Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-04-12
TEACHERS
RAPIDLY ORGANIZE
FOR GOV. WILSON
Seventeen County School Com
miSSionerS Send in Their
Membership to Teachers Or
ganization in Georgia


Georgia's teachers have begun their en-
rollment in their own statewide Wood
row Wilson association.
Seventeen county school commissioners
or superintendent Of city or town public
schools had sent their signed membership
slips back to Col. J. Cotton Lynes, organ
iZer of the association, at 10 o'clock
Tuesday morning.
Five had already enrolled before noon.
Monday.
And the letter from Colonel Lynes did
not go into tie mails until Saturday
night.
This movement among the teachers,
headed by a man who is dean of the
profession that Woodrow Wilson and
other distinguished men have honored,
promises to grow to formidable proper
tons
AS yet only the county school commits
sioners and superintendent of town and
city schools have been invited to enter
the association.
were being addressed by Colonel Lynes
to eveary voting teacher in eeyry school
in the state.
By the time these invitations reach
their addresses, the response from the
officials In the states teaching organiza-
ton will have become general; and when
the ranks of the profession begin to
send in their members, the real strength
and influence Of the teachers in Georgia
will be evident for the first time in po-
litical affairs.
Colonel Lynes, who lives in Greenwood,
bordering Atlanta. has requested each
member who enrolls to send his enroll
ment to Wilson state headquarters. in
the Kimball where there are facilities
though limited-for filing and recording
them. The postage on the invitations is
being paid from the meager campaign
funds of headquarters. And Colonel
Lynes, one Of the volunteers in the
cause, is doing all the rest.
I At headquarters, Tuesday morning,
Colonel I.ynes expressed his delight at
the early and generous response from
the men whose profession the enemies
of Mr.. Wilson have sought TO stigmatize
in attacking him.
NOT A SINGLE REFUSAL.
"I would not have believed 1t posi-
ble," he declared, that the teachers
could be so consistently of one mind on
a big public question such as this is.
I have not yet received a single refusal
or a single demurrer or single mega
tive response from any of the gentle
men whom 1 had the honor to APP
proach. through the mails, upon this
I
continue as unanimously for Mr. wilson
eas they are now.
Colonel I.vnes exhibited all the letters
which he had received at that hour, and
from among which the following are
some extracts:
"I am for woodrow Wilson good ana
strong, simply because he is A No. l
presidential timber. He is by far the
strongest candidate before the people.
He is absolutely unapproachable by the
interests. He has thrown aside all
entangling alliances. The fact that he
was at one time a school master, even
] a professor rather gives him an ad-
vantage over the fellows that never
had this advantage" w. z. Dendy, SUI
perintendent public schools. Monroe
Walton county.
1T delights me to hand you my sig
nature as a Wilson man. / am for
him and have been all the while, not
because he is a Georgia man only, nor
vet solely because he is the strongest
/ Democrat in the race, both of which
would be good reasons, but because he
4 is the greatest man in the nation, the
cleanest man in politics" ]. T. Brink
! ley principal Atlanta Normal and super
intendent pub bic schools Mansfield, New
! ton county. !
Replying to yours of the 9Th, 1 beg
! 4
woodrow Wilson for president. first,
last and all the time, and have been
since the announcement of his can
ldidacy. regard him as the most avail
able candidate from every conceivable
| standpoint that the Democratic party
could possibly put in the field" NJ L.
Burch. county school commissioner
Dodge county, Eastman.
Il am glad to enroll my name as
/ IL. Oh
ers' Woodrow Wilson association" V.
d. whatley, president |Bowden college,
Bowden, Carroll county.
place Murray in the woodrow Will
son column" w. d. Gregory, Crandall,
county school commissioner Murray
county.
"All our teachers are strong for Will
son." H. B. Adams, superintendent of
schools, Carrollton, Carroll county.
Enroll me as an active member of the
Teachers Woodrow Wilson association"
w. T. Dumas, superintendent of schools,
Marietta, Cobb county
At 10 o'clock Tuesday the following
had enrolled their names as active
members of the Georgia Teachers Wood
row Wilson association:
w. 7. Dumas, superintendent schools,
Marietta, Cobb county.
II. L. Smith, county school superin-
IenQenL JeuefSOn county, Barlow.
w. P. Thomas superintendent of
schools, West Point, Troup county.
r. C.. Merry. county school superin-
tendent Fulton county, Atlanta.
A. II. Stephens, president Douglasville
college. Douglasville, Douglas county.
II. B. Adams. superintendent Of
s<aosis Carrolton, Carroll county.
! r. NJ Monts, superintendent of
/ schools Lyons, Toombs county.
/ L. o. Woodruff, superintendent of
1 schools, Jacksonville, Twiggs county.
J. w. Marion. Danielsville, Madison
county county school superintendent.
] w. d. Gregory, county school super
intendent Murray county, Crandall.
V. d. Whatley. president Bowden col
/ lege, BOw0en, Carroll county.
/ w. z. Dendy, superintendent Monroe
public schools. Walton county, Monroe.
! NJ. L. Burch, county school commits
sioner Dodge county. 'Eas tman.
]. T. Brinkley, principal Atlanta Nor
NAL and superintendent public schools
Mansfield, Newton county.
Bernard Awtrey, county school COM
missioner Coob county, Marietta.
W. NJ. Pettis. superintendent of
1 schools, Butler, Taylor county.