Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-09
COWBOYS GREET ROOSEVELT
Colonel Recalls Old Days on the
Malteze Gross Ranch.
HITS WILSON'S TRUST POLICY
Continue Same Course Pursued
by Administration Under
President Taft.

HELENA, Mont, Sept. S.-Woodrow
Wilson and the democratic party, Colonel
Roosevelt told the people Of Montana to-
day, had nothing to propose for dealing
effectively with the trust problem. Wall
street was so well pleased with the policy
of the administration, he said, that it
was praying "Give us another dissolu-
ton"
Colonel Roosevelt added that Mr.. Will
sons proposal was to do exactly nothing
by continuing in the same course the
Taft administration hao pursued. The
proposal of the progressives, he added,
was to put a stop to the continuance Of
the .Taft-Wilson program Of further le-
galization Of that monopoly under the
guise Of a make-believe assault on
monopoly.
Colonel Roosevelt was in a reminiscent
mood today. He thought more about the
old days o nthe Malteze Cross ranch than
about politics. The colonel was a cow
puncher nearly thirty years ago on a
ranch at Medora, N. D. He passed
through Medora in the night and as the
him there, they came on to Miles City,
where they gave him a true western well
come this morning.
Meets Old Comrades.
Others of his old friends he found scat
tered all along the way across eastern
Montana. There was big Joe" Smith,
who used to hunt cattle rustlers with the
colonel when both were deputy sheriffs
big Joe," now full fledged sheriff,
met his old comrade with an Indian war
whoop. big George Myers was there
and he brought word that Little George"
could not come. Sylvane Ferris, who
went to Chicago as delegate to the re-
publican national convention and voted
for the colonel and who had worked on
the Malteze Cross ranch with him, was
on hand
The younger generation Of cowboys was
out in force. They rode on their ponies
from the ranches, shouting and firing
their six shooters. It delighted the colo
mel, who looked enviously at them In
their sombreros and gay colored shirts
to be back COW punching again. They
rode their horses on the tracks and as
the train pulled out dashed wildly over
the ties in pursuit waving sombreros
and shouting until at last steam proved
superior to horse flesh and they We're
lost in the distance.
r On Trust Regulation.
His address here was delivered before
the progressive state convention. He re-
ferred to the recent speech Of Woodrow
Wilson regarding the proposal of the
progressive party for an interstate in
dustrial commission to regulate larger
corporations. a
"a couple OF days ago." he said. Mr..
Wilson, in speech in New York, said
that a body of men would not have the
wisdom necessary to enable them to
regulate the Industrial processes of the
country. There is no more difficulty in
regulating the Standard Oil or the Steel
corporation than regulating big rail-
road We have actually made the in
terstate commerce law work. We have
found by the test Of actual work that
the way to control the railroads is by
the power of the Interstate
Commerce commission--by regulating and
controlling those railroads and not by
any development of the antitrust law
What want to see done with our
industrial concerns is to see an inter-
state Industrial omission and board
which shall harsi~-.N Standard OIL the
big trust tafr Eas comR&Sii m!R&Sinistrative action
just as the Interstate Commerce com
mission handles the railroads and with a
power extended beyond that of the In
terstate Commerce commission. Mr.. Will
son need not bother himself finding men
to administer such a law. If he cannot
find them, I WILL I will guarantee to
find men who will be able to under
stand and supervise and regulate the
business Of those great industrial corpor-
ations."
Edwards Nominated.
Frank J. Edwards of Helena was nomi-
mated for governor by the progressive
state convention late today.
A full state ticket was named. United
States Senator Joseph M. Dixon was
nominated by acclamation to succeed
himself. George A. Horkan of Rosebuo
county and L. H., Everett of Hill county
were nominated for congressmen-at-large
Bryan is Appointed