MR WOODROW WILSON

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1483, 4 July 1912, Page 5

MR WOODROW WILSON

DEMOCRATIC CHOICE.

SELECTED ON FORTY-SIXTH BALLOT. AS PROGRESSIVE AS ROOSEVELTDy Telegrnph-l'resfl Aesneiatiou-Copyright (lleo. July 3. 11.15 p.m.) New York, July 3. After innumerable ballots tho Democratic Convention at Baltimore has chosen .Mr. Woodrow Wilson, Governor of New Jersey, as the party's candidate for the Prc-idoncy. Tho final break in favour of Mr. Wilson came at tho forty-sixth ballot when tho leaders of tho Underwood and Champ Clark partisans hastily released their delegates from all obligations. Thero was immediately u scene of wild confusion. Jlr. Wilson's supporters dashed about tho hall hugging each other, and many delegates stood on chairs shouting madly. The nomination, according to custom, should bo made by acclamation only. Tho delegates from New York and Missouri wero unmoved. Tho roll-call revealed tho following position :— Mr. Woodrow Wilson 000 Mr. Champ Clark 81 This was immediately changed to a unanimous vote. Mr. Bryan was non-committal on tho announcement of the result. He said that what wanted most was the nomination of a Progressive candidate. It is reported that .Mr. Champ Clark has accepted the Democratic r.om ; nation for tho Vice-Presidency.

TWO RIVAL PROGRESSIVES. THE FIGfIT IN NOVEMBER. (Rec. July 3, 11.15 p.m.) London, July 3. The Baltimore correspondent cf "Tho Times" says Mr. Woodrow Wilson is a good campaigner, with many brilliant qualities, and ; s bound to attract cost of that restless spirit in America which is hankering for reform. Mr. Roosevelt will b3 confronted with a rival who is as /progressive as himself.

, THE ROOSEVELT PARTY. CONVENTION' NEXT MONTH. New York, July 3. (Roc. July 3, 11.15 p.m.) Mr. Roosevelt's Manager has announced that a Natioml Convention .if tho New Progressive Party will be held in Chicago on August 1. THE NEXT PRESIDENT? MR. WOODROW WILSON'S CAREER. Mr. Woodrow Wilton was from 1902 until 1910 president cf Princeton University, one of the most influeuti.il universities in America. Last year ho stood as the Democratic candidate for the Governorship >of New Jersey, and was elected by a majority of about 50,000 votes. Writing of Air. Wilson's prospects for the Presidency, Mr. Hamilton Fyfe said recently in tho "Fortnightly Review":— That Mr-. Woodrow Wilson could be elected, if lio wcro put forward as candidate, seems extremely probable. He would carry the Democratic volo solid, and many of the Progressive Republicans, the Insurgents igainst high tariffs and truckling to wealth, would support him. Even without them he would probably w;in. The prevailing, sentiment of the country is believed to bo Democratic. Since the Democrats carried tho House of Representatives last year, it has been the view of most American politicians and writers on politics that a Democratic President is more than a possibility..Mr. Woodrow Wilson would be a strong candidate with an excellent chance of victory. Mr. Wilson is analytical, sardonic, a keen knife-edge of a man. In.appearance Mr. .Wilson is sparse,wiry, professional. He scarcely looks his fifty-five years. Women cail him ugly until they hear him ta!ft. His features are what would be described as "typically American." His expression in repose is hard and cynical. His mouth and chin are powerful, but harshly moulded; his eyes narrow and astigmatic, with a steely _ glint in them which suggests either grim determination or irony which bites, liko acid on an etcher's plate There is nothing picturesque about him, nothing to touch the popular imagination save his honest, wish, backed by solid character, to "give the people back their chance." Republican policy for fifty years, he asserts, too favourable to vested interests. He would not bear hardly upon vested interests; he is too wise for that. But ho wcaild keep the ring fairly for them and the public. Ho would stop" underhand fighting. Ho would not let consumers be pillaged, as they have been by many of tho Trusts. An arraignment of corporation piracy by a scholar and historian rings more truly in the public car than the voices of regular politicians. People are rather weary of ma-chinc-mado politics. They like the idea, of a college president taking a hand, as Mr. Wil=on did in New Jersey, and "seeing the bosses" with disastrous results to them. , ,

Against his honesty and goodwill are set tho fact that he is an amateur. He was once interrupted in a speech by this accusation. "Yes," he said, "that is too bad, isn't it?" He paused. Tho audience, hnlf smiled. "But I have one satisfaction." ho went on, punohing out the words as a machine in a ship-yard punches holes in steel plates. "A professional plavs tho game, yon know, because it pays hini. An amateur plays because ho loves to play, and to win if he can by fair means in a fair field. I'm nfrnid I am only an amateur. But I'm having a most interesting timo of it.