Wilson Pleads For Loyal Congress.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 31, 1912:
Only with a Democratic House and Senate Can He Bring Reform, He Tells Jersey Voters.
HE POINTS TO HIS RECORD
That Proves, He Declares, the Democratic Party Under Him Will Live Up to Its Pledges.
Special to The New York Times.
    BURLINGTON, N. J., Oct. 30,— Enter ins the Republican strongholds in Southern New Jersey to-day, Gov. Woodrow Wilson put before the voters what he believes to be the paramount need of the whole campaign: the complete control of the Government by the Democratic Party.
    If that was accomplished, he told a crowd of 2,500 persons here to-night, the programme of progress could be put into effect, but without the Senate and House of Representatives behind him, a President could do little, he declared.
    "I am not a candidate for a pedestal," declared the Governor, and the audience applauded heartily.
    "I am not a candidate," he continued, "to be set up in lonely dignity to suffer the intolerable disappointment of being left alone, unable to do the real things which the American people will expect of me if they honor me with their suffrages. If you cannot back me up, do not put me up all by myself and then desert me. If you believe in me make it possible for me to do something. No man in a great commonwealth or in a great nation can do anything by himself, except talk. And if my voice comes back to me I shall continue to talk. But talking is not business unless it means that men are going to be drawn together by the public discussion of great questions into a common, co-operative, irresistible force.
    "Do not elect me Captain unless you are going to give me a team. For if I am Captain and either of those Republican scrub teams is put alongside of me I cannot do anything at all. They will not know what there is to be done, and they will not believe me if I tell them. What I leave with you, therefore, is this suggestion: It is team or nothing. Is that a bargain? You will go back on me, you will go back on your Governor if you vote for me, and do not give me a team. Therefore my bargain, my exhortation to you to-day, is, go to the polls and vote by this rule. Either give him a team or vote for somebody else."
    Gov. Wilson's popularity in New Jersey and the confidence the voters have in him as a result of his administration was proved by his trip to-day. Even in this Republican citadel he was cheered for three minutes, and at Cape May Court House, where he delivered his first address, and later at the Hippodrome at Wildwood there were big and enthusiastic crowds out to greet him, Gov. Wilson showed to-day that he was confident of victory, and he devoted most of his three addresses to the cause of the candidates for Congress and the State Legislature.
    "Think back a couple of years, my friends," he said in his speech to-night. "Are you prouder of New Jersey, now than you were then? God knows that nobody that has served you in those two years has done anything more than his duty, and no man ought to brag of his duty. I subscribe to that old passage in the scriptures: 'We are unprofitable servants, we have done that which it was our duty to do.'
    In reviewing what had been accomplished in New Jersey for the cause of good government the Governor mentioned the Corrupt Practices act passed by his administration.
    "Not longer ago than to-day," he said, "I have been told of money being spent in Cape May County in a way it ought not to be used, and I have just sent a letter to every Prosecutor of Pleas in the State that I will hold him personally responsible for the enforcement of the law."
    The Governor started his campaign today at the old Cape May Court House. He learned there that he was being followed by the "flying squadron" of the Stand Pat Republicans, who planned to refute his statements. These men were ex-Governor C. S. Stokes, State Senator Nichols, and State Senator Edge. The Governor spoke first to the voters of the men who were on his heels.
    "This is going to be a very interesting day for you." he said, "because I understand that later in the day two or three gentlemen are going to assist in the ante-mortem examination of the Republican Party."
    Then the Governor said:
    "Now, it happens that the Democratic Party in the Nation is led by the same man who led the Democratic Party in New Jersey, and I am not aware of having changed my point of view or my purposes in the slightest degree. I feel in talking to you home folks that I must tell you the real things that lie in my heart. I am interested in parties, my friends, only as instrumentalities.

STRAUS TALKS TO PASTORS.
If Elected He Says He Will Work for Party's Social Justice Planks.
    Oscar S. Straus and State Senator Frederick M. Davenport, the Progressive candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, addressed a meeting of clergymen in the assembly hall of the Metropolitan Tower yesterday afternoon. The meeting was held under the auspices of Progressive Ministers' Association of Brooklyn, which sent out invitations to 1,326 clergymen, priests and rabbis of the five boroughs. Less than fifty clergymen attended the meeting, but this sparse attendance the Chairman, the Rev. G. H. McClelland, of the First United Presbyterian Church, declared was because many pastors had meetings in connection with their work to attend on Wednesdays. Mr. Straus appealed to the clergymen to support the Progressive candidates, because of the social justice planks of the Progressive platform.
    "If I get to Albany — and it looks as if I will — and if you send a Progressive Legislature with me," he said, "I shall open up a new account in the ledger of the State's business, an account of humanity, opposite the machinery account."
    In denouncing the rule of the bosses under what he termed the only big political party now in the State, "the Barnes-and-Murphy Party," he declared that the power of that coalition was everywhere throughout the State being used to intimidate Progressive voters.
    "Everywhere up-State we found our people being intimidated," he said. "They told us in many cases that they dared not even wear our emblem, because the bank, the mortgage company, or the newspaper in their community was controlled by Barnes or Murphy and by the invisible power of the bosses. The assembly district in this State that is not under that domination is the exception. Now, is not that a disgrace? It is that domination that our party in its new giant strength intends to shatter.
    "If you defeat this cause it will win anyway. It can't be beaten. Whenever a cause has on its side the intelligence of the people — the ministers, teachers, and other men and women of the community whose vision is not limited to their ledgers, and besides that the support of the common people — it is a cause that stands for moral issues and is bound to triumph."
    Among the clergymen at the meeting were the Rev. Dr. Josiah Strong, the Rev. Dr. Clendenin of St. Peter's Church of Westchester, the Rev. Dr. George Van de Water of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Rabbi Nathan Krass of Brooklyn, the Rev. A. J. Allebach, the Rev. L. D. Lee, a Chinese missionary, and the Rev. S. W. Timms, a colored Baptist.