Thomas Edison on Electing a President

Found this while scouring the archives of The New York Times. Edison, a longtime Republican, explains his support for Democratic presidential nominee Woodrow Wilson:

"Don't put in anything about party," Mr. Edison interrupted. "Times are too serious to talk in terms of Republicanism or Democracy. Parties are all right. Reckon we've got to have them with our system of government. But when it's America that's at stake, men have got to vote as Americans and not as Democrats or Republicans."

Article is dated September 10th, 1916.