The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-06-30
WOODROW WILSON

This paper is very, very anxious to
live to see another democrat elected
president of the United States.
1t is conscious of the fact that the
republican party has held the reins of
power for so long a time purely on
account of prejudice against large
section of our common country,
which ought not to exist, and we be-
lieve exists solely because it is an
inherited legacy of our civil war.
This paper sincerely believes that
if those holding to these prejudices
were correctly informed as to the real
conditions and sentiments now obtain
ing in this section that they would
vanish as truly as the mists before
the morning sun.
This papers anxiety for a consum-
nation so deyoutly to be wished rests
also along other lines.
1t believes that long retention of
power leads to recklessness and eX-
travagance, if not to corruption.
The trusts and great combinations
of capital, against which the supreme
court of the United States is using its
power to dissolve, because it thinks
that they are subversive of our form
of government, this paper believes are
the legitimate fruits of the legisla.
ton of the republican party for the
past half century, and to get back into
the paths of simplicity marked out by
the fathers we must retrace our steps
which can only be done by placing
the democratic party again in power.
This paper believes that the special
interests have fed and grown fat and
dangerous on the favors shown them
by the party in power, and the time is
ripe for change.
The democratic party was never a
sectional party. 1t never built up spe-
cial interests. 1t looked always to the
interests of all. 1t left an impress
upon the nation that deserves to be
writ in red letters, and cannot be read
without stimulating ones patriotism
and national pride.
This paper is so anxious for a vic
tory that it will cheerfully support
any democrat the convention may
nominate, but it hopes that the choice
will fall upon one upon whom all sec
lions and all factions may unite and
the party will enter upon the cam
paign united and determined, and, so
strengthened, will be in a position to
meet its adversaries, at last divided,
with an unbroken phalanx, and fall
upon them and drive them from their
strongholds in confusion
Woodrow Wilson seems to be that
man. He is from a state naturally
and normally democratic; a state that
in the olden times was friendly to the
south. His antecendents are demo
cratic and his parents were southern
born. He has lived all or most of his
life in the north, so naturally he ought
to be cosmopolitan in his conceptions
and beliefs.
Mr.. T. P. Gore, the blind senator, -
says that as governor of New Jersey,
Woodrow Wilson has made good. He
has redeemed the state He has
fought a good fight. He has kept the
faith.
Let us unite, then, on this man,
make his nomination unanimous, and
go forth conquering and to conquer.
The democratic party wants, more
than anything else, to get together. 1t
wants to heal up its feuds; unite it's
factions. There are enough demo
Gratis in the country to elect a demo
crat president if the party can get to-
gether.
Let's get together, be good, and all
things shall be ours. We want unity
of action. Let it be long pull. a