The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-06-28
Judge Wescott Names Governor Wilson, Rank
head Places Underwood i'm Nomination,
and Senator Reed Speaks for Clark

prietorship. A disregard of this first
! premises will bring our dreams crash
ing in ruins next November.
Again, the eternal conflict between
equal opportunity and special privilege
is upon us. Our fathers wrote the
issue of that struggle in our Consti-
tutions. They declared all men to be
free and equal. In a single century
that principle developed the North Amer
lean continent, leavening the world
with its benificence, inspired all ma
tons with hope and made the United
States the asylum of the world Yet
America, at this very hour presents
the most stupendous contradiction in
history-a people politically free,
while economically bound by the most
gigantic monopolies of all time and
burdened by system of taxation
which exploits millions to enrich a
few. We have preserved the forms
of freedom, but are fast losing its
substance. The evils of this condi-
ton are felt in a thousand ways
throughout the land. Therefore it is
that America is awake Therefore it
is that mistake in our premises will
be fatal. Therefore it is that the sit
uation, national exigency, the crisis,
call for the right man. Therefore
it is that a silent and resistless revolu-
ton demands our patriotic and best
judgement Individuals are as moth
ing. and personal ambitions are worse
than nothing. If the chosen candi-
date fails in any sense or in any de-
gree fully and completely to meet the
call of the nation, he is doomed to
defeat.
Men are known by what they say
and do. They are known by those
who hate and oppose them. Many
years ago, Woodrow Wilson said, mo
man is great who thinks himself so,
and no man is good who does not try
to secure the happiness and comfort
OF Others" This is the secret of his |
life. Later, in his memorable effort to I
retain good scholarship and democracy
in Princeton University, he declared, |
THE great voice of America does not !
come from seats of learning. 1t |
comes in a murmur from the hills
and woods, and the farms and fac |
tories and mills, rolling on and gain
ing volume until it comes to us from
the homes of common men. Do these
murmurs echo in the corridors of our |
universities? l have not heard them"
A clarion call to the spirit that now
moves America. Later he shouted, 81
VIII not cry peace so long as there is
sin and wrong in the world" Here
Is the very soul of the silent revolu-
ton now solidifying sentiment and
purpose in our common country.
The deeds of this moral and intel
lectual giant are known to all men.
They accord not with the shafts /
and false pretenses of politics, but
make national harmony with the mil
lions of patriots determined to correct
the wrongs of plutocracy and re-es-
tablish the maxiums OF American lib
erty in all their regnant beauty and
practical effectiveness. New Jersey
loves Woodrow Wilson not for the
enemies he has made New Jersey
lnUnC him rhaf h. Il. ...lI |
his enemy. The influences that have
opposed him have demonstrated his
availability and fitness on the one
hand, and exposed the unavailability
and unfitness of some others on the
other hand. The influence that has
opposed him blights and blasts any
cause and any person it espouses
That influence has appealed to the
sordid, low and criminal That in
huence fattens on ignorance and ava
rice. The man that accepts its aid,
so far as his public usefulness is con-
cerned, would be more fortunate had
a milestone been tied about his neck
and he had been cast into the depths
Of the sea. New Jersey believes that ,
The opposition to Governor Wilson,
such as 1t has been, necessitates and
secures his triumph.
Similar necessities, motives and
'auses impel ali men alike. The same /
necessities. motives and causes which ]
Iraw, as by omnipotence. substantially /.
III New Jersey about this great good
nan, are identically the same neces- =
titles. motives and causes that are In
esistless motion in every State in the ,
Union. Its solidarity cannot be dis I
migrated. False argument falls ]
'roken against IT, A revolution Of
Intelligent and patriotic millions is
be expression Of these necessities.
motives and causes. Therefore Newl