The Washington herald., 1912-09-04
I. R. MAKES REPLY
TO GOV. WILSON
Assails Governors Trust Record as
Head Of New Jersey State
Government.
IN ST. LOUIS FOUR HOURS

st. Louis, Mo-, Sept. S.-A sharp de-
fense of his attitude as to the tarin
and handling OF the trust was made -
to the criticism lereled against him last
night by Woodrow Wilson in Buffalo.
Speaking before the Missouri State
Convention Of the Progressive party al
the Jai Ala Building. the Bull Moose
candidate assailed Wilson's record IN
trust regulation during his incumbency
as Governor or New Jersey. saying that
the Democratic candidate had done
nothing.
Roosevelt whacked the Democratic and
Republican platforms on the trust and
tariff issues as playing into the hands
OF the corporations.
The coloners appearance here. starting
his long tour to the Coast, was charac-
terized by a rousing welcome at the de-
pot, where 5000 people madly cheered
him. and a rather luke warm greeting
on the streets as he rode In an automo-
bile. He stayed in st. Louis four hours
leaving here at 7:io tonight. Before 60
ing to the Progressive convention Roose-
welt stopped of at the City Club. making
an attack upon the two opposing parties
as standing upon false platforms"
The City Club members sat in their
shirt sleeves. II was so hot that they
forgot to applaud. except weakly.
Refers to Wilson Speech.
In his speech before the Progressive
convention. the colonel said:
Yesterday Mr.. Wilson. alluding to the
third party platform. asked: With that
programme who can differ in his heart,
who can divorce himself in sympathy
from tne great object OF advancing the
interests of human beings wherever II is
possible to advanceT l am glad that
Mr.. Wilson should be with US in his
heart. but IL his party sympathizes with
us in its heart, why didn't they in their
platform make a programme at least re-
motely resembling ours?
Our sympathy for the programme is
not only with our hearts: IL Is with our
heads and our hands also. There is no
Use whatever in having sympathy in ones
heart with a movement unless one is pre-
pared actively to help that movement
along.
II am interested in but not convinced
by the statement that the heart OF our
opponents Is with our principles. while
at the same time with head and hand
they are opposing the only platform
which deals with these principles and
the only party which can realize them.
Attacks Platform.
"Mr Wilson comes out squarely against
our proposal to regulate the trusts. He
has not anything TO put in its place ex-
c,pt a statement that he stands by the
great Democratic thinkers who have
made the Democratic platform on this
subject. OF course. the Democratic plat
form on this subject shows as complete
freedom from thought as any platform
that ever was promulgated. II Is as
7 early pure sound and fury as any plat
form that ever was or possibly can be.
The only tangible proposal it makes is
to minimize the power of the Federal
and give that power more
TO the States-which doctrine Is at the
root of the most trouble We now have
With the great corporations doing an in
trrstate business.
Mr.. Wilson is now Governor of New
Jersey and has been such for nearly
two years II the Baltimore platform
really offers any hope for the trust So
luton. why during these two years has
sey under Mr.. Wilson's lead, or even
attempted by Mr.. Wilson in New Jer-
sey for the regulation of the trusts? The
answer is because the States by them
selves cannot see the difficulty. and il is
pure toryism of the most backward kind
TO suppose that they can; and, inCiden-
tally. any such policy would have the
sr!nning support Of every law-breaking
trust.
My. Wilson'S statement yesterday Is
interesting because II affords the very
for the attitude not merely
Of Messrs. Archbold and Penrose. but
Of respectable Wall Street men like Mr..
Jacob SchiT in supporting either the
or the Republican party II
only they can defeat the Progressive
party. Messrs. Penrose and Archbold
have no thought whatever that they can
elect Mr.. Taft. They know that Mr.. Taft
Is out of the race. but they hope that
they can beat the Progressive party. and
Tor that purpose they are quite as willing
To help Mr.. Wilson as to help Mr.. Taft.
for they recognize in the Progressive