Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-05-03
BEATING WILSON FOR THE NOM
NATION.

which may be said 10 appeal TO the
old mugwump element of the Repu5-
Iicau party and the conseryatiyely
progressive elements Of the Demo-
cratic party are engaged in an almost
determined effort to focus Democratic
attention upon Governor Woodrow
Wilson, of New Jersey, as the next
Democratic presidential candidate.
The figure of Woodrow Wilson"
says Worlds Work for May. is rapidly
taking on national proportions. His
administration as Governor Of New
Jersey is a revelation, in day of col
orless governors. This revelation, the
Worlds Work further says, is what
strong man, with an unmistakable
commits sion fgrom the people, can do
in the way OF destroying boss rule and
compelling legislation from a reluctant
legislature" The notable things that
Gov. Wilson has done are thus enum-
Grated: He prevented his party send
ing a rich corruptionist to the United
States Senate; he ordered the State
Chairman OF his party to leave his
presence when the Chairman ventured
the insult Of accusing him Of misusing
the patronage of his office: he forced
through a Democratic House and Re-
publican Senate a direct primary and
election law which will take the or
ganization of both parties in New Jer-
u ey out OF the hands of the bosses; he
/ is giving the state a taste Of wise, pa
triotic and practical government; and
I he has made himself the man to whom
| the Democrats of the progressive type
must turn, if they are to put forward
/ the fttest candidate for the presidency
next year.
This is editorial comment that ac-
companies a special article in the mag
azine concerning Gov. Wilson and his
administration by William Bayard
Hale. No man in the late years of
American politics has come more
suddenly into national view or made a
stronger impression on the American
public than this erstwhile college pres
ident. His coming into public life has
| been unique, but if he lacked expert
ence in what has been called practical
politics, he has given fun proof that he
did not lack study and knowledge of
such matters. He has proved himself
more than match for the practical
| politicians with whom he has had to
cope. He has succeeded in all he has
Undertaken, and he has undertaken
/ things from which most governors
shrink as being no part of their official
duty and unnecessary complicating
their chances in politics He is 6
ported as having said, Il don't worry
about theories; it is facts that trouble
me-" The writer Of the article in the
Worlds Work says of him, THE prime
thing is that he is real-rea1 al
through, from top TO bottom. There il
not sham anywhere in his neighbor
hood"
; THE salient fact about Gov. Will
son" says the Nashville Banner, sis
that he has come into public life thor.
Ioughly equipped for his duties He
has studied statecraft from history and
the writings Of great publicists while
he has kept in intelligent touch with
modern progress, conditions and nee.
essities. He is the antithesis of the
man who has learned politics after the
manner of William Lorimer He is in
sympathy with public needs as oppos.
ed to individuals or corporate greed, as
proved by his forceful opposition t.
the plutocratic James Smith, Jr., WHIT
wished to be United States Senator
He is practical on all lines of thought
though he is also one of the ripes
scholars in the country. His contac
with the machine politicians in New
Jersey has been to their undoing a
their own game, while he towers ST
above them in his general knowledge
of the science of government that tn :.
cannot undertake to cope with him OF
that ground.
THE thoroughly educated man, fret
from any Objectionable influences, On'
of clear common sense and strons
character, is the ideal man in Amer
lean public Life and Woodrow Wilson
approaches that ideal nearer than an,
man now prominent in the country
politics"
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