Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-05-17
BOB BREMMER
GIVES REASONS
PaSsaiC Editor Tells Why He
Believes in Wilson.
BY ROBERT G. BREMNER,
Editor of Passsic Daily Herald.

Editor OF Passaic Daily Herald.
The people have a right TO Indicate
their choice for candidate for presi-
dent. Who is obtuse enough, political
ly or morally, to deny this? Unpledged
delegates are a defiance of the peoples
rights and an insult to the peoples IN
telligence.
Congressman Hughes and myself, to-
Gether with our respective alternates,
John Boylan and James J. Cowley, are
unequiyocally pledged to vote for the
nomination OF Woodrow Wilson. on
that pledge do we solicit support. Not
that the private ambitions or selfish
fortunes Of any man or group of men
be furthered, but that the principles
of Democracy be strengthened and
spread, that its Righteousness II its
justice shall bless the nation, are we
candidates.
We believe the interest Of the people
il in the election OF such a man as
Woodrow Wilson.
Let us not forget that Democracy it
self Is u spirit, not a political label. Its
essence is the idea Of equal opportunity
for all men. Its elimination and hope
is the application in all matters Of the
Golden Rule. 1t is n hard gospel, but
a divine one. From It's very nature
Democracy means warfare of every
sort on special privilege.
Democracy has to It's credit Il splen-
did record of service to society, but
under the protection Of its greatest
doctrine Of individual freedom there
have been born new forces in politics
and new forms of danger. This new
danger Is a manifest alliance between
organized wealth and political machin-
cry, united on so vast a scale that the
essential doctrine of the equality of
human opportunity Is being crushed
out and destroyed.
Their has beer a clean reaction from
s~elfishness and greed and exploitation
as ruling motives to some measures Of
justice and sympathy and fairness.
1t has been made clear that the heart
OF the nation Is sound and clean and
that It's public opinion is not yet VIII.
ated by corruption or dulled by con
tentment or weakened by prosperity.
A new power Of discernment about
the character and value Of public serv-
ants has come into the thought of
common men. They are not awestruck
by the rich or 80 C%aptivated by the
fluent rs they nee were. The vice of
blind partisanship has lost fts power
to grip men as it did when loyalty to
symbols aud not knowledge OF facts
constituted the chief virtue OF citizen
ship.
The belief or the fear that privilege
In the shape OF colossal wealth highly
organized might prove too strong for
the virtue of individuals or of small!
bodies Of men has brought about mis-
givlugs regarding our representative
government. In the unpurchasa sable in
tegrity of great masses men hope or
imagine that safety lies and our great
device Of representative government Is
getting a rebaptlsm OF popular initia-
tive, popular interest and popular IN
Outstanding such as not even the
founders dreamed OF. Some of these
are frantic and dangerous and some
necessary and salutary. The masses
of people, the collective virtue Of n.
republic, have seemed TO Re the one
i~mpregnah!e standard and fortress
around which men might repair, while
they seek to solve the problems i'm
posed upon society by the struggle be
tween the government and the people
on one hand and corporate wealth on
the other.
This new reliance In the ultimate
rectitude of public impulse has been
accompanied by Il reciprocal tendency
of the people themselves to seek in