New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-05
WILSON CHARGES
LABOR COERCION
In Final Address Says
g. o. P. Has Spread
False Alarms
from s,ar Correspondent. o, n. rr.bun. ]

From 4 stan Correspondent. os The Tribunal
Long Branch, n. J., Nov. 4.-Presi-
dent Wilson wound up his campaign
to-day at Shadow Lawn by address
ing his old neighbors from Prince
ton, Trenton and other Jersey towns,
who had come to celebrate "Old
Home" Day
Although nearly 10000 persons hat
been expected to demonstrate with
their enthusiasm that New Jersey
would stand by the President. les:
than 5000 were In attendance. For the
first time also the skies did not smile
on the Shadow Lawn festivities, and il
was under lowering clouds and in a
biting wind that the President spoke
Mr.. Wilson accused the opposition
Of attempting to coerce workingmer
and charged that political capital Is
being made out Of unsettled questions
which, If not settled wisely. might
bring this country at any time into
the world conflict"
Predicting Democratic victory next
Tuesday, the President declared:
Having despaired Of an issue, they
are filling the country with alarms,
They are not only filling the country
with alarms, but they are attempting
coercion of their laborers. They i'm
egine that these men are not their
Cwn masters, and dare not vote as
they think, but at last, I thank God
the American laborer is awake.
Says G. o. p. Controls Betting
"Let them fill the country with
alarms. The alarms are their own
not ours. They used to control the
credit of the country; now they con-
troll nothing but the betting"
President Wilson again assailed the
Republicans for the dishonesty Of
the issues they had raised, condemning
their leaders for dragging foreign poll.
cies into the fray.
He declared that the Republican
campaign had become more and more
transparent" and that each week had
seen "new issue raised" which wa:
mo sooner approached than it disap'
peared and left nothing to grapplt
with"
At last, the President said, the Re-
publicans "had come down to the only
thing they knew how to talk about
the protective tariff" but no longer
would the people consent to be de
ceived. he. declared, by the falsity oi
that issue.
AS in his Buffalo speech. the Presi-
dent again, oy inference. condemned
the Roosevelt criticism of his foreign
policy. lie declared himself amazed
that "some of our opponents calling
themselves statesmen are making party
sport out of things which, il they are
not settled wisely, might bring thi:
country into the European war;
Voters Opportunity
Voters of the United States, tn,
President said, this year had an oppor
tunity they never had before.
at is an unprecedented thing in the
world for a nation in foreign affairs
10 be unselfsh. Ny ambition is to Sc
that example. not only morally, but in
tellectually. | feel rising in my pulse
already the inspiration that is 20 b'
felt in the nation and the world mex
Tuesday. | do not take credit 10 my
self. To me has fallen the unspeakablJ
good fortune Of happening 20 be the
spokesman Of the American people a
this time"
The President also spoke particularly
Of the Democratic campaign in New
Jersey, and declared the fight 20 b,
the same as he had waged as GYernoi
six years ago against the forces bf "in
visible" and "backstairs" government
He condemned the Republican candi
date for Governor, Walter +. Edge, Al
representing the Atlantic City ring
end declared that he longed 10 take OF
his coat" and join the fight agains
him. The Presidents ringing denun
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