The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-08-08
BATTLE OPENED
AGAINST WILSON

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. Special-
! representative William A. Rodenberg.
OF Illinois, Friday opened the Re
puphCah battle against Governor
| W oouroW wilson by declaring that the
! democratic nominee was not i'm SYM
patty with organized labor. foreign
porn Americans and old soldiers. For
MS ammunition the Illinois member
went to the voluminous writing of
Governor Wilson, which. he said. rep
mature views.
That the Taft men are going to
MAKE the most of what Governor Will
son mas said in the past on these sub
Jec'S' and especially about labor
Uil0ls, was at once apparent. Mr.
INouenberg is probably the most ef-
| iecCVe orator on the Republican side
now in Congress. 1t was he who four
years ago referred to Uncle Joer
cannon as the iron king" of politics.
llIs coieagues cheered him TO the
The Democrats merely sat at alton
uoh and smiled. Most of them had
reau IN the American Federationist an
eultorial giving the Republican and
Democratic labor planks side by side
anu indicating pretty clearly that the
officials of the American Federation
OF Labor lean toward Governor Viii
son.
The heidelberg speech will not be al
ioWtO 10 so unanswered bV the
CIatS. Representative Henry, of Texas
announced yesterday that he will i'm N
Few days defend his party's standard
pt1rer against the attacks of the I'LL
nolS member. Representative Palmer
9t pennsylvania, also will make n
democratic speech before the end Of
the session. in which he will anSwor
some OF the things to which Mr. Ro-
denberg referred
Mr.; Henry intimated that his sneecb
VIII De hot and said that he will nav
M, nlS respects TO both Mr.. Taft and Colo
In addition to Mr.. Rodenberg's re-
MARKS. Representative Humphrey. of
TMb3nSrnidhgton; replied to the speech of
Nepraska; In which the latter con-
demned the recent Republican conven-
ton IN Chicago and charged that the
delegates from the State of Washing
ton had been obtained for President
Tatt through political corruption
MIR. Rodenberg referred to GoVernor
Wilson as most prolific writer" who
nS ueNpIoTeo every nook and corner
political economy" in his wTitings
the speaker said, the Governor gave
a time when his soul was not vexed 'bv
the aIluring prospect of political pre-
lerneh T., lie compared Governor VIII
Son 70 ihomaS Jefferson. and continued.
ouay the mantle of the immortal
Jenerson rests on the narrow but clas-
SIC shoulders of the Princeton profess
sor. Jefferson. IL given an opportunity
would certainly in righteous indigna,
ton point to page of volume Z of
Professor Wilson'S History of the
American People, in which appears this
Mr.. Jefferson was an aristocrat
VINO deliberately practiced the arts OF
a politician. and exhibited oftentimes
the sort Of insincerity which subtle
natures yield to without loss OF essen
tial integrity
He would next have pointed TO page
zSS OF Professor Wilson'S Life of
George Washington in which he char
2cterlzes Thomas Jefferson as "a phiIo-
Sophical radical rather than n states
man, and says further that Washing
needed Watching"
Governor Wilson's writings on the
Immigration question Mr.. Rodenbere re-
viewed at length. Mr.. Rodenberg quoted
Governor Wilson's praise of Chinese
ana declared that there must have
peen rejoicing in every Chinese laun-
dry in the United States" when the
governor was nominated at Baltimore
NJ. Mr. RodenberE conluded his speech
with praise for President Taft