Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-04-19
Combine Against wilson.
BY Savolard.

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| cial. ]-Something hes been said about
"Southern man" for President Of the
United States, and there has been con-
siderable discussion Of that suggestion.
Woodrow Wilson, Champ CLARK and
Oscar Underwood were all born 10 the
South, aud Gov. Judson Harmon, in
his early childhood, was for while
citizen Of Kentucky. Senator John H.
Bankhead is the leader in the move
ment to choose Southern man, one
now residing in that section, as the
successor OF Mr.. Taft, and all the
stand pat Republicans who have said
anything. about it have wished the
Senator from Alabama success.
Then why doesn't Mr.. Bankhead
bring out Southern man for the
nomination at Baltimore? Mr.. Oscar
w. Underwood, whose campaign is
binder the management of Mr.. Bank
head, is not full candidate for Presi-
dent He Is only "near" candidate,
running in spots. He is candidate
in some of the cotton Statesmen
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 Wash
ingten correspondence ofthe Louisville
Courier-Journal There he is CASTOR
! protesting, "After you, my dear
Champ" Down in Florida Clark is
Alphonse, prudishly asseverating,
"After you, my dear Oscar" Clark
and Harmon are likewise "near' can
dsdates running in spots and members
of the combination organized to de-
feat the only real candidate for the
nomination at the Baltimore Conven-
tion-W Woodrow Wilson.
say real candidate advisedly. VIII
son is candIdte, North, South, East
and West-from ocean TO oce an. He
is candidate in every State, in every
county, in every city, in every town,
in every hamlet, in every neighborhood
in the entire Union. He only asks
fair play and that they refuse to ac-
cord MIN In Oklahoma, IN Kans as,
in Wisconsin, in Illinois the opposition
to HIM combined on Champ Clark. In
Mississippi, in Georgia and in Florida
the opposition combines on Oscar I'm
Underwood. In Texas the opposition is
c,mbihed or Harmon. Nowhere is it
fair, staudup fight.
am citizen of Kentucky. Sup
pose I was for Oscar Underwood for
tie nomination. / would be disfran
clsed. That is, l would not be allow
ed to vote for him, or for Harmon.
The bosses there have taken order that
/ shall vote for Wilson, yor the candI-
"a te they have selected to beat Wilson.
How is that for practical politics?
Ii uw is that for machine? Did Quay
or Tom Plat or Dick Croker ever order
it more skillfully or more brutaIly?
When? Where? How? n anne an ex-
plot of any boss more in defiance and
contempt offair play than is this COM
bination against Woodrow Wilson.
Now | assert and shall maintain
that Clark, Harmon and Underw cod
are nothing but "dark horses" in this
cam paign No one of them is full
candidate. Each one is afraid to APP
pear before all the people and ask their
suff'ra ,e. 1t is combination to defeat
the favorite of the people.
What is "dark horse" in politics?
He is an instrument of your boss, who
ekes out the lions skin with the fox's.
1t is the one thing that has brought
the convention into dispute. But for
dark. hcrseism in politics there would
have been no clamor for primary. 1t
was because the bosses would not al
low . party to hold an honest conven-
ton that the people rose in,their might
and demanded a primary, and in 1916
! there would T OF be single delegate in
either great convention who does not
/ hold his commission from the people
direct. Would it were so today. If it
! were all opposition 10 w llson Woulu
have collapsed long ago
Theodore Roosevelt was the Idol of
the people when his term expired as
| Pres ident. More than all else be said,
his popularity was based on his de-
n and for "a square deal.n 1t was an
appeal to American manhood, an ~
location to the national honor, | do
not ask the intellectual imbecile, who
can not understand, do not ask .hc
moral pervert, who will not avow, but
/ appeal to the man of average intelli-
gence aud common honesty ami COM
mon decency and ask, Has Woodrow
! Wilson square deal in this contest?
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