Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-30
WILSON'S EVASIVE ATTITUDE
Governor Johns, Devoted Much of His Time in Speech at Big Rally Here to Attack On Democratic Candidate Position the Trusts and the Tarif-Davis Theater Filled to Hear Progressive From California M Rozelle of Hartford Also Spoke

number of other states in the Union were to do in the coming election.
 He told of conditions in California, where the state was under the control of railroad and remarked with a sar- casm that brought laughter from his hearers that he supposed they hardly understood what that meant.
 In a calm, dispassionate way, Gov ernor Johnson reasoned with his audi ence to cast their allegiance with a party untrammeled by tradition, and asked if the people had the nerve to strike the blow. He told how every individual political unit. He predicted that Oscar Strauss was to be the next governor of New York, and that was to be the opportunity of the progress sives of New York to strike a blow there to dethrone Barnes of Albany and Murphy of, Tammany Hall, who had long saved them the trouble of ex- ercising their duties as citizens.
 Basic Idea of Progressvss.
 The basic idea, first, of the progress sives is that the people have right to govern themselves just as they see fit, and that the first thing to be consid- cred is the men, women and children of the country. The great old party, he claimed. had ceased to register the will of the majority of the party, and those in charge at the Chicago con vention persisted in their idea until they nominated a minority candidate and they assassinated the basic idea of the party of majority rule So came into existence the progressive party. It's first idea is to eliminate that invisible government that has s. long been an influence in the nation and to restore to the people the right of governing themselves just as the" choose
 Governor Johnson went on to speak of various blanks and predicted that the only one to be considered as an opponent to the progressives was the democratic candidate The democrats present two economic questions, the trusts and the tariff. One man, said the speaker, once stood as the in- superable barrier between the rapacity which would have exploited the nation. This man created the very sentiment which has made possible the curbing of the trusts, and this man was Theo- dore Roosevelt.
 The name of Roosevelt was the sig nal for wave of applause and the waving of bandanas from the stage. On the Trusts.
 One state in all this union, contin- ued the governor, has spawned all tn! iniquitous trusts against which our democratic orators inveigh, and that is the state os New Jersey. By the New Jersey state constitution the speaker charged that power had been given to dissolve these trusts and solve the trust situation for the na- | tion. Within the past 22 months this l power has been in the hands of the governor of New Jersey, but he has | failed to make Q move. By what right then is he to criticise the attitude | of Theodore Roosevelt on the trust situation?
 Governor Johnson next took up the | democratic attitude on the tariff ,whicl he said was a particularly hard propo- | sition to handle because of the hetero- genous character of the elements that made up the democratic party.
 Campaign of Negation.
 l We have the remarkable phenom. enon of a candidate who have never made a definite statement as to where he stands or what he intends to do ] We believe that he can't get by nex | Tuesday with this campaign of mega | his particular attitude is and we have no statement from him to show where | he will stand. Governor Johnson con. sidered that there were only two can | didates to be thought of in this fight Roosevelt and Wilson.
 In contrast, Governor Johnson said was the positive and definite state ments of the progressives on ever! subject in the platform. He enlarged upon the planks touching upon tn, conserving of the interests of the mel and the women and the children of tn, nation. It will be the effort to giv, equal opportunities to every child ant to every man and woman with justic, to all fapplause) and the effort to al leviate and palliate in some degree tn, great problem of poverty, througl government oversight and aid. In tha line the party is to insist upon mini
 mum wage schedule, investigation ant regulation of health conditions among
 workers. The speaker gave the figur, that 59 per cent. of the women of tti,
 country were engaged in gainful pur. suits and he declared for a living wag,
 for this labor unless the men wished to be counted party to the low wag, schedule for women. The progressive
 are absolutely opposed to the demo crats on this point
 Do Away With Child Labor.
 The party insists upon the absolut. prohibition of child labor, the coun. try is too rich and too powerful to cal for the sacrifice of the children. Her,
 again the progressives are dlametricdl ly opposed to the democrats,w hedg, themselves about with the Chinese wal
 Of states rights and cannot afford any
 remedial legislation in this regard There is insistence also by the pro gressives upon an eight hour day fo women and an eight hour day for men Here again the democrats are hamper ed by the doctrine of state rights. Gov
 ernor Johnson discussed further plank
 of the platform, including working mems compensation and old age pen sions, and adducing Germany and Eng