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Show I DR. WILSON FOR GOVERNOR Thnt tho scholar In polltlca Is to bo a factor In American public llfo has been prophesied, nnd Sv to Botno dogrco cxomplined, tor sovoral years, ff ySM He the head of a leading university has beon of I -wJiwvwSlo forcd tho nomination for govornor of a state nnd "h 'mfj 'ms s'Kn'"cc n'B willingnosB to bocomo tho cnndl-vJlft'v cnndl-vJlft'v v'Ito' VVoodrow Wilson, prosident of Princeton unl- i$ umv vorslty, Is both a scholar and a politician, In tho tfmmML higher sonso of the latter word. Ho knows life V 2 mkWmBK not only from books, but ho haB beon a practising ferHta faLluIrK lawyer, and In various wayB has como moro Into HjH yMHym touch with tho gro'at public of working men and LLI jf& mMiiiim women probably, than any othor head of an Amor- lf(lll(mlllfm lean Institution of learning. H To tho observer of politics who Is not "on the H Inside," as an oxprchHlve hrnso puts It, tho proposed nomination of Doctor H Wilson, so far no thu presH dispatches havo reported It, may bo a provocative of mild curiosity. It is said in the dlsputches that Doctor Wilson has been H told ho can havo tho nciiilii.uiou, by "a dozen or moro prominent New Jersey H Democrats at the Lnwyors' club In Manhattan." A previous dispatch has in- , formed (he public that Doctor Wilfeon is to bo tho Democratic candldato for president of the United Statos in 1912, "if n combination of Wall streot nnd H political IntorostB can make him so." In both announcements thoro Is nothing relating to tho wishes or tho fcollngs of tho great common pooplo who aro supposed to compoBo tho Democratic party. Yet tho selection of President 1 Wilson vory possibly may meet tho enthusiastic approval of tho voters of tho Democratic party, when tho quostlon of fitness Is considered, fl President Wilson's strongest Interests, It Is said by those who know him J woll, are In. government and politics. This, porhaps, Is natural to him as a Virginian, for that. common wealth haB been tho mother of statesmen since tho H foundation of tho republic. In collcgo dobatoB and essays ho showed his bent ; early. Ho learned early also tho value of being n good public spcakor, and assiduously practised until ho became a ready dobater and nn accomplished B orator. Later ho learned to speak with graco and fluency on post-prandial |