The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-01
WILD CHEERING
 FOR GOV. WILSON
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN AC- CORDS HIM DEMONSTRATION LASTING MORE THAN
 HOUR.
OVATION BREAKS RECORD
Candidates Makes Strong Appeal For Election of Ticket From Top
 To Bottom.

opponents as a cold and bookish pro- 1 lessor, last night turned a regular old 1 fashioned political meeting of 16 GOO persons. a meeting like that which Moose leader in the same place on the night before. into a wild, waving, cheering. yelling, roaring, stamping mob Of enthusiasts that needed no songs and no hymns and no encourage ment to keep it at a high pitch.
 Despite every effort on the part
 of the Democratic leader, despite his
 almost pathetic desire for peace, the cheering, whistling. and yelling for him, mingled with an undiminished
 hour-and- four -minutes-long 'Ray-ay-
 ay-ay-ay,'' continued, surpassing, if
 possible, in volume and enthusiasm, and certainly by twenty minutes in
 duration, the tremendous welcome that
 had been roared forth to the pictures
 que and popular wounded Bull Moose
 leader on the night before.
 Cld-time Democrats and many a Democrat in that gathering who was not Of old times at all declared that
 never in their memories in the
 day of the Peerless Boy Orator of the Platte-had a Democratic meetino been marked with such spontaneous and whole-souled enthusiasm.
 Gov. Wilson agreed with them, as
 far as any meeting in his own experi-
 ence was concerned, adding whole
 1unged'' as we'll as 'swhole-souled'' as
 an epithet to describe the enthusiasm
 and also ssirrepressfble' and "utterIy
 ungovernable.'' He has governed a
 great many persons and things since
 he first started governing New Jersey,
 but never had a task so difficult and
 in fact impossible of achievement be-
 fore him as the governing of that mad
 ly enthusiastic crowd of 16,000 men
 and women in the Garden last night.
 It simply cheered until could cheer
 no longer.
 Yet the professor was never happier
 than when he saw the Bull Moose rec Before he came to the Garden, the
 dense throng there had contrasted
 fanatica1 enthusiasts of the night be-
 fore. There had been plenty of cheer
 ing, but it could be heard in various
 parts of the Garden, instead as in one
 throat: and there had been more audi
 ble Jokes and political gibes, more
 laughtsr and good-aumor os+tn than n9 l9 the the crusaders of Wednesday. It had been,
 in fact, a monster political rally not unlike, though greater than, the rallies
 Ali the preceding speakers had "tak- en we1l' with the crowd. and been heartily cheered and applal1ded. But character of the gathering was chang ed. It was no longer a political rally. It was a mob of cheering. roaring en- thusiasts WilSon-mad and eager to
 They were eager to hear what he had to say but they were most eager -~-~>--O
 we want w4lsoni. This was roared again and again. And there wasn't termination back of the cry.
 Only after they had had their fill of inc Governor to make himself heard And even then they interrupted him again and again with bursts of ap- aEement and affection ranging from apropos and understandable comments to warwhoops and b1ood-curd1ing rebel yells.
 He Feels Responsibility.
 Gov Wilson. deeply moved. express ed the deep sense of responsibility that the overwhelming reception had inn pressed him with He declared that realized that it was a welcome ex- tended not only to him the man, but far more still to true Democracy, the cause in which he was to lead them. a cause which was to help Americans come into their own again. Az elec- ton day approached, and with 1t ever | increasing evidence or a counIry,Wlae he felt more and more solemn at the thought of the great destiny that was his and the great service ne was to render his people and country.
 The other of the great older partles, he declared. had suddenly seemed to had beTotten it. and to have substded | into 8. frightened inactivity and apathy as to ideals into a panic-strtcken fear of undertaking any reforms whatever, and dishonest business it had fostered and helped grow turn upon 1t anal wre0lx it with the power 1t put into
 To the Bull Moose party, on the oth- CT hand, he referred as party that had broken away from the Fepuol. adventurous discoverers. looking l. about for new ways of performing old duties. duties. that every party has It aimed, he declared, to substitute new methods of executive supervision for the old methods of law, mess instead of regeneration Of bus mess.
 '1The trouble with this party is that tariff do not equitably divide their spoils,', he said. .'It would allow the spells to be given to those who di- vide them, and would take the spells away from those who do not divide.''
 In its attitude towards the trusts. on the other hand, 1t would put busi- ness in the hands of receiver ap- pointed by the government to admin ster business for the sake Of chas- tening the owners of the business. said, which was too great to be put 1 nto the hands of any officer of the ] government. |,
 The real need of the day. he declar- ed, and that which he would devote himself and his party to, was the E sreeing of business from artificial ;hachies that had been c1apped upon t, not the punishment of a big bI1si- ness because it was big. but the checking of those who would use big business to- crush little business and ,ar the door of equal opportunity to he small and weak Il
 In concluding he said: :,
 "AlI men have to do is to realize 1 hat the common enterprises of life Ire the enterprises of politics; that reed, but is voting a program of jus ice and of right when he votes at the ( polls. Now, if you want that pro- ( ram, what are you going to do next ( Tuesday," II