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Show DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES. Governor Woodrow Wilson wanta the voters next year to afgnify at the primaries whom they want for president, holding that the higher the office the more that office should be filled by the direct choice of the people. We may be mistaken, but we are growing every day in the conviction that Governor Wood row Wilson ia a good deal of a demagogue. He talked about the people 'a wishes all last summer until he waa elected governor; and aa aoon aa that event came around he declared that the governor waa the natural bosa of his party in the state, and he haa been a bosa ever since. We take it that if he was president of the United Statea he would atill want to. Ln a iosv aniwant. jt s(Lbadlylhathe would forget that the government ia made np of three departments the executive, the judicial and the legislative. . And we think if he were president he would want to fill all the duties of his own department de-partment and would be perpetually trenching upon the other two. It is easy for a mind of the character of his when once in a position to convince con-vince itself that th reason it waa thus exalted waa because it waa the great mind of tho world, picked out by the overruling majority for a duty which in the language of the street would be called a bosa. In thia connection the St. Louis Mirror asks why Missouri ahould not supply both the president and the vice president next year, and suggests Folk and Clark or Clark and Folk, either way. It is not a bad idea. Our thought ia that the men beat fitted to be president and vice president should be picked from all the union, and if they both happen to live in the same state, even if it ia Rhode Island or Delaware, let them be nominated. Men vote for electors to elect a president and vice president, but behind both are supposed to be certain principles. If they can best be represented by two men from one state, it ia right they ahould have it ao. Only in thia connection and considering who the candidates ahould be, our hope, ia that the Democratic party nut year will find a candidate who will auit them better than Woodrow Wilson. He i a great scholar, he is a good talker; but there ia a great deal of the ego in him.' Given the chance and he would be very much of a dictator. If it ia to be a Democrat let it be a southwestern Democrat if candidate there fills the bill better than anybody else. Let it be Mr. Culberson of Texas, or Folk or Clark of Missouri, or Harmon of Ohio. Governor Harmon ia a good deal of a man. We think he would model his administration a good deal after that of Mr. Cleveland, except that he would be less stubborn and he would be less apt to take the opinion of some friend and make it a rule of hia life. Possibly Governor Dix of New Tork would be the best candidate. ' If he can go into the national eonvention with the full vote of hia atate, he will be a hard man t'p throw down, because for a presidential election two essential es-sential are neceasary one ia votea, the other ia money; and New York haa more of both than any half doien atatea. All the time we ahould keep in mind that Mr. Bryan must be considered when tha main candidate ia nominated, ' because sneer ' at Bryan aa they please, he haa more followers among the rank and file of the Democracy than any other one man, and he knows it, and be ia determined de-termined to make it count in the next Democratic national convention. |