The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-31
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Watterson on woodrow WILSON,

Colonel Henry watterscon, Of the Louisville
Courier-Journal the dean of American editors
ana veteran Democratic leader, Is enthusiastic
Tor Woodrow Wilson NO Democrat OF mod
ern times he declares, has come into the
running Samuel j. Tilden alone excepted, with
nan at once of the4equipment and the claim
OF the eminent governor Of New Jersey. He
may be fairly described as the intellectual, not
to say the moral. light OF the Democracy OF
the new day which Is dawning upon 1t
was Tilden another Wallensteln. who assem-
bied the broken forces into the desoiate camps
or Democracy after the runous campaign of
1877 IL We are TO have recrudescence. and
not mere revival II VIII come at the hands
of Woodrow Wilson. II will not be possible
at the hands of some nondescript crossing tie
deadline OF the two-thirds rule at the end of
self seeking decker and barter. These have
far too often discredited the national conven-
tons of both parties Let hope they
will not cheat Democracy in 1912 OF an actual
leader and great victory.
Colonel Watterson is against the plutocratc
element in TIE Democratic party, opposed TO
Wall Street and the politicians throughout the
country subservient thereto. When the time
arrives for acton."she writes, the Courier
Journal will insist that the South at least shall
take high ground and refuse to submit itself
to be debauched either by the money of Wall
Street, put up lasishly to control the con-
ventions OF each party. or the ambition Of local
politicians, who may End it easiest to make
terms with some unknown quantity. having ev-
erything to gain and nothing to lose.
IL the Woodrow Wilson Democrats are in
earnest--and believe they are--in Texas as
in the rest of the country, they must grid up
member that the party convention Is less than
a year off. 1t is universally admitted. even by
Republicans that the Democrats chances are
brighter than they have been fsr years Win
a Democratic House elected IN lSlo, ftouse
that has fought the good fight made eoou
record. forcing President Taft to veto no less
than three Democratic tariff reform bills. mere
ought to be a great Democratic victory IN isl =
President Roosevelt. with his spfinx-Jike 81
lence as to the tariff. helped the trusts. but ms
aid to them was not conspicuous. because
of his covering up his-plutocratic alliance with
great protestations of love of the people ana
aspirations for civic Righteousness tie was
spectacular figure, captivating III. maSinations
OF many of his fellow citizens, President lait
is amiable but not spectacular. me people
have not been dazzled into overiooklns ms
! pledge breaking to the tariff. the Bauihsei-
/ GuRgenheim scandal the sale OF the i'hli'pplhe
public lands to the sugar trust ana the huh'ei
GUS plutocratic acts of the ADMINISTRATOR
But to beat Taft--who, II seems, Will a'hiost
certainly be renominated--it VIII ba hecsssais
for TIE Democrats to play the game careluiiy,
/ watching every point, for the interests WHICH
/ will back Taft will also back one or more piu-
i tocratic Democratic candidates for the nominal
| ton. in order that If possible. they may WIN
| no matter how the election turns ouI--ff'us-
| ton Chronicle