Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-05-09
Wilson IS GIVEN
DEMONSTRATION
MENTION OF PROBABLE PRESI-
DENTAL CANDIDATE CHEERED
POLITICS is CHANGING
New Jersey Governor Says There Has
Been Too Much secrecy Among
the Different Parties.

by Associated Press.
Denver Col, May S.-A demon
strotion continued for over tive min
utcs following tho mention Of GOV
ernor Woodrow Wilson as a prob
able Democratic President at the next
election" By President Charles John
son of the Denver Chamber OF COM
merce tonight at banquet.
Governor Wilson said In part.
THE country Is to be congratulated
upon the fact that the atmosphere
of politics has changed within tho
last few years, for a few years ago
there was danger that reform would
be the source of continual uneasiness
because It all seemed negative in
character. Its object was to correct,
to restrain, to punish, The talk was
OF marauding corporations and great
combinations OF wealth intended to
crush the common man; Of the abuse
OF their power by railroads; OF rebates
and secret rates and privileges given
to the big shipper as against the small
one; Of the monopolzing of the mar
kets by gigantic trusts and combina-
tions These things still trouble us.
Of course, and are still In the back
ground Of a great deal that we talk
about, and our motive In great deal
that we do is stlll TO correct the
abuses which have arisen by these
means, but happily the whole pro-
gram Of reform has become less neg
atlye and more constructive. 1t Is
becoming evident that we shall not be
satisfied with merely prohibitiye stat
utes and penalties imposed upon those
who do not sufficiently regard the
public interest In the conduct Of their
business We see that what we arc
really after Is reconstruction of our
methods Of action not only in the
field business, but also in the field
! OF politics. The picture IS very much
enlarged before US, and we are seek
ing larger ends by invigorating con-
structive means
"a great people cannot afford to be
merely on the defensive. 1t Ia moi
the genius OF America TO be satisfied
with safeguards and prohibitions. We
are therefore looking ourselves over
from top to bottom in order to find
what arrangement of our statutes
and practices is necessary IN order
that we may go forward In a happy
and effective life. We are going about
now to enact n thorough program OF
popular reform, and we know very
definitely the objects at which we In
tend to aim.
"In the first place, we mean to open
up all the processes Of our politics.
We find that we have been too Sc
cret, too complicated, too roundabout; ;
that they have consisted too much Of
private conferences and secret under
standings, of tho control OF legisla-
tion by men who were not legislators,
but stood outside and dictated, CON
trolling oftentlmes by very questiOna-
bic means, which they would not
have dreamed of allowing to become
public, and so we have determined
that the whole process must be al
tered--that we must take the selcc-
tion Of candidates for office, for eX-
ample, out OF the hands Of small
groups Of men, Of little corporation
groups Of men, Of little coterics out
OF the hands Of machines working be-
hind closed doors, and put It I'm the
hands of the people themselves again
by means Of direct primaries and
elections to which candidates Of
every sort ana degree may have free
access. We have begun 20 build up
new system by which to substitute
public for private machinery
I'VE have determined, in the second
place, to give society command OF It's
own economic life again by denying
to those who conduct the great mod
ern operations Of business the privacy
and independence that used to belong
properly enough TO men who used
only their own capital and their In
diy!dual energy in business. We have
set out TO make the processes Of capt
tai as open as the processes Of poll
tics We are now going forward upon
the principle that those who make
use OF the great modern accumula-
tiou Of wealth, gathered together by
the dragnet process Of the sale Of
stocks and bonds, shall be treated as
public trustees; that they shall be
made responsible for their business
methods to the great communities
which are in fact, their working part
ners; that the hand which makes cor.
rocuon shall easily reach them, and
that q new principle Of responsibility
may be felt throughout their struc-
ture and operations,
"In the third place, we have deter
mined TO safeguard our national re-
sources at every point, realizing, as
we do, that we have been too lavish
of them and have used them IN spend
thrift fashion, We now insist that
our resources do not consist merely
Of forests and the power OF great
streams and the wealth that lies hid
den In the mines or merely I'm tho
productive powers OF our varied soil.
but include also the lives and health
Of our workmen, Of our women and
children The rights and health and
prosperity Of our workinRmen and
wording women ana our children we
now recognize as being our chief
national resource. and we mean to
safeguard that resource of nil others