Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-13
WILSON REPLIES
TO c. 0. P. CHARGE
OF SECT|ONAL|SM
Any Man Who Revives Issue
Unworthy of N ation's
Confidence, He Says.
DECLARES 1T DEPTH OF
ANTIPATRlOTtC FEELING
Visits Indianapolis for Centennial
Celebration and Delivers Three
Nonpartisan Speeches.
ARGUES FOR GOOD ROADS CAUSE
discusses Work Of Democratic Ad-
ministratiOn for Farmers
Of This Country.
inv Assoo,a,cd Press. i

| INDIANAPOLIS, IND. October L..
f, President Wilson to-day replied to the
Republican charge that the Democratic
party is n sectional party with ,b.
statement that amy man who revives
the issue of sectionalism in this coun.
! Try is unworthy OF the confidence OF
| the nation
The President came to Indianapolis
10 ADDRESS meetings of good-roads
! advocates and farmers review an auto
mobile parade celebrating good-ronas
day OF the Indiana Centennial. and
attend :, nonpartisan lunch of leading
| indiahians lie was seen by crowds
which packed the streets for blocks
| IN his iirst set speech he spoke of tho
good done by highways in preventing
| sectionalism
My fellow citizens lie continued.
u need not tell you that l did not
| come here to talk politics, but there
! is one thing that is pertinent In this
connection which cannot deny myself
the privilege of saying. Any man who
| rcvivcs the issue of sectionalism in
this country is unworthy OF the con-
| hdcncc OF the nation. He shows him
self a provincial: he shows that he
! himself does not know the various sec
tons OF his own country: he shows
that he lIas shut his own heart up in
little province, and that those who
| do not seek the special interests of
mat province arc to him sectional,
while he alone is national. That is the
depth Of nntipatriotic feeling"
GUEST At LUNCHEON
| GIVEN ny GOVERNOR
President Wilson delivered his first
address MT the fair grounds, and also
! spoke briefly mt a luncheor given SiiItn
by Governor and SIrs. Samuel NJ. Raj
| ston, Of Indiana.
The second set speech was devoted
to discussion OF tho works Of
| the Democratic administration for the
farmers Of tho nation.
| The President left here this after
noon for Long Branch, ". j., where
he will arrive tomorrow afternoon.
speech, said, in part:
| II am here because OF my interest
IN good roads and because Of my in
terest in tho State of Indiana.
1T is perfectly obvious that you have
| got to have an intricate and perfect
| network Of roads throughout the
! length and breadth of this great con-
! tinent before you will have released
the energies of America. Good roads
arc necessary for every practical aspect
| OF our lives. to draw neighborhoods
| together, to create community of feel
| Ing.
And so the argument. the material
argument, the argument about markets
and crops and the products of the
mines, sink into relative unimportanco
when you consider tho spiritual thing
that you are doing in making roads.
| nj
together is the knowledge of its sew
eral parts of each other"
| PRESENT INTEREST CHIEELY n
| STANDARDIZATION or MEMBERS
Mr.. Wilson here referred to the issue
| of sectlonalism.
| And that is my interest in good
roads for. my follow -citizens. my pres
! ent interest il chiefly in tho national
| izatton OF America. . .
! And, therefore, the thing that I am
more interested in than anything else
in these days is the forces that make
| for drawing America together into a
great spiritual unit.
| Now, my fellow -citizens, we h,v,.
had time and opportunity until the
present TO do pretty much what we
wanted in America, and to do different
things in different parts of America.
! But just rs soon as this great Eu
ropean war is over America has go;
to stand for one thing. and only one
thing, in the world, and she must be
ready with united force.
so that the words I want Won IN
| carry In your mind in connection with
| this good-roads cause are these: first.
naturalization. getting all the fibers
OF this great vital people united in n
single organism: second, mobilization.
getting them so related to each other.
so co-ordnatcd. so organized. SO united,
that when they movo they move as n
single great irresistible conuuerina-
force. And the third word that want
YOU to consider is the word that
suppose affords the key to doing these
things. That word is the word CO.
Instead OF exclusive combinations
want To see universal co-opera-
SLUGGAUD IN RELATIONS
BETWEEN CAPITAL AND LABOR
There Is one field in which we are
particularly sluggard IN respect of this.
mean the relations between capitol
and labor. Nothing can be for tho In.
terest OF capital that is not in the in
terest Of labor. and nothing can be in
the interest OF labor which is not I'm
tho interest OF capital. II men want
to get rich. they must have human
relationships with those who help them
to get rich. That Is lesson that men
havc been exceedingly slow to learn