Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-19
wilson STANDS
/ ON HIS RECORD
ljosephus Daniels of Demo-
cratic National Committee
Wants Voters to Make
an Investigation.
WILL WIN LEGION OF FRIENDS
Siander 10 Not to Play q Part In
Democratic Campaign, Declares
Publicity Chairman.


Publicity Chairman. 4
New York, Aug. 8.-Josephus Dan,
iels, chairman of the publicity COM,
mittee Of the Democratic NATIONAL
committee, said today:
Eight years ago during the presi-l
Dental campaign of 1904 l came to-
New York and, being a member Of
the Democratic national committee, /
dropped In at the headquarters Of the,
committee. found the literary bu-I
reau Of the committee very actively
engaged In perusing the volumes OF
Theodore Roosevelt. When saw onl
every desk The Winning Of the
West The Life Of Thomas H. Ben,
ton and half dozen others of the
works of the then Republican nominee
for president, ! wondered whether or,
not had gotten into the right place;
"I 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 criti-
cisms and attacks made by Theodore,
Roosevelt upon public men and meas;
ures, and his aspersions upon great,
representative bodies of our people,
such as workingmen and farmers. !;
Il found them preparing to send
forth broadcast all over the land such
10 i,,oy of frhnn'
dore 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
"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 and Indignation and
bury Theodore Roosevelt beneath an
avalanche of votes. They gaid that
Roosevelt would not answer that ex-
posure Of his views, and, of course, he
never did. | agreed with them that
1t was the proper thing to do to her.
aid these utterances through the coun-
try.
"As to whether or not that sort of
campaigning had any effect, the re.
suit of the campaign eight years ago
speaks for itself.
'The Republican party is attempting
to do today the same sort of thing
that the Democrats tried in 1908. The
Democrats out-Rodenberged Mr.. Re-
denberg. They were eight years
ahead of him in this sort Of thing. 1t
didn't work with us then and it will
uUl WOlh Win tGSlll IOW'
Stands on Record.
"The attempt to attack Gov. 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
politan newspaper pointed out, Mr.
Rodenberg and his kind are simply
Blowing against the wind Governor
Wilson is running for president or
his record as public man, and with
that record the public Is fairly wei
conversant, and 1t will continue tt
learn more as the campaign pro
crosses.
"He Is running for president on his
record as governor Of New Jersey
what he said and did In that capacity
rather than what he wrote4s histor
Ian, chronicling events and comment
ing upon them as they appeared to al
impartial observer whose duty 1t II
to write of things as they are rathel
than as they should be or as he woult
have them.
Our Republican brethren are en-
titled to all the thunder they car
make out of Governor Wilson's writ
ings. / hope they will read then
carefully and thoroughly. They will
be able to gain great deal Of valua
BILE information and when the contex
4, xoad o1nnot with fha pxcnrnfu Whinl
have been taken from his works TO
the purpose Of placing him In falls
light, have no fear as to the results
All that is needed is thorough ur
derstanding,
"Ingersoll sought to disprove Bibl
truths and to assail Holy Writ by tn
same methods which the Republican
are seeking to assail Gov. Wilson"
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