The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-05
EVIDENCE OF COMBINE
ACCUMULATEs EVERY DAY
Presidential Candidates Are Allied
to Prevent the Nomination of
Gov. Woodrow Wilson.

~ I PuSScS tudt lu6ie IL mol all dCcuUll
1g lation of evidence establishing til
as fact that there is a combination {
vi the democratic presidential allie
who are engaged in desperate e.
" fort to prevent Governor Wilso
to from getting two-thirds of the dele
lg gates to the Baltimore convention
III In the state OF Florida, wher
;, Speaker Clark and Governor Har
ID mon have gracefully retired to Civ
it Representative Underwood a cleal
y field, newspapers that for month.
carried the name of Governor Har
mon at their editorial mastheads
= have pulled down their original
choice and substituted the name OF
: the remaining ally" candidate
: Representative Oscar w Under
wood. News to this effect was
brought to Washington today by Mr.
Frederick M. Hudson, counsel for
the Florida State Railroad Commits
sion, who lives at Tallahassee.
Recent developments have cor
WINGED the people of Florida that
/ there is an alliance on the part of all
the forces opposed to Governor Will
| son to prevent his nomination. said
Mr.. Hudson. "Up until few weeks |
ago Governor Harmon was the |
choice of all the reactionary demo-
Gratis in Florida for the presidential
nomination, but now both Governor
Harmon and Speaker Clark, who
had little support, have retired,
and gives a clear field to Represen-
tative Underwood, The allies agreed
to center upon Mr.. Underwood in I,
The hope of defeating Governor
Wilson in Florida, because he is
rom neighboring state that Dor
1ers against us. Nearly all the old :
Harmon newspapers are now cham
1ioning the cause of Mr. Under y
wood, and in addition to the cry or !.
the south for southern man. they
are urging support of a candidate
from a neighboring state on sen
timental issue.
Inc ptople OF flOTlua nave mai
demonstrated to them evidence Of |
, the fact that there is q territorial al \
liance in the hope OF defeating Gov
| Wilson. This sort of campaign has
had the effect of strengthening the
: New Jersey executive in Florida,
and it should cause every true DEM
ocrat III the nation who believes in
progressive principles to rally to
the support of Governor Wilson.
( The sort OF masquerade fight that is
being made against Governor Will
/ son, In my opinion, makes certain
his nomination I know how Florida
progressives feel, and they are more
determined than ever to give Coy.
Wilson a solid delegation to the
Baltimore convention. Public senti- |
ment in Florida is overwhelmingly |
in favor of his nomination.
One of the leaders of the Under
wood forces in North Carolina is Mr.. |
w. B. Jones, we'll known attorney
Speaking at the organization of an
Underwood club in Raleigh a few |
days since, at which thirty-fiYe |
members were enrolled, he "let the
cat out of the bag so far as the
ALLY" campaign is concerned by
this slip of the tongue:
But the thing to do is to organ
| ize Underwood clubs over North
Carolina and send delegation
that will vote for Harmon"
When the charge was first made
that there is an alliance of all oppo-
sition forces to prevent Governor
Wilson's nomination there were in
dignant denials. An overwhelming
array of evidence from all sections
of the country brushes mere denials.
The facts speak out too strongly.
The Dreibund assignment of can
didates to beat Wilson if they can
are to date as follows: Chamr
: Clark-Iowa. Wisconsin. Arkansas
Kentucky Oklahoma, Kansas, Cali
= fornia, Illinois; Underwood-Geor
gia, Florida, North Carolina. Sout!
Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana
Harmon-Texas, New York, Della
ware, Maine, some New Englan'
st states, Ohio and neighboring states
The Wilson managers, instead o
h protesting against this arrange
ment of strength, welcome it. In tn
Ie first place, it is tacit confessio
by all the other candidates put K
gther that their combined strengt
ID throughout the nation is not equa
to Wilson's. They are willing to pu
n their candidate against the field Q
any part of the field, and after tn
81 convention to put him against Ia.
or Roosevelt, or both because the
at are convinced that he is the stron,
est democrat.
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