The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-09-05
ROOSEVELT SAYS WILSON
PAYS PROGREsSIVEs TRIBUTE

st. Louis, Mo.-Woodrow Wilson's
stand upon the tariff, the trusts and
the proposal for minimum wage
scales was assailed by Col. Roosevelt
in a speech here today. The colonel
joined the issue squarely with Gov.
Wilson. taking as his text the demo-
cratic candidates speech at Buffalo.
He delivered his address before the
Missouri progressive tsate convention.
Col. Roosevelt left last night for
Iowa where he is to make a number
of campaign speeches. The colonel
saw nothing of Gov. Hadley, who
remained at the state capital.
Gov. Wilson, said Col. Roosevelt,
had paid a warm tribute to the pro-
gressive platform, "a tribute which
l cannot reciprocate as to his plat
form, He denied emphatically that
the progressive planks on the tariff
and the trusts constituted the party's
reel program
Turning to the tariff Col. Roose-
lvelt stated that the governor was
diverting attention from the real is
sue when he took up the tariff
changes as the papacea for the evils
of the day.
Taking up Gov. Wilson's criticism
of the progressive party in regard to
regulation Of trusts Col. Roosevelt
added:
"If the democratic platform really
offers any hope for the solution OF
the trust questions why, during t he
two years that Mr.. Wilson has been
governor of New Jersey, has nothing
whatever been done under Mr.. Will
sons lead or ever attempted by Mr..
Wilson in New Jersey for the regula-
ton of the TRUSTEE"
The colonel was asked to advise
the state convention as to whether
it should name a full state ticket.
II feel that you ought to-" he
said. II feel that except in those
states in which we can take over
bodily either of the old parties we
ought to run a straight progressive
ticket"
Col. Roosevelt's throat still troubl-
ed him. The colonel spent most of
the day travelling across Indiana and
Illinois.
In his speech before the progress
sive convention Col. Roosevelt said:
Yesterday Mr.. Wilson, alluding to
third party platform. asked: With
that program who can differ in his
heart. who can divorce himself in
sympathy from the great object to
advancing the interests of human
beings wherever 1t Is possible to adj
vance,
Il am very glad that Mr.. Wilson
should be with us in his heart. but
If he sympathizes with us in his
heart why did not the democrats, in
their platform make a program at
least remotely resembling ours? Our
sympathy for the program is not only
with our hearts; it Is with our heads
and our hands also"
when he comes to the tariff, Mr..
Wilson attempts to quote me, but he
is singularly unsuccessful. He states,
for instance. that | am not concerned
with he interests of the general tax
payer, the general public. If he would
take the trouble to read what l have
said or to read our platform he
would find that the commission prin-
ciple which we are hostile has for
one of it's special objects the careful
consideration of the needs of the
general public.
we are advocating the commits
sion system which has been tried in
Germany and which has beenaone OF
the pieces of governmental mechan-
ism that have been SO extraordinary
" successful in building VI the great
prosperity of the German empire
With the report of the platform
committee tomorrow and the nomina-
ton of a complete state ticket which
the progressive party will place in
the field for the November election.
it is expected the final adjournment
Of the state convention will occur late
in the afternoon. The session this
afternoon was short and mainly de-
sion last night passed upon the APP
airy officers and the various commit
tees