The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-15
TWO ELEMENTS IN G. o. P. ATTACK
 SAYS PRESIDENT
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 eign affairs, Mir. Wilson declared that , although the leaders of the republican party demand that the rights of Ameri- cans be protected everywhere, on one occasion the republican machine was able to compel a majority of It's mem hers in the House of Representatives to vote that American citizens had no right to travel on the high seas. He added
 TALK AND VOTE DIFFERENTLY
 If their leaders believe in the rights of American citizens, why don't their followers? If their leaders are so stin to see that Americans get their rights everywhere, why do these men vote that Americans shall get their rights nowhere?"
 MT. Wilson reiterated his advocacy of league of nations to preserve the peace of the world and attacked the leaders of the progressive party, who, he said, had betrayed the rank and file. He also declared that the selection of Con-
 
 tion of President, because the real source of action of the machinery Of obstruction is Congress-"
 He asserted that the forces of reac- tion are in control of the republicans in Congress.
 After the speech the President shook hands with everybody present.
 PRESIDENTS SPEECH
 President Wilson said in part
 I need not tell you that I am glad to see you, but let me say that am espe- cially glad to see you because there are some things which perhaps Pennsyl- vanians are more qualified to tell about than any other people in the United States. They are better qualified to tes- tify as to the subtle and intricate means by which the purposes of the people are sometimes defeated by their government, because I know how true it is that the people of Pennsylvania have again and again attempted to demonstrate to the rest of the union that they believed we had come into new age, that they be- lieyed that this new age required new clements of policy that they desired men to lead them who would lead them to the light and not again drag them into the subterraneaR passages of private in fluence. And therefore, I think it will be easier to expound this campaign to PennsylVanians than to anybody else. There are great many things that you will understand and without any putting them into words.
 And the same thing is happening in New Jersey. Six years ago I had the distinguished pleasure of exhibiting the government of New Jersey to the eople of New Jersey in it's true colors as it lived. I only wish I had time to ex- hibit it now that it has resurrected it. self.
 T was privileged to lead the people of New Jersey in the direction in which they had long wanted to go and in which the gentlemen had long pretended they were willing to lead them, but in a di- rection in which they had never been permitted to advance an inch. Doesn't that sound to you like a familiar story? CONDITION IN PENNSYLVANIA
 And exactly the same thing that is happening in Pennsylvania, the same thing that they are attempting In New Jersey, is being attempted in the nation at large I wonder if they suppose that anybody is deceived when you know the elements that are now behind the candi- dates of the opposition party are exceed ingly varied, but they are easy of an analysis. The most interesting element Is that which is most vocal. The repre- scntatives of that element are confi- dertly telling us, though none of them is candidate for office what the party will do if it is given the power to do any thing. But those who are nominated for office are carefully avoiding saying whether they will do what their vocal element promises. In other words. they are putting up as their spokesmen those whom they do not even pretend to trust with power.
 Therefore those of us who are in- ducted into the secrets of the craft know that the talk is in vain, and that the real counsels of the party are in that other element, which is in absolute con trol of the organization of the party in Congress and out of it, and whose con- trol has never for moment been dis turbed, never been shaken
 THOSE CHICAGO CONTESTS
 ''The contest at Chicago four years ago and the contest at Chicago this year were for the control of the machinery of the party. I don't mean on the part of the rank and file of the progressives, for, my fellow citizens, no more earnest and sim cere body of men were ever assembled than assembled in those progressive con- ventions in Chicago And no more sin cere and earnest men were ever more pitifully deceived and betrayed.
 For, after all it turned out that the object was not to lead the nation, but to control the republican party and any sort of abject surrender was offered by those who spoke, though they spoke with out authority for them, if they might be admitted to control that machinery. And now, after the smoke has cleared away, after the atmosphere has yielded to the influences of time we see standing out before us that familiar old guard that has never for moment been disturbed in its possession of power or turned aside in it's exercise of the control which it has used. And what want to call your attention to is that this is not merely presidential campaign. There is some thing quite as important as the choice of chief magistrate. I want you to re- member that the real sources of action and the real machinery of obstruction are in Congress not in the presidency.
 CONGRESS IS IMPORTANT
 Do you suppose that anything could have been accomplished in the last three and a half years if there had not been a determined and willing majority in Congress? I have not led the gentle men, I have gone forward with them.