Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1910-10-01
At Newark Last Night.

Newark. Oct 1,-Woodrow Will
son, democratic nominee for gov
ernor of New Jersey, facing 1000
men and women who packed the
large Kruger Auditorium in New
ark last night, said that ths plat
form on which he Is running Is
sound and explicit.
You want fl ON me, / suppose,
confession Of faith" said DR. Will
son, and / am reody to make 1t. I
stand absolutely without equivoca-
tion for every plank In that plat
form. also stand for some more
planks that are not in that plat
form"
DR.. Wilson said then that he did
not want to find fault with any one
who took part in the platform build
ing, but he wished with all his heart
that an issue had been raised by the
democrats as to New Jerseys par
entage of all sorts of corporations.
New Jersey has earned certain
reputation throughout this country
because of her too great and hospit-
fable care of any or all corporations. .
lsaid DR. Wilson as he leaned over to
the crowd and spoke slowly This
was the first plank which he stood
for that Is not in the written plat
form. He wants "a severe scrutiny
as to- the purposes of corporations"
before New Jersey sponsors them
DR.. Wilson didn't stop there. The
crowd, which had cheered for him
as he arose to speak and had start
cd to their feet in hat waving Joy,
listened now with an intimate air
while the president of Princeton
said that sooner or later the uues-
'tion of taxation must be settled. He
believes that corporations in the
state are not equally taxed and he
wants them SO.
The speaker then launched into
discussion of corporations and the
crowd harked without a break for
twenty minutes or so. He compared
the corporation to the automobile
and when he said he objected not to
the machine In either case but to the
law-disregarding driver, he got rip
pie Of point catching applause. A
great roar, the kind he inspires at
rare intervals and almost affection
ate in its quality, went up when he
said:
"The trouble seems to be that
some men are taking Joy rides in
their corporations.
"a corporation Is thing made by
law" said DR.. Wilson, land there
fore by law you can do anything with
1t. Not so the individual. / am not
made by statute, nor are you. A
statute cannot change the workings
of my liver. But corporation can
be touched In all it's parts by the
law. The legislature that made 1t
can demolish 1t.
But don't expect to hear from
me inyective against the corpora
tion,'' he added warningly. The can
didate said he wanted only to make
clear Just what Kind of creature a
corporation is. He explained and
then said in concluding his exposi-
ton;
What we need is to find out ex-
actly what things corporation is
now doing that 1t oughtn't to do.
Then we must frame our law saying
that nobody shall do these things.
And then at last we can put the cor
poration man who does these things
through his business mechanism in
jail"
The audience rose to this and
yelled approval
Another plank on which he stands,
though 1t isn't written in the plat
form, said DIR. Wilson, is the popu-
lar election of United States sena-
tors as practiced out west. He also
wants direct nominations. He did
not say direct primaries
Nothing in big enough to scare
me-" ne said once to the folks below,
and they laughed and eheered. The
Princeton man seems now to have
fixed bis platform style. He makes
of audiences, large or small. classes
to whom he is lecturing in perfect
~ simple, plain way. But when ne
hammers out 8 phrase suddenly that
class 60 whom he js endesring him
self Just laughs for good natursd
JOY, Never was there . better IL
iustration os- personal charm In
speaker without electric stir
The tssiT Dr. Wilson told the as
sorted audisncss has been chiefly to
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