The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-25
SAYS HE'LL WIN
A New York Man Thinks Governor VIII
son viii Break All Records
The COUNTRY FOR him

he GUUisAME EVA N2il
Sentiment as Seen by the New York
er on Business Trip Of Ten
Thousand Miles Makes Him Be
lieve that Gov. Wilson VIII Sweep
the Country Next Year.
J. 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
jority in the electoral college will
be greater than that given to any
President ever elected. These are
strong statements. Let me tell you
why I believe them to be true.
I have, within the past two
months travelled more than ten
| thousand miles in the United States.
/ have talked with some Of the big
gest men in the country. l have al
so talked with workingmen, COM
| nercial travellers, small merchants
and others.
The sentiment in favor of Wilson
is simply tremendous His admins
,ration 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
aone of whose fortune has been
made by security Juggling, said to
me:
81 am for Wilson because I be-
iieve he recognizes that the govern
nent of this great nation should
De put on business basis. The
business men of the United States
have accustomed themselves to re-
gard government as something a
| n
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 its expon-
ents, have yet to see the lawyer
whom I would make the general
manager of my business. If this
be true of my own personal bust
ness, involving a capitalization OF
less than s10,00O,0G0, 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 nc
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 profit. I believe il
can, if it is administered without re-
gard to politics. 1t should be the
business of the President of the
United States to see that it is sc
administered. I believe that Wood
row Wilson would insist that it be
so administered Hence I am fo1
him.
One of the men I talked with
was vice mayor of 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 ff.
teen years he taught his classes in
Princeton that neither of these doc.
:rines would work. He says, fur
| ther, he can prove today that they
won't work. Then he adds with ma
tive frankness, "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, sis
in my estimation, the best indica-
ton of Wilson's strength
J. w. Binder.