Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1912 — [From Die New York Times. Oct. 23. NOT ELIGIBLE. [ARTICLE]

[From Die New York Times. Oct. 23. NOT ELIGIBLE.

Gov. Wilson lias n<»t Joined the Knights! ot Coin minis Gov Wilson will not Join the Knights'of t niuitibns Even if he wished to join tli.it orgnni zation he could not Lie is hot We say this for the information .Tud comfort of Thomas E Watson of At lanta. Ga. 111 its issue of Oct 1." The Times said that Gov Wilson joined the New York Chapter of the Knight's of Columbus at dinner in celebration of Columbus Hay on Saturday evening Joining the Knights at a dinner com memorating the discovery of America is 'not exactly the same thing as en tering the membership of the organiza tion. If Mr Watson of Atlanta, being invited to dine at ,a friend s house, should linger with the gentlemen at the dinner table for cigars and con ‘ versation. he might thereafter join the ladies, but.that would not make him one of them. Yet Mr. Watson, totally misiiuder standing and misinterpreting the re port of the Columbus Day dinner, per miffed himself to lie scared quite out of his wits at the' notion ilnir Gov Wilson had become a Knight oi Co lumbus. with ail that that implies and he thereupon made tin* important announcement that lie could no longer support th? Governor’s candidacy. We hope he will i» e reassured tie calmed, soothed, and quieted when he learns that his worst fears cannot be realized. We suppose that it is only in wholly pagan countries that political cam paigns are free from these little inci dents.

Nothing is more unfortunate, noth ing is more unwarranted than to think of politics as a contest of classes, as made up of interests in competition with one another and in hot opposition to one another Woodrow Wilson.