Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-10-11
Attacks The Colonel.

WOODROW wilson In MS speeches. through
out Colorado when he charged that tn
United States Steel Corporation and otht
combinations Of capital were seeking /
control the Government by proposing ths
monopolies and trusts should be regulate
by an industrial commission.
THE old method was campaign contr
buttons; the new method is legalized INC
nopoly," said the Governor, as he directe
his attack on the interests, which, he sale
were backing the program Of the Progress
sive party. The Governor drew attention
to the Senate investigation by the Clap
committee, and said the debate there wa
centered on which of the certain priv
legged groups" had been more intimate witt
the candidates of the Republican and Pro
gressive parties.
Referring at Colorado Springs to the pre-
convention campaigns Of President Tai
and former President Roosevelt. the Gov
ernor said:
"All the while was trying to formulat,
just what il was they were debating will
one another, and as nearly as could MAKE
out, it was this: Which of the two haC
been the more implicated in the things
which had discredited the Republican party
and then asked myself what was it that
had discredited or, at any rate, threatened
to discredit the great party which has so
long governed this country and it was
perfectly obvious that the gentlemen were
debating which of them had been the more
subject to those influences which we are
now aware have created most of the COM
plications we wish to correct in our eco
nomic development.
THE men who have promoted the great
combinations Of capital and the wide
spread understandings among those who
are conducting the industry of this coun-
try, which have dominated not only our
business but our politics, are the men
whose connections with the two candi-
dates were being most debated. They are
being debated yet in the investigation
of Mr.. Clapp, of the Senate committee in
Washington, so that underneath lies this
feeling-that certain privileged groups
have dominated the Government of Amer
lea; otherwise, why should they be arguing
which had the more intimate connection
with the systemH
"For these gentlemen are not discon-
nected with one another. They are con-
nected with various branches of the privi-
legged classes in this country and they are
so interlaced in the directorates of banks
and railroads and mining companies and
manufacturing enterprises and commercial
houses that they constitute single con-
trolling body. There are some men among
them who are members of at least go
boards of directors of the most important
undertakings in the country; and the gen.
tlemen, about 80 believe, who constitute
the directors of the United States Steel
Corporation, are so connected by being
presidents or vice-presidents or directors
in the railroad corporations of this coun-
try that they control SIS per cent, of the
railways Of the United States.
These are the gentlemen who are now
backing the program of the leader of the
third party. Mark you, am not i'm
peaching their motives. do not consider
it my privilege to look into mems hearts
and ask why they are doing these things.
These gentlemen may intend to do the
United States no disservice. but my point
is that they are not intending to change
in the least essential particular the system
Of control which has already been estab-
lished. but are seeking to establish it by a
new method. The old method was cam
paien contributions the new method is
leealized monopoly and the superintend-
ence by the Government of the very pro-
cesses by which they have established their
predominance over us.
81 was saying to some Of my newspaper
companions little while ago that if |
were cartoonist would draw a picture
Of the biggest monopolies of the United
States, draw up in line and in front Mr..
Roosevelt trying to lead them in a halle
lujah chorus"
At Colorado Springs also the Governor
caught the crowd and set it in raptures by
his reply to Roosevelts putting him in the
Ananias Club.
II am reminded" he said "of something
that happened when was young man
at the University Of Virginia. You know
what always happens when a man cant
answer your arguments. That has happen,
ed to me when have uttered an areu.
ment that could not be answered. have
been called academic. which regard as
compliment to universities. When wa,
boy there were factions in the Demo
cratic party in Virginia which were havinl
a pretty hot contest with one another.
I'm one Of the counties one OF these
factions had practically no partisans al
all and there was man named Massey
one of the chief spokesman Of the othel
party. who was very redoubtable debater
He was little. slim. Insignificant -lookinI
man. but when he began to talk it wal
very difficult to say anything on the othe
side. He sent a challenge up to this coun
ty have alluded to and challenged then
to debate with him. They did not quit,
like the idea, but they were too proud tC
decline. so they put up their best debater
a great big. good natured man whom every
body called Tom. and It was arranged thai
Massey should have the first hour
when the occasion came Massey begar
to get under the skins Of the people ht
was talking to. and he hadn't more than
half gotten through his speech till it was
evident that he was getting even the more
hostile Of the crowd with him. whereupor
one Of Toms partisans in the back Of the
room. who saw how things were going