Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-24
Tells Princeton Students They
Are Men Without Politics.
DISCUSSES FIGHT ON SMITH
Asserts Latter's Chief Support Has
Come From Republican Papers.
BUSINESS MATTER, HE SAYS
Governor Criticises the Progressive
Program for Regulation
Of the Trusts,

PRINCETON, n. J., September "a
Gov. Woodrow Wilson came home today
for the first time since he became the
presidential nominee Of the democratic
party. Escorted by procession Of stu
dents in orange ':slickers," the former
president Of Princeton University rode In
an automobile through Nassau street.
while the students cheered. The governor
went to booth and voted for William
Hughes, who Is a candidate at today
primary election for the democratic in
dorsement for United States senator
against former Sentor James Smith, jr.
The students followed along.
IT'S against the law to have crowd
at the polls,' said the governor as he
came out Of the voting booth, 80 # you
will move up several hundred feet I'll
make speech"
The students obeyed and the governor
mounted the steps Of church and
talked about the bosses and the trusts.
1.-THE boss merely as a political or
ganizer," the governor said, lis not dan
gerous; merely as a manager who COM
mands the organization and gets out the
vote on polling day he is not to be feared,
and he is an almost necessary instru-
ment of politics, but the man we call
boss is the agent Of those who wish to
control politics as their own interest
Bosses Without Politics.
II have known some Of these gentle
men personally, and know exactly how
they work. They haven't any politics
at all. That is the point, and there Is
no difference between a democratic boss
and a republican boss. because neither
of them is working for his party.
hey are both working for their clients
And their clients wish to see that men
do not get into office who thwart them.
and that laws are not passed that en-
barrass their business.
THE chief supporters of the democratic
boss, if he happens to be in the majority,
are often those most closely associated
with the republican boss, and vice versa
The men who chiefly want Jim Smith In
the Senate are republicans not democrats.
and whenever l have fought him. his
chief support has come from republican
newspapers, not Independent republican
newspapers that speak public opinion I
refer to papers in Camden, controlled by
Mr.. David Baird in New Jersey. l al
ways mention names. Baird Is the re-
publican boss of Camden and he owns
two newspapers that constitute the chief
support of Smith.
DO you understand? There is no poll
tics in it. There is business in it down
to the bottom. two kinds of business con-
trolling local governments SO that your
friends will get all the contracts and the
control of national business so that your
friends won't be embarrassed by the
LEGISLATION Of Congress or state legislation
in regard to their business enterprises.
Wouldn't Regulate Trusts.
The governor spoke of the proposal OF
the third party to regulate trusts by
means Of an industrial commission, and
continued:
Il don't want to regulate trusts. /
want to put them on their mettle. l
want to see that they can't put anybody
out Of business except by doing business
better than anybody else I don't want
to squeeze the water out OF their stocks.
l want to put the water in a tank on
their backs and see IT they can carry that
water as against the men who are doing
business without any water to carry.
strain or get rid Of the water themselves.
because they can't carxy water and do
business against competition
The governor left this afternoon for
New York.
Gov. Wilson's Plans.
Gov Wilson will leave New York tomor-
row at II o'clock, speak at Bridgeport.
Conn, in the afternoon and at New
Haven at night: Thursday morning at
Springfield, Mass. afternoon. Barre,
Mass; night. Fall River, Mass; Friday
noon, Boston; night. Albany, N. Y.
It Is asserted that when Gov. Wilson
makes his speech Friday night in Albany
he will declare open war on Charles r.
Murphy and Tammany Hall. unless by
that time Murphy has abandoned the re-
| n omiu ton of Gov, John Al DIX.
Turning to the Democracy.
From the moment Gov. Wilson crossed
the state line at Phillipsburg, n. j., yes
terday, and stopped at Easton, Delaware
Water Gap, Portland and Stroudsburg
| there were umbrella-covered crowds to
greet him.
| At Stroudsburg. the home of Repre-
sentative A. Mitchell Palmer. nationa
! committeeman from Pennsylvania. the
biggest crowd turned out. A band played
and the governor was given a lively
| demonstration.
1.-The interesting thing to the whole
country said Gov. Wilson at Strouds
burg. lis that the great state of Penn
sylvania. that has SO long seemed en-
| tirely devoted to the interests OF ont
party and suspicious Of the democratic
| party, as II the democrats didn't under
| stand the financial and business interest!
| Of the country, is now showing a marked
inclination to turn away from the part!
| which has not satisfied the people and in
trust its confidence to the party which Il
now seeking a new set Of policies in or
der that the country as a whole may b.
served. The republicans aren't even sat
isfying themselves. I don't like to tall
| about it. because I belong to anothe
family. and 1t seems to me indicate t,
talk about affairs of a family | don't be
long to.
i Democratic Program Not New.
But evidently there is some famil.
trouble, and some part Of the family ha.
a more tender conscience than the other
and the part that has a tender con
science doesn't exactly know what
wants to do with it. But those Of US VIII
have for sixteen years seen exactly wha
was coming in the year 1912 have n
doubt where we are bound for Becaus
| want to call you to witness that tn
democratic party has had substantially
it's present program of returning the gov
eminent to the people for more than six
teen years. We are not doing anything
new in the year 1912.
| What has happened is that the peopl