The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-19
Big Crowds Greet the Demo- cratic Nominee Despite
 Inclement Weather
EXPLAINS VIEWS
 ON TARIFF QUESTION
Democrats Consider Merely the Re- adjustment of the Schedules to Actual Business Conditions
 of the Country

Pittsburg. October 1s.-Wet weather campaigning brought Governor Woodrow Wilson series of merry incidents to- day as he travelled through West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania. Only at Hills berg tonight did he speak indoors. but throughout the day the democratic nom inee faced a fabric of umbrellas under meath which stood a multitude of enthus- iastic people.
 T don't want to keep you standing in the rain" said the governor at Wheeling, as he began to abridge his speech.
 ''No, no, go on,'' urged the crowd
 Perhaps, I had better make my speech as dry as possible then to counteract the effect of the rain, suggested the nominee.
 The governor had to make his way through jail at Clarksburg, W. Va, to reach the speaking stand.
 T have been paid a splendid compli- ment' he told the crowd. T have ap- peared to you by way of the jail, but escaped incarceration; I think some of my friends had writ of habeas corpus which enabled me to be here"
 Big Crowds Despite Rain
 The governor found a big turnout every where. notwithstanding the rain which fell all day. He pleaded with the local committeeman not to insert any more speeches than were originally scheduled, but was only. partly successful. The nominee appeared on the platform at last. however and chatted and shook hands with those in the crowds nearest him. Once white-haired bent old man made his way with difficulty to the end of the car and attempted to talk to the gov ernor above the uproar of cheering. The nominee took the outstretched hand and bent his head close to hear.
 .'Governor. I'm S3 years old" said the man, and I've waited all these years for you.''
 The governor said tonight he was very much touched by the act.
 Tt is one of the deepest compliments that has ever been paid me- he re- marked.
 At Wheeling the nominee was loudly applauded when he said he would not discuss the third party while Colonel Roosevelt was in the hospital. The gov ernor was saying that there was "a cor on prosperity in the country" and that he had "a very definite notion as to how the whole population of the United States should have access to its own prosperity" He began to discuss the trusts and monopoly then. but stopped short.
 Will Not Discuss Bull Moose
 ''I am little bit hampered," he said, '1n discussing this part of the question. because l have denied myself the priv ilege at present of discussing anything that concerns the third party. As long as MT. Roosevelt is confined to the hospital in Chicago I shall have nothing to say about the third party. But 1 want to say this about the democratic party pro- gramme: The thing that has created the trusts, that has created the monopoly is unregulated unfair competition. If we can only bring it about that newcomers shall have a free field then we can take care of these gentlemen in the trusts, be- cause then the most unintelligent com petitor will get the market, and the lit- tie man can grow big, instead of mak- ing himself big by the legislation of Con- gress and by special favors from the gov ernment. We can do that by progressive federal laws and fill all this system of ours with statutes which shall make it criminal to do what these gentlemen did to build up their monopolies, and which will see to 1t that the men who did com init the offense have time to think it over in some building from which they will not for some time come out
 Contemplation Needed
 Nothing would stop this thing like a period of contemplation; nothing would stop it so clearly as to give these gentle men time to realize what they have been 1-f.. F.R <.ft l. have not really thought it over. I want to give them the lesson and the seclusion to think it over but am not afraid that 1t would not be stopped I am not afraid that tine penitentiaries will be crowded. Just as soon as the law takes hold of this thing, and men are behind the law who want to injure nobody in particular, but to be just to everybody. then special favors will me made, and there will be another face upon affairs in America"
 The governor and his party reached Pittsburg at 5;i5 o'clock and went to banquet of the Wilson club of Allegheny county big rally at Duquesne Garden followed. after which the governor left for New York
 Many Princeton men gathered at the banquet and they gave the governor great ovation. Duquesne Garden was packed full with an enthusiastic crowd.
 The widest and most sustained demon- stration that Governor Wilson has had in his campaign greeted him at Duquesne Garden When he rose to speak there were great cheers but the applause was almost continuous throughout the speech of 45 minutes.
 The governors address was a series of short sentences which the enthusiastic crowd constantly punctuated with ap- plause.
 Once the crowd rose in the middle of the speech and began demonstration that lasted for several minutes. The gov ernor talked mostly about the tariff and said that out of the garden of tariff schedules" only the weeds" would be eliminated but that no legitimate enter prise would suffer.
 The nominee and has party left at II 10 o'clock for New York.
 The position of the democratic party on the tariff was discussed by the gov ernor in his prepared speech here to- night He predicted that the forces of reform will be domina nt in both Houses" in the next Congress and de- clared the election of a President out of sympathy with them would generate uneasiness and discontent He said in part:
 'I welcome tue opportunity of stat tng what I believe to be the well con- ~~~~~
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