Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-01-09
For President .
WOODROW WILSON
OF New Jersey.
Wilson Fer President.

Wilson For President.
We have hoisted the name of Wood
row Wilson, as candidate for the Presi-
dency, to our Editorial masthead
There it will remain, at least until
after the National Democratic Conven-
ton acts next year, and we hope and
believe that we will have no occasion to
change it until the polls close on glor
ious Democratic victory in November
1912, and his election is an accomplished
fact.
Should however, the representatives
of the party in Convention assembled,
select as Standard Bearer, any other of
the many spiendidly equipped Demo-
Gratis who aspire to the highest office
within the gift of the Republic, the
plume of Woodrow Wilson, will be seen
ever in the van of the conflict, battling
for his party's choice and the rights of
the people and his adherents will be
with him.
The logic of events tends to make
Governor Wilson the champion Of DEM
ocratic policies next year. n
A Southerner by birth-being a native
of the Shenandoah VaIley-his manhood
has been spent in the North and the
West is ablaze with enthusiasm for
him.
AS President of Princeton University
he earned world wide reputation as
an original thinker and as writer OF
great accuracy and power.
A student of the Constitution with
clear conception of the science of gov
eminent, he has become the exemplar
the best ideals of civic progression and
the most eminent constructive States
man of his generation.
Responding to the call Of duty, he led
last year what was regarded as for
lorn hope, as the Gubernatorial candl-
date of his party in the trust harried
State Of New Jersey. Not only did he
partly-by the aid of patriotic men of
opposite political faith-reverse the
overwhelming Republican majority OF
the preceding year, but-a much more
remarkable feat-on his induction to
office he swept out the rotten Demo-
cratic State machine and tore the foul
talons of the corruptionists from the
throat of his adopted State.
BY invoking the power of public SEN
timent, he induced the Legislature to
keep the party pledges, elect its nomi-
nee to the United States Senate, and to
write more reform measures into the
Statute books of New Jersey than have
been enacted by any State in the Union
within decade.
Intrepid, where principles are in
yolyed, a conservative in that he be-
lieves that if our government is to be
perpetuated, thu rich as well as the
poor must be made amensble to the
law.
A magnetic debater with rare power
of convincing those whose hearts and
minds are open and eager to receive the
truth. z-z-z
Conservative in the broad sense, and
of extraordinary executive ability; IN
Woodrow Wilson, as the Democratic
candidate for the Presidential Office, all
the elements of political strength seem
to be centred.
Pennsylvania now beginning to break
away from the fetch of protection. has
declared for him. with unanimity.
His native Virginia and the Empire
State of Texas will lead the Southern
delegations to his banner next year.
The rank and file of the Democracy
of West Virginia-without derogatIon
of the claims of others have weighed
him in the balance and not found him
wanting.
With Woodrow Wilson as our Presi-
dental Candidate. West Virginia will
return to her mornings and again be
found in the column of Democratic
States.
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