The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-10
COL. ROOSEVELT HAS CLASH WITH HEARER The Colonel Attacks Wilson
 in Houghton Speech
 HIS LABOR ATTITUDE Says Democratic Nominee Has Made
HIS LABOR ATTITUDE
Says Democratic Nominee Has Made Sudden and Violent Retracing of His Steps in His Attitude
 Toward Labor

IlOuSntbl1, 4hICllst OttObcI J.-C Pic cs'A broke out among the audience of Colo nel Roosevelt, after a colloquy between the speaker and one of his listeners to- night. The colonel was replying to Gov ernor Wilson's charge that the Steel trust was behind him.
 A man in an automobile in front of the colonel stood up and using his hands as a megaphone, shouted:
 That is not true.
 i'I suppose. sir" Colonel Roosevelt called back, that you approve of the anl you stand for lying and false wit ness"
 That is not so.' the man shouted.
 The crowd was thrown into such an up- roar by the incident that 1t some time before Colonel Roosevelt could make himself heard.
 ''I don't know who you are he called out, "but I am told you represent the coal trust. It is perfectly natural that you should object to hearing the truth about your side of the campaign"
 "A couple of days ago MT Wilson stated that the steel trust was behind me-" said Colonel Roosevelt. T ans wered that it was not and challenged him to name any individual interested In steel, except MT. Perkins, who was with me- MT. Kilson comes out today and says that all he meant was that the steel trust was behind me in thought Evidently MT. Wilson is a mind reader.
 If ever I make such statement as he made about me and am called to account for 1t, as l called him. if I can't make good, I'll say so and won't try to get out of it by saying l was speaking of the thought of the ad- versary. What I have said about the steel trust is right"
 Attacks Wilson
 Declaring that Woodrow Wilson op- posed every effective means of helping the wage worker. Colonel Roosevelt appealed here tonight to the working men and women of the country to sup port the progressive party. In the past, Colonel Roosevelt said, Governor Will son had displayed "sullen hostility to labor and said Governor Wilson had made a sudden and violent retracing of his steps,
 '.The progressive party" said Colonel Roosevelt" has deliberately embodied in it's platform as its most essential plank the supreme duty of the na- ton to secure social and industrial justice.
 "The progressive platform distinct ly states that in order to carry out it's purpose to establish minimum safe ty and health standards for wage workers, especially women and chil- dren, it will invoke the federal control over interstate commerce and the tax ing power of both nation and state.
 MT. Wilson has no less emphatical- iy put himself on record for stateism as opposed to nationalism. In his book I.r |. terly denounces as the alchemy of de- cay the proposal to use the power to regulate commerce between the states in tho very manner in which the pro- gressive platform proposes to use it.
 "As Mr. Wilson has seen fit to at tack the progressive platform about labor and especially about organized labor. I ask you to compare what urged on Congress and what I suc- ceeded in getting Congress to do dur ing the time l was President, with MT. Wilson's utterances throughout the course of these very years.
 'Turn to my messages to Congress. Most of what I advocated then is now embodied in the progressive platform.
 Opposes Convict Contract Labor
 ..I declared against convict contract labor. I declared in favor of the eight hour law I demanded among other things that women and children be pro- tected from excessive hours of labor, from night work, and from work un- der insanitary conditions. I demanded q workmen's compensation law. I urged radical and thorouGhgoing inquiry into labor conditions in factories and mines throughout this country.
 At that time I had no party united behind me. The rank and file was with me but most of the leaders in Con- gress were at first lukewarm and grad ually openly hostile to measures l ad- vocated for Legislation of this kind. Yet I secured some of the things urged.
 During those years I again and again indorsed labor unions. Now dur irg those very years MT. Wilson was also speaking of labor from time to time. In an address at the People s Forum at New Rochelle. as given in the New York Tribune of February 27. 1905. he says: A
 <"'The objection I have to Flabor man to the level of the lowest In society. as given in the New York Tri- bune of March 1s. 1907, he says as follows: We speak too exclusively of the capitalistic class. There is another. az formidable an enemy to equality and freedom of opportunity as it is, and that is the class formed by labor or ganizations and leaders of the country the class representing only a small minority of the 1aboring men of tho