The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-30
The Governor Returns From
the Stanton Celebration.
Improved in Health and Ready
to Resume Work.
GIVES OUT SUGGESTIONS
Regarding Policy of His APP
preaching Administration.
Says Public Conduct Must
Square With Moral Code.

Princeton. N. J.. Dec. 3o.-With a
miniature ship of state in one hand and
a basket of Virginia apples in the other,
President-elect Wilson came home af-
ter an all-day ride from Staunton, Va,
his birthplace. AS a parting gift the
people of his native town gave him a
ship Of flowers and amid cheering babe
him Godspeed. The president-elect
said he felt deeply touched by the hos
vitality displayed not only toward him,
but everybody who came back for the
reunion The governor had so far re-
gained his normal strength that ne
talked politics most of the day with
persons who rode with him on different
stretches of the trip National Cha1r-
man William F. McCombs and Speaker
r. E. Byrd, of the Virginia legislature
talked with the governor from Staunton
IN Washington. At Washington, Wnefe
the governors special car stopped an
hour. Jerry J. Sullivan, one OF the !eau-
ers of the Democracy in Iowa, was re-
ceived by Mr.. Wilson in his stateroom
I'VE were just picking up the threads
of the situation in Iowa., sa1o MT w IL
mou. of his talk with Mr.. Sullivan. Ihey
had talked over legislative policies, ne
added. He was asked if he had men
toned cabinet appointments to MS
Iowa visitor. and answered that ne hAu
not The inquiry was occasloneo ny
the fact that Judge Martin Waoe' ma
%fonal committeeman from Iowa, mas
1Irged the appointment of Mr. sullivan
es secretary of the interior, the name
of Mr.. Sullivan having cen infornaiIy
wu1ges+ed to the president-elecI AoI
mat portfolio by friends of the rowan.
MI sullivan explained that the opJect
of his call was to learn MI t-st
position on the tariff and the trust
I'VE are interested in the west In
49, destruction of those trusts tnaI
mean death to competition ne -
s.NE1. Wilson did not comment
say that he stood firr1lIy pelII,i1 - these
feTances during the campaign on 'iAe0e
1890 asked to elaborate his remarks
.o,,+ earlv Philippine fndepenoehce'
tta rresident-elect said ne uhu NJ
Icy. u-ie 70 90 into the question In oetan
~ this time, as he was not YET
20 make known his plans. 49,
vUi+, resnect to his utterances ChAt
-, 7oan likely to be associated WIN
4he government would nave TO p
vnastered"' in order that Chey HIshs
becor1e the instruments OF mercy anu
- t,,etice,'' the governor explained that
he had no specific person in nina.
at was taking it for granted" ne
hid with a SMILE chat there would
he men who would not see the point
of view of the administration
Governor Wilson Indicated In ms
Hneeches at Staunton that he would
endeavor to convince not only those
IN the party who did not see the point
of view, but the business men as well
that legislation should be squared
with the simple morals of individual
action"
MANY an honest man." he said in
his speech many a man who had
been unimpeachable in his individual
conduct has, nevertheless, engaged in
transactions sometimes in this coun-
try which did not square with the
principles which he held himself indi-
vidually, partly out of ignorance, part
~ out of haste, partly out Of the ext
gency of doing great things in a short
space OF time. 1 do not feel that you
can draw an Indictment against any
part Of our business community. They
have largely sinned in ignorance and
in thoughtless haste, but we have got
TO square the biggest things with the
simplest standards of morality and OBJ
legation
No Job for the Casuist.
1T is not task for the casuist 1t
Is not a task for the man who draws
me spun distinctions. You have got to
lay down the great measurements of
morals and square by them. 1t has
got to be done slowly because some
men need lot of education. 1t has got
TO be done tenderly because If you can
educate man there is no use killing
him before you have educated him. It
has got to be done in such a way as
mot to tear down and destroy the
economy and fibre of the nation and
so. stop the processes of life, but it
has got to be done, and it has got TIC
be done with an absolutely inf1exible !
viii. dare say the patient will not /
always like it. 1 dare say that there /
are some gentlemen who will be criti- |
Ching the processes of change until !
they die but some of them are elderly !
and so the criticism of the processes |
Of change may not be as long as We !
fear.
''In every direction that you turn it
is matter of information, of guidance. I
OF moral rectitude and of inhexible !
courage and I believe that happiest
circumstances of our time is that this
is not a thing which a few men have |
seen Enormous sections of public |
opinion of this country are perfectly |
clarified. There is no doubt in the /
mind of the nation what has to he /
done and there is to be no going back
whatever. may blunder, then the
men who have so far been picked out /
may not be the right men, but whether +
they succeed or not, the right men are /
going to arise and the thing is going to |
be done"