Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22
CALLS HIM BUCHANAN
OF PRESENT SITUATION
Discusses the Growth Of Trusts Dur
ing His Administration.
HAS A BUSY DAY IN KANSAS
Progressive Candidate, After Night
Address, Leaves for Emporia to
Spend Sunday With William
Allen White.

TOPEKA, Kan. September q. "AIr.
Wilson is the Buchanan of the present
industrial situation in the United States.''
Col. Roosevelt thus summed up his opin-
ion of the democratic candidates position
and policies tonight. He charged that
Gov. Wilson had directly inverted the
truth" and said that his knowledge Of
the Roosevelt administration was gained
from the seclusion of the classroom at
the time when he was still taking the po-
Sit.on of an tra-conservative and was
being carefully groomed for the presiden-
cy by George B. Harvey and other repre-
sentatives of the Wall street interests
Col. RooSevelt's speech here tonight was
devoted largely to a reply to Gov. Will
sons recent addresses. He came here
after days campaigning in Kansas. He
spent the afternoon in Ottawa, and
stopped for a few minutes in Lawrence,
the home of Gov. Stubbs. At each place
he was met by large crowds.
AT Detroit yesterday" Col. Roosevelt
said, MIR. Wilson made a statement
which purported to be an answer to what
said in Colorado l say purported' be-
cause it was in no shape or way an an
swer at all. Moreover as far as his ut
terance can be said to contain any state
ment at all, it is simply misstatement of
facts.
Growth of Trusts.
''He states that the trusts grew faster
during my administration than previously.
Let him be frank enough and manly
enough to admit, what he cannot deny,
that my administration was the first ad-
ministration that ever undertook to en-
force the law against the trusts. 1t is
not in accordance with the facts to say
that they grew faster during my admin
istration than during any other, if by
growth is aeanr growth in illegal
trusts, for most of the growth referred
to was merely a growth in corporations
due to the general prosperity.
But the reason why there was any
growth in illegal trusts at all, as 1 re-
peatedly pointed out in messages while
l was President, was that we were not
given the proper law for dealing with
them. MIR. Wilson is now doing his best
to prevent such a law being given. The
failure Of this government efficiently to
Grapple with the trusts is due almost
exclusively to the attitude of men like
Mr.. Wilson.
Called a Misstatement.
'Mr. Wilson states, in rather disingenu-
Gus FORM that 1 had said that it was not
possible to check the supremacy of the
trusts. Now, if Mr.. Wilson does not know
that this is an absolute misstatement it
is due to his deliberate refusal to read
what / have said and what the platform
said. My statement is the direct reverse
OF that which MIR. Wilson alleges.
MIR. Wilson says that our proposed
commission would not tell how other
men Should be admitted into the field OF
compet ton with the trusts. This is an
absO. ute misstatement. Mr.. Wilson would
do we'll hereafter not to attempt to state
our position without taking the trouble
to find out what it is. Our platform says
explicitly that our comm SSion must at
tack unfair competition, false capltallZa-
ton and political privilege. and by con-
tinued trained Watchfulness guard and
keep open, equally to all, the highways
of American commerce.
This is the language Of the platform
If Mr.. Wilson had taken the trouble to
read it before attacking it, he would have
saved me the necessity Of showing that
he has directly inverted the truth about
it. If ne did not know of 1T. then he had
no business to speak on the subject at
all He continues by saying that our pro-
posal is to say to the trusts that they are
'beneficent and big, but not cruel This
is such a preposterouS mlsstatement that
| suppose Mr.. Wilson must have had a
theory that he was being funny when he
made il.
"If Mr.. Wilson wishes to be funny
cordially advise him to let his hunor find
some other outlet than that Of deliberate
Misrepresentation.
Seclusion of Classroom.
''Mr Wilson's knowledge of what / did
as President was gained from the Sc
clusion of the classroom at a time when
he was still taking the position of an
ultra conservative and was being care
fully groomed for the presidency by
George 3. Harvey and other representa-
tives of the Wall street interests.
'At Columbia yesterday Mr.. Wilson
made another speech and again I am
sorry to say in his inability to answer
what we progressives have said he takes
refuge in what l of course assume TO be
an unintentional misstatement. He says
that leaders of the progressive party
have abandoned any serious attempt to
meet the main issues Of the campaign.
He knows that is not in accordance
with the facts. There is not an issue
in the campaign that We have not met
with entire fearlessness and at length,
from the tariff to the trusts. He says
that every day We seek new issues and
shift the ground of debate This again
is not in accordance with the facts. Every
issue he has raised l have met, and l
have met it fairy by quoting his position,
by stating 1t exactly and then by an
swering it,
In the case Of great corporations like
Standard OIL, Col. Roosevelt said he be-
lieved the control of the government
should be supreme.
Likened to Buchanan.
"Mr Wilson's position as regards the
trusts and all industrial questions is pre-
cisely like that of Mr.. Buchanan in 1860
toward the dissolution Of the Union.
MIR Buchanan said that the Union