The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-04-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington City,

April %, 1912.
The political waters are not unlike
the sea in which the great Titanic
went down.
There are dangers round about the
Democratic ship and some trouble on
board. She can make port, perhaps,
if
If the crew is careful and the pas
sengers don't make her turn turtle.
This is my last chance to flash a
wireless before Georgia votes next
week:
There are icebergs ahead"
The way to study politics is to study
folks and conditions. If you have
watched the people of this country
and have caught the drift of their
thought you know that if one thing
has been made clear in the last forty
years it is that they require either
that the President shall be a man of
great calibre. like Cleveland. or that
he shall be a harmonious part of a
political party in which the public can
trust The Congress of 1894 went
down in history as the fool Congress,
and from that day to 1910 the Demo
cratic party was largely without the
confidence of the country. It has got
TO stand before the country in NoWem-
Der as deserving of success upon the
highest and best lines or it is fore
doomed to defeat.
Let us consider our Democratic DOS.
sibilities. Bryan has been nominated
three times and defeated three times.
The last time he was absolutely en-
quilted. He is eliminated. Yet he
is a powerful factor
Harmon, with his experience in the
Cabinet, his experience as Governor
OF Ohio, his deep acquaintance with
national and international affairs. his
high character and the general con
fdence in which be is held would
make very strong candidate, but
Bryan will fight him to the death,
claiming that he represents Wall st.
influence. So, eliminate Harmon.
We come to Champ Clark. Mr..
Clark has been in Congress twenty
years. He has been known as a de-
l1ghtful man to talk with, interesting
and companionable. a writer of in.
Teresting syndicate articles for the
newspapers and the possessor of
style of oratory which is described as
slang 'whangiug," and rather pictur.
esaue. He has never been taken seri-
ously as a statesman and as a presi-
dental candidate he would be that
much mush. He could not carry New
York to save his life.
Who else?
come to Mr. Underwood He is
presented as the faVorite son OF Ala
bama, just as Governor Marshall will
be presented as the favorite son of,
Indiana.
I heard comedian in a show once
say:
ii am going to live on my income,
Yes, am going to live on my incoCe.
| won't live long, butt
And so, MI Underwood may be run
ming, but he will not run TAR. He
is a good man, a much better man
chan Clark. in whose interest he is
being pressed, but his boom reminds
ME of the woman who said to her bus.
band:
"Henry, speak kind word to Ffdo
and make him wag his tail He hasn't
had any exercise all day"
/ cheerfully speak kind word to
Mr.. Underwo0d's boom. 1t needs the
exercise.
1t Is hardly worth while to eliminate
Mr.. Underwood. He reflects great
credit on our section. but he is not yet
ripe as a presidential possibility. If
he were pulled now he would be pulled
green.
In all the field, SO far as | can see,
there is but one to " HON we can turn
with reasonable hope of success and
he is a Southerner, man who spent
many years of his life in Georgia, and
who married Georgia woman. Wood
row Wilson is man of the highest