Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1912 — Woodrow Wilson. [ARTICLE]

Woodrow Wilson.

In the nomination of Woodrow Wilson, governor of New Jersey, and former president of Princeton University for President of the United States the democracy of the country has selected a man of high moral worth and of unquestioned integrity. He was the proper example for college students and possessed a fund of book learning that placed him high among the educators of the United States, He gave much time to the study of political economy and governmental reforms and for some time prior to his nomination for governor of Jew Jersey, was a cntriibutor to magazines, suggesting theories in solution of many issues that were perplexing the statesmen of the ladd. Governor Wilson meets up to the highest standards of citizenship, but it remains to be seen whether he is equipped for the office of president. His magazine articles will be carefully sifted by the politicians now and the theories he advanced some years ago will be discussed in relation to his qualifications for the high office for which he has been nominated. His advocacy of the importation of Chinese labor, his application for a Carnegie pension for the support of his family at a time when he was drawing $7,500 a year as president of Princeton, his insult to Colonel Harvey, of Harper’s Weekly and the following discussion with Colonel Watterson, of the Louisville CourierJournal, will all be paraded for the judgment of the people whose suffrage will be asked. He will also have to stand for the class of progression advocated by William Jennings Bryan, which has hitherto never received* endorsement by the American voters. He will not only be required to say that he is a progressive, but he will be asked to formulate actual standards for the carrying out of his progressive proclamation. He has made a “good” governor, whatever.that may mean. But%ow he i 3 confronted by the great needs of a great nation. He will be harassed by office seekers and privilege seekers. He will be confused by the adroit politicians who will try to deceive him and it remains to be seen whether or not he has the qualities of judgment essential to the great office for which he hag /been nominated. p As to his running mate, there is reason to say but little. Governor Marshall is somewhat like Governor Wilson in respect to being of uncertain quality. Prior to lour years ago he was a lawyer in a small city, with little ntfnoWn beyond the bounds of his own county. He secured the nomination because he was not known. He was elected because the republican party in Indiana was divide* on the licensed saloon question and because he secured the support of the "liberal” element of the republican party. He engaged in a campaign of deception and succeeded in making the great body of honest and reform-seeking democrats believe that be was it heart a temperance man and would accompliMi actual advancement of the temperance cause. He made people believe thathe Would engage in an economy program that wot# materially reduce taxation in Indiana. He has failed to make good and has permitted "himself to,-be the tool of the , office-seeking politicians.