Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-27
WILSON IN MASSACHUSETTS
JOHNSON IN new HAMPSHIRE
Gov. Wilson Receives Ovation in Fall Riv-
er==Johnson Speaks at New Hamp=
shire Convention "a Roosevelt
Speaks in the South.
WILSON IN MASSACHUSETTS.


Fall River, Mass, sept 2G.-6fover-
nor Woodrow Wilson found the people
| Of Massachusetts, who greeted him.
today, as enthusiastic and demonstra-
tive as any he las met since he be-
gan campaignins for the Presidency.
Great crowds turned GU; at Spring.
field Barre and Fall River whore the
Governor made scheduled speeches.
but along the way his reception was
practically continuous People came
crowding, crushing and pressing to
the rear of the train and stretched
their hands upward to him, wishing
him success.
Tie nominee covered variety OF
topics in his speeches, including the
tariff. the questions affecting monop-
oily and government assistance to
farmers
Coy Foss of Massachusetts. Mayor
Fttzgcrald of Boston and National
Committeeman Fred Coughlin, appear
ed with Gov. Wilson at the County
Fair at Rarfe. where big crowd
gathered. Thee Presidential candidate
made Il brief speech alloting most of
his time there 10 shaking hands with
long line of people. He said, tonight.
he felt deeply pleased at the friend
ship he had struck UP wit!1stRe people,
The Governor reached Fall River on
q special train, at 80 o'clock, tonight
fireworks and torches illuminated
TIE streets as. Gov. Wilson motoref to-
the hall where he spoke for parlp an
hour ~
The Governor at the outset of his
speech set forth that the Democratic
party was THE only organized team
ready TO Govern the country and that
neither the Republican nor Progress
sfve party would control Congress in
any event He declared that If the
leader of the Third party were elect
cd he would be THE loneliest official
in tie United States"
The Governor predicted that in all
probability there would be a Demo-
cratic House and a Democratic SEN
ste. He declared that the leader of the
Third party If elected would be as
unsuccessful as the present President
of the United States.
Il mean 40 disrespect," said the
Governor, but all the measures pass
ed by both houses and intended for
TIE voters and Buyers of The country
have been vetoed our President oc
eupieS a post of resistance for he
hasn't any team and the only. Presi-
dent you can associate with q team
is a Democratic President. l don't
know What kind ef captain l would
| make. I'm not; sgoing 10 pretend that
| the Democratic President will be sue
eessful, All Tsf say is that me will
| have q team
Tie Governor added that the coun-
| try unless electing a Democratic eX
ecutive would face two or four years
more of 1disa greement with the legis-
| latiVe branch Of the government and
that if the Progressive party won
there might be an interesting four
years but not fruitful"
The candidate said that both .oppos-
| ing parties were standing pat on
the tariff Outlining the program Of
| the Democratic party the Governor
argued that none except the Demo-
cratic platform showed its intention
of assisting organized labor
He declared that in the matter of or
ganizSfion, labor had an equal right with
capital To be organized and that the in
dustries protected by the tariff had been
most persistent in fighting organized la
, Dor.
Gov. Wilson's said 1.-THE right of or
ganization on the part of labor is not
recognized even by the laws of the Unit
ed states. And nowhere in the third
term platform IS it promised that that
right will be granted. There is a plank
in which 1t is said; We are in faver of
the organization of labor have for
gotten the exact words, but that Is whab
lit means-We are in favor of organiza
! ton of lahor-that is to say, We approve
of the practice; but it is not anywhere
promised to buttress that practice with
the structural steel of law, And this IS
the law at present. In most of the states
lof the Union--and, as far as / know, IN
all of them, for / have not been able to
examine all of the decisions of the
courts-any corporation, any employer OF
any kind has the right under our law
ITO dismiss. not only one of his work.
men. OF a group of them, but all of them,
for no other reason whatever than that
they belong - a union. He does not have
to show that they are not good workmen;
he does not have to show that they have
been negligent and broken machinery, or
done anything that thy ought not to
have done. He can dismiss them whole
sale. merely because they belong to Il
union
Now a union cannot oppose an en-
ployer merely on the ground that he is
employing men who do not belong to a
union. and so the thing is absolutely one
sided The courts have held that union
labor has not the right to boycott con-
Germ because it is employing non-union
labor and yet it says that the concern
may boycott them because they are
unionized
: "And / believe that we ought to hold a
brief for the legal right to organize. OF
course, we can go to the opposite ex-
trent, we may say that capital shall not
organize, But imagine the howl that
would create. Do you think you could
get through a law that capital could not
organize?
"Of course the law must regulate what
capital can do with its organization and
we will all of US agree that the law ought
also to regulate what organized labor
can do with its organization. But at
present there is no legal right 10 or
sror,iye"