The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-10-30
GOVERNOR WILSON
IS MY CANDIDATE
CHAMP CLARK WORKING ZEAL
OUSLY FOR SUCCESS OF THE
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

i
Clark, speaker of the house or repre-
sentatives and candidate opposing
Governor Wilson at Baltimore, In a
statement issued here Monday, gave
his reasons for supporting the demo-
cratic nominee, and urges all true
democrats to do likewise. Taking
up the charge that has been made
against Governor Wilson as to change
in opinion on certain subjects the
| speaker says that it is much better
to be right though inconsistent, than
to be consistent though wrong" eve
are acting in the living present. he
says, for people now in this coun-
try and for millions yet to be. and
not cropping in the dead past His
statement follows:
Il need not say that Governor
Woodrow Wilson was not my first
choice for the presidential nomina-
tion at Baltimore but the moment he
was nominated he became as much
my candidate as he was the candi-
date of any other democrat betwiXt
the two seas. Every human being,
friend or foe, that knows me, knew
from the beginning that that is true.
| hope and believe that he will be
elected. will use whatever of power
and influence | possess for the sue
cess of Wilson and Marshall. That
is the sort of democrat l am, always
was and ever will be.
believe that this is democratic
year, and that the democrats will
win a signal triumph all along the
line. i am glad to have had Fart
in the great work of the democrats
in the 62nd congress, which has made q
sweeping democratic victory, not on
ly possible, but so highly probable
as to approximate a certainty as close
ly as any event in politics can approx
innate certainty.
Wilson and Marshall are men OF
high character and democrats are
united in their support. This is as
it should be, for the chief work in
hand is to rescue the government from
re- ublican maladministration. We
have not what the British have-a
responsible government - the near
est approach thereto which we can
have under the constitution is to have
house, senate and president all of
the same faith. Hence | am anxious
to see the democrats capture all three
legislative branches of the govern
ment so that we can try our theory
Then, if it works we'll the people will
recognize it and reward us. If 1t
proves bad in practice, the people
win throw us out, as they should do.
We have recently witnessed at Wash
ington a spectacle Of democratic
house raising good bills-bills which
would have greatly reduced the high
cost of living, and which would have
gone far toward relieving the people
of the burden of heavy taxes, and OF
a republican president vetoing these
bills as fast as they reached him.
So repeat that we want house, senate
and president all three democratic.
So far in this campaign the two
principal criticisms leveled against
Governor Wilson are: THAT he
has had little experience in public
life: 2-that his opinions on certain
subjects have changed in the LAPSE OF
time. AS to the latter, while admit
ting that consistency is ranked among
the virtues, it is much better to be
right though inconsistent, than to be
consistent though wrong. The ques-
ton is not what Governor Wilson
or any other man thought twenty,
or fifteen, or ten, or five years ago,
ing in the living present, for people
now in this country and for millions
yet to be, and not cropping in the dead
past.
AS to his lack of experience as
public man, l may be permitted TO
suggest to thost most concerned that
General Taylor had no experience
whatsoever in public life, never hav-
ing voted even single time, and
that General Arthur had very little
experience. 1t was universally ad-
mitted that those presidents discharg-
ed their duties as chief executive OF
the nation faithfully and well. Every
body admits that Abraham Lincoln
was a great president; many deem
him the greatest of the twenty-siX.
All agree that he was one of the four
greatest. His name is written high