Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
SPEECH AT STAUNT0N
COVERS MANY TOPICS
Anxious to See All Sectional Feeling
Wiped Out.
VIEWS ON THE PHILIPPINES
Governor, at Banquet Address, Ex-
presses the Hope That Islands
Will Soon Be Given
Their Independence.


STAUNTON. Va. December 2s.-Presi-
dent-to-be Woodrow Wilson. by birth
Virginian, but by adoption a son of New
Jersey. proclaimed today the hope that his
administration might mean the final OBJ
liberation of everything that may have
in the past divided the north and >the
south.
II suggest an added significance to the
OCCASION said Gov. Wilson. in present.
ing the greetings of New Jersey to Vir-
ginia. because ii is son of the south
vino brings the greetings of the north
Standing on the porch of the Mary
Baldwin Seminary. in the chapel of which
he was baptized. the President-to-be
spoke to great crowd gathered from far
and wide on the occasion of his return
to his native town the fifty-sixth an
niversary of his birth.
But while Mr.. Wilson spoke with feel
ing of his hopes for spirit of reunion
that would recognize neither region nor
section nor north nor SOUTH. he talked
significantly of his future course in poll
tics with particular relation to the con-
duct of business
Need of ''War Paint"
The presidency. the governor said. he
regarded las an office in which a man
must put on his paint but he added
that his visage was such that he did
not mind marring it. for a man can keep
his manners and still fight
\ great many men who have taken the
narrow view of legisating for sectional
advantage would have to be mastered.
the governor pointed out in order that
they may be the instruments OF justice
and mercy.
To the business men of the country he
held out also the appeal that service to-
the nation meant giving fun value for
value received. and remarked that in past
decades too much of the fortune-Dlaking
had Consisted of getting something for
nothing. The governor said he had no
quarrel with the free exercise of brains
In business. but he objected to brains
that established IAN air-tight isolation.
or monopoly. into which no competition
could enter
Advised to Put on Hat.
The President-to-be spoke out of doors
He intended to talk for only few min
utes, but his voice came back to him in
such strong tones that his speech lasted
thirty-five minutes. He had not pro-
ceeded far with it. however. when Mrs
Wilson. who stood behind him. cautioned
audibly: Put your hat" Voices in
the crowd interrupted. too, with the re-
mark: Put your hat. governor
The governor smiled as he covered his
head in the cold air and remarked: Il
thank ycu for the suggestion. That was
a suggestion from in front and a COM
mand from behind The crowd laughed
and appla uded.
II cannot forget at this happy mo-
ment." continued the governor. "the
conoence that has been reposed in me
and the privilege of service that has
been accorded me by the great state of
New Jersey. and | want to give my
self the pleasure of bringing to the
great state of Virginia the greetings
Of the great state of New Jersey. and
/ believe that in doing so l suggest an
added significance to this occasion, be-
cause of the south brings the
greetings of the north. i would fain
believe that my selection as President
by the people of the United States
means the final obliteration of every
thing that may have divided the great
sections of this country.
Would Wipe Out Sectionalism.
"A great northern state did not hesi-
tate to put the executive responsible
ties Of the commonwealth In the hands
of a southerner. and the United States
has not hesitated to put in the place OF
chief power in the country itself a
happy IL 1 should be permitted to deem
myself in some degree the instrument
in drawing together the hearts of all
men in the United States for the serv-
ice of nation that has neither region
nor section nor north nor south.
Gov. Wilson here spoke reminiscent
" of his visits to Staunton in his
youth; told Of how he courted young
girls at the seminary and picked flow
crs in garden nearby. MISS Janet
Woods. "A girl of twelve when Woodrow
Wilson was but fourteen. was his play
mate at that time. Today she stood a
Few feet away listening to the speech
Discusses Institutions.
The governor soon turned from recol-
lections. however to discourse on
elasticity in interpreting the institu-
lions set up by the fathers of the
country.
I'VE are now aware he said. that we
are not going to be served by institu-
tons; that mere finely conceived con-
stitutions do not constitute the body of
liberty: that the body of liberty be
had only in the use of institutions to
serve the permanent needs of the rank
and file of men.
so that we are learning again that the
service of humanity Is the business of
mankind, and that the business of man.
kind must be set forward by the govern
ments which mankind sets up. I'm order
that justice may be done and mercy not
forgotten. All the world, / say, is turn
ing now as never before TO this concep-
tion of the elevation of humanity, OF
men and women. l mean. not of the pre-
ferred few. not of those who can by SUI
perior wits unusual opportunity strug-
gle to the top no matter whom they
trample under foot. but the rights of men
who cannot struggle to the top and who
must. therefore, be looked to by the force
of society, for they have no single force
by which they can serve themselves.
eff there must be a heart I'm govern
ment. there must be heart in the
policies of government. And men must
look to II that they do Ato others as
they would have others do unto them
This used TO be, and has long been. the
theme for the discourse OF Christian
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