The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-10-17
DEMOCRATS DEPLORE
ATTACK ON COLONEL
National Committee Passes
Resolutions Extending
Good Wishes.
CAMPAIGN TO CONTINUE
Perkins Advises Wilson to
Turn Attention to
Platform.
TO CONTINUE

Chairman William F. srcCombs gave
out the following resolution passed
unanimously at the meeting OF the Demo.
cratic national campaign committee yes
terday:
Be il Resoired. BY the Democratic ma
tional campaign committee. in session this
18th day OF October 1912. that we deplore
the attempted assassination of ex-Presi-
dent Roosevelt and wish for him a recovery
alike speedy and complete.
The meeting was full one. Chairman
McCombs. long absent because Of illness.
presided. and every member was present
from both New York and Chicago head
quarters except Josephus Daniels, whose
two sons are i'll Of typhoid fever in Ra-
leigh. n. C.
The prospects in every State were dis
cussed. with results gratifying to Mr..
McCombs. Each committeeman reported
for his own particular territory, and the
reports were cross-checked by all the
other committeeman.
I'VE couldn't find a weak spot on the
map" Mr.. McCombs said. summarizing
the conference.
Although Gov. Wilson. because Of dis
inclination to be the only Presidential
candidate on the stump. has cancelled all
speaking engagements after Saturday,
save for his appearance In Madison
Square Garden ON October 81. there will
be no letdown in the Democratic cam
paign as u whole. This was one of the
decisions the committee came to.
To George W. Perkins, chairman of
the Progressive executive committee,
il seemed perfectly fine and all that
that Wtlaov, oh L.
to an opponent; but, said Mr.. Perkins:
wouldn't this be good time for
Gov. Wilson to stop attacking Col. Roose-
welt and the Progressives and devote
alluhis speeches to explaining the Demo-
cratic platform and telling the country
whether or not he agrees with it? Are
there parts that he likes and parts that
he doesn't like? Or does he accept and
stand on it all? If elected. just how would
he put it into effect2
THE Progressives think that Gov.
Wilson has dodged when it came to dis
cussing that platform and since he doesn I
wish to attack Roosevelt at this time
here's bully chance to put in all his
time expounding the platform"
MIR. Perkins said also that Gov. Wilson
himself had started this campaign Of
abuse This remark. quoted later at
Democratic headquarters. moved a ma
tional campaigner to say that he had
supposed everybody was agreed that
Gov. Wilson had been notably forbearing
in his demeanor on the stump.
William II. II. Hotchkiss. State chair
man of the Progressives. said il was "ex-
tremely gratifying that other parties had
recognized so honorably the conditions
resulting from the attack upon Col Roose-
welt. He said that the fight. being one Of
principle. must go on. but he was sure
there would be no more recrimination.
That certainly will be the attitude of
the Progressives toward other candi-
dates" MIR. Hotchkiss added.
1t was decided yesterday that Senator
Gore should go on the stump for Wilson
in the middle West. There has been great
demand for him as a speaker but he has
been stuck to a desk during most of the
campaign. In about ten days he will
return to New York and counsel Chair
man McCombs in the last days of the
fight.