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Show A If? (ft iHTAUC Jf Jail jev y a A y a. & tb tJ TARIFF TALK Governor Wilson Visits Taf t's State on Speaking Speak-ing Trip. Columbus, O, Sept 21. Twelve hours were spent in Columbus yesterday yester-day by" Governor Woodrow Wilson, but in these wero crowded the formal opening of the Democratic carapalgn. in Ohio, a luncheon with Governor Harmon, Representative JameB M. Cox, the Democratic candidate for goornor, and state leaders and a series of speeches and receptions. It was a Blreuuous windup to the presidential nominee's first week of consecutive campaigning. As ho started back to Sea Girt, N. J., last night he said he was more than pleased pleas-ed with the thrill of campaigning and with the enthusiastic greetings he had received. Enthusiasm and demonstration spread through the day's events. For the first time in his life, the governor said, he saw what a political organization organiza-tion looked like. He saw the precinct organizers, the county leaders nnd the stale executhos, and with them hundreds hun-dreds of co-workers. From the meeting of tho Democratic organization the governor went to the chamber of commerce and addressod a meeting of educators from all parts of Ohio Tho candidate then addressed a meeting of several hundred business men. Most Amazing Fictions. "Ono of the most amazing fictions of our politics," said the governor to them, "is that the Democratic party is not interested in the business life of the United States. When you reflect re-flect that the Democrats of tho United Uni-ted States comprise about half the population It Is very interesting that half the population should bo suspected suspect-ed of tho desire lo commit commercial hari-kari." In attacking the Idea of a board of experts to handlo the tariff quostlon he said conditions were constantly changing, with the tailff as often sometimes as evory 2-i hours "You cannot touch ono tariff schedule," sched-ule," ho added, "without having Incalculable In-calculable results in other schedules I supposo that when you deal with all tho woolen schedule, for example, you supposed that was all tho woolen men were interested in. But the woolen mon, if I may credit what I havo read In their reports', are almost ns inter estod in tho chemical as woolen schedulo. "Bodies of experts to guido legislation legisla-tion havo always been the machinery of one thing, and that is delay." Governor Wilson last night, addressed address-ed a throng that filled Memorial hall, the most spacious of the city's auditoriums audi-toriums Governor Harmon presided Outside there was an overflow meeting whero llio governor made another speech oo |