The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-14

| I,uhlni US tho right man for the place.
position. It was Fight in line line With his
lie work. His Virginia. birth cut no
ns sure, Then. but his attGInments did
chair; Birth Is a nero Incident, and
i ms little to do with o mans after
~ "hether a success Of failure.
Honor and fame from no condition
Act T nonoIy G ,Is. part, there all the
! ., "1rSinians owe nothing on account
wa MS birthplace. hilSnr Allan Poe
! England Yankee, and yet Southerncrs
| "9n.snlp MIN as Southern poet.
| Tho ro,rrfF ;nr 1abncy. in HIS article In
me Iimes-DlsDntch OF December 30.
seems TO have been carried AWAY by
emanuslnSm over the popularity and
/ di cnta6 Of his candidate. az, in
IN u column and a half ~ he rushes
! ATOMS his high hopes OF Wilson'S momi-
r rorio become lurid with his intense
neir.vor. He seems TO he rnrapturc,l
! with tho thought MS he play. out his
| evidence that there Is mo other can
n an IN the field. North, south. East
md West. all are for Wilson Now,
s Wnat rs his evidence for this ecstatic
state OF mind7 First. the naked state
Inents OF newspapers as TO Wilson's
i nterwie IN LIS, several States. based upon
own opinion. Here Is the way this
CLASS OF Professor pabney's evidence
9q tsd ara as making these statements
per): "MichiGan's IS votes 20 to
W WiilIson "R Reiisware Is 9! per cent.
9 son pennsylvania will Instruct for
S Stnson' and SO Of half-dozcn other
states a.,,a MI for Wilson. According to
Tails to give or the authority tho
paper has for publishing such amazing
Information so early In tho game. The
UIiisspntch. SUCH "a these: Wisconsin.
Illinois and Colorado are confidently
put In the Wilson. column" That il
w very eohh Ni, Ing don, you think? |
II out? The Timea- Dispatch declared
he would carry California, oregon and
ashington against Taft"
This Ia the class Of ncwspaper eyi-
oehce Professor Dabney gives as proof
OF Wilson's availability. Hia second
o ciass OF evidence. and to which no
straw votes" and what is more
amazing. tho straw votes' OF college
boys. onc-half OF whom, II ia safe to
say. were not legal voters.
lie Gays eleven colleges In Ohio on
a. straw vote actually gave Wilson
100 more votes than Hartman and Taft
combined"
This college vote E5ows on him Al.
he writes. until he eeta TO tho asser-
ton that this vote in eleven schools
OF ONO is either the echo of their
young men (not OF Ohio). but OF the
whole country"
How does this straw vote" look
ohio has thir,y-fvc colleges, with
$4,000 students. Eleven or them. on an
e rn or about 5000 boys. took this
Tgimhrka6ls yet convincing vote to
this vote indicates the trend OF the
young men of the country"
There are nearly coo colleges and
with $4,000 students Tho professor
says Wilson clubs have been formed
IN about 100 OF them. from which fact
row Wilson's availability.
Think for momen, Of the Insight
1 nehnes Of "s;raw votes" In this case
State OF Ohio has 977,Ooo Democratic III
voters. What erect would or will pro-
lessor Dabney's 5000 Wilaon college
boys a large proportion minors. have
on The rank and nla of the State
state. too, which gave Harmon over
100000 majority?
Would Professor Dabncy'a newspa per
evidence and straw vote" evidence
convince any rejecting man taat Wood
row Wilson Is the only available man
before the country for the Democratic
n n,n,n 10 ana yet this is what no
mun!cation of December 80.
There are two aides to n mans
availability for Office. Professor Dab
ney has tried to show the affirmative
side. Blu, there are some potent OBJ
stacleE to Mr.. Wilson'S success. He
nails from small State-New Jersey
has but eight electoral votes A stu
dent OF political history knows that
eince the Civil War the nominees OF
poth great parties have been taken
from States, whose electoral votes
counted as large as possible.
This point weighed more than once
against that great Democrat. Bayard,
or Delaware He was q man OF the
ct sans reproche."
Mr.. Wilson, as compared with HE
competitors In The race. 10 novice in
official public lite No matter what may
green hand ut the public bellows. To
the masses of the people he was I'M
known until ne jumped from tho
schoolroom to the governorship OF
New, Jersey.
Professor Debney tells Us he is the
greatest American statesman to-day.
Clark has been in public life sixteen
years; Harmon more than twenty. Mr.
Wilson has handled the ferrule no
doubt we'll. but that does not At him
100000 OF people. Is Mr.. Wilson, with
little or no State and national ex-
perience; n reader OF books and not
reader OF men; is he 70 be carried to
the White House on 1owcry beds OF
ease. while Harmon and Clark, through
long years,
"Havo fought to win the prize,
And sailed through bloody seas?"
Mr.. Wilson ran for Governor Of New
Jersey as reformer: he was elected.
and did reform New jerseys political
methods. but last November the State
went back on his reformation, and nc
was defeated in every county In the
State, although he made personal
canvass and spoke in every county.
Hence the suspicion: Can Mr.. Wilson
carry his own Slater"
Furthermore, Mr.. Wilson went West
and made some speeches. In Oregon
he met face to face the initiative.
referendum and recall doctrine In
practical operation. and the men who
advocated 1t, and who convinced him
of its utility: but he has discovered
since his return East that such doc
trines are entirely local AS General
Hancock concluded about the tariff In
1SS0-"It was entirely local" Han
cock was defeated.