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Show WILSON TALKS POLITICS m SRAOI LAWN Amos Pinchot and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise Tell President Presi-dent They Will Campaign Cam-paign for Hirn in N. Y. PRESIDENT MAKES SPEECH IN REPLY Dissects Presidential Vote of 1912 and Pays Particular Partic-ular Attention to Those Voting for Mr. Taft. LONG BRANCH, N. J., Oct. 16. President Presi-dent "Wilson today told a delegation of independents, comprising the Wilson volunteers, vol-unteers, that the Democratic party is the only instrumentality now at hand for the enactment ot genuine, Humane, just ana progressive legislation. " The members of the delegation came here to tell the president they planned to campaign for him "from the Battery to Buffalo" in New York state because they felt he had given the nation "a square deal." Led by Amos Pinchot and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York, the delegation remained re-mained with the president longer than an hour. He talked with the delegation in the reception room of his summer residence, resi-dence, Shadow Lawn. The president declared the time has come for America to "unite her progressive progres-sive forces."' He said the leaders of the opposition want only three things "the scalp of the present comptroller of the currency," John Skelton Williams; to get i control of the banking system of the i country, and to put the army and navy of the L'nited States back of their financial finan-cial enterprises in Mexico and through- out the world. j America's Problem. "The problem that America has had to face for some time," said the president, "has been to unite and organize her progressive pro-gressive forces. They have been present in the nation for a long time. They have been running iike undercurrents. They have been asserting themselves here, there and elsewhere in sometimes unexpected quarters, but not until four years ago did they disclose their numerical forces." Dissecting the presidential vote of 1912, which he called "striking," the president said that of the more than 13,000,000 votes cast, 10,000,000 were cast for the Progressive candidates and programmes , of the campaign represented by the Progressive Pro-gressive and Democratic parties. Of the remaining 6,000,000 votes, only 3,500,000 were cast for the Republican candidate, "a most extraordinary manifestation of the desire of the people of the United States to move forward along new and , constructive lines in respect to their pub- j lie policy." j Progressive Spirit. He said that for a long time the progressive pro-gressive element had been the dominating one in the Democratic party, and the election elec-tion four years ago showed the strength of that element in the Republican ranks, as given by the Progressive party vote. "Now. since then," continued President Wilson, "this group in the Democratic party has had an opportunity to show the country whether It meant what it said or not, and it has shown .that it did mean what it saia, tnat u was a genuine pro- i gressive force, ready to do the things that! it had promised to do. And who are the leaders of the three and a half millions? The men who can sum their desires in three propositions. prop-ositions. To put It as they would put it. they want the scalp of the present comptroller of the currency cur-rency I can only conjecture because for the first time in many years he has obliged the banks to obey the banking laws; knowing know-ing him to be honorable, knowing him to lJe efficient, I can conjecture no other reason. Alleged Purpose ot U. U. f. "In the second place, they desire to get control of the new banking system, and in tiie third place, they wish to put the nrmv ant liavv of tlie -"nited States back nf their financial enterprises in Mexico and throughout the world. In private, this fa what thev avow. It ought to be avowed n nubl'.c and it summarizes as compactly l" I neatly as need be summarized the npril purposes of the leaders of the fhree'and a half million.. ,,r wflnt to say in passing, with regard this three millions and a half of my countrymen, that I do not believe him to be in the plot. I believe them have been misled by ancient preposses- j bv old prejudices, by inveterate1 f0.,.; 0f votinsr from which they have . Jn unable to break away. But the pur- ! been . iMf7ftrs is Datenr tn pvpi-i-. ; p n-ho has studied the annals of re-one. re-one. legislation of this country. v ce"upre then, ve strike the essense of 'Zmu..-. An Instrumentality of en-thj(7 en-thj(7 jfc lation, genuinely domocrat-lT'" domocrat-lT'" 13 f if t;"-eir sufr?eslions are ac-'i? ac-'i? itf J T'-niaced by men who have .A S.f I rs except the objects of V anyone wonder what J ?urh circum.star.ces are ; 3 jT that we are facing- the t 'if f'.icai oJithat has br-en f Vrati' we art- thf' 3-ny '4 Willi DISSECTS THE VOTE CP 1912 (Continued from Page One.) spirit, its object, its motive, and we are to choose between the Interest of the great mass and body of people and the interest in-terest of certain privately controlled and secretly concerting interests." |