Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-03-30
WILSON RANKS
GAIN RECRUIT
Senator Smith Of South Ca
roIina for the Governor.
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
Washington, D. C.-Another Demo.
cratic senator has added his name to
the already large list of supporters of
Governor Woodrow Wilson for the
party's presidential nomination.
Senator e. ID. Smith Of South Caro-
lima, who has been claimed by both
the CLARK and Underwood managers,
has declared himself for Governor
Wilson, saying that the governor is
the most formidable candidate the
Democrats can nominate and support
for the presidency against any nomi-
nee Of the Republican party"
The other Democratic senators who
have declared for the New Jersey ex-
ecutive are Newlands of Nevada,
Chamberlain of Oregon, Meyers of
Montana, Culberson of Texas, John
Sharp Williams of Mississippi, Bryan
Of Florida, Hoke Smith Of Georgia,
Overman OF North Carolina, Gore of
Oklahoma, MARITIME of New Jersey,
O'Gorman of New York and Gardner
Of Maine. In addition, Senators Till
man Of South Carolina, Fletcher of
Florida and Lee OF Tennessee are very
fayorably disposed to the candidacy of
Governor Wilson, but have not yet
formally declared themselves for him.
It will be seen from the above list
that the claim of Governor Wilson's
campaign managers that he is in the
best sense a national candidate.
Gives Rsasen For His Faith.
In announcing his determination to
support Governor Wilson for the NOM
nation Senator Smith OF South Caro-
lima said:
81 have heard Governor Wilson speak
on three separate occasions. On two of
these occasions 1t was when others as
piring for the presidency also spoke.
At the Jackson day banquet in Wash
ington Democrats aspiring for the pres
idential nomination spoke together with
him. In Philadelphia, at the Periodical
Publishers association banquet, l heard
Governor Wilson when aspirants for
the Republican nomination also spoke.
On both these occasions, as on the oe-
casion when he spoke alone, he Inn
pressed me as being a profound stu
dent of the philosophy OF government.
/ consider that his expressions as to
the theory of government and the com,
parison of this theory with that now
In practical existence were by all odds
the clearest and most convincing of
any expressed on these several occa-
stons. He, of course, as a student-a
college president-would be considered,
and Is considered by a great number, a
theorist-that is, an impractical one.
But his every u%tterance indicated that
he has a clear comprehension of the
fact that the so called practical poll
tics is but another name for the cor
rupt and corrupting tendencies that
must sooner or later undermine the
very foundations of u republican
form Of government by increasing the
army of indictments as well as the I'M
Justly protected number of those spe
cially favored.
IL believe Governor Wilson Is the
most available candidate the Demo
Gratis have In the field for the presi-s
dency, His work as governor of New
Jersey in bringing Into the fold of
Democracy a state otherwise hopeless
ly Republican, his elimination of boss
rule and corruption In that state illus
trate his ability to put into practice
as a national executive the theory that
he advocated. | am convinced In the
light OF his political career In New Jer-
! sey, his public u~tteranees as a candI
date for the presidency and, above aIIs
the frenzied opposition toward him OF
certain newspapers, periodicals and In
dividuals, that he is the most formida-
BILE candidate that the Democrats n
nominate for the presidency and sups
port against any nominee of the Re
publican party"