The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-01-03

In view of the widespread inter-
est in what has come TO be referred
10 as the Wilson Flood incident
there has been a heretofore unsatis-
fed desire on the part of many to
know just what Mr.. Flood did say
while speaking at the jubilee BAN
quet, says the Staunton News. When
the congressman spoke 1t was well
on toward midnight, which fact ex-
plains why his remarks were not re-
ported more fully in the press Here,
verbatim, is that portion OF Mr..
Floods address in which he referred
to what Mr. Wilson had said
What Flood Said.
"% And when the represen-
'tatives of privilege and monopoly
had secured control of the federal
government and had dominated that
government in the interest of the few
and against the interests of the many,
II was son of the great University
of Virginia. Oscar w. Underwood.
who framed series of measures and
secured their passage through the
house of representatives that would
have restored this country TO the old
principle of equal rights to all and
special privileges to none.
And when those bills went TO a
hostile senate it was a Nirginian,
Thomas S Martin, the leader Of the
minority. whose tact, industry, genius
and parliamentary skill. accom-
plished the wonderful task of passing
those Democratic measures through a
Republican senate practically without
opposition.
And when those bills went to the
president of the United States and
received his veto and 1t became neceS-
sary TO put in the White House "A
man in sympathy with the people.
again IL was a Virginia, Woodrow
Wilson, who led the hosts OF Demo
crazy and the reawakened Americans
-rf parties he fit,st-sft@eEia4a
political triumph that has been
achieved in this country in hum
dred years.
This victory was won upon the
history and record Of the Democratic
party, and the history and the record
Of that party's nominee for the presi-
dency.
Deserved Triumph.
In the recent campaign We APP
pealed to the people upon a record
Of achievement unequaled in the po-
ltical history of the country, never
had the Demoqgatic party in all of
its splendid history been more en-
titled to be entrusted with power !.
never had II been more deserving or
the confidence Of the American peo-
pie. and never had 1t more thorough
ly possessed their confidence.
After being out of power in every
branch of the government for over
fourteen years. the Democrats of the
sixty-second congress organized when
that congress Assembled With a.rapl-
dity and sInoothness that COMPOUNDED
ard deaaoraatHed .@saF. political oppo~s
nents and commanded the respect and
admiration of all. From an imme-
diate revision of the tariff by re-
duction OF import duties TO home
rule bill for Alaska, every promise
was faithfully fulfilled
While the Democrats In congress
were accomplishing these splendid
results, the governor of New Jersey
was inaugurating and proceeding
with the work of overthrowing O
Bipartisan political machine and OF
making the most complete trust-con-
trolled State in the nation, one of
our most progressive States. The re-
cord of the candidate assured vic
tory. and the victory would have
been as complete. though not as over
whelming If Woodrow Wilson had
been opposed by Theodore Roosevelt
alone or Willism H. Taft alone.
Refers to Baltimore.
THE election of Governor Wilson
to the presidency has given hope TO
the country. ] will say to Governor
Wilson that his statement that Vir-
sinia showed no enthusiasm in the
baltimore convention for his nominal
ton did not do justice to his friends
in that convention, and If he had been
there and witnessed 1t he would have
realized that there was no more en-
thusiastic group of Wilson men in the
convention than the one-third OF the
Virginia delegation headed by Dick
Byrd, and as TO the other two-thirds
will say that when they voted
against him he was not the nominee
OF the Democratic party as he was
afterward. and that after he became
the nominee OF the Democratic party.
those gentlemen became convinced
that owing TO his wide vision. his
extraordinary requirements and his
acute insight into the heart of econ
onto and political problems thay