The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-30
FIRST AWAY FROM HOME DAY PROVES A STRENUOUS sUR-
 PRISE TO GOVERNOR.
BRAWNY BLACkSMITH'S GRIP
Puts Candidates Right Hand out of CommIssion--Made Six Speeches In 215 Mile Trip Through s
 Pennsylvania.

On Board Governor Wilson's Special Car, Icaston, Pa, Aug. 29.-Goyernor Woodrow Wilson invaded Pennsylva- mia today, intending only to make an address at the state Changers picnic at Williams Grove, south of Harris burg. The governor was surrounded by such big crowds wherever his train stopped that he found when he cross ed from Pennsylvania into New Jer- sey at Easton tonight that he had made half dozen speeches. had shak- en hands with thousands of people and had talked collectively to a mul- titadc.
 1t was the opening of the cam paign outside of New Jersey and the days events were plainly surprise to the governor. He had looked for no demonstration as his train plans were not decided upon until the last mo ment. But from early morning until nightfall, the crowds gathered at ths. railroad stations and cheered enthusi- astically.
 The governor, in all, rode 2l5 miles through Pennsylvania and when night came. he was tired and hoarse. At Lancaster, Harrisburg Williams Grove, Reading, Allentown and Eas- ton, great crowds damned the rail. road yards and the governor competed in his talks with the noise of locomo- tives and trains.
 At handshaking as we'll as back platform stnmping, the governor had strenuous time. A brawny black smith wrung the governors hand se hard at Williams Grove that for moment the nominee dropped his right hand Imply to his side and ex tended his left hand, The governor said tonight that his hand still pained him from the experience.
 Several thousand people wedged themselves in the big auditorium at Williams Grove to hear the governors principal speech, but far more were unable to gain entrance and the gov ernor male second speech outdoors. The governor digressed materially from his prepared speech, but devel- oped much the same line of thought, criticising Colonel RooseveIt's tariff views and taking issue with President Taft's veto of the farmers free list bill He referred indirectly to politl- cal conditions in Pennsylvania as outlined by Representative A. Mitch ell Palmer, who introduced the gov ernor, and spoke of tue Penrose reve- lations
 T do not know how many republi- cans there are probably within the sound of my voice, at least those who have been republicans, but are on the anxious seat, said the governor in his first speech at Williams Grove.
 but 1 want to say that I entirely re- spect, though 1 do not at all under stand their reverence for the doctrine of protection. haven't any rever- ence for any economic doctrine what ever except so far as it works. Now. the doctrine of protection is worth looking into as it works 1t has been said. and 1t has been said so often that you have believed 1t, that the doctrine of protection was maintain ed in our politics for the benefit of the farmers of the United States. am perfectly willing to admit that there are low duties levied on the products of the farm coming from oth- CT countries, but whoever heard of the farmer of the Unitei States need- ing to be protected against the farmer of Europe? As a matter of fact. no- body ever feared that foreign gralns and foreign farm products of any kind would come into competition with the farm produce of the United Staets, for the very good reason that we have produced so much that We have been feeding the world and the great sur plus of the farms has gone out at our ports across the great waters which separate us from other continents and men all over the world have thanked God for the fertility of the fields of America.
 "The American farmer never has been protected for the very good req son that he never needed to be pro tected and his grains have sold at prices established by the prices which his produce commanded in foreign markets That is an ecNnomic fact. Very well then, your prices are not
 established by protection They arc
 established by your abundance which
 you ship to foreign countries. And,
 in the meantime. everything that you
 use on the farm. everything that you
 wear and great deal of what you eat
 but do not yourselves produce lnclud.
 ing meats bears a heavy duty which
 brings about the interesting result
 that you are paving for the wealth nf the United States and getting nothing
 or equivalent to lt 70 far as the taflfl
 is concerned Now that has not Just