The Washington herald., 1912-08-04
TEXAS ORATOR
Defends WILSON
Answers Rodenbery's Speech Of Last
Week in the House-Attach
Col. Roosevelt.
ANALYzES THE POLITICAL
CHARACTER OF s.MAD MULLAH.
Says he Is the Friend Of Special
Interests and Predatory
Wealth.

Representative Robert L. Henry, OF
Texas. one of the Democratic leaders who
fought for Gov. Woodrow Wilson in the
Baltimore convention. delivered a nota-
BILE speech In the House yesterday. It
was presented as a defense of DR.. Will
son. who was characterized In the House
last week by Representative William A.
Rodenberg Of Illinois. a Republican. as
an anti-Jenersonian. anti-foreign, anti
labor, anti-sold:er. and pro-Ckinese can
didate for the Presidency" Mr. Henry
devoted much of the time in which he
spoke Of a vitriolic attack on Theodore
Roosevelt and an arraignment of the Taft
administration. He eulogized william ].
Bryan and rubbed salt into the wounds
inflicted on Champ Clark at the Baltimore
convention. He. twisted the tail of the
Money Trust and threw hot shot into
the corporations generally.
Let me analyze the political character
of Theodore Africanus. the Mad Muliah
of American politics." Mr.. Henry ex-
claimed. Il charge that he Is the friend
of the special interests and the predatory
Glasses seeking favors at the hands of
the government. Roosevelt, ensconced on
the bosom Of Perkins. Gary, and the
minions of the Steel Trust. whispers
sweet sympathy In their ears In New
York city, and is sent forth In the rest
OF the country to preach a sham cru
sade in behalf of the peoples rights.
Recalls r. c. and I. Merger.
connection with the merger Of the Ten
nessee Coal and Iron Company as a part
Of the Steel Trust Here his unholy alli-
ance and conspiracy with them began.
Here he linked up with and became
part and parcel of the Steel Trust and
Perkins and Gary's friend. ally, and in
strument. They constitute the greatest
financial organization and combination in
the worlds history. He has never for
saken them, and is now making this
fight for them under their wing and
direction. They have not separated and
will not, should he again win the Presi-
dency, as long as Roosevelt serves them
with the same fidelity that characterized
his conduct in the absorption of the Ten
nessee Coal and Iron Company and the
indecent and outrageous covering up and
suppression OF the misdeeds and crimes
Of the Harvester Trust officials. his other
political sponsors and financial hackers
in this contest"
Roosevelt would have been impeached
and Judge Gary and other steel and
harvester men would have been prose-
cuted in the courts IL the fact of Mr..
Roosevelt's dealings with them had been
known when he was President. Mr..
Henry read from books and speeches Of
Roosevelt showing the colonefs attitude
towards labor" ''the foreigner" and
by injunction" According
to Mr.. Henry the colonel years ago.
cowboys and agricultural Ia
borers and mechanics in this language:
T. X. On Cowboys.
Cowboys are much better fellows and
plcasanter companions than small farm
ers or agricultural laborers; nor are the
mechanics and workmeE Of a great city
to be mentioned in the same breath"
Here is what the colonel had to say
about farmers. according to the Texas
member:
II shall confine my remarks to what
Gen. Porter has said about patriotism.
Patriotism comes first, and l hope you
will not fail to display It next Tuesday.
Mr.. Bryan and his adherents have ap-
pealed to the basest set in the land-the
farmers"
Of opponents OF government by in
functions Mr.. Roosevelt had this to say.
according to Mr.. Henry:
THE men who object to what they
style government by Injunction are. as
regards the essential principles Of gov
ernment, in hearty sympathy with their
skin-clad ancestors who lived in
caves. fought one another with stone
headed axes, and ate the mammoth and
woolly rhihoceros. They are interesting
as representing a geological survival but
they are dangerous whenever there is
the least chance of their making the
principles of this ages-buried past living
factors in our present life. They are
not In sympathy with men of good minds
and sound civic morality
A grim smile illuminated the classic
of Speaker Clark, who has
been sitting up nights since the BalAL
more convention hating Mr.. Bryan, as
Mr.. Henry eulogized the Peerless Lead
er.