The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-05
SCORES THE STEEL
MAGNATES AT GARY
Six Thousand Employees OF
the Corporation Cheer the
Speaker; Marshall Attacks
Roosevelt and Beveridge,
BY international News Service.

~ HICAGO, Oct. 4.-Fifty thousand
is conservative estimate of the
" number of persons who either
heard or saw Governor Wilson
speak at towns and cities along the Fort
Wayne route Of the Pennsylvania rail
road today, The governor spoke at Ko-
komo. Peru. Plymouth and Gary, Ind,
and completed the day by meeting men,
bers of the campaign committee in Chi
cago, where he arrived at 6 clock. AT
$50 tonight the governor left in his pri
vate car for Omaha, where he will speak
tomorrow. In Chicago the governor was
the guest of some friends at dinner at
the University club.
IL was one Of the most effective cam
paigning trips that the candidate has
yet made His route had been well adj
vertised in advance and the various
communities were thoroughly prepared
for the candidates g visit.
Open Air Meetings.
Scores Of automobiles were waiting at
each station when the governor arrived
and he and his party were escorted from
the train to the meeting places-open
air in each instance-with the accom-
panlncnt of brass bands and street pa
rades. At Plymouth there was a special
escort by eighty cadets Of the Culver
Military academy, including the famous
Black Horse cavalry that generally
leads the inaugural parades at Washing
ton,
There was wild enthusiasm all along
the route, which so impressed the candi-
date that he repeatedly declared that he
felt certain that the Democratic ma
tional ticket would be elected
AT Gary, the model city esta blished
by the United States Steel corporation
four years ago, which is now
thriving beehive of industry, Governor
Wilson launched an attack against the
steel corporation and his utterances
were vociferously applauded by his au-
dlence, composed chiefly of employees of
that corporation.
Gets Into Audience.
There was a crowd of about 5000 at
TINS meeting. A flagdecorated platform
had been erected for the candidate, but
when he was introduced he left it and
strobe down into the crowd.
90 am coming down to get near
you,' he said, 81 don t want to be
with those dignihed men up there.
When l was told that | was to
speak in Cary he continued, 81 said
that understood the United States
Steel corporation was all for the Bull
Moose. but ] was Immediately corrected
and Informed that the men employed by
that corporation were over 81 years of
age and able to take care Of them.
Selves
The governor attacked the Steel cor
poration as one of the beneficiaries of
the tariff and he asked:
want to ask You men If it is your
observation that the employees of the
United States Steel corporation are
better paid than the average in the
United States7''
No. came chorus Of answers,
Everybody knows that wherever it
is possible they depress wages to the
lowest level" added the governor, and
the crowd yelled, ''you re right -
scorches Third Party,
The candidate made an interesting
reference to the action of the Califor,
MIA courts in throwing the Taft electors
off the ballot. At Plymouth he de.
clared that the. third party leaders had
left the Republican party in protcs
against their methods.
'But,' he added, "these very men
who have fling out of the Republican
party and say they are NO longer in it
though they are in it when they can
stay in it. as witness what has just
been done in California. where they
have shut the members OF the family
off the elected ticket and captured it
hemselves-wherever the family is, so
far as the majority is concerned, on
their side, they are willing to stay in
the family
The governor again attacked both
Taft and Roosevelt as being equally re.
sponsible for the conditions which now
prevail and which the Democratic party
proposes TO correct.
IL is estimated that. including the
two meetings in Indianapolis ycsterds g
Governor Wilson has addressed $1,000
persons in Indiana within twenty -four
hours, All of these did not hear him
because his voice would not reach the
outer edges Of the crowds but that is