The Detroit times. [volume], August 14, 1912, AFTERNOON EDITION, Image 10

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The imt voice of America doee not come from the
grate of learning. It comet in a murmur from the bill*
ipj woods and the farms and factories and the mills,
rolling on and gaining volume until It comes to us from
the homes of common men. —Woodrow Wilson.
WOODROW WILSON KNOWS WELL
W THE POLITIC A L CURSE OF M ONE't
“THE SMALLEST CAMPAIGN FUND POSSIBLE. *
That is the word froi* Woodrow Wilson to those who are engaged in
collecting the money to wage the battle of progress in which he will lead
the coming months.
There was criticism of Wilson’s speech of acceptance.
Some of this criticism was well meant.
Many of the candidate s admirers thought that, like Nero’s poem, it
did not burn enough.
No doubt it suffered for following so closely the thunder clap in
Chicago.
But Woodrow Wilson did not take the government of New Jersey with
any blare of trumpets.
He did, however, get results for the people of New Jersey.
From what he had to say on the stump and from the way he said it,
the bosses thought he would be all right.
As to the extent to which they were mistaken, look at where the old
bosses in that state are today.
WILSON IS NOT A RANTER.
He weighs carefully everything he says.
He is deliberate and deliberation is marked always by calmness.
Calmness is a sign of strength and not of weakness.
One of the closest political friends of President Taft, Senator Stone,
has just criticised this conservative official, even with his judical training,
as possessed of the great weakness, as president, of failure to weigh care
fully the situations that have confronted him.
Taft has upon too many oocasions plunged pell mell into the issue and
decided it according to his political prejudices and what he considered hia
party obligation.
Woodrow Wilson makes no mistake of this kind.
He reads his duty as neither to himself nor his party before the people
who look to him with their confidence fixed in him.
What the Wilson speech lacked in pyrotechnics it made up for in the
grasp of the situation evidenced, and if it lacked at all, nothing furthei
would be required for proof that the candidate knows exactly where the
fault in our government lies when he declares AGAINST large campaigii
funds, by asking that his be the SMALLEST.
BACK TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS OF STAGGERING PRO
PORTIONS MAY WE TRACE THE CURSE OF PRIVILEGE IN OUR GOV
ERNMENT.
Until the campaign fund has been made to forego big contributions
through fear of enforced publicity, the curse will not have been lifted.
Such publicity Wilson invites.
Wilson has named the tariff the big issue.
In so doing he strikes at the root of our governmental ills—the same
root the powerful corporations would have nourished.
The power of these corporations lies in the wealth that has come to
l them through tariff-fostered monopoly.
“Let it alone,” is their cry. while they squeeze out the last drop of
blocd nnd grab the last penny in the pocket of the workingman with a
family to provide with the necessities of life.
“Take these thousands and let it alone,” has been implied in their
campaign contributions in past years.
“Take this blood money. Let us help you to election, and you help
if us in putting up the cqst .' Clothing.” „ .
That has been the UNDERSTANDING in the past.
Woodrow Wilson declines to be a party to any such understanding.
He isn’t on that side.
He stands for and DEMANDS a square deal for legitimate business.
This is the due of legitimate business.
But he stands, also, for a square deal for the people of his country, in
whose interest he at once throws down the gauntlet to illegitimate inter
ests which, for a consideration, want a permit to oppress and rob the
people, *
In asking for the smallest campaign fund possible, Woodrow Wilson
has anticipated the proffer of dirty money, and has served notice that he
is neither for sale nor in the business of selling out those to whom he
appeals for this high honor.
There’s rare principle in the Wilson position.
There is a fine brand of Americanism represented in it
It will appeal to every good American,
The fund, he insists, shall be clean.
*lt will contain no criminal corporation's contributions of many
thousands.
IT WILL NOT SLOP OVER.
RUSSELL AND TILDEN
SCHOOLS ARE WINNERS
——
The Russell school won the silver
and oak shield trophy In the contests
for boys in the annual held day con
test of the Detroit summer schools
and playgrounds held, Tuesday, on
Belle Isle, and the Tllden school was
the winner in the girls’ contests.
The Russell boys won the baseball
and basketball championships and the
Russell and parstow tied on the track
events. Chaney school boys won the
volleyball championship. Tilden
school girls the volleyball and Smith
school girls, the Newcombe ball cham
pionships. The trophies were pre
sented by President H. C. Goidberg,
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of the Board of Education. A large
crowd witnessed the program of
games, folk dances and music and the
pretty pageant which filled the after
noon hours.
DETROIT MAX HELD.
SAGINAW, Mich., Aug. 14.—Chari**
WlllUm*. t»g«d 35, who ha* a wife and
two < hlldren In Detroit, t* locked In
th* city Jail on a charge of a*9au'.t.
Williams I* alleged to have attacked a
west aide young woman last night.
Jt KV HI.AMKH SMITH.
LANSING. Mich., Aug. 14—The cor
oner* Jury returned a verdict that Noi
vnan Br»*e. the Rive* Junction farmer,
wa* killed by a shot fired by Andrew
Smith, who Is under arrest for the
ertnoa Smith ha* confessed.
Editorial Page of The Detroit Times
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PAGE FROM GOV. WILBON’S BHORTHAND DRAFT .OF HIS AC
CEPTANCE SPEECH.
Here Is something absolutely
unique in the history of American
politics. It is a page of the original
shorthand draft of Woodrow Wilson'*
speech of acceptance of the presiden
tial nomination, written by Gov. Wil
son himself.
It Is not generally known that Gov.
Wilson Is an expert shorthand writer.
He uses the Graham system, with
modifications and abbreviations of his
own, so that it Is difficult for anyone
else to read. He taught himself the
system out of a book when he was
14, and has used it aver since. He
writes all his speeches in this way,
and afterwards dictates, from his
own rnauuscrlpt, to a stenographer,
who transcribes and types the mat
ter for him. He hag never aimed ®t
rapid speed. Here Is a translation
of the page reproduced In the accom
panying cut:
“because we have not yet found
the rule of right In adjusting the
Interests of labor and capital. The
welfare, the happiness, the energy
and spirit of the men and women who
do the dally work In our mines and
factories, on our railroads, in our of
farms and on the sea, is of the essence
of our national life. There can be
nothing wholesome unless their life
is whi#esome; there can be no con
tentment unless they are contented.j
Their physical welfare afreets the j
soundness of the whole uation. \\ e ■
shall never get very far in the set (
tleraent of these vital matters so j
long as w e regard everything done
for the working man. by law or by ■
private agreement, as a concession ,
vlclded to keep him from agitation j
and a disturbance of our peace. Here,
again, the sense of universal part- .
nership must come into play If we
are to act like statesmen, as those
who serve, not a class, but a nation.
"The working people of America
if they must b e distinguished from
the minority that constitutes the rest
of n— ar e, of course, the backbone of
the nation. No law that safeguards
their life, that improve the physical
and moral conditions under vhich
they live, that makes their hours of
labor rational and tolerable, that
gives them freedom to act In their
own interest, and that protects them
where they cannot protect them
selves. can properly be regarded as
class legislation or as auything but
as a measure taken In the Interest
of tfTe whole people, whose partner
ship in right action we are trying to
establish and make real and pract:
cal- It Is in this spirit that we shah
act if we are genuine spokesmen of
the whole country.
• As our program is disclosed —for
no man can forecast it ready-made
and before counsel Is taken of every
one concerned—this must be Its
measure and standard, the interest of
all concerned. For example, Jn deal
ing with the complicated and* difficult
question of the reform of our bank
ing and currency law’s. It is plain that
we ought to consult very many per
sons beside the bankers, not because
we distract the bankers, but because
thev do not necessarily comprehend
the business of the country, not
withstanding they are indispensable
servants of It and may do a vast deal
to make It hard or easy. No m*>re
bankers' plan will meet the Vaqulre
ments, no matter how honestly con
ceived. It should be a merchants'
and farmers' plan as well, elastic In
the hands of those who use It an
indispensable part of their daily bus
iness.' I do not know enough about
this subject to be dogmatic about It,
1 know only enough to be sure what
! the partnerships In it should be. and
that the control exercised over any
system we may set up should be. go
far as possible, a control emanating.
I not from a single special class, but”
Death Take* Trentoa Plnneera.
Mrs Hosanna Sun. for 65 years a res
ident of Trenton, died. Tuesday, in the
home of her daughter. Mrs. P Cough-
I lln No i:o6 Klftli-st., (rum a complica
tion or diseases Mrs. Stin wus H 2 years
old and came to Trenton when a small
child, the family being among the Ilr»t
i white settlers of the village.
Speaker Clark and the
Democratic Party
Before the Democratic national
convention met. The Star sincerely
hoped that Champ Clark would be the
nominee for president. During his
long career in cougress. he has ever
been a warrior for the right—for un
adulterated • Jeffersonian principles.
As speaker of the house, he has ad
vocated. fought for. und secured the
adoption of measures which will re
dound to the benefit of all the people.
In the war against privilege and plun
der lie has been a man among men
and a leader of leaders. His private
life is lovable and stainless, as his
public life was free from all en
tangling alliances" with any of the
foices of evil, until William Randolph
Hearst was thrust upon him by wily
selfseekers in the disguise of friends.
In his laudable ambition to be presi
dent, Clark weakened at the crucial
moment, accepted the advice of these
false friends, and lost the coveted
honor when it was almost within his
grasp. When Alton Brooks Parker
was suggested for temporary chair
mau, Claik was given the same op
portunity as Woodrow Wilson to dis
approve a selection so notoriously un
til by a convention claiming to he
progressive. Had Clark boldly em
Candidate Wilson,s Views
Woodrow Wilson, In entering
upon the national campaign, neither
denounces anybody iu particular nor
views anything in particular with
alarm. His speech accepting the
Democratic nomination gives one tt
refreshing sense of a clear vlsaged
man’s confidence in the great forces
within the nation which stand for
progress, right and Justice. Com
pared with the gloomy utterances of
Mr. Taft and the hectic periods* of
Mr. Roosevelt the speech of this
other candidate is extraordinarily
serene.
There are evils In plenty to he
remedied, according to Mr. Wilson,
but there is an aroused people, and
there are true servants of the people
to apply the remedies. Partisanship
has cooled its fires. The whole body
of the voters is seeking advancement
nnd is sitting in Judgment upon
those who strive for leadership.
"We stand," says Mr. Wilson, "In
the presence of an awakened na
tion Impatient of partisan make-be
lieve.” So he does not appeal to
partisans, but addresses himself to
the reasoning faculties of all the rltl
cens. On many great problems of
he clay his attitude is set forth with
satisfying clearness.
The tariff, says Mr. Wilson must
be taken out of politics. Democrats'
believe in a tariff for revenue, but
a tariff of this sort under existing
conditions can be reached only by
wise and orderly processes and ap
parently after long and careful ad
justments to business needs. "When
we act," declares the Democratic
leader, "we should act w’ith caution
and prudence, like men who know
what they are about and not like
those in love with a theory." There
should be an Immediate revision of
the tariff, and it should he a revision
downward, but the work should be
gin on schedules whic h now foster
monopoly, and as it proceeds It
should increase business, not cripple
or kill it.
Mr. Wilson’s views on the trust
Michigan at the"
National Conventions
Owing to the bucking conscience of
13 Michigan state senators the state
could not hold a presidential primary
this year. Had one been held no fair
man will question that Roosevelt and
Wilson would have had large majori
ties at the primaries and probably
solid delegations.
As It was in both delegations the
bosses got 20 out of the 30 delegates.
The people got 10 district delegates
for Roosevelt and 10 for Wilson. The
20 Republican boss delegates were
for Taft; the 20 Democratic boss
delegates about equally divided for
Harmon and Clark.
Notwithstanding the nomination of
f.armon would have meant the prac
tical disruption of the Democratic
party, such men as National Commit
teeman E. O. Wood. Millionaire W. R.
Burt and Lawton T. Hemans voted
steadily for Harmon on the opening
ballots.
Jonn Baird and Tip Atwood were
steadily for Taft although both know
Wednesday, August 14,
1912
braced that opportunity, as Wilson
did. we sincerely believe that he
would today be Democracy • standard
bearer In the presidential tight.
But Hearst’s advice or dictum pre
vailed. Clark wrote a non-committal
letter, and most of his supporters In
the convention voted for Parker
against Bryan—the latter being a
candidate only when other Progres
sives had declined to be. Nor was
that all. The Hearst papers, with
brutal but characteristic disregard
for truth, published page after pugs
of slauderou* and gratuitous attacks
upon Bryan, which were resented by
the people and many of the very dele
gates who were for Clark. If ever a
man had reason to exclaim. "Save me
from tny friends!" that man is Champ
Clark: for It was they—misled, as
some of them were, by schemers—
who caused his defeat. That fact is
as certain as Is this other fact: It
wa& William Jennings Bryan, who, by
Ins courageous denunciation and
manly defiance of Morgan, Ryan, Bel
mont. and all their scurvy crew, clear
ed the way for the nomination of
Woodrow Wilson. We are led to
these remarks by the continued at
tacks upon Bryan, for his course 1*
the convention. —San Francisco Star.
question are sound. Take away, he
says, the special privileges which
make harmful trusts powerful, en
force existing laws and enact an/ *
other civil and criminal statutes that
may be necessary to stop evil pra< J
tlces. While com pet It lon would be
restored in a considerable degree if
the unjust methods which have kill
ed It in some industries were elim
inated, |ie does not expect that the
old order of individual competition*
will ever return, since.lt could only
return in the face of a worldwide
economic tendency. He sees no peril
in big business deprived of special
privileges and properly regulated bg
government.
Indeed, this optimistic candidate *
finds a happy omen in the new at
titude of business men themselves
toward business. "They are begin
ning to adjust their business to the
new standards. Their bands are no
longer against the nation." This is
not true of all of them, but It is true
of enough of them to give great hope
for the future.
Sound on the subject of the con
servation of natural resources, sound
on thy question of internal water
ways. Mr. Wilson is particularly
satisfying iu his treatment of tho,
nation's merchant marine. He rejects
the makeshift scheme of government
subsidies and goes to the heart of the
matter by denouncing the nation’s
disgraceful registry laws. We have
the Panama car " row ■'*
have ships to stea . a
to carry our exports to foreign coun
tries,' "We must build and buy ships %
in competition with the world," de
clares this outspoken candidate. "We
can do it If we will but give our
selves leave.” Here, in brief, is the
true remedy for our lamentable lack
of merchant vessels.
The speech of the Democratic con- f
didate goes far to justify the great
party whose leader he now is In
choosing him for that position.—
Chicago News.
that he could not get 50 per cent of
the Republican voters of Michigan.*
Millionaire Higgins was on one dele
gation and Millionaire Burt on v the
other, both reactionaries. Neither
could win In a primary.
How sifnilar boss rule worked out
in both parties. With the advent of
presidential primaries four years/
hence these gentlemen will disappear
from public view. At least let us
hope so.—Michigan Patron.
Don’t Worry Your Heart.
Don’t worry about your heart. 4
T.ie heart la designed to run auto
matically and. like other automatic
machinery of the body, it runs best
wh«n the least attention Is paid to It.»
Start it worrying about your heart
and vcur heart, even if perfectly nor
mal, win begin to run rapidly and poa
sib'y lo ’’skip explosions. ’’
If ycu do get excited about your
heart, go to the best physician you
know and have him make a thorough
examination of it. Then. If he tells
you it’s all right, believe him, forget
it and te happy. 9