The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-02
LAMAR FAvORS
NEWJERSEYMAN
FOR PRESIDENT.
STATE COMMITTEEMAN is FOR
WOODROW Will soN-sAYs CAN
DIDATEs FOR DELEGATES TO
THE CONVENTION SHOULD
TELL WHO THEY FAVOR.


peared in the Monticello News last
week:
Editor Monticello News.
In reply to your inquiry as to
whether as state committeeman I am
in favor Of having those who wish to
go as delegates to the next Demo-
cratic National Convention name their
choice for president and be voted for
or against accordingly in the next
state primary, l will state that I am
certainly in favor of that proposition
and will use what influence I have
with the state committee to have II
done. 1t will to a great extent elmtn-
ate trading at the convention. 1t has
other good points; but it would take
too much space to go into the matter
thorourhfv --->----->-,-
AS to your inquiry as to who think
the Democratic party will nominate,
will say that this is a hard PROPOSE
ton right now. But I will say who /
think they should nominate If they
wish to succeed. In my estimation
a man is nominated next time in each
of the great parties. than at any time
in the last sixteen years. Mr.. Taft
will unquestionably be nominated by
the Republicans. Mr.. LaFollette can
not possibly beat him. Mr.. Taft has
all the political machinery Of all the
states and the trusts TO help him.
Both parties are making mistakes in
congress. Mr.. Taft is not doing any
nomination, but is doing things that
will lose him many votes at the polls.
The people of this country are look
ing around for man whom they can
trust as a president and with a large
element 1t does not make any differ
ence from which party he comes Mr..
Bryan is still a great leader and
grand man. Whatever good there may
be in the Republican party is due to
their adoption of some of Mr.. Bryan
doctrines and principles of govern
ment. But Mr.. Bryan has (unjustly)
many enemies in his own party. Mr..
Hearst in his newspapers has done the
country many services and is called
by some an anarchist. All reforners
are called that when they strike at
entrenched power. He also has too
many enemies in his own party. Mr..
Harmon is a level headed man, but
he could not arouse the enthusiasm OF
the party and the independent voter.
into power the Democratic party in
some northern states there rode into
leadership an intrepid champion of
democracy who had hitherto been
quietly intent upon his professional
engagements. caring more for educa-
ton than for politics. This leader was
Woodrow Wilson. He was president
of Princeton College, New Jersey.
where the reform element of the
Democratic party prevailed upon him
to become their candidate for COVER
nor. He accepted the call and with
almost startling suddenness plunged
into the campaign. There was some
thing in his personality which seemed
to challenge instant attention. 1t was
the intense earnestness Of the man.
Having devoted the greater part of his
life to education his enemies were pre-
pared for scholarly addresses, but
were duInbfounded, from the start, at
his mastery of governmental princi-
pies and familiarity with public issues
He was recognized, at once, as a
leader who needed no apprenticeship
to give him premier rank. His race
was in the rockribbed Republican
state of New Jersey, THE Mother OF
Trusts" Very few expected him to
win. But everything went down be-
fore his irresistible logic. He became
governor. His message went to the
legislature, asking for the reforms
which he had pledged the people he
would give them. Under his wise
guidance they did so, in a few short
months. Like Hercules, he has cleaned
out the Augean stables OF corruption
piled high in the state of New Jersey.
With one hand he strangled the cor
poration Republicans and pushed back
with the other the corporation Demo-
Gratis.
I hope. that the Democratic party
viii nominate Woodrow Wilson. The
nation needs him. Congress needs his
powerful intellect and guiding hand.
Nominate him and we will still win in
spite of some blunders Of congress.
The nation will then know that the
Democratic party is getting down to
business Very few people know that
all his life he has been preparing
himself for such a crisis as came to
him in New Jersey and I hope awaits
him in our national affairs. He is
Virginian and was graduated at
Princeton college in 1879 and studied
law at the University of Virginia and
practised at Atlanta, Ca, in 1928.
He abandoned the legal profession and
devoted himself to education and the
study OF government He published in
1885 Congressional Government: A
Study in American Politics" In Eng
land 1t was adopted asaan authority
On American institution; and from
time to time contributed many articles
to periodicals on political and admins
trative subjects.
| hope Jefferson county will give to
this Southern man in 4 Northern state
their undivided suppors. He is of that
height in himself now that he needs
no pedestal to stand on. believe that
crisis awaits him. The final great
ness of a fortunate man is rarely made
by any violent effort of his own. He
has sown the seeds in the time fore
gone, and the ripe time brings up the
harvest His fate seems taken out of
his own control; greatness seems
thrust upon him. He has made him
self, as 1t were. q want to the nation,
thing necessary to It; he has identi-
ned himself with his age, and in the
wreath on his brow the age itself