The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-25
Statements Comically at Variance, the Bull
 Moose Thinks
REPLIES TO WILSON'S
 SCRANTON SPEECH
Roosevelt Says Bosses Disregard Pri- mary Expression for Clark and Nominated Wilson = Leaves
 Oklahoma for Arkansas

McAlester, okla, September A. Gov. Woodrow Wilson's record as a democrat was taken up by Colonel Roosevelt in an address here tonight. He made his first speech today in Tulsa, Okla, and spent the afternoon in Okla = homa City. T noticed two statements by MT. Wilson," said Colonel Roosevelt in his speech tonight, one appearing in the Sunday papers and one today which are comically at variance with each other.
 ..In one MT. Wilson expresses great satisfaction with his party. He says the democratic party has had substan- tially the same programme for le years. If that is so MT. Wilson didn t , know It for 16 years ago he voted that little detail of his past life and the expressions he used about Mir. Bryan.
 Contradicts Democratic Nominee More than that, the party hasn' t had the same programme for 16 years. 1t has had every conceivable kind or programme. MT Bryan ran the firsr time, Mir Parker next, then MT. Bryan ran again. Now 1t is MT. Wilson. MT. Wilson knows perfectly well that the party wouldn't venture for one moment to adopt it's programme of l6 years ago It's programme then was free silver. Mr. Wilson left it because It's prog ramme was free silver.
 T ask MT. Wilson whether he means that if the programme today was free silver he would vote for 1t, and 1T not. why he bolted. He can choose either horn of the dilemma but he has got to sit on one of the two horns.
 Speaking in Pennsylvania. MT. Will son said that while he was free trader he was not enough of a free trader to hurt. He said: You do not surpose that as democrats are engaged in every kind of enterprise they are going to cut their throats? Why didn he think of that in 1896? He took the view then that if the programme or the democratic party should be put into eessct 1t would cut the throats of tho p ule. Either what he said then ssas e--St frue or what he says nov is not true. He cannot be consistent with both parts of his own record.
 ',,rhe San Francisco Call, an anti Roosevelt paper said in It's issue of last Sunday that MT. Wilson had sad :
 I've are at very critical Juncture in the history of the democratic party. I which the democratic party can gain the confidence of the nation and that is it should have itself committed through and through to progressive principies This is the statement Of the democratic candidate in the mid de of the campaign. He even doesn know whether his party is progressive or not
 Differences With Bosses
 Earlier in his speech tonight Colonel Roosevelt said:
 T noticed the other day that MT. Wilson was said to be having differ ences with the democratic bosses Doth in New York and New Jersey. That Is partly because of the difference be- tween the way in which the progres- siyes carried out their movement last spring and the way in which MT. Will sons nomination was procured at Ba,- timore. We progressives fought the bosses. hoisted the black flag and neither gave nor received quarter.
 "In the democratic party there was no such fight. In the primaries Mr Clark beat Mir. Wilson by more than 200, 900 votes, but none of the bosses at Baltimore paid the slightest heed to the primaries The people were not represented at Baltimore. Taggart and Murphy were for MT. Wilson, and they finally forced the convention to ac- ouiesce in the nomination of MT Will son."
 Colonel Roosevelt left tonight for Arkansas.