The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
SOME REASONS
bWhy Woodrow Wilson Should Be
 Elected President

| Because of what he has accomplish
 ed.
 Because of what he now is and th'
 great cause of the people he repre- sents.
 1 Because of the things he is now | accomplishing for a rehabilitation ot I the rule of the people. I Because of what he promises to dc for the firm re-esta blishment of pop ular government, which promises may be accepted with faith in the | light Of his political career.
 Because he stands upon a party
 platform which pledges. opportunity for the moral as we'll as the materia advancement of the entire nation I with favors for no preferred NclasS
 but the establishment of equal rights
 and justice for every citizen a plat
 form which, like the candidate, came from the people, was adopted by the
 people and declares for the people | Because he is the fearless and un- i trammeled representative of cause l which is builded upon the time hon.
 pred principles of Jeffersonian Democ- Tracy, has been nurtured for genera tions. by liberty loving people knows l no creed nor individual distinctions between classes, rests upon the God l given principle of the equal rights of I all men and pledges to every man
 woman and child in this glorious na- I tion that they shall be placed upon | the same legal footing with their
 neighbors and shall be given a voice
 in the control of their own govern ment-a government which, in prin-
 ciple, is of, by and for the people. | Because of the manner of man he | is
 When Woodrow Wilson. became a pupil at Princeton in the middle of
 seventies he began the study of econ | compared governmental problems in this country and abroad. He thought upor and reasoned out these matters for himself, reaching his own care- l fully weighed conclusions as to how public affairs should be conducted. This line of study and thought he | continued with increasing activity and constantly broadening scope year after year. He wrote esays and then looks I in which his economic ideas found forcible expression His views soon began to attract attention and were not slow in being widely accepted. He became an authority upon such ques- tions both. as university lecturer and as textbook author History, as closely related to the special line of thought indicated, became an inn portant feature of his work, and on the past life of this great nation, too, did ae become an accepted authority. Then it was, recognizing in Wood row Wilson the student; the college professor, the university president, the "schoolmaster," if you will, the man who. if he could put his teachings in to practice, was the one man to do
 those things which machine and cor fo ii
 ed, the Democrats of. that state nom-
 mated him for governor. He convert
 ed great Republican majority into
 tremendous Democratic victory. He was elected on one of the most pro-
 greesive platforms ever promulgated in any state, a platform which declar-
 ed for many reforms and for; "a return of the rule for the people. The history of his wonderful fight fo- the fulfllment of platform pledges in New Jersey is familiar to the na-
 tion. With the support of a Democrat ic house and in spite of a Republican senate and overcoming the vicious op-
 position of bitter political enemies from whom he had taken the machine
 rule of the state ins his effort to re-
 store control by the people, he carried
 out the most remarkable legislat tive
 program in the history of this republic
 and made good the promises given in
 the party platform and on the stump
 Tn brief, he made good.a He showed that the "schoolmaster" was indeed a
 practical politician who had thorough
 ly equipped himself for the great tasks
 he had undertaken and had so suc- |.cessfqlly accomplished.
 All ~this being true. the national
 Democratic party thought Governor
 Wilson the man to nominate for presf-
 dent If he had done so much for
 New Jersey, overcoming what seemed
 to be impossible obstacles, why could
 he not do the same things for the na-
 ton?
 Governor Wilson was nominated by
 the most remarkable convention ever
 held by the Democratic party. His
 choice by the delegates to that con-
 vention was in response to the unmis-
 takabie voice of the people. He was
 nominated upon a progressive plat
 form pledging popular government, a
 restoration of the rule of the people
 an opportunity for every citizen Of the
 United States to do something. In
 view of his brief but remarkable off,
 cial record, Governor Wilson was him.
 self a sufficient platform, for the ma tion knew the man and was familiar with those things for which he stood Governor Wilson has, in response to the overwhelming popular demands of his fellow Democrats the nation over I.taken the progressive banner in his nanQS ana IS ISdTi6SS1y l0dQiu6 tuS majority Of his countryment in a fight for a restoration of those principles in practice as we'll as in theory upon which this republic was founded, the equal rights of all men, the rehabilita- ton of the rule of the people. Governor Wilson has proved that he considers platform pledges a sacred trust, not vote getters. He has as gov ernor of New Jersey done what he promised to do. A man can only be 1 judged by what he has done and is doing, and the faith which the masses 1 irrespective of creed nationality or present social conditions are placing 1 in this Democratic leader is strength ende by the fact that he does what he says he will do.
 l The people believe Governor Wilson l stands for moral as we'll as the ma teriaI advancement Of all the people 1 because he has done what he promised to do for the people of New Jersey. He has entered upon this campaign under personal or political pledges to no man nor set of men. He knows no class. That he is the champion of equal opportunity and exact justice l for all men has been shown too con- cIusively in his own state to be con- | troyerted by national political oppo- nents.
 l Then, too. Governor Wilson's pri- vate as we'll as, his public life of puri- 1 ty, integrity and sincerity; the fact 1 that he lives in the fear of God. I but of no man; that he takes a stand 1 for what he believes to be right and all the forces above and below cannot