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judged by the friends and enemies the,
make. here is q conspicuous and a strik
ing Illustration that brings the thint
out clear 50 that he who runs may read
u cQntrssts the individualities of ths
two men Clark and Wilson. ss-
In 1910 '.Jimr Smith, the owner and
manager of the Democratic machine 81
New Jersey, thought he saw an oppor-
tunity to return to the United States
Senate. He was an enormously rich
man, made SO by certain schedules of
the protective tariff. Theone conspicu-
Gus act Of Mr.. Smith when United
States Senator was the aid he lent GER
tain protective Democrats. who inject
ed into the Wilson tariff bin of 1894
party perfdy and party dishonor. !"
Mr.. Smith is shrewd politician and he
saw Democratic victory approaching
in 1910; but he knew that his machine
would be powerless to redeem the State
unless it made respectable ticket.
There was Woodrow Wilson, preemi-
nently respectable. AS writer on Do
litical subjects he had shown himself
not only profoundly versed in the his
tory Of stAtecraft. but one deeply
grounded in the PHILOSOPHERS thereof.
As head Of one Of the greatest educa-
tional institutions in the world he had
discovered administrative capacities
that rendered him fit. for any execu-
tive station in civil life, and he took the
initiative in reforms suggested them.
That marked him as constructive ad-
ministrator and practical man.
And so Jim Smith, the political boss,
aided in the nomination of Woodrow
Wilson as the Democratic candidate for.
Governor of New Jersey. Wilson did
not need Smith; Smith needed Wilson.
Wilson was elected Nby an enormous
majority, and Smith argued that he
had acquired a Governor among his
other assets-that he owned Woodrow
Wilson.
There had been primary for United
States Senator and Mr. MARITIME was
the nominee. Smith had owned the
party in New Jersey for twenty-odd
years, and he believed he yet owned it,
so he proposed to cancel the primary
and be Senator himself. Then it was
Mr., Smith found this college president
lion, and the result was that Wilson
would not allow Mr.. Smith even to run
for Senator, an Office Mr.. MARITIME got
because the people, who make up the
real Democratic party of New Jersey,
had nominated Mr.. MARITIME. And that
it was that made Jim Smith the enemy
of Woodrow Wilson. -
Mr.. Wilson could have had all Jim
Smiths millions for acampaign fund in
1912, had he been content to fold his
arms and allow Jim Smith to return to
the Senate, there to betray the Dem
ocratic party as he had twenty years
earlier. Would MI. Champ Clark have
been "ungrateful p Every advocate
of the nomination of Champ Clark
have heard discuss it denounces Wood
row Wilson for his 'lngratitude' as
shown to Jim Smith. Very we'll. Then
it follows that had Clark been elected
Governor Of New Jersey when Wilson
was, he would have been grateful. "
Waxsin Smiths hands, and Smith, and
not MARITIME, would now be Senator
from New Jersey. What else do they
mean
Clark is grateful man and here is
what he wrote Hearst the day after the
Illinois primary: II am profoundly
grateful to all who aided in carrying
illinois for me. Among them was the
powerful influence Of the Hearst news
papers. which have stood by me Loyalty.
manfully and unselfshly from the be-
ginning from Massachusetts, to Cali
fornia. =
Read that again. What does it mean !?
If it means anything. it is that Champ
Clark's profound gratitude will call
William r. Hearst to be pillar of his
administration, if he shall be chosen
President. Now, compared with Hearst
in q political sense, Jim Smith is inn
maculate. son of the morning. Every
Democrat, who was of any account APP
plauded Wilson for his refusal to allow
Jim Smith to longer boss the party in
New Jercey.
But Mr.. Clark has put the seal of his
approval on the bosSship of Hearst in
Illinois. If Wilson shah be chosen Press
ident nobody win see Hearst and Smith
near the White House. If Clark is
President, we are practically assured
that Hearst win head the kitchen Cab
met, if he shall be content to put up
with that.
A former Republican Senator, Dubois,
is the chief manager of Mr.. ClarlE. Is
campaign. Mr. Dubois is representa-
tive Of the wool growers association
that demands tariff tax on raw wool.
Mi. Clark favors such 4 tax as does
Mr.. Bailey and every standpat Repub-
iiean. though Nj. Clark was formerly
vociferous and Voluminous in his iauda-
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