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Show i MMS: Exacted Govern" f -IBl Dr. Wilson has m JJiHB tcrat. Ho was a wan "TOMs mlror of Grover Ctetri jK progressive Democrat JtK!' in 1010 cast nbout fr ft TKf govornor Dr. Wllaoa'a . Kl' dent of pollticnl hlstwy, " K' nctcr and general ntll,'Jiir'S?' mended him as the a RtT' IIo was uomiuatcd, n r'BJg1 of his pollticnl sponsors wwt 'K1 by his election by n &l f.Wl'' 000, although his predece. JJ(PJSb Mean,' had carried the stM M 8,ti3 As governor ho Becure p?teK of a direct primary law, M Wj'py11 liability law that docs nwJthtain-ago nwJthtain-ago suits and n corrupt pWclPSXHOt regulating tho expeiuTltuwet i$Rni pnign funds nnd making M Pfpa'ty of violation M forfr t jre M tl of-flco. of-flco. A put utMns antaion was created f-i . "V?5t.0't!Rl1" late railways . h-ir v id utefttnl telephone tele-phone comp- ,-. an-1 ell utber Intbllc service corpm lo.is. laii'i P-iH ed prohlbllljL U. In dlug cf"d cold storngo ft rloago t'an tcaHnatlis nnd providing for tu sale j public auction of nil food 8ied H'loViUon of tho law. The satu . I jgblaturc passed pass-ed n law providing fc Jju cdaiailasloH form of govornmon-. In cities that should choose It by p ular vote, with tho Initiative. rcfuri:uin Jind recall of ndmlnlHtratl.o oils rrt, a' law abolishing abol-ishing contract laltor n tli stat( prison pris-on nnd n law provic s for adequate protection of fs.ctorii rronrflrc. Tnlod of Foi f rs:lisnt; i Ils vigorous mlnr. ln:il0nB5yu) governorsMp Lrouglu hlri proTinncill lv liirm-n tlm nrmili nf other States than Now Jersey- and his was one of the first naijies suggested by the slate nmkors for the Democratic nomination nomina-tion for the presidency. A tour of tho country whlcji Governor Wilson made In 1011 did much to confirm thi popular pop-ular impression that ho wiih thiA kind of timber from which president i are nitulc. Dmlng the pre-eonvtjulloii 'open season" for ciolcsflteQoMci;"or Wilson's friends bagged thennilj'it and left, and ho went to tho Haltimoi'o conventionfiguratively, of course, for ho romal&jrt in Now Jersey duriilg its dcllberatlons-wlth n larger number of pledged delegates (as shown by the first test vote) than any of his competitors competi-tors except Speaker Champ OlnVk. His Political Oreed. ' Governor Wilson lias no punncca for Uio ills of tho body politic, but he lays great stress upon tho influence of publicity pub-licity In improving tho conditions of government. This is perhaps.tho Art article in ijils political creed. vii' to " nis'owir exposition or itr 'pmi, " "Honest politics Is lmposs!bfbnItu out publicity, or, rather, dlslionest jol-Itles jol-Itles Is impossfblo with publicity, gvho evil lu politics lies behind thoIoscd door. With tho blinds down lufd the key turned against the pcoplu thW cannot can-not know what their parties nrefdolug, they cannot control their own fillies. Dishonest politics is like photography. It must havo n dark room. Tlrro is no place in the architecture of iouest politics for such nn apartment. Publicity and Primaries,! "Publicity In politics means &o primary. pri-mary. A primary Is the very antithesis antithe-sis of bosslsm. When you csticlish a primary you disestablish a bobf You cannot conduct a state wide Kimary privately. You can conduct alcaucus privately, but not a primary lot the present kind of a primary. "Tho caucus is the ambush of. what David Graham Phillips called fflc 'interests.' 'in-terests.' The people nre tho aribush. ed. Why should there bo any privacy about public affairs? Tho very (terms are in conflict. It b oiv when nnd where private rights nnii prlvati welfare wel-fare come in conflict with publlcirlghts nnd public welfare that resort 13 had to private politics, to the caucus. "The popular movement in this country coun-try today Is for this publicity. Tho dark room must go. The machinery of our government must come out into the , open "Let us have neither doors nor locks on our committee rooms. You are n partner and I nm a partner In Amer-icn, Amer-icn, and we nro entitled to know how our business is being conducted." Tho Tariff the Uu. He has pieced himself on1 record na believing ttut the great Issue of the cninpnigu if 1012 is the tariff. "It must be &," he said borne tlmo ngo. by Its bi-j nature. No frank mind can doubt that the great jtcin of special privilege and monopolistic ad vantage that have been built up have been built up upon the foundation of tho tariff. Tho tariff question is at tho heart of every other ccouoml'u question ques-tion we have to deal with, nd until we have dealt with that pwpoiy we can deal with nothing In ft wV tlmt will be satisfactory ami lnstl- Governor Wilson Is for a "aPff for revenue only," fired, htbt and nil the time, no believes that tnrW revision is the most pressing need of to country coun-try and thnt tho people are Axed lu their determination to buttle this question ques-tion definitely and unuqulrocaily at tho coming election. , |