The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-13
REMOVING A BAN OF INJUSTICE.

| The reception and support given in the Baltimore
convention 10 candidacy Representative Under
wood OF Alabama for president, has been haicd with
much satisfaction as sign the breaking down Of the
bars that have long and always fooshlg main
tanned against exatation high national Office OF
men from South As matter of fact the prejudice
against southern men in control of national affairs has
been wholly artificial evidenced by the fac: that it
has operated only TO exclude the nomination of them
for the presidency the vice presidency and to
from the working places in the government.
Southern have in the cabinet, have p esided
over the house OF representatives served as
LADDERS and charmen of the prominent committees of
congress- and have shaped legislation in very large
and proportion almost from the restoration of
the Union, following the period of reconstructio and
nowhere has there been any than demagogic OPP
position their activities The country at large has
never disturbed the reality of particips ION in
its government by from this great section of the
States lately in rebellion could be ia admin
the line of succession vice president has
lowed prevail and has been accepted even in the
South almost established policy Probably it could
have been disspated long ago. by frankly ignoring it.
At any rate, the offering Underwood was step in
that direction that proved the wisdom of it. The favor
accorded the candidacy of Mr.. Underwood by repre-
sentatives of northern states representing coaserva-
tive disposition without other consideration, was um-
mating as well as gratifying
But it is not necessary to go to the case of Under
wood defeated candidate prove the SCATTERING of
the old idea that Southern could not aspire to
the presidency The nominee of the Baltimore Lcrven
ton is quite much of Souherner as the man pre-
by Alabama for the leadership of the party IT.
respects Woodrow Wilson is even more Of a
Southerner than Underwood. In the preliminary cam
paign for the nomination. an attempt was made 20 dis
credit Underwood in his section by showi 1g that
his people not, during the war, whole hearted
Southerners. 1t very poor very in Effective
argument and probably had it should have had no
influence upon the views of any right AIDED man
in the South in the North or anywhere else But
nobody question the origin of Wo ,Irow
Wilson. Born in Virginia, schooled in South lona
and Georgia. his boyhood passed in Columbia - Au-
gusta, at college in North Carolina and Virginia
ried in Savannah his first essay practic, of law
adopted the career of student and teacher that he
north his residence that section 7as been
determined by the location of the Learning at
which he was engaged. He has been citizen of the
academies entirely removed from all sectional Local
affiliations, but retaining his Identification with
ton of his birth and boyhood. He has been illus
tration, IN fine sense, of the sort American a
Snntherner is. when the sectional distinctions lost
sight In this way into acceptance through
out the nation any other of Southern birth and
training and equal ability might come coud fool
sh prejudice against his origin lost ght Of
The candidacy of Underwood was a wholesome chal-
enge of the long prevalent prejudice against Southern
man candidate for president but the nomination
of Wilson is better still in its illustration OF the false
folly Of the prejudice and its wholly far ttous
| character We should hear more of it ever again