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Mr. Wilson has done precisely and exactly nothing about the trusts.

"I tell you and I told you at the beginning I do not say anything on
the stump that I do not believe. I do not say anything I do not know.
Let any of Mr. Wilson's friends on Tuesday point out one thing or let
Mr. Wilson point out one thing he has done about the trusts as governor
of New Jersey. (Applause.)

"And now, friends, I want to say one special thing here----"

(Col. Roosevelt turned to the table upon the stage to reach for his
manuscript, but found it in the hands of some one upon the stage. He
demanded it back with the words: "Teach them not to grab," which
provoked laughter.)

"And now, friends, there is one thing I want to say specially to you
people here in Wisconsin. All that I have said so far is what I would
say in any part of this union. I have a peculiar right to ask that in
this great contest you men and women of Wisconsin shall stand with us.
(Applause.) You have taken the lead in progressive movements here in
Wisconsin. You have taught the rest of us to look to you for
inspiration and leadership. Now, friends, you have made that movement
here locally. You will be doing a dreadful injustice to yourselves; you
will be doing a dreadful injustice to the rest of us throughout this
union if you fail to stand with us now that we are making this national
movement (applause) and what I am about to say now I want you to
understand if I speak of Mr. Wilson I speak with no mind of bitterness.
I merely want to discuss the difference of policy between the
progressive and the democratic party and to ask you to think for
yourselves which party you will follow. I will say that, friends,
because the republican party is beaten. Nobody need to have any idea
that anything can be done with the republican party. (Cheers and
applause.)

[Illustration: John Flammang Schrank.]

"When the republican party--not the republican party--when the bosses
in the control of the republican party, the Barneses and Penroses last
June stole the nomination and wrecked the republican party for good and
all. (Applause.) I want to point out to you, nominally, they stole that
nomination from me, but really it was from you. (Applause.) They did
not like me and the longer they live the less cause they will have to
like me. (Applause and laughter.) But while they do not like me, they
dread you. You are the people that they dread. They dread th