Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-09-10
WILSON STANDS
ON His RECORD
JOsephus Daniels Invites Close
Study Of Writings.
ISLANDER WON'T WIN NOW.

| Chairman of Democratic Publicity Blu
-eau Points Out Errors of Campaigns
of Previous Years and Finds q Good
MoraI-Roosevelt Also Wrote Books
| and Made Bitter Attacks on Various
Men and Classes.
| New York.-Josephus Daniels, chair
man Of the publicity committee Of the
| Democratic national committee, said
| today:
/ Eight years ago during the presi-
| dental campaign of 1904 l came to
| New York, and, being a member Of the
Democratic national committee, drop
ped in at the headquarters of the COM
mittee. found the literary bureau of
| the committee very actively engaged in
| perusing the volumes of Theodore
| Roosevelt. When / saw on every desk
The Winning of the West The Life
of Thomas III. Benton and half doz-
en- others of the works OF the then Re-
publican nominee for president I won
dered whether or not l had got into the
right place
81 was Immediately set Alright, how
| ever, when / Was informed that the
literary young men were engaged in
| culling from those books some of the
| many denunciations and bitter critf-
| ciSms and attacks made by Theodore
| Roosevelt upon public men and meas
ures and his aspersions upon great rep
| resentative bodies of our people, such
| as workingmen and farmers.
81 found them preparing to send
forth broadcast all over the land such
excerpts from the writing of Theodore
Roosevelt as:
| "'COwboys are much better fellows
| and pleasanter companions than small
| farmers or agricultural laborers, nor
| are the mechanics and workmen of a
| great city to be mentioned in the same
| breath
| "'Mr. Bryan and his adherents have
| appealed to the basest set in the land
| the farmers
| "'They (wOrkingmen who object to
| government by injunction) are not in
| sympathy with men of good minds and
| sound civic morality
| Hits Guaksr9 Too.
"They quoted from what he said
about the Quakers, that those who
| would not fight were traitors to their
| country.
| "They said that when the farmers
| and workmen and the Quakers came to
| know what Theodore Roosevelt had
written about them they would rise up
with wrath ana Indignation and bury
| Theodore Roosevelt beneath an ava
lanche of votes. They said that Roose-
| welt would not answer that exposure of
his views, and, of course, he never did.
| proper thing to do to herald these ut
terances through the country.
"As to whether or not that sort of
campaigning had any effect the result
of the campaign eight years ago speaks
for itself
1.-THE Republican party is attempting
| to do today the same sort of thing
| that the Democrats tiled in 1908. The
Democrats out-Rodenberged Mr. Ro-
denberg They were eight years ahead
| of him in this sort of thing. 1t didn't
| work with US then, and it will not
| work with them now
Stands on His Record.
1.-The attempt to attack Governor
Wilson because of certain statements
which he made in writing history and
in commenting upon events of history
as they appeared to him as historian
will fail signally AS one great metro
politap newspaper pointed out, Mr.. Ro.
denberg and his kind are simply Blow
ing against the wind Governor Will
son is running for president on his
record as public man. and with that
record the public is fairly we'll CONVEX
SAINT, and it will continue to learn more
as the campaign progresses.
"He is running for president on his
record as governor of New Jersey :
what ne said and lid in that capacity
rathel. than what he wrote as hist3-
rian, cbroaicling events aud comment
ing upon them as they appeared to an
impartial observer whose duty it is tC
WIitS VI tutlSS do luCy ulG AolhCA lA1t u
az they should be or as he would have
them.
sour Republican brethren are enti-
tied to all tie thunder they can make
out of Governor Wilson's writings.
hope they will read them carefully
and thoroughly. They will be able to
gain a great deal OF valuable informa
ton, and when the context is read
along with the excerpts which have
been taken from his works for the
purpose of placing him in false light
l have no fear as TO the results. All
that is needed is a thorough under
standing.
"Ingersoll sought to disprove Bible
truths and to assail Holy Writ by the
same methods which the Republicans
are seeking to assail Governor WI
son."
U4hn On hfrciroac man has wa K