Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-08-23
GOVERNOR ATTACKS ALORiCH
AND ASSOCIATES IN ADDRESS
TO JERSEY FARMERS.
MASS NOT REPRESENTED
Says Schedules Represent Special
Partnerships, Rather Than the
PeopIe.-Suggests Parlta-
mentary Procedure.

farmers massed about Gov. Woodrow
Wilson and heard him make his first
campaign speech since he was official
Iy notified a week ago of his nomi-
nation to the presidency.
The governor spoke extemporane-
ously from an improvised platform at
Washington Park, where the farmers
of New Jersey, Delaware and Penn
sylvania were participating in a farm
er's day celebration. The candidate
dwelt mostly upon the protective tar
If which he called "the restrictive
tariff" attacked Senator Aldrich and
his tariff making associates, pointed
out the benefits of a merchant marine
in connection with the Panama canal
and blamed the influence of the ex-
press companies.
Governor Wilson said in part:
II am interested in politics not as
a search for Office, but as a great con-
test devoted to something very def
mite and practical indeed. Politics
ought not to be considered as a mere
occasion for oratory. Politics ought
to be considered as branch of the
national business, and a man who
talks politics ought to tell his fellow
citizens very distinctly what he thinks
about their affairs and what his own
attitude towards them is.
Farmers In the Limeliaht.
Here we are at farmers picnic
and on this day suppose we might
say that the farmers occupy the center
of the stage. When did the farmers
ever occupy the center Of the stage in
our politics? / don't remember any
time. l have seen the interests of a
great many classes specially regarded
in legislation, but must frankly say
that have seldom seen the interests
of the farmer regarded in legislation,
and one of the greatest impositions
upon the farmer of this country that
has ever been devised is the present
tariff legislation of the United States.
Il regard this campaign as l re-
garded the last one and the one be.
fore the last, and every campaign that
the people have taken part in since
the world began as simply continued
struggle to see to it that the people
are taken care of by their own govern.
ment. And my indictment against the
tariff is that it represents special part
nerships and does not represent the
general interest. 1t Is a long time
since tariffs were made by men who
even supposed that they we're seek
ing to serve the general interest be
cause tariffs are not made by the gen
eral body of members of either house
of congress.
Zone of the gentlemen who has
been most conspicuously connected
with this thing has in recent years
prudently withdrawn from public life
l mean the one-time senior senator
from Rhode Island, Mr.. Aldrich. l al
least give Mr.. Aldrich the credit oil
having had weather eye. He saw
that the weather was changing in
Rhode Island. Even in Rhode Island
as well as in the rest of the union
that men who had long known thai
he was imposing upon them felt thai
the limit had been reached and they
were not going to be imposed upor
any longer. They saw that he was
not even doing what he pretended tt
do, namely, serve the special inter
ests of Rhode Island, because he was
serving only some of the special in
terests of Rhode Island and not al
of them.
Now there are various question,
which gentlemen ought to realize ar,
pending, questions that particular,
concern the farmer Of this country
The tariff intimately concerns tn,
farmer of this country. 1t makes
great deal of difference to you tina
Mr.. Taft the other day vetoed tn,
steel bill