Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-12

ANY One of a Dozen Demo.
Gratis Better Representa-
tives of Party

NEW YORK. June 12.-Henry Wat
teison, at the Manhattan Club, asked
why Champ Clark should be noui-
mated and Woodrow Wilson defeated
fer the presidency. replied thus:
The New York World, having
knocked Champ Clark over the ropes
and sent Judson Harmon and Oscar
underwood each to his corner to
suck his thumbs. takes up the gloves
FOR Woodrow Wilson.
True to Its environment, the
World is of the East, easterly. 1t can
see nothing west of the Alleghanies.
or south Of the Blue Ridge. 1t is in
the East says the World, that Dem-
oeratie victory must be won. 1t is
IN the East that R~ooseveltism must
be overthrow. 1t is the East that
must save the country from a third
term and all 1t implies
The World is carried away by a
kind of intellectual hysteria. At Ball
timore h Democrats are not only
10 nominate a candidate for Presi-
dent. They are not only to put q
ticket in the field. They are actually
~ a-h CoioCliis o0to1SSf -
leave Roosevelt and Rooseveltism out
of the question. no party, debauched
as the Republicans, can hope to pre-
vail in a national election.
Again Tells of His Proof.
Hence, at Baltimore, the Demo-
Gratis must consider not alone the
availability of the candidate they
nominate, but the character of the
man they are to lut in the White
House.
Acting upon a wealth of knowl-
edge acquired during a period of
opportunity in friendly service, most
relutantly l feh constrained to
part company with the Governor oe
New Jersey. OF a sudden there
came a revelation of personality, as
by f1%ashlight, making it plain that
when the fairy godmother bent over
the cradle of the little Woodrow Will
son to give him so many blessings,
she withheld the virtue of fidelity,
without which the rest, however shin
ing, are tainted.
NO honorable man can learn the
facts and inspect the proof which ]
hold and have repeatedly offered to
produce under proper restriction as
to personal rights and party interest,
8nd remain of the opinion that the
Governor of New Jersey is either a
trustworthy. or "a safe man to be in
vested with Democratic leadership
and the presidential office.
THE World itself appears half
conscious of this. Dwelling high up
in the air, in utterance by turns
ethereal and sublimated, our good
brother of the golden dome affects
too often the o%racular, when a modi-
cum of simple boss sense were more
to the point and better to the pur-
pose.
But surrounding its acknowledged
objections and discounting it's sinister
auguries, the World proceeds to de-
bate the question of availability,
when, in choosing a President, Demo-
Gratis need chiefly to consider the
question of character. OF .self-willed
:. men affecting perfectability-quite TOO
good for the use of this worldgthe
people are not wholly ignorant. One
OF them in the coming race for Presi-
dent were surely enough.
se1f-expfoite Virtue"
Who is a Better representative OF
Democracy than Woodrow Wilson,
asks the World. Why, any one of a
dozen Democrats in. whom the ele-
inents Of flesh and blood predominant
over the elements of excessive cul-
ture and overwrought ambition; In
whom the essentials of everyday wis
dom. of loyal faith, of stable, honor
able, generous manhood, prevail over
sclf-exploited virtue and dogmatic
kelf-assertion; any one of a dozen
Democrats who have had eve a lit
tie experience in public affairs as
against a doctrinaire mar of letters
who has acquired by a lifetime in the
classroom the t%yrannous cast of mind
n the disciplinary habits of the
schoolmaster. and who, suddenly ele-
waited to the presidency, would loose
all real sense of the relation of things,
II ever he possessed any faculty for
making common cause and working
to harness.
THE country very much needs an
other Lincoln. 1t does not need n
mild-mannered Roosevelt, which is all
that Woodrow Wilson Is. We may
ind objection TO every one named IN
connection with the Democratic
nomination for President, but most
of all to the Governor of New Jersey,
because he alone among Democrats
Is represented as ideal.
The Democratic party wants a
Democrat, tried and true. in the
White House. We want no man there
who thinks himself so great, and
Whose friends ~thinkLand tell him he
is SC great, that when the test comes
he is good for nothing.
CLARK an Honest Man."
Champ Clark has been at Wash
ingten long enough to know who's
who and what's what. He ought to
be and Is good enough for plain people
that want a mar n not an angel
for their President. He has been in
the thick of factional fighting during
revolutionary times. Inevitably he
has said much he might have better
left unsaid. So have all of us. If he
had not he would have been i'll fit for
his job, or for any other job. A poll
tician. even a statesman. may be too
prudent.
"Champ Clark is simply a man
an honest mana man of ability and
education-a man of fish and blood.
He is a Democrat. On every essential
issue of the time he is as soundNas a
piece of seasoned timber and as
straight as a shingle. If we cannot
elect him we can elect no one"