Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-30

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| Car. Easton. Pa. Aug. 29.-Gov,
Woodrow Wilson invaded Pennsylea-
MIA, today, intending only to make an
address 3 the state Changers pie ME
at Williams Grove. south OF Harris.
burg. Tbe Governor was surrounded
By such biz cruweis wherever his
train stopped, sthat he found when he
crossed from Pennsylvania into New
Jersey Al k.aston, tonight. re had
made half dozen speeches, had
shaken bonds with thousands OF peo-
/ pie. ana had talked collectively To
nultituaes in q single DAY.
It was the opening OF the campaign
! ouis,el lie Of New Jersey and the events
OF the DAY were plainly a surprise to
the Governor.
The Governor rode e15 miles through
Pennsylvania. and WHOM night came
he was ieed and hoarse AT Lancas-
ter. Harrisburg. Williams Grove.
Reading, Allentown and fiaston grea;
erowds jammed the railroad Yards
and the Governor competed in his
talks with the noise Of locomotives
and trains.
Tine railways always interfere with
politics smiled tho Governor rs an
engine Numbered ny while he was
talking, ct Reading
AZ bandshaIyins. as we'll IS back
platform stumping, the Governor lad
a strenuous time. A brawny black
smith wrung the Governors hand so
hard ut Williams Grove that for q
moment the nominee dropped his right
hand Imply to his side and extended
his LEFT hand. The Governor said, to-
night, his hand still panied him.
Several thousand people wedged
themselves IN the big auditorium at
Williams Grove to hear the Governor
principal speech, but a far greater
number was, unables to, gain entrance
so the Governor made a second speech
outdoors.
sThe Governor depressed materially
from his prepared speech. but devel-
apedt much the same line of thought,
eriticising Col. Roosevelt's tariff
views and taking issue with President
Taft's veto Of the farmers free list
bill. Fie referred Indirectly To politi-
cal conditions in Pennsylvania, as
outlined by Rep. A. Mitchell Palmer
who introduced the Governor, and
spoke of the Penrose revelations.
81 do not know how many Repub-
licans there are probably within the
sound of my voice. at least those
who have been Republicans hut are
on the anxious seat, said the Gov
ernor in his first speech at Williams
Grove, but / want to say / entire
~ respect. though [ do not at all un-
derstand. their reverence for the doc
trine whatever, except so far as it
works. Now, the doctrine of protec-
tipn is worth looking at, as it works.
1T has been said so often that you
believed it, that the doctrine of protec-
tion was maintained in our politics foI
the benefit of the farmers of the United
States. l am perfectly willing to admit
duets of the farm coming from other
countries, but who ever heard of the
farmer of the United States needing to
be protected AS matter of fact, no.
body ever feared foreign grains and for
eign farm products of any Kind wouu
come into competition with the farm
produce of the United States, for the
very good reason that we have produced
SO much that we have been feeding the
world.
.'Tbe American farmer never has been
protected. and his grains have sold at
prices established by the prices which
his product commanded in foreign mar
kets. That is an economic fact. Your
prices are not established by protection.