The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-08-28
WILSON STANDS
ON HIS RECORD
JosephuS Daniels Invites Close
Study Of Writings.
ISLANDER WON'T WIN NOW.

Chairman Of Democratic Publicity 6u-
reau Points Out Errors Of Campaigns
Of Previous Years and Finds a Coco
MorsI-Roosevelt Also Wrote Books
and Made Bitter Attacks on Various
81 Men and Glasses
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 j came to
New York, and, being a member of the
Democratic national committee, drop
ped In at the headqr arters 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 II. Benton and a half doz-
en- others of the works of the then Re.
publican nominee for president l won.
dered whether or not had got into the
right place.
II was Immediately set Alright, bow
ever, when / was informed that the
literary young men were engaged In
culling from those books some Of the
many denunciations and bitter criti.
clsfis and attacks made by Theodore
Roosevelt upon public men and meas
ures and his aspersions upon great rep
resentatlve bodies of our people, such
as workingmen and farmers.
81 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 ran small
farmers or agricultural labo. ors, mol
are the mechanics and worknlen Of q
great city to be mentioned in the same
breath
"'Mr. Bryan and his adberents have
appealed to the basest set In the land
the farmers
""They (workingmen who object II
government by Injunction are not II
sympathy with men of good minds and
sound civic morality
Hits Quakers Too.
"They quoted from what he sait
about the Quakers, that those wht
would not fight were traitors to theil
country.
'-They said that when the farmers
and workmen and the Quakers came Il
know what Theodore Roosevelt ha(
written about them they would rise NJ
with wrath and indignation and burr
Theodore Roosevelt beneath an ava
lanche of votes. They said that Roose
welt would not answer that exposure o.
his views. and, Of course, he never did
/ agreed with them that 1t was thu
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 Tht
Democrats out-Rodenberged Mr.. Ro
denberg They were eight years ahead
Of him IN this sort of thing. 1t didn't
work with us then, and It will moi
work with them now.
Stands on His Record.
'.rhe 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 WI
son is running for president on his
record as a public man, and with that
record the public is fairly we'll CONVEX
SAINT, and II 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
rfan, chronicling events and comment
ing upon them as they appeared to an
impartial observer whose duty 1t Is &c
write Of things as they are rather than
as they should be or as he would have
them.
"Our Republican brethren are emit.
tied to all the thunder they can make
out OF Governor Wilson's writings ]
hope they win read them carefully
and thoroughly. They will be able to
gain a great deal Of valuable informa,
tion. and when the context is read
along with the excerpts which have
been taken from his works for the
purpose OF placing him In a false light
i have no fear as to the results. All
that is needed Is a thorough under
standing.
"Ingersoll sought 10 disprove Bible
truths and 10 assail Holy Writ by the
same methods which the Republicans
are seeking TO assail Governor WI
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