The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-09-14
II war WITH ITSELF.
UNION OF INTERESTS BEST.
SAYS GOV. WILSON.
Candidate for President Points Out
Weakness OF Internal Disputes Pa
triotism l. Needed.

Atlantic City. N. j.. Sept. TO-
Political battle with less personal
passion and an end to the war within
the country by competition of classes"
were the ideas which Gov. Woodrow
Wilson set forth tonight i'm speech
before the United States Spanish war
veterans.
The Democratic presidential nomi-
nee was enthusiastically cheered as
he spoke on the steel pier to a large
crowd. He declared the Spanish
American war had had it's value in
drawing the nation together and de-
stroying sectional feeling. To the in
ternal politics Of the country, he
made brief reference.
THE trouble with this country"
said the governor. lis that 1t has been
biindly at war within itself by a COM
petition Of interests. when there
should have been a union Of inter-
ests. The way not to cure 1t is to
set one class against another. The
way to cure IL Is to see that classes
understand one another. that they all
know that there is such a thing as a
common interest which touches them
all alike.
II belong to political party. For
the time being / represent a politi-
cal party; but 1 respect a political
party merely as the means of banding
men together for a service, which,
when they have done to the utter
most. they have forgotten parties In
a common service. Not all men think
alike. and therefore men must group
themselves according to their convic-
tlons and their thoughts but the i'm
pulse back OF every one of them must
be the same. IL 1t Is indeed the i'm
pulse Of patriotic conviction. And
so congratulate you upon having
gone to school in at least one of
the schools Of patriotism"
II wish that party battles could be
fought with less personal passion and
more passion for the common sood.
1 am not Interested in fighting per-
sons. but I am interested I'm fighting
bad tendencies. bad systems, things
that lower all the levels of our po-
litical and economic morality. and I
could wish that these things be WIS.,
ibie and tangible so that We would
not have to fight them through per-
sons.
Il wish that they were of such a
sort that you had only to hold them
up to let the whole nation see how
ugly they are and how undesirable.
For We must get this vision be-
Tore we are true with our politics, the
same vision that the soldier gets; that
IL does not make any difference what
part of the country he comes from. IL
does not make any difference what
ne has; the point Is that there is
something that binds him to his fell
lows which he can not break without
committing treason.
hc 'hihS hc Cdn not Dredk is the
bond OF common sympathy and of
common understanding. that he Is en- |
gagged in cause and that only the
cause can make him great"
Gov. Wilson and Gen. Nelson A.
Miles reviewed the parade of the vet
erans I'm the afternoon. As the Mis-
souri veterans marched by the stand
they sang the "Houn' dawg song" of
preconventlon days.
Nearly 1900 veterans were in line
marching through decorated streets
and cheering crowds. Some of the
marehers were overcome by heat and
dropped out. Just as A. ri. Cote of
Biddeford. Maine. passed the review
Ing stand and saluted. he dropped to
the pavement. His comrades rushed
to his side. An ambulance carried
him To a hospital where he was soon
revived. Gov. Wilson. who witnessed
the incident. sen, his secretary to the
hospital TO learn Mr.. Cote's condition.
The governor will leave early to-
morrow for Jersey City where he will
review the Hudson County Demo-
cratic club.