Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-15
"WOODROW WILSON
AS | KNOW HIM"
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the great university would appear
pedantic and stand stiff-necked up
on an academic pedestal, from which
| he would talk over the heads of the
common people, were forced, by
| the fighting, aggressive attitude OF
| the doctor, to revise their old est
mates. The campaign had only be
gun when the leading newspapers
of the country, particularly the
| large dailies of New York, were
| taking an interest in the New Jer!
sey fight.
Those Of US who doubted Woodrow
WILSON'S sincerity and his sympathy
for the great progressive measures
for which we had been fighting in
the New Jersey legislature were
soon put at ease by the develop
ments of his campaign and his sym
pathetic attitude toward the things
we had so much at heart.
Appealing to, the People
No candidate \for governor in New
Jersey had ever made so striking
| and moving an appeal. Forgetting
and ignoring the old slogans and
| shibboleths, he appealed to the
hearts and consciences of the people
or the state. His homely illustra.
tons evoked expressions of delight
| until it seemed as if this newcomer
in the politics of our state had a
better knowledge of the psychology
OF the ordinary crowd than the old
stagers who had spent their lives in
politics. His illustrations always
went home.
For INSTANCE, speaking Of prog
ress, DIR. Wilson said that much de-
pended upon the action of the one
who is supposed to be progressive.
II can recall" he would say in try
ing to make his point, 1.-The picture
OF poor devil of a donkey on a
treadmill. He keeps on tramping,
tramping, tramping, but he never
gets anywhere" But" he con.
tinued, there is an elephant that's
tramping, too, and how much prog.
ress is it making?" And then, again,
he would grow solemn when he
spoke of the average man. Turning
aside from the humorous, he would
strike a serious note.
(Mr. Tumulty here quotes from a
number of Mr.. Wilson's speeches, in
New Jersey.
On one occasion, when he had
been talking in a similar vein about
his and Mr.. Lewis different con-
ceptians of, the Constitutional Gov
ernor," and telling his audience how
he, if elected, would interpret the
election, as a mandate from the peo-
pie to assists in and direct legislation
in the interests of the people of
New Jersey at large, he paused an
instant and then, in those incisive
tones and with that compression of
his lips which marked. his more
bellicose words, he said CURLY: eff
you don't want that kind of a gov
ernor, don't elect me-"
A Talk on Capital and Labor
In discussing the relations be-
tween capital and labor, he said:
"Now, there is only one way to
look at the question of labor; it isn't
fair to look at labor separately, as
if laboring men did not form a part,
and a fundamental part, of our So
ciety. 1t isn't fair to look at cap
ital separately, as if the capitalists
formed a separate group. Separate
labor from capital and capital will
be helpless and labor is helpless. y .
"Now, inasmuch as the corpora
ton is chargeable with the proper
protection of the workingmen, what
are his rights are obviously every
bodys rights, the right to have a
comfortable and safe place to work
in, to have suitable tools with which
to work, to have reasonable regula-
tons between himself and his en-
rloyer and the right to have reason
oI>1 atinr or16 SHna h10
hours of work. All of these things
have the sympathy of every man
who thinks in terms of the whole
body, instead of thinking selfshly
and all for himself. Nobody, no wise
+ and just man, is jealous Of the prop
er use of organization. But the in-
teresting thing is that organization
cannot accomplish what society as
a whole can accomplish through
legislation
Speeches in Every County
Excerpts from the speeches can
not do justice to this ren1arkable
campaign, which Woodrow Wilson
himself, after he had been twice
elected president of the United
States considered the most satisfy
J 1llS VI Ills pO1AL1ScLA ScAAAhPCIA0AAoB
cause the mos+ systematic and basic.
AS presidential candidate he had to
cover a wide territory and touch
only the high spots in the national
| issues, but in his gubernatorial cam
paign he spoke in every county of
the state and in some counties sew
eral times, and his speeches grew ou+
| of each other and were connected
with each other in a way that made
them a popular treatise on self-gov'
! eminent He used no technical jar
| gon and none of the StereOtyped
bombast of the usual political cam
| Daign. He had a theme which he
wanted to eXpound to the people OF
| New Jersey, which theme was the
| NJ ture and character of free govern
ment, how 1T had been lost in New
! Jersey through the complicated
! inducements of invisible govern
ment, manipulated from behind the
scenes by adrCit representatives of
the corporate interests working in
| conjunction with the old political
machines; how under this clever ma
nipulation legislators had ceased to
represent the electorate ard were,
as he called them, only "errand
boys to do the bidding of real
rulers of New Jersey, many of
whom were not even residents of
the state, and how free government
could be restored to New Jersey
through responsible leadership. He
was making ar application to prac
teal politics of the fundamental
principles of responsible government
which he had analysed in his earlier
writings, including the book on
congressional Government.
Speechmaking of New Sort
Beneath the concrete campaign is
ues in New Jersey he saw the funda
mental principles Of Magma Charts
and the bill Of rights and the Dec