The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

to win. do not believe it can win with Wilson and l am ready to give reasons for the conviction have expressed.
 As a candidate, Governor Wilson's rec ord and utterances would put him most unfortunately upon the defensive from the first day of the campaign until the last day.
 Not an Aggressive Candidate
 Tn the hands of sllillful and powerful republican opposition, what Governor Wil- son has said and done would make him from first to last that lamentable thing a defensive candidate.
 Governor Wilson has been able merely as a candidate for the nomination to pre- serve silence toward his own party under many serious charges, owing to the un- willingness of democrats to press charges against one for whom they might be called upo nto vote.
 But with the battle on in earnest the re- lentless organs of republican opposition in full pursuit would make Governor Will sons candidacy one long, unceaslng expla- nationl
 Governor Wilson would be asked to ex- plain. and would be compelled to explain as Q democratic candidate:
 1. His willingness to accept a penspUn at the hands of Andrew Carnegie. so long the head of the great American steel trust.
 Has Voted Against Democrats
 ?. His ballot cast in two campaigns against the nominee of his own party for President, and once withheld altogether.
 3. The extraordinary suddenness of his change from an ultra-conservative teacher at Princeton to the popular side as an ultro-progressive politician immediately upon the beginning of his active candi- dacy for President, advocating among other populistio doctrines that widest and most unsound of all political vagaries, the initiative, referendum ana recau.
 4. To the red blooded and large hearted voters of the country his extraordinarrry sudden and almost ferocious attack upon Jim Smith of Jersey, whose money and in- huence helped so powerfully to make him governor, and what Henry Watterson has denominated his .'base betrayal" of George Harvey, who was the chief fac tor in making him a candidate for the presidency.
 What the people will demand to know Is why Jim Smith was not so well known l to Governor Wilson while the Smith money and the Smith influence were being poured out like water In his behalf I as when Jim Smith was squeezed dry and no longer essential to the presidential boom.
 Did Not Attack J. P. Morgan They will also demand to know why and for what reason Governor Wilson did not fin public speech, attack the all powerful money magnate. J. Pierpont Morgan, rather than turn his back upon his benefactor, Harvey, who was only objectionable because of his alleged con- nection with J. Pierpont Morgan? 5 The utterances in his History of the I American People," which reflect so se- lriousIy and severely upon the Italians, the Hungarians and the Poles, who make up | so large and important part of our popu- | lation fin the larger cities of the country. | 6. To the people of the Pacific coast the views expressed toward the Chinese which are so radically at varience with | their own.
 I. To the thinking democrats through out the country the spirit and tone of his various books, which so criticise Jeffer- son and Jackson and so eulogize Hamilton as to induce ex-Speaker Cannon upon the floor of the House to call him ''Hamil- tonian democrat"
 8. The antagonism his candidacy has aroused in the great Catholic church and the great Hebrew race throughout the country.
 Neglect of Duties as Governor g. One of the most serious criticisms which Governor Wilson as 8 candidate would be asked to explain would be his astonishing record of absentism from his post of duty--neglecting his duties and de- serting his 6nice of governor in the pro motion of his candidacy for another of flee. It has been stated that Governor Wilson has been absent a greater number of days from his post of duty than any governor of New Jersey or any other state.
 During 1911, the first year of Governor