The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-28
Wilson Day Speech Is Final
Bid for "MOOse" Vote.
'"New Forces" Perceive Short
cOmings of American Law.
IT'S CLASS AGAINST CLASS
Until America Has Begun to
Lag Instead of Lead.
Our National Motto Must Be
Cooperation, Not Rivalry.

Shadow Lawn, Oct. 2S.-With bands
playing and banners waving, several
thousand Democrats today came on
a pilgrimage to the New Jersey White
House to hear a speech by the presi-
tee has designated this as Woodrow
Wilson day for celebration by Demo-
Gratis all over the country but at
New York day.
Several special trains brought New
York delegates to the presidents sum-
mer home. Two of them carried a
big delegation from Tammany Hall.
one accommodated representatives of
the Bronx Democracy, and a fourth
the Brooklyn contingent The Tam
many Hall braves were led by Grand
Sachem John R. Voorhis, who made IA
five minute address to the president
Mr.. Voorhis is sc years old
The women's bureau of The Demo-
cratic national committee announced
that nearly 1000 women came to hear
the candidate deliver his address.
After the pilgrims return froil
Shadow Lawn upwards of 100 meet
ings will be held thruout New York
city At each of these will be ~ead
the address delivered by President
wilson Garner IN the Qdy-
President Makes Porch Speech.
The presidents address follows:
NY Fellow Citizens: This is called
Wilson Day. only because for six
years, first as governor of New Jer-
sey and then as president of the
United States l have been permitted
to lead first a great state and then a
great national party along the ways
of progress and of enlarged and re-
generated life which our. people had
so long sought and so long been held
back from by the organized power OF
selfish interest, and because the great
honor has fallen to me of being chosen
once more spokesman and representa-
tive of the men who mean to hold the
country to these ways of peace, hu-
manity and progress. 1t is of these
forces that 1 shall speak and not of
myself, who am merely their servant
What are these forces? Whence do
they spring? What have they accom-
plished, and what is their program and
purpose for the future? 1t is plain
what they are. They are the forces
of humane, righteous and patriotic
purpose which have sprung up in cur
day in the minds of those who per-
ceive the shortcomings of the law as
it has hardened in America and who
look forward with purpose and con-
yiction to a new age in which govern
ment shall be indeed the servant OF
liberty and not of privilege. These are
men who perceive that American law
has been holding US rigid and fmmov-
able, until class has begun in free
America, to be arrayed against class;
until what was legal has begun to play
more important part in our thoughts
and determinations than what is hu-
man and right: and until America has
begun to lag instead of lead in recon-
Cling what is with what ought to be-
Leaders Are Stumbling.
A new age had dawned upon us
while those who were attempting to
lead US were stumbling along with
their heads over their shoulders, in
tent upon preserving the conditions of
a day that is gone. American had
changed and the whole world had
changed. Our commerce and industry
mad grown to such bulk that the do
mestic markets of which our former
leaders were always so solicitous. were
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