Does Mr.
Wilson controvert either of these statements?
If so, let him answer directly.

It is a matter of capital importance to the country that his position in this respect be stated directly, not by indirect suggestion.
Much of Mr.Wilson's article, although apparently aimed at the Progressive party, is both so rhetorical and so vague as to need no answer.

He does, however, specifically assert (among other things equally without warrant in fact) that the Progressive party says that it is "futile to undertake to prevent monopoly," and only ventures to ask the trusts to be "kind" and "pitiful"! It is a little difficult to answer a misrepresentation of the facts so radical--not to say preposterous--with the respect that one desires to use in speaking of or to the President of the United States.

I challenge President Wilson to point to one sentence of our platform or of my speeches which affords the faintest justification for these assertions.

Having made this statement in the course of an unprovoked attack on me, he cannot refuse to show that it is true.