The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-04
First Time He Has Men ti0ned Them by Name at Any Length Dur
 ing Campaign
BULL MOOSE TRIED WHILE PRESIDENT
 AND FOUND WANTING G
''The Very Conditions We Are Trying to Alter Were Created Under the Leaders of the Two Branches
 of the Present Republican
 Party" Says Wilson

first time during the national campaign Gov Woodrow Wilson tonight directed an extended attack on the administra- tions of President Taft and former Presi- dent Roosevelt. The governor charged that Colonel Roosevelt. as President. had been found Incompetent. MT. Taft he said. had, on the other hand. failed to alter the policies inaugurated under Pres ident Roosevelt's administration, when trusts and monopolles grew up on scale never before dreamed of
 In the picturesque illumination of a baseball park the governor saw spread before him tonight for several hundred feet in the bleachers and on the field an irmsa4
 T eovdfno sanbshed into his attack on his two opponents. It was the first time he mentioned them by name at any length.
 Not Extensively Followed
 What want to call your attention to-" sad the governor. '-is that tho new third party has not drawn to itself the full strength or even all of the principal leaders of the insurgent republicans, be- cause this circumstance appeals to every man who thinks the present situation over; the very things that we are protest ing against, the very conditions that we are trying to alter, are conditions which were created under the leaders of the two branches of the present republican party, because it is true that these con- ditions were just as much created under MT. Roosevelt as they have been crs- ated under Mir. Taft
 There was a growth during his admin istration of the great monopoles which we call trusts. upon scale never be- fore dreamed of, and upon greater scale than has been characteristic of the ad- mnistration of his successor Some time ago, during the campaign which preceded the two republican conventions, you re- member that there was very interest ing campaign between MT. Taft and MT. Roosevelt. and everything that anybody could say against MT. Taft MT. Roose- welt said, and everything that anybody could say against MT. Roosevelt Mir. Taft said. and the democrats were inclined to believe both of them. for the truth was that MT. Taft was merely the successor of MT. Roosevelt in the prosecution Nof policies which MT. Taft did not alter and merely sought to confirm and estab- fish.
 An Extraordinary Spectacle
 You have, therefore, this extraordir nary spectacle of two branches of the republican party, both of them led by men clearly responsible for the very con- ditions which we are seeking to alter and the reason that some of the insur- gent republicans are not following MT. Roosevelt. the reason that men like MT. LaFolIette, for example, are not follow ing Mir. Roosevelt. is that they already have tested Mir Roosevelt when he was President and have found that he was not willing to cooperate with them along any line that would be efficient in the checking of the evils of which we com plain.
 ''so that the leader of the very move ment which Is proposed for our emanci- patton is a man who has been tried in this very matter. and not found either willing or competent to accomplish the objects that we now seek. Tn order to confirm my view of the matter, you have only to read MT. LaFollette's biography. There, in detail if is told how Mir. La Toilette and others like him, carried pro- posas to the then President. Mir. Roose- welt, which would have made this cam paign inconceivable, and after he had, feeling his first generous impulse con sented to cooperate with them, he sub sequenty drew back apd refused to co- operate with them, under what infiu- ences do not care to conjecture, be- cause it is not my duty, and it would be very distasteful to me to call in ques- ton the motives of the gentleman. That Is not my object or my desire. My ob- ject is merely to point out the facts that the very conditions We are trying to remedy were built up under these two gentlemen who are the opponents of the democratic party.
 Small Choice Between Them
 "Therefore, to my mind, it Is choice between tweedledum and tweededee to choose between the leader of the one branch of the republican party and the leader of the other branch of the re- publican party, because what the whole country knows to be true. these gentle men deny. The whole country knows that special privilege has sprung up in this land. The whole country knows, except these gentlemen. that 1t has been due chiefly to the protective tariff. These gentlemen deny that special privilege has been caused by the administration of the protective tariff They deny what all the rest of the country has become con vinced is true.
 The governor attacked the blanks in the progressive party platform proposing social reforms.
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