Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-04-09
WAL TON COUNTY VOTERS
. HEAR WILSON SPEAKERS
Judge George HiIIyer and Col,
{. 7, Brown Spoke at Mon
roe Saturday
Especial Dispatch to The Journal)

Especial Dispatch to The Journal)
MONROE, Ga, April 6.-woodrow
Wilson's candidacy for president was
explained here today for the first time;
and now there is a Wilson sentiment
echoing more strongly than ever through
every quarter and every district of
Walton county.
Col Ed T. Brown, formerly solicitor
of this circuit, and Judge George Hill
yer, state railroad commissioner, a ma
tive of this county. were the two speak
ers who Endorsed Mr.. Wilson'S candida
cy. Both were heard attentively by
many citizens of the county; and the
words they spoke are furnishing food
for much serious thought among the
voters in this section of the state.
Each speaker developed different
pDases of the subject Judge Hillyer
spoke from the standpoint of man
who. as Judge presiding on the bench,
issued the certificate as lawyer to
young Woodrow Wilson in Atlanta years
ago, and who has followed his course
closely ever since
JUDGE HILLYER'S SPEECH
Judge Hillyer said in part:
MY acquaintance with Woodrow Will
son began something over 20 years ago
when he was a young man just settling
in Atlanta and when he applied for adj
mission to the bar. He underwent a
very creditable examination in open
court and as the presiding judge 1 had
the great pleasure,and as events are
rapidly eliminating. the very great hon
Of rsfur fg "a a n q
him to plead and practice as member
of the bar in our state. He made friends
and was we'll thought of throughout our
city and il remembered with high re-
gard by all who knew him. In little
while he was called to a professorship
in a neighboring state, and so satisfac
tory and successful was his work in
that capacity, that in due course he re-
ceived promotion by being called to a
similar service in another locality, and
without any very great delay was called
to the presidency of>the great university
at Princeton, n. ].
woodrow Wilson developed marked
executive ability in the positions held
by him. This quality came promptly
to the front at Princeton. In the face
of very considerable opposition, as
understand, he completely reformed or
and reformed the meth
DDS at Princeton
THE whole state of New Jersey was
drawn to him. He was a Democrat-a
Democrat, heart and soul, he
made himself felt by the Democracy of
the state There was an element in New
Jersey not sound on the tariff. The Re
publicans had succeeded, by taking ad-
vantage of a divided Democracy, in
changing New Jersey from a Democratic
state into one with a Republican ma
jority of forty odd thousand Speedily
under the magnetic leadership of Wood
row Wilson, that majority was reversed.
He was elected governor by more than
10000, and the best Informed people now
look upon that state as safe for a
Democratic candidate.
During all this time, and especially
after his election as governor of New
Jersey. the fame of Woodrow Wilson
spread throughout the United States,
and by spontaneous sentiment springing
up in every state in the union, ii came
to be pretty generally understood that
he would be called to be the standard
bearer OF the Democracy in the coming
presidential campaign.
"Harper's Weekly, a great New York
paper, had been supporting him. This
was because, and only because the edi-
tor of that paper lived in New Jersey,
friend of Governor Wilson, and like
everybody else who knows him we'll.
greatly admired him. Harper's Weekly is
owned by j. p. Morgan. Harper's Week
ly was so loud and so pronounced and
so pretentious in its advocacy of Wood
row Wilson, that people began to talk,
and occasionally the question was asked,
Is Woodrow Wilson J. P. Morgan's.
1.-The question was asked by the editor
of Harpers Weekly, of Governor WIN
son himself, what he thought of the sup
port of iris candidacy for the presidency
by that paper. and the manner of it.
Woodrow Wilson, being one of the most
truthful of men, and at the same time
one Of the bravest of men. frankly told
his friend, the editor of that paper, that
he thought it was hurting him.
A COURAGEOUS ACT.
mo drawer act has been performed by
any public man in recent times. 1t has
been stated that Morgan's influence not
only covers his own millions, but enough
besides to make altogether two thousand
millions. Say it was only half of that.
Such sum is greater than the entire
taxable wealth of every man. woman
and child in the state of Georgia. And
yet, when the issue came. there was
that man, single handed and alone a
Georgia boy. the architect of his own
fortune, having nothing but his own
hands and heart and splendid brain,
ready to say, for that was the meaning
Of it:
q" If 1 am elected president 1 will not
be ]. P. Morgan's man, and J. p. Nor
gam with all his millions, win have no
more right to come to me to call off any
district attorney who is bringing suit