The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-11-02
WILSON WORKING HARD.
SUPPORT OF DEMOCRATIC
TICKET IN JERSEY.
Enthusiastically Welcomed by PcOplc
I'm Two Counties of Home State
Hitherto Republican.

ahead today and made a VigOruS an
peal in two counties hitherto Repub-
lican to send Democrats to the New
Jersey legislature, which convenes
January /. next.
While the Democratic presidential
nominee touched often on national
issues, he chiefly directed his energy
In the three speeches toward over
coming the present Republican ma
Jority in the State legislature, to in
sure the choice Of a Democratic gov
enor to succeed himself in the event
of his election to the presidency and
to obtain also a Democratic legisla-
ture on joint ballot to send William
Hughes to the United States senate.
The governor was enthusiastically
received at Cape May court house,
Wildwood and Burlington, where he
spoke, but he declared he was not
seeking the suffrages of the people
in his own behalf, but for two instru-
ments--the Democratic legislature and
a Democratic United States senator to
assist the cause of the Democratic
party in the nation.
Il am not standing alone" he said
at Wildwood. Il am not the Demo-
cratic party. 1 can not as president
or as governor do anything but what
great bodies of free men assist me to
do and if they are for Wilson in Cape
May county they will vote the Demo-
cratic ticket
IF you can not vote for these gen.
tlemen for the legislature do not vote
for me. am not a candidate for a
pedestal. am not candidate to be
set up in lonely dignity to suffer the
intolerable disappointment of being
left alone. unable to do the great
things which the American people
will expect Of me if they honor me
with their suffrage. If you can not
back me up, do not put me up all by
myself and then desert me- If you be-
TO do something. No man in great
commonwealth or in a great nation
can do anything by himself except
talk and if my voice comes back
TO me, / shall continue to talk. But
talking is not business unless it means
that men are going to be drawn to-
gether by the public discussion of
great questions into a common co.
operative irresistible force.
DO not elect me captain unless
you are going to give me a team For
II j am captain and either Of those
Republican scrub teams is put along
side of me, l can not do anything at
all. What / leave with YOU is this
suggestion--it is q team or nothing.
Is that bargain? You will go back
on me, YOU will go back on your
governor. If you vote for me and do
not give me team. Therefore, my
bargain, my eXhortation to you today
Is, go TO the polls and by the re-
suit either give me team or vote
for somebody else.
1T is not possible in the next two
years, or in the next four years for
either branch of the Republican par
ty to get such strength or so many
men in office as to control the several
branches Of the federal government.
There is only one organization united
enough, clear enough in purpose, to
do that and that is the Democratic
organization. You have seen a sample
or It's service in the State Of New Jer-
sey Has it dealt candidly. with YOU?
HAS 1t tried to carry out the things
that you voted for again and again
before you voted for it in 1910? The
Democratic party did not have any
thing new TO offer you in 1910 1t
had only those things that both par
ties had been promising you for
generation almost but the difference
was that you voted for the Democrats
gramme which you had voted for in
other instances and commanded the
republican party to carry out and
they had not carried out That is the
plain record Of the State. The Dem
ocratic party in New Jersey has
served you according to it's word and
mas redeemed every promise that it
made.
Now it happens that the Demo
cratic party in the nation is led by
the same man who led the Democrats
In New Jersey and | am not aware
Oh having changed my point OF view
OF my purpose in the slightest de-
gree"