The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-09-18

' S1diTWdn OF OemoCrdtic PUBLICITY 5u-
reau Points Out Errors of Campaigns
of Previous Years and Finds Good
I Moral-RooseveIt Also Wrote Books
and Made Bitter Attacks on Various
Men and Glasses.
New York.-JoScphus Daniels. chair-
man of the publicity committee of the
Democratic national committee, said
today:
Eight years ago during the preSi-
Dental campaign Of 1901 [ came to
/ New York, and. being member Of the
d Democratic rational committee, l drop
ped in at the headquarters Of the com
mittee. I found the literary bureau OF
( the committee very actively engaged in
peruSing The volumes Of Theodore
/ Roosevelt When l saw ON every desf
! The Winning of the West The Life
/ of Thomas III. Benton and q half dCz-
/ en- others Of the works of the then Re
( publican nominee for president L Won
+ dered whether or not had got into the
/ right place
y was immediately set Alright, how
ever, when / was Informed that the
literary young men were engaged in
culling from those books some Of the
/ many GeuunciatiOns and bitter cr;ti-
I cisms and attacks made by Theodore
Roosevelt upon public men and meas
/ ures and his aSperSions upon great rep
reseutative bodies Of our people. such
/ as wOrkingmen and farmers
forth broadcast all over the land such
excerpts from the writing of Theodore
| Roosevelt as:
Cowboys are much better fellows
/ and pleasanter cOmpauiors than small
I farmers or agricultural laborerS. nor
are the mechanics and Wvrlmcn e. Il
! great city to be mentioned in the same
: breath
Mr.. Bryan and his aGhcrcats have
! appealed to the baseSt set in tie land re-
the farmers
"'They (workincmen who object TO
government by Injunction are not in
sympathy with men of good minds and
sound civic morality
Hits Cuakers Too.
They quoted from what he said
about the QuakerS. that those who
would not fight were traitors TO their
country.
They said that when the farmers
and wOrkmen and the Qulkers came to
know what Theodore Roosevelt hal
written about them they would rise up
with wrath and Indignation and bury
L.. -
lanche OF votes. They said that Roose-
welt would not answer that exposure Of
his views. and. Of course, be never did.
I agreed with them that It was the
proper thing To do to herald these vt
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 i ATTEMPTING
TO do today the same sort Of thing
that the Democrats tried in 1908. The
Democrats out-ROdenberged Mr.. RO-
denOerg. They were eight years ahead
of him in this sort of thing It didn't
work with us then. and il viii not
work With them now.
Stands on His Record.
"The attempt to attack Governor
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 siSnally. As one great metro
pOlitan newspaper pointed out, Mr.. no
denberS and his kind are simply Blow
ing against the wind Governor VIII
son is running for president on his
record as public man, ana with thar
record the public is fairly well CONVEX
SAINT, and ii viii continue to learn more
as the campaign prUgresses ..-.szsz..O.
lie IS Filming for president on his
record as governor OF New Jersey
what he said and did in that capacity
rather than what he wrote as a histo-
rian, chrOniclinS events and comment.
ing upon them as they appeared to an
impartial observer whose duty it is to
write of things as they are rather than
as they should be or as ne would have
them
"OuG Republican brethren are emit
tied TO all the thunder they can make
out of Governor Wilson's writings 1
hope they will read them carefully
and thoroughly. They will be able 10
gain a great deal of valuable infOrma-
ton, aud when the context is read
along with the excerpts which have
been taken from his works for the
purpose of placing him in false light
have no fear as to the results. All
that is needed is a thorough under
standing.
'.Ingersoll sought to disprove Bible
truths and ITO assail Holy Writ by the
same methods which the Republicans
are seeking to assail Governor Wa
son. --..ss. ,esS
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