The Sentinel=record., 1912-12-29
HOPES HIS ELECTION WILL oB- LlGATE ALL. MATTERS THAT
 CAUSE SECTIONAL LINES.
INDEPENDENCE FOR FILIPINOS
This Was Keynote of Speech of the President-EIect at Birthday Din ner Given in His Honor--Is
 Against Monopoly.

Staunton, Va, Dec. 2S.-President elect Woodrow Wilson, by birth a Virginian, but by adoption son of New Jersey, proclaimed today the hope that his administration might mean the final obliteration of every thing that may have in the past di- vided the north and south.
 T suggest an added significance to the occasion,' said Mir Wilson in presenting the greetings of New ter sey to Virginia. because it is a son Of the south who brings the greetings of the north"
 Standing on the porch of Mary Baldwin seminary. in the chapel where he was baptised, the president elect spoke to a great crowd gather ed from far and wide on the occasion of his return to his native town on his 56th birthday anniversary.
 But MT Wilson spoke with feeling of his hopes for spirit of reunion that would recognize neither region nor section, nor north nor south" he talked significantly of his future course in politics. with particular re- lation to the conduct of business.
 The presidency, the governor said he regarded, as an office in which a man must put on his war paint but he added that his visage was such 1 that he did not mind marring 1t for man can keep his manners and still fight"
 A great many men who have taken the narrow view of legislating for sectional advantage would have to be mastered. the governor pointed out, in order that they may be the instruments of justice and mercy"
 To the business men of the coun- try he made an appeal that service to the nation meant giving full value for value received and remarked that in past decades too much of the for tune making had consisted of get ting something for nothing The governor said he had no quarrel with the free exercise of brains in busi- ness, but he objected to brains that established "an alright isolation or monopoly into which no competition could enter.
 The president.elect spoke out of doors. He intended to talk for only a few minutes but his voice came back to him in such strong tones that his speech lasted 35 minutes
 President-elect Wilson, during speech at a birthday dinner in his honor here tonight, predicted the early independence of the Philippine Islands lie made casual reference to the frontiers of the country when he said parenthetically
 The Philippine Islands are at pres ent our frontier, but l hope we pres ently are to deprive ourselves of that frontier"
 The remark was greeted with trem- endous applause and the governor turned his speech back to historical lines
 While enroute to Staunton yester- day Gov Wilson had long talk with Representative Wm A. Jones of Vir- ginia. who is pushing in congress a bill for ultimate independence for the islands
 Mir. Wilson's announcement tonight was his first definite announcement that he favored Dhe carrying out at an early date this pledge of the Dem ocratic platform promising independ- ence.
 Referring to possible changes in legislative policy the governor said there was no reason for legitimately conducted business to fear anything from him. He added with a smile:
 T haven't got my gun out for any body. Somebody. might accidentally get in the way of the gun The level of the gun is established and the range is we'll known I shall feel that I am not responsible for ac- cidents.
 There were certain gentlemen, | dare say one of them is present to- night, who have frankly told me that there was a time when they were afraid of me because they thought had some screw loose or I was rather wild Virginia herself in the con vention showed no great enthusiasm for my nomination. But these gentle men now say to me that in view of things I have said since 1 was nom- iuated-which are exactly the same things I said bsfore I was nominat- ed--they are no longer afraid of me. By which draw the simple conclu- sion they did not read the things that l said before I was nominated and that after I was nominated it became worth their while really to find out what I did actually say. I have been utteriEg also, as far as I know, noth- ing but the original doctrines of lib- erty as understood in America and