The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-01
LED BY WOMEN
Cheering at Wilson Meeting
Breaks Campaign Records.
The Governor Waits Over an
Hour to Be Heard.

New York, Nov. 1.-Governor Wood
row Wilson, speaking before an au-
dience that filed every corner of Madi-
son Square garden, received the great
est ovation of his campaign for the
presidency Entering the hall at 8
O'Clock, after speaking before an en-
thusiastic audience In the Bronx, the
Democratic candidate stood for an hour
and three minutes at the railing of the
speakers platform, waiting for the
demonstration to end.
mo man could fail to be moved by
a demonstration such as We have wit
messed tonight" he said with every
evidence of deep feeling, as he finally
made himself heard; yet 1 am more
thrilled because 1 realize it is a dem
onstration for a cause, and not for a
man."
Starting with the first shouts from
the doorway when Governor Wilson ar
rived from the Bronx meeting, the Mad
iSon Square garden OutburSt def1ed his
utmost efforts to quell it. The COVER
nor'S motion for quiet brought only re-
newed cheers. Chants of I'VE want
Wilson" shook the hall and twice when
the cheering slightly subsided it was
started with renewed vigor by young
women who forced their way to the
front of the speakers stand and in
spired the crowd to fresh efforts.
Governor Wilson spoke extemporane-
ously, but adhered closely In his Madi-
son Square garden speech to the one
he had made earlier at the Bronx meet
ing. He had spoken but a few minutes
and was declaring that the Progressive
party, wherever it could capture the
regular Republican organization was
regular and wherever it could not was
irregular" when a man in the middle
aisle of the hall, directly beneath the
speakers stand shouted:
Governor, talk about the Baltimore
platform
Cries of put him out" came from
all parts of the hall and three police
men grabbed the disturber and rushed
him to a doorway. Governor Wilson
leaned over the rail and called to the
police: Don't put anybody out" but
the man was elected.
TT is inconvenient to have more than
one man speak at time, but this is
free country" added Governor Wilson
amid cheers from the crowd.
Mrs. Wilson and her three daugh-
ters, in a box near the speakers plat
form, were apparently greatly moved
by the demonstration for the COVER
nor, and exchanged smiles with him
as he tried to obtain order.
What the Governor Said.
Government is an enterprise of
mankind. not of parties" said Cover
nor Wilson. LAS election day ap-
proaches, 1 have a greater and greater
feeling of satisfaction because 1 know
make one of the most vital choices of
their lives.
''I know from the reports coming
from all parts of the country that the
new party has not come from the
Democrats Therefore, it must be
made up of those Republicans who are
dissatisfied with the regular organiza-
ton and its avowed purpose and pro-
gram.
"All men have to do is to realize
that the common enterprises of life are
the enterprises of politics; that a man
is not voting an abstract political
creed, but is voting a program of JUS
tice and of right when he votes at the
polls. Now, if you want that program,
what are you going to do next Tues
day?"
vote for wilson, interrupted a
voice, and there was great applause.
Il appreciate the compliment con-
tinued the speaker, but l want to say
this: that unless you people put your
selves into Wilson he won't be worth
The one thing that will set
reform forward in this country, my
friends Is a united government and a |
a president A united government |
consists of a house of representatives, |
of president and something that in |
my time the people have not yet cap
tured-a senate.
"And it consists of something more.
II you have a Democratic government |
at Washington and do not have a !
Democratic government in the states, !
you nave no conducting medium by |
which to signal to Washington.
Il propose, therefore, that men now !
forget their individual likes and dis |
likes, their individual sympathfes and |
antipathies and join together in |
solemn act of a sovereign people and |
determine what the government of |
the United States shall be-