Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-26

DenouncinG Woodrow Wilson, demo-
cratic candidate for the presidency. Rep
resentative William 4. Rodenberg OF
Illinois today sounded the keynote Of the
republican attack on the choice of the
Baltimore convention. sending his chal-
lenge out to the country. while repub-
lican representatives cheered him and
democrats listened with attention.
Before the House of Representatives
Representative Rodenberg hurled satire
and defiance into the democratic camp
and upheld the administration and claims
of William Howard Taft. His speech was
interpoiated with pertinent paragraphs
from the writings of Woodrow Wilson.
and quoting them one by one he sought
to prove that Wilson is an enemy OF the
foreign born American. an enemy to the
old soldier. an enemy to the labor union
and turncoat in politics, because of his
dealings in relation to William Jennings
Bryan.
Tribute to Taft.
with satire. yet he found time to pause
in his speech and pay President Taft
tribute. in which he said:
William Howard Taft needs no defense
When the froth ard foam and fury OF
misrepresentation shall have disap-
peared, when the pillows of billingsgate
shall have subsidized, when the calm sue
ceeds the storm. the sober. thinking
people, who are in a majority In this
country. Will do fun justice to tfis
brave. fearless and manly man who has
never IA led TO do the right as God
has given him to see the right They
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own successor. for in him they recoS-
niZe the dignity and the majesty of an
honest man who has faithfully upheld
the best traditions of the republican
party. the party of progress and pro-
lection, the party of a peoples hope
and of q nations desire. the party that
believes In preserving in all its strength
and purity the Constitution of the
fathers.
:. We stand at Armagcddon and battle for
Representative Rodenberg started his
denunciation of Gov Wilson by refer
ences to the governors writings. He
said:
..He has been most prolific writer. eX-
ploring every nook and corner of the
field of history. sociology and political
economy In his voluminous writings and
public addresses every subject in which
the American people have ever evinced
the slightest interest, with the possible
exception of the question OF race suicide.
IS treated in manner which reflects
credit upon his intellectual courage and
independence IL. not upon his political
foresight and acumen.
Before Bee Buzzed
However. in defense of the scholarly
professor and man of letters II must be
said that at the time he was giving ex-
preston 10 his honest convictions on
these multitudinous subjects his fine lit
erary soul was unveXed and unannoyed
by the alluring prospect of political pref
erment The shadow of the White House
had not fallen athwart his peaceful path.
The presidential bee had not yet begun
10 buzz. In fact, IL had not even been
born
Representative Rodenbcrg called at
tention to thc fact that Gov. wilson's
represented mature views, and
then proceeded to compare the Prince
Thomas Jefferson. He said:
To-day the mantle of the immortal JEFF
ferson rests on the narrow but classic
shoulders of the Princeton professor.
Amid scenes of great excitement IL was
placed there on the second day OF July
by the frenzied followers of the lamented
Jefferson in convention assembled at Bal
timore. Ii was done in the daytime. in
the full glare of the midday sun. at an
hour when the spirits of the departed
that hover forever near the scenes or
their earthly activities are supposed 10
go into retirement. preparing for their
nightly walks Jefferson was taken at a
disadvantage, and he is. therefore. not
to blame for il given an opportunity. the
spirit of the author of the Declaration or
would certainly have pro-
tested, and protested vigorously. In right
eous indignation he would have pointed
to page 3 of volume 4 of Prof. Wilson's
History OF the American People. in
which appears this sentiment:
Mr.. jefferson was an aristocrat, who
practiced the arts of poll
tician. and exhibited oftentimes the sort
OF instncerity which subtle natures yield
to without loss of essential integrity.
Jefferson Called Radical.
He would next have pointed TO page
$50 of Prof Wilson's Life OF George
Washington in which he chafecterizes
Thomas Jefferson as a philosophical rad