The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-02-20
WILSON CERTAIN
OF NOMINATION
Montana Newspaper Halls Him
as the Standard Bearer OF
the Democratic Party.
PROGRESSIVE AND ABLE MAN
True Patriot and Morally and IntsL
IeetuaIly Fit for the High Posi-
tlon 10 Which He 10 Reason
ably Sure OF Election.

Helena (Mont) lndependent-Ths
people Will name the democratic
party's candidate for the presidency.
In the next democratic convention
there Will be no boss whose voice will
be heard above the rallying cry OF
real popular sovereignty tnere will
be no machine which will interfere
with the registering OF the peoples
will.
From Maine to California, from
Minnesota to Texas. the delegates
who Will assemble to name the party's
Standard-bear in the next campaign.
will come with but one purpose in
yieW-to restore real democratic gov
ernment TO power In the nations capt.
tol.
In view OF this situation, a situation
which Is most encouraging 10 the
party, 1t is possible now to forecast
the result of the democratic conven-
ton, and that forecast points uner-
ringlN to the nomination Of Woodrow
Wilson, former president OF Princeton
university, and governor OF New Jer-
sey, for the highest office within the
right OF any people.
The democratic candidate must be
a progressive. Such a man is Wood
row Wilson, whose record in New Jer-
sey has stamped him as one OF the
most progressive men in public life.
The democratic candidate for tho
presidency must he unafraid and free
from all influence OF political bosses.
Such man is Woodrow Wilson, who.
in his own state, unhorsed a political
dictator whose power no one before
had shaken.
The democratic candidate for the
presidency must be essentially demo
cratic. Such a man is Woodrow VIII
son, whose political ascendency has
been accomplished only by reason OF
the faith the people have in him, ana
who will carry into the high Office no
secret bargains with those who manip-
ulate politics for private gain.
The democratic candidate must be
morally and Intellectually ft for the
son, whose training enables him to
give TO the great problems OF the
day an integrity above question and
q mental capacity and knowledge Of
public affairs which has probably not
been excelled in an executive officer
since the days Of Jefferson.
In Woodrow Wilson, there 10 ample
evidence Of Americas ability to de-
velop in each crisis In the nations
affairs man who Is equal to the
emergencies OF his time Washington
appeared on the scene, when the dis
satisfied colonies needed a strong man
and military genius to lead dem to
national independence. Jefferson came
when the new democracy needed q
man to take the reins of the govern
ment from the hands OF an embryo no
bility and restore It to the people
Jackson came when the money power
first asserted itself in the control OF
the American government Lincoln
came when the union was about to
break upon the rocks of domestic
strife.
And now, when greater problems
than those which confronted Wash
ington and Jefferson and Jackson and
Lincoln demand courage and ability
OF almost superhuman character;
when from the length and breadth Of
the land there goes up, as In 1860, the
prayer, God give us a man" when
plutocracy is enthroned in high places
and when the life blood OF the coun-
try is being sucked by the vampire OF
big business when greed and avarice
have been substituted for patriotism
and justice; when sporadic and half
hearted attempts to right existing
wrongs only aggravate them; when
the nation demands again the genius
Of Washington, the faith in the peo-
ole of a jefferson. the courage OF a
Jackson and the sublime patriotism OF
Lincoln at such time as this il is
Ike watching the hand OF a benef-
cent destiny to see Woodrow Wilson
loom large on the scene OF national
politics.
Not only the Democratic party, but
the nation. too. is blessed that such a
man Is available for the presidency.