Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-04-09

States, than would the humblest citizen.
whoever he may be, and coming from
anywhere in the country
Look what happened. Up to that
moment there was hardly any other can
didate in the field or any other name
spoken of anywhere, but Governor Will
son. Immediately wall street jumped
on him. Immediately, in several portions
of the United States sporadic. candidates
sprung up. Immediately, the idea began
in designing mems heads to deadlock the
national Democratic convention, and pos
sihly some second or third or fourth, or
may be tenth man, might run in and
be nominated instead OF Wilson.
II put it to every candid man here
whether 1t is not historically true that
no one of the three gentlemen l have
named was at all prominent in the
race until Wilson showed his manhood
and courage by setting Morgan's mil
lions at defiance.
But the combination or attack on
Wilson is undergoing rapid collapse
and failure. Wilson is today being
pressed as a candidate and voted for
with good chances, of success, in every
state in the union, save only three
states in which his three principal OPP
ponents reside. Whereas, they are be-
ing voted for, one of them only selected
for the purpose of opposing Wilson, in
part of the states. If they were to
succeed under the two-thirds rule in
preventing Wilson's nomination, there
is hardly a possibility that either I'm
derwood, or Clark, or Harmon, would be
the nominee. 1t would then merely be-
come anybody's race and just as likely
Mayor Gaynor of New York, or Mar
shall of Indiana. would capture the
prize as anybody else.
Here is a man in the person of
Woodrow Wilson who can be nominat-
ed and can be elected, and he is the
only man who can be elected and win
the race against Taft it now being
reduced to a practical certainty that
Taft VIII be the Republican nominee
DOOR OPEN TO SOUTH.
Il have been long an observer Of
public events and Of men in public
life. 1 was q member OF the Charleston
national Democratic convention in 1860;
1 was a member of the national DEM
ocratic convention in Chicago in 1884
and again of the same convention in
1892. For more than so years L have
been an observer of public events, ana
of all things that have occurred dur
ing that time, the one at which L have
peen most astonished and at the same
time / will say disappointed and dis
tressed, was that the people of the
south do not more urgently and conf
IDENTIFY contend for their rights, and do
not more firmly stand together in con-
tending for their rights. 1t is the
right of the south to be equal with
any other section in the union, and we
have been tabooed and expelled. and
kept out in the cold, and the door of
long enough.
fhara ma coma a time when
the door is open before us, and We
have nothing to do but walk into our
fathers house and take our seats there
on an equality with our brother DEM
ocrats and all citizens from every par
ty from one end of the country to
the other. And nothing is going to pre-
vent our successfully seizlng upon and
enjoying the fruits of the present OPP
portunity but division among ourselves
Let us give in Georgia, not only a
majority, but a tremendous and over
whelming majority to Woodrow Wilson
in the primary on the first of May
and my word for it, we will have done
the very best and wlsest thing for Sc
curing the great opportunity before us
There is no hope of success unless
we choose a candidate who can beat
Tai, in such northwestern states as
| Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. There
| is no ground for hope that either Clark
or Underwood or Harmon. can do this
but the best indications are that Wilson
can do it. No good Democrat wants to
| throw away his vote or the vote of his
state and that is what we do if we give
| the nomination to any of these weaker
and merely local men; but let US all
vote for the Georgia man, at the same
| time the national man; the better man
the stronger man; the man who can
and will defeat Taft, Woodrow Wilson"