The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-30
WILSON IN
 CAMPAIGN
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 begun to be true, It has always been
 true, but you have had such conf dence in some of your leaders that IAyou haven't allowed yourselves to think about 1t at all; because if you had thought about it. you could have thought this thing out in five minutes.
 never have believed, no thinking man has ever believed, that the people of the great state of Pennsylvania approved of the things that were mo- ] toriously done by the political leaders of that great state. The character of the people of Pennsylvania and the character of their government have been utterly unlike one another and yet 1t is not true that you are not sur | prised by recent revelations? You l have sat by while the trustees did what they pleased with the govern ment of this celebrated, this rich, this | powerful, this enlightened common wealth. Pennsylvania has sat by in active while that kind of government has been carried on with the apparent acquiescence of her own voters.
 What happened in the congress which has just adjourned The house of representatives with the acqui- essence of a senate, which is not dem- ocratic, passed what was known as the farmers free list bill. What diu that do. It put agricultural imple- ments on the free list; it put lumber on the free list, and shingles on the free list and meat on the free list and salt on the free list and bagging and ties for the southern farmer who needs the bagging and ties for his cotton. And what happened to it It was ve- toed by the president, because--let me say parenthetically, that l have great personal respect for Mr Taft, but MT. Taft has not given himself those wide connections of sympathy which enable man to understand the demands of the people of the United States-Mr Taft vetoed that free list bill because, consciously or unconsciously, he rep resents, not the people of the United States, but those who have held their power in trust for their own purposes.
 You hear of corrupt influences, gentlemen. You hear of those corrupt influences being exerted here, there, everywhere that they can be expected. l would be ashamed if 1 said things of one party that l was not willing to say of the other if it was guilty; and l am willing to admit that in certain instances, in certain places, among other places in the state of New Jersey, the leaders-a little hand ful, but nevertheless, the leaders-of the democratic party have had alli- ance with these corrupt influences and l,|a .t,,l. against is not machine that is alto gether republican. or altogether demo- cratic, but machine that is made up of both of them and that works together at every turn of public af- fairs
 The men that conduct those ma. chimes are a small fraction of the par ty that they pretend to represent and that the men who exercise corrupt in- fluences upon them. are small frac- ton of business men of the United States. And what we are bonded to- gether to fight against is not a party, is not a great body of citizens. but little coterie, group of men here and there, a few men who subsist by de- ceiving us.
 'The chairman of the meeting, Mir Greasy kindly referred to me as the next president of the United States. Now, l don't know whether l am to be or not, but 1 do know this; that am going to have just as much fun one way as the other. l would like to have the fighting advantage that that great office would give me, but having been born of fighting breed, l don't have to have the office to do the fighting l have enlisted for life and don't have to be an officer. 1 can shoot just as straight as a private"