The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-09-29
T. r. Hears Storm of APP
pIause When He Men
tons Candidate
SAYS GOVERNOR HAS
NOT STUCK TO TRUTH
Bull Moose Climbs Upon
Table and Declares That
They've Got to
Hear Him

ATLANTA, GA, Sept. 2s.--A teft.
ernor Wilson. in speech at the
auditorium here tonight, by Colonel
Roosevelt, before an animated throns
that packed the auditorium. In the
governors former home town, where
he practiced law, and in the State
w.nere Colonel Rooseyeit,s mother Was
born. the ex-president passed the he
TO the Democratic candidates
In the throng that heard Roosevelt
were scores of Wilson shouters. who
tried TO break up the meeting. AT
one time after an interruption, al
uprour ensued that verged as riot
The ex-president Went along all
right with his speech until he 1afne 10
his personal aliaston To Governor
Wilson. The moment re uttered the
Democratic candidates name, there
were cries OF Wilson, wilson The
Wilson sympathizers cneered iustfs
for a minute, while Roosevelt stood
with hand appraised When the " II
eon applause had Quoted down, ho"se
yelt cried out. Il was about to say
that MIR. Wilson has declared tue
Democratic platform Is not pro"
gram Now cheer that.
This time the Roosevelt partisans
cheered. The colonel had not got
very far along when a fiery-tampereu
Wilson man blarted ous Why did
you repudiate the Republican par
try after you had sought the nomi-
nation at It's hands
The crowd broke loose into catcails
and Kisses Wilson men eheered un,
til they were tired. Roosevelt nAa
To walt i've minutes before he could
reply.
Later on disturbers In the croWa
began yelling for wilson again
Roosevelt stopped. leaped TO aole
and declared with grim determination,
..Now. I'm not in a fancy fencing
match. I'm going To talk and you
can decide after hearing me II you
waut TO believe in me. But YOU re
going TO hear me.
interruptions Ceasse.
After that there were no more M
ferruptions.
sp4ak.ax Ia the aSseHnbiage as
Fellow eseorgians,' the ex- president
askrsf them To repaalate the bsno-
cratic candidate, maintaining tha'
Wilson had nothing bat "a vague policy
national evils Roosevelt assaiied
Wilson for having. as he ansriiy
charged, misrepresented the coionei
in quoting from his campaign utter
anees. Colonel Roosevelt said;
I'll il curious 10 see how TAFT ana
Wilson are drawing together in their
hostility to the Progressive party. ana
it's principles. They stand on the
same ground. Neither Of them mas
one practical proposition TO make
fookinQ toward the betterment OF
single evil.
TAT .soston day before yesterday,
Mr. Wilson stated that | had said |
that IL was inetitahie that the trusts
should build UP an irresistible power.
that | despair OF replacing the power,
and that | suggest that we try our
hest 10 make ths trusts good, pltliha,
kind and lust. and that We tranfer
our ovu affairs 10 those who by sub
ttcty have combined against us. s1lu
the colonel
statements Not True.
Now every one of these statements
IL simuly not true. ask Mr.. Wilson
"a point where and when it was that
said ] wished to make the trusts
.nitifni or kind. He cannot do II.
ana nc knows Nc capnot do IT Ills
statement il an invention, l ask him
10 point out where ] have said that
we are 10 transfer our own aHalrs
10 those who by subtiety have COM
piued against us lie cannot do 1t,
and he knows he cannot do II.
Again his statement that ] have
ever said that the trusts must be
permitted to build up an irresistible
power is net mefcly an untruth, but
Ii the direct reverse of the truth. and
this Mr. Wilson Well knows. Now
Mr.. Wilson has an entire right to
attack and c3i.icize my actual posi-
ton as he chooses, and he has an
entire right, IL he thinks 1t in good
taste, to indulge in the personalities
about me which he has recently in
dulged, but he has no right to mis-
quote me.
Campaign Argument.
.Mr. Wilson asserted that I d.D an
Illegal thing in, order to build ue an
Irresistible power in permitting the
purcf1uye by the United States Steel
CORPORATION of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron company As to this, need only
refer 10 my testimony before the STAN
ley committee. 1t Is simple nonsense
to say that did an illegal thing Mr..
Wilson does not believe It himself, and
never would dream Of making the
statement excepting as campaign ar
gument.
II do not know whether Mr. Wilson
IL my place would have acted as I
did. the colonel went ON in Kissing
tones. but do know that II he had
not 80 acted II would have been be-
cause lie lacked the nerve boldly ana
manfully to meet a great national
crisis ia such fashion that the in
terests of the people should be served
even though because OF serving them
he was himself subsequently to be ex-
posed to attack.
Roosevelt adverted to the breaking
M ~ the Standard Oil trust into COM
ronents parts, and the subsequent rise
Il, value Of it, stock az An instance Of
what Mr.. Tafts proposal OF the hand
linz of corporations means
MI That u the Taft wilson policy he
kneersd. m i = do-nothtng policy.