take care of the people of the United States by saying to these trusts: No. go easy; don't hurt anybody. We believe that when you are reminded og your moral duties, you are not male volent, you are beneficent You are big, but you are not cruel.'"
 Bipartisan bosses were another object of attack by the governor in his speech before a crowd that filled an armory.
 ''The trouble in this country" said the noinfnee, .'is that the boss of one party has an arrangement with the boss of the other party, so that if it's heads or tails Inc wins.
 The governor left tonight for Columbus, Ohio
 The nominee is scheduled to speak from his car at Toledo at 7:2O a. m.
 Meets Ty Cobb
 One of Governor Woodrow Wilson's vis- ltors after he had reached his hotel here tonight was Tyrus Cobb ball player ex- raordinary, with whom the governor had depressed desire to shake hands.
 T haven't seen you since we were to- gether in Georgia, except that have seen you play ball many times since then, :" said the governor.
 "WeI, governor, the next time I see you hope it will be in the White House, replied Ty.
 After which the nominee invited tho ball player to have lunch with him. Tue latter bashfully declined.
 The last time he saw me in Georgia was on the stage. I'm glad he didn't refer to that" said Cobb, with grin hs he left the hotel
 Gov. Woodrow Wilson campaigned in the rain today as he travelled across 'lie state for a speech here tonight Every where en route where his train stopped he was greeted by crowds who stood hud- 1led under umbrellas The governor S speech here tonight was his principal one bf the day.
 At many places the nominee stepped down from the train and stood in the rain O shake hands with those who pressed forward tc meet him.
 AL kdldrnaLOO, MICH, d cIuWQ Sreeltu he governor with cheers It was there he made his longest speech of the aft ernoon.
 q have found that the subjects to be discussed in this campaign are so tre- nendous that they can hardly be han lied in speeches from the rear end of he train" said the governor. More bver the rear platform Is not the dem bcratic platform this time. We are at he front, and not at the back. But I nust say that since have got into Mich gan I have felt a singular stimulation because everywhere there is the same Epirit Of hope and confidence.
 T can explain 1t only this way. that ve are genuinely interested in the one subject that lies nearest my own heart, hamely, setting the government frea Because, whether It was done intention lilly or not, there is no doubt about 1t. hat our government in recent years has been seriously entangled with special in- erests of various kinds, and the men who got it entangled cannot get 1t dis entangled That is the whole point of he matter.
 Talks Football Language
 'sThere is no time to discuss here how we got into it. or how we are to get but of it. The point is that the people bf the United States have made up their minds tn get out of it. and there is only bne team ready to do the business. and hat is the democratic team. l am speak ng in the terms of a man who has been bred in football college. know the