Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-09-06
WILSON STANDS.
ON HIS RECORD
Iossphus Daniels Invites Cldse
Study Of Writings.
ISLANDER WON'T WIN NOW

Chairman Of Democratic Publicity H.
eau Points Out Errors Of campaiane
OF Previous Years and Finds a eesA
MoraI-RoossveIt Also Wrote ResIa
and Made Bitter Attacks on varisus
Men and Glasses
New York.-JOsephus Daniels. cAAlf>
man Of the publicity committee Of the
Democratic national committee. safe
today:
Eight years ago during the preSA
Dental campaign Of 1904 came to
New York. and. being a member Of the
Democratic national COMMITTEES. drop
ped In at the headquarters Of the com,
mittee. found the literary bureau OF
the committee very actively engaged Ia
perusing the volumes Of Theodore
Roosevelt. When saw on every desk
The Winning Of the West The Life
Of Thomas II. Benton and a half doaN
en- others Of the works Of the then Re-
publican nominee for president won.
dered whether or not had got into Ia
right place.
Il was Immediately set Alright, how
ever, when was informed that thu
literary young men were engaged IN
culllng from those books some Of tha
many denunciations and bitter crit.
cisms and attacks made by Theodore
Roosevelt upon public men and meAa>
ures aud his aspersions upon great Nd.
resentative bodies Of our people, such
as workingmen and farmers.
Il found them preparing to seaA
forth broadcast all over the land such
excerpts from the writing Of TheodorA
Roosevelt as:
Cowboys are much better fsllowA
and pleasanter companions than small
farmers or agricultural laborers. nor
are the mechanics and workmen Of a
great city to be mentioned in the saIns
breath
"'Mr. Bryan and his adherents hare
appealed to the basest set in the land
the farmers
They (workingmen who object D
government by Injunction are not In
sympathy with men Of good minds and
sound civic morality
Hits Quaksrs Too.
They quoted from what he sasa
about the Quakers, that those Who
would hot fight were traitors to their
country.
They said that when the farmers
and workmen and the Quakers came 10
know what Theodore Roosevelt had
written about them they would rho -
with wrath and Indignation and bury
Theodore Roosevelt beneath an ava
lanche Of votes They said that RoOss
welt would not answer that exposure u
bis views, and. Of course. be never did
| agreed with them that 1t was the
proper thing to do TO herald these n.
terances through the country.
As to whether or not that sort %
campaigning bad any effect the result
Of the campaign eight years ago speakS
for itself.
The Republican party Is ATTEMPTING
to do today the same sort Of thing
that the Democrats tried in 1908 Th&
Democrats out-Rodenberged Mr.. No
denberg. They were eight years ahead
Of him in this sort Of thing. 1t didn'S
work with US then. and II viii noe
work with them now.
Stands on His Record.
THE attempt to attack GoveTnoe
Wilson because of certain statements
which be made in writing history and
in commenting upon events Of historJ
as they appeared to him as historian
viii fail signally. As one great metro
politan newspaper pointed out. Mr.. Ro,
denberg and his kind are simply Blow
ing against the wind Governor W.
son Is running for president on hia
record as a public man. and with that
record the public is fairly well corner
sant. and It will continue to learn msra
as the campaign progresses.
He Is running for president on lin
record as governor of New jersey
what be said and did in that capacity
rather than what he wrote as a histo>
rian, chronicling events and comment,
ing upon them as they appeared to an
impartial observer whose duty It Is To-
write Of things as they are rather than
as they should be or as be would have
them.
Our Republican brethren are enti,
tied to all the thunder they can make
out OF Governor wilson's writinga I
hope they will read them carefully
and thoroughly. They win be able b.,
gain great deal Of valuable informar
ton. and when the context is readI
along with the excerpts which have
been taken from his works for thsl
purpose Of placing him In q false lighk
have no fear as to the results AMI
that is needed is a thorough undsr
L
"Ingersoll sought to disproys NAL
truths and to assail holy Writ By tANI
same methods which the Republicans
are seeking to assail Governor Vn
son."
The average business man has awaE.
ened to the fact that It ID q good in ]
Festment to give some Of his tims nj