The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-18
Democratic Candidate for President
Furnished Two Sensations Dur.
ing Jersey Day Ceremonies
on His Lawn.
WOMEN ARE FRIENDLY
He Knows How to Please the suffrag-
cites Whom Delegation
Comes to Hear Him
Talk.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servicel
SEA GIRT, N. j., Aug. 17.-Wood-
row Wilson furnished two sensations
this afternoon at the Jersey day cere-
monies on his front lawn where up
wards of $500 men and women as
sembled.
In his first speech, Wilson was dis
cussing the old habit Of Jersey voters,
who, he said. used to feel that it
made little difference which way they
voted-the results were about the
same. He paused to say:
II suppose you know the force that
is behind the party recently formed,
the so-called progressive party. 1t is
the force of discomfort with the regu-
lar parties. 1t is the feeling that
men have gone in to blind alley and
come out often enough and that they
propose to find an open road for
themselves.
Late in the afternoon, Governor Will
son issued the following statement
explaining this reference.
Asked about this reference to the
third party, Governor Wilson said that
what had happened was this: That
the indeendent and progressive forces
of the country had utterly failed to
get control OF the republican party
but had absolutely proved their as
tendency and their entire control with
in the democratic party and that the
people had found that they could make
use of the democratic party as 6
proper medium for their purposes
This he said, seemed to him most
obvious and the most encouraging cir
cumstance in our politics.
The second surprise came in an ad
dress to several hundred women who
had just formed an organization tc
support him for president. His speech
in part follows:
1T is with unaffected pleasure tha,
i see the formation of this league
which the ladies are forming, because
know how powerful the ladies are il
any movement that they undertake tc
put their strength and charm into.
when the last word is said about
politics it is merely the life o.
all of us from the point of view o.
what can be accomplished by legis
lation and the administration of pub
lie office. | think it is artificial tt
divide life up into sections 1t is al
/ of one piece, though You can't attent
to all pieces at once. And so wheI
the women who are in SO many re
spects at the heart of life begin t.
take an interest in politics then yo,
know that all of the lines of sympath.
and intelligence and comprehension
are going to be interlaced in a wa.
which they never have been inter
laced before, SO that our politics will
be Of the same pattern with our life
| This it seems to me, is devoutly to b'
wished.
Nobody is certainly more in con
tact with the cost of living than th
women. They are in contact witt
some parts OF the cost of living tha
men know nothing about because th
men, thank God, don't have to de
termine their own fashions. We ar
dressed by our tailors and sometime
very grotesquely dressed. whereas tn
ladies have to exercise their tast
and amongst them they exercise
great deal.
When 1t comes to the immediat
contact to the pocketbook with life
i the woman knows where the sensitiv
nerve is because they do the purchas
ing. they do the skimping. they do tn
fearful planning which is necessar
in these days of tremendous cost
/ adjust our incomes to our lives. b
cause when we come down to th
bottom, the fundamental thing we ar
interested in is the way we are goin
to live. It isn't mere matter of a
q tanning certain position of respec
ability among our neighbors, and ou
income does have a great deal to d.
i compared with the cost of living, wit
our happiness and therefore wit
economic questions of the tarif
Questions of everything that enters
4 the cost of living are questions whic
z women ought to comprehend on the
interior side. We talk great des
about the cost of meat and the COZ
of potatoes, etc, but we men do nc
buy a pound OF meat or peck of p'
tatoes once month.
s'And so when the women come int
politics they come in to show us a
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