Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-15


he would pledge the people all his pow
ers and all abilities to bring into legis-
lation the planks of the Democratic
platform. Cheers greeted his terse
statement that il he was unfaithful
through any act of his to do this he
would be ashamed to look the voters in
their faces at any future time.
A quick III of thirty minutes brought
the candidate to Lakewood, where the
largest Democratic meeting ever held
in the history of that resort was under
way at the Arcade Rink. The large
place was crowded to it's capacity, a
much larger row being present than
that which greeted Mr. Lewis a few
nights ago.
Tremendous enthusiasm was stirred
by the entrance of Mr.. Wilson, who
came in at the conclusion of an earnes
and effective speech of Assemblyman
Tumulty, who scored Vivian Lewis for
many of his votes while in the Assem-
bly,, showing from the legislative man
nal that he had always voted with the
strong and against the weak"
w. H. Jayne, jr., presided at the
Lakewood meeting and presented Mr.
Wilson in excellent taste, declaring he
would be the next Governor of this
State.
Mr.. Wilson was greeted here by all
the clergy of the town, by all the prom
inent cottagers who make this resort
their winter residence, n by a great
throng of the voters of the Republican
stronghold. 1t was one of the most re-
ceptive crowds the candidate has faced,
and he gave a most effective talk of
forty minutes, repeating in the main,
the points that he made in the speech
at Toms River. Great applause inter-
rupted his words as he proceeded
through the address, and at the conclu-
sion he was the centre of a great crowd
who desired to shake his hand.
81 am called an amateur in politics. -
Mr.. Wilson said in his Lakewood
speech. by the Republican stand-pat
leaders. 1t is meant to be an accusa-
ton. I accept it as an explanation.
We are tired of government by pro-
~fessionals."
False Leadership.
False leadership of the people by the
leaders of the Republican organization
was the point from which Mr.. Wilson
handled the issues of the campaign
last night. He traced all the evils in the
State government to that source and
showed that it was responsible for
broken pledges and all. He condemned
the alliance between the big corpora
tons and political organizations, and
asked once more If the professions of
the Republican leaders in this cam
paign could be believed after they had
broken former promises so often.
at is not parties that go wrong" he
said, at is the leaders of parties that
go wrong. Think of what the parties
consist of. Think of the great Demo-
cratic party and. the great Republican
party. almost evenly divided in voters
of the United States.
I'VE talk about government by the
people and we heartily believe In gov
eminent by the people, but in the past
Judgment by the people consists In judg-
ing the men who lead them. We
conduct our affairs, earn our living
and support those dependent upon us.
We cannot actually conduct the gov
eminent, we can only look Oh n
Judge those who are conducting 1t.
1T have not come to urge a change
upon any merely negative grounds. ]
have not come to urge a change merely
because the Republican leaders have
been unsatisfactory in what they have
given you. 1t would be easy to show,
l am sorry to say, that they have been
unsatisfactory, but we cannot make a
change simply because we are dissatis-
fed. We want to a a change simply
because we wish to accomplish some
thing.
1T am not interested in negative
reasons for change, l am interested in
positive reasons There are a great
many positive reasons why we should
have a change, for there are a great
many positive things that we desire TO
do, and for some reason we have been
unable to get our leaders to do them"
Growth of Corporations.
Here he outlined the growth and pic
tured the power of the modern cor
poration.
when you build these corporations
big enough" he continued, "as they are
being built, they will come into direct
competition with government itself,
and presently we begin to suspect, inc
more than suspect, that they control
the policies of the government.
III they cOntrOl lDe pollCy OF the SpN-
eminent, how do they control 1t. They
do not control it through you. They
do not come upon public platforms and
discuss with you the matters which
they wish to have decided by legisla-
ton or try to dissuide you from the
measures of legislation that they are
afraid will be adopted. They go to
party managers. They go to party or
CARNATIONS and they make their ar
rangements with them" This led him
to a discussion of the making of COM
paign contributions by the special in
t~erests, a practise which he castigated
at length.
1.-THE corporations are not making
benevolent contributions TO the gentle
men who manage campaigns. 1t has
been impossible to get our present Re-
publican managers in this State to pass
any satisfactory corrupt practises act.
For some reason they do not wish
to stop the present processes of poll