Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-26
WILSON AGAIN
HITS HARD
Says His Whole Life Has
Seen Devoted to Under
standing Politics.


Salem, Oct. 26:-After q day of
rustlfng winds, of great clumps of
garden flowers formally presented,
of school children s~queaIing with de-
light, Woodrow Wilson entered Sa-
lem last night and made a ringing
speech that made an audience at first
silent and unfriendIy like and cheer
him. 1t was a feat nothing less in a
town Rnd county republican these
several years.
Mr.. Wilson asked why his oppon-
ents We're driven to say of him things
potently and ridiculously untrue, to
attack him personally and leave I'M
assailed- his position, he said that
these attacks were unnecessary be-
cause his opponents of the republic
can organization no longer repre-
sented even the republican party
and were fighting at bay.
why have orders gone out in the
city of Camden that the rolls be
padded twenty per cent. more than
~hitherto?" was one of Mr.. Wilson's
questions and the most startling one.
Mr.. Wilson started by telling
three stories. That was unusual of
him. The audience laughed at the
stories, for they were good ones, and
settled back to listen as cool as eve
Mr.. Wilson then put his question as
to the personal attacks on himself.
Not even when he answered it, not
indeed till he said that men who be-
lieved with him would vote with him
and that what was said would take
care of itself, did the audience
vouchsafe so much as a handicap.
Mr.. Wilson took a moment to re-
mark how We unquestionably have
in late years set too much store by
material wealth. In itself material
wealth proved nothing, he comment
ed. There are men physically big
ger than IT, he said, "who could
thrash me, but whom / despise be-
cause 1 know / am a better man"
Mr.. Lewis, Mr.. Wilson said, was
an organization mar with ~"inveter-
ate associations" who for the last
few years had been called in at al
most every session of the republican
state committee to determine what
legislation should be let by.
Mr.. Wilson stirred the crowd, a
thousand strong, by saying: They
came to me to get a man outside the
party Organization to lead the Iarty.
When they asked me | accepted,
though why they asked me | don't
know, for I did not ask, partly out
of modesty and partly because zoo
| great knowledge of their motives
might have conceivab1y embarrassed
me. But they got me, and they got
a man who has had twenty five
years experience of public speaking
and whose business it has been to
| understand politics. Therefore #
| there was anything in their program
thew did not want talke1 about they
bmade a colossal blunder."
This was followed by the state
ment that if Wilson is made govern
or he will understand that 1t is his
| business to make everything that
| goes on at Trenton as plain as pos
| sible to the people of New Jersey.
| This WOE then and there for the can
| didate that audiences affeesionate
regard.
Mr.. Wilson said in conclusion that
no one should vote for a change I'M
less he believed the change would
be for the better, hat the democra-
tic state platform had left all he
toric out except a little splurge at the
end that was to leave a good taste
in the mouth. and that the democrats
at any rate wanted money only for
legitimate campaign expenses SO
that the people of, the state might
have the democratic side fairly and
fully presented before they made a
choice.
AFFINITY Earle Is Ill.
M%iddletown. N. Y, Oct. 26:-Fer-
dinand Pinney Earle, who recently
returned to his home at Monroe,
Orange county, from Europe, where
it was said he had been trying to
patch up difficulties with his French
wife, but failed, is now i'll. For sew
eral days past he has been confined
to his bed with a severe cold.