Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-10

they, indeed, that one would have supposed they
would have simply dismissed him from their
calculations
Not so; for few weeks later when Illinois acted,
they hurried forth with the marvellous news. that
Woodrow Wilson's presidential hopes had again been
killed. The amazing thing to the neutral observer
that the politicians should keep killing a
candidacy which they had long ago pronounced dead
and buried
After the primary in Georgia they said they Ene0
the end had Evidently they had guessed wrong
heretofore, but this time they argued there was
nothing for the Governors friends do but to shut
up his campaign headquarters and watch the other
candidates finish the race
But the facts are still too stubborn for our anti
Wilson prophets. The most they do is to pre-
pare another series of their professional obituaries
and find what comfort they can in exploiting them.
For, the very heel of the Georgia primary, came
that of Texas in which Governor Wilson won a
sweeping victory both Clark and Harmon, and
as result of which he will receive forty additional
votes in the National convention.
And now South Carolina has added her support
eighteen votes, to his cause.
And in Tuesdays dispatches comes the news that
Porto Rico has given Wilson its six territorial
delegates.
Glance moment at the situation as it is today.
Woodrow Wilson has secured convention votes as fol-
lows Pennsylvania, rs; Oregon, 10; Texas 40; Wis
consin, 26 Oklahoma, 10; Delaware, 6; Nebraska 4;
South Carolina 49, and Porto Rico. 6, making total
of 1876 instructed votes in his favor The Maine dele
gates, as we have remarked were left uninstructed,
but it is the openly declared purpose Of eight of
them to vote for Wilson and that brings his total up
to 2O4 North Dakotas delegates will cast compli-
mentary ballot for Governor Burke, but Governor
Burke himself is Wilson's ardent friend and he mas
given definite assurance that at the proper moment
North Dakotas ten votes will go to Wilson; that
makes his total PA. r|
We might dwell upon the fact that the Indiana
delegates thirty strong conceded to Wilson, arter
they have cast their complimentary vote for Governor
MARSHALL that the Massachusetts, delegates, thrty-six
in number though nominally for Governor Foss, are
logically expected to be for Wilson when the conven
tion gets down to serious business and that he will
also have New York's ninety votes. These and many
similar instances, however all be ignored and
still the situation remains just this: The number
of delegates positively pledged to WOODROW WtLSon
an TO the present hour place him conSptcHousIy IN
the lead of his only considerable opponent, champ
CLARK and incompdrGbIy ahead of Governor Harmon
and Congressman Underwood.
The truth is Governor Wilson's candidacy has
been steadily gaining strength from the very outset
and it continues to GAIN in any limited group OF
states but throughout the country. His opponents
have developed show of strength, each in his own
particular neighborhood; but Wilson has won states
as far apart as Pennsylvania and Oregon, Maine and
Texas In word he is the one national figure in the
contest Not only has he greater number OF pledged
delegates to his credit than any other candidate but
he is also proportonately stronger today than he was
i'm the beginning of the campaign; and unless all the
omens are awry unless the current of events is ut
terly reversed he will enter the Baltimore conven-
tion the leading well as the abest and the most
for he
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