The Sentinel=record., 1913-01-14
WILSON WILL HAVE
 PROGRESSIVES
PREDICTS THERE WILL BE NO DIVISIONS IN coUNsELs OF
 THE DEMOCRATS.
is Willing to Fight for Something That is Bigger Than
 Himself.

Trenton, N. J., Jan. Ex-Governor Wilson, for whom the majority of the states in the union today cast their electoral votes for the presidency, proclaimed in a speech to the New Jersey presidential electors that he interpreted his election as the dis tinet expression of the progressive impulses of the country.
 q shall not be acting as a par tisan when l pick out progressives and only progressives to aid me" !" the governor said in analysizing the spirit that he said had produced his election.
 The governor predicted no division in the counsels of the Democratic party, but foresaw solidarity. Those 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 unselfish and broader view of their duties to the people"
 The speech was delivered at a luncheon given for the electors by the Democratic state committee just before the official ballot was cast. 1t was tine last Dr. Wilson is scheduled 10 make before his inauguration.
 q feel that it would be unbecoming in me- he said, .to make a speech today, in any other tone than that of man who believes that he is speak ing for the men with whom he is as- sociated. 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. l happen to be one of the instruments through whom that choice is expressed, 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 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 l am about to assume, I feel first, last and all the time, that l am acting in a repre- sentative capacity am bidden to interpret, as well as l can, the pur- poses of the people of the United States and to act, so far as my choice determines the action, only through the instrumentality of persons who also represent that choice. l have nc liberty in the matter. l have given bonds, my sacred honor is involved and nothing more could be involved Therefore, 1 shall not be acting as 8 partisan when l pick out progressives and only progressive. l shall be act ing as a representative of the peo pie of this country. And therefore it Is a matter of supreme pleasure tC me to find in every direction, as turn about from one group of men tt another, that mems minds and men's consciences and mems purposes arc yielding to that great impulse tha now moves the whole people of the United States.
 T don't foresee any serious divis ions of counsel on the DemocratiC party as a national body. On the con trary, find every evidence of soli darity. l see evidence that men who have not hitherto yielded their argu ments to the movement of the age are now about to yield their argu ment. 1 will not say their will. They don't seem to be acting under com pulsion. They are beginning tc yield their argument to the common judgment of the nation. Because find in discussing questions of busi ness-contrary to the impression which prevails in some editorial rooms-that in speaking to men of business, I am speaking to men wnose vision is swinging around to the path which the nation has marx ed out for itself.
 You cannot whip a nation into line. You cannot drive your leader before you. You have got to have a spirit that thrills the body; and believe that the spirit Is now begin ming to thrill the whole body.
 T suppose some people have the idea that l love to fight just for the fun of 1t. Now, that is not the least my temperament. l am really a very tame, amenable person, but l do love to feel in my blood the splendid satis- faction of fighting for something, something that is bigger than myself and .trying for the present. at least not to think that am as big as the thing l am fighting for.
 Now that is the kind of thought that I believe we are permitted to indulge in today, swearing allegi- ance to one another. that we are not