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Show WILSON IS PLEASED WITH WELCOME Democratic Candidate Ad? dresses Thousands in St. Paul and Minneapolis. PAYS TRIBUTE TO TAFT Reiterates Objections to the Roosevelt Programme of Controlling Trusts. ST. PAUL. Minn., SepL IS. Governor Woodrow Wilson struck the trail of Colonel Roosevelt for the first time In tho campaign today when ho whirled through a programme of speeches and reception In tho twin cities. Tho Democratic candidate started for Chicago and Detroit,' tonight, dooply pleased, ho said, with the spontaneous response and the enthusiasm of tho crowds that cither heard him speak or shouted their cheors as he motored through the streets of the two cities- When the parlv reached Minneapolis the Commercial club hud broakfast ready and the governor talked twenty minutes on tho trusts and big business. Motoring lo Iho University of Minnesota, Minne-sota, President Georgo II. Vincent introduced intro-duced tho governor as "a man who had removed the stlcma of the doctrinaire from academic li?o, a scholar of politics, a scholar In politics, a scholarly politician poli-tician and a statesman," Talks to Students. It was tho opening day of the university univer-sity and as tho former president of Princeton gazed into a mass of upturned student faces, he said It was Indeed a familiar scene. Characteristically enough, the governor made no political speech, but emphasized the point which he was wont to make in his speeches as university president that the students of this country did not take themselves seriously, preferring to be boys, rather than attacking the serious problems of life. He argued that most undergraduates undergrad-uates waited for their diplomas before starting In life, when they should have "0. running start," as commencement day arrives. It was at the parade grounds, a. broad meadow In the residence district of Minneapolis, Min-neapolis, that tho governor made his longest speech of the day. He was emphatic em-phatic In his declaration that the national na-tional campaign was not one of personalities, person-alities, but issues. Pays Tribute to Taft. Ho paid warm tribute to the character charac-ter of President Taft, and when on another occasion the crowd construed that tho governor had specifically referred re-ferred to Colonel Roosevelt, the nominee nom-inee was quick to correct the impression. "I want to say that thero is a great deal in the programme of the new third party," the governor waa saying, "which attracts all public spirited and hopeful men, that there is a great programme of human uplift In the platform of that party. A man would bo niggardly and untrue to himself who would not say that, but when I ask myself who is going go-ing to carry out this programme, then the thing wears another aspect." "Shoot at him." yelled a voice in the crowd. "You think I am referring to an individual. indi-vidual. I am not. I am referring to the methods by which that individual and the others associated with him propose to deal with the central economic difficulty." diffi-culty." The governor here reiterated his objections ob-jections to the plank In the Progressive platform advocating controTlTr' r0 an Industrial commission tn f ? 1 Tho crowd Interrupted' fr!111,M.' applause and shouts of aroreS f' 'Kff "I have simply wanted to X-i I inside of my mind," Faid th. , conclusion, "so there nLA?1 W'1 demanding between ubIIo 5 think I was one of those fed running amuck becaiiBo I knit fs rtr thing was the matter and & exactly what. This is not Donn ffl 1 hitting even' head I 50e. i w "jm the heads, and If they" only l little hard thinking unfflM dangerous cranlums. they 7-JT at all Because the vlUt for much in their Interest ns In iff 1 0 est of the rest of us. I am noUfJ man's topknot, I am not awi 5ft iVt ' talnlng the least feellnz that i! Lir to get even with wmcone t ,V possessed with tho passion la ou body " " that Wl" 'e 0Vta Will Abide by Decision. ; $m In urgins the subordination of li1 sonal side of the campaign, ih. said he would not be one of tho.. Lai? defeated, would say the pescU & , a mistake. Privately! he addS think so, but ho would not r i ' am a good enough sport to &Wdtt decision." said the governor amid 4 !Lr At St. Paul tonight the cand&u dressed a big crowd at the auilltrtj The governor launched Into & 4 (hMf sion of radicalism and progressing 5j( p, "I would rather be a radical if j lpI " sary," said the governor, "but 1 1 l1 progressive because it il not n&ctst ic lo be a radical. It Is not necerary b i. the body politic to unconifortablj it because we can by co-operatlvt tffsf fl1 compllsh the things necesiaiy fat rfatci economic salvation." Turning to the question o( Urlft Wilson said that he wa3 notonarfi Htfet' who "was kepi awake at nlht Ji free trade bogie" '. . ; "There Isn't any danger of r tri he added, "because wo hive oh a most oxpcnslve end extrarijM , it-central it-central governments." ' . |