The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-24
wilson QUITE
VAGUE IN HIS
EXPLANATION
OF His Own Actions and Those
OF Congress in Passing the
AdamSon Bill.
OPENS HIS CAMPAIGN
Discusses Relation Of Capital
and Labor and Talks More
about "MeW Spirit"

LONG BRANCH, n. j.. Sept. 23,-
President Wilson today actively opened
his campaign for reelection with a
speech replying to Republican crit
iclsm OF his settlement OF the recently
threatened railroad strike. With en-
phatlc gestures, before large crowd
assembled at Shadow Lawn, he de-
Tended the eight-hour day and de-
clarod also that the nation must DO
freed from the possibility Of interfer-
ence with its commerce.
Business men from various parts OF
New Jersey often interrupted the
president with handclapping and
cheering.
Chief Cloud.
"The chief cloud that is IN the do
nestle horizon is the unsatisfactory
relations OF capital and labor" the
president said. adding that 80 long ns
labor and capital stand antagonistic
the interests are both injured, and the
prosperity of America ia held back
from the trlumphs which are legiti-
mately It's own"
Mr.. Wilson spoke of the bright flu
ture for American business and then
launched directly into a discussion OF
the railroad situation.
Without directly mentioning Charles
F. Hughes, the Republican nominee,
the president brought in the Republi-
can party by saying that about seventy
Republicans supported the eight-hour
law In the House of Representatives
aud Senate Republicans put no OBJ
stacle in the way Of the passage Of
the bill.
Based upon Right.
This was because the proposal was
reasonable and was based upon right"
asserted Mr.. Wilson.
The president met the arguments
that the railroad question should have
been arbitrated with the fiat statement
that he did not believe the eight-hour
day an arbitrable question.
Means Of preventing a repetition OF
| threatened railroad strike wero taken
Up in detail.
The president said: 1T will be in
tolerable IL at any time any group
OF men by any process should be suf-
fered to cut society of from the neces-
sary supplies which sustain llfe."
Shakes Hands.
Mr.. Wilson spoke from the porch
OF Shadow Lawn. He was introduced
by w. p Runyon, Of Perth Amboy, n.
j.. who said that business men in all
parts Of the country were organizing
TO effect the presidents reelection
After the speech the president stood
for thirty minutes on the porch and
shook hands with everybody present.
Mrs. Wilson stood by his side, and
nearby were Attorney General Greg
ory. Postmaster General BurIeson. Col
Sonel Il. NJ. House, Henry Morgantheau.
former ambassador to Turkey. and
Jacob Schiff.
Mr.. Wilson today began making
arrangements for trips to the middle
West in October to speak before non
partisan organizations on public
questions. President Wilson's speech
In part is as follows:
II need not tell you what a sense
of qualification 1t gives me that you
should come bearing this generous
message which l have just heard from
your chairman.
New Spirit.
There Is sense in which the bus
mess men OF America represent
America because America has devot-
ed itself time out of mind to the
arts and achievements Of peace and
business is the organization OF ener-
gies Of peace. No one who looks
about upon the field OF American bus
mess at the present moment can fail
to realize that a new breath and
spirit have come into the business OF
America.
"There have been times when 1t
looked as II America were Interested
only in itself. but in these recent
years American business men have
lifted their eyes to more distant horl-
IONS and have seen how the markets
OF the world were waiting for their
service, and as they have sought and
obtained entrance into the markets
new vision has come to them, of
what the development OF the resourc-
es Of America means; of what the or
ganization OF American efficiency
means; of why It was that American
merchants and American manufacture
ers, and American miners and all the
multitude of men who have developed
the peaceful industries Of America,
where planted, under this free policy
In order that they might look out up
on the service OF mankind and per-
form It.