New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-05
Closes Campaign with Meetings
in Paterson and PassaiC -
Crowds Enthusiastic.
SAYS BUSINESS is SAFE
Declares Taft's Charge That
Cleveland Brought on Panic
Is Untrue and Attacks Re-
publican Currency Policy.
tBy TeleEraph to The Tribune. J


Passaic. n. j., Nov 4--"The case is
made up. 1t goes to the jury tomorrow.
This jury is not locked UP. Everybody
can get access TO II. Everybody can take
1t out to lunch II they please. Every
body can have the ear Of any member OF
the jury. You have heard what every
body has had to say-important and IN
important, true and untrue-and now to-
morrow you are going TO say which d.
rection the United States is going to
move in, and under what leadership.
Il leave the case to the jury. hope II
will retire with a clear sense OF its re-
sponsibility. And IL is expected. under
the terms OF the law. that 1t will render
it's verdict within twenty-four hours
With these words Governor Wilson closed
| his campaign for the Presidency here to-
night before an audience Of more than
fifteen hundred persons in the high school
Before coming here he had spoken In
Paterson, and the two meetings were
marked by demonstrations Of the most
enthusiastic kind.
In neither OF his speeches did Governor
Wilson show any I'll effects from the au-
tomobile accident Of yesterday morning,
and had it not been for a big strip OF
pink courtplaster across the top OF his
head no one would have known that any
thing out OF the ordinary was troubling
the Presidential candidate.
Business Safe with Democrats.
The business of the country, Governor
| Wilson said. will be Just as safe in the
hands OF the Democrats, II not safer. 1T
| is the absolute surrender OF the govern
ment 10 the special interests which we
shall destroy" he declared. He also as
serted It was the big Democratic ma
jority in the House that had brought
about prosperity.
II have not heard any Democrat pro-
! pose TO touch any honest or legitimate
! thing in business at any point" he said.
! And ] tell you that the people Of the
country will be just as safe IN their busi-
ness under a Democratic Administration
no, they will not, they will be safer under
! a Democratic administration"
| President Taft was put in the Ananias
| club by Governor Wilson, when, in re-
ferrirE to the Presidents charge that Mr..
| Cleveland and his administration brought
| the panic on. he said any one who read
! history knew the charge to be untrue.
| He went on:
when Mr.. Cleveland was elected Presi-
| dent the first time. under his admlnistra-
| ton there were four years OF absolute
| quiet and prosperity The four years ended
with a big surplus in the Treasury OF the
! United States. Then Harrison became
| President for four years. and the fiscal
legislation OF those four years and the
! extraordinary expenditures by Congress
| during those four years brought the
! Treasury Of the United States and the
| business Of the United states into such
! a condition that panic was impending
when Mr. Cleveland's second administra-
! ton began. and nothing that he could do,
because the Senate thwarted him, could
avert that panic.
And now the President OF the United
| States tells that Mr. Cleveland and his
administration brought that panic on. No
man who knows the history OF the United
States can fail 10 know that that Is not
true. and I challenge any man, upon a
| candid examination OF the facts, to assert
after that candid examination that It Is
| true.
AssaiIs Currency System.
Every panic that has occurred since
| the Civil War occurred under the au-
spices OF Republican administration. Now
mark Won. I am not saying that those
| administrations brought them on Tor l
know economic laws and economic his
tory better than TO say that. They were
brought on by large circumstances OF our
| national life; IN part, for example, by an
sntIouated and impossible currency sys-
tenn. which these gentlemen now condemn
and cannot agree 10 change.
| 'T would not be so unfair as 10 at
tribute these crises TO Republican RUE l
only want these gentlemen 70 observe
that they came on during Republican
rule and that therefore they are aDso-
luteIv estopped from saying, or rather
from threatening, that panic IS the nat
ural result OF Democratic admini5tra-
ton"
| According 10 Governor Wilson, there
had been no disturbance in the business
world In spite Of the universal assump-
ton that he was going to be elected.
THE present prosperity has come on
since a huge Democratic majority was put
| in the House OF Representatives ne
went on, land has not been given the
least possible disturbance by the uni
versal assumption that there was going
TO be a Democratic President OF the
United States Where do you find the
| nervous business man2 Where do you
| find the business men who really think,
| except for purposes OF publication, that
| sinister influences are going TO dominate
! the Democratic party If IT gets into
| power?
Firm Name TO Be Changed.
"Why, you can tell by walking down
Wall Street, I suppose. / have not walked
down Wall Street recently. You can tell
by walking down Wall Street, / dare say,
that there is no furry Of impending de-
spair. Everybody knows that business is
| going TO be conducted at the old stand
not exactly in the same way. but I'm a
very much better way; and that the firm
name will be changed from Special Privi-
| Iege g. Co. to the People OF the United
! States"
But the business will be a good deal
| better on that account. There will be
more partners, there viii be more energy,
there will be a more clear comprehension
| of what is for the benefit OF all these
| spiritual stockholders, If | may so call
| them, who have invested their spirits
their hopes, their ambitions. their oppor-
tunities for achievement in the business,
| the honesty and the pure politics Of this
1 which W.