Omaha daily bee., 1912-08-07
. ROLLA WELLS WILL
GATHER FUNDS FOR
WILSON Campaign
Former Mayor of St. Louis Appointed
Treasurer of the National
Democratic Committee.
FRIEND OF THE CANDIDATE
Mr.. Wells is Graduate of Princeton
University, Glass of '76.
WILSON'S FIRST CAMPAIGN TALK
Governor Addresses Delegation Of
Two Hundred from Delaware.
SOUNDS ANOTHER SLOGAN
Would Transfer Government from
FRIEND OF THE CANDIDATE
Mr.. Wells is Graduate of Princeton
University, Glass of re.
WILSON'S FIRST CAMPAIGN TALK
Governor Addresses Delegation Of
Two Hundred from Delaware.
SOUNDS ANOTHER
Would Transfer Government from
Hands Of Trustees to the Hands
of Those We Can
Trust,

SEA GIRT. n. j., Aug. Ex-Governor
Wilson announced at $50 o'clock today
the appointment of Rolla Wells, former
mayor of st. Louis, Mo, to be treasurer
of the national democratic committee
and Charles r. Crane of Chicago, to be
vice chairman of the finance committee
of which Henry Morganthaul of New
York has been chosen chairman.
Governor Wilson declared that MIR.
Wells was a lifelong friend who had
come into prominence in the west in
connection with the lakes-to-gulf water
way project. Mr.. Wells, he said, as pres
ident of the Business Mems league of st.
Louis had won the confidence of busi-
ness men gaaSrally.
Mr. Wells h graduate of Princeton
university sf the class of 1875 and is at
present spending the summer at
Wequetonsing, Mich He is a retired bus-
ness man.
First Campaign Utterance. =
I'VE want to take the government out
Of tn ehands of trustees and put it in
the hands of those we can trust .
This was Governor Wilson's first CAM
paign utterance as he addressed delega-
tion today of 200 democrats from Della
ware, led by National Committeeman
Willard Salisbury.
Mr.. Salisbury had declared that Della
ware hoped through hisy influence to be
redeemed from the dishonor that has
been put upon it by the political suprem-
acy Of the trust millonaires and the
public service corporations which it still
endures with indignation. impatience and
disgust"
The government of New Jersey was
very bad said Governor Wilson in .re-
ply, but the people We're sound to the
core, and all they were waiting for was
some means through which they could
express themselves. We had tied our
selves up by some very ingenious polit-
ical arrangement which made 1t difficult
for the people to choose their own can
didate and have their own way. l am
sure Delaware will act as New Jersey
has.
New Jersey people have always been
as progressive as any people In the
union, but there have been embarrass-
ments. They have been in the hands Of
a board of guardians, who used to sit In
the state house and tell the legislature
what it should do. 1t had not been re-
quired by the people to tell the legisla-
ture what it should do, but it assumed
that authority. But we ought to speak
tenderly of those who are on their death
beds. These people are not in this state
now and they will never camp in this
building again.
yet l do not take to myself anything
except good fortune as having been the
spokesman Of the people of New Jersey.
What We are trying to do in the imme-
diate future Is to offer to the people of
the United States the rig..t to say what
they want done with their own govern
ment and their own affairs. We want
to take the government out of the hands
of trustees and put it in the hands Of
those We can trust Those for whom the
government was held in voluntary trust
are now grown up and ready to resume
charge Of their own business
Governor O'Neil Of Alabama, who
called on Governor Wilson, announced
that he would take the stump in north
ern states on behalf of Governor Wilson.