PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1589, 5 November 1912, Page 7

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

DR. WILSON'S CHANCES FAVOURED. By Telegraph—Press rAssociation-Conyrielit Now York, November 3. Betting on Wall Street in connection with the Presidential election favours Dr. Woodrow Wilson;' the • Democratic candi-. date. . . ; ' ' ME. WILSON INJURED. ' (Ree. November 4. 9.40 p.m.) ■ Now York, November i. Mr. Woodrow Wilson has met with an accident. : His- automobile-jolted, and he was thrown against :■ the roof, receiving a wound in the head., AN ORATORICAL DUEL. ' The opposing'campaigns for" the Presidency of . Mr.- Roosevelt, the ; Progressive, and Dr. Wilson, the.Democratic candidate (writes the New /York correspondent of the "Daily Mail'')i are now occupying the attention;of-the publio to the, exclusion of'all other topics. The oratorical duel, is owl.of" tie finest in , tho history of Ameribaii politics.' '■ For the moment personalities , have .been abandoued, and, the candidates aro argTiing with. singular-dexterity-on both 6ides of the problem of how best to, cure the evils of monopoly. > Mi-. Roosevelt is. indignant with' Dr.: Wilson ) for; suggesting: that" the; scheme ho advocates ■: of an In-; tor-State Commission to'regulate and controlV the Trusts - and. the prices they chajge for their: products as well as the wages, they pay, to-workmen is an invention of Mk.George Perkins, .head of the . Harvester Trust, and Mr. Gary, head of the Steel Trust. :He declares that he alone is the author, .of the scheme, which, is designed to .'ensure that the . great trusts shall •becomej;the,,„seryants.,.and -,not, the masters of thb'Mpe.OpJ'i; "-Po,,fpbints -out. that the Steel Trust is bitterly; opposing" .him and ,tho, policy of the national regulation of Trusts. To this Dr- AVilson vretorts' that-;the proposed' industrial' commission • 'merely, means ' that .Mr. Roosevelt would sav 'to the Trusts, "Now" go' easy .and' -don't hurt, anybody. / We believe when you' are reminded of your', moral duties yon' are not malevolent, .you ar<3 beneficent. You a.ro big, but not cruel." . : Dr. Wilson disputes . tie argument that the Trusts are" organised for ; efficiency, and illustrates this point by reference to the case of Mr. Carnegie, who, he says, was bought out, because he ivas.so very effioient, in order' that the financiers who desired to establish the' Trust might be free:from inconvenient competition. • Dr. Wilson would' protect competition by making it a criminal offence for any "Rust to kill off its rivals by undersellfing - them and • flood'n? .- their territory , with manufactures, sold at,-below , cost. "Under; present - conditions," ho declared '/the ' .laws , , give the' ' giants free leave to trample' down the • pigmies. What I'.want are laws to give the_pigmies the chance'' to keep the giants from their throats."' , • '.Mr. Roosevelt - has'" invaded Nebraska, the home of Mr. Bryan. the former -Democratic candidate. .He signalised the occasion by springing a fresh surprise on the " political world. ' He declared that as' long, as .the terms of'.his' Presidency, are non-oonseciitive terms . there, is no objec*' .tion'to' the re-election of-the same man for an indefinite number of terms. '- :•••