Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-28
AT BALTIMORE CONVENTION
ACI CANDIDATES IN NOMINATION

less, democrat, WOOO-
row Wilson.
New Jersey has reasons for. her
course. Let US not be deceived In our
premises. Campaigns of vilification,
corruption and false p%retense have
lost their usefulness. The evolution
of national energy is towards a more
intelligent morality in politics and in
all other relations. The line of cleav-
age is between those who treat poll
tics as a game and those who regard
1t as the serious business of govern
ment. The realignment of political
parties will be on this principle.
THE situation admits of no com
promise. The temper and purpose of
the American public will tolerate no
other view. The indifference of the
American people to politics has dis
appeared. Any platform and any
social and commercial behest will go
down to ignominious defeat at the
polls. Platforms r too often mere
historic rubbish heaps and broken
promises. Candidates are too fire.
quently the unfortunate creatures of
arrangements and calculations. Ex-
igencies, conditions, national needs
and necessities make better platforms
and produce greater leaders than
does the exercise of proprietorship.
Men are known by what they say
and do. They are known by those
who hate and oppose them. Many
years q woodrow Wilson said: No
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 retain good scholarship and democ-
racy in Princeton University, he de-
clared: The great voice of America
does not come from seats of learning.
1t m in a murmur from the hills
and woods, and the farms and fac
tories and the mills, rolling on and
gaining volume until 1t comes to us
,from the homes of common men. Do
these murmurs echo In the corridors
of u universities? I have not heard
them A clarion call to the spirit
that now ove America. Later he
shouted: I will not cry peace so long
as there is sin and wrong in the
world Here is the very SOU of the
silent revolution now s~olidifying SEN
timent 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 shams and
false pretenses Of politics, but make
national harmony with the millions
of patriots determined to correct the
wrongs of plutocraoy and reestablish
h maxims of American liberty In
all their regnant beauty and practical
effectiveness. New Jersey loves
Woodrow Wilson not for the enemies
he has made. New Jersey loves him
for what he is. All evil is his enemy.
Therefore New Jersey argues that
Woodrow Wilson Is the only candi-
date who cannot only make Demo-
cratic ucces a certainty, but secure
the electoral vote of almost every
State in the Union.
New Jersey will indorse his nomi-
nation by a majority of 100, 900 of her
liberated citizens. We are not building
for a day, or even a generation, but
for all time. Let not the belief that
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sound judgment. What would it
profit the Democratic party to win
now, only to be cast out four years
hence? The Democratic party should
be commissioned to carry on a great
constructive program having for its
end a complete restoration of the
doctrine of equal rights and equal
opportunity-without injury and
wrong to anyone. Providence has
given us, in Woodrow Wilson, the
mental and moral equipment to &C
complish this reincarnation of
Democracy.
New Jersey believes that there is an
omniscience in national instinct. That
instinct centres in Woodrow Wilson.
IF Providence could spare q Wash
ington to lay the foundations of the
United States of America; IL Provi-
dence could spare a ~Jeffsraon to make
Democracy a living reality; If Provi-
dence could spare a Lincoln to unite
the States in impregnable unity and
brotherhood, New Jersey appeals to
his convention to give the nation
woodrow Wilson, that ne may open
the gates of opportunity to every
man, m and child under our flag
by reforming abuses and thereby
teaching them, in his matchless
words, to release their energies intel
~ligently, that peace, justice and pros
perity may reign
New Jersey rejoices, through her
freely chosen representatives, to name
for the Presidency of the United
States the Princeton schoolmaster,