Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-06-07
STRONG PLEA FOR WILSON.
(From New York World. J

should be the Democratic candidate
for President.
That is the opinion of The World
That is the counsel of the New Jersey
primaries. That is the logic of the
situation.
1t is time for facts and not for
theories. Judson Harmon might prove
a strong candidate in New York and
Ohio, but his nomination has been
rendered impossible. Champ Clark
would be hopeessly beaten cand-
date in New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut. He could do no better
than MIR. Bryan, who has lost these
States three times and would lose
them again if nominated. Oscar w.
Underwood is of Presidential size.
but he has been INFESTED as n candi-
date in the North and is an unknown
quantity to most of the voters.
Woodrow Wilson alone has record
of continuing victory in the section in
which victory is essential to Demo-
cratic success.
What other Democratic candidate
could poll so many votes in the great
debatable States of the East-New
York, New jersey ana Connecticut?
What other Democratic candidate,
who could carry these States, would
be so strong in the great debatable
States of the Middle West Ohio and
Indiana?
What other Democratic candidate
could make so powerful an appeal to
hundreds of thousands of thong htful,
independent voters without whose
support no Democratic President can
be elected?
What other Democratic candidate
could so well stem the rising tide of
Rooseveltism, which now threatens to
engulf representative government and
republican institutions?
What other Democratic candidate
would so fully measure up to the
ideals of the sane radicals and the
sane conservatives upon whose Joint
action the result of the election will
hinge?
The World hitherto has withheld it's
active support from all candidats. 1t
advocated an open convention at Bal.
timore, and advised its Democratic
friends to await the action of the
Republicans at Chicago. The open
convention is assured. The measure is
clarified and further delay is unneces-
sary.
Like a twentieth century Genphis
Khan, Theodore Roosevelt, with his
horde of prairie Populists and Wall
Street Socialists. is sweeping down
upon the Republican national conven.
tlon. MIR. Taft seems as powerless to
check him as the degenerate Romans
were to check the descent of the
Goths and the Vandals. The historic
party of Lincoln and Seward and
Chase and Sumner and Conkling and
Chandler and Blaine and Garfield and
Harrison and Sherman and Mckinley
is apparently in the death throes
This is the twilight of the gods.
and the Democratic party must rise
cot only to its opportunity but to its
responsibility.
How can it do its duty better than
to match sanity against lunacy
craftsmanship against demagogy the
historian against the Rough Rider
the educator of public opinion aga.
inst the debaucher of public opinion
the first term against the third term :
the tariff refoImer against the stand
patter; the man who would prosecute
trust magnates against the man who
protects trust magnates; the man
with clean hands against the man
who draws his campaign fund from
Wall Street; the supporter of consti
tutional government against the
champion of personal government
law against lawlessness ;Americanism
against Mechanism; the Republic
against the dictatorship?
Who better Represents these issues
than Woodrow Wilson? Who is better
qualified than Woordow Wilson to
appeal to the intelligence and COM
mon sense of the American people
against the most cunning and adroit
demagogue that modern civilization
has produced since Napoleon III?