The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-08-22
WILSON STANDS /
ON HIS RECORD

cratic National COMMITTEE
! Wants Voters to Make
an Investigation.
WILL WIN LEGION OF FRIENDS
Islander 10 Not to Play Part IN
Democratic Campaign, DeeIarss
Publicity Chairman.
| New York, Aug. S.-Josephus Dan
1els, chairman of the publicity COM
mittee OF the Democratic national
committee, said today:
Eight years ago during the presi-
dental campaign of 1904 I came to
New York and, being member OF
the Democratic national committee,
dropped in at the headquarters of tho
committee I found the literary bu-
reau of the committee very actively
engaged in perusing the volumes OF
Theodore Roosevelt. When l saw on
every desk The Winning Of the
West The Life of Thomas H. Ben
| ton and q half dozen others Of the
| works Of the then Republican nominee
for president, l wondered whether or
| not l had gotten into the right place.
II was Immediately set Alright, how
ever, when l was informed that the
literary young men were engaged In
culling from those books some of the
many denunciations and bitter criti-
cisms and attacks made by Theodore
Roosevelt upon public men and meas
ures, and his aspersions upon great
representative bodies of our people,
such as workingmen and farmers.
II found them preparing to send
forth broadcast all over the land such
excerpts from the writings Of Theo-
dore Roosevelt as:
"Cowboys are much better fellows
and pleasanter companions than small
farmers or agricultural laborers; nor
are the mechanics and workmen OF q
great city to be mentioned in the same
breath
"'Mr. Bryan and his adherents have
appealed to the basest set in the land
the farmers
"They (workingmen who object to-
government by injunction) are not In
sympathy with men Of good minds and
sound civic morality
They quoted from what he said
about the Quakers, that those who
would not fight were traitors to their
country.
"They said that when the farmers
and workmen and the Quakers came
to know what Theodore Roosevelt had
written about them they would rise
up with wrath and Indignation and
bury Theodore Roosevelt beneath an
avalanche of votes They said that
Roosevelt would not answer that ex-
posure Of his views, and, Of course, he
never did. I agreed with them that
It was the proper thing to do to her
aid these utterances through the coun-
try. '"' f"''" ' ~. .t@'-~ "
AS to whether or not that sort Of
campaigning had any effect, the re-
suit Of the campaign eight years ago
speaks for itself.
THE Republican party is attempting
10 do today the same sort Of thing
that the Democrats tried in 1908. The
Democrats out.Rodenberged Mr.. Ro-
denberg. They were eight years
ahead Of him in this sort; Of thing. It
didn't work with us then and 1t will
mt xxy1th tharn nnvp
Stands on Record.
"The attempt to attack Gov. Wilson
because Of certain statements which
he made In writing history and in:
commenting upon events of history
as they appeared to him as historian,
will fail signally. As one great metro
politan newspaper pointed out, Mr..
Rodenberg and his kind are simply
Blowing against the wind Governor
Wilson is running for president on
his record as public man, and with
that record the public is fairly we'll
conversant, and 1t will continue to-
learn more as the campaign pro-
crosses. ~
HE is running for president on his;
record as governor Of New Jersey,
what he said and, did in that capacity,
rather than what he wrote as histor-
Ian, chronicling events and comment
ing upon them as they appeared to an
impartial observer whose duty it 10
70 write Of things as they are rather,
than as they should be or az he would
have them.
"Our Republican brethren are en-.
titled to all the thunder they can
make out Of Governor Wilson's writ
ings. + hope they will read them
carefully and thoroughly. They Will
be able, to gain great deal Of valua-
BILE Information and when the context
Is read along with the excerpts which
have been taken from bid works for
the purpose Of placing him In . false.
light, 1have no fear as to the results.
All that a needed ID Q thorough un--