Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-06-03
The Man to Beat Roosevelt

THE Democrats will have a great deal o think Of in the few
days that will intervene between the adjournment OF the Republican
convention in Chicago and their W coming together in Baltimore
If the movement for Roosevelt continues to grow and the colonel Is
nominated and put before the country as Il candidate for a third term.
Democracy must offer a mar with wisdom to oppose demagogy. with
cool and deliberate judgment set against impulsive and violent gallery
play with constructive politics Of reform instead of fands and nos
trums calculated to catch the fancy of the unthinking-a IA aetuated
by a desire ito lead rather than BY a mania o stampede. a man indie
pendent of enFnging alliances with the interests that profit by poit
icl corruption instead OF a mar whose campaign fund comes from
those monopohsts grown rich o special governmental favors.
1t is a question both OF duty and of expedency. then. that will
confront the Democrats in the ven OF Roosevelts nomination at
Chicago. We are still hoping that the conspiracy o make the col
onel the standard-bearer of his party will fail in the final test of
strength, but so ominous is the prospect as state after state yiels to
his shallow buncombe. W e are constrained to point out the ne road
the presidency that will remain open ito. the Democrats.
Manifesny Wilson is the mn Ito nominate against Roosevelt Ger
tainly Clerk is not the man, howevcr genial his personality. Nor is
Harmon. whose nomination would be hailed with delight by the ultra
conservatives of both parties, the man Nor is Underwood, who is
recognized as II of the "emnent1y safe" aspirants for the honor
Wilson stands ont alone; he is the one man who could take
Roosevelts measure.
United States Senator Gardner of Maine has exactly sized up the
situation. We quote him briefly He says:
with Roosevelt as the Republican candidate the Democratic con-
venhon at Baltimore will win. While know that Roosevelt is insin
ere and a dcmagogue, his ability to lead people 10 believe that he is
for them every day in the year, and that he is a second Abraham
Lincoln, makes him a most formidable candidate. No ordinary Demo
crt a defeat him. Should the party at Baltimore nominate a candi
date with a weak record and n who has not accomplished something,
there will be no contest Roosevelt would have a walkover. A great
opportunity is afforded the Democracy to win this year. 1t has a
candidate with a record OF magnificent accomplishments a man VIII"
in intellectual capacity is second to none, and nan who al meet
Theodore Roosevelt on the stump or elsewhere, That man is Wood
row Wilson, the great governor OF New Jersey. whose prediction
promises have squared with his accomplishments. Roosevelt would
he o the defensive from the day Wilson's nomination."
Despite the losses he has suffered at the hands OF the alliance of
bosses and reachonaries formed to oppose him, we are still confident
that Governor Wilson will be nominated, for we believe the delegates
to the Baltimore convention will realize that in his selection lies the
hope of their party-Sacramento Union.