The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-02-17
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! WHAT EDITORS SAY Of WILSON :


Washington, d. c., Feb. 17.-That
Governor Woodrow Wilson is the
choice of the large majority of the peo-
pie of the southern states for the dem
ocratic nomination for the presidency
and that he will have more than two
thirds of the delegates from the south
at the Baltimore convention, is the
opinion of Josephus Daniels, editor Of
the Raleigh News and Observer and
democratic national committeeman
from North Carolina.
The south wishes to win" declared
the Tar Heel editor. and is in no mood
for playing politics or putting out fav-
orite sons. There are plenty of able
southern men who would make great
presidents, Texas has one in Culber-
son; Georgia in HoTe Smith, and North
Carolina in Ex-Governor Aycock. The
admirers of these men have no idea
.of urging them as fayorite son can
.didates, and not one of them would
permit it in this crisis when the party
lis upon the eve of a great national vic
tory. The southern people are for
Woodrow Wilson, believing that he
will be nominated and elected"
Mr.. Daniels, who is the youngest
member of the democratic national
committee, and next to the Oldest in
point of service, having 16 years of
continuous service to his credit, said
in speaking of the availability of the
New Jersey executive, as a democratic
presidential candidate;
1T is no reflection upon any of the
candidates for the democratic presi-
Dental nomination to say that not in
years has any man so quickly obtained
popular confidence upon the record of
promises ktpt, deeds performed. and
rare craftsmanship displayed as Wood
row Wilson, the governor of New Jer-
sey He has the scholarship and tht
philosophy of government of the JEFF
ferson school, the courage to oppose
bossism and control of government by
big business displayed by Jackson;
and as thorough-going and relentless
foe of graft, even in his own party, he
has displayed the qualities of Tilden.
On the stump, he wins and charms
with an incisiye clearness that gives
him no competitor among the aspirants
for the presidency. His progressive
ness is based upon belief in popular
government and his conception of the
way is to remove the distractions that
now deny rule by the people. No man
in this decade has appealed to the pop
ular imagination or so won the public
confidence as Woodrow Wilson, and
everywhere those who are looking for
an end of government by bosses for
their own benefit and the enrichment
of what is called "the interests" or
big business" look to Governor Will
son, ideally fitted, as the man for the
big job that America wishes to have
done Wilson has shown that he knows
how to do it by the unparalleled record
of the New Jersey legislature under
his leadership.
From the day he was elected gov
ernor of New Jersey, and, with cour-
age that challenged the admiration Of
the whole country, secured the carry
ing out of the recorded will of the vot-
ers in respect to the senatorship and
outlined a progressive policy that as
New. Jersey and all others, the
rank and file Of the party has been
heartened and cheered by the hope of
having an opportunity to have just
such a constructive policy formulated
at the White House. The New Jersey
sought the vote of the
man by the dishonest promise
of helping him through the tariff and
refused to enact any state legislation
to protect labor. Governor Wilson
gave laws that protect labor in New
Jersey and blazed the way for the pro-
gressive legislation to secure justice
for labor, as well as capital, that has
caused other states to follow New Jer-
sey's lead. Think of New Jersey so
long dominated by selfish corporations
becoming the beacon light for legisla-
ton to guarantee just protection for
the man who labors! That shows what
a revolution Woodrow Wilson has
brought about in his state, and his at
titude toward all just demands of the
men who labor; and, in all his record |
there has been no policy of denying
all just powers to corporations
is the south for Wilson,"
THE people of the south rejoice
hat southern born man. residing in
/ great northern states, and embody.
ng in himself the best of both sections,
las the confidence of the American