Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1912 — WILSON CERTAIN OF NOMINATION [ARTICLE]

WILSON CERTAIN OF NOMINATION

Montana Newspaper Hails Him as the Standard Bearer of the Democratic Party. PROGRESSIVE AND ABLE MAN True Patriot and Morally and Intel* lectually Fit for the High Poel> tlon to Which He Is Reason* ably Sure of Election. Helena (Mont) Independent—The people will name the democratic party’s candidate for the presidency. In the next democratic convention there will be no boss whose voice will be heard above the rallying cry of real popular sovereignty; mere will be no machine which will Interfere with the registering of the people’s wIU. " i From Maine to California, from Minnesota to Texas, the delegatee who will assemble to name the party’s Standard-bearer in the next campaign, will come with but one purpose In view—to restore real democratic government to power in the nation’s capltol. In view of this situation, a situation which is most encouraging to the party, it Is possible now to forecast the result of the democratic convention, and that forecast points unerringly to the nomination of Woodrow Wilson, former president of Princeton university, and governor of New Jersey, for the highest office within th* right of The democratic candidate must be a progressive. Such a man Is Woodrow Wilson, whose record in New Jersey has. stamped him as one of the most progressiva men in public life. The democratic candidate for the presidency must be unafraid and free from all Influence of political bosses. Such a man is Wood row Wilson, who. In his own state, unhorsed a political dictator whose power no one before had shaken. People Have Faith In Him. The democratic candidate for the presidency must be essentially democratic. Such a man Is Woodrow Wilson, whose political ascendency haa been accomplished only by reason of the faith the people have in him, and who will carry Into the high office no secret bargains with those who manipulate politics for private gain. The democratic candidate must be morally and intellectually fit for the place. Such a man is Woodrow Wilson, whose training enables him to give to the great problems of the day an integrity above question and a mental capacity and a knowledge of public affairs which has probably not been excelled in an executive officer since the days of Jefferson.

In Woodrow Wilson, there is ample evidence of America’s ability to develop in each crisis In the nation’s affairs a man who is equal to the emergencies of his time. Washington appeared on the scene, when the diesatisfied colonies needed a strong min and a military genius to lead them to national Independence. Jefferson cams when the new democracy needed a man to take the reins of the government from the hands of an embryo nobility and restore it to the people. Jackson came when the money power first asserted itself in the control of the American government. Lincoln came when the union wks about to break upon the rocks of domestic strife.

The Man for the Occasion, And now, when greater problem a than those which confronted Waahington and Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln demand courage and ability of. almost superhuman character; when from the length and breadth of the land there goes up, as In 1860, the prayer, "God give us a man,” when plutocracy is enthroned In high places and when the life blood of the country Is being sucked by the vampire of big business; when greed and avarice have been substituted for patriotism and justice; when sporadic and halfhearted attempts to right existing wrongs only aggravate them; when the nation demands again the genius of a Washington, the faith In the people of a Jefferson, the courage of a Jackson and the sublime patriotism of a Lincoln —at such a time as this It is like watching the hand of a beseflcent destiny to see.. Woodrow Wilson loom large on the scene of national politics. Not only the Democratic party, but the nation, too, is blessed that such a man is available for the presidency..