Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-03-21
AN APPEAL TO THE
DEMOCRATS OF GEORGIA
WHY GEORGIANS SHOULD SUP
PORT DixlE'S CANDI-
DATE,
The Name of Underwood and the
Strains of "Dixie" Will Dominate
the Convention.
To the Democrats Of Georgia:

Northern Democrats are now speak
ing out in approval of the presenta-
ton of the name of Hon Oscar W.
Underwood for nomination for presi-
dent. They have come to the conclu-
sion, from having watched his course
for about eighteen years in congress,
and especially his recent generalship,
that he is the proper man. They do
not seem to think because he is from
Alabama and the South that this de
tracts from his chances of election,
if nominated by the national conyen-
ton 1t is perfectly absurd to say
that it would, when only few
months ago a Republican president
appointed an ex-Confederate soldier.
who was also a Democrat, and who
lived in the state of louisiana chief
Justice of the United States Supreme
court: having before this appointed
Judge Lamar of Georgia, also Dem
ocrat. as a member of the same court.
Shall the South longer be content
to suppress a sense of justice to her
self and continue to accept abject po-
litical servitude, or shall she present
to the Democracy of the nation a
man whom all admit is an ideal can
ddate for president? Are we to con
TESS by implication or acquiescence to
faint of Southern blood, on account
of the war now fifty years past?
Nov is the time for Georgia to
stand by her daughter state, Alabama,
and give her support in the coming
primary to a son of the South, Hon.
Oscar w. Underwood, and show to
the nation that we have as much
right to furnish the man as any other
section.
Underwood still lives in Alabama;
he is not just practically South
ern man: he is of the South to the
manor born. Now is the time for the
South to do its part in the final act of
removing whatever fragment of bad
feeling there may be between the sec
tons, by accepting in good faith the
utterances oil Northern Democrats,
when they say they have no objec-
tion to Mr. Underwood
Il have too much confidence in old
Georgia to believe that she will turn
her back on Alabama in this, her glo-
rious effort to honor her noble son,
by refusing to send a solid delega-
ton for Mr.. Underwood to the ma
tional convention.
81 am in the fight for Underwood,
because l love my native state, from
which he comes; because l love
Georgia and the South: because love
my country as a whole, and because
know Oscar w. Underwood, with
The whole of his big Southern heart,
loves every American home.
when it shall be announced that
he is the choice of the national con-
vention and selected as the standard
bearer Of Democracy for president,
then may the band play with pro
priety, for the first time in the his
tory of the political South, since the
war, the inspiring strains of Dixie"
and then We may adjourn with my
Country" for a benediction, after hav
ing given to the American people
man for president whose every
thought is for their good
q do not believe there is any pow
err on earth to prevent Georgia from
giving an overwhelming majority TO-
the son of the South. Let the cam
paign slogan in Georgia be: "Ala
bama, we are with you
Yours for true Democracy,
G. r. HUTCHENS,
Manager Georgia Headquarters.