Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-04
TELLS
WHAT HE'D DO
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day. The Princeton mans invigor-
ating ~naivete conquered that big
crowd in a way that he had evident
ly not dared to hope for. And re-
freshed and cheered by the applause
of an audience that met him half
way, he went straight ahead.
81 have heard of a Board of Guar
dams in this State" he observed sud
denly and the cheers changed to uncon-
trollable laughter. The board of guar
dams was the name by which the Re-
publican State committee in New Jer-
say was last year lightly but frequent
ly called. DR.. Wilson, with "a smile
peeping forth and vanishing instantly,
began again in the serious vein.
"Did you ever notice." he asked.
THAT in New Jersey the Governor is
the only official elected by the votes
of the people through all the Statef
He is, and for that reason he is the
only State official who can be the
| spokesman for the people of the whole
State. That's one think / want to be
if T. become Governor-spokesman for
all of you.
81 am advised already that | am an
amateur. How well / know it, but how
much more / should dislike to be a pro-
f~essional. And cheerfully will / as
an amateur tsek1e the professional who
wishes to engage me. | will talk with
any man who wants to match me any
where in this State.,'
Maybe the assorted crowd scented be.
yond the challenge in that last sentence
q great ARRAY to come when Mr.. Lewis
enters the lists on Thursday. Anyhow
they let out a sudden crashing yell
that made even the distracted stenog
raphers jump. DIR. Wilson paused and
then with the tilt of his head thai
comes of Scotch blood said he believed
that politicians under suspicion, "anc
/ am talking now Of the Republicans
of course he laughed, were hardly IL
a position to challenge even the hum
BILE amateur. They did well to make
pledges. But to him, somehow, Mr
Lewiss pledge sayored a bit of engag
ing himself to a system of some sort
a rote. He did not like rote or system
and if he got a chance he would do hi
best to break it up.
DR.. Wilson then told his hearers tina
the proper kind Of a corrupt practice
act should include the publication o
the right figures expended by each can
didate and the sums contributed an
who contributed them, and besides tina
a section forbidding any person holding
public office to contribute to campaigl
funds at all.
IT have heard and you have hear
slvly of that card index which exists !
this State" he said. "It is a usefu
and compendious thing. Each card ha
"a -. n -nnn wyho ho 10 wha
he has done, andsdoes, his income, hi
means, his private life, whether he ca
be depended on to contribute to a Gel
tain campaign fund, if SO, how niue
he is likely to give and how cheerful
he is likely to give it. Means are eve
Indicated, we hear of making him Civ
though with no cheer at ALL"
And DR.. Wilson said it must be see
to that that card index went straigf
to the poke mill.
. "Conscience doesn't work well in
vacuum" he got off at one time an
ampli6ed it by saying that "one col
science seems to need another to lea
= on when sore tried" Which, as one Q
> his Princeton disciples in Jurisprudence
3 stated after, was perhaps not a mors
1 high G, but was mighty human in ii
: verisimilitude.
+, DIR. Wilson spoke Of corporations bu
: a moment in connection with a bFie
advocacy of a Public Servies~ commits
| sion with real powers. Then he sal
l so pointedly that a full minute elapse
before the audience cheered him.
! "If you oblige a corporation to d
things that make it lose money there
. only one honorable thing to do, an
that is to take over the business IL
stantIy."
After this championing of municips
, ownership rather than dishonor DR.. Wi
son turned his attention to the Tevol
in the Republican ranks and diseusse
it with mild humor for several mil
utes. He minted ''the progressive sens
of honor, and explained it to be tn
moral attitude of the people OF th1
: country as a whole from generatlo
r to generation.
:, AS he concluded he spoke of the dit
advantages of knowing that any one Q
6 two or three were responsible for you
. nomination, and remarked that he wa
: glad he hadn't been told or hadn
= heard from anywhere that Soandso G
, this or that person brought him his ow
! candidacy.
! It was the most mixed crowd tha
! cheered DIR. Wilson at the conelusio
. of this speech he has yet faced. 1t wa
. also a rarely intelligent one. Mrs. Wi
e., son, with her three daughters, sat j
l the lower right hand box nearest til
. stage and listened with a smile frol
l which the solicitousness and apprehel
!, sion gradually faded. She explaine
4 that it was the first political speech 81
. had heard her husband make.
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