The Penn's Grove record., 1911-10-13
The PENIS Gruve Record
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1911.
WILSON ENDORSED FOR PRESIDENT
Democratic Clubs Hold Enthusiastic
Meeting in Trenton.


Meeting in Trenton.
Representatives of 800 Democratic
clubs of New Jersey met in Trenton
last Saturday and endorsed Governor
Woodrow Wilson for the presidential
nomination i'll 1912.
Ray E. Mayham, of Union county,
president of the Federation OF Demo
cratic Clubs, called the meeting to or
der and named Frank S. Katzenbach
as chairman.
President Mayham said that the
Democratic Congress had kept every
promise it had made, and in this respect
he likened the past session OF Congress
with the term of Governor Wilson, SO
far as it had progressed. The people
had gotten what they had been prom
ised. Pledges had been fulfilled.
There was a genuine outbulst OF en-
thusiasm when President Mayham IN
troduced the Governor, the cheers last
ing for several minutes. After thank
ing the members of the convention for
their cordial greeting, Governor wilson
delivered a short address:
URGES LOOKING FORWARD.
"While there is nc man more proud
of the achievements of the Democratic
party in the last few months than l
ann he ssid, 81 would urge that what
we need to do is not to look backward
but forward. We need to go along the
pathway of constructive reform that is
laid out for us, leaving the past to
speak for itself.
ssThe reason that the Democratic
party has such a bright future before 1t
is because it is in the hands of the pro-
gressiye elements of the party. while
the same cannot be said of the Repub-
lican party.
"Now, n thing that the opponents
of the Democratic party are wont to
make much of is that if the affairs OF
the nation are entrusted to its hands 1t
will endanger business. That is not
so, No one,l least of all myself, wants
to wreck anything in the business OF
the country that is right. No one
wants to do anything in the long run
except that which will put big business
on a better basis than ever before. Ii
we don't have a personal interest in big
business at least most Of us draw SAL
aries from it and we certainly don't
wish TO endanger our livelihood.
eBut what the Democratic party has
done is to get away from the control OF
special interests, those interests which
would drag down any party. That Is
why we are progressives.
CHOW, what were the conditions!
They were that both parties subsisted
upon contributions supplied by these
same special interests. They gave tc
both parties alike. Ii they thought tht
Republicans were going to win the.
gave most of their contribution t.
them, but they said:
"'There is a chance the Democrats
may win and so we will also give some
thing to them.'
"But we are progressives for anothe
reason. Now, You can't be a progress
i've until you know where you are go
ing. So, in order to be a progressive
you must move out as well as move in
w are progressives because we hav'
gone from the land of make believ'
into the land of reality.
"There was a terrible accident a
Austin, Pa, the other day. A dan
gave way and many lives were lost il
consequence. 1t was a perfectly goot
concrete wall, but it slipped from unde
its foundations, its foundations wer'
weak. just so, you cannot build
superstructnre of reform on make be
lieve facts. And the reason we ar
sometimes called radical is because W,
tryS6 face facts.
"That is why WI are prOgresslyes
We are bound from the land of th
special interests into the land OF tn
general interest. We are bound from
the land of indoors and secret confer
eDces into the land OF outdoors ant
open discussion.
PROTECT BUSINESS WORLD.
1--WE call ourselves progressives be
cause we know what we want to ge
rid of and what we want to get. Pro
gressives won't do anything TO the in
terests of the general business world
except to rearrange the general rela-
tionship, for a progressive is one VIII
intends to act for the whole and not TO
the part.
81 am sometimes astounded at th
blindness of the men in charge of bi
interests who fear to go forward. l al
astounded at the blindness Of the me
who are fighting against progress an
called themselves cO~uScIFdblFoS AHel
conservatism is the conservation c
things as they were.
.sThe Democratic party" said Coy
ernor Wilson in conclusion, lis I'll
party of young men and of men VIII
never grow old, and America lhroug
the Democratic party is soon to lea
the world in constructive Statesman
ship"
Among the speakers were Unite
States Senator James e. MARITIME, wi
upheld Governor Wilson as the on
logical candidate for the Presidency
the Democratic party. Mayor Ere