Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-08-31
WILSON STANDS
ON HIS RECORI
JOSepluS Daniels Invites Clos
Study Of Writings.
ISLANDER WON'T WIN now

Chairman Of Democratic Publicity BJ}
rsau Points Out Errors of Campaign
OF Previous Years and Finds GOO
Morai--Rooseveit Also Wrote Book
and Made Bitter Attacks on varlot
Men and Glasses.
New York.-Josephus Daniels, chali
man of The publicity committee OF III
Democratic national committee. sal
today:
Eight years ago during the presl
Dental campaign of 1904 came q
New York, and. being member of III;
Democratic national committee, droI'
pod In at the headquarters OF the cou}
mittee found the literary bureau Il
the committee very actively engaged u
perusing the volumes of TheodoH
Roosevelt. When saw on every desA
THE Winning of the West The Li4
OF Thomas II. Benton and half do 4
en- others OF the works of the then r.
publican nominee for president wodt
dered whether or not Ind got into It'd
right place.
was ihLlS0ihtSty Stt hkikhtt bOV
ever, when l was Informed that TIL
literary young men we're engaged
culling from those books Sornc ~ Ill
many denuncintions and bitter rta
cIsrIfs and attacks made by ThrodnT
Roosevelt upon public men and mead
ures and his aspersions upon great req,
resentntive bodies OF our people. SncN
as worklngmen and farmers.
II found them preparing to ScnV
forth broadcast all over the land sucn
excerpts from the writing 1 ThcVdorl
Roosevelt as:
Cowboys are much better felowh
and pleasanter companions than stnaA
farmers or agricultural, laborers, mol
are the mechanics and workmen of 4
great city to be mentioned in the SAND
breath
"'NIr. Bryan and his adherents havl
appealed to the basest set in the land
the farmers
"'They (workingmen who object ID
government by Injunction are not ID
sympathy with men Of good minds and
sound civic morality
Hits Quakers Too.
''They quoted from what he said
about the Quakers. that those wild
would not aght we're tratssrs to theil
country.
''They said that when the farmerl
and workmen and the Quakers came ID
know what Theodore Roosevelt had
written about them they would rise I'D
with wrath and inaignatfcq and burJ
Theodore Roosevelt beneath an ava|
lanche OF votes. They said that Roose|
welt would not answer tha& exposure Of
his views, and, OF course, hs neyer did
I agreed with them that II was thd
proper thing to do to herald these utI
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. The
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 not
work with them now.
Stands on His Record.
THE attempt to attack Governol
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 VIII
son Is running for president on bis
record as a public man, and with that
record the public Is fairly well CONVEX
SAINT. and 1t will continue to learn more
as the campaign progresses.
HE IL 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 histol
rian, chronicling events and commend
Ing upon them as they appeared to AM
impartial observer whose duty it is to|
write of things as they are rather than
as they should be or as he would have
them
"Our Republican brethren are enti-I
tied to all the thunder they can make
out of Governor Wilson's writings. II
hope they will read them carefully
and thoroughly. They Will be able tcl
gain a great deal of valuable Informs
ton, and when the context is read
along with the excerpts which havel
been taken from his works for the3
purpose Of placing him In false Light
have no fear as to the results, All
that is needed is thorough under
standing.
"Ingersoll sought to disprove BibIe}
truths and to assail Holy Writ by the \
same methods which the Republicans
are seeking to assaii Governor VIII
son."
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