Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1912-08-20
WILSON STANDS
ON HIS RECORD
Josephus Daniels Invites Close
Study Of Writings
ISLANDER WON'T WIN NOW.

Chairman of Democratic Publicity Blu.
-eau Points Out Errors Of Campaigns
of Previous Years and Finds Good
MoraI-RooseveIt Also Wrote Books
and Made Bitter Attacks on Various
Men and Glasses.
New York.-Josephus Daniels, chair
man of the publicity committee 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, drop
ped in at the headquarters of the COM
mittee. | found the literary bureau Of
the committee very actively engaged In
perusing the volumes of Theodore
Roosevelt. When saw on every desk
"Fhe Winning of the West The Life
of Thomas FL. Benton and half doZ-
en- others of the works Of the then Re-
publican nominee for president won
dered whether or not / had got into the
right place.
II was Immediately set Alright, how
ever, when / 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 rep
resentative bodies of our people, such
as workingmen and farmers.
Il found them preparing to send
forth broadcast all over the land such
excerpts from the writing of Theodore
Roosevelt as:
"'Cowboys are much better fellows
and pleasanter companions than small
farmers or agricultural laborers, nor
are the mechanics and workmen of a
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
Hits Quakers Too.
''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 ava
lanche of votes. They said that Roose-
| welt would not answer that exposure OF
his views, and, Of course. he never did.
1 agreed with them that it was the
proper thing to do to herald these ut
terances through the country.
"As to whether or not that sort OF
campaigning had 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. The
Democrats out-Rodenberged Mr.. Ro
denberg. They were eight years ahead
of him in this sort of thing. 1t didn't
work with us then. and it will moi
work with them now.
| Stands on His Record.
"The attempt to attack Governor
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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.. Ro
denberg and his kind are simply Blow
ing against the wind Governor vii
son is running for president on his
record as public man, and with thai
record the public is fairly well CONVEX
SAINT. and it will continue to learn moro
as the campaign progresses.
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 histo
rian, chronieling events and comment
ing upon them as they appeared to al
impartial observer whose duty it Is tt
write Of things as they are rather thar
as they should be or as he would hav,
them.
"Our Republican brethren are emit
tied to all the thunder they can make
out of Governor Wilson's writings.
hope they will read them CAREFUL,
and thoroughly. They will be able t.
gain a great deal of valuable informa
ton, and when the context is reat
along with the excerpts which hav'
been taken from his works for thu
purpose of placing him in false ligh
have no fear as to the results. AL
that is needed is thorough under
, standing.
"Tngersoll sought to disprove BibI'
truths and to assafl Holy Writ by tbs
same methods which the Republican,
are seeking to assail Governor WI
SON.
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