The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-11-08

whole lot of things along the lines of
constructive legislation adopted to
modern industrial relations, bat pre-
fer to say just a few words about the
man, and then sit down. 1t is not
what he has done and what he has
been after all that makes you love and
respect him. 1t is the man you re-
spect. | first became acquainted with
him along yonder II ninety or ninety
two, not personally, but through lit
tie book he had written. When he
was running for Governor Of New
Jersey | wrote to him and told him, Of
course, he could not carry New Jersey,
and he wired me, See the impossible
has happened" ! then suggested that
the Democrat who would carry New
Jersey for Governor would make
good man for a Democratic candidate
for President. But he is a bit too
purtancal for a man of my temper
ament. (Applause.)
1t is good to be good, but still to be
too good don't hurt you. Clean brow,
clear eye, heavy and firm jaw, dipio-
matte aims fair and in the end gets
what he wants No one know
that, to use an Old Latin phrase,
"suavis in mora, vaiidus in factus,'
(suave in manner strong in the deed),
or in fact than Woodrow Wilson does.
And he has kindly sense Of humor,
too, and he is quite a human being;
and those close to him like him most,
and when you get right close TO him
he is not quite so Extensively puritan
ical as you thought he was. AS a man,
as father, he is the man you want to
see. As a governor he reformed a
Sovereign state, regenerated it, max
ing it reborn; and, as President Of the
United States, he put new standard
in congress, organized new start Of
legislation constructive in character.
He is net what | sometime ago de-
scribed Mr.. Hughes as beng--a legal
ist ! defined a legalist as man who
did nothing in the past, and nothing
in the present, and could do nothing in
the future unless he found a prece-
dent in the past There is a great
trouble with the lawyer. ] belong
to the profession, and my father be-
longed to it, and his father, and his
father, and so on back A lawyer has
his limitation. He is apt to confuse
law and right; they are not always
the same. If Jesus of Nazareth had
have watched for a precedent he
wouldn't have done much; If Thomas
Jefferson had have run all over the
country looking for a precedent in
writing the Declaration Of Independ-
ence he would have been looking yet.
l mean when they find that law
which has a precedent that is not
right, they ought to kick it, appeal it,
get rid of it. That sort Of a man is
Mr.. Wilson.
Now, my friends, ! did intend to
talk to you most eloquentiy--
Audience: You did
! have heard that everything you
get into your head after ll:30 o'clock
at night is' out soon. am glad to
say this, that ! got to make one
speech in Mississippi before the elec-
tion, tho not a political speech. |
have been up in Illinois, Indiana and
Wisconsin speaking to my Yankee
friends. like them on the whole and
they like me, but l do not like their
weather; and l, somehow feel more at
home, or as the darkies say, somehow
or ruther," feel more at home in Dix
lie, the soil seems to come up through
my shoes. Everybody's face appears
to you according to what the face
means. So, | know your faces are
different to me, because I have got
an idea in the back of my head as to
what your face means.
| am going to earn your undying
gratitude by sitting down. (Cheer-
ing long and continued.