Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

WOODROW WILSON,
Governor of New Jersey, who declares
| himself a liberal.
NORFOLK, Va, April 29.-In his native
state Of Virginia, Gov. Woodrow Wilson
of New Jersey was today hailed as prob
ably the next President Of the United
States. Though declining himself to dis
cuss In any form possibilities in this di-
rection, Gov. Wilson was referred to by
the local newspapers as probable demo-
cratic nominee for the presidency in
1872, and the governors presence as
guest of honor at tonight's dinner of the
Pewter Platter Club OF Norfolk had it's
significance as forecasting .rture high
honors'' for him If the influence of the
hundred or more prominent men whose
guest the governor was counts for any
thing in the advancement of his political
interest in this state.
Several times DR.. Edwin A. Alderman,
president OF the University of Virginia,
and fellow-guest of Gov Wilson at to-
nights dinner, referred to higher duties
to which New Jerseys chief executive
may be called, and frequently in private
Gov. Wilson was told Of the strong senti-
ment in Virginia for him for the next
democratic presidential nominal ton
Guest at Luncheon.
Gov. Wilson, who arrived in the city
early today, was the guest Of Robert
B. Tunstall of Norfolk at luncheon
given this afternoon at the Virginia
Club. and attended by more than a score
|of prominent people. including DR..
Alderman, William H. White of Rich
mond. Va, president of the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad;
Eppa Hunton Of Richmond and Robert
L. Parrish Of Covington. Va. On this
occasion Gov. Wilson expressed great
SOIL
Gov. Wilson will be in Norfolk until
tomorrow night, when he returns to
Trenton. via Baltimore. to complete
final arrangements for the beginning Of
his western tour next week.
Genuine Representation.
Judge Thomas W. Wilcox of Nor
folk was POSTMASTER at the Pewter
Platter Club dinner. Gov. Wilson.
touching upon political issues. opened
his address with the following SEN
tence:
Irresponsible business and genuine rep
resentation OF the people in government
is our program, and. item by item, we
shall carry it out.
He classified himself as liberal, set
ting forth the liberal platform.
Men of courage and understanding
must undertake the task" he continued
IAN age Of reconstruction calls for high
gifts and men of indomitable purpose. We
ho,, fs1,o
as critical. perhaps. as the age in which
our government was set up: and we shall
meet its tasks as deliberately, as calmly.
as successfully-like the masterful people
we have shown ourselves to be. Such
tasks are typically American. 1t has al
ways been our privilege and our happy
capacity to show how they can be done
without revolution. without strife or
hatred or injustice, without the necessity
Of drawing. in de Tocquevilles memorable
| phrase, a single tear or single drop OF
blood from mankind
Calm Follows Agitation.
"A new temper has come into our az
fairs. Only a little while ago the whole
country seemed deeply disturbed. as II
with sense Of incalculabe changes. So
many things in It's life seemed awry-
there was so widespread an impression OF
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even based upon seltishness and wrong
and greed-that few saw anything but
agitation citation that was likely
to make business impossible. There was
a dread Of what was to come. Many held
| back and protested holly, while the ma
jority seemed to surge ahead, eager for
| change, and not too critical what the
| change might be.
| by imperceptible and very happy
| changes of temper and point Of view
we have come out OF that state or
mind, that per1urbed view of our life,
and have begun to get something like
! a complete vision OF our problems and
OF the policies that must solve them.
We are no longer in the temper Of
attack. We are ready for remedy and
adj ustment, and beg. n to see where to
begin and in what direction to move. A
promise Of craftsmanship, follows a
| threat of revolution There can be no
mistaking this. Programs are taking
the place of philippics. and programs
can be soberly examined and assessed.
as unqualified critisms and denuncia-
lions cannot be. We are not all of one
mind But we have ceased to be divid-
| ed into alarmists and defenders of So
ciety and begin to redivide ourselves
into workable groups. 1t is customary
to speak Of this new classification as
division into prOgressives and reaction
aries, but after all. 1t is the old d.
vision between liberals and tories.
Both Elements of Use.
There have always. fortunately for
the stability CT society. been tories,
who stood fast for the existing order
and feared nothing so much as change.
and there have always. fortunately for
human progress and human liberty.
been liberals, who pushed on from hope
full change to change in the slow proc
ess of altering things as they are into
| things as they ought to be.
There are tories still in abundance
in both parties. but there are also lib
| erals in still greater numbers. 1 hope.
| and the two kinds are not rapidly stiff
ing themselves apart and drawing to-
| gether again. each after its kind. and
parties are reforming while labels re-
main unaltered. We look beneath the
label to the man and his thought
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