Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-04-05
A GEORGIA WOMAN
IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Il more mat zoe tcomen Of Georgia send

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of the whole commonwealth. The historic and charm
ngly southern town Social Circle first to rise
and second the motion The resdes of the state are
thrilled at the thought that daughter of their own
should be and can be made the First Lady of the
Land 1t is an idea that comes home to mems bos
sons" not simply a pleasing fancy, but as the
towering of a deeprooted truth
Woodrow Wilson is Democracys foremost leader
Among all the aspirants to the partys nomination,
his native ability is preeminent. Among them ALL
only he has a national following or is making ma
tonal contest He is the of the hour, the coun
try over and if he is nominated his election will be
virtually assured. When to these fundamental con-
ditons is added the fact that he is Virginia Born and
Georgia bred and the browning circumstance that
Mrs Wilson herself is from first to last, daughter
of Georgias household, the people of this state find
a twofold appeal to support Woodrow Wilson in the
approaching primary-that of reason first. and Sec
ond that of their own flesh and blood.
BY voting thus they will not only place Geor
gia man at the head of the government but also
Georgia girl at the head of the White House
The interests opposed to Governor Wilson
resortng to every conceivable trick to prevent his
nomination. All that money and misrepresentation
can do to break his popular following, these inter
ests have seized upon as their weapons They dare
not fight him in the open the real issues of the
campaign
Having found it impossible to resist the nation
wide enthusiasm which his Gauge has aroused they
have divided the country among three merely nomi-
nal candidates and by a guerilla sort Of warfare,
are seeking to divert his strength. They have
stationed Speaker Clark in the west Governor Har-
mon in the east and Congressman Underwood in,
Georgia and the south Not of these three is
opposing the other but all of them are opposing
Woodrow Wilson. Not one of them has a promise
of hasD fad all dO1ir-
able men on the personal side and so far their
qualifications CO. But it is equally true that they
all sorely deluded men, ii they dream for
moment that the Wall street cabal which is back
of their triple alliance is supporting them from any
other motive than that of defeating Woodrow Wilson
and then defeating the Democratic nominee.
AS The Journal has repeatedly declared, make
no attack whatsoever upon Congressman Underwood,
the man. We credit him with all the good work he
has done in his particular sphere but we are con-
WINGED, everyone who has observed the national
situation be, that if Georgia gave him her vote
it would avail him nothing and would other
purpose than to bring about convention deadlock
and open the way to all of petty political
bargaining.
vote for Underwood would be merely vote
for political lottery.
A vote for Wilson is a vote for the one definite
candidate and for definite opportunity to make
Georgia man president and a Georgia woman the
First Lady of the Land.
If Governor Wilson is given Georgia's support
in the primary on May the first, nomination will
be practically certain and his election equally So
for with the strength he has already gathered from
country at large the aid of this state will all
but shatter the plans of the machine that is against
him.
It may, therefore, be said advisedly that the
people of Georgia have it in their power today to
send of their to the presidency and one
of their own daughters to the White House.
And when we say "the people," include that
politically silent but morally powerful half of the
commonwealth--its women,
By all the ties of social sisterhood, Mrs Woodrow
Wilson is bound to the women of Georgia.
She was born in Savannah of parents whose
parents in turn had sprung from Georgia soil.
She was reared and schooled in Rome, where in
hundreds of households the memory of her girlhood
charm and radiant gifts is fresh today as when
she among them.
In Rome, too, she married.
In Gainesville we're born two Of her three chill
dren.
She belongs to Georgia by every tradition of
family and by every circumstance that counts in the
home and the heart of a people.
Surely there appropriate sug-
gestion made than Mrs Nelson's, when she wrote:
Il more that the l0omen Of Georgia send
Mrs Woodrow Wilson to the White House."
The Journal joins in seconding that motion.
The women of this state render a service that
will be not only beautiful and gracious, but
drousy fruitful and farreaching
We respectfully suggest that in every county they
organize in sucn manner their instructive tact
will indicate, to send Georgia girl to the White
House.
This is a movement that should appeal to every
of those loyal and patriotic institutions through
which the womanhood of Georgia expresses It's ideals
the Daughters Of the Confederacy, the Daughters
of the American Revolution, the Colonial Danes and
all kindred associations.
Modestly, yet NIGHTLY the women of Georgia
have shaped the history and largely the laws of
their state
Let them now set their hearts to this inspiring
service.
1t is Georgia's opportunity to furnish the nation
not only president, but a presidents wife we'll
and, indeed to make the entire white house family