The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16
FARMERS HEAR
 WILSON TALK
GOVERNOR IS PRINCIPAL. SPEAK FER AT THE FARMERS DAY
 CELEBRATION.
HITS BULL MOOSE PARTY
Refers To Its Platform And Pre-. diets Victory For Demo-
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N Gloucester, N. J., Aug. 16-Under the glare of a hot sun, thousands of farmers massed about Governor Wood row Wilson here yesterday afternoon and heard him make his first campaign a week ago of his nomination to the presidency.
 The governor spoke extemporane- ously from an improyised platform at Washington park, where the farmers of New Jersey, Delaware and Penn sylvania were participating in a farmers day celebration. The candi- date dWelt mostly upon the protec- tive tariff which he called the re strictive tariff attacked Senator Ald- rich and his tariff making associates; pointed out the benefits of merchant marine in connection with the Pana- ma canal, and blamed the influence of express companies in preventing the adoption of a parcels post.
 The governor was frequently inter- rupted by applause and cheers. When he finished speaking many of the farmers crowded forward to shake hands. The governor was at the park about two hours. returning to Sea Girt early last night.
 Governor Wilson said in part:
 ''T am interested in politics not as a searcfer for office but as a great contest devoted to something very definite and practical indeed. Politics ought not to be considered as mere occasion for oratory Politics ought to be considered as a branch of the national business, and a man who talks politics ought to tell his fellow citizens very distinctly what he thinks about their affairs and what his own attitude towards them is.
 Here we are at a farmers picnic and on this day suppose we might say that the farmers occupy the cen ter of the stage. When did the farm ever occupy the center of the stage in the capitol at Washington?
 But I want at every turn of every argument that I make of this nature to say that the legitimate business enterprises of this country have abso- lutely nothing to fear, provided they will stand on their own bottoms, but that they have everything to fear ii
 they all have under them the prop of a tax which everybody is obliged to pay in order that they may be able to conduct their business and be- lieve that that is the just principle ot government.
 "There is another matter in which I am deeply interested There are only three lines devoted to it in the Democratic platform, but there are no lines devoted to It III the, RepupllcdAi platform, and there are so many lines in the bull moose platform that l haven't found it yet. It is a Sab bath days journey through that pro- gram. If there are such lines 1 have not reached that station yet. But Tn the Democratic platform there are three lines in which the party de- clares it to be it's duty to devote such funds of the national government as it may constitutionally devote to such purposes to the promotion of indus trial, agricultural, vocational educa- tion. szst.
 s.I believe that there is to be. a great, handsome, peaceful, hopeful revolution on the fifth day of Novem- Der. 1912, and that after that revolu- ton has been accomplished men Will go abdut their business saying What was it that we feared? We feared chains and we have won liberty. We feared to touch anything for fear we should mar it, and now everything wears the bright face of prosperity and we know that the right is also the profitable thing and that nobody can serve a. nation without serving also himself.'