The True Story Of Woodrow Wilson
By DAVID LAWRENCE
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Chapter XII.
Wilson and the Progre??ive?
Woodrow Wilson foresaw Ionic be
fore he entered politics as a Candi
da? for governor of New Jersey that
the Democratic party of the nation
needed new leadership. His letters
to friends indicate that he looked
forward to the campaign of J 912 as
thF~occasion for a rebirth of the
Democratic party. Prior to 1910,
when he became governor of New
Jersey, suggestions that Mr. Wilson
himself might prove the new leader
did not appeal to him as possible of
fulfillment. He had no party fol
lowing. He had made speeches
from time to time, it is true, on -pub
lic questions and had spoken from
one end of the country to the othei
before civic bodies and educational
institutions; but not until the Dem
ocratic leaders in New Jerse>
sought him for the gubernatorial
nomination did he begin to think
that perhaps at last the road to the
presidency had been opened.
Woodrow Wilson wrote a frleud in
the spring of 1912: "Roosevelt and
Taft are busily engaged In splitting
the Republican party wide open
so that we may get in."
Mr. Wilson was then Governor of
New Jersey. He entered the Dem
ocratic primaries in various states
and found himself successful in some
but resisted as a rule by organisa
tion Democrats. Progressive senti
ment in both the Democratic and
Republican parties had begun to
crystallze. The reflex of the Taft
Roosevelt controversy on stand
patlsm and progresslvlsm was felt in
the Democratic ranks where it was
not difficult to kindle fires of dls
"Ctrntent over bossism and organiza
tion control.
There had been times when Mr.
Wilson had been so indignant over
boss control in the Democratic
party that he was not unsympathe
tic with the idea of having a new
party formed by the progressives of
both the Republican and Demo
cratic parties., Just after the regu
lar Republicans renominated Mr.
Taft. a third party with Roosevelt
at the head of it representing the
progressive Republicans and Wood
row Wilson as his running mate
representing the progressive. Dem
ocratic sentiment of the country
was not only seriously suggested
among progressives but there was a
moment when \\'oodrow Wilson
cnougnL Qi_ii nimseir too. , ?
It was in those weary hours 1
when the Democratic convention 1
at Baltimore was deadlocked and !
It looked as If Champ Clark might be |
nominated. Mr. Wilson had per- '
suaded himself that a victory for
Clark wcruld be a victory for the
bosseH in the Democratic party and
he felt that those bosses were some- 1
how in the control of Wall street.
This was so deeply ingrained in his
mind that at a critical moment in
the balloting, he turned to members
of his family and remarked that he
might not be able to support the
Democratic ticket if Wall street cap-;
tured the Democratic party. When ;
a friend standing by suggested that
the third party convention would
soon be held and that Mr. Wilson i
might be tendered the nomination \
for the vice presidency, the then
Governor of New Jersey remarked j
that "circumstances might make
such a development possible."
Strange ?as were the incidents i
which led to the nomination of,
Woodrow Wilson for the presidency. ;
stranger ?tlll are the tales of how
it was accomplished. The Wilson
forces seemed like crusaders. Theyi
had responded to Williams Jennings j
Bryan's outcry against boss control.!
They refused to make trades and i
'political -bargains. They refused to!
yield even when Champ Clark had'
passed the majority mark ? nt?ver I
before had a candidate gone so far
without winning the necessary two
thirds. National political conven
tions are rarely susceptible of pre
else analysis. Too many things |
happen at once as the numerous1
tacticians concentrate their sublet leu i
and cajolery. Colncldentally the i
floor leaders are working In a half!
dozen different places to accomplish
the Mine general result.
The newspapers at the time gave
William Jennings Bryan substantial
credit for bringing about the nomi
nation of Mr. Wilson but ever since
delegates have insisted that In the
many secret conferences of that
convention. Mr. Bryan, after suc
cessfully blocking the nomination of
Champ Clark, really favored Llm
hlmself. proposing from three to five
other candidates following the Sun
day adjournment on the Monday
morning on the theory that
the Convention was "hope
lessly deadlocked." Irrespec
tive erf what had really happened,
the country was given the impress
ion that Mr,, Bryan played an Im
portant part In Retting the stage for
the nomination of Mr. Wilson, and
Mr. Wilson, not unmindful of the
Bryan Influence In preceding Dem
ocratic conventions, was Inclined tc
share that view.
Without doubt the faet that the
Third Party Convention would meet
a Week or so later and nominate
Theodore Roosevelt as the national
progressive candidate was constant
ly In the minds of the Democratic
delegates who, as usual, were not *
little Influenced In selecting a can
dldate by the thought that he de
served the nomination who had th?
best chance of winning the election
Would the Democrats permit th?
third party to draw progressive!
from the Democratic party? Th?
nomination of a progressive Demo
crat like Woodrow Wilson, hli
\ champions at Baltimore srgued
would checkmate such a possibility
and give the country a new view 01
ITCACH MOTH IN OBOROIA
Atlanta. March 7 ? The oriental
peach moth, a peat brought to this
country from Japan, has appeared
in the Georgia fruit belt. A thirty
per cent damage to the 1924 peach
crop is feared.
America's Biggest Sugar
Year Now In The Making
Cuba's Position in Sugar Industry Becoming Steadily Less
Dominant While American Sugar Producers, Both
Farifters and Hefiners, Growing More Prosperous
By J. C. ROYLR
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New York. March 7 ? The position
I of Cuba In the sugar Industry ib
I steadily becoming of less lmport
; ance. Consumers and retailers who
, keep in close touch with the market
are optimistic that future prices will
be confined within a moderate range
unless unexpected weather develop
ments disrupt conditions. They are
therefore buying refined sugar only
! for immediate needs at present, pre
' ferring to let the refhrertr run that
risk and carry the stocks.
! The biggest beet sugar year in the
history of this country is in the mak
ing. according to estimates of acre
ages now under contract. Growers
assert that if conditions during the
growing and harvesting season are
even reasonably favorable, the year
will see a production of beet sugar
not hitherto approached.
Records of the Colorado crop re
porting service affiliated with the
Department of Agriculture show
that sugar beets were the most val
uable crop in that state last year in
proportion to the acreage planted.
I- An increase of acreage of at least
20 per cent is indicated there this
year. ?
The Great Western Sugar Com
1 pany expects to contract this season
for more than 160.000 acres, the
Holly Sugar Corporation for. i5, 000
to 18,000 acres, the Independent Su
gar Corporation for 8,000, the Am
erican Beet Sugar Company for 30,
000, and the National Sugar Com
pany for 6,000 acres. Equally heavy
plantings are expected In other su
gar beet states.'
The efTed of the Industry on the
nnancial and business position of the
country as a whole is illustrated ac-i
curately In the banking position in!
the ijitermountaln states. For ex-|
ample, the index of rediscounts and J
loans at the Salt Lake City branch
of the Federal Reserve I3ank serv- 1
InC I'tull tho lorooB ? nf Mohn I
nd Eastern Nevada, shows .that
rhereas In 1920 these Items reached
peak of $44,000,000 compared
rlth deposits of $6,500,000, the
?resent total of rediscounts and
oatiB Is around $8,000,000 with de
posits of $9,000,000. This Improved
if the Democratic party. There was
lomething fascinating, if not sen
sational, about the spectacular rise
>f the college president to fame as
i courageous administrator and a
earless spokesman of Democratic
irinclples. A lac; he had carried
Cpw Jersey by approximately 50,
100 only two years before and his
itrength was undiminished by the
ecord he had made as governor In
t state repressed theretofore by boss
nanagement of bi-partisan effective
less.
Convinced that ho won the Dem
>cratic nomination at Haltlmre cm
principle, Woodrow Wilson endea
vored to conduct his campaign on!
ihe same high plane. Not once
luring the 1912 contest, for in
stance. did Mr. Wilson mention the
name erf Theodore Roosevelt . He
tried to avoid personalities in poll
tics. He was much more intrested
In principles, preferlng always to
ileal with persons Implicitly rather
than explicitly.
(Tomorrow's chapter tell* about
Mr. Wilnon's singular notions about
party platforms and campaigning.)
SPRINGLESS SHADES
l J<t I onvj. . Look Bitter
condition is attributed largely to the
recovery of the sugar beet industry.
The companies making sugar
there are in a greatly improved con
dition and the farmers who planted
beets have prospered. There is a no
table lack of the complaints which
have come in such volume from the
agricultural sections devoted large
ly to wheat, or in which crop divers
ification has not been practiced, and
better trade by merchants and large
sales by manufacturers and whole
salers in other sections.
A deal now is "on the fire" which
may result In a realignment of the
sugar situation in Wyoming and
California. The Holly Sugar Cor-;
poration of Colorado has acquired a |
large minority interest in the stock
of the Wyoming Sugar Company op
erating a plant at Worland, in the
Big Horn Basin, and 'has obtained
an option on the remainder. The
Great Western Sugar Company has!
offered to take over stock and option
at a profit and if the offer is accept
ed the Holly Corporation will aban
don its plan of transferring its plant ,
at Anaheim. California, to Torring-1
jton, Wyoming, where it has contrac
ted for 8.000 acres of beets this sea
son. The Worland district would
i be considerably expanded.
The Great Western Company con
siders the Torrington district as tri
[ butary to its factories in Western
I Nebraska and is willing to take over
'the Worland plant at a profit to the
| Holly Company provided the Tor
FIVE ROUND PENNIES
males ? half a dim*. Any old tlma
la Chockarbarry time. Try tha
n?w cbtwing gum with t ha new
flavor that * prmsaad in ? Flaer ?
Chackarbfcy.
rlngton factory i? not put Id oper
ation. As an inducement, it is said
that Great Western is willing to di
rert enough beets from the Billings
Montana district to the Holly plant
at Sheridan to allow capacity oper
ations there.
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