Part 2 (1/2)

When he was inforhts before in Jersey City, he came over to me and in a most friendly way said: ”What did you really think of my speech?” For a moment I was e and so I said: ”Doctor, do you really desire an honest opinion of that speech? I really want to serve you but I can do so only by speaking frankly” He replied: ”That is what I most desire” ”Well,” I said, ”your speech wasthat I had done enough daed: ”Please tell me what your criticism is What I s by truthfully expressing your opinion Don't forget that I auidance” Encouraged by this suggestion, I proceeded to tell hi speech at Jersey City I told hiave rise to the i to evade a discussion of thetheulation of Public Utilities and the passage of an Eislative situation, I gave hie measures of public interest; how, for itation, the Old Guard had prevented the enactment of these measures into law, and how, therefore, his failure to discuss theseof unrest in the progressive ranks of both parties in New Jersey

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The White House Washi+ngton

Cornish, N H, July 3, 1915

My dear Turams It is characteristic of you to keepatiet it I hope that you are not having depressing weather in Washi+ngton and that you are finding it possible to ements for the fa you with us at the White House when I get back

With warned) Woodrow Wilson

Hon Joseph P Tuton, DC

This letter reveals the warm personal relations between the President and his secretary]

He listened with keen attention and then hly this tip and you may rest assured I shall cover these eneral”

In s past I did not know that the candidate had himself written the platfornorance of the future I did not then know that one of the boldest and ns in America was to be conducted on that platforuration of the noislation was destined to be the enactment into law of each of the planks of the platform, a complete and itemized fulfilment of preelection promises, unusual in the history of American politics At the time of my first conversation with the nominee I only knew that the Convention had been dominated by the reactionary elements in the party, that under this doressive elements of the party and of the New Idea Republicans, and that the platfornored by the candidate in his first ca as I was under the recollection of recent defeat, it is not strange that I thought I detected the old political ruse of dressing the wolf in sheep's clothing, of using handsoullible, and that I assu used for their own purposes by

The candidate soon struck his gait and astonished our, frankness, and lucidity of his speeches of exposition and appeal No can in years in New Jersey had roused such universal interest There was nothe candidate received every place he spoke, nor the response his thrilling speeches evoked all over the state Those who had gathered the idea that the head of the great university would appear pedantic and stand stiff-necked upon an academic pedestal from which he would talk over the heads of the coressive attitude of the Doctor, to revise their old esti newspapers of the country, particularly the large dailies of New York, were taking an interest in the New Jersey fight

Those of us who doubted Woodrow Wilson's sincerity and his syressive islature were soon put at ease by the developn and his sys we had so overnor in New Jersey had everthe old slogans and shi+bboleths, he appealed to the hearts and consciences of the people of the state His hoht, until it seemed as if this newcoe of the psychology of the ordinary crowd than the old stagers who had spent their lives in politics His illustrations alent horess, Doctor Wilson said that much depended upon the action of the one who is supposed to be progressive ”I can recall,” he would say in trying to make his point, ”the picture of a poor devil of a donkey on a treadets anywhere But,” he continued, ”there is a certain elephant that's traain, he would grow sole aside from the humorous, he would strike a serious note like this one:

You know that couished by exceptional e of their citizenshi+p I often think of the poor nity

The deepest conviction and passion of my heart is that the common people, by which I mean all of us, are to be absolutely trusted The peculiarity of some representatives, particularly those of the Republican party, is that when they talk about the people, they obviously do not include themselves Now if, when you think of the people, you are not thinking about yourself, then you do not belong in America

When I look back at the processes of history, when I look back at the genesis of Ae, that the nations are renewed fros up froenius which renews the youth and the energy of the people; and in every age of the world, where you stop the courses of the blood froreat, useful structure to the extent that atrophy, death, and decay are sure to ensue This is the reason that an hereditary monarchy does not work; that is the reason that an hereditary aristocracy does not work; that is the reason that everything of that sort is full of corruption and ready to decay

So I say that our challenge of to-day is to include in the partnershi+p all those great bodies of unna to produce our future leaders and renew the future energies of America And as I confess that, as I confessThe th of it Thestruck and what blood is being drawn Thein Aed fro on, but thefor his life and for the lives of those who are dearer to hi on in Auided--so that as the tasks multiply and the days come when all will seem confusion and dismay, we may lift up our eyes to the hills out of these dark valleys where the crags of special privilege overshadow and darken our path, to where the sun gleae in the broken cliffs, the sun of God, the sun enerate men, the sun meant to liberate them from their passion and despair and to lift us to those uplands which are the promised land of everyfor the necessity of corporate refor to the size of these corporations Nothing is big enough to scare ive thees, which enables the as other people I think those great touring cars, for exa for the streets You have alet away froreat deal to do with the trouble if you are trying to get out of the way But I have no objection on that account to the ordinary autoentleman I have no objection to the size, power, and beauty of an automobile I am interested, however, in the size and conscience of the men who handle them, and what I object to is that so ”joy-rides”

in their corporations

Tireat speeches of Lincoln and thought they saw his fine spirit breathing through sentences like these:

Gentle for our own interest, we are all going to pass away But think of what is involved Here are the tradition, and the fareat nation involved For the tienerations that are behind us are pointing us forward to the path and saying:

”Rereat traditions of the American people,” and all those unborn children that will constitute the generations that are ahead will look back to us, either at those who serve them or at those who betray them Will any man in such circumstances think it worthy to stand and not try to do what is possible in so great a cause, to save a country, to purify a polity, to set up vast reforms which will increase the happiness of mankind? God forbid that I should either be daunted or turned away fro of the candidate who opposed him:

I have been informed that he has the best of me in looks Now, it is not always the useful horse that isload to be drawn soy kinds of horses, notof pull