The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-30
j. q +.
COMMON PEOPLE
ABLE TO GOVERN.
They Need No Political Bosses
to Direct Their
Affairs.
AROUSED AS NEVER BEFORE
Governor Wilson Lauds Masses
Of Voters Of This
Country.
AROUSED AS NEVER BEFORE
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Trenton, N j., April 39.-"Not many
months ago very few people believed
that serious discussion OF public
questions on the public platform would
result IN uniting the people on intelli-
gent action. II may speak of my
ences made up of the common people
quicker to tako a point quicker to I'M
derstand an argument, quicker TO COM
prehend a tendency and to compre.
hend a principle than many a college
class 1 have led" said Governor VIII
son 10 Times Dispatch correspon-
dent to-day before leaving for Norfolk,
Va.
This Is not because tho college GLASS
lacked intelligence. but because q class
of college boys is not In contact with
the realities of life, and body Of
common citizenship is in contact with
actual life. day by day. and you don't
have to explain to them what touches
them to the quick.
III you will go out and explain to
these people what 1t Is you arc try
Ing TO do. they will waive all minor
YOU are sustained in doing it The
only thing you have to prove to them
is that you really moan to servo them.
that YOU mean what you say. and that
you are not In the least afraid of the
man that Is crooked; that the only
thing you have to do with the man
who is trying to do tho wrong thing
is to make him stand up in public and
explain It,"
Foolish Doctrine.
Taking up another phase of tho
sa me subject. Governor Wilson said:
Il have sat at dinner tables and
heard tho unGuarded conversations of
| tho last two or three years. I have
heard men of large affairs declare that
It might be a good thing to set up a
monarchy in America, because, they,
said. In order to govern this great
country with its vast Accommodations
of wealth and power. the votes OF the
masses of men are too difficult to
manage, too difficult to direct, too Diff
flcult to control; that 1t Is necessary TO
have concentration of political power
In order to have concentration of ma
terial power
II have heard that doctrine preached
again and again by men who ought
to have known bettor, and I learned by
! listening to such talk that these men
distrusted the fundamental principles
of Democracy, and that, therefore.
| they were willing to make secret al
| SEQ that legislation they did not want
was prevented and that legislation
they did want was permitted.
II believe in political organization
believe in political leadership. but
| do not believe in these political ma
| chimes whose power comes from one
intended to he used for special In
interests and not In the common cause
Nobody can watch the lobby in any
Legislature without seeing who Is he
hind tho lobby. These men
| think they sometimes deceive them
selves and arc MS silly rs the ostrich
| With It's head in the sand. 1 am op-
/ posed to this very conception, and
take exception to their fundamental
alteration of the immortal utterance
! of Lincoln; they believe in government
! for the people, but not in the govern
ment by the people. They insist upon
being trustees in this important bus
! mess and will let us share in tho