Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-15

when he ran against Governor Fort
three years ago. The vote was:
Katzenbach, 9,175; Fort, 1897.
Katzenbach's plurality, 1878.
In Ocean County Yesterday. :.
Lakewood, Oct. 15:-With two
speeches in which he invited the
scorn of all sensible men for anti
quated registration and voting laws,
Woodrow Wilson completed last
night his first day of town-to-town
campaigning. He came to Ocean
county from Atlantic City at noon,
and the three automobiles filled with
Mr.. Wilson's party, newspapermen
and stenographers, stopped at FIVE
little coast villages for hand-shak-
ing purposes and at Toms River for
c speech early in the evening At
Pleasantville, just outside Atlantic
City, there were so many workmen
on hand that Mr.. Wilson spoke from
q store stoop for two minutes. At
Tuckerton, where the party got
lunch, an automobile arrived from
Lakewood to Join the procession.
AT Toms River there were 800
people from all over the county,
some of them coming on special
trains to attend the meeting. The
crowd was so large that the court
house would not do, and Mr.. Wilson
spoke from its steps. Mr.. Wilson
knew how to appreciate the turnout
in village whore the democrats
have not been able to get more than
two dozen together to hear a politi-
cal speech in years. He made a
speech containing little new for him,
except his thrusting attacks on the
registration laws; yet he spoke more
comprehensively of his purposes and
beliefs than on any occasion so far.
lie told the Ocean county folks he
wanted TO be what the old Romans
called the tribune of the people, and
he said with distinctiveness: 'If
you elect me, and something does
not happen right away, you may be
sure l will never again come before
you as candidate"
New Jerseys election laws would
be ludicrous II they were not so
loose and evil" said Mr. Wilson.
why, the very system of letting a
man register by proxy and transfer
his registration lends itself to
fraud" the candidate exclaimed,
"and to have ballots privately dis
tributed and marked so that the
buyers of the votes can tell that they
get what they pay for, is Just as
bad"
Mr.. Wilson told the Toms River
crowd that he thought his advantage
lay outside of being politician.
They call me an amateur" he
said to the crowd, land / willingly
accept the classification. You want
amateurs, men who play the game
because it is a handsome game,
worth playing, for its own sake. A
professional in politics or anything
else Is a man who plays the game
for the money there is In 1t for him
self" flssl satssT'
The rank and file of the republi-
cans, Mr.. Wilson continued, find
they can't accomplish much with
their own men in power.
"a stand-patter," he said, ais one
who stands still and can't be start
ed; a progressive, one who is start
ed and can't be stopped. The stand
patter thinks he has the people by
the wool. He has come to believe
that there Is no necessity in being
perfect"
From Toms River Mr.. Wilson hur-
ried by automobile to Lakewood,
where a democratic meeting was be-
ing held in a hall over a garage.
Facing 1000 men and women, Mr..
Wilson took more thrusts at the
Jersey election system. He said that
ia fhncn
There has come about in this coun-
try one of the most dangerous condi-
tions possible" he cried, IAN alli-
ance between political parties and
business. That's why, when we lay
a lugger on the corporations, we find
We have disturbed political arrange
ments. 1t has been simply impossi-
BILE to get from the republican man
ayers in this state any corrupt prac-
tice act Every bill of that sort has
been smothered in committee"
In his speeches yesterday Mr.. Will
son spoke as one who took his hear
ers to an eminence from where they
might view for the first time the
wreekage Of all their fondest plans.
He said the assertion of the men on
the opposite stump who called him
an amateur were true, and he differ
entiated himself from the profess
sionals as the amateurs are differ
entiated in college games-as man
not in the game for money or for
anything but the sport and glory,
and the good of the game Itself. His
addresses here last night were no.
table in a series that have been char
acterized by a searching vision and
an eloquence almost inspired.
eve will let complaining business
alone" he said. when 1t leaves us
alone-if 1t ever will. Unless we
recognize the rising tide of insurg-
ing opinion and guide it as men in
the west and middle west are trying
to guide 1t, ons day 1t will over
whelm everything, and destroy the
foundations Of all that business has
built, and after that no living man
can tell whatN viii follow"