The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
ROOSEVELT ATTACKS WILSON'S RECORD Says He Has Done Nothing
 While Governor SCORES DENEEN ALSO Declares Illinois Executive Is De- liberate Falsifier-Raps Gov
 ernor Wilson on Immi-
 grafton Views

Chicago, October 12-Gov. Woodrow Wilson has done precisely and exactly
 nothing" against the trusts, Colonel Roosevelt said tonight, although as gov
 ernor of New Jersey, he asserted, Gov ernor Wilson had ample power to pro- ceed against them. The colonels address
 was delivered in the Coliseum to one of the largest and most demonstrative
 crowds of hls campaign. The doors were closed an hour before the speakers ar-
 rival Perched aloft on a platform be-
 hind Colonel Roosevelt like a magnifed church choir, were young women, all of them dressed in white and wearing ban
 dannas over tho right shoulder They
 were the Jane Addams choir," and they
 sang to amuse the crowd until Colonel
 Roosevelt appeared.
 The front rows of chairs were occupied by women who wore large red badges and l carried corn peppers. The presence of the corn peppers was something of
 mystery until Prof. Charles F. Merriam, chairman of the meeting, stepped to the edge of the platform and said Ladies,
 do your duty" Their duty was to take a collection for the campaign fund. Many men in the crowd carried horns made from birch bark with which they gave the "bul moose call
 When Colonel Roosevelt appeared there began demonstration which lasted near ly quarter of an hour.
 Then Colonel Roosevelt stood smiling
 and waving his hand. Professor Merriam handed a bandanna to him. The colonel waved 1t and the cheering increased When the crowd had tired the choir sang Onward, Christian Soldiers and then Professor Merriam introduced the Big
 Bull Moose himsef'
 Before he went to the Coliseum Colonel
 Roosevelt addressed a large crowd at tent meeting on the West Side. He said that until Governor Wilson became can
 dldate he looked at foreign born Amer
 leans not as fellow Americans, but as foreigners who remained foreigners and spoke with comprehensive dislike of all immigrants from European countries' He referred to correspondence between Governor Wilson and the United Polish societies of South Brooklyn, saying the
 governor had promised to rewrite pas
 sage in his history referring to the com
 ing of "multitudes of the lowest classes from the south of Italy and men of the
 meaner sort of Hungary and Poland.' The colonel said members of the Polish
 societies had stated that according to in
 formation received from Governor Will
 sons publishers three editions of the hs- tory had appeared since Governor Will son s letter had been written and that 'in spite of Governor Wilson's promise to re- tract his statements, they remained un- changed in these editions
 Deneen Denounced
 Governor Deneen was accused today ''of truth" by ex-Presdent Roosevelt. Colo nel Roosevelt characterized the governor the friend and ally of Lorimer."
 His statement follows:
 MT Deneen has deemed it best to per vert the truth.
 He says 1 asked him to limit his reso- luton concerning the contests of 34. This is a falsehood I had no private dealings with MT. Deneen during the Chicago con vention. During that convention I be- came convinced of his shuffing and double dealing. l grew to feel a very hearty contempt for him and entirely to mistrust his sincerity and loyalty to the peoples cause. MT. Deneen, when he utters falsehoods, should cultivate his memory. He says that had all of the 34 contests been decided against me I would still have been in the. minority. MT. Taft was nominated by 21 majority and the change of 34 votes therefore would have put him in the minority. Mir. Deneen knows this perfectly we'll and he Is trading on the short memory of the people when he tries to assert that the contrary is true. My attention has been attracted to testimony of Mir. Deneen be- fore the Senate investigationg committee of which I was ignorant and which con- clusively shows that Governor Deneen was a friend and ally of Lorimer, sug- gested to Iorimer that Lormer elect him. self to the SenNe and formed a defensive alliance with Lorimer in the city of Chi cago. Seemingly. Governor Deneen has orly changed now to the extent that his alliance with MT. I.orimer is not only defensive but offensive. l will cow call to the attention of the people of the state of Illinois the fact that Deneen has made false statements to buttress his position and also has made admissions about his actions, with Lorimer which show that he is unfit to occupy any posi- ton of trust in the government