Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-01-09
May Come a Time, He Says,
When American People
Can Judge Whether He
Knows What He is Talk
ing About
CROWD GREETS HIM
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Executive Journeys to In
diana to Deliver jackson
Day Speech and is Given
Royal Reception by the
Citizens
ASSOCIATED PRESS pIspArCHl

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. S-President
Wilson voiced what a crowd of more
than 1000 assembled to hear him make
mis- jackson Day speech interpreted as
a hint that he will be a candidate for
the presidency again in 1915 The
president had been discussing the Mex
ican question and referred to his belief
that he knew the American people and
their temperament.
There may come a time" ne went
on, when the American people will
have to judge whether J know what |
am talking about or not
There was a slight pause and then
the crowd. which included members of
the Indiana legislature jumped up and
began shouting and cheering. Realiz-
ing the construction put on his words
the president held up his hand for sill
ence and said:
Il did not mean to stir up anything
That is merely preparatory to saying
that for at least two years more | am
free to think | know the American
people"
Previously the president attacked the
republican party, defended the admin
istration's Mexican policy. tariff and
currency questions and declared careful
examination of the returns of the No
vember elections showed if it had been
a presidential year a democrat would
have been majority of eighty in the
electoral college
The president spoke briefly of Mex
leo He said thespeople there are en-
titled to liberty mo matter how long
they take in determining it,
Speaking slowly and carefully, he de-
clared, so far as my influence goes.
while am president, nobody will in
terfere with them. Have not the
European nations taken as long as they
wanted and spilled as much blood as
they pleased to settle their own af-
fairs? Shall we deny the same right to
Mexico? No, say"
The president criticized the republi-
can senators opposing the government
ship purchase bill whom re CT aracter-
lied as elf-styled friends of business"
He said the republican party had not
had a new idea in thirty years and did
mot know how to do anything but st
| on the lid" He added the country
wants the ship purchase bill and will
have it."
Referring to the war the president
| said the people of the United States
ought not to pay too much attention
| to it. but get their own affairs in such
| order that they might be of the greatest
| assistance to the countries fighting. He
! characterized the talk of business de-
preston as a state of mind"
He advocated the establishment of
| great federal employment bureau and
| said some means ought to be found of
| cheapefling and quickening the courts.
The president was introduced by Gov
| Ralston of Indiana as one of the great
| figures of the world and then an actress
| sang ave Take Our Hats Off To You
! Mr. Wilson"
| Immediately after his speech, the
president called n Mayor Joseph E.
| Bell who is confined to his home by
| illness, later attended reception at the
| Indiana Democratic club, took a ride
about Indianapolis in an automobile
with Thomas Taggart and departed for
| Washington at 6:45 o'clock.
| In the beginning of his speech the
| president said:
| 1T is rather lonely living in Wash
ington. I have been confined for two
years at hard labor, and even now
| feel | am simply out on parole. You
| notice that one of the most disting-
| ashed members of the United States
| senate is here to see that | go back.
/ And yet. with sincere apologies to the
senate and house of representatives, l
want to say that / draw more inspira-
ton from you than do from them"
! During his arraignment of the re-
publican party, the president declared
that the politics of the country does not
depend any longer upon regular mem
bers Of either party.
There are not enough regular re-
publicans to take and hold national
| power he said "and | must immedi-
ately add there are not enough regular
democrats to do it either This country
is guided by the Independent voter !
have come to ask you how we can best
prove to the Independent voter that
the instrument he needs is the demo-
cratic party
! In urging the establishment of a fed
eral employment bureau, the president
said:
There are other things we have to
do. Sometimes when look abroad and
see great mass of struggling human
ity on that continent, it goes very
much to my heart to see how many men
are at a disadvantage. without guides