Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1912-06-20
The Logical Democratic Candidate.
Izrnr,, Tho Now York World


From the New York World.
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-
sey 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
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 if 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.
Woodrow Wilson alone has record
of continuing victory in the section
in which victory is essential to DEM
ocratic 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 these states, would
be so strong in the great debatable
states of the Middle West-Ohio and
Indiana?
4. TAr,.r1 N<,ts0t ia at a
| could make so powerful an appeal TO
hundreds of thousands of thoughtful
| independent voters without whose
support no Democratic President can
| he elected?
| What other Democratic candidate
could so well stem the rising tide OF
Rooseyeltism, 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
sane conservatives upon whose joint
action the result of the election will
hinge?
The Democratic partyyif it is to win
the election and safeguard American
| 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 it's IA electoral votes.
He must carry Connecticut with it's [
! electoral votes. To lose these states
| is to give Roosevelt a walkover. To
| win these states is to win not only
sc of the SO electoral votes that are
needed, but in all probability it is to
win Ohio with "a votes; it is to win
Indiana with Is votes. which is the
historical ally of New York and New
| Jersey; it is to give the Democratic
party an opportunity of victory in
| Massachusetts with its Is votes, and
| to bring Delaware with its 3 votes
| back into the Democratic column. In
other words, it is to elect Demo
cratic President of the United States.
It is to the East that Demo-
cratic victory must be won. 1t is in
! the East that Rooseveltism must be
overthrown. 1t is the East that must
save the country from third term
and all it implies. For that reason
| The World regards Woodrow Wilson
as the strongest candidate the Demo-
cratic party can nominate.
1t is not in behalf of Woodrow Will
son that The World urges his nomina-
| ton. 1t dis not merely in behalf of
the Democratic party as a party 1t
| is in behalf of American institutions :.
It is In behalf of the Republic. 1t is
! in behalf of the the nation that is now
confronted with the gravest menace