Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-12
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SOUTH COMES TO HER OWN
Intelligent Appreciation of Wilson's
Remarkable Victory.

Intelligent Appreciation OF wilson's
Remarkable Victory.
Correspondence The YorkvilIe Enquirer
New York, November 6.-It was q
great privilege to be a southerner II
New York last night. We had the
great pleasure Of seeing state aftel
state line up for an old fashioned
southern man-for that is just what
Woodrow Wilson is. I have had tc
hear so much that the south Ii
"a hundred years behind the times
doesn't know the war is over" etc;
that 1 never even realized myself what
warm feeling around my heart II
would give me when saw the two
great exponents Of the American pro
gress" go down so ignominiously be-
fore the man who got his conserva-
tism from South Carolina, his educa.
tional foundation at Davidson, his wife
in Georgia, who educated his daugh-
ters in Raleigh, who says "Yes ma'arn'
to women and has rice every day for
his dinner. We hear q great deal UP
here too about the southern "preju-
dices," and If Woodrow Wilson had
ever compromised one iota of his pre-
judices" we wouldn't be calling him
the next president. True his opponents
admit he was elected by such a large
plurality because the people are tired
Of bluff and "hot air." Nerve" is not
so popular, and while they all adpire
courage. they don't trust bluster.
Woodrow Wilson is our president be-
cause he Is just like US. He Is no hero
Of San Juan Hill-and Armageddon,
nor Is he cut off from US by great
panoply Of wealth and the atmosphere
that surrounds it. He is just like our
next door neighbor, and his whole ca
reer has been such as to make people
turn to him in confidence when they
feel that a critical time Is ahead.
In his last speech in Madison Square
Garden Friday night, he summed up as
his whole philosophy II had rather lose
in a noble cause, than win in an un-
worthy one" While $4,000 people of
every state in the Union, and almost
every nationality under the sun were
wildly applauding, knew, though
am not much up on philosophy, that he
had summed up not only the philoso-
ply but the history Of the south.
heard a man give his reason for voting
for Wilson. He had never before vot.
ed for a Democratic candidate. He
said that he feared that with the open.
ing Of the Panama canal we would
have difficulties with Japan: 'Roose-
welt is equal to precipitating g war for
the glory of It; Taft would let Japan
walk all over US and never see ii;
Wilson wouldn't declare war until II
was absolutely necessary, and when II
was-well, Wilson don't come from 4
part of the country where people run
from a fight"
We have good reason to rejoice with
Woodrow Wilson because we helped 50
much with our votes, When at -abep.
s o'clock the bulletin went up, Maine,
Massachusetts,, Maryland, New York,
Kentucky go for Wilson, this with the
solid south-will give him a plurality"
some man in the crowd yelled Thank
God for the solid SOUTH"
With a campaign manager from Ar
kansas, and an almost entirely south
ern campaign committee, the advan-
tage of eleven states sure to begin with,
have no doubt, Mr.. Wilson paid his
full compliments to the solid south,
and l am sure I did.
/ saw little line editorial In an even
ing paper today, School teachers all
over the country, are looking up and
I wondered how I happened to forget
that Lee left the schoolroom at West
Point, Jackson left the schoolroom at
Charlottesville and-to come straight
home-Micah Jenkins and Col. Coward
left schoolrooms in Yorkville to set the
world a new standard Of heroes. We
have been very fortunate in our school
teachers.
Well, the election Is all over now,
and without q doubt the best man has
won, and strange to say, won on his
merits. 1t is a healthy sign that such
a staggering blow should have been
dealt the two New York idols "bluff''
and the Almighty Dollar" One sig
nificant thing Wilson said was In my
vocabulary the words rich and poor
have no connection with money" I
believe that we are getting back to
sanity once more and the nation is be-
ginning to realize that 1t owes an i'm
measurable debt to the "prejudiced,'
"unprogressive," charming but 30
slow" solid south.
Fannie Parish.