1912. 
THE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
6 HU 
LARGE PUBLIC QUESTIONS. 
[Editor’s Note.—U nder this heading we intend to 
have discussed questions which particularly interest 
country people. We do not agree with all that our 
correspondents say, but we shall give men and women 
who possess the courage of conviction an opportunity to 
say what they think about certain things which interest 
country people]. 
THE NEXT PRESIDENT. 
Last week we gave a statement regard¬ 
ing the wishes of Republican readers of 
The R. N.-Y. Now we give similar data 
from Democrats. Thus far 35 States are 
represented in our reports. On the per¬ 
centage basis our people express their pref¬ 
erences about as follows: 
Bryan .40 
Wilson .34 
Clark .16 
Harman . 6 
Underwood .6 
The following letters are fair samples 
of the various arguments advanced in favor 
of these candidates. 
For Champ Clark. 
“We, the people,” is a catching phrase. 
The doctrine that the will of the majority 
of the people should be paramount in con¬ 
ducting the affairs of the whole community 
is not new, nor does it hold good in prac¬ 
tice. Everywhere and every day the people 
show plainly that they cannot trust them¬ 
selves to deal justly with one another. 
They cannot get along without the police¬ 
man. Constitutional restrictions have been 
Introduced into our political systems, State 
and national, with deliberation, in order to 
curb and control the majority from riding 
over the rights of the minority. Our judic¬ 
iary must be left free and untramnieled to 
interpret and administer the law. To sub¬ 
mit our judges to the recall, and their 
decisions to the approval or disapproval, 
of a popular vote, is to destroy the prin¬ 
ciples of government for which our Repub¬ 
lic has thus far stood. My preference is 
for Champ Clark. w. a. F. 
'Pennsylvania. 
I will name Champ Clark for first place, 
as he has the ability and has sufficient 
judgment to know just when to hold his 
tongue. lie seems to lie inclined to act 
fairly, and, from my way of thinking, is 
thoroughly qualified, as he does not seem 
to care about going about the country 
trying to tell the people how little they 
know, or showing them how little he knows 
of their wants. T name him, and do so from 
the other side of the house, as I have been 
a staunch Republican since 1888, although 
my ancestors are all Democrats, w. j. 
New Jersey. 
For 0. W. Underwood. 
I favor for next President, Underwood 
(if he is in favor of an effective parcels 
post). He is all right on the tariff, prob¬ 
ably better informed on that subject than 
any man in Congress. He has served on 
the Judiciary and Ways and Means Com¬ 
mittees. He is quiet, honest, truthful, 
broad-minded, suave, tactful and a good 
debater, and knows the subject he is dis¬ 
cussing, does his own thinking and Is 
controlled by no one; has backbone and 
will favor what he believes to be right; is 
most popular where best known, has lived 
in the North and South, and would build 
the sections together as no other candidate 
mentioned could do. Harmon, in this sec¬ 
tion of Connecticut, is most favored of 
any Democrat mentioned, especially by Re¬ 
publicans who will neither vote for Taft 
nor Roosevelt. w. H. H. M. 
Connecticut. 
I would like to cast my vote for Oscar 
W. Underwood for President, and hope he 
will be our next President. I believe fie 
Is one of the most capable men we have 
to-day for this high office. I believe him 
to be a man who would do what he thinks 
best for all the people, a man who would 
stand by his convictions and would not 
be controlled by the corporations. I be¬ 
lieve he would lie fully capable and would 
deal wisely with all foreign matters. I 
would like to see him President, as I be¬ 
lieve he would be the greatest to serve the 
common pople. He surely is working for 
some measures which if they are enacted 
will be a wonderful blessing to the poor 
people. e. d. 
New York. 
For Win. J. Bryan. 
I consider Bryan the deepest thinking, 
farthest seeing statesman of this genera¬ 
tion. I believe him absolutely honest and 
incorruptible, fearing none nor favoring 
any. His first solution of every question 
is “Is it right?” Then if right. “Is it 
expedient?" For 15 years he has been the 
leader in all this great fight for the com¬ 
mon people. He has been the light, Roose¬ 
velt, La Follette, Wilson and other reform¬ 
ers only the retlection. Mr. Bryan has been 
three times defeated because he would not 
surrender principles for office. Now it ap¬ 
pears as though the principles he has so- 
earnestly advocated, were about to win, 
consequently right, justice and fairness 
demand that Mr. Bryan win with them. 
These are some of my reasons for desiring 
to see him elected President, and although 
I have never seen him nor heard him, I 
have read him until I have become per¬ 
sonally endeared to him for his influence 
for good and the uplifting of all mankind. 
Wisconsin. f. a. C. 
My choice for President is W. J. Bryan, 
and the reason why is, first, he has the 
largest following of any man in the coun¬ 
try. He is a man in whose courage, hon¬ 
esty of purpose, incorruptibility and pa¬ 
triotism the common people have confidence. 
The great Nebraskan has the esteem and 
respect ' of the masses, earned through 
manly, open fights for what he believes 
to be right, even when the fight was 
against his own party, and not one act in 
all his active career has cast the slightest 
suspicion on his loyalty to the people and 
hostility to those who oppress and loot 
the people. lake Henry George, he is for 
men. While he may not be the general 
actually on the battlefield, placing the men 
and guns, he is still for men, and the 
people know it. c. L. D. 
.Kentucky. 
Some of my reasons for favoring William 
Jennings Bryan for President are because he 
believes people are the rulers; in the pro¬ 
tection of both the man and the dollar, but 
the man is the more valuable of the two; 
in the initiative, referendum and recall be¬ 
cause they place power where it belongs, 
with the people. He believes that the 
banks ought to guarantee their depositors; 
in the physical valuation of railroads as 
basis both for taxation and bond issue; in 
graduated income tax; election of U. S. 
Senators by the people; publicity of cam¬ 
paign receipts before election ; knowing who 
own the newspapers; knowing influence in 
appointing U. S. Supreme judges. I con¬ 
sider this man a prince in Israel; an 
orator without an equal, a sagacious and 
far-seeing statesman, and who is moulding 
public sentiment as no other man in the 
United States to-day. f. j. t. 
New Jersey. 
Of all men mentioned for the Presidency 
none stands more constantly for the in¬ 
terests of the people than Bryan. Others 
now advocate the doctrines that he advo¬ 
cated years ago, but they have been slow 
to get their eyes open to the needs of the 
age. Bryan has lead the fight for better, 
purer, higher statesmanship for 16 years. 
Let the Democrats nominate Bryan and 
Foss. If we cannot have Bryan give us 
La Follette. Though lie calls himself a 
Republican he 4s nearly as great a cham¬ 
pion of the people as Bryan, and I will 
gladly support him against any candidate 
the monopolies may place in the field. 
Let the Republicans nominate La Follette 
and Bourne. The time has come when the 
people can no longer afford to permit the 
politicians to name their candidates for 
them. They must Insist on having a voice 
in government. Party prejudices must be 
thrown to the winds. We have voted 
blindly too long already. And for honor's 
sake let us have a constitutional amend¬ 
ment that will make the term of office of 
President and Vice-President six years. 
Ohio. j. l. s. 
For Judson Harmon. 
I say Governor Ilarmon; he is honest 
and true; is the cause of the one per cent 
tax, and has been the cause of our taxes 
being iower; causes the rich to pay their 
share of taxes, and was the cause of the 
State’s surplus money being put on interest, 
and caused Ohio’s State treasury to have 
a. larger surplus than it had for a long 
time, and has found that some of our ex¬ 
treasurers have had money loaned and drew 
the interest for themselves, so I say if 
the people want an honest man for Presi¬ 
dent vote for Governor Judson Harmon of 
Ohio. j. r. s. 
Ohio. 
I would pick Judson Harmon for the 
place, because he has the power of his 
convictions; he has demonstrated that he 
can run big business ; he does not have to 
cater to any gang. We farmers do not 
want any special privilege, or anyone else 
to have any. We ask for a square deal, a 
just, impartial, conservative man in every 
office, with no more offices than necessary. 
"Ohio. o. F. H. 
For Woodrow Wilson. 
My first choice for that office is Governor 
Woodrow Wilson. I favor him because of 
all the candidates now under consideration 
he is best equipped to meet the needs of 
the country. Unlike the other candidates 
he is not wedded to the dead past. His 
achievements as Governor of New Jersey 
place him at the head of the list of true 
Progressives. Doubtless he has in the past 
in the class-room and elsewhere made 
statements that experience has not justi¬ 
fied, but where experience has shown his 
error he is the first to acknowledge his 
mistake and to study out the question in 
line of our present conditions. It is a 
great thing to have a public man who 
will think and learn with the people. 
Woodrow Wilson is such a man. His 
policy is one of construction, not of de¬ 
struction. His address at Concord, N. II., 
this Winter showed plainly his policy 
toward the gigantic corporations that have 
had this country by the throat for 20 
years. The farcical attitude that the gov¬ 
ernment has taken towards these monsters 
during the past two administrations would 
be followed, if Mr. Wilson is elected, by 
putting the heads of some of these cor¬ 
porations in jail when they violate the 
statutes. The fining or imprisoning of a 
joy rider has proven a more efficient method 
of keeping our streets safe that would be 
the case if the policeman took the autb to 
a garage, denounced the machine, took out 
a few bolts, put them in again and turned 
the auto loose again with the same chauf¬ 
feur at the wheel. Woodrow Wilson would 
make a great President because he would 
be the people’s President. No one can con¬ 
ceive of his being owned or dictated to by 
any political machine. He would not sur¬ 
round himself by little men thnt bo. him¬ 
self, might loom large, as a recent Presi¬ 
dent continually did. He would, rather, 
secure the best men that could be found 
to fill the positions at his disposal. I am 
for Woodrow Wilson because the political 
machines are against him. His candidacy 
is based on the spontaneous desire of the 
people to see him continue the great work 
he has done so well in New Jersey at the 
national capital. I am for Woodrow Wil¬ 
son because if nominated at will be impos¬ 
sible to raise a corruption fund big enough 
to defeat him. His candidacy is of the 
people, if nominated he will be elected by 
the people. l. s. r. 
New Hampshire. 
I am for Woodrow Wilson for President 
for many reasons. First, I have known 
him personally for 32 years and never 
knew him to tell a lie or break a promise. 
Second, becaues he is a progressive, and is 
on the side of the people against the 
trusts and monopolies, when thev tty to 
injure the right of the people. Third, be¬ 
cause he is a scholar and a gentleman. 
Fourth, because I firmly believe that he is 
the only man the Democrats have who 
stands the slightest show of being elected, 
if nominated. I have formed this opinion 
from reading letters from every part of 
the United States, also papers and periodi¬ 
cals from the same source. I will also 
state that everyone with whom I have 
talked in this section is also for Woodrow 
Wilson. They may bo over rash. But 
they speak of him here as our next Presi¬ 
dent- s. ir. j. 
Louisiana. 
President for the following reasons: First, 
because of his personality. “His career 
has been a consistent logical development, 
moulded by the intellect rather than by im¬ 
pulse or sentiment.” Thoughtful men are 
beginning to see in him a mediator be¬ 
tween the progressive and the reactionary, 
between threatening plutocracy and the 
violent partisans of labor, a harmonizer 
ot invidious class hatred. Second, be¬ 
cause of his belief in direct primaries, com¬ 
mission form of city government, initiative, 
referendum and recall except in the case 
ot judges. In short a “back to the peo¬ 
ple government, a government which rep¬ 
resents the people and does not represent 
special interests, which are controlled bv 
mac nines, which in turn are not controlled 
ii « “l? Third, because of his be¬ 
lief that the “bulwarks of our democracy” 
must be buttressed by those, whose “voices 
come to us in a murmur from the hills and 
woods, the farms and factories and mills 
rolhng °n and on until they come to us 
from the homes of common men ’’ 
New York. p w c 
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. 
There is really little to report this 
\veek on the trial of E. G. Lewis on 
charges to defraud. Mr. Lewis was on 
the stand for two days in his own de¬ 
fense, explaining his schemes and 
dreams to the jury. At his conclusion 
the District Attorney said that Mr. 
Lewis testified entirely in generalities 
and the past histories of his enterprises, 
find did not answer the definite charges 
of using the mails with intent to de¬ 
fraud. Much of his testimony referred 
to the American Woman’s League, 
which was not mentioned in the indict¬ 
ment. Mr. Lewis, the District Attor¬ 
ney said, did not explain his motives 
in issuing notes and debentures, but 
confined himself to the broad statement 
that he did not intend to defraud. That 
the money was received; that it was not 
returned to those who sent it; and that 
it has disappeared are undisputed prop¬ 
ositions. 
R. Z. Kirk testified that the League 
revenues fell off immediately after the 
convention in June, 1910. He gave as 
a reason that many premiums had been 
promised and never sent out. They re¬ 
ceived many complaints for this. Also 
money sent for subscriptions to Class A 
papers was put directly into other Lewis 
concerns, and not to the publishers. The 
people consequently did not get their 
papers, and complained bitterly. The 
verdict will probably be reached before 
this paper is in the hands of readers. 
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