Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-23
IMMIGRATION IS
WILSON'S THEME
Governor Explains Statement
About People Of Southern
Europe.
IFrom a star correspondent.l

From a staff Correspondent
SEA GIRT, July Ex-Governor Will
son has issued a signed state
ment intended to make clear to the
foreign-born how ne regards the
question of immigration. He has been
told that thousands of Hungarians,
Italians, Greeks and Poles now in
this country believe him to be natu-
rally a~ntagonistic to them. They hold
this belief because they have had
quoted to them a phrase the Governor
uses In his History Of the American
People," in which he treats of immi-
grafton and speaks of the lower and
meaner sort of people from Southern
Europe"
Editor Wants to Know.
The quotation from his history, it is
explained was used when the steam
ship companies were inducing immi-
grafton from Southern Europe to
America of foreigners who hid no
proper basis for coming and who
never would have gotten into the
United States except for activities of
the companies, actuated by their de-
sire of transportation money.
Governor Wilson was drawn out on
the subject by Geha Kende, editor
OF American Magyar Nephaya, a
leading Hungarian newspaper CT
New York, who was a visitor here.
Mr.. Kende began by asking the can
didate what he had told Representa-
tive SABBATH, of Illinois, who came
from Washington with the other
Congressmen on Saturday. about his
views Of immigration
Fayors sound Immigration.
IT told him / was for sound i'm
migration,'' replied the Governor.
Mr.. SABBATH wanted to know If I had
any racial prejudices and said that
il l had, he didn't feel that he could
support me.
JJpon request Governor Wilson liz
tated and signed the following state
ment on the subject:
II believe in the reasonable restric-
ton OF immigration, but not in n
restriction which will exclude from
the country honest, industrious men,
who are seeking what America has
always o~ffered-an asylum for those
who seek a free field. The whole
is a very difficult one. but
l think it can be solved With justice
and generosity. Anyone who has
the least knowledge Of Hungarian
history must feel that stock to have
proved itself fit for liberty and OPP
portunity."
Clark to Aid Wilson.
Senator Reed, of Missouri. who, al
though one Of the strongest of the
original Clark men, has been added
to the Wilson advisory committee of
fourteen, was a visitor to Sea Girt
yesterday just before the Governor
took an automobile to a retreat that
is not being divulged and to which
he has gone into %seclusion to write
his speech of acceptance.
The Missouri Senator told the
Governor that Champ Clark would
stump for him and described the
speaker of the house as one of those
fellows who takes off his coat and
starts to work for the ticket as soon
as the convention is yer a regular
Missouri Democrat"
Senator Stone, of Missouri, who ac-
companied Senator Reed, talked with
the Governor half an hour about
plans for the campaign and gave his
views of the States in which it would
have to be waged the hardest.
Says South Is "Sewed Up"
He said that the country south of
the Mason and Dixon line was all
sewed up and need not be bothered
with much. He classed as the de-
batable States New York. Connecti-
cut, Massachusetts,, Ohio and Wiscon-
sin, and said that without these Will
son would get 230 votes in the Elec-
toral College.
Representative Henry, of Texas,
who has been q stanch Wilson fighter
from the first, provoked a-laugh in
the camp of correspondents, which he
visited after his session with the Gov
ernor, by declaring that this cam
paign is a fight between three Presi-
dents, the past President. the present
President and the future President.
Not more than a score of persons
know where Governor Wilson is at
present. and they don't know when he
will return to the summer capitol at
Sea Girt. He has gone away to write
his speech, take what time it may,
and is not to be disturbed on any &C.