Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-03
Representative Henry Replies
to Rodenberg Attack.
CHARGES ARE CHALLENGED
Party's Nominee Called Greatest
Democrat of the Day.
POLITICAL RECORD CLEAN
Held Not Anti-Jefferson, Anti-For-
eign, Anti-Labor, Anti-Soldier
and Pro-Chinese.

Answering the slurs upon Woodrow
Wilson. democratic nominee for the pres
idency as voiced by Representative Roden-
berg of Illinois in the House recently,
Representative Henry of Texas challeng-
ed the truth of the republican statements,
and upheld Woodrow Wilson as the
greatest democrat Of the day, In a speech
made on the floor Of the House this aft
ernoon.
Mr.. Henry challenged the charge of
Representative Rodenberg that Woodrow
Wilson was an 'anti-Jefferson, anti
foreign, anti-labor. anti-soldier and pro-
Chinese candidate for the presidency"
Il here promptly challenge and deny
this Statements said Mr.. Henry Gov
Wilson stands before the country with the
democratic nomination. in courageous at
titude, with nothing to conceal. with no
apologies to make and as the one man
aspiring to the presidency unfettered. in
dependent. clean in politics. able. faith
/ full. and with Incompatible record Of
public service. In this contest the chance
remark of any candidate made or writ
ten in the past will count for naught.''
Test of Campaign.
The supreme tests. in the approaching
| campaign. Mr.. Henry said, would be the
ability and the intention of the candidate
to redeem platform promises and party
pledges. From that standpoint, he de-
clared, the democratic party presented
Woodrow Wilson as against the unre-
deemed promises Of Taft and Roosevelt.
I'VE enter the fray with eagerness.'
continued Henry, and go to the people
with the pledge that our. candidate
stands for the things that will bring re-
lief to the overburdened masses, and
will keep his party's plighted word. as
he has kept it in the past. and We chal-
lenge its conpa rison with the historic
fact that Mr.. Taft won the votes of the
people with his pledges and those Of
his party's platform, and after the cleo
ton turned his back upon those who
had lifted him into high Office and ut
terly failed in his performances. as was
done by Mr.. Roosevelt, the candidate
of George w. Perkins. E. II. Gary and
the steel trust. the greatest financial
organization in the world. We gladly
candidates and the cause they typify.
and you will not find democracy's can
didates apologize. timid or Sinking the
issue"
Says Taft Has Failed.
Henry charged that President Taft had
failed to redeem his promises to revise
the tariff downward.
The Texas democrat took up Roden-
berg's charges one by one and placed an
entirely different construction upon Gov.
Wilson's previous utterances regarding
Thomas jefferson. foreign emigration,
labor. the old soldiers and the relations
between Wilson and Bryan. If Thomas
Jefferson were to return to earth today.
asserted Mr.. Henry, he would march un-
der the Woodrow Wilson banner, despite
the yelled criticisms made of Jefferson by
Wilson, the historian.
Defending Wilson's attitude on immi-
grafton, Henry said:
II challenge the gentleman to point to
a single instance where Wilson, in his
history or elsewhere, ever said word
against the worthy immigrants from
Italy. Poland or Hungary. the homes of
Garibaldi. kosciusko and kossuth. He
would exclude the vicious. the lawless
and the -depraved. Are they not the
meancr eOrt?'
Friend Of Laboring Man.
Henry declared that Wilson was the
friend of labor and that his record on
that subject would dwarf both those Of
Roosevelt and Taft
In this connection he reviewed at great
length the measure advocated by Gov.
Wilson since he became Governor of New
Jersey. asserting that in six months Will
son accomplished more for labOring men
than had been accomplished in any pre-
ceding twenty years. Mr.. Henry also
reviewed other legislation sponsored by
Woodrow Wilson since he became gov
ernor, including an employers liability
act, child labor law, safety appliance
act plumbers license act, a semi
monthly pay act for railroad employees and
laws providing for an eight-hour day on
state, county and municipal work and
eliminating contract labor in penal insti
tutions.
Mr. Henry also paid a high tribute to
BRYAN, and regretted that he could not
be present in the House to reply to 1.-THE
vicious and almost brutal assault made
on his good name by the strong stand
pat republican from Illinois, Mr.. Rodeu-
berg