The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-10-01

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The 361l1lhlical snalttI0nll cg1n1li1s
tee. hl.s Issued he following:
At tlf5 time. when the negroes
. EllE01 yhO1t & 8 United Stdte1'aEe
celebrating IN Vafio1G, V7lys tnsa
GfHeth anuiVeEsFyls q tie 4-rlt-.
TF0cl1natloR l5oC emdnclBldo1s
ana when ne Democratic clnelli
d1&e Tor the pre- idency. V8oooro1.
Wilson. g 9ppeaRn8 70 the peo-
pie Of the western states to sup
port him. e = hitting thar the
z nldeanan OF political commit
tso0Egsl11zedoo further tlle cHuseT
Of the candidates Of the Rep1b'
ncGn pGFty 6oiF president ana wee.
PRESIDENT should caIl ATTENTION 70
"A expression Of opinion BY Gov
eTm0F Wilson ct a period IN his
career when possibly he never
dreamed OF being q Gandtd1te Tor
q political once.
That expression Of opinion was
made In hts capacity OF historian,
and Il adds to the cumulative tes-
tfmony that he was until he be-
came q candidate and that he Is
now nm American In his views OF
public questions and at heart
contemptuOus Of moro than one
class OF American citizens ana
out Of sympathy with their aims,
their purposes and their beliefs.
Il was ON Sept q. 1862. that
President Lincoln issued q proc
= elamaIoR giving formal notice
that unless the southern states
returned TO their aIIegLauce 20
r the Onion within a hundred days
he would declare the slaves with
tnatheIr borders Hee, and It was
:, on the 1Bt OF January, 1861 fol=
lowing; that definite prCclanaa-
ton OF emancipation. Issued
q OF this crowning event OF the ca
reer OF the immortal Lincoln.
woodrow Wilson says In his
History Of the American PEG
ple, written forty years after
ward:
%The proclamation when It
came was no law, but only his
(Ldncoln's) deliberate declaration
of policy Tor himself and for his
party, and Changed. as he meant
that It should change. the whole
air Of the struggle and Of politics
as well"
It Is safe to say that not even
the most radical unreconstructed
southern man would attribute to
Lincolns this lmotive which It re-
NAMED for the historian Wood
row Wilson alone to discover.
that Linc6I6 abolished slavery
to further his own political ambi-
lions and those OF his political
party. The statement adds proof
to much already at hand that
woodrow Wilson fort4years AFT
eFs the war Was and presumably
still L. devoid q sympathy for
the motive md FeSult8y Of the
civil war 70 81, rG
The quotation from the Demo
cratfccGhdfdateiB writings proves
that hs Is not = reliable historian
nor a Hair- commentator. Il goes
to show what has been often as
serted, that Governor Wilson il
not at heart an admirer OF or
believer In american Institutions.
as his other wE4ttngsand speech
es show that he IS not a eulogist
of American Industries nor de-
fender Of American labor He
continuously ISLANDERS millions OF
adopted citizens from abroad
who have become good Ameri-
cans. He sneers at trade unions,
and apparently he would II he
could close every American mill
and buy in foreign markets. be
cause in the first place he Is an
aristocrat born and bred and be-
cause he wants the American
people to buy where they can
buy the cheapest
Everything that can be learned
about Governor Wilson from his
writings. from his speeches and
from his manner Of living indi-
cate that he is not the type Of
man who can successfully appeal
for the support OF the American