The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-14
Governor Wilson Outlines His
Policy for the Future.
is IN AN OPTIMISTIC MOOD
Does Not Expect Amy Division
in Party Councils.
He Has Visions of a Political
Millennium.

! Trenton, N. J., Jan. 14.-Governor
Wilson, for whom the majority Of the
states in the Union yesterday officially
cast their electoral votes for the presi-
dency, proclaimed in a speech to the
| New Jersey presidential electors that
he interpreted his election as the dis
| tinct expression of the progressive i'm
! pulses of the country.
4 shall not be acting as a partisan
! progressives, to aid me-" the governor
| said in analyzing the spirit that he
declared had produced his election.
The governor predicted no division
party, but foresaw solidarity. These
Democrats he said, who hitherto
| have been slow to align themselves
| with the progressive banner of the
party are everywhere yielding. The
| business men of the country, too are
swinging around to an unselfsh and
| broader view of the duties to the
| people"
The speech was delivered at a
| luncheon given for the electors by the
Democratic state committee, just be-
| fore the official ballot was cast. 1t
was the last DR.. Wilson is scheduled
to make before his inauguration.
IT feel that it would be unbecoming
in me-" he said, ''to make a speech
today. Some men have been slow to
observe but the majority Of us have
| seen that the people of the United
States have taken definite choice. 1
happen to be one of the instruments
through whom that choice is ex-
pressed, but I am for the time, and
that choice is for the long future. The
people of the United States have
turned their faces in definite d1rec-
ton and any party, any man who
does not go with them in that direc-
ton they will reject-and they ought
to reject.
Therefore, in looking forward to
the responsibilities that I am about
to assume, I feel first, last and all the
time that 1 am acting in representa-
tive capacity. 1 am hidden to inter
pret as well as I can the purposes of
the people of the United States and
to act, SO far as my choice determines,
the action only through the instru-
mentality of persons who also repre-
sent that choice. | have given bonds
my sacred honor is involved and moth
ing more could be involved. There
fore, I shall not be acting as a par
tisan when L pick out progressfves
and only progressives. I shall be act
ing as a representative of the people
of this country. And, therefore, it is
a matter of supreme pleasure to me
to find in every direction, as 1 turn
about from one group of men to an
other that mems minds and mems
consciences and mems purposes are
yielding to that great impulse that
United States.
A United Party.
st do not foresee any serious divi
sion of counsel in the Democratic
party as a national body. On the con-
trary, find every evidence of solidar-
ity 1 see every evidence that men
who nave not hitherto yielded their
argument to the movement of the age
are now about to yield their argument.
L will not say their will. They do not
seem to be acting under compulsion
they are beginning to yield their ar
gument to the common judgment of
the nation. Because 1 find in discuss
ing questions of business-contrary to
the impression which prevails in some
editorial roomS-that in speaking to
men of business I am speaking to men
whose vision is swinging around to
the path which the nation has marked
out for itself.
This nation is full of honorable
men who have been engaged in large
business in a way which they thought
they were permitted to do, both by
their conscience and the laws. But
they have had their eyes closed to
their ledgers; they have had their
energies so absolutely absorbed that
they have not until the nation spoke
loud, raised their eyes from their
books and papers and seen how the
things they were doing stood related
to the fortunes of mankind.
.'Now they are beginning to see
these relationships and as they see
these relationships they are beginning
to feel the refreshment of men who
look away from particular task and
extending their eyes to the fortunes of
men lying outside their usual ken,
bevond their touch-the great bodies
of men who would along with them
hope and struggle and achieve / be-
lieve that 1 am not mistaken in see
ing these new purposes come into the
hearts of men who have not permitted
themselves hitherto to see what they
now look upon.
Men are finding that they will be
bigger business men, as they will
spend some of their brains on some
thing to do with themselves, and that
the more you extend the use of your
energy the more energy you have got
to spend even upon your own affairs.
Doesn't Fight for Fun.
Il suppose some people have the
idea that l love to fight just for the
fun of it. Now that is not in the least
tame amenable person, but 1 do love
to feel in my blood the splendid salts
faction of fighting for something.
something that is bigger than myself
and trying for the time at least to
think 1 am as big as the thing 1 am
figting for. That is solid satisfaction
when 1 find the nation is thawing out
toward the Democratic party and
more and more coming to believe that
the Democratic party can do the
things which the country has been
waiting for, then I enjoy the immense ,
satisfaction of being part of thing
that is so much bigger than 1 am,
that 1 can dream at any rate, that
am taking my own measure by the
thing / belong to.
Now that is the kind of thought
we are permitted to indulge in today.
swearing allegiance to one another