Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-20
COL. WAT TER5ON
TELLS WHY He 8
n CLARK
Louisville Editor Gives Reasons
for Opinion That Missourian
Should Be Chosen.

NEW YORK June 20.-Henry Wat
terson was asked at the Manhattan club
why Champ Clark should be nominated
and Woodrow Wilson defeated for the
presidency. The Colonel replied thus:
The New York World, having knock
ed Champ Clark over the ropes and sent
Judson Harmon and Oscar Underwood
each to his corner to suck his thumbs
takes up the gloves for Woodrow VIII
son.
True to its environment, The World
Is of the East Easterly. 1t can see
nothing west of the Alleghenies or
south of the Blue Ridge. 1t is in the
East says The World. that Demo-
cratic victory must be won 1t is in
the East that Rooseveltism must be
overthrown. 1t is the East that must
save the country from a third term and
all it implies
The World is carried away by
kind Of Intellectual hysteria. At Bal
timore the Democrats are not only to
nominate candidate for president.
They are not only to pun ticket In
the field They are actually to make
president because, to leave Roosevelt
and Rooseveltism out of the question,
no party, debauched as the Republi-
cans, can hope to prevail in a national
election.
Must Consider Character.
Hence. at Baltimore the Democrats
must consider not alone the available
ity of the candidate they nominate, but
the character of the man they are to
put N the White house,
Acting upon wealth of knowledge
acquired during a period of opportu-
nifty in friendly service, most reluc-
family | felt constrained to part compa-
ny with the governor of New Jersey.
OF a sudden there came a revelation of
personality. as by fashlight making it
plain that when the fairy godmother
bent over the cradle of the little Wood
row Wilson to give him so many bless
ings. he withheld the virtue of fidelity,
without which the rest, however shin
ing. are tainted.
no honorable man can learn the
facts and inspect the proof which 1
hold and have repeatedly offered to
produce under proper restriction as to
personal rights and party interest, and
remain of the opinion that the govern
on of New Jersey is either a trust
worthy or a safe man to be invested
with the Democratic leadership and the
presidential office.
The World itself appears half con
sctous of this. Dwelling high up in
the air, in utterance, by turns ethereal
and subiimated. our good brother Of
the golden dome affects too often the
oracular when modicum of simple
boss sense We're more to the point and
better to the purpose.
But surmounting. its acknowledged
objections and discopnting its sinister
auguries. The World proceeds to de-
bate the question of availability, when,
in choosing a president, Democrats
need chiefly to consider the question
Of character. OF self-willed men af-
fecting perfectability-quite too good
for the use of this world-the people
IRE not wholly ignorant. One of them
n the coming race for president were
surely enough.
Who is a better representative Of
Democracy than Woodrow Wilson?
asks The World Why, any one of a
dozen Democrats in whom the elements
Of flesh and blood predominant over the
elements of excessive culture and over
wrought ambition: in whom the essen
tials Of every day wisdom. of loyal
faith, of stable, honorable generous
manhood. prevail over self exploited
virtue and dogmatic elf-assertion; any
one of dozen Democrats who have
had even little experience in public
affairs as against a doctrinaire man
of letters who has acquired by life
time in the class room the tyrannous
east Of mind and the disciplinary habits
of the schoolmaster and Who suddenly
elevated to the presidency, would lose
all real sense of the relations of things
Il ever he possessed any faculty for
making common cause and working to
harness
'The country very much needs an
other Lincoln Ii does not need a mild
hammered Roosevelt. which is all that
woodrow Wilson Is We may find OBJ
lection to every one named in con-
reclion with the Democratic nomins
ion for president, but most of all to
the governor of New Jersey. because
hc alone among Democrats is repre-
-onted az ideal.
Clark Fills Requirements.
THE Democratic party wants Dem
ocrat. tried and true. in the white house
we want no man there who thinks
himself so great, and whose friends
think and tell him he is so great, that
when the test comes he is good for
nothing
Champ Clark has been at Washing
ton long enough to know who's who
and what's what. He ought to be and
is good enough for plain people that
want man and not an angel for their
president. He has been in the thick of
factional fighting during revolutionary
fines. Inevitably he has said much he
might have better left unsaid. So have