Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-02
WILSON IS TARGET
Of GEO.F. WILLIAMS
Former Bryan Leader Says Gov
ernor Hasn't Sympathy for
Common People.

WASHINGTON,T d. c., Feb. 2.-Now
that Henry Watterson has left the
field, George Fred Williams, of Massa-
chusetts, has taken a hand in bait
ing Governor Woodrow Wilson.
Mr.. Williams has written a letter to
r. F. Pettigrew, the former Populist
senator from South Dakota, denounc-
ing Governor Wilson. His document Is
q compilation of what he calls the
alleged Incorporate and ~extravagant
utterances of Governor Wilson, and he
has given a date and place in each
case.
The whole tenor of his citations Is
designed to create the impression that
Wilson has reversed Roosevelt's policy
of going after the big fellows and that
it has. been the Wilson policy to go
after the little fellows.
The letter says in part:
"Since we visited Governor Wilson
last summer and carried away such
pleasant impressions of his personality
and conversation l have had hopes
that he might be the solution of our
presidential problem.
This week | have been shocked at
the reading of the fifth volume of his
SlOIy VI lut AMERICAN ptOplS, pun
lished in 1902. 1t is Toryism of the
blacklist type. 1t is not a history of
the American people, but a history of
Woodrow Wilson's admiration for
everything which the radical democ-
racy now seeks to change, and a series
of sneers and insults to every class of
men who have sought to alleviate the
injustices of capitalism. The worst is
that there is no note of sympathy for
n suffering n protesting class, but
he seems to search for phrases to show
his contempt for them.
Governor Wilson has undoubtedly
change materially his old point of
view, but his book proves that a rev.
dictionary change of heart is also nee
essary. / array the quotations accord
ing to the last class of men he treats
and cite the pages"
Mr.. Williams then sets forth in detail
quotations from Governor Wilson,
which he Classics under these heads:
1.-The laboring classes: 2-Immigra-
ton; 3--Farmers' alliances, Populists,
farmers; 4-Grover Cleveland; 5-The
campaign of 1895; 6-Greenbacks
silver.
In summing up Mr.. Williams said:
Il have repeatedly defended the sim
certify of Mr.. Wilson in the recent
change of his views. ] do not doubt 1t
at all. But it is clear that he had
profound contempt for the Farmers
Alliance, the Populists, g-reenbachers,
bi-metallists, trades unionists, small
office seekers. Italians, Poles, Hunga-
rians, pensioners. strikers, armies of
unemployed. To him these classes rep
resented no economic wrongs. Cleve-.
land had been his worshipped idol as IA
President. He had regarded the East
and the bankers as the sole custodians
of financial wisdom.
THE vital question is Has a year
destroyed all these impressions and put
mercy, charity, love and nationality
into a hardened heart?' 1 am eager to
believe it, but / rely on faith for jus
LITIGATION.
81 dislike to call in question MI.
Wilson'S application for a Carnegie
pension. but l cannot understand how n
real Democrat could touch such money.
1t is stepped in the human blood of
Carnegie's workers, shot down by his
hired Pinkertons, while struggling for
a decent wage out of the hundreds of
millions which their labor was rolling
into the Carnegie Golfers