Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-23

Woodrow Wilson received most i'm
presSive welcome in Topeka, Kan, last
night, where he spoke before the KAN
sas Democratic Club. The largest
gathering Of democrats since the visit
of Bryan in 1905 was out to greet him.
Gov. Wilson spoke on the relation OF
business to the government, and said
in part:
1.-The cry of the hour seems to be
that business has grown as formidable
in it's Independent organization as to
set up in rivalry to the government
itself; that the whole force OF gov
eminent must be bent to the restraint
of business.
IT venture to suggest that what we
are really after is not the restraint
of business, but the restraint OF 1ndl-
viduals who are putting business upon
a false and selfish footing. We do not
wish to hamper the great processes OF
our economic life, but to free them
where they have been made wrong use
of by men who have ignored the com
mon interest and sought to promote
their own private and selfish purposes
by means that were neither pubic
spirited nor honorable.
I'm respect to the restraint of wrong
we should deal with individuals rather
than with corporations. It should be
laid bare of whom business comb1na-
tions consist. and those of whom
they consist should be directly and IN
dividually dealt with whenever a
wrong is done, either to an individual
or to the freedom Of business itself.
The movement back to the people in
the field of politics must precede the
movement away from monopoly back to
free opportunity. Business can be free
only when the nation is free. Americas
program of popular government is
Americas hope for prosperity"
The main headquarters Of Gov. Wilson
will be located i'm this city hencefOrth,
with Thomas j. Pence, newspaper cor
respondent, in charge, and the New York
bureau will be closed. 1t is said this
change was brought about because of
the growing Importance of the Under
wood boom in the south and the necessity
of paying closer attention to southern
politics.
At Dallas. Tex, yesterday the executive
committee of the Progressive Republican
League of Texas unanimously Endorsed
President Taft for denomination. The
committee specifically declared against
the nomination of Col Roosevelt and
announced that the league is unalterably
opposed to any third term.
Representative Underwood of Alabama
in addressing the Society of the Cincin-
natl in Philadelphia last night on George
Washington said in part:
washington did not fOreSee all the
perplexing problems with which we have
to deal today in our tariff or in our great
corporations, in our currency, in our for
eign possessions or in a reconciliation OF
the rights of labor and capital; he did
not fOreSee the vast task we all have,
whether native or foreisn-born, of taking
the new material constantly coming to our
shores and assimilating it into our growth
and molding it into loyal and intelligent
support of our institutions; he did not
see the menace of destructive socialism
nor the extent to which. unfortunately,
We were to go in substituting party in
terest for political principle. though as
to this he gave Us paternal warning.
Nevertheless, he did foresee sufficient of
our problems to be able to commend to
us course the principles of which, if
steadily adhered to, should bring us
safely through all the perils to which
we may be exposed.
But there is one thing above all things
to which we may cling with certain
faith-that so long as We keep with our
selves a covenant to return to and abide
by the principles Of Wasnington's fare
well address,; so long as his character
shall be remembered and revered by us;
so long as We shall set his life and his
devotion before us as the best type and
example of American citizenship to adj
lnire and emulate. this country cannot
falter IN true progress nor III tHe emu
come short of its high mission in the
world"
other speakers were Mayor BIanken-
burg, J. B. Lord of New York and Rep
resentative James P. Lloyd of Missouri.
Former Tax Commissioner Charles w.
Dillon of Charleston, w. Va. has an
nounced himself as candidate for the
gubernatorial nomination before the re-
publican primaries to be held June 4.
The Roosevelt men in Indiana, dissat-
listed with the leadership Of former Chair
man Lee, have offered Charles Camp