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Show lYIlSOli DEPLOY UoDDE POu'ER Of, wa i:i politics Party Lines Letrely Abandoned; Aban-doned; Ad justing Affairs to New Conditions. &AK rBANCI8CO, Hay It. "It U aa eaconraging siga whea I caa attack at-tack esrtala things before the men who da tkoee thiaga aad aot only aot be pot aat of the room, but receive generous gen-erous applaaas." Wkea Dr. Wood row Wilson, governor gov-ernor af New Jersey, made 'tha fore-foiag fore-foiag statemeat herd last sight, as the guest of the Yale, Harvard and Prince ton clubs of Baa Fraaeiaco, ia aa impromptu im-promptu addreas ia which ha attacked political corruption, hie hearers laughed sad applauded. Dr. Wilaoa made the remark after deelsriag that meo wko do aot take ordera frost those higher np are aeeial sad political autaaata. He deplored the power of money ia politico poli-tico and the sway of -political eorrup-Uoninta eorrup-Uoninta ia aatioaal affaia ' ' "The general debate a to whether things sr. wrong is nettled," he said. ' Things art wrong. Now w must got ap a debate oa Sow they may be righted. , , -. w , . ' , Old Tradition Do Kot fc. V 1 ". "Party line are so disturbed today that whaf we are doing la conducting a campaign af ideatiaeatioa. We have come into shsaged eoaditieas where old standards Bad old traditions do aot fit-We fit-We have lost our standards la polities poli-ties tad wa doa't know where they ara. America has eoaeentratod her gaza apoa material things, without lifting aa her eyes, lor so loag that sow we e leek tag about w find that we bav paased iato strange surroundings. - "Wy ara the people aow thinkiag of direct legialatioaf Because ia most of the states ropreeeatativs government haa represented a aiaistsr set of influ-eaees influ-eaees sad has aot res recanted the Basil Bas-il me iet of the community as a whole. "Take the issues of the initistive sad referesdum. Why do you wish to uproot up-root repreaeatativo institutional This ia the way to restore them. Reform Croc esses are processes of recoaatrue-oa. recoaatrue-oa. Before, Measures represent the reaewal, aot the doatructioa, of repfe-ssststive repfe-ssststive iastitutioas. "Moasy ia at the bottom of all the misrepreseatatioa. Net mosey put iato heads aot bribes. That's old faaa-iaaed faaa-iaaed snd crude. But It is accomplished by warning mea that if they do aot do aa they are told they caa't get moaey for their business. If they da act do as they are told, they caa't get accent-medatioas accent-medatioas at tha bask. The maa who dees not do as hs ia told ia aot invited to places! ko becomes aot ealy a political, po-litical, but a social, outcast." |