Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-06-04
MiseeSlansous Rsaains.
WILSON Is THE MAN.
Governor Of New Jersey Only Man
Who Can Beat Roosevelt.

Governor Of New Jersey Only Man
Who Can Beat Roosevelt.
Woodrow Wilson. of New Jersey
should be the Democratic candidate
for president
That Is the opinion Of the World
That is the counsel of the New Jer-
Isey primaries. That is the logic OF
the situation.
1t is time for facts and not for
theories. Judson Harmon might
prove strong candidate in New York
and Ohio, but his nomination has
been rendered impossible. Champ
Clark would be a hopelessly beaten
i candidate in New York, New Jersey
and Connecticut. He could do no
better than Mr. Bryan, who has lost
these states three times and would
lose them again IL nominated. Oscar
w. Underwood Is Of presidential size,
but he has been untested as candi-
date In the north and Is an unknown
Quantity to most of the voters. Wood
Il
continuing victory in the section in
which victory Is essential to Demo-
cratic success.
/ What other Democratic candidate
could poll so many votes in the great
debatable states of the east-New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut?
What other Democratic candidate.
who could carry those states, would
be so strong in the great debatable
states Of the Middle West.Ohio and
Indiana?
| What other Democratic candidate
could make so powerful an appeal to
hundreds of thousands of thoughtful
Independent voters without whose
support no Democratic president can
be elected?
What other Democratic candidate
could so well stem the rising tide Of
| Rooseveltism, which now threatens
to engulf representative government
and republican institutions?
| What other Democratic candidate
would so fully measure up to the
ideals Of the sane radicals and the
same conservatives upon whom joint
action the result of the election will
hinge?
The World hitherto has withheld its
active support from all candidates.
1t advocated an open convention at
Baltimore, and advised its Democratic
friends to await the action of the
Republicans at Chicago. The open
convention is assured. The measure
of all the candidates has been taken.
The situation is clarified and further
delay Is unnecessary.
Like a twentieth century Genghis
Khan, Theodore Roosevelt, with his
horde Of praise Populists and Wall
street Socialists, is sweeping down
upon the Republican national con-
vention. Mr.. Taft seems as powerless
i to check him as the degenerate Ro-
mans were to check the descent of the
Goths and the Vandals. The historic
party of Lincoln and Seward and
Chase and Sumner and Conkling and
Chandler and Blaine and Garfield and
Harrison and Sherman and Mckinley
is apparently in the death throes.
This Is the twilight of the gods, and
the Democratic party must rise not
only to its opportunity but to its re-
sponsibility.
How can 1t do its duty better than
to match sanity against lunacy;
statemanship against demagogy; the
historian against the rough rider;
the educator of public opinion against
the debaucher of public opinion; the
first term against the third term;
the tariff-reformer against the stand
patter; the man who would prose-
cute trust magnates against the man
who protects trust magnates; the man
with clean hands against the man
who draws his campaign fund from
| Wall street; the supporter Of consti-
tut:onal government against the cham
pion of personal government; law
against lawlessness; Americanism,
against Mechanism; the republic
against the dictatorship?
Who better represents these issues
than Woodrow Wilson? Who Is bet
ter qualified than Woodrow Wilson
to appeal to the intelligence and COM
mon sense of the American people
against the most cunning and adroit
demagogue that modern civilization
has produced since Napoleon III?
Who would stand a better chance
of election in the great national
crisis?
Let us look at the facts:
1t will require 266 electoral votes
to elect a president. The socalled
southern states including Maryland
and Missouri, have 175 votes. AS
sumng that Arizona will go Demo-
cratic too. practically any Democratic
candidate for president can count on
17S electoral votes. But SS more are
necessary to victory. Where can these
SS be found?
1t Is folly to look for them west
Of the Mississippi river. The west Is
in the middle Of another revival OF
Populism. In Theodore Roosevelt 1t
has found a new substitute for its
gospel for free silver. He Is politi-
cal reincarnation Of James B. Weaver,
Mary E. Lease, Jerry Simpson and
Feffer. He is in the heaven-born ratio
of l6 to 1 in q still more fascinating
form. 1t Is idle to think that any
body who is not more masterful and
dangerous demagogue than Roosevelt
could command the support Of the
Populists who now call themselves
Republican progiessives.
The Democratic party, If 1t Is to
win the election and safeguard Ameri-
cea institutions, must unite the east
and the south as Tilden did in 1875.
The candidate must carry New York
with it's As electoral votes. He must
carry New Jersey with its IA electoral
votes. He must carry Connecticut
with its electoral votes. To lose these
states is to give Roosevelt walk
over. To win these states 1t Is not
| onI,, &c ,f tho 90 alaptnral VOTES that