The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-07-08
Passing OF Conventions Such as
That Held in Baltimore
Predicted.
ALDERMAN PRAISES WILSON
His Victory Marks Return to
Constructive Things,
Declares Smith.
tspecia! to The rimes-r,sn,,o,

iSpecia! to Tho Times D.spatch.l
Charlottesville. Va. July Wood
row Wilson's nomination marks q new
ora IN the educational and cul.ural as
well rs the political devcloprnen, OF tho
country said President Edwin i. AL
derman. OF the University OF Virginia.
IN IN address before the summer school
OF tnat institution The Democratic
party needs its best man 10 lead at
this time, 1t needs a man who knows
things before he does them. rather
tnan acting first and thinklnE after
wards. man who would hgh. for an
!dea with iron in his blood. That sort
81 man has been chosen man OF yul
turc. OF inc breeding. lofty training.
new man. to be sure. an untri4d man.
to be sure, but a man who has done
no cheap pickering in the pas, and
who has clean record behind him.
Il predict that in another eight
years there will be no more national
conventions of the character have
Just Witnessed. such scenes Will have
become thing OF the past and written
OF as one of the peculiar features Of
the present-day method Of politics
The nomination Will come through
presidential primaries. paid for out OF
the government treasury. and the con
Nentioa that names the nominee Will
be as solemn as . college of cardinals
selecting . Pope.
Bryan was a curious figure at tho
convention To M he was not always
a heroic one, but there is no gainsayinE
that his personality dominated the con-
vention and dictated tho course event
uslly taken by tho convention which
view is shared in. I notice. by Mr..
Clark.
When I saw those painted litho-
graphs OF Wilson and Underwood tossed
a hos
that followed the placing OF their
names before the convention, thought.
they were two OF the choicest offering.
OF that whole 1000 delegatos-two
Young Southerners. both sons OF the
University of Virginia"
Return to Constructive Things.
That the nomination OF Woodrow
Wilson represents the effort b. the
people again TO select such types of
men as jefferson and Madison is the
opinion of DR.. Charles Alphonso Smith.
| Edgar Allan Poe professor OF English
IN the University OF Virginia More
than this. DR.. Smith said 1T represents
the fact that the people are coming to
appreciate that modern education and
its foremost champion are not theo-
retical merely. but practical and Ell
Client. He said II was Imperative that
the sdhorcnts of Wilson see 10 il that
lie IS not mlsrepresen,ec.
The nomination OF Woodrow Wilson
means q realization on the part OF tho
people OF the fact that the scholar in
politics has come to stay. The time
was, ne said. when the people looked
upon scholarship as Impractical and
/ upon the scholar as mere theorizer
Now they realize that there is nothing
between scholarship and efficiency. For
twenty years the colleges and UNIVERSE
ties have been turning out practical
mer, which the public has been pretty
slow to realize. The old conception
was that scholar IS q mere book man.
That is not true. Tho modern scholar
is nothing II not practical and eff
cient."
DR.. Smith hoped the distinction which
had been drawn by people in the past
has gone. He said II was with keen
qualification that the Democratic party
was so quick 10 realize that the best
type OF scholar OF to-day Is a man OF
efficiency. He said the old ant4gonism
by the people for the educated goes
back TO the Middle Ages. time of fights
between the gownsmen and townsmen.
We've reached the stage now" said
ne, in which the modern school is
viewed very differently when It turns
out clear-headed and practical men.
Woodrow Wilson is the finest type in
the country OF the scholar. not only OF
the scholar. but OF the practical man.
and l think the country IL about to
realize new era 1t marks. l hope
FOR the Democratic party return OF
the Jefferson and Madison type. This
marks the return to big constructive
things"