Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-07-25
BOOSTING SENATOR SMITH FOR
THE NATIONAL TICKET.

The suggestion comes, and this time
from a Northern paper owned by an
Ohio man, the Washington Post, that a
boom may soon be projected for a
Southern man for President, and that
in this connection the name of the
present governor and senator-elect Of
Georgia is one to conjure with.
Heretofore there has been little talk
of a Southern man for the presidency.
Whatever gossip there has been about
the South furnishing a candidate for
the national ticket has been confined
to the vice-presidency and it mas been
pointedly alluded to that Georgia, as
the leading state of the South, might
legitimately aspire to have one of its
sons on the tail end of the Democratic
ticket.
So far as the presidency goes, i
Gov. Wilson, of New Jersey, heads the
ticket, it will practically be a South
ern man running for president. South
ern by birth, by marriage, by early
environment, and doubtless still so
largely by sympathies, Gov. Wilson,
meets all requirements so far as this
section is concerned. He is fully as
much a Georgian in most respects, rs
GOV. Smith, who was not born in Geor-
gia, nor educated here, We believe.
Of course if Gov. Wilson is the pres
idential nominee it absolutely pre-
cludes the possibility of a Southern
man going on the ticket as vice-pres-
idential candidate. If Harmon, cf
Ohio, on the other hand, is nominated,
the South might well urge one of its
sons as his associate. In that instance
Senator Hoke Smith would, if he We're.
an aspirant, be the equal in promi-
nence ability, and vote getting pow
ers, Of any other candidate this sec
ton could put forward
But here is what the Washington
Post says about him and the presiden
tial nominations
The Hoke Smith Presidential boom
has shifted a matter of $50 miles north
by east of Atlanta, and its point ct
greatest energy now is within sight
and sound of the White House The
Georgian's election to the Senate lOgi-
cally makes him the South's hope |
Wilson, Clark and Harmon are in the |
good graces of the South, and the NOM
nation of any one of the trio would De
acceptable to the Democrats of that
section. The trouble is that the South
finds it hard to choose between them
Judging from the outlook, the North
ern Democrats will go into convention
divided into three groups, and if the
South would ever reconcile the country
TO the idea of one day securing al
Southern President, a long step inl
that direction might be accomplished
by rallying to the standard of a man
not unacceptable to the North in a
general way, and when the psychology
ical moment arrived be in position to
throw to the most acceptable among!
the NOrtherners the solid and decis- |
i've vote. And seeing that the South's |
approach to the Presidency must be by
slow degrees, if not first place on the
ticket next year, why not the second |
place? For a certainty, the presence
Of popular and able man of National |
breadth of thought and welded to the
present would be no handicap to his |
Northern running mate, and though |
defeated at the polls, big break Will
have been made in the ice that has so !
ong formed an impossible barrier TO a,
he Southern sentiment. Hoke Smith
S name TO be conjured with in the
North"