The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-20
MEN ARE FREE,
 SAYS WILSON
GOVERNOR SAYS NOBODY OWNS CANDIDATES ON THE DEMO-
 CRATIC TICKET.
HAS MADE NO : PROMISES
States, In Hoboken Speech, That His Ears Are Free-Predicts
 Victory.

Hoboken, N.J., Aug. 20.-Governor Woodrow Wilson tasted the difficult ties of outdoor campaigning here yes- terday when he addressed the annual picnic of the Plattdeutscher VolKfest Verein, a German-American organ ization from the entire metropolitan district.
 From 8 high improvised balcony, the governor spoke while bands pa- raded in other parts of the park and thousands of people surged back and forth on te fringe of a crowd deep ly massed about the speaker. Quite frequently there were, Interruptions of applause and remarks.
 We are asking ourselves this ques- tion,'' said the governor, 'sas we face the coming elections in November,
 which is the open road to get what we want ?"
 A man in the heart of. the crowi took advantage of his rhetorical pause and answered Taft There was a moments silence when another voice nearer the front shouted Wilson The crowd took it up and cheered. When the demonstration had sub- sided, the governor pointed in the direction of the man who had an- swered Taft and continued with a smile:
 Our friend over there is perfectly welcome to use his road, but if he goes that way he will find that he is in blind alley, because there is ono thing that was proved at Baltimore and that was that the people of the United States choose their candidates and the bosses do not.''
 "Now one of the things that makes me confident of the future,' contin- ued the governor, lis that the men who are offering themselves to you on the ticket that I happen to be on are free men. Nobody owns them So far as 1 am concerned, not only have not made a promise to any man, but no man has dared ask me to therefore, to hear the counsels of my fellow citizens.
 "If you people standing here want your government you can have it, and the people of the United States have made up their mind that they want their own government and they are going to have it. All I ask is the privilege in taking part in taking pos session in the name of the people; for when see a great company of peo-l pie like this around, who will stand up merely to hear a speech, know that something is going to happen in the United States. I know that the people of this country have deter mined to take possession of their o--a affairs in order that their own thoughts may get translated into the affairs of govefnment and I know by the present constitution of the great party that I belong to that there is a way in which they can get it. There fore I am one of those who is enter ing upon this campaign with absolute confidence. ea & es
 Tt will be 9 fine day when we won't have to ask ourselves syHhether we do offer those who come from the other side of the water the kind of country and the kind of government they think they are going to get It will be a fine day when we know that every man who comes in at the port to make this his permanent home, will find that liberty and freedom and justice do obtain in America. When they find that there gre big com bina- tions of business, but that these big combinations are made to mind their own business; that there are great enterprises of industry in this coun- try, but that these enterprises are kept kept within the strict limits of the law; just as soon as that comes to be the general understanding we shall. for the first time, have come upon the real basis of prosperity
 The noise of bands marching in other parts of the park became at this juncture so loud that the gover- nor could hardly be heard
 II am not accustomed to competing with a band" said the governor. smiI- ingly, 'tbut the band quite expressed my own feeling of affairs. A band IS not intellectual. but is very spirit ing. It affects the emotions. and I am ready to follow a band-after the 9th of November
 The governor motored to New York, where he had an appointment with Rolla Wells, the new national treasurer of the Democratic cam pa1gn, and Henry Mergentau, chair man of the finance committee. The governor will go to Trenton today where, in addition to his regular. administrative duties of Tuesday. hs Will address a rally Of the state Dem ocratic league.