The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-27
PURIFY POLITICS
... WILSON DEMANDS
Open Game Means Much to
Men Who Struggle to
Live, He Says.

NEW YORK. Oct 27.-That the
fight Woodrow Wilson has been max
ing the last week for a Democratic
Legislature is merged in the larger
Tight for the Democratic nomination
Tor President, is admitted by the men
who have been touring the counties
with his. The Governor has gone to
pennsylvania, leaving the various
Democratic legislative candidates for
whom he has been fighting feeling
that II the election were to take place
now, New Jersey would indorse Wilson
and return a Democratic legislature
FOR him, says a correspondent Of the
Evening Post, who has be n campaign
Ing with Governor Wilson.
This feeling OF confidence extends
even to the presidency. Let New Jer-
Bey, in an off year and after the Gov
ernor has openly warred on the boss
es OF his own party, give him an in
dorsement in the very tangible form Of
u Democratic legislature to work with
and his strength throughout the coun-
try would be vastly increased, it is
believed.
For the man who had never cam
paigned with Wilson, the heavy skies,
the soaked and bunny roads were min
1mized discomforts while watching him
lin action. At the most obscure of
crossroads he was the same figure
one had seen and heard at dignified
public dinners, a curious contrast to
the collarless, booted and chin-whis-
,kered gathering that lined up at each
village general store and chewed a
straw while the Governor put forth his
argument for the new rules"
"The Democratic party in this state
has been working for the last nine
months under the new rules he said.
at Upper Peapack, N. j., (soon to
glory in the more high sounding name
of Gladstone). land the Republicans
haven't even heard of the new rules.
II have always been an advocate of
the open game in football, what is
known as the close game giving op-
portunity for all kinds of dirty work
that the umpire could not see. In the
open game the race Is to the swift
and the strong, and the umpire and the
public can tell what is going on. One
rof the demoralizing things in introduc- !
Hng the new rules Of college is the
treappearance of the old grad, with his
fboastful praise Of the beauties Of the
old game. The old grad Republicans
have come back in this state with their
lpraise of the old rules, but l can not
believe that the public wants to see a
return of the dorty work of the close |
game, nor to have government by COM
mittees in secret"
At Bound Brook, N. j., there was
q large audience and the Governor
was enthusiastically received, although /
1t was noticeable that the town poll !
Aicians were much wrought up over the
Operation of the new corrupt practices |
act, which will cut off the usual cleo
tion day graft. such as transporting
voters in carriages, means OF ap-
proach to the inner convictions Of the
farmer that both parties have found !
useful when the vote threatened to
be close. No more stringent act has
been passed by any state, it is said,
and with all the trappings of election
time eliminated, the voters are facing !
the cold matter of exercising the fran
chise without old-time inducements.
only today. the chairman Of the Demo
cratic state committee received an |
opinion from the encouragement tell
ing him that he would collect cam
lpaign funds II he wished, but warn
ing him that the new law did not al
low the state committee to disburse
Ithem-an interesting complication.
With the holiday expenditures cut
Idown. the pomp and circumstance OF
.politics reduced to minimum and
Woodrow Wilson, with his we'll for
mulated ideas. putting the issues
,squarely to the voters. New Jersey is
indeed. facing an election that is in