New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-30
WILSON CALLS ON FLOOD.
COURTS THE OLD GUARD.
representative Suspected of
Patronage Hunt: Governor
Sees PenitenCe.
STANTON SPEEDS ITS SON
thousands Cheer the President
Elect as He Starts for Prince
ton-Fling at 1.-THE Elder
"" Vino Opposes Change.

u'-cra stan Correspondent OF The Tribune
staunton. Va, Dec. Ex-Governor VIII
son started for his home In Princeton at
1886 fhis morning, amid the cheers of
several thousand persons who had gath
cred around the railroad station TO bid
him farewell. The Governor was i'm far
better health than when he arrived herr.
and he appeared i'm the best of spirits.
The President-elect told Hampton Wayt.
Mayor Of his native town. that he was
delighted with his visit and that he hoped
TO come here again.
The attack Of Governor Wilson on Rop-
,esentatiye Hal u. Flood. right in his
own district. at the banquet last nisht
vas discussed freely in the hotel Hobbies
this morning. Additional interest was
added TO the story by the fact that Mr.
flood in his speech Gid not try to resent
Governor Wilson's attitude. but instead
made a desperate and somewhat success
ful attempt to get on the Wilson band
wagon" by saying that, while he may
have differed with the President-eiect, he
would be found supporting him during the
next eight years.
There was d Great deal OF surprise.
however. when 1t leaked out that the
President-elect, apparently believing Mr..
Flood TO be penitent. had called on him
at the home of Senator Edward Echols
this morning. Representative Flood is
one Of the lieutenants of Senator Thomas
Martin. boss of the Democratic machine
in this state, who opposed Wilson at
Baltimore. and the impression prevailed
here that he was simply trying to make
the President-elect believe he was on the
Wilson band wagon" so that the ma
chine could control the federal patronage.
Before the banquet ended last night
Chairman McCombs tried TO pour oil on
the troubled waters by saying that, while
there may have been some diversity of
opinion at Baltimore he felt confident
that Governor Wilson would have a united
party back of him in his administration.
IL was almost midnight when Governor
Wilson finished his address at the dinner.
As on yesterday afternoon, he had con-
siderable TO say about the business of the
tountry. asserting that any change in
conditions would have to be made by
education and in a way that will not tear
the economic fibre of the nation. He said:
Thought is going TO dominate this
country because there are lots of things
10 think out and nothing will save this
country except straight thinking. Morals
will save this country, because We nave
changed our lives faster than we have
adjusted the DeCalogue. We have gone
into great transactions which we did not
sec how To square with the simple morals
OF individual action. Many an honest
man. many q man who had been unim-
peachs Bile in his individual conduct, has.
nevertheless. engaged in transactions
sometimes i'm this country which did not
square with the principles TO which ne
held himself individually-partly out or
ignorance partly out of haste. partly out
OF the cXigency Of doing great things in
short space Of time. l do not feel that
YOU can draw an indictment against any
part Of our business community. They
have largely sinned I'm ignorance and In
;hOughtless haste But we have got 10
square the biggest things with the sim
plest standards OF morality and obliga-
ton.
II is not a task for the casuist 1t is
rot task for the man who Will draw
fne-spun distinctions. You have got 20
lay down the great measurements OF
morals and square by them. 1t has got
10 be done slowly because some men need
a lot OF education. 1t has got 10 be done
tenderly because If you can educate
man there is no use killing him before
YOU have educated him. IT has got to De
done in such way as not 10 tear ana
destroy the economic fibre OF the nation.
and so stop the processes Of life. but 1t
has gOt to be done. and II has got TO Dc
done with an absolutely inhexible will.
dare say the patient will not always like
1t. dare say that there are some gem
temen who will be criticising the pro-
cesses OF change until they die, but some
~ them are elderly. and so the criticism
u the processes Of change may not De
az long as we fear.
movement has already been started
by the citizens of Stanton to give the
President elect a summer home. The
place now under consideration is Selma,
an historic estate OF 100 acres, on the
sss OF the town. II has delight
Iw view and is typically Southern. The
house is roomy. and was built before the
Civil War