The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-10-24

-hy-a enthusiast IA the balcony, the
new and Embossed figure in national
notifies proceeded TO interview the
crowd. He was there 10 advocate the
sloction OF the Democratic candids'e
for the state legislature. or assembly.
as a condition essential 10 the com
pletion OF the reform program upon
which he had entered; but his method
OF getting at II was SO skillful ana IN
genious, yet so entirely candid, good.
tempered and fair, that II Is we'll
worth the study OF those good folks
who insist that a college president is
hopelessly out OF his sphere in the
game of practical politics
"A year ago, Plainfeld, normally
300 Republican. gave US a plurality
OF 300," said Gov. Wilson. but we
shall not know until next month In
what spirit you gave IL. Did you
mean II when you declared for a new
order of things In New Jersey or were
you just DESTROYS of seeing us per-
form? We have showed that we
m can't what we said when We prom
ised you better laws; but II you re-
verse your expression at the polls on
Nov. s, IL will signify that you didn't
mean what you said. For the Repub-
lican party in New Jersey Is the same
In it's purposes and leaders as IL was
when you rejected II a year ago"
The adroitness of this sort of come
lei us-reason-together talk, In contrast
with the usual Observation-Disclosures
another appeal, will strike any
student of campaign methods at once
With fine drollery the governor went
on to cite the advantage to free
voters" of the new registration law
, which has broken up the strange per
sisrency with which dead men have
continued to vote in New Jersey; and
of the public utilities act, which was
not conceived in destructiveness, but
calculated to serve the same purpose
as the square-shaped dish with holes
In the side which the governor said
he had seen his good mother use in
making kurd II squeezed the water
out, but left a good solid relishable
substance in the dish. So what was
left OF railroad stocks after the water
was squeezed out would be solid anc
healthy and more saleable. MOI
that we are claiming to practice
bonevolence toward the railroads
that is, benevolence In the sense o.
gratuitous bestowal OF benefits; bu
we are really exercising the trues
type of benevolence. which is jus
tics."
Then, to show that his reform
policy is simply corrective, and no
confscatory, Gov. Wilson challenges
tn. sincerity OF the Republican plat
form pledge to separate every railway
grade crossing in the state. He sale
If the Republican leaders had beer
automobiling with him about New Jer
sew and crossed and recrossed tn
same tracks as many times as he had
they would know that what they pro
missed to do would bankrupt ever!
railroad In New Jersey. And, he add
| ed, I'VE do not care to entrust GU
| lives and property TO the operation
OF bankrupt railways"
do you think our Republican
friends mean business when they pu
pledge of that sort into their plat
| FORM" he asked.
Some Republican assemblymal
having voted for the reform measures
put through by the governor-meas
urcs that both parties were commit
ted to-the Republican leaders ha,
come forward with the explanation
chat they were cajoled or hypnotize
| by Gov. Wilson.
Don't you Republicans appreciat
what this implies &said the governor
| continuing his interview with tn
| Plainfield audience. 1T means tina
your representatives cannot be relic
upon to carry out their pledges to tn
people unless placed under hypnoti
spell. But you know there was nc