Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1912-08-15
GOVERNOR WOODROW WILSON UNFOLDS
FABRIC Of HIS POLITICAL BELIEFS

il any one of the gentlemen who are
seeking to be entrusted with it's guild
ance should be left at home.
1--WE represent the desire to set up
an u~nentangled government" he o
cluded, "a government that cannot be
used for private purposes, either in
the field of politics. 2 government that
will not tolerate the use of the organi-
zation Of a great party to serve the
personal aims and ambitions of any
individual and that will not permit
legislation to be employed to further
any private interest"
Among the visitors who arrived
early for the exercises were a number
of professors from Princeton Uni
versity.
Colonel William Libbey, Prince
ton IT, a member of the Governors
staff, was an early arrival. 1t was Col
onel Libbey who gave the orange and
black color scheme to Princeton.
Wilson's Speech.
After thanking the committee Of
notification and expressing his pro-
found sense of responsibility in &C
cepting the nomination, the Governor
said he realized that he was expected
to speak plainly, to talk politics and
open the campaign, Gin words whose
meaning nc one need doubt" And he
was expected to speak. he added,
to the country as well as to the COM
mittee.
I'VE must speak," he continued, by
way of preface, mot to catch votes,
but to satisfy the thought and con-
science of q people deeply stirred by
the conviction that they have come
to a critical turning point in their
moral and political development.
Plainly it is a new age," he went
on. 1T requires self-restraint not to
attempt too much, and yet it would
be cowardly to attempt too little. In
the broad light of this new day we
stand face to face-with what? Plain
ly, not with questions of party, not
with a contest for Office, not with a
petty struggle for advantage. With
great questions of right and of justice,
rather-questions of national develop
ment of character and of standards
of action no less than of a better bust
ness system. The forces of the nation
are asserting themselves against every
form of special privilege and private
control, and r seeking bigger things
than they have ever heretofore
achieved.
Two Things to Do.
There are two great things to do.
One is to set up the rule Of justice
and Of right in such matters as the
tariff, the regulation of the trusts
and the prevention of monopoly, the
adaptation of our banking and cur
rency laws to the cry uses to which
our people must put them, the treat.
ment of those VINO do the daily labor
in our factories and mines and
throughout our great industrial and
political life of the people of the Philip
pines, for whom we hold govern
mental power in trust, for their service
not our own. The other, the additional
duty is the great task of protecting
our people and our resources and
of keeping open to the whole people
the doors of opportunity through which
they must, generation by generation,
pass, if they are to make conquest
of their fortunes in health, in free
dom, in peace, and in contentment
In the performance of this second
great duty we are face to face with
questions of conservation and of de.
velopment, questions of forests and
waterpowers and mines and water
ways, of the building of an adequate
merchant marine.
1--WE have got into trouble in re
cent years chiefly because these large
things, which ought to have beer
handled by taking counsel with az
large a number Of persons as pos
sible, because they touch every in
terest and the life of every class an6
region, have in fact been too otter
handled in private conference. They
AdFC UCCA oCICAOu W FOAy ~ oA<
often deliberately exclusive groups O.
men, who undertook to speak for tn
whole nation, or, rather, for them
selves in the terms of the whole ma
tion-very honestly it may be, bu
very ignorantly sometimes, and yer!
shortsightedly, too, a poor substitute
for genuine common counsel. M
group of directors, economic or Pc
litical, al speak for a people. The,
have neither the point of view no
the knowledge. Our difficulty is no
that wicked and designing men hav
plotted against US, but that u CON
mon affairs have been determine
upon too narrow a view, and by to
private an initiative. Our task no,
is to effect a great readjustment an
get the force of the whole peopl
once more into play. We need n
revolution; we need 40 excite
change; we need only a new poin
of view and q new method and SDi1