the Democratic platform, by the election to office of men who will
refuse to submit to it, and who will lend all their energies to break
it up, and by pitiless publicity.

Still hoping to corner the Governor, Mr. Record named the bosses:

In referring to the Board of Guardians, do you mean such Republican
leaders as Baird, Murphy, Kean, and Stokes? Wherein do the relations
to the special interests of such leaders differ from the relation to
the same interests of such Democratic leaders as Smith, Nugent, and
Davis?

Mr. Wilson, answering this, said:

I refer to the men you name. They [meaning Baird, Murphy, Kean,
Stokes] differ from the others in this, that they are in control of
the government of the state while the others are not, and cannot be if
the present Democratic ticket is elected.

In reply to Mr. Record's question: "Will you join me in denouncing the
Democratic 'overlords' as parties to a political boss system?" Doctor
Wilson replied: "Certainly I will join you in denouncing them--or any one
of either party who attempts any outrages against the Government and
public morality."

At this time I was in close touch with the managers of the Wilson
campaign, including Smith, Nugent, and Davis. While they admired the fine
strategy that lay back of the Democratic candidate's reply to Mr. Record,
they looked upon it as a mere gesture upon the part of Mr. Wilson and
scorned to believe that his reply to Mr. Record constituted a challenge to