Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-07-09

Wilson in nomination for the presi-
dency at Baltimore:
vNew Jersey, once bound, put ny
the moral energy and lnteiiectua'
greatness Of a single soul, now Tree
comes to this historic convention III
the glory of her emancipation, TO par
ticipate in your deliberations aid IN
formulating your judgements ana as
sist in executing your DEGREES. Ihe
New Jersey delegation Is not empo"-
cred to exercise the attributes or pro-
prietorship, but is commissioned 10 re-
present the great cause OF Democracy
and to offer you, as its militant anu
triumphant leader, a scholar not
charlatan; a statesman, not ooc-
trinaire; a profound lawyer, not d
splitter Of legal hairs; a politicai &C.
onomist. not an egotistical theorist; a
practical politician, who constructs
modifies, restrains without disturbance
and destruction; a resistless depater
and consummate master OF statement
not a mere sophist; HUMANITARIAN
not a defamer Of characters and lives;
a man whose mind Is at once cosmo-
politan and composite Of America; a
gentleman Of unpretentious hapi's'
with the fear of God in his heart ana
the love of mankind exhibited In every
art Of his life; above all public ser
want who has been tried to the utter
most and never found wanting-peer-
less matchless, unconquerable, the
ultimate Democrat, Woodrow wilson.
New Jersey has reasons Tor her
course. Let us not be deceived IN our
premises. Campaigns Of vilihcation'
corruption and false pretense have lost
their usefulness. The evolution OF
national energy is toward more IN
telligent morality in politics and In all
other relations. The line Of cleavage
is between those who treat politics as
q game. and those who regard 1t as
the serious business Of government
The realignment Of political parues
will be on this principle. The situa-
tion admits of no compromise. The
temper and purpose Of the American
public will tolerate no other view
The Indifference Of the American peo-
ple to politics has disappeared.
Need for Such Candidate.
"Any platfrom and any candidate
NOT conforming to this vast social and
commercial beset will go down TO ig-
nominious defeat at the polls. Piat-
forms are too often mere historic rup-
bish heaps Of broken promises. Can
didates are too frequently the unfortu-
nate creatures of arrangements ana
calculations. Exigencies. conditions'
national needs and necessities make
better platforms and produce greater
leaders than does the exercise OF pro-
prietorship. A disregard Of this first
premise will bring our deans crash
ing in ruins next November.
Again the eternal conflict between
equal opportunity and special privilege
is upon us. Our fathers wrote the Is
sue of that struggle In our constitu-
tion. They declared all men to be free
and equal. In a single century that
principle developed the North Amerl-
can Continent, leaving the world with
its beneficience. inspired all nations
with hope and made the United States
the asylum Of the world. Yet Ameri-
ca. at this very hour, presents the
most stupendous contradiction in his
tory-a people politically free, while
economically bound by the most gig
antic monopolies of all time, and DUR
dened by a system of taxation whlch
exploits millions to enrich a 1eW'
We have preserved the forms OF free
dom, but are fast losing its substance
THE evils of this condition are felt
i'm a thousand ways throughout the
land. Therefore 1t is that America Is
awake. Therefore 1t Is that mistake
in our premises will be fatal. There
fore il is that the situation, national
exigency, the crisis call for the righ'
man. Therefore 1t is that silent and
resistless revolution demands our pa
triotic and best judgement. 1ndiVid-
uals are as nothing. and personal am
bitions are worse than nothing. If the
chosen candidate fails in any sense to
meet the call of the nation, he Is
doomed to defeat.
The Secret of Wilson's ute.
Men are known by what they say
and do. They are known by those who
hate and oppose them. Many years
ago Woodrow Wilson said. No man Is
great who thinks himself so, and nc
man Is good who does not try to secure
the happiness and comfort OF others
This is the secret of his life. Later, In
his memorable effort to retain gooo
scholarship and democracy in Prince
ton University. he declared, The great
voice Of America does not come from
seats of learning. 1t comes In a muir
mur from the hills and woods, and the
farms and factories and the mills, roll
ing on and gaining volume until II
comes to us from the homes of com
mon men. Do these murmurs echo ir
the corridors Of our universities?
have not heard them A clarion cal
to the spirit that now moves America
Later he shouted, 4 will not cry peace
so long as there is sin and wrong ir
the world Here is the very soul oi
sentiment and purpose in our com
mon country.
The deeds of this moral and intel
lectual giant are known to all men
They accord not with the shams anc
false pretenses of politics, but make
national harmony with the millions OF
patriots de mined to correct the
wrongs Of plutocracy and re-establisf
the maxims cf American liberty in al
their regnant beauty and practical Ell
fectiveness. New Jersey loves Wood
row Wilson not for the enemies he ha:
made New Jersey loves him for wha
he is. All evil is his enemy. The in
f1uences that have opposed him have
demonstrated his availability and fit
ness on the one hand, and exposed the
unavailability and unfitness of some
others on the other hand.
influence That Opposes Him.
."Tba ipAuapce that has ODDOSel hin