The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-08-22
WILSON STANDS
ON HIS RECORD.
JOseghus Daniels Invites Close
Study Of Writings.
ISLANDER WON'T WIN NOW.

OANtt0sts WVN WIN NOlts
Chairman Of Democratic Publicity Blu
reau Points Out Errors Of Campaigns
Of Previous Years and Finds Good
MoraI--RooseveIt 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 came to
New York, and, being 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 d0z-
en- others of the works Of the then Re-
publican nominee for president won
dered whether or not had got into the
right place.
II was Immediately set Alright. how
ever. when was informed that the
literary young men were engaged in
cuiling 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 rep
resentative bodies of our people, such
as workingmen and farmers.
IT 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
"sThey (workingmen who object to
government by injunction, are not in
sympathy with men OF good minds and
sound civic morality
Hits QuaI<ers Too.
.sThey 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 ava
lanche OF votes They said that Roose-
welt would not answer that exposure Of
his views, and, of course, he never did.
agreed with them that it was the
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.
THE Republican party is attempting
to do today the same sort Of thing
that the Democrats tried In 1908. The
Democrats out Rodenberged Mr.. Ro-
denberg They were eight years ahead
of him lii this sort Of thing. 1t didn't
work with us then, and it will not
work with them now
Stands on His Record.
.sThe 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
politan 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 well CONVEX
SAINT. and 1t will continue to learn more
as the campaign progresses.
'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 wrote as a histo-
rian, chronicling events and comment
ing upon them as they appeared to an
impartial observer whose duty 1t Is to
write Of things as they are rather than
as they should be or as he would have
them.
"Our Republican brethren are enti-.
tied to all the thunder they can make
out Of Governor Wilson's writings.
hope they will read them carefully
and thoroughly. They will be able to
gain great deal Of valuable informa-
ton, and when the context ID read
along with the excerpts which have
been taken from his works for the
purpose Of placing him In false light
have no fear as to the results. All
that is needed is 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 VIII
son"
The average business man has awak-
ened to the fact that it is good In
vestment to give some. OF his time to