The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-06-28
WILSON NAN Of THEIH0UR':'
AND HOPE OF DEMOCRACY
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bound by the most gigantic monop-
olies of all time and burdened by a
system of taxation which exploits
millions to enrich a few. We have
preserved the forms of freedom, bat
ere fast losing its substance. Til
evils of this condition are felt in
thousand ways throughout the lane
| Therefore it is that America is awake
Therefore ii is that a mistake in our
premises will be fatal Therefore !,
is that the situation, national eXig-
ency, the crisis, call for the right
man. Therefore ii is that ,ilent
and resistless revolution demands on
patriotic and best judgment. Mdi-
viduals are as nothing, and person ID
ambitions are worse than nothine. Il
the chosen candidate fails in an
sense or in any degree fully and CON-
pletely to meet the call OF the nation
lie is doomed 10 defeat.
Men are known By what they SAY
and do. They are known by thos"
who hate and oppose them. Man
years ago Woodrow Wilson said, No
man is great who thinks himself so.
and no 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 good scholarship and de
rlocracy in Princeton university. he
declared, THE great voice of Amer
ice does not come from seats of learn
Ing. 1t comes in murmur from me
hills and woods, and the farms and
factories and the mills, rolling on
and gaining volume until it comes
to us from the homes OF common
men. DO these murmurs echo in III,
corridors of our universities, haIo
not heard them 4 clarion call "a
the spirit that now moves America
Later he shouted, ! will not ,ry
peace SO long as there is sin ana
wrong in the world Here is Tn,
very soul OF the silent revolution nov
solidifying sentiment and purpose n
cur common country
THE deeds of this moral and IN
tollectual giant are known to all men.
"y accord not with the shams and
false pretenses of politics, but make
rational harmony with the millions
of patriots determined TO correct the
wrongs of plutocracy and re-estaD-
fish the maXims of American liberty
i. all their regnant beauty and prac-
teal effectiveness. New Jersey loves
) Woodrow Wilson not for the enemies
he has made. New Jersey loves him
tor what he is. All evil is his en-
envy. The influences that have OPP
posed him have demonstrated his
availability and fitness on the one
hand, and exposed the unavailable,
and unfitness of some Others on tn,
other hand. The influence that ha,
opposed him blights and blasts any
cause and any person ii espouses
| pt ~ bn cd u,
sOrdid. low and criminal. That in.
iuence fattcns on ignorance and ava.
rice. The man that accepts its aid
SO far as his public usefulness is con.
6erned. would be more fortunate hat
il milestone been tied about his mech
and he had been east into the depths
of the sea. New Jersey believes tina,
the opposition TO Governor Wilson
such as ii has been. necessitates an,
secures his triumph.
similar necessities. motives an,
causes impel all men alike. The sam,
necessities. motives and causes whicl
{ draw, as by omnipotenec. substantial
! ly all New Jersey about this grea
Z and good man. are identcally tn,
same necessities. motives and cause
l that are in resistlcss motion in ever,
Il State in the Union Its solidarit,
v cannot be disintegrated FAILS, ar
gumcnt falls broken agains, il.
i revolution of intelligent ana patriot
millions is the expression of these ne
tessities, motives and causes There
o fore New Jersey argues thai Wood
n row Wilson is the only candidate MI,
:: can not only make Demo ratic 81,
VI cess certainty. but sccur, tn ,let
: toral vote of almost every state II
u the Union.
d New Jersey will cnaors' IS nnmi
c nation by a majority al rna hundre
'c thousand of her liberated citizen.
If We are not building for a day. @
Is even generation. bu' toy all tim,
y Let not the belief that any eandidat
p may succeed rob Us ef Soand i,da
r1ent. What would il profit III, Dem
oeratie party To win how. ONLY to i
east on four years hence" Tic Dem
r oeratic party should IL commissions
TO carry on a great construct tive pro