The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-02-23
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WHAT EDITORS SAY OF WILSON
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Governor Woodrow Wilson is tn,
choice of the large majority Of the peo
pie of the southern states for the dem
ocratic nomination for the presidency
and that he will have more than two
thirds of the delegates from the soutl
at the Baltimore convention. is the
opinion OF Josephus Daniels. editor oi
the Raleigh News and Observer and
democratic national committeeman
from North Carolina.
THE south wishes to win, declared
the Tar Heel editor, "and is in no mood
for playing politics or putting out fay
orite sons. There are plenty OF able
southern men who would make great
presidents Texas has one in Culber
son; Georgia in Hoke Smith, and North
Carolina iii Ex-Governor Aycock The
admirers Of these men have no idea
Of urging them as favorite son can
didates, and not one OF them would
permit it in his crisis when the party
is upon the eve Of a great national vie.
tory. The southern people are Tor
Woodrow Wilson, believing that ne
will be nominated and elected"
Mr. Daniels, who is the youngest
member Of the democratic national
committee, and next to the oldest in
point of service, having - years Of
continuous service to his credit, said
in speaking of the availability of the
New Jersey executive, as a democratic
presidential candidate
1T is no reflection upon any of the
candidates for the democratic presi-
Dental nomination to say that not in
years has any man so quickly obtained
popular confidence upon the record OF
promises ktpt, deeds performed, and
rare statesmanship displayed as Wood
row Wilson, the governor of New Jer-
sey. He has the scholarship and tht
philosophy of government of the JEFF
fers0n school; the courage to oppose
bossism and control of government by
big business displayed by Jackson;
and as thorough-going and relentless
foe of graft, even in his own party, he
has displayed the qualities of Tilden
On the stump, he wins and charms
with an incisive clearness that gives
him no competitor among the aspirants
for the presidency His progressive
ness is based upon belief in popular
government and his conception of the
way is to remove the distractions that
now deny rule by the people No man |
in this decade has appealed to the pop
ular imagination or SO won the public |
as Woodrow Wilson, and /
everywhere those who are looking for
~. end u government by bosses for
heir own benefit and the enrichment
IF what is called the interests" or
big business" look to Governor Will /
son, ideally fitted. as the man for the
zig job that America wishes to have
lone. Wilson has shown that he knows
low TO do 1t by the unparalleled record
# the New Jersey legislature under
is leadership
From the day he was elected gov
nor of New Jersey. and, with a eour
ge that challenged the admiration of
he whole country, secured the carry
ng out of the recorded will of the vot-
RS in respect to the senatorship and II
utlined progressive policy that as {
Dunded New Jersey and all others, the Il
ank and file Of the party has been !
eartened and cheered by the hope of (
aving an opportunity to have Just
ueh constructive policy formulated K
t the White House The New Jersey II
epublieans sought the vote of the Il
,boring man by the dishonest promise
/ helping him through the tariff aud
sfused to enact any state legislation Y
) protect labor Governor Wilson It
ave laws that protect labor in New t
ersey and blazed the way for the pro-
ressiNe legislation 10 secure justice IL
II labor, as well as capital that has
aused other states to follow New Jer- I
ey's lead Think of New Jersey so f
ing dominated by selfish corporations e
ecoming the beacon light for legisla- h
on to guarantee just protection for 9
10 man who labors, That shows what +.
revolution Woodrow Wilson has n
rought about IN his state, and his at h
tude toward all just demands of the n
len who labor; and, in all his record, 4
lere has been no policy OF denying h
Il just powers to corporations" @
rs the south for Wilson," "
THE people of the south rejoice O
lat southern born man, residing in 4
great northern states, and embody n
lg in himself the best of both sections 10
as the confidence OF the American o
eople, replied Mr. Daniels a large In
aiority of tnem have since 1910 earn lin