Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-06-03
BOOMING WILSON
Western Trip Strengthened
Him For Presidency.
POLITICIANS EA6tR FOR FACTS
Friends Il Governor Declare Tour
Has Some Long Way 10 Clinch
His Nomination by Demo.
Gratis IN 1912

Washington, May 20. Governor
Woodrow Wilson friends in this city
are more than pleased with his trip
through the west and declare his boom
for the presidency has gained sub
stantial strength.
They declare that this trip has gone
a long way to clinch the nomination
of Mr.. Wilson by the Democrats in
1912
Governor Wilson has undoubtedly
been talking to big audiences in the
west, and he has been received with
many marks of favor, according to all
the reports. And it may be added
that some of the Democratic politi-
clans in Washington have been at a
good deal of pains to ascertain the
facts.
The reasons for this are sufficiently
obvious. Those who want Wilson nom
mated are eager to find out how his
boom Is being received, and those who
want Harmon or Clark are for oppo-
site reasons quite as eager
The advices that have come to the
Wilson camp In Washington are that
the governor while in the west has
succeeded in getting the ear of both
the progressive Democrats and the
conservative Democrats. He has been
given due recognition by various civic
bodies.
In his speeches he has not trimmed,
t, dvy,Ir nj hau FOL
ed one doctrine strong in one quarter
and put the soft pedal on 1t in an
other quarter.
Lambasted big Business.
They cite the fact that in a speech
at banquet In San Francisco Wilson
lambasted some of the. practices of
big business so hard that one of the
bankers of the city arose in his place
and said:
IL am not guilty of any of these
things that Dr. Wilson is pointing
out"
However, the question of whether
Wilson was received with exuberance
or not is not Of as much practical i'm
portanee as the question whether he is
going to get delegates as the result
of his swing around the circle.
If the statements of the friends OF
Wilson are correct, he Is going to
capture a large bunch of delegates
from the Pacific coast and the far
northwest.
Word has come from California
Democrats. from men whose promises
are of weight and value, that he can
have the delegation from that state.
Oregon is said to be for Wilson with
out question and also Washington.
Whether Idaho will be Is not so GER
tain, but the Wilson men think the
same influences that have stirred
Democratic opinion along the Pacific
coast to be for DR.. Wilson will sway
Idaho.
In the south there Ia no question
that Wilson has lately been gaining
He has been making many inroads in
the Champ Clark strength there, to
say nothing OF the Harmon strength.
Georgia. Virginia. Mississippi, Tennes-
see and Kentucky. North Carolina and
Florida are said to be almost certain
to line up for Wilson.
The recent letter of Senator Gore
makes 1t practically certain that Okla
homa will be for Wilson.
When it comes to the east, Wilson
is going to have good hold there.
The fact that Senator O'Gorman, of
New York, is Wilson man Is going
to weigh much with the Democrats of
that state
In the progressive states OF the mid
die west, Wilson may reasonably hope
for large following. This is due to
the fact that Bryan is friendly to VIII
son and to the fact that the west has
come to look on Wilson as progressive.
Nomination Not "Cinched."
While Wilson is making progress in
his campaign to capture the presiden-
that he has the nomination in his
grasp, that he has, in the words of the
immortal T. Roosevelt, the nomination
"cinched"
The Clark supporters are active,
and they are quite certain the next
convention is going to recognize the
services of Mr.. Clark as speaker of
the house And the Harmon support
ers are also extremely active. Indeed
there is evidence that the Harmon
forces have done surprising lot of
gumshoeing about the country and
have got all manner OF Democrats
hitched to the Harmon chariot by
pledges.