Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-28
Wilson Encouraged by His Re-
ception in New England.
FOUND MUCH ENTHUSIASM
Says Democratic Success Was Taken
for Granted Generally.
HELLO, WOODY" PLEAsEs HIM
Regards Familiar Address as EVIL
dence He Has Reached the People.
Assails Tennessee Merger.

NEW YORK, September 2S-Gov.
Woodrow Wilson declared today that he
felt greatly encouraged by his recep-
ton in New England in the last few
days.
Il was especially impressed, he said,
by the fact that everywhere great
crowds With whom l came i'm contact
and the people whom met personally
seemed to take it for granted that the
democratic. ticket would be elected The
size and enthusiasm of the crowds who
wanted to hear me speak and see me
also was impressive. | found it very
interesting. indeed. There can be no
doubt that they are thinking seriously
and that they were anxious to find out
what l had to say
The nominee planned to spend the
day here. attending to personal bust
ness. He had no engagements until to-
night. when he will speak at the BAN
quet to be given in honor of National
Chairman William +. McCombs by the
College Mems Wilson and Marshall
League. He will return to Seasirt late
tonight
Woody, Old Boy" Pleases Wilson.
BRIDGEPORT. Conn, September Is
Gov. Woodrow Wilson said last night he
felt as if he had arrived" He finished
a three-day trip through New England.
and in the scores of places where he
stopped people called him Woody"
Governor and "Old Boy" enough
times to make him feel intimate with
the crowds.
1t was at Willimantic that an over
allied workman, spying the governor on
the car platform, cried out: Hello,
Woody, old boy
Il like that smiled the nominee as
he stepped down and shook hands.
With whirl of speeches and recep-
tons. the governor completed his New
England trip, making an address before
big crowd here.
Cheered Throughout Massachusetts,.
Throughout the day, as the nominee
journeyed to Boston, people crowded the
stations, cheering and clamoring for but
tons.
At Willimantic the governor made
brief speech LAS l stop in this particu-
lar place" he said II cannot but think
of the absentee landlords who own the
thread industry and do not live here, Ae-
cause. of course, one Of the difficulties of
our whole political arrangement in the
United States is that the people that run
us don't have anything to do with us
and stand off at a distance and find it
difficult indeed to judge of actual condi-
TONS
Accuses Roosevelt.
A charge that former President Roose-
welt had done IAN illegal thing in order
to build up an irresistible power in per-
uniting the purchase by the United States
Steel Corpora ton of the Tennessee Coal
and Iron Company was made in a speech
h,yc leo,
II do not wonder that the leader of the
third party thinks that trusts are in
evitable,' said the governor. He never
found any way of checking them, and he
thought it was inevitable that the steel
corporation should buy the Tennessee
Coal and Iron Company, and that the
chief executive should consent to an
illegal thing in order to build UP an ire
sistible power. If 1t is inevitable that
the government should yield to those
powers, the sooner we know it the bet
ter.
Regrets Roosevelt's Convictions.
And 1 am sorry that any man who
has had experience in that great office
should have come out of it with that con-
viction. He despairs of displacing the
power, and all he can suggest is that We
try our best to make the trusts good,
pitiful. kind, and just, by which We trans
fer our own affairs to those who by SUBJ
tlety have combined against u.s.
The governor made several references
in his speech to Col. Roosevelt, declaring
that even if he were elected he would
have mo third party Congress- behind
him. He would be lonely official add
ed the governor; mot that he minds it,
because he finds himself in good COM
pany. But he hasn't even yet claimed
fIr, ;ohf TO- onfc of
Richard Olney, Secretary of State in
Cleveland's cabinet, presided at the meet
ing.