Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-07-30
WOODROW WILSON
IS ANOTHER TILDEN
Colonel Henry WatterSon Sees Re-
semblance Between
Great Democrats
FAITHFUL AND BRAVE LEADERS
He Quotes PrincetOnian's Address
as Proof of His Wisdom
and Courage.

Louisville, Ky, July 29,-Col. Henry
Watterson is struck by what appears
to him as a close resemblance be-
tween Woodrow Wilson, OF New Jer-
sey, and that other great leader of the
Democracy, Samuel J, Tilden. This
resemblance is remarked on in an ed
itorial in Colonel Watterson's news
pap The Louisville Courier-Journal,
which in part reads:
THE Courier-Journal can not think
of Woodrow Wilson without recalling
Samuel ]. Tilden. How much alike
they seem, as doctrinaire Democrats;
as faithful and Courageous party lead
ers; as practical and pre-eminent Of
ficials; how much they think alike,
adm talk alike, and write alike. How
Tildenesque the following:
1T is time that We served notice
on the men who have grown up in the
possession OF privileges and bounties
that the existing order of things is %
be changed. 1t is only fair that we
warn them, for they should have time
to adjust themselves to the change;
but the change must come, neyerthe-
less. And this change is not a reyo-
luton let it be understood at once.
1t is merely a restoration. That
is what the people OF New Jersey
have meant as they have flOcked out,
rain or shine, not to follow the Demo-
cratic party-we have stopped think
ing about parties-to follow what they
now know as the Democratic idea, the
idea that the people are at last to be
served.
DO you know what the American
people are waiting for, gentlemen?
They are waiting to have their politics
utterly simplified. They are realizing
that our politics are full of secret con-
ferences, that there are private ar
engagements, and that they do not I'M
derstand it. They want to concentrate
their force somewhere. They are like
an unorganized army saying the thing
is wrong. Where shall we congregate,
How shall we organize? Who are the
captains? Where are the orders?
Which is the direction? Where are
the instruments of government? That
is what they are waiting for.
1T is an opportunity, and it is a
terrible opportunity. Don't you know
that some man without conscience,
who did not care for the nation, could
put this country into a flame? Don't
you know that the people Of this coun
try from one end to the other all be-
lieve that something is wrong What
an opportunity it would be for some
man without conscience, but with pow
err, to spring up and say This is the
way; follow me" and lead them in
paths OF destruction. How terrible it
would be!
81 am accused Of being radical. If
to seek to go to the root is to be a
radical, radical am. After all, ey-
everything that flowers in beauty in
the air of heaven draws its fairness,
its vigor, from it's roots. Nothing liv-
ing can blossom into fruitage unless,
through nourishing stalks deep
planted in the common soil, up
from the silent bosom of the earth,
rise the currents of life and energy.
Up from the common soil, up from the
quiet heart Of the people, rise joyous
ly today streams of hope and determ-
nation bound to renew the face of
the earth in glory.
al tell you the sO-callod radical
ism Of our times is simply the effort
OF nature to release the generous en-
ergies Of our people. The great Amer
lean people is at bottom just, virtuons
and hopeful; the roots of its being are
in the soil Of what is lovely, pure and
Of good report, and the need of the
hour is just that radicalism that will
clear away for the realization Of the
aspirations Of a sturdy race
The editorial concludes: Assured
ly that is the kind Of man for the
times and the kind Of man militant
| Democracy has long been looking for