Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-16
WILSON ON THE FIRST BALLOT.

Woodrow Wilson'S popularity as a presl-
Dental candidate is growing. The Republl-
can victory in New Jersey last week has
not dampened the ardor of his friends.
Least of all has it bothered the governor.
Naturally he is disappointed that his W
party will not get the credit for the pro-
gressive legislation that is bound to be en-
acted at the coming session. That the Demo
Gratis will not get this credit is due to the
r1le or ruin policy of James Smith, Jr.
The country at large seems to understand
the situation in New Jersey far better than
was to be supposed. The press everywhere
eontinae 10 discuss Woodrow Wilson as the
man of the noun for the Democracy. The
New York Evening Post, which is perhaps
~tha~1nos nserVative newspaper III the
United States and which is generally re
gaftted as being favorable to Wall street,
has, since the election, compared Wilson
with Harmon, declaring that the Democratic
nomination, at the present outlook, lies be-
tween those two men. The Post went on to
show that of the two, Wilson is the one who
is most likely to bring success to his party.
The Atlanta Georgian is carrying on a
daily campaign in Wilson'S behalf. The
Birmingham, Ma, News, says:
The News is clear in the Judgment that Governor
Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, is by far the most
available nominee for the presidency. He has
grown in strength and in public estimation with mar
velous s~teadiness. Day by day 1t becomes clearer
that the rank and file OF Democratic voters-East
and West, North and south-are turning to Wilson"
A staff correspondent for the Cleveland
Press writes to his paper as follows:
@In the old South / find there is a very general
sentiment favoring Woodrow Wilson's nomination.
So general and so strong, indeed, Is this sentiment,
and SO ready Is 1t to crystalliZe into action, that ]
should not be surprised II most of the southern
states were represented In the next national eonven-
tIon by instructed Wilson delegates"
From California comes the following,
published in the Sacramento Union:
*sThe politicians who assert that the Wilson presi-
dental boom has subsidized are evidently not in touch
with political sentiment in the United States. 1t is
growing steadily and substantially and when the
the demand for the nomination of the New Jersey
governor will be so universal that 1T cannot with
common sense be denied
The Washington Post says.
tThe Democratic party never was In better posi-
lion TO elect q president than 1t is today and win be
next year The voters are hungry for a change, and
they are going to get 1t. Governor Wilson, more
than any other man who is a candidate for presf-
dent, meets the ideas of the Southern people
Every day the mail is full of extracts
from the press of all sections of the eoun-
try, more particularly the south and west,
but from the New England cities as we'll
all telling OF the great progress being made
by the Wilson boom. 1t is recognized that
be Is close to the people. While tue machine
politicians viii probably work to defeat his
nomination, public opinion is being SO gen
orally aroused that By the time tue national
convention is held there is reason to believe
Wilson will be nominated on the first ballot,