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Governor Wilson on the Three Parties
Following is a dispatch to tlio St
Louis Republic: Now York, Sept. 9.
k -Governor Wilson, in an address be
fore tho Now York Press club to
night, questioned the ability of load
ers of the progressive party, if
olectod, to carry out any part of tho
policies of its platform.
Much of tho speech was devoted
to an analysis of the progressive
party, although he gave some atten
tion to tho record of the republican
party and predicted a victory for
united democracy. Ho said, in part:
"The democratic party is now,
porhaps for the first timo in a gen
oration, united, solid and enthusias
tic. And tho democratic party Is tho
only organized force by which you
can set your government free.
"I was bred in a football college;
I know that what wins is team work,
and I want to tell you that we have
now got a democratic team schooled
in. years of adversity that can hold
together against any team that can
bo put In tho field, and as compared
with which some teams recently or
ganized aro only scrub teams.
"I have come here tonight for the
purpose of discussing just as candid
ly as possible the political situation,
and I hope in doing so I shall do in
justice to no one.
"I am not one of those who believe
that the right tactics In politics is
to depreciate the men to whom you
aro opposed, to belittle and misrep
sent tho forces with which you have
to contend. It ought to be a frank,
straightforward and fair determina
tion of what it is we are to agree
upon and do, and how wo aro to do
it, in the great field of our common
action.
"My feeling about my own candi
dacy for the presidency is that if I
can not be the people's spokesman I
don't want them to vote for me. I
4 want to feel, if I am elected to the
office of president, that I am speak
ing tho purposes and impulses and
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f Judgments of tho people of the
United States,
"I want to discuss the three par
ties now seeking your support I
know thero aro more than three par
ties in the United States, and it is
not out of any disrespect to tho par
ties that I havo commanded only a
small number of votes In tho past
that I leave them out of tho reckon
ing for tho present
"Let us consider, first, tho republi
can party. There is a great deal of
difference between tho republican
party and certain groups of gentle
men who havo been allowed to lead
and direct the republican party.
"The republican party as repre
sented by these men is the very party
which has got us into the difficulties
wo aro now trying to get out of. I
do not have to prove that, because
wo have got into those difficulties in
the last fifteen years, and during tho
last fifteen years that party has been
in power. If it did not get us Into
these difficulties, who did?
"Mark you, I am not saying that
the leaders of the party know that
they were doing us an evil, or that
they intended to do us an evil. For
my part, I am very much more afraid
of the man who does a bad thing and
aoes not Know It Is bad, than the man
who does a bad thing and knows it is
bad; because, I think that in public
affairs stupidity is more dangerous
than knavery, because harder to
fight and dislodge.
"These gentlemen, whatever may
havo been their intentions, linked
the government of the United States
with the men who control the big
finances of tho United States. They
may have done it innocently or they
may have done it corruptly, without
affecting any argument at all; pro
vided you admit that they tied the
government of tho United States to
the big financial interests of the
United States. You havo admitted
my point, and they themselves can
not escape from that alliance.
"Here is the old question of cam
paign funds: If I take a hundred
thousand dollars from a group of
men representing a particular in
terest that has a big stake in a cer
tain schedule of the tariff, I take it
with tho knowledge that those
gentlemen will expect me not to for
get their interest in that schedule,
and that they will take it as a point
of implicit honor that I should see
to it' that the were not damaged by
too great a change in that schedule.
"Therefore, if I tako their money
I am bound to them by a sort of tacit
pledge of honor, and if I donor t fhom
I change the whole character of the
government.
"There is a large body of republi
cans now in open rebellion, and what
interests me about them and draws
me to them is that they are in revolt
because their consciences could not
stand what was going on. That
That third party deserves your care
ful consideration when von nrn rio-
bating the question which party you
are going to support.
"If this now party is preferred on
the 6th of November, will it be in a
position to clear tho decks and carry
out the policy which many noble
gentlemen have conceived that it was
sincerely bent upon. Politics now at
last is intensely practical and real.
Wo can not afford to vote on the 5th
of November and then wait another
four years.
"Tho processes of reform in this
country must tako place within tho
next four years. If the leader of the
third party is made president, what
will be his situation? Does anybody
suppose that ho will havo a third
party congress behind him? Is it not
inevitable that in such an event there
will bo in congress such a mixture of
elements and groups and coteries
that the president can not possibly
got any program whatever put
through?
"We have had samples of the con
fusion already. We already have a
very queerly assorted senate of tho
United States. There are some demo
crats in It, some near-democrats,
some republicans and some ox-republicans,
and it has been a gam
bler's chance whether they would get
together on anything or not.
"It has been difficult to guess after
a bill passed tho house of represen
tatives, exactly what was going to
happen to it when it got into tho
senate and tho roll call In the several
votes has seldom showed the same
list of names.
"Now, suppose you had a house of
representatives mixed like the
present senate, I think we could all
go fishing for the next two years!
"Then you havo only the demo
cratic party loft, and you will ask me
how I can set up a claim for the
democratic party. Well, in the first
place, it is rather a fine discipline to
have been on the outside for six
teen years. You have not intrusted
the government of the United States
to the democratic party because the
democratic party has been opposed
all these years to the things that the
republican leaders were doing.
"Is not that a statement of mere
fact? Haven't wo been attacking
them and opposing them all these
years, and proposing programmes
that once looked radical, and now
look reasonable? We haven't just
begun being progressive. We have
been progressive for sixteen years,
and we saw th voor. imo ...
generation before it came.
"Are you going to give us no credit
for vision? Do you not think t
counts for something to stay out in
the cold on a conviction for sixteen
years?" u
Governor Wilson probably will do
much more speaking on his western
trip than he originally intended, ow
ing to requests from numerous cities,
that he visit them and speak on the
issues of the campaign from the
democratic standpoint.
After the first western trip, which
will begin September 16 and end
September 21, tho governor will have
two days' rest at his home in Sea
girt, N. J., but present plans aro that
he will start out almost immediately
for another western invasion. It is
likely that on his second western
trip he will go to Missouri, Nebraska
and Illinois. Tho governor will prob
ably meet William J. Bryan the lat
ter part of the month in Nebraska.
A conference of advocates of
pure-food legislation, attended by
Governor Wilson, resulted today in
a. plan to organize workers for pure
food laws throughout the country in
an association to work for demo
cratic success next November.
Governor Wilson discussed his at
titude on this subject and the demo
cratic platform In so far as it related
to pure-food legislation, with Prof.
Irving Fisher of Yale, Dr. Woods
Hutchinson, Dr. J. H. McCormack,
Dr. Thomas Darlington, former
health commissioner of New York,
and other leaders in the movement.
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