New-York tribune., 1912-08-27
GETTING ANAEMIC.

covornor Wilson acts and talks now
odsvS like A man who has been bitten
Inv n cross between a Jersey mosquito
and q tsetse fly. In his political out
,ivings there is an air of drowSlness
and lapguor. He has become aheihic
and lost the ardor for evangelizauoh
and the lust for travel when so as
tinenished him as a seeker after the
Democratic Presidential nomination
Instead Of continuing to fire the East
ern. Southern and Western heart anu
giving only one day in thirty to MS uu-
Ties at Trenton, he has become model
Of all the housekeeping virtues NO
more for him the fever of the back
platform and the unrest of the 3'ooO-
mile campaign tour. His heart Is down
there I'm the once cobwebbed executive
chamber i'm Trenton. As he fellcl-
tously put it TO an interviewer last
Saturday You must always remem-
"ber that am Governor of New Jer-
"sey and that ] must keep in t0uch
with the business of the state.
What a contrast with those busting
months of aspiration when the business
of the state had to be content with Il
nolisbipg off between trains once each
month or six weeks In that period OF
Torment the Governor thought that he
owed the country full and free ac-
counting on all political issues. lie
sought out audiences and took them
into his confidence. He went about
confessing his past errors and getting
absolution by announcing his bellet
that Mr.. Bryan had been for years tine
one fixed point in Democracy.
His journeys and his confessions won
him the nomination. But now he
speaks slightingly of the heart-to-heart
method Of making votes. 1t wearles
him to think Of quitting the comfort
able shelter Of his front porch in order
70 meet voters who will want him to
drop overheard his polished laWn-party
generalities and get down TO facts. Inc
voters are desirOus of knowing what
Mr. Wilson thinks of the various prom
ises of the Democratic national plat
form; if he still holds that 'the great
monopoly in this country is the money
monopoly" and believes that although
the protective tariff is not protective,
but constructive, crushing in its coils
American energy and opportunity, 1t
still ought TO be revised so as not to
do any existing industry the slightest
harm.
Governor Wilson wishes to dodge
such questions, just as he has lodged
every possible question since he became
Presidential candidate. 1t is not un
natural, therefore, that he should have
conceived a profound repugnance tC
"stumping tours of which he now
says a great majority Of his CORE
spondents believe the country is tired
"My private judgment" he adds, rs
that extended stumping tours are not
the most effective method Of conduct
'Ing a campaign" They are certainly
ill-adapted to the campaign Of evasion
and suppression which Mr.. Wilson has
been conducting. What he needs mos
is a cyclone cellar, where his opinions
will be entirely safe from intrusion
Why not equip the Capitol at Trenton
and the Little White House" at Sea
Glrt with such retreats, where the Gov
ernOr can swing in a hammock and de
vote himself TO "the business Of the
commonwealth of New Jersey. still in
arrears from the period when he
thought he had something to gain by
being an itinerant politician and say
ing things on the hustings which the
public could understand?