The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-26
Rodenbers Shows up Woodrow VIII
son as He Was Before He Ever
Took a Longing Look at
White House.
HIS PUBLISHED RECORD
Humphrey Takes a Hand and Charges
Norris With Destroying the
Republican Party by Join
Ing the Prosresslves.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1 /
WASHINGTON, July Wood
row Wilson anti-Jefferson, anti-for-
eign, anti-labor, anti-soldier and pro-
Chinese candidate for the presidency"
was how the democratic nominee was
branded today in the house by Repre-
sentative William A. Rodenberg Gre
publican, Illinois) in a pro-Taft cam
paign speech. The address was
based upon the books, public letters
and addresses Of the democrats NOM
inee and as the first of a series OF re-
publican campaign speeches against
the New Jersey governor.
Besides denouncing Wilson, Roden-
berg violently assailed Bryan and in
lauding Clark branded as the acme
of perfidy'' Bryan's betrayal Of the
speaker. Most of Rodenberg's speech
included quotations from Wilson's his
tory of American people, which the
member said was written ten years
ago. before the PrincetoAian ever
thought of the white house.
To-day the mantle of the immortal
! Jefferson rests upon the narrow, but
classic shoulders of the Princeton pro-
! fessor," Rodenberg said:
Jefferson was taken advantage OF.
| for if given an opportunity he would
/ certainly have protested vigorously,
for here is what Wilson said Jefferson
Il was
I. g AN aristocrat, who deliberately
practiced the arts OF politician
s Washington found him a guide who
4 needed watching.
4 Rodenberg then quoted Wilson's
4 alleged attack upon foreign immi'
j grants in which Wilson said:
"This coarse crew came crowdins
in every year at the eastern ports.
4. Il resent the charge, " the member
j declared. made by Professor Wilson
that American workingmen We're driy
Il len to make demand upon congress fol
: this legislation because of their fear O
! the superior skill and intelligence D
the Chinese"
: Rodenberg quoted from Wilson's
: baccalaureate sermon at Princeton
three years ago on organized labor.
II do not agree with Professor VIII
II SON, he continued, that members O
J. trades unions are Improbable serv
( ants. / do not believe the union mai
! is trying to give as little as he ma!
for his wages
Rodenberg read Wilson's eulogy 0
: President Cleveland for his veto
! pension bills, that such legislation wa
an unjustifiable use Of public none.
!, and a gross use of charity
! Professor Wilson may have ex
J. perienced a change of heart" Roden
berg added, when he, himself. applie'
to Andrew Carnegie for a pension
!. based upon mere service as an edr
q Gator
: Then Rodenberg turned Ills shaft
upon Bryan, declaring
For sixteen long and weary year
: he has been democracy's old man Q
the sea. He accused him of robbin
Speaker Clark of the nomination. Tn
e very acme of perfidy, the culminatio
a of political treachery.'
= = Citing the Wilson-Joline letter h
N continued:
= "Tbis was his honest opinion {
= BRYAN and Organism. And yet toda
he is prepared to don sackcloth an
ashes and eat out of the hand of tn
, man whom he denounced as an III
II. tried claimer.
! "a few years ago Wilson denounce
the initiative, the referendum an
the recall as revolutionary and d
structiye of constitutional COVER
ment while today he proclaims 1t
the one panacea.'
Humphrey Has His Say.
Z. WASHINGTON, July 26.-Chargir
Representative Norris, the progre
siye republican from Nebraska, wi
~ destroying the republican party
ed Representative Humphrey (repub
nj can, Washington today replied
er Norris speech attacking the nomin
be ton Of President Taft as frauduler
ut Humphrey criticised Norris for su
to pressing the name of "a high and
fiuential party leader" who said t
gel Washington delegates were "stolei
in for Taft
it rs it any excuse that this high al
NIB influential republican should wit