Evening star., 1912-09-08
Roosevelt Lacks Confidence in
Taft and Wilson.
ATTACKS BOTH IN SPEECH
Advocates Creation of Industrial
Commission to Regulate Trusts.
HAS CLUB FOR POLITICIANS
Colonel Pleased With Choice Of
Straus for Governor by New
York Progressives.

HELENA, Mont. September Wood
| row Wilson and the democratic party,
Col Roosevelt told the people of Mon
tana today, had nothing to propose for
dealing effectively with the trust prob
lem. Wall street was so well protected
with the policy of the administration, he
| said, that 1t was praying give us another
| dissolution
Col Roosevelt added that Mr.. Wilson $
| proposal was to do exactly nothing by
| continuing in the same course the Taft
| administration had pursued. The pro-
posal of the progressives. he said. was to
put stop to the continuance of the Taft
Wilson program of further legislation OF
monopoly under the guise of a make-be-
lieve assault on monopoly.
| Col. Roosevelt was a COW puncher
nearly thirty years ago on a ranch at
| Medora, N. Oak. He passed through
| Medora in the night and as the boys
who still are left could not see him there
| they came on to Miles City where they
gave him true western welcome. Others
Of his old friends he found scattered all
along the way across eastern Montana
Mostly "Little Talks"
He made dozen speeches, most of
| them little talks. to people who gathered
at the settlements along the way Col.
| Roosevelt learned today of the nomina-
| tion of Oscar s. Straus as progressive
candidate for Governor of New York.
That's fine he said. Il am greatly
gratified.
| In his address before the Montana pro-
L silva ta<a
ferred to the recent speech of Woodrow
Wilson regarding the proposal of the pro-
gressive party for an interstate indus
trial commission to regulate large COR
porations.
"A couple of days ago." he said, Mr.
Wilson in a speech in New York said
that. body of men would not have the
wisdom necessary to enable them to reg
ulate the industrial processes of the coun-
try. There is no more difficulty in regu-
| lating the Standard Oil or the Steel Cor
pOratiOn than in regulating a big rail-
| road. We have actually made the inter-
| state commerce law work. We have
the way to control the railroads is by in
crea sing the power Of the interstate COM
merce commission-by regulating and con-
trolling those railroads and not by any
development of the antitrust law.
Proposes Industrial Commission.
What / want to see done with our in
dustrial concerns is to see an interstate
industrial commission and board which
shall handle the Standard Oil, the steel
trust, the tobacco trust and every big
| trust through administrative action, just
as the interstate commerce commission
handles the railroads. ana with a power
extended beyond that of the interstate
| commerce commission. Mr.. Wilson need
not bother himself finding men to ad-
| minister such a law If he cannot find
them I will. l will guarantee to find
| men who will be able to understand and
supervise and regulate the business of
those great industrial corporations
Mr.. Wilson's proposal is to continue
| In exactly the same course that the
Taft administration now is continuing,
for the differences between the repub-
| lican and democratic platforms on this
matter are merely differences of sound
and fury and not of sense Mr.. Wilson, s
proposal Is to regulate competition by
'dissolving' trusts in the way the
Standard Oil and the tobacco trusts were
dissolved
ION the contrary the proposal of the
progressives is to put a stop to the Taft
Wilson program of further legalization
| of monopoly under the guise of make
believe assault on monopoly
Regarded With Derision.
There is no Wall street man engaged
in big business of the kind to which our
people object, there is not trust mag
nate who doesn't regard with utter de-
rision the talk of interfering with mo-
nopolies along the lines indicated by. Mr..
| Wilson and his supporters.
| The sum of the matter therefore. is
this: Mr. Wilson, like Mr.. Taft. has
| nothing to propose in this matter, for the
differences between the proposals in the
republican and the democratic platforms
| on the trust question merely are differ
| ences Of defamation. Both sets of pro-
posals indicate nothing but a vague, puz-
xled and hopeless purpose, feebly to con-
ttnue the present futile policy Of attempt
ing to regulate the trusts by nothing but
succession OF iong-drawn and ineffective
law suits. On the contrary our proposals
are definite and concrete and are based
on successful action along kindred lines
| in the past
Full Ticket Nominated.
A full state ticket was named by tine
convention. United States Senator Jo-
seph M. Dixon was nominated for re.
election by acclamation George A
Horkan Of Rosebud county and L. NJ
Myerett Of Hill county were nominated
for representatives at large.
| A platform plank providing that the
present convention continue in existence
and that all nominees Of the convention
should be subject to recall by a vote OF
90 per cent Of the delegates caused LONG
and heated discussion. The plank pro-
posed that each delegate file with the con.
vention an undated resignation, SO that
he might be recalled without delay il he
proved unfit.
It finally was referred back to the com.
mtttee on resolutions with instructions
to report.
Attacks Copper Company.
! BILLINGS, Mont, September 7-Th.
Amalgamated Copper Company was as
sailed by Col. Roosevelt today in hi.
campaign through Montana. He said he
knew last spring the company would dc
all that IL could to defeat him for the
republican nomination. and it would have
benefited him none to come out here.
"You had no direct primary in this
state" he said in his speech here. 'and
I knew perfectly well the Amalgamatei
Copper Company would do me If 1t go
the chance.
When can appeal to the people them
selves do so. But when the appeal ha.
to be made to politicians know there i.
II can beat the politicians u with club.