The Washington herald., 1910-10-03

Princeton. Oct ? 80 Woodrow Wilson
president of Princeton University. the
scholar In politics" has finished the
first week Of his gubernatorial campaign
in New Jersey. and the Democrats all
over the State are unaffectedly happy
over his start
Ihey say, and plainly believe. that Or.
wilson has reached the hearts OF his
audiences, and there can be no doubt
that this is largely true
Republican leaders throughout the
state appear buried in the same doubt
that seized them upon DIR. Wilson's nom
ination- Such of them as will talk frank
~ say that their hope. hardly their
conviction. Is that the Princeton man
will not get into contact with the mass
OF voters, especially the sedate people of
South Jersey.
'Of course" said one Republican COM
mitteeman, with no mincing Of words,
Wilson will get more Republican votes
than any Democrat who ever ran in New
Jersey, but" and he went on TO argue
that THE Scholar" would not reach the
rank and hle: that the adherents of Katz-
enbach wouldn't exert themselves 10 vote
for Or. Wilson; that union labor was
against him.
Attitude of Labor Men.
Union labor is officially against Or.
Wilson because the secretary Of "a Jersey
labor federation issued statement say
ing that in view of Or. Wilson's utter
ances on one or two occasions. labor men
couldn't trust him. That is the extent 10
which union labor is on record. But the
men who started 10 their feet with cheers
for Wilson Friday night at Newark were
labor men
Something of Dr. Wilson's unusualness
as campaigner has been indicated in
dispatches. but not all. In two minutes
he has his audience in the attitude OF
leisurely students listening to a lecture
in course they elected because they
liked III professor.
At Red Bank Saturday. in his talk TO
the hot and dusty Monmouth folks, he
referred once 10 Dante and the Inferno,
and said that the curious thing was
that many OF the folks Dante depicted
in the circles If hell were then alive.
Mishtn't il be, Dr. Wilson asked. that
man did carry his hell around with him
In this world? And for one sentence he
touched on death. and the implied aues-
ton Of immortality of the soul. A sec
ond later he was back at the topic Of
corporations.
HOmely Trait Ia speech.
The hOmely language found in a few
men in his country the outstanding /
trait in Lincoln. the flavor that crops I
out in Mayor Gaynor's words at times. /
streaks through all OF Dr. Wilson's ad- I
dresses.
II was during a discussion OF the tariff
at Red Bank that he remarked:
4 purchased pair of socks in Aber- |
deem. Scotland. And. do you know. those
socks never have worn out. I can't
seem 10 be rid Of them. And I never
did like their color in the first place. But
American socks. Well. 1 have purchased
dozen pairs of them since I bought /
those Scotch hose. and such is the ma /
ture OF the American goods that my fam /
Fly is constantly employed in darning
them"
There is one speaking trait Dr. Wilson /
has shown which does not seem to be-
long 10 any other man in public life to- /
day He is naive as well as daring. It
takes temerity TO say that you stand ,
not only on your written platform. but
on some planks not in IT, and then name
those plauks, as Dr. Wilson did in
Newark. But after enumerating some
things wrong at Long Branch Dr. VII
son said. suddenly.
Now, don't think that you can cure
these things by electing me governor,
because you can't"
DR.. Wilson went on to tell them that
they must decide which set Of men for
Office would vision these wrongs with
new eyes. would study how they were
done, and would enact laws killing them.
But who among campaigners would have
been so initially frank?