Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1912 — WILSON LEAVES GOOD IMPRESSION [ARTICLE]

WILSON LEAVES GOOD IMPRESSION

Presidential Nominee Greeted By Large Crowds at All Places. ON TOUR THROU6H INDIANA Spoke at Four Places in State Friday and Then for Lincoln, Keiv—Everybody Well Pleased With Nominee. The writer had the pleasure Friday of meeting and hearing speak Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, the democratic nominee for the presidency, and the generally admitted “next president of the United States,” both at Plymouth and Gary, Ind., on his trip from Indianapolis to Chicago. Mr. Wilson spoke at Kokomo, Peru, Plymouth and Gary, and the newspaper correspondents with the special train estimated the crowd at the ‘four places at from 80,000 td 100,000.

1 Being a member of the reception committee that went over from Gary to Plymouth to meet Governor Wilson and returning to Gary on the special train with him, this committe had special opportunity for meeting and talking directly with Mr. Wilson and he left as good an impression on us as he did with the crowds he addressed at each place. We have not the space to go into the details of his speeches whidh were along the tariff lines, giving at Plymouth a talk on the tariff as it affects the farmer, and at Gary he talked on the steel manufacturing business and on the benefits the steel trust has derived from the excessive protection which benefltted no one but the steel truts.

At Plymouth a huge crowd greeted the Governor. There were some five or six hands of music and the Mishawaka Wilson and Marshall club of several hundred voters were led from the depot by a drum cot pa of fourteen pieces. About 400 cadete from, Ouilver Military Academy and the famous Black Horse Troop of Culver made a pretty and an imposing picture. The lat trie acted asgu/ard on Mr. Wilson’s return to the train and were especially addressed at the station while waiting for the special train to back up in position. Automobiles conveyed all the party from the depot to the courthouse square where the speaking was held. Congressman Raney of Illinois spoke a few moments until Governor Wilson arrived, and resumed his speech after the Governor left. At Gary a tremendous crowd greeted the arrival of Governor Wilson and all were taken in automobiles to a vacant space in front of the city hall where the speaking was held. There were several hundred decorated automobiles in line and the Crowd at the station and on tlhe streets along the liiie is given by the newspaper correspondents with the Wilson special at 20,000 people. It was by far the biggest demonstration ever seen in Gary, greatly exceeding that of President Taft’s visit to the “Magic City.” And another thing we want to say of the crowds at both Gary and Plymouth, although both are “wet” towns', the latter notoriously so, we did not see a person undeT the influence of liquor at either place. The state chairman, Attorney-Gen-eral Honan, Secretary of State El- - State Statistician Thomas Brolley, Clerk of the Supreme Court Prance, Senator Shively, John B. Peterson, District Chairman Murphy and other prominent democrats were with Wilson at both Plymouth and Gary. 1 At the latter place several 'hundred .students came oveT from Valparaiso to hear the speaking. Mr. Wilson went to Chicago from Gary, and after a short stop he protceeded on to ; Lincoln, Neb., much pleased with the reception given him in Indiana.