Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-05-09
Academies IN POLITICS.

| To the Democrat
/ When Woodrow Wilson began his
campaign for Governor OF New Jer-
sey, there was great opposition to his
election because he was an "academ-
| ic.' 1t was evidently presumed that
| politics was no field of labor for a
scholar and the fact that a man was
an academic should debar him from
all political activities. However, if
we should consider the preparations
of our 1912 presidential candidates we
would find that everyone of the most
promising aspirants were academies of
hish standing. This is true of both
Republicans and Democrats, Conser-
vatiyes and Progressives.
President w. H Taft is a scholar
statesman He graduated from Yale
University and studied law at the
University of Cincinnati. Later he
became Dean and professor of law in
the same university, and served for
several years in that capacity.
Governor Wilson-the academic
Candidate graduated from Princeton
University and studied law at the
University of Virginia He Dracticed
his professor for one year and then
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where he devoted two years to the
study of political science. After COM
pleting his advanced studies at the
university, Governor Wilson was for
4 several years a college professor and
] later president of Princeton
1 Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt is
a graduate of Havard University He
4 studied law at Columbia University
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/ books which reveal his wonderful
scholarship
Speaker Champ Clark, another
school-master politician, was educat-
ed at Bethany College, Kentucky uni
versity and at the Cincinnati Law
School. Before he was admitted to
/ the Bar, he was for time president
of Marshall College.
Governor Judson Harmon secured a
college education at Denison Univer-
] sity He then studied law at the
University of Cincinnati, and, like
President Taft, became professor of
law in the same institution, and help
4 ed to educate many young lawyers.
The people have not limited their
selection of academies to national
party leaders. According to the sta
! tistics for 1912 over sixty per cent.
of our United States Senators, over
! sixty-fve per cent. of our represen-
tatives in Congress, and nearly sew
enty per cent. of the Governors of
! states are either college bred men or
have had thorough training in pro-
fessionaI schools
The people of New Jersey are even
going so far as to choose the finished
product of academic training to rep
resent them in their state legislature.
4 This is shown very plainly by the Sc
lection of two of our senators of OPP
posite parties who were elected to
/ their positions last November. SEN
ator John D Prince was triilmphantly
| reelected by the Republican party in
] Passaic county, and Senator J War
rem Davis, an ardent Democrat and a
novice in the field of politics, was
elected by an overwhelming majority
in Salem County which had been
strongly Republican the previous
year.
The academic training of these two
noble statesmen is extremely com
mendable. Senator Prince is a grad
uate of Columbia University, where
he is now professor. He was once
a student in the great University of
Berlin, Germany. Afterward he be-
came a fellow at the famous Johns
/ Hopkins University, where he receiv-
ed the degree of Doctor of Philoso-
/ ply. Later he served for six years
ais dean of New York University His
fame as an author and deep political
scholar has been firmly established by
his voluminous work on historical and
| historico-legal subjects. Last Fall
the Senate appreciating his extraor-
! binary qualifications made him their
president.
Senator Davis has devoted about
| twelve years in the pursuit of higher
/ education. After completing his coll
i lege course at Bucknell University, he
graduated from Crozier Theological
Seminary and subsequently served as
teacher for three years in the same
renowned institution.
Later he studied in Germany at the
University of Berlin and Leipsic. Re-
! turning to America he entered the
Pennsylvania Law School and inn
mediately after graduating was adj
mitted to the bars of New Jersey and
Pennsylvania.
BY thus considering the preparation
/ of our excellent statesmen we find
that college men academies, are
/ not only being mustered into the SER
vice of the various parties, but they
are being mustered into the service of
| the commonwealth. The people are
choosing as their leaders and repre-
sentatives, men of that strong and
sturdy calibre as is developed by
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aesthetic finish as is perfected by the
study of classics. BY their excellent
selection Of public servants the peo-
pie have proven that scholarship is
not a barrier, but a key to the door OF
advanced craftsmanship.
J.. MILTON CONOVER.
Serenade Party
A serenade was rendered Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Bailey on last Saturday
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