Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1911-08-03
Wilson For President.

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woodrow Wilson, as candidate for
the Presidency, to our Editorial
masthead.
There it will remain, at least
until after the National Demo-
cratic Convention acts next year,
and we hope and believe that we
will have no occasion to change
1t until the polls close on a glor-5
ious Democratic victory in Novem-
Der 1912, and his election is an
accomplished fact.
Should however, the represen-
tatives of the party in Conven-
ton assembled, select as Standard
Bearer, any other of the many
splendid1y equipped Democrats
who aspire to The highest Office
within the gift 4of the Republic,
the plume of Woodrow Wilson,
will be seen ever in the van of the
conflict, battling for his party's.
choice and the rights of the people
and his adherents will be with
him.
The logic Of events tends to
make Governor Wilson the cham
pion Of Democratic policies next
year.
A Southerner by birth-being
a native of the Shenandoah Val
1eyIhis manhood has been spent
in the North and the West is
ablaze with enthusiasm for him.
AS President of Princeton Uni
fversity he earned a world wide
reputation as an original thinker
and asa writer of great accuracy
and power.
A student of the Constitution,
with clear conception of the
science of government, he has be-
come the .exemplar Of the best
ideals of civic progression and the
most eminent constructive States
man of his generation,
Responding to the call of duty,
he led last year what was regard
ed as a forlorn hope, as the guber-
Material candidate of his party in
the trust married State of New
Jersey. Not only did he-partly
by the aid Of patriotic men of OPP
posite political faith-reverse the
overwhelming Republican major
ity of the preceding year, but-a
much more remarkable feat-on
his induction to, Office he swept
out the, rotten Democratic State
machine and tore the foul ta1ons
of the corruptionists from the
throat of his adopted State.
By invoking the power of public
sentiment, he induced the Legis-
lature to keep the party pledges,
elect it's nominee to the United
States Senate, and to write more
reform measures into the Statute
books of New Jersey than have
been enacted by any State in the
Union within a decade.
Intrepid, where principles are
involved, conservative in that
he believes that if our govern
ment is to be perpetuated, the rich
as we'll as the poor must be made
amenable to the law.
A magnetic debater with rare
power Of convincing those whose
hearts and minds are open and
eager to receive the truth.
Conservative, in the broad sense
and of extraordinary executive
ability; in Woodrow Wilson, as
the Democratic Candidate for the
Presidential Office, all the elem
ents of political strength seem.
to be centred.
Pennsylvania now beginning to
break away from the fetch of
protection, has declared for him,
with unsnimity.
His native Virginia and the
Empire State of Texas viii lead
the Southern delegations to his
banner next year.
The rank and file Of the Demo-
crazy of West Virginia without
derogation of the claims of others
have weighed him in the bal
ance and not found him wanting.
With Woodrow Wilson as our
Presidential Candidate West Viz
ginia will return to her moorings
ard again Be found In the column