The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-22
Declares He Is Buchanan of the Present Industrial
 Situation
CHARGES MANY
 MISSTATEMT . e
Itinerary for His Southern Trip Does Not Include Birmingham-Will Touch Only Montgomery
 and Opelika

l anu OPNtino
 Topeka Kan. September 2f.-"Mr. Viii son is the Buchanan of the present in- austria, situation in the United States"
 Colonel Roosevelt thus summed up his opinion of the democratic candidates position and policies tonight He charged that Governor Wilson s''directly averted the truth.'' and said that his knowledge ! of the Roosevelt administration was gained from the seclusion of the class room at the time when he was still taking | the position of an ultra -conserYa tive and was being carefully groomed for the pres l idency hy George B. Harvey and other representatives of Wall street interests" i Replies to Speeches | Colonel Roosevelt's speech here tonight was devoted largely to reply to Gov ernor Wilson's recent addresses. He came here from a days campaigning in Kan sss.
 At Detroit yesterday" Colonel Roose- welt said, MT. Wilson made statement which purported to be an answer 10 what 1 said ia Colorado. I say purporte1' be- cause it was in no shape or way an answer at all. Moreover. so far as his utterance can be said to contain any i statement at all, it Is simply misstate- ment of facts.
 He states that the trusts grew fast CT during my administration than pre- | viously. Let him be frank enough ant manly enough to admit what he cannot deny that my administration was the i first administration that ever under took to enforce the law against the [ trusts. It is not in accordance with the fact 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 gen eral prosperity.
 But the reason why there was any l growth in illegal trusts at all, as I repeatedly pointed out in messages while was president, was that we were not given the proper law for deal ing with them MT. Wilson is now doing his best to rpevent such a law being | given. The failure of this government l efficiently 10 grapple with the trusts ] is due almost exclusively to the men tlilSe Mir Wqlso4"
 "Mr lyilspn states, in rather dis fngenuoiis form. that had said that II was not possible 0 check the sli.
 
 Wilson does not know that this is an absolute mistake, t is due to his re- fusaI 10 read what l have said and what the platform said. My statement { is the direct reverse of that which Mr Wilson alleges.
 Take Up Trust Criticism "Mr. Wilson says that our proposed commission would not tell how other men should be admitted into the field 1 of competition with the trusts. This Is an absolute misstatement MT Wilson | would do well hereafter not to at tempt to state our position without taking the trouble to find out what 1t is. Our platform says explicitly that our commission must attack unfair competition, false capitalization and | political privilege and by continued trained watchfulness guard and keep open. equally to all the highways ci American commerce.
 1 This is the language of the plat | form. If Mir Wilson had taken the l trouble to read 1t before attacking it ! he would have saved me the neces- | sity of showing that he has directly inverted the truth about it. If he did not know of it. then he had no bus 1 mess to speak on the subject at all
 He continues by saying that our pro- posal is to say to the trusts that they
 
 This is such q preposterous misstate- ment that l suppose MT. Wilson must | have had a theory that he was being funny when he made it.
 i 'If Mir Wilson wishes to be funny cordially advise him to let his humor | find other outlet than that of misrep- lresentation.
 .grhe trouble with Mir. Wilson's po- sition Is fundamental. Professing the ! views he has repeatedly professed. both in. his books during the 5o odd years 1 that he wa8 a reactfonary and in his | speeches during the IS months since. l doubtless sincerely, he abandoned his 1 reactionary beliefs, he is wholly un- | able to advocate or devise any plan which will really control the trust or relieve the present situation.
 At Columbus yesterday Mir. Wilson 1 again, l am sorry to say, in his ina l bility to answer what we progresslves have said, he takes refuge in what l. ! of course. assume to be an uninten tionaI misstatement. He says that leaders of the progressive party have abandoned any serious attempt to meet the main issue of the campaign Have Met All Issues, He Says
 "Tfe knows that is not in accordance with the faets. There is not any issue in the campaign that we have not met Wlln lttTltsSncSS 1IODl llt ldiin u the trusts. He says that every day we seek new issues and shift the ground of debate. This again is not in ac- cordance with the facts. Every issue
 he has raised have met; and I have met 1t fairly by quoting his position by stating 1t exactly and then by ans wering 1t. I have shifted the ground oi debate only when he has shifted. The trouble has been that as soon as have gotten on his ground he realizes that he cannot meet me and hastily jumps to son,c other position.'
 In tho case of great corporations like the Standard Oil. Colonel Roosevelt said he believed the control of the government should be supreme.
 .sAs long as the Standard Oil company behaved itself he continued. t'no inter ference whatever would be had with it.
 But if the Standard Oil company, per sistently misbehaved itself. the govern ment authorities should appoint re- receiver and run the ccncern until they received practical assurance that the di- rections of the government thereafter
 would be compiled with: and if any man higher up In the Standard Oil company behaved after the m amer of Morse. the
 banker, the government would treat him as If treated Morse and if were in
 power. would not pardon him after fl wards.
 V MT. Wilson's position as regards the
 trusts and all industrl Il squestions ia ] (Centinued on Pare Tenl