The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-10-09
WILSON STATES FACTS.
MAKES TELLING ATTACK on TWO
OPPONENTS.
FONTS to Their ffsilurc-Declares Coll
onei Has Been Found "Incompc-
tent" As observation-disclosures for
Present Evil.

ume during the national campaign
Gov. Woodrow Wilson tonight direct
ed an extended attack on the admin
istrations OF President Taft and for
mer President Roosevelt. The COVER
nor charged that Col. Roosevelt, as
president had been found ''incom-
petent." Mr.. Taft. he said had on
the other hand failed to alter the pol
ices inaugurated under President
Roosvelt's administration when
trusts and monopoly grew up on a
scale never before dreamed Of"
In the picturesque illumination of
the base ball park the governor saw
spread before him tonight for several
hundred feet In the bleachers and on
the field an immense throng.
The governor launched Immediately
into his attack on his two opponents.
IL was the first time he mentioned
them by name at any length.
What I want to call your attention
to-" said the governor. lis that the
new third party has not drawn to it
self the full strength or even all Of the
principal leaders Of the insurgent Re-
publicans because this circumsta nee
appeals u every man who thinks
the present situation over; the very
things that we are protesting against.
the very conditions under the two
leaders o. the two branches of the
present Republican party because IL
In true that these conditions are just
as much created under Mr.. Roose-
welt as they have been created under
Mr.. Taft
There was growth during his ad-
ministration of the great monopolies
which we call trusts. upon a scale
never before dreamed of and upon a
greater scale than has been charac-
teristic of the administration of his
successor
Some time ago during the cam
paign which preceded the two Re-
publican political conventions you re-
member that there was very in
teresting campaign between Mr.. Taft
and Mr.. Roosevelt and everything
that anybody could say against Mr..
Taft. Mr.. Roosevelt said and every
thing anybody could say against
Mr.. Roorsvelt. Mr.. Taft said and the
Democrats were inclined to believe
both OF them. for the truth was that
Mr.. Taft was merely the successor of
Mr.. Roosevelt In the prosecution of
policies which Mr.. Taft did not alter
and merely sought to confirm and es-
tabiish.
You have therefore this extraordi-
nary spectacle. OF two branches of
the Republican party. both Of them
led by men clearly responsible for the
very conditions which we are seeking
TO alter. And the reason that some
OF the insursent Republicans are not
following Mr. Roosevelt. the reason
that men like Mr.. La Toilette. for ex-
ample. are not following Mr.. Roose-
welt. L. that they already have tested
Mr.. Roosevelt when he was president
and have found that he was not will
ing to cooperate with them along
any line that would be effective In
the checking OF the evils OF which We
complain.
80 that the leader OF the very
,novopnapf yhich A., .ro,o.oa g.. -.
emancipation is "A man who has been
tried I'm this very matter. and not
found either willing or competent to
accomplish the objects that we now
seek. In order To confirm my view OF
the matter. you have only to read Mr..
La Follette's biography. There. In de-
tail. IL L. told how MIR. La Toilette
and others like him carried proposals
TO the then president. Mr.. Roosevelt.
which would have made this campaign
inconceivable. and after he had, feel
ing his first generous impulse. cor
sented to cooperate with them,
subsequently drew back and re. ..sed
To- cooperate with them. under what
influence 1 don't care to conjecture,
because II Is not my duty. and 1t
would be very distastefui TO mo to call
In question the motives OF this gen.
t,eman.
ITO my mind. II Is a choice between
Tweedle-dum and Tweedie-dee to
choose between the leader OF the one
branch CT the Republican party and
the leader OF the other branch OF the
Republican party. because what the
whole country knows to be true. these
gentlemen deny The whole country