The Sentinel=record., 1912-09-22
FORMER COMES OUT IN NEW LINE OF ATTACK ON THE DEm.
 ocRATic CANDIDATE.
SAYS HE INvERTs TRUTH
Says Growth of Trusts During His Ad- ministration Was Due to Pros perity and Not to Illegal
 Growth as Alleged.

Topeka, Kas., Sept 21.--"Mr. Wilson IS the huchanan of the present indus trlal situation in the United States"
 Colonel Roosevelt thus summed up ms opinion of the democratic candi- dates position and policies tonight. He charged that Governor Wilson ha l directly inverted the truth" and said that his knowledge of the Roosevelt administration was gained from the seclusion of the class room at the time he was still taking the position Of an ultra-conservative and was be. ing carefully groomed for the presiden- cy by George B. Harvey and other representatives of the Wall street in- terests"
 Colonel Roosevelt's speech here to- night was devoted largely to reply to Governor Wilson's recent addresses. He came here after days campaign ing in Kansas.
 At Detroit yesterday" Colonel Roosevelt said, MT. Wilson made a statement which purDorted to be an answer to what I said in Colorado. l say purp0rted' because it was in no shape or way an answer at all. More over, so far as his utterance can be said to contain any statement at all. 1t is simply a missstatement of facts.
 He states that the trusts grew fas- ter during my administration than previously. Let him be frank enough and manly enough to admit, what he cannot deny, that my administration was the first administration that ever undertook to enforce the law against the trusts. It is not in accordance with the facts to say that they grew faster during my administration than during any other, if by growth is meant a growth in illegal trusts, for most of the growth referred to was merely a growth in corporations due to the general prosperity.
 But the reason why there was growth in illegal trusts at all, as i repeatedly pointed out in messages while l was president was that we were not given the proper law for dealing with them. MT Wilson is now doing his best to prevent such a law being given The failure of this government efficiently to grapole with the trusts is due almost exclusively to the attitude of men like MT. Wilson
 MT Wilson states, in rather dis tinguished form that 1 had said that 1t was not possible to check the su- premaey of the trusts Now if MT Wilson does not know that this is an absolute misstatemeEt, it is due to his deliberate refusal to read what l have said, and what the platform said My statement Is the direct reverse of that which MT. Wilson alleges.
 MT. Wilson says that our proposed commission would not tell how other men should be admitted into the field of competition with the trusts. This is an absolute misstatement MT. Will son would do well hereafter to not attempt to state our position without taking the trouble to find out what < is Our platform says explicitly that our commission must attack un, fair competition, false capitalization and political privilege, and by contin- ued trained watchfulness, guard and keep open equally to all, the high ways of American commerce.
 This is the language of the plat form If Mir. Wilson had taken the trouble to read it before attacking it, he would have saved me the necessity of showing that he had directly invert- ed the truth about it. If he did not know of it. then he had no business to speak on the subject at all. He continues by saying that our proposal is to say to the trusts that they are 'benehcient' and big. but not cruel. This is such a preposterous misstate- ment that l suppose Mir Wilson must have had theory that he was being funny when he made it.
 If MT. Wilson wishes to be funny, 1 cordially advise him to let lis hut nor find some other outlet than that of deliberate misrepresentation
 "rhe trouble with MT. Wilson's po- sition is fundamental. Professing the views he has repeatedly professed. hoth in his books during the years that he was reactionary, and in his speeches during the IS months since, doubtless sincerely, he abandoned his reactionary beliefs, he is wholly un- able to advocate or devise any plan which will really control the trusts or relieve the present situation.
 At Columbus yesterday, MT. Wilson again, am sorry to say. in his inabil- ity to answer what we progressives have said. he takes refuge in what l, of course, assume to be an uninten- tional misstatement. He says that leaders of the progressive party have abandoned any serious attempt to meet the main issues of the cam raign.'
 'sfIe knows that is not in accord with the facts There is not any is'