AUGUST , ltll
The Commoner.
15
TEXAS DEMOCRATS PRESENT
WOODROW WILSON
Texas democrats have issued the
following statement:
To the democrats of Texas:
On Monday, August 7, last, a con
ference of representative democrats
favoring the nomination of their
party of Governor Woodrow Wilson
of New Jersey for president of the
United States was held in the city
of Austin. A notice of this con
ference had heen given in the daily
press of the state for somo ten days,
all democrats favoring the nomina
tion of Governor Wilson had been
invited to participate, the large num
ber present consisted of citizens from
every section of the state (some hav
ing traveled hundreds of miles to
attend) and entertained diverse
views on the various local democratic
issues; with great enthusiasm and
absolutely unanimity the conference
organized for work, selected the
undersigned from those present as
the nucleus of an executive com
mittee, and instructed them to per
fect a state organization and invito
Governor Wilson to address the
people of Texas at Dallas during the
fair in October.
Believing that the record of Gover
nor Wilson and the measures he ad
vocates will appeal to the rank and
file of the democratic party in Texas,
we address this communication to
them, knowing full well that his can
didacy has nothing to expect except
opposition from special -interests
and their friends and retainers.
Woodrow Wilson was born at
Staunton, "Va., in IS 5 6, he received
various college degrees between 1879
and 1886, studied law at the Uni
versity of Virginia, practiced his pro
fession at Atlanta, Ga., was profes
sor of standard works on history and
politics, was elected president of
Princeton university in 1902 and
resigned In 1910 to make the race
for governor of New Jersey on the
democratic ticket, was elected by a
majority of 49,000, overcoming a
republican majority of 75,000 at the
previous election, and is today the
ablest and most courageous thinker,
writer and doer of deeds in the ranks
of progressive, democrats.
For twenty years New Jersey has
been the breeding ground of trusts,
the incubator of corporations, the
home of Standard Oil, the entrenched
fortress from which predatory in
terests sent forth their forces to de
predate In every state of the union;
the democratic machinery in that
state Inspired only contempt, and
was in the control of a reactionary
class from whom the mass of the
people could not more hope for re
lief than from the republicans in
power; in 1910 Woodrow Wilson
was sent forth as the forlorn hope
of democracy; he declared in favor
of rigid regulation of public service
corporations, of city government by
commission, of direct primaries in
the selection of state officers and
United States senators, of tariff for
revenue only, and of many local
measures seeking to restore to the
people of the state powers filched
from them by unworthy servants.
No greater victory over such odds
was ever won by any democrat living
or dead, and it electrified the na
tional party and astonished the na
tion; yet the greatest victories of
the scholar statesman were still to
come, and were won after his elec
tion over the fierce opposition of re
publicans and renegade democrats,
in forcing through the legislature
laws carrying out the pledges of the
democratic party and the demands
of the masses of the people. The
press of the nation, without regard
to party lines, has paid tribute to his
prowess in the cause of good govern
ment; the Louisville Post (rep.)
says, "He has changed the very
foundations of legislation in the
state of New Jersey;" tho New York
Evening Post (ind.) says, "We think
it the literal truth to say that no
man in public life ever mated per
formance to promise better than
Governor Wilson," and tho Balti
more Sun (dem.) says, "Tho story
of tho career of Dr. Woodrow Wil
son, from the day he accepted tho
democratic nomination for governor
of New Jersey down to the present
time, Is one of tho most remarkable,
the most interesting and inspiring
chapters in tho history of American
politics."
In a recent' speech delivered at
Indianapolis, Governor Wilson said.
"We say that wo are against
privilege and for tho rights of the
people, but privilege has worn many
forms. What is the especial form or
privilege we now fight? By
privilege, as we now fight it, we
mean control of tho law, of legisla
tion and of adjudication, by organi
zations which do not represent the
people, by means which ore private
and selfish and worthy of all con
demnation. We- mean specifically
the conduct of our affairs and the
shaping of our legislation in the in
terest of special bodies of capital and
those who organize their use. We
mean the alliance for this purpose
of political machines with tho cap
tains of organized industry. Wo
mean the exploitation of the people
by legal and political means. We
have seen our governments under
these influences cease to be repre
sentative of the people and become
governments representative of tho
special Interests, controlled by ma
chines which in their turn are not
controlled by tho people.
"The democratic party is the party
of hope because it is the free and dis
entangled party. Wohaven't made any
embarrassing promises. We haven't
made any entangling alliances; we
are ready to go In any direction that
we want to go, and we want to go
in the direction of the light. Wo have
seen the light and we have seen the
growing dawn of a now day; our
faces are alight with the reflection
from that kindling sky. Wo know
that there are steep and rugged paths
ahead of us, but we nave tne Diooa,
the full blood and the hope of youth
in us, we have the confidence that
the people believe In us, and are go
ing to support us, and we shall
struggle up those heights to the
levels and until tableland after table
land has lifted up above the nols
some plain and we have carried man
another stage forward in that great
progress of humanity in whose cause
America was set up."
These are the words of one who
takes counsel of his hopes, and not
of his fears, and of one whom the
democrats of Texas can follow with
pride.
It has been almost seventy years
since a southern democrat was
president of the United States; it has
been more than fifty years since the
south has offered one of her sons
as a candidate of that party for this
high office; during these years we
have furnished more than three
fourths of the democratic electoral
votes and of democratic congressmen
and senators; we have been willing
hewers of wood and drawers of water
for the national party; but we have
hoped and prayed that the day might
come when the land of Washington,
of Jefferson, of Monroe, of Madison,
of Jackson and of Polk would fur
nish a leader worthy of being classed
with those giants of former days;
the hour has come and tho man; a
man inheriting the proudest tradi
tion of our past and representing the
oest hopes of our future: a man of
political and moral courage who, al
though the president of a northern
university, did not hesitate to de
nounce the great crime of recon
struction as unconstitutional, In
tolerable and "a regime of power
basely used;" a man who has tho
confldonco and admiration of the
north, tho cast and the west, and
Is universally acclaimed as one
without fear and without reproach."
Lot Texas lead tlio way, and let
tho southern states say to their
sisters of tho north. Wo present you
one worthy of our past, and a worthy
leader of democratic hopes.
With a view of perfecting a stute
wido organization as rapidly as pos
sible, and in order that we may
know each other, all persons favor
ing tho candidacy of Governor Wil
son aro requested to at onco mail
their names nnd addresses to Georgo
D. Armistend at Austin, or to Thomas
B. Lovo at Dallas; friends of Gover
nor Wilson aro also urged to organize
Woodrow Wilson clubs In their com
munities and send lists of tho ruain
bors to ono of tho above-named
gentlemen.
Calo Soils, chairman, Cleburne;
R. M. Wynne, Forth Worth;
W. T. Bartholomew, San Angclo;
C. E. Gilmore, Wills Point;
A. It. McCollum, Waco;
A. D. Rogers, Decatur;
Thomas B. Lovo, Dallas;
T. W. Gregory, Austin;
O. T. Holt, Houston;
Georgo D. Armlstcad, San Antonio;
R. C. Roberdoau, Austin;
Executive Committco Woodrow Wil
son stato democratic lcaguo of
Texas.
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