The Washington times., 1912-08-30
COLONEL DISPUTES
W|LEYS CLAIM TO
PURE FOOD FAME
Says He, And Not Former
Chemist, Is Entitled
ls To Credit.

Dr Harvey w. Wiley and Theodore
Roosevelt are going to lock horns pres
emily. When they do, 1t will be a spec
tacle even more entertaining than the
Hoosevelt-Penrose controversy DR.
Wiley and the colonel will mix IL in an
effort each to send the other to the An
anias Club and it promises to be one of
the finest bouts of stressfui political
campaign.
Colonel Roosevelt is laying claim to
credit for the enactment of the pure
food law and DR.. Wiley not only de-
nies that the former President deserves
any credit for it but he is going to take
the stump for Wilson and tell the peo-
pie all about II. Moreover, the militant
former chief chemist is going about the
country to speak on the theme: -
The Destruction of the Pure Food
Law by Roosevelt
DR.. Wiley will charge Roosevelt with
responsibility for the establishment of
the Remsen board, now SO widely con-
demned. This is the board which is re-
sponsible for the fact that the use of
benzoate of soda as a preservative Is
permitted. -
Already At 1t.
ahe controversy between Roosevelt
and Wiley has already got to the point
where Roosevelt has alluded to the doc
tor as enthusiastically impractical" and
the doctor has declared:
Theodore Roosevelt's capacity for
Ananiasing beats that of any man on
EARTH
mighty verbal wallups NAV be looked
hafnra s.r..
close.
the details of the situation between
DR.. Wiley and Roosevelt became known
today in connection with the fact that
DR.. Wiley has let it be known he will
make a series of speeches for Wilson
in Indiana That is Dr. Wiley's home
State, and they love and admire him
there, Just as they eXalt George Ade
and Albert ]. Beveridge.
So he is sure of good crowds. He will
speak first at Terre Haute, October .
and then. will speak at number of
other points.
The controversy between Dr.. Wiley
and the colonel really dates back to the
days of the Roosevelt Administration.
The two did not jibe on the pure food
question. That fact has long been
up is the fact that DR.. Wiley was out
lecturing at Winfield, Kan, recently.
DR. .Wiley's Version.
Friends of Roosevelt had given him
credit for the enactment of the pure
food law. DIR. Wiley was asked to tell
the truth about 1t. The doctor said so
far as he knew, Roosevelt had never
lifted q finger to get the pure food law
enacted and he charged Roosevelt, when
asked to recommend it, in a message
said 1t was mot important enough to
mention"
Senators Hepburn, McCumber, Colonel
Hepburn, and others were given credit.
One Walter S. Myer, of Winfield, wrote
the colonel and Roosevelt wrote back
saying the pure food law was enacted
because of the very active part took
in behalf of it,
The colonel said further that DR..
Wiley and others. who had been trying
to get the law, could do nothing be-
cause they were Enthusiastically imprac-
tical." and when he took hold of 1t he
got his Secretary of the Interior, James
K. CARRIED, and other able men to help.
To this letter to Myer, DR.. Wiley has
made this observation:
Theodore Roosevelts capacity for
Ananiasing beats that Of any man on
earth, S ! shall show. James r. Gar
field was not appointed Secretary of the
Interior until January, 1907, six months
after the pure food law was enacted" "