Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-04-21
ALLIES FEAR To
> FACE POPUlACE
Democratic c Contestants Are
Gum-Shoeing to Defeat
Governor Wilson
(By Savoya,d

Washington, ID G. april eo-
Something has been said about a
Southern man for president OF the
United States. and there has been
considerable discussion Of that sug-
gestion. Wood, row Wilson. Champ
Clark and Oscar Underwood were an
born in the South, and GOV Judsoa
Harmon. in his early childhood, was
for while citizen OF Kentucky.
Senator John H. Bakhead is the
lea ter In he movement TO choOse
4 Southern man. one now residing IL
thd, section. as the successor Of Mr..
Taft and all the stand-pat ropubli'
cans Who have said ANYTHING about II
have wished the Senator from Ala
haum success
Then why doesn't Mr. Bankheai
brong ort q Southern man Tor the
nomination at Baltimore Mr.. Oscar
| " Underwood. whose CamDaiGn "
under the management OF MIR. Bank
head, is not a full candidate for press-
dert Tie is only near candidate.
running in spots. lie is q candidate
in come OF the cotton states-not al
OF ,hem--end in New York city. lie
is candidate nowhere else. not even
in his native state OF kentucky, II
one is TO credit the WASHINGTON cor
rcspoldence Of the Louisville Cou-
rier-JCurnal There he Is Gastoa
protesting, After YOU, nv dear
Champ Down in Florida Clark -
Alphorsc. prudishlv asserveating.
After you. my dear oscar" CLARK
and Harmon are likewise near can
ldidates running in spots and mem
hcrS ot the combination organized -
letea, the oaly real candidate foe
the nomination At the Baltimore con-
ventior Woodrow Wilson.
say real candidate adyisedly
Wilson is a candidate. North, South
Cas, and West from ocean to ocean.
He ;. candidate in every state. in
levery county, In every city, In every
town. in every hamlet in every
noi.hlorhood In the entire 'nion
Tie ouly asks fair play and that
Ithev -ctuse to accord MIN In Okla
lhoma in Kansas. in Wisconsin, in H.
'inoiS he opposition to him combined
OF Champ Clark In Mississippi. in
lGeorg.a and in Florida the opposi-
ltion combines on Oscar Underwood.
In Texas the opposition is combined
on Harmon. Nowhere is II fai'
lstandap fight
= am citfy~r 80 E-utuclsv. Ssa-
pose was for Oscar Underwood TOE
the nomination. ] would he DIS
lfranchised That Is, would not BE-
lallowed 10 vote 10: him, nr tor Har'
men. The bosses there have taken
lorder that | shall vote for Wilson or
tine candidate tsey have selected to
beat Wilson How is that for prdc'
teal politics. How is that for n ma
chine Did Quay or Tom Platt or
Tdck Croker ever order II more
skilfully or r,orr brutally When'
where How Same an exploit Ct
any boss more in defiance and con
tempt Of fair play than Is this com
birat,on against Woodrow Wilson.
Now assert and shall maintain
that Clark, Harmon aud Underwood
are nothing but dark horses IN this
campaign. No one of them is a fil.
candidate Each one is afraid TO ap-
pear before all the people and ash
their suffrage u Is n combination
10 defeat the favorite of the people
What Is n dark horse" in politics
He II an instrument OF your boss
who ekes out the lions skin with h"
foXs. II Is the one thing that la,
brought the convention into As'
repnte But fNr dark-hOrseism 10
politics there would have neen No
clamor for a primary. u was becai.1
the bosses would not allow a part' 60
hold an honest convention that 'h'
people rose IN their might and q.
manded n primary and in 1916 tier
win not be a single delegate iu eiih'.
grcat convention who docs not 'o
4 lis commission from the poop
direct Would IL were So today.
" We're all opposition tl his.
would have collapsed long a-o
Theodore Roosevelt was the .d.
% The people when his tern cNir'
as president. More than all cls' ..
did, more than all else he said '
popularity was based on his dcral
for "A square deal. II was an ape ]
TO American manhood. an invoca io'
] 10 the national honor / do not HsH
tho intellectual imbecile. who Cal
not understand. do not ask tl'
moral per, ert who will not a'n"
mt APPEAL 20 the man OF areT
intcllifence and common honss'
aud common decency and ask, t1i
Woodrow Wilson a square de;l =
nis eDntestl
Here he is required to run agiins
I Clark: there UNDERWOOD Is his com
peiitDr Wonder Harmon oBose'
aim And they saw that Is not n con,
oiuo