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WOODROW WILSON.
Woodrow Wilson
, Governor of New Jersey, was born in Virginia, 1856, married Ellen Louise Axson of Savannah, Georgia, in 1885, and has three daughters. He was educated at Princeton University, graduating with the class of '79, studied law at the University of Virginia, later taking a post-graduate course at Johns Hopkins University, specializing in politics and government; then took up the work of education as a career; was Professor of History and Political Economy. He was elected President of Princeton University in 1902; was eminently successful in interesting young men who came under his influence in the problems of government and the duties of citizenship, and developed extraordinary executive ability in the management of the university; was known to the people of New Jersey and the neighboring states by his eloquent addresses in favor of progressive reforms; was nominated for Governor by the Democratic party and elected by fifty thousand majority in a state that had not elected a Democratic Governor for seventeen years. He considered himself the chosen leader of his party in that state, and procured from the legislature every measure that he had promised the people. He destroyed the corrupt machine. His principal measures were direct primary and purity of elections, employers' liability, regulation of campaign expenses, providing for publicity, a public utilities commission regulating corporations, their capitalization and charges, factory protection laws, the initiative, referendum and recall of administration officials for municipalities. His administration has been endorsed by the New Jersey State Federation of Labor. He has written a “History of the United States,” “Congressional Government” and a comprehensive work on government entitled “The State.” Apart from his splendid equipment, he is a humanitarian, and has dedicated his life to bettering conditions and restoring by legal methods the government to the people.
CHAMP CLARK.
Champ Clark
, Democratic candidate for President. Born in Kentucky March 7, 1850; married and has two children; worked as farm hand, clerk and country editor; educated in public schools, Bethany College, West Virginia, and Cincinnati Law School; moved to Bowling Green, Missouri; elected City Attorney; elected District Attorney; elected to Congress in 1892; reëlected eight times; was chosen Democratic leader in the 61st Congress; elected Speaker of the 62d. Champ Clark is, and during his entire public career has been a firm believer in and advocate of Jeffersonian Democracy, the principles of which Abraham Lincoln declared to be “the essential axioms of free society” which are the foundations of every real progressive movement in the English-speaking world to-day. From his humble position as Kentucky plowboy to his present exalted position in office and in leadership, he has risen steadily by sheer force of his own ability and character. Proud of his country, her institutions and her people, he is free from the weakness of personal vanity; he believes in the wisdom, capacity and integrity of the people and in a “Government of the people, by the people, for the people.” He favors removing all limitations upon, and obstructions to, popular sovereignty, and thus securing to the people their natural right to make and maintain a government suited to the promotion of their own pursuit of happiness, free from interference by beneficiaries of privilege and monopoly. His efforts for the past two years have been to protect the masses of the people from the burdens imposed by the trusts and monopolies, through the agency of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill, in the high cost of living. His services to California, in the Panama-Pacific Exposition, have been second to none.
THIS IS TO CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true and correct biographical sketch of each of the candidates of the Democratic party for President at the presidential primary election to be held throughout the State of California on Tuesday, May 14, 1912, as filed in the office of the Secretary of State in accordance with the requirements of section 10 of the Presidential Primary Act enacted at the extraordinary session of the California Legislature, 1911
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In Witness Whereof
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I have hereunto set my hand
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and affixed the official seal of the State of California this fifteenth day of April, A. D. 1912
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Secretary of State
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FRIEND WM. RICHARDSON : SUPT. STATE PRINTING.
MAY 6 1912