The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-10-16
Notes From Democratic National Headquarters

racy and social and industrial JUS
tce are unattainable, unless this
power of the few be curbed, and our
democracy becomes industrial as
well as political. He can meet the
demands properly made upon
present-day executive, to lead in con-
structive craftsmanship. as well as
to administer efficiently. And his
character, intellectual power, and
previous training fit him peculiarly
to take an important part in pro-
gressive legislation.
In the progressive movement there
are three necessary periods. The
first is investigation; the second,
agitation; the third, legislation. They
are, in the main. successive periods,
but each overlaps the other to
certain extent. The work of inves-
tigation and of agitation have been
largely performed. Men Of insight
have discerned and disclosed the
evils existing in our industrial, so
cial and political Institutions and
the danger to the common veal. Men
of courage and of emotion, endowed
with the dramatic qualities of the
great preacher, have pierced even
that armor of SNUG compaisancy
with which prosperity is apt to en-
velop the heart and mead. The
somno!ent have been aroused; the
Indifferent have been fired with en-
thusiasm; the timid have at last
learned to fear the evil more thar
they fear the evil doer. The eve OF
victory has come.
A large majority of the American
people recognize that grave abuses
exist and are anxious to put an end
to them. We progressives are now
sufficien. in number TO compel the
adoption of remedies. But the most
difficult task is before us-that OF
devising the appropriate remedies
and determining how they may be
best applied. For this we need, as
president, a man with the qualities
rather of the constructive statesman,
than of the warrior. We need a mind
that grows rather than leaps INTO
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sympathy for the common people,
and that absolute respect for them
and for The truth which made it i'm
possible for Lincoln to attempt to
deceive men even for their own ben
eft. We need, in addition to the
manly virtues and a quick inteli-
gencc, that student quality of dill
gent, patient inquiry: that true
open mindedness, which makes one
willing to listen, as well as to speak
and that calm, careful, hard think
ing which is essential to sound
Judgment on legislation, by which it
is proposed to make important
changes in our social, industrial or
political institutions We need the
will to labor, as we'll as the power
to achieve.
These are the qualities essential
to safe and effective leader of the
progressive movement in it's present
stage; and these qualities Governor
Wilson possesses in a pre- eminent
degree. His longing for the attain
ment of democratic ideals. as well
as his ability to achieve, found ex-
preston in those we'll considered
laws, which, as Cornelius Ford. pres
ident of the New Jersey Federation
of Labor declared, obtained for
the people of New Jersey "in the
first 90 days of his administration
more beneficial legislation than had
been passed in the preceding nine
years. His democratic instinct made |
him revolt at the domination OF |
wealth, even when clothed in the |
refined and cultured traditions of
his own university. And his strength