Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-25
FREE OF ALLIANCES
MerciIessly Flags Machine
Control In Camden, Hotbed
Of Machine Politics.
END OF BOSSES NEAR
Greatest Political Gather
ings City Ever Has Seen
Wildly Cheer Candidate.

Camden, Oct. 25:-What has sudden
ly come to be recognized as an elo-
quent voice of the New Democracy
sounded clear last night In no less a
place than Camden. 1t made such q
stir th3S after two theatres had been
filed to the doors, an overflow rally
was held in the open street and minor
speakers pressed into service.
Woodrow Wilson, appearing here for
the first time in his governorship cam
paign, not only gave the 5000 people
who heard him a characteristically brill
liant dissertation on the science and
the humanities that have a part in
government, BUT HE DID MORE.
"We are out all through the land, ,,
Mr.. Wilson said, to substitute lead
ers for bosses,' and he gave clearer
and more emphatic statement Of his
own position than he has yet done, and
one that makes the position of machine
politics of the State appear actually
events. In this connection, he said
When was approached with re-
gard to the nomination for the COVER
norship, understood it to be distinctly
represented to me that the purpose of
those who asked my leave to use my
name for that purpose was that l
SHOULD BE INVITED TO TAKE
THE LEADERSHIP OF THE DRMo-
CRATIC PARTY. If they do not so
understand it, they ought to withdraw
the invitations on the eighth day of No
vember.
"a voice: "They will never do it."
"I am not claiming that / am quail
fed for leadership-that is not the
point; but I am claiming that I did not
seek the leadership and that 1 WAS
ASKED TO TAKE IT, BUT WITH
THE UNDERSTANDING THAT
WAS ABSOLUTELY FREE FROM
PLEDGES AND OBLIGATIONS OF
ANY KIND
Continuing, he said:-
nWe are on the home stretch and we
are bound for home. We are bound for
the place from which the Democratic
party has been long excluded,
but where, I will venture to assert it,
has long belonged.
"There is a necessary examination OF
our own purposes of mind as to what we
intend to do in such a free year, in
wear of freedom of choice, in year
when party lines are not sharply drawn
when men are choosing not as between
parties, but, ] believe in my heart,
choosing for the future of America.
at is not alone in New Jersey that
choices are being made, they are being
made from one end Of this country to
the other, and they are being made in
the same spirit as If new era had
dawned: as if choices to be made were
novel choices; or if they could not be
made in the old way, but must be made
to express themselves in A KIND OF
LEADERSHIP THAT WOULD MEAN
NEW KINDS OF POLICIES, NEW IN
TENTIONs NEW ORGANIZATIONS
FOR PARTIES.
"The interesting circumstances l
want to point out is this: THAT THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THIS
STATE FACES THIS NEW AGE IN
A NEW FASHION, THE REPUBLI-
GAN PARTY FACES THIS NEW AGE
IN THE OLD FASHION,
Mr.. Wilson said: "The American
people are not going to permit present
conditions to exist a single twelve
months more. Do you ask the evidence9
There is no evidence in New Jersey,
vet; ther will be two weeks from now,
but there is evidence all around us;
THERE Is EVIDENCE IN THE
NEIGHBoRNG STATE OF NEW
YORK THAT THE ONLY ATMos-
PHERE CONSIDERED PROPER FOR
BAD POLITICS is THAT OF THE
PENITBNTIARY, and by exposure af-
ter exposure the veil has been torn
away from the face of those deceptions
and frauds and man after man has stood
forth to hear the Kisses of his fellow
men.
"You know there is only one thing
about us that is immortal in this world,
and that is our reputation. 1t does not
make any difference after exposures
whether the men are put behind prison
walls or not, they have forever viola
ted their faith, and that kind Of treat
ment Is being prepared everywhere for
that kind Of men Everywhere there
has been cleaning up-a cleaning
house-an absolute Reputation of all
policies of that sort from one end of
the United States to the other.
In this way Mr.. Wilson led up to
strictly Camden county issues. Said he:
81 have said that the republican candi-
date-an admirable man-has been so
long a part of the political organization
which has led the Republican party
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