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The Allies Do Not Care
To Face The Public.
Democratic Contestants Conducting
a Stalking Horse Campaign
to Defeat Governor Wilson,
Says Sayoyard, the Emil
nent Political Writer.
Demands ! Square Deal.
BY SAyOYARD.

- = eS@Nas - %sAANSeEsr
Washington, D. c.. April Especial
Something has been said about q
Southern man" for President Of the
United Ststes, and there has been con
siderable discussion Of that suggestion,
Woodrow Wilson, Champ Clark and
Oscar Underwood were all born in thu
South. and Gov. Judson Harmon. in his
early childhood. was for q while citi-
zen Of Kentucky. Senator John II.
Bankhead Is the leader in the movement
to choose q Southern man, one now re-
siding in that section, as the successor
of Mr.. Taft. and all the standpat Re-
publicans who have said anything about
it have wished the Senator from Ala
bama success.
Then why doesn't Mr.. Rankhead
bring out Southern man for the pom-
ination at Baltimore Mr.. Oscar w.
Underwood, whose campaign is under
the management Of Mr.. Bankhesd, is
not full candidate for President. He
is only ''near" candidate, running in
spots. He lisa candidate in some Of
the cotton States-not all of them-and
in New York City. he is a candidate
nowhere else not even in his native
State OF Kentucky, if one is to credit
the Washington correspondence Of the
louisville Courier-J Journal. There he is
CASTOR protesting. After you, my
dear Champ Down in Florida Clark
il Alphonsa, prudishly asseyeratiag,
ttAfter you, my dear Oscar" Clark
and Harmon are likewise near" can
didates running in spots and members
of the combination organised to defeat
the only real candidate for the nomina-.
ton at the Baltimore Convention
Woodrow Wilson.
say real candidate advisedly, Wilson
10 a candidate, North, South. East and
West-from ocean to ocean. He is q
candidate in every State, in every coun-
ty, in every city. in every town, in
every hamlet, in every nei~ hboFhood in
the entire Union. He only asks fair
play and that they refuse to accord him.
In Oklahoma. in Kansas. in Wisconsin.
in Illinoissthe opposition to him com-
bined on Champ Clark. In Mississippi,
in Georgia and in Florida the opposition
combines ON Oscar Underwood. In
Texas the opposition is combined on
Harmon. Nowhere is it far, stand
upsfght.
am a citizen of Kentucky, Suppose
was for Oscar Underwood for the
nomination. | would he disfranchised.
That is, would not be allowed to vote
for him, or for Harmon, The bosses
there have taken order that shall vote
for Wilson. or the candidate they have
selected to beat Wilson. How is that
for practical politics? How is that for
a machine j? Did Quay or Tom Platt or
Dick Croker ever order it more skill
fully or more brutally? When? Where :
How /? Name an exploit Of any boss
more in defiance and contempt of fair
play than is this combination against
Woodrow Wilson.
Now / assert and shall maintain that
Clark, Harmon and Underwood are
nothing but dark horses" in this cam
paign. No one of them is full candi-
date. Each one is afraid to appear be-
fore all the people and AJAX their suf-
frage. It is combination to defeat
the favorite of the people.
What is i dark horsee in politics 7
He is an instrument Of your boss. who
ekes out the lions skin with the fox's.
It is the one thing that has brought the
convention into disrepute. But for dark
horseiam in politics there would have
been no clamor for primary, 1t was
because the Bosses would not allow a
party to hold an honest convention that
the people rose in their might and de-
manded primary, and in 1915 there
will not be single delegate in either
great convention who does not hold his
commission from the people direct.
Would it were so today. Ifit were all
opposition to Wilson would have COL
lapsed long ago.
Theodore Roosevelt was the idol Of
the people when his term expired as
President. More than oil else be did
more than all else he said, his populari-
| ty was based on his demand for .
t'square deal" It was an appeal to
American manhood. an invocation to
the national honor. do not ask the in
tellectual imbecile. who can not UNDER
stand, / do not ask the moral pervert,
who viii not ayow. but ! appeal to the
| man Of average intelligence and COM
| mon honesty and common decency and
i ask. Has Woodrow Wilson q square
deal in this contest7
/ Here he IS required to run against
Clark; ohere Underwood is his compete
tor; yonder Harmon opposes him. And
| they say that is not combine.
1 MY little son had q very severe cold
| l was RECOMMENDED to try Chamber
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