The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-19
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Sentiment as Seen by the New YORK
er ON o Business Trip of Ten
Thousand Miles Makes Him BE.
.lieve that Gov. Wilson Will Sweep
the Country Next Year.
]. W. Binder. Of New York
writes as follows to the New York
Times concerning the presidential
election next year.
Editor of New York Times:
The next President Of the United
States will be a Democrat. His
name is Woodrow Wilson. His ma
iority in the electoral college Will
be greater than that given to any
President ever elected. These are
strong statements. Let me tell you
why believe them to be true.
1 have, within the past two
months travelled more than ten
thousand miles in the United States.
I-have talked with some Of the big
gest men in the country. have al
so talked with workingmen, COM
.mercial travellers, small merchants
and others.
. The sentiment in favor Of Wilson
is simply tremendous. His admins
tration in New Jersey since his cleo
ton as Governor has made friends
for him by the thousand. Business
men feel that in the hands OF such
a man their interests would be con-
served. while the working men hail
the New Jersey employers liability
law. enacted at his urgent demand,
as one of the best laws ever put On
our statute books. A Michigan man
ufacturer, many times millionaire
none of whose fortune has been
made by security juggling, said to
me:
.I am for Wilson because I be-
lieve he recognizes that the govern
ment of this great nation should
be put on a business basis. The
business men of the United States
have accustomed themselves to re-
gard government as something a
side, something mysterious, intang-
ible, in which they had but a. pass
ing interest, and to which plain
business principles could not be ap-
piled. Hence, for the past fifty years
the functions Of government. have
been largely in the hands of law
yers. Now, while I have the highest
regard for law and for it's. eXpor-
ents, have yet to see the lawyer
whom would make the general
manager of my business. II this
be true of my own personal busl-
ness, involving capitalization or
less than s1O,00O,000, on what
grounds can the people Of this coun-
try possibly justify their placing the
control of the greatest business In
the world-the government of these
United States-almost entirely IN
the hands of lawyers? I have no
hesitation in saying that the post
Office department Of the United
States should be made to be self
supporting, if, indeed, It cannot be
made to show a profit. / believe II
can, if It is administered without re-
card to politics. 1t should be the
buisness of the President of the
United States to see that it is so
administe red. l believe that Wood
row Wilson would insist that 1t be
go administered. Hence am tor
him."
One Of the men l talked with
was vice mayor of a large mid
western city. He is an enthusiastic
Wilson supporter. I asked him what
objections he had heard to Wilson's
candidacy. He could name only one.
That was that Wilson changed his
mind on the matter of the Initiative
referendum and recall. 1t is true. he
did. He says himself that for tif-
teen years he taught his classes in
Princeton that neither of these doc
trines would work. He says, fur
ther, he can prove today that they
won't work Then he adds with ma
tive f-a.!!--ess. but the trouble is
they do work." and, recognizing
that practice is always better than
theory, he adapts himself to the
changed conditions, and faces con-
ditions as they are, not as he theo-
etically believed them to be. This.
continued my Democratic friend. Us
in my estimation, the best indica'
ton of Wilson's strength"
J. W. Binder.