The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-21
GOVERNOR WILSON'S. DAY IN COLUMBUS |S STRENUOUS W|NDUP ID WEEKS SPEAKING |IMore Than Pleased With Thrill of Campaigning
 and Enthusiastic
 Greetings CURRENCY SYSTEM N STIFF, ANIlQUATED AND IS INELASTIC Criticises Board of Experts to Handle The Tariff or Trust Questions. Approves the Wilson National Progress
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 Columbus. O, September ao-Into twelve hours Governor Woodrow Wilson spent in Columbus today were crowded thc for | nal opening of the democratic campaign in Ohio, a luncheon with Governor Har- . mon, Representative James NJ Cox, tire democratic candidate for governor, and state leaders, and a series of speeches and ] receptions
 It was strenuous windup to he pres | idential nominees first week of consecu- l tive campaigning As he started back to Seagirt, N. J., tonight, he said he wes more than satisfied and pleased both with | the thrill of campaigning and the enthusi- astic greetings he had received. Speaks on Many Subjects The nominee's speeches were as various fin the field they covered as were the events on the days programme. The gov E ernor made speeches on education as well as politics. In the one kind he drew atten- ton to the specialties and distractions of university life. In the other there stood out prominently his criticism of board Of experts to handle the tariff or trust problems. The governor made his first reference also to the present currency system, characterizing it as stiff, anti quated and inelastic.
 Enthusiasm and demonstration spread through the days events. For the first time in his life, the governor said, he saw what political organization looked like. He saw the precinct organinzers, the county leaders. and the state execu- lives and with them hundreds of CO., workers They crowded Memorial hall and gave the nominee big ovation. From the meeting of the democNtic organization, the governor wet tosthe chamber of commerce and addressed a meeting of educators from all parts of Ohio.
 "I find this sudden change of costume somewhat embarrassing said the gov ernor Just few minutes ago had 10 wear the costume of the politician. Now I have undergone a rapid change for which they did not give me time behind the scenes, and resumed my old garb Us school masrei.
 'I want to say very frankly that after dealing with some college poll ticians the men l am dealing with now seem to be like amateurs. They haven't the same gift of making black look ex- actly white. In other words, they haven't the same subtle gift of gab' that covers everything over with the fine veneer of excellent phraseology.'
 Addresses Business Men
 The candidate then addressed q meeting of several hundred business men.
 "One of the most amazing Actions Of our politics" said the governor to them, 'is that the democratic party is n n ha bi1e nf the United States. When you reflect that the democrats of the United States comprise about half the popu- lation it is very interesting that half the population should be suspected of the desire to commit commercial hari- kari.'
 In attacking the idea of a board of experts to handle the tariff question he said conditions were constantly changing with the tariff as often sometimes as every 24 hours.
 You cannot touch one tariff sched- ule,' he added. without having incal- culable results in other schedules.
 Bodies of experts to guide legisla- ton have always been the machinery of one thing and that is delay
 On Currency Question
 Tn speaking of the currency aues- ton the nominee said:
 "One of the things that makes the currency question most pressing and significant is that we are certain now in my judgment. to remove some of the artificial obstacles to our prosper ity in business and the minute you do that there is to be such an increase in the economic activity of America that this stubborn, stiff antiquated currency system of ours can't stand the strain. You've got to make it elastic; you've got to change it, or else you can't stand your own prosperity. Amer lea is now straining at the leash. and l could name some of the gentlemen who hold the leather thing that is at tached to the leash l don't know whether they know that they are hold ing 1t or not The leash is there and America Is straining to be free; and, God willing. she shall be free"
 Tousands of persons came to hotel where the governor was staying and shook hands with him.
 Tonight the programme was even more strenuous. The presidential candidate ad- dressed throng that filed Memorial hall the most spacious of the city's audi toriums. Governor Harmon presided Outside there was an overflow meeting, where the governor made another speech.
 Governor Wilson added to his prepared speech q reply to recent argument of Colonel Rouse sevelt. who defended the proposed regulation of trusts by q federal industrial commission. with the statement that the interstate commerce commission was an example of what could be done by governmental regulation.
 The governor declared that the Headers of the third party" had suggested that the railroads never had injured organized labor and had been effectively regulated by the interstate commerce commission This was no comparison, the nominee de- clared, because the railroads were sin gle unit interlocked and interlaidn whereas ether industrial combinations such as the Steel corporation or the Standard oil con1pany could crush or ganized labor on account of the opera tion of their business through several units.
 Governor Wilson will arrive at Seagirt at 2.39 tomorrow afternoon
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