The Bourbon news., 1912-10-22
Charge Challenged, Gov Wilson
Returns With Prompt and
Convincing Answer.
COUNTRY WAITED FOR CLASH.
Wondered If IL Was to Produce a
Parallel of Parker Episode-More
Proof If IL Is Wanted. e..

When the country read on the morn
ing of Oct. the charge of Woodrow
Wilson before his audiences in Color
ado that the steel trust is back Of the
Roosevelt program OF. trust regulation
and in the same papers Colonel RoOse-
yelt's demand for proof of the aSser-
ton it sat up and took notice. Would
this produce q parallel Of the famous
episode of the 1904 campaign, when
the colonel called Judge Parker liar
for asserting (what has been so recent
ly proved that the corporations were
contributing to the Roosevelt cam
paign?
There was eager waiting for Cover
nor Wilson's answer. 1t came prompt
ly the next day in his speech at Kan
sas City. Concisely, convincingly and
dispassionately Governor Wilson met
the Roosevelt challenge, and should
the controversy be pressed further the
Democratic candidate will give the bull
moose all he wants, for the corrobora-
ton whereof he spoke is abundant.
Wilson'S Charge.
At Pueblo, the center Of the western
steel industry, Governor Wilson said:
Evidence of what am about to say
comes to me by way Of corroboratiCn
every day in forms that cannot ques-
ton. 1t is a very interesting circum-
stance that the United States Steel cor
Sc md nd oV-fH-
gram with regard to the regulation of
the trusts.
"Now, / do not say that to prejudice
you. / am perfectly ready to admit
that the officers Of that corporation
may think that the third party is the
best thing for the United States. That
is not my point. My point is that these
gentlemen have grown up in the atmOs-
phere Of the things they themselves
have created and that the laws of the
destroy the things that they have Gre
ated and that they now want a govern
ment which will perpetuate the things
they have created.
a. ''You therefore have to choose now q
government such as the United States
Steel corporation thinks the United
States ought to have or a government
such as we used to have before these
gentlemen succeeded in setting up pri
vate monopoly"
Roosevelt's Challenge.
The same night at Albany, n. Y
Colonel Roosevelt upon reading reports
Of Governor Wilson's speech said:
GAS far as know the statement has
not the slightest foundation in fact
Mr.. Wilson has no business to make
such a statement unless he has the
proof, and If he has any proof 1 de
mand that he make it public imme
diately. If he has not let him retract
his statement as the only manly and
honorable thing to do"
Wilson's "Retort Courteous"
The next night Governor Wilson
made this reply before the great al
dience that greeted him in Kansas
City:
81 understand from the newspape
reports that Mr.. Roosevelt was dis
tressed by my suggestion the other de!
that the United States Steel corpora
ton was back of his plan for contro!
ling the trusts. He interpreted my re
mark to mean that they were support
ing him with their money. was no
thinking about money.
81 do not know whether they ar
supporting him with their money o
not. 1t does not make any difference
What meant was that they are SUP
porting him with their thought, an
their thought is not our thought.
meant, and 1 say again, that the kin
OF control which he proposes is tn
kind of control that the United State
Steel corporation wants.
81 am perfectly willing to admit thu
they think it is the best for the couI
try. My point is that this is a metho
conceived from the point of view of th
very men who are to be controlled an
that that is just the wrong point @
view from which to conceive it.
'If Mr.. Roosevelt is willing to hav
Mr.. Perkins suggest how the corpOr:
lions ought to be regulated why wi
he not be willing to take suggestion
from the same quarters as to the dt
tails Of the regulation? Mark you, /;
dies and gentlemen, am not discuss
ing individuals. I know Mr.. Geora
Perkins. have no quarrel with any
thing except his judgment He doe
not look at these things in the we
men who do not wish to accustom the
minds to monopoly look at them"
There should be an immediate rev
sion Of the tariff downward. 1t shoul