The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-03
WILSON Is NOMINATED.

The long deadlock in the Baltimore
convention was finally broken yesterday
by the nomination of Governor Wilson
to be President. This will be accented
generally as u progressive victory over
what Bryan calls the reactionaries or
stand-patters; and vet il is not easv 10
see why Mr.. Wilson should be called
progressive. 1, is true that he has
bnilt up machine for himself in New
Jersey which smashed the old Demo
cratic machine there and retired the old
Democratic leaders: but so far as vii.
son himself is concerned, there is no
particular evidence of progression IN
any thing that he has done or said, that
is at all convincing. He has spent the
most of his life as instructor and col
leee magnate, teaching the very things
that are now denounced as stand-pat
and rcactionary. IL was only whcn he
cut loose from his college career, and
took back, apparently for political pur-
poses only, the teachings of lifetime,
that he could BY any construction OF
language be held TO be progressive;
and the sincerity of the change Is, as
New York pointed out, open to qucs.
ton, so that Mr. Wilson is really an
untried experiment, man who has
never been put to the proof. AS pol
itician he is in his views in direct
opposition to his long promulgated
views as schoolman,
This will make toward weakness for
him as n Presidential candidate
His denunciations also OF foreign I'M
migration, especially that from Italy,
Hungary, Bohemia, and Poland, where
he assailed such immigrants as infer
Tor even to the Chinese, Will be used
against him at the polls. There are
in his candidacy, and doubtless others
will be discovered as the campaign
proceeds.
We consider therefore, that the nomi-
nation of Mr. Wilson is as favorable a
one for President Taft as the Demo
,rats could have made.
The convention was in a large degree
dominated by Mr.. Bryan, and this will
not tend to strengthen its work. I'm
Bryan has made himself cx.
.remely offensive to large numbers OF
Democrats. He has been even worse as
| marplot Gas New York delegate
,alled him, and as Uncle Jesse Knight
md other Democrats in Utah cndorse,)
han Roosevelt was in Chicago, with
greater power of misc hief; for Roosevelt |
vas in Chicago openly and avowedly |
for himself, while Bryan in |
Baltimore was paying off his revenges,
while protessedly working for prin-
.iple.
The two conventions, that at Chicago |
md that at Baltimore, were much alike |
n their tumultuous ebullitions, and III
he hatrcds that they developed. 1t is
likely. however, that the hatreds devel |
,ped in Baltimore will have less effect !
Ipon the Democratic party, than the |
latreds developed In Chicago will nave |
Ipon the Republican party; for we see |
lotbing incurable in the Baltimore |
gulf has been opened among |
he Republicans by the proceedings in
chicago.
So far as it appears there is no rea-
on why all the factions represented in |
Baltimore convention cannot get to.
.ether in the support OF Mr.. Wilson. 1t |
S probable, however, that New York |
Will not support him with the hearth |
less that might be desired, and many |
iefections among the Tammanyites are
o be expected. All in all, however, we do
lot see how the Baltimore convention |
.ould have done better than to nomi. |
,ate Mr.. Wilson. although his points |
If weakness are manifest