New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-04
For First Time Directs Extend.
ed Attack on the President
and His Predecessor.
CALLS T. R. INCOMPETENT
Declares Taft Has Failed to
Alter Policies Begun Under
Colonel, When Trusts
Grew Phenomenally.

indianapolis, Oct. s-For the first time
during the national campaign, Governor
Woodrow Wilson tonight directed an eI-
| tended attack on the administrations Of
President Taft and ex-President Roose-
welt The Governor charged that Colonel
Roosevelt as President had been found
incompetent" Mr.. Taft, he said, had,
on the other hand. failed to alter tho poll
cies inaugurated under President Roose-
velts administration. when trusts and
monopolies grew upon a scale never be-
fore dreamed Of"
In the picturesque illumination OF
baseball park the Governor saw spread
before him tonight for several hundred
feet In tho bleachers and on the Geld 90
immense throng.
The Governor launched Immediately int
hts attack on his two opponents. II was
the first time he mentioned them by nams
at any length. The Governor said:
What 7 want to call your attention 10
is that the new third party has not
drawn to itself the full strength or even
all OF the principal leaders or the insur-
gent Republicans. because this circInl-
stance appeals to every man who thinks
the present situation over; tn. very things
that we are protesting against. the very
conditions we are trying 10 alter are
present Republican party, because 1t e
two leaders Of the two branches OF the
present Republican party, because 4 e
true that these conditions were just a.
much created under Mr.. Roosevelt as they
have been created under Mr.. Taft.
There was 2 growth during his aaG Sint
we call trusts upon scale never oeror'
dreamed OF and upon greater scale
than has been characteristic OF the ad'
ministratton OF his successor.
You have the extraordinary spectacle
of two branches OF the Republican party
both OF them led by men clearly RESPONSE.
BILE for the very conditions which Nc ars
seeking 10 alter. and the reason that some
of tho insurgent Republicans are not FOL
lowing Mr.. Roosevelt the reason that mel
like Mr. La Toilette, for example. are not
following Mr.. Roosevelt In that they az
ready have tested Mr.. Roosevelt when ne
was President, ana have founu tlat ne was
not willing TO cooperate with them along
any line that would be eficie1t IN the
checking OF the evils OF which we coIn-
plain.
So that the leader OF the very move
ment which Is proposed for our emdncipa-
ton is q man who has been tried In the
very matter and not found either willing
or competent 10 accomplish the oOJecs
that we now seek. In order TO confirm inS
view OF the matter you have only to reaa
Mr.. la Follette's biography. There in de,
tail IL is told how Mr.. La Toilette ana
others like him carried proposals TO ~
then President, Mr.. Roosevelt, which wouio
have made this campaign tnconceiNaoh
and after he had, feeling his first generous
impulse, consented to cooperate WIFE
them ne subsequently, drew back and 70.
fused 10 cooperate with them, under wnae
influences do not care 10 conjecture. %
cause IL Is not my duty. and Il would ~
very distasteful 10 me, to call In quesuc'
the motives Of this gentleman. -,
That Is not my object or my deelre y!
object IL merely to point out the tac,s
that the very conditions we are trylng
remedy we're built up under these two sens
tlemen, who are the opponents OF uo
Democratic party.
The Governor attacked the pianks n ths
Progressive party platform proposing 90
cial reforms. He said:
Is Il not true that when Theodore Roostt
welt was President Of the United stats
the people of the United States werc VII;
ing 10 follow him wherever he led? Ans
where did ne lead them2 When do ~
turn In the direction OF this great upE'
OF humanity How long was the COVE.
ton delayed? How impossible was II tcI
him 10 see IL when his arm was strouS
IN come TO the succor Of the weak, ana
now he has seen il when he wishes 10 ~
gain their confidence which by his faifun
10 act he has forfeited.