Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-14
SEES PUBuC'S WILL
Wilson Regards Himself as In
strument of Popular Impulse.
NO LIBERTY IN THE MATTER
Will Fulfill Directions in Selecting
Progressives to Aid Him.
FINDS THE DEMOCRATS SOLID
Foresees No Serious Divisions in
Party Councils-Confdence Bet
ter Than Fear in Business.
FINDS THE DEMOCRATS SOLID

TRENTON y. j., January 14-Gov.
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 inter-
preted his election as the distinct ex-
preston of the progressive impulses of
the country.
The speech was delivered al a luncheon
given for the electors by the democratic
state committee just before the official
ballot was cast.
II feel that it would be unbecomng in
me- he said. mot to make a speech to-
day. I feel that it would be unbecoming
to me to make speech in any other tone
than that of a man who believes that he
is speaking for the men with whom he is
associated. Some men have been slow to
observe. but the majority of us have seen
that the people of the United States have
taken a definite choice.
Represents Peoples Will.
Il happen to be one of the instruments
through whom that choice is expressed,
but / am for the time. and that choice is
for the long future. The people of the
United States have turned their faces in
a definite direction. and any party, any
man. who does not go with them in that
direction, they will reject-and they ought
to reject.
Therefore in looking forward to the
responsibilities that / am about to as
sumo | feel first, last and all the time
that I am acting in a representative ca
pacity. l am hidden to interpret as well
as l can the purposes of the people of
the United States. and to act. far as
M rh
through the inStrumentality of persons
who also represent that choice.
II have no liberty in the matter /
have given bonds. my sacred honor is in
volved, and nothing more could be in
volved. Therefore. i shall not be acting
as a partisan when l pick out progress
sives. and only progressives, to aid me.
shall be acting as a representative of the
people of this great country.
Yielding to Popular Impulse.
And therefore. it is a matter of SUI
preme pleasure to me to find in every |
direction. as turn about from one group |
of men to another. that mems minds and
mems consciences and mems purposes
are yielding to that great impulse that |
now moves the whole people of the
United States.
II do not foresee any serious divisions |
of counsel in the democratic party as a
national body. On the contrary. / find |
every evidence of solidarity. l see every |
evidence that men who have not hitherto |
yielded their argument to the movement
Of the age are now about to yield their |
argument.
Il will not say their WILL They do not
seem to be acting under compulsion-they
are beginning to yield their argument to
the common judgment OF the nation. Be
cause ! find in discussing questions of
business-contrary to the impression
which prevails in some editorial rooms
that In speaking to men of business l
am speaking to men whose vision is
swinging around to the path which the
nation has marked out for itself.