Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-06
Or. WILSON LAUOS
ORGANIZED LABOR;
ATTACKS RECORD
Invades South Jersey and Gets
Great Ovation at Wood
bury Meeting.
EXPOSES REPUBLICAN
METHODS IN GENERAL
Expresses Sympathy for Presi-
dent Taft and Declares All Pro-
gressives Seek Same Ends.
rrrom a stan Correspondent ]


WOODBURY.. Oct eff the great
enthusiasm which Woodrow Wilson
aroused last night when he made his
first appearance of this campaign In
South Jersey is sample of what he
will accomplish in other South Jersey
counties, his gubernatorial campaign
in the enemys country" will be one
continual triumph
Green's Opera House, which has
capacity for about 800 persons. con-
tained 1000 eager listeners when the
candidate came upon the stage. Many
were unable to gain entrance, and In
ability to secure another good hall
vetoed the idea of an overflow meet
ing, although several hundred were
turned away. Arriving here by auto
mobile, accompanied by Chairman Nu-
gent, State Committeeman Grosscup
and newspaper men. he was received
with many cheers as the party came
through the streets of the city
County Chairman Carpenter and
other Gloucester leaders had arranged
that Mr. Wilson, together with James
Nowrey, the congressional candidate,
| should hold a reception from Z until 8
O'Clock in the parlors of the Hotel New
| ton, and there about 900, including
many Republicans. shook the candi-
dates hand.
Raps Republican Dictatorship.
| Last night, in his Woodbury. speech.
| Woodrow Wilson plainly showed he
was not totally ignorant Of the Re-
publican dictatorship that has existed
for the past fifteen years in this State,
that selected the present Republican
nominee for Governor. that framed the
Republican platform and ran the Re-
publican State convention.
| Prolonged roars of satirical laughter
! greeted every thrpst he made at the
bosses of the party, and when he
said that while there were many other
| facts relating to Republican history in
!, this State he could mention, yet he
would save something so that he might
/ have some pleasant surprises for his
/ enemies as the campaign progresses,
since he had read the Republicans had
stated he would soon talk himself
out"
! Describes Republican Meeting.
He provoked great laughter when he
| said the best descrip on that could
be given of the recent Republican gath
ering was to "say it was not prom
ising convention. no, not even a hope
4 full one"
/ The great audience seemed to agree
with him when he said 1T was not
convention of the rank and file OF the
Republican party, but represented
leadership in affairs which 1t mas de-
clined for many years
These impressive words of introduc-
ton cleared the decks for action. so to
speal- and the candidate Immediately
.,got down to business" in plain and
specific manner, which was greeted
throughout his speech with applause,
laughter and audible comments, which
showed the great audience agreed with
him in most of his statements.
His rapier-like thrusts began imne-
diatelv after he had stated that II am
not SO much interested In the success
or failure of a party. but l am tre-
mendously interested ill programs and
policie:."
He called attention 20 the Republican
narty. which made fetish of past his
tory and recalled illustrious men. but
co far as he could discover made but
one definite promise, and that one had
been grudgingly wrung from stand
nat committee that had framed the
nlatform. and although the Progressive
Republican leaders had battled all
night II was stated, for the incorpora-
tion of this and other planks, 1t was
the only concession The stand-patters
who ran the Republican convention
would grant
| Refers to insurgency.
/ 4
Seldom has the candidate appeared
to greater advantage as q satir1st than
when he gave description of the
present condition of the Republican
party in the nation, commenting upon
the platforms of Kansas and Iowa as
compared with those of Ohio and New
York.
! He said that in no State in the coun-
J try had the insurgent element in the
| Republican party received less encour-
agement and recognition than in New
Jersey, where they were Jeered and
hissed and adjudged as unfit to sit as
delegates in the stand-patters' State
| convention.
He stated that the press had quoted
George Record to the effect that the
convention was the : most tyrannicai
and unsatisfactory he party has ever
| held IN new JtIScyb anu yCt III law
of that. ne (Record) was trying to fra
ternize with those same stand-patters
in an effort to be elected to Congress.
The State Republican convention had
been entirely engineered by the senior
| United States senator and the cam
paign is being directed by the junior
United States senator 1t was an out
and-out stand-pat convention and
swore answering allegiance to Can
nonism and Aldrichism.
| SO far as he was concerned, he was
perfectly contented TO represent the re-
organized democracy In this State,
while the unreorganized Republican
party in this State seemed perfectly
willing to be lead by the United States
senator who was numbered among
Aldrich's chief errand boys in the upper
House.
Under all the circumstances. his op-
(Coutinued ON Fourth PaRe.l