Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-07-09

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 Ills duty was t0 run fer The presi- dency. MT Wilson was at last per- suaaed that they were right. MT. Page-and never let word written l hefe be taken to mean he did not kfow exactly the value of his idea wrote letters which helped MT. Will son see his du y. Theodore Roosevelt had been commissioner of police in New York ely, (membem of the Civil Service Commission di1n't count in. tlhsm good old days) had been colonel of the Rough Riders, had been gover- nor of the state of New. York and vice president before he saw the pub lie light on his presidential possibl- ities.
 Made Him See His Duty
 MT. Wilson had been president of a university. He had been governor of the state of New Jersey. He was in no position to recognize his own sttength in Aais day of original pol itics and progress.veness It took the iieaiism of a Page, the cold busi- ness constitution of a McAdoo and the crusading war-genius of a McComb5 to get him to see Ltne great opportun- iy fer the na ion and himself if he would not go out and take the Big Chance for his country He did, and the frail, inconspicious McCombs was, by unan nous consent, appoint ed read strategist and commander in chief of the armies in the field, even before .her were any Wilson armies.
 There was nc war chest. McCombs McAd o ard Makdoo pu in -ra more. Pas1 put some. This WIS in '.he days oef9r ,ba g eat Harvey Wat ersc cn Wilsen unp es santr 5 and Harvey s;iiI as tends lut in whole lot more. An organization was effect ed which began to pass the word along.
 McCombs makes friends without spending money. He makes people understand after a few minutes of his kindly, straightforward talk that he ',rusts them a'nd they must trust him, and that there is not'hing in it fer either of them, anyhow
 And so thera came to be great Woodrow Wilson campaign. People in all parts of .he country were clamor- ing to nave, Wilson come and give them look at him, so that they might know whether the things wIaich Me Combs and his picked lieutenants had said about Wilson were true specifi- cations. Wilson went 10 the various places, where McCombs had gone ahead of him, and Ghe people made up t!aeir minds that McCombs was a pl shed this by making conservative statements. He had said only that Wilson was a conservative actor, a progressive thinker, great public speaker and an educated gentleman. tion.
 Party leaders throughout the country began to catch the McCombs idea. If these things could so easily be proved to the wise men and the elder statesmen, why could not they be proved to the grea, mass of peo- pie? The great mass of the people wanted a prog eIssive candidate.
 McCOmbs Picks Able Aids
 Here was progressive candidate who could not be caught faking. The Wilson boom was on it's way. Noth- l ing that Col. Watterson or Col. Har- vey or Senator James Smith of New Jersey could say had anything to do with the fact that tae thousands and tens of hundreds of thousands, who had an idea, but no new man to voice it, were clamoGing fer Wilson.
 Then came the convention. Me i Combs had never bossed a conven- 1 tion But he is a scholar. He "boned i. cut. as he would have said when 1 he was working as a student under Pref. Wilson of Princeton.
 He went out and by the charm of his personality attracted good teach CTS into the Wilson circle. He got the clear minded Senator O'Gorman, He got the brilliant Senator Gore of Oklahoma, who can see more with his blind eyes than many men can see with hish powered telescopes; he got Culberson and BurleSon and Tom Ball of Texas, who needed new issue of righteousness to help out temper ance campaign, which was about to weaken through a sense of humor, because it was urged by man who openly avowed he did not believe in private temperance at all.
 McCombs got J. Mitchell Palmer. member of Congress, with ringing