The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-31
URGES AMERICAN CITIZENS TO CONFER ON ALL QUESTIONS
 or PUBLIC INTEREST.
USE THE SCHOOL HOUSES
Governor Will Invade New York State Next Week, Making His First Speech at Buffalo to a La
 Dor Day Gathering.

Sea Girt, N. J.. Aug. 30.-Neighbor- hood consultation and more extens- i've use of school houses for gather. ings where public opinion might be conserved were the things Governor Wilson advocated today in his speech at the Monmouth county fair at Red- bank. N U.
 After a series of conferences the governor motored to Redbank early in the afternoon.
 Colonel Robert l.. Ewing, national committeeman from Louisiana and chairman of. the press contribution bureau of the campaign committee, called on the governor tonight. The press contribution bureau, Mir. Ewing said, would be moved to Chicago next week from New York. He brought the governor letter which he had reeeiy- ed from Governor o. B. Colquitt of Texas, pledging himself as 'one of the thousand Texans who would give $100 to the Wilson campaign" The governor was cheered as he entered the Monmouth county fair grounds.
 school houses" said Governor Wilson "all through the countryside, standing here, there and everywhere, in the cities, are closed for the most ! part between the school session of one day and Che school session of the next day. They are public buildings They belong to the communities. They fur nish ideal places in which to assemble and discuss public affairs. They are 1 just what we need for neighborhood 1 conferences of every kind And yet it 1 was reserved for a recent date for somebody to suggest that the school I houses be made social centers; that they be used for every kind of legiti- mate conferences; and so
 There is certain class of poli- ticians that dreais nothing as much as that the neighbors should get to- gether and talk things over, because the minute you begin to talk things over, you begin to make that most powerful instrument that exists in free country. I mean public opinion. If you once gather public opinion in- to nuclei, into heads, into eenters, then something is going to happen with re gard to the action of politics itself.
 Why don't you agree to share the small expense that will be incident to your using your own buildings to do your own business in the public interest believe that this country is absolutely determined now to free itself from artificial influence and pri- vate influence of all sorts, but it can not do 1t unless you will take sugges- tions of this sort. It cant do it un- less you get together and stay togeth- CT and the whole dyanmics of it, the !, whole force of it, the whole power of | 1t. is going to come, not from your public men but from yourselves.
 q want not to be trusted blindly- but to match my opinion with yours. I want to match my wits with yours l I don't know any court comparing with that. If I am right, why do you agree with me if you haven't studied | the thing and conferred about it and know that am right If am wrong how are you going to prove it unless you have conferred about it? The whole process of self-protection and of liberty consists in these processes of neighborhood consultations.
 You know the trouble about a na- 1 tion is that it has only this world in which to vindicate itself. And am so interested in the dramatic prop critics and the plot of the great play that leads either uphill or downhill, I that 1 would like to see the upward incline begin right at my feet, begin right in the county I am living in ana l would like to see the levels rise and rise and rise until we should have reached the outlook of the immorta hills"
 Governor Wilson prepared today foi his first speech in New York state or
 Monday at Buffalo.
 A strenuous program has been map
 ped out for the governor. He will leave New York Sunday night at i1:SS
 o'clock, arriving at Buffalo at ll
 o'clock the next morning Afte
 luncheon the governor will address 2
 labor gathering under the auspies oi the United Trades and Labor Coun cit Immediately afterward reeep ton Is planned by Norman E. Mack former national chairman A dinner
 will then be given by the Erie count,
 democratic committee. and in tho evening. the governor will address ( citizens meeting. Late that night the overnOr will leave Buffalo for fren ton. where he usually Ia occupied on Tuesday with state business.
 Governor Wilson Naid today he probably would dlscuss at Buffalo, a' bor question: and thelr relation so