The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-07-13
MIR. WILSON'S GOOD SENSE.

From the Atlanta Constitution,
Tammany Hall, synonymous with
Charles F. Murphy, its directing
| head must play an indispensable
part in swinging New York, pivotal
state, for nominee Woodrow Wilson.
There are in the public mind two
conflicting views as regards the civic
virtue and the political morality OF
Tammany Hall. They emanate re-
spectively from William Jennings
Bryan, thrice the nominee OF his par
ty, who once eagerly accepted the
proffered support of Murphy and
Tammany; and, on the other hand,
from Woodrow Wilson, the present
standard bearer of democracy, the
way to whose nomination was paved
when Mr.. Bryan, boiling his specific
instructions as a delegate for Champ
Clark, declared in bitter TRADE that
he would never support a candidate
advocated by the Tammany leaders.
Here is the stenographic report of
the biting arraignment of Murphy
and Tammany, in which he laid down
the principle that any candidate Vot-
ed for or supported by Murphy, who
is Tammany, was tainted and
an impossible candidate:
THE vote of the state of New York
in this convention, as cast under
the unit rule, does not represent
the intelligence, the virtue, the de-
mocracy or the patriotism OF the
ninety men who are here. 1t rep
resents the will of one man-Chas.
f. Murphy-and here presents the
influences that dominated the re-
publican convention at Chicago,
and are trying to dominate this
convention If we nominate a can
didate under conditions that enable
these influences to say to our candi-
date, Remember now thy creator"
we cannot hope to appeal to the
confidence of the progressive dem
ocrats and republicans of the ma
ton.
Speaking for myself and for any
of the delegates who may decide
to join me, | withhold my vote
from Mr.. Clark as long as New
York's vote is recorded for him;
and the position that I take in re-
gard to any other candidate whose
name is now or may be before the
convention.
And here is Nominee Wilson's
laudation of Tammany, after his
nomination, in a letter in which he
expresses regret at his inability to be
speaker at Tammany's Independ-
ence Day celebration:
II greatly regret that engagements
elsewhere bind ME on that date.
think it must be matter of con-
graduation on the part of all low
ers of America that the Society of
Tammany should, through so many
years, have maintained it's celebra-
ton of the anniversary which is
crowded with so many memories of
the inspiring kind, not only for the
people of the United States, but for
the people of the world. 1t is upon
hearts of this kind that the flame OF
liberty is kept burning"
If Tammany and Murphy and the
New York delegates were, before
and during the convention, controll-
ed by those sinister influences which
Mr. Bryan affects newly to discover
they are no less dominated by them
today. And yet we find Mr.. Wilson
now characterizing Tammany as
having noaFJS WHICH Keep dSlOW ING
flame of liberty"
Governor Wilson has acted with
splendid sense in repudiating Bry-
ans extreme attitude toward the
New York democracy.
But where does the situation leave
Mr.. Bryan? The influences Mr.. Bry-
an branded as sinister" and 'taint-
ed are eulogized by Mr.. Wilson as
the "hearts that keep
burning the flame of liberty" Sure
Iy, a queer contradiction.