The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-03-01
MAINE SENATOR. SAYS
THAT WILSON CAN WIN
Prediction Made That If Wilson Is
Nominated Maine VIII Go
Democratic in Election.

IL Washington, March THAT
It Roosevelt il pitted against either
n Clark or Underwood, would have an
a easy chance to sweep the country,
and that Governor Woodrow Wilson
G is the only democratic candidate
q who would have a fighting chance IL
0 nominated to carry Maine arc two
) sharp expressions taken from an in
: terview with United States Senator
Obadiah Gardner of Maine, in which
u he gives his reasons for believing
y the New Jersey executive the most
available man in the party, and
\ pledges his support to him as the
i man who can win.
~ the republicans nominate a
: progressive, like Colonel Roosevelt,
and the democrats nominate con-
. servative like Mr.. Oscar Underwood
: Tor Speaker Clark, the colonel, who
is the most successful faker | have
ever seen, and who now has his cur
5 riculum full of progressive policies
which he has borrowed from Will
l liam Jennings Bryan, will have
J, levery chance to sweep the country
overwhelmingly.
Governor Wilson Is the man who
can win. because he is the represen-
, tative candidate In the field. BY rep |
resentative l mean showing the |
characteristics of no single class |
alone, but typifying the virtues of
many classes and representing them
lin his desire to lead all along the
path of progress with equal ease and
rapidity. I:
Personally I have great deal of
admiration for Mr. Underwood, but {:
| this does not deter me from seeing 8
that he cannot rightly be classed
progressive. He is a conservative and
a conservative candidate is not the
kind of a candidate that can win for
either party this year. Il
II consider Speaker Clark pro- b
gressive conservative, but not pro- ii
gressive and for this reason not a p
candidate who can win in the com SC
ing presidential fight. ii
I'm presidential campaigns the
visions which are products tt
of the Imagination often have as b
much or more weight than the real b'
issues on which the fight should be
decided. This must be borne in mind c.
in nominating the democratic can y
didate Ia
Woodrow Wilson is not put for
ward az the favorite son of any
state He is advanced as man VINO
| without making any appeal to any
lsection, can win for the party. He -
! being recognized as such man
everywhere, and nowhere more SO
than in my own state OF Maine ,,
Recently / had an opportunity to |
sound the sentiment of the people in |
} every section of the state, without |
Expressing myself at all. l found |
that on an average there were four
Wilson men for every man who ia
Ivored any other candidate.
1.-The last state campaign has con.
vinced the democratic national COM
mittee that we can carry Maine in
q presidential election. The year
that Taft was elected the republic
cans carried Maine by slender ma
jority of 5000 votes after spending
more than 100000 in the last week
| before election day. The democratic
state committee all through the
campaign had never had as much as
$1,000 in it's treasury.
I'VE want to carry Maine this |
lyear and to do this we need the i'm |
lpetus of a winning national cam
lpaign. Woodrow Wilson's fight will |
be such a campaign.
He is the only man in the coun-
TRY who would have fighting
chance to carry the state against
Roosevelt.
) Personally favor Governor VIII
J sons candidacy for many reasons.
From studying his record in
2 New Jersey and at Princeton Uniyer-
D was high type of scholar states
g man; that was before I saw him.
. "The first time I saw Governor
}. Wilson was at the Jackson Day ban
e quet. He was there with all of the
v other democratic possibilities, in
Guiding darkhorses, except Under
wood One claim l make for myself
that / am keen judge of human
o nature
lnat nlBnt from seeing NoFefhoN
Wilson, literally beside the men
Y who, it was known were to be his
= rivals, I was convinced of his super
k iority, and from that night, had |
0 not already decided to support him.
J. he would have been my candidate.
s by the side of the others he
G seemed magnificent, broad and sane,
4 he is the man who can win for the
+ democratic party, and | am for him
G for this reason"
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