Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-04-19
INSPIRING ADDRESS
Big Crowd Greeted Democratic
Presidential Candidate
Gov. Woodrow Wilson Of New Jersey
Made Decidedly Favorable Impression
National Ills Discussed.

Made Decidedly Favorable Impression
National Ills Discussed.
One of the most clean-cut and Dig
nifed political addresses ever heard in
Brattleboro was delivered in the Audi
forum Friday night by Gov. Woodrow
Wilson of New Jersey, former president
of Princeton university and now Dem
ocratc candidate for President of the
United States. 1t was a masterpiece in
dction, as might be expected from a per-
son of his educational attainments, and
was nom partisan as it is possible for
a political speech to be- There was not
the slightest semblance of mud throwing,
but the entire address was straight
forward statement of some of the funda-
mental ills that have arisen in the gov
eminent of this nationals which every
body recognizes as eXistng-and from
what the speaker said one scarcely could
have told whether he was a Democrat
or a Republican. 1t was refreshing to
hear man of Gov Wilson's calibre and
to contrast his address with the vitriolic
utterances that characterize the ordinary
run of political speeches
The audience was very large, there be-
ing no vacant seats except in the rear
rows of the gallery, and many on the
first and second floors stood throughout
the address while about 70 persons, in
Guiding visitors from out of town, occu-
pied seats on the stage. Attorney Arthur
p. Carpenter presided, and at the close
many took advantage of the opportunity
to meet the presidential candidate
Gov. Wilson came to Brattleboro on
the train from the south arriving at 557
and was accompanied by Thomas H.
Browne of Rutland, a member of the
national Democratic committee, and by
Maj. F. w. Childs and j. G.. Ullery of
Brattleboro. He was met at the station
by a delegation of townspeople and was
escorted to the Brooks House
On the way to Bratteboro the Boston
& Maine train on which he was a pass
enger was held 10 minutes at Mount
Hermon, and from the train Gov. Wilson
made a short address to about 600 stu
dents and others. In the Auditorium
music was furnished by Leitsinger's
orchestra and double male quartet con-
sisting of +. V. Morse, w. n. Gilbert
Walter S. Stearns and J. E. Haynes
tenors, and A. S Thompson, c. B. Crow
ell, A. l.. Clapp and DR.. F. H. O'Connor
basses. Mr. Carpenter then extended the
greetings of the town. county and state
in introducing the speaker
In beginning his address Gov. Wilson
pointed out that since the census of 1890
the migration toward the West had
changed and the people of the East were
coming more and more to appreciate
their advantages, stating among other
things that we could raise more wheat
per acre in Vermont than in the great
western states. Then he took up govern
mental affairs. I'm our civilization" he
said, I'VE are looking ourselves over as
we did when the constitution was draft
ed. We have established a rough-a and
ready civilization in America and we
must now complete il by amending the
errors There is an air of discomfort and
uneasness and a desire for a change
throughout the country You never saw
a universal expectation of change I'M
less a change was impending, unless
something was out of joint"
There is difference between select
ing and electing men to represent us.
We elect the men whom somebody else
selects, and they are usually selected by
the big interests. The people all over the
United States have found continual and
heart breaking disappointments. The
Paine Aldrich tariff is one of the large
examples of many disappointments. The
speaker then referred to the miscarriage
of justice in the failure to convict the
real offenders of our national laws. The
puppets usually are the ones placed on
trial and you can't get an American
jury to convict a puppet. II believe 1t
would be a good thing to convict few
Gov. Wilson said ITO discourage the
trade in puppets and his remark was
greeted with applause.
The root of our discomfort, said the
speaker is that our voting does not
count for anything, and we know why
because we do not control our business
and the forces of intelligent resentment
are manfesting themselves throughout
the country There is unanimous objec-
ton to the way things are going on. The
evils must be met by honest sound rad
ical, medical cure but not in a spirit of
vindictiveness.
Gov Wilson said he had been cassed
as a radical, but he preferred the word
progressive" The world is moving and
anybody who stands pat will get left.
Misdirected energy is not going to ac-
complish the desired results we must
adapt our laws to things as we find
them. Reference was made to the tarin
wall around this country. The Blaine
Mckinley tariff was arguable at the time
of its enactment, because it was designed
to create competition at home; but there
Is no longer competition the beef bust
ness, the steel business and other large
industries are controlled by trusts and
big combinations. The cure for bad pol
itcs is to make the manipulators come
out into the open. You cannot start any
big industry today unless you get on the
ground floor and be let into the confiden-
tial circles of those who control the big
loans, so general is the interlocking and
interlacing of directorates.
The nation is going to be renewed out
of its mass of people, not out of It's
few. There is no use in discussing the
tariff railroads, trusts and arteries OF
foreign trade until we settle the prelim-
mary question of whether are COINS
to select men who are detached from
those things to handle the problems Tn,
cry is back TO the people" and thes'
questions cannot be settled rightly un
less authority comes from them actual!
as we'll as nominally.' We are on the eV
of a period of constructive craftsmanship
Gov. Wilson predicted that the Chicag
and Baltimore conventions would be tn
last of their kind in the United State
3 and that in the future the presidentia
candidates would be selected in direc
primaries