Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-11-04
TELLS
MEN To VOTE
AS THEY THINK

Wilson finished here last night with an
enthusiastic rally a most successful trip
through Morris county and the impress
sion he made ON the three audiences
will materially reduce the republican
vote that this strong republican county
usually gives.
At Madison in the afternoon, despite
a violent storm, he spoke to a large
audience and his telling points were
enthusiastically cheered, Practically
the entire student body of the Drew
Theological Seminary of the Methodist
Episcopal church was in the gallery and
gave Woodrow Wilson a noisy recep-
tion.
The candidate made a gracious
acknowledgement Of the reception and
plunged into one of those mastery
speeches for which he has become just
Iy famous.
His first assertion was that there was
danger of the students thinking he
would give a lecture on education in
stead of politics, which, in a certain
sense, was true, for certainly this cam
paign has placed a new aspect on poll
tics for the people of New Jersey. The
question had resolved itself to a choice
between two candidates who both pro-
fessed the same principles. Now, who
of the two was most probable to pro
luce the results, he asked.
He characterized Vivian M. Lewis as
the post lonely man in the Republican
party, who was the only one among the
leaders who had made bold assertions
Of a progressive character and other
prominent leaders had sat IN the same
platform and remained mum.
The leaders of the Republican ma
chine were inoculated and immune and
perfectly insensible to the contagion
of progressiveness which their candi-
date and many of their party, called in
surgents, had caught.
He said Mr.Lewis was evidently sin
cere, but the republican organization
has shown absolutely no tendency to
progress, but has a s~tand-pat program,
due to their lethargic disposition.
The two tests which should be applied
by voters in selecting their candidates
next Tuesday were: First, who of the
two candidates will be most probable
to have ability to resist the tempta-
tion of the daily routine of affairs, and
second. the candidate who would be less
likely to regard his political party as
an agency for rewarding and disciplin-
ing certain individuals and look upon
the party only as an agency for service
to the entire State?
loud cheers greeted his assertion that
Ia political party is a public i%nstrumen-
sality for the administration of policies
will benefit the entire State and
nation. - and that at the present time
the Democratic party stands for very
definite principles and purposes and
will do exactly what it states.
Additional applause greeted his as
~sertion that his opponent, Mr.. Lewis,
has a very large personal platform of
progressive principles, which is not the
platform of his party, and the leaders
September 30 at Trenton never
Mr.. Lewis platform, or had
any idea that before the campaign nd
ed their candidate would have such
a platform. The Democrats want to
go forward and be led to the gfory of
achievement. |
9FoiefGea applause greeted his inter
rogation: "What greater glory can any
man or party have than that which
comes in the effort to be of service to
the State and the n%ationf'
At Dover, where a hail and snowstorm
prevailed, the Baker Opera House was
well filed. Fully one-half of the aud
fence were Republicans.
Here Mr.. Wilson sharply criticized
the demagogues who seek to array one
section of a communityagainst the other
as in the studied effort to make work
ingmen believe any man or party to be
fnimical to their best interests,
Hundreds of Dover mechanics greet
ed with sarcastic laughter his allusion !
to the great interest certain candidates
and campaign managers take in the
welfare of the workingmen just at
election time and then forget them en-
tirely when they could pass beneficial
laws at Trenton, but the laws affect
special interests.
Cheers greeted his bold assertion he
was not concerned with the past history
of the Democratic party, but if they
did not execute their definite platform
this year they were candidates for the
righteous indignation of the voters of
the state and candidates for permanent
retirement. He made a sharp attack on
the manner the Board Of Guardians had
controlled the Legislature and throtlcd
beneficial legislation. Declaring the
government was like the men who com
duet it, he urged the election of the
entire Democratic ticket.
At Morrist6wn, in the Lyceum, he
faced the most enthusiastic audience of
the day and made a telling speech, the
principal points of which follow:
Purely Hypothetical.
"Tncle Henry, | want to ask your