Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-03-15
SHOULD Be
LOYAL To HER SON;
WOODROW WILSON
Local Headquarters Gives Out
Statement Showing Wilson
Not Only a Southerner But
a Georgian

AiC uitNNN NllclA Sc NiioiA RpNnA~i CANNA-
and Representative Underwood are us
ing their respective offices to further
their political working and
scheming more for their respective nom
nations for president than they are
to fulfill their duty to the people"-is
uttered "Wednesday in statement pre-
pared by Woodrow Wilson state head
quarters managers i'm Atlatna.
The statement takes issue with the
campaign slogan of the Underw pod
forces in Georgia that the states vote
should be given to Mr. Underwood OFT
of courtesy because he is a southern
man.
Governor Wilson is. not only a south
ern man bred and born, but he is closer
home to US than that" declares the
statement He is a Georgian"
The charge that Wall street inter
ests decided to work for Mr.. Wilson's
defeat when they learned what man
ner of man he was, through the Harvey
I Watterson episode. is also contained in
the statement which is as follows:
DEMOCRACY'S HOPE.
Since we opened our Woodrow Will
son headquarters for Georgia. we have
/ had large numbers of communications,
both written and oral. from almost ev-
I cry section of the state expressing great
confidence and enthusiasm over the
campaign of Woodrow Wilson for pres
ident. Everywhere the southern 2eo-
pile realize that Governor Wilson is the
only real hope of the southern people,
L as a representative southern man for
I the presidency. Governor Wilson is
not only southern man. bred aud
born, but is closer home to us than
that-he is a Georgian. Many years or
/ his early life and young manhood were
z IL gasa
connections are in Georgia; he married.
Georgia woman; he began his pro
/ fessional career as a lawyer in Allan
Ia. He is deeply imbued with the SEN
/ timents Of his native section of the
south. He is a broad. liberal-minded.
highly educated, progressive Democrat.
who stands for all that is best in Amer
| ican manhood. He believes in the JEFF
fersonian principles Of Democracy; he
believes in the rights of the masses
and his every political sentiment and
ideal is builded upon that cardinal DEM
ocratic principle of equal rights to ALI
and special privileges to none.
cit has been nearly 20 years since
we have had an opportunity to elect
southern man to thu presidency, but
! even now il would be futile for US TO
elect southern man unless that south
/ ern man should be of the true and uu-
4 Woodrow Wilson is that kind of a man.
! There isn't money enough in Wall
\ street to swerve him from his Demo-
I cratic convictions and from his concep-
tons Of right .anSt-Sldty. If ne is elect
4 ed president of the United states there
/ Will be no Underground tunnels to the
/ White House, there will be no back
/ door to the executive offices of the ma
/ ton. Wall street knows that; they had
a forcibie lesson to that effect in tile
/ Harvey Watterson episode. AS soon as
that episode revealed to them what
! manner of man Woodrow Wilson real
| ly is, Wall street at once set about to
prevent his nomination by the Demo-
Gratis. They knew that Wilson was far
and away the strongest of the Demo-
cratic candidates for the presidency,
they could not pit any one man against
! him and beat him. The political trick
sters and schemers and manipulators I'm
/ Wall street and their allies throughout
! the county, devised the scheme and
| deeply plotted the idea of dividing up
the country into political principalities
/ and setting a head over each principal
! ity with the idea of thus combining
and defeating Woodrow Wilson. For
/ instance. we have already shown that
| Underwood is the combination candl-
] date in Georgia and the south; that
| Champ Clark is the combination candi-
date for the west; that Judge Harmon
| is the combination candidate for the
east. The reason why Mr.. Underwood
| was selected in the south and in Geor-
| gia. was for the purpose of trying TO
| counteraet and neutralize the great
| strength which Woodrow Wilson Is
1 known to have. by reason of his south
/ ern birth. They have not the slight
/ est idea or hope of nominating Under
wood or electing him, if nominated, but
/ they think il will be a very catchy
thing with which to deceive the people
of Georgia to say Vote for a southern
man in the person of Underwood"
1 UNDERWOOD AND WALL STREET
1T has been definitely charged tina
/ Underwoods campaign was inspired IN
/ Wall street and is even financed by
/ Wall street. Why should any real DEM
/ ocrat of Georgia or of the south want
/ Underwood, or any other Democrat who
I is not a true and unswerVable repre-
! sentative of Democracy? Speaker Clark
/ and Mr.. Underwood, the leader of the
/ house, are both in congress today work
/ ing and scheming more for their res
! spective nominations for president than
| they are to fulfill their duty to the
! people They are both damaging the
/ cause of Democracy. and using their Of
/ fices for personal political ends, TO the
| detriment of the Democracy of tas
/ country Speaker Clark has supported
measures to add $75,OOO,O0O more to The
! pension rolls of the country, thus IN
/ creasng the pension list to more than
| S225.OO0,OO0 Mr.. Underwood has been
doing all he could to protect the
! Money Trust in congress; and of all
! the trusts that have deprecated upon
| the people of this country none has been
] 81 mean, so insidious, so rotten and so
| far-reaching as the operations of the
Money Trust Possibly this is the
| reason why Wall street is today sup
| porting Underwood for president. Every
voter in Georgia should stop and think
| we'll and long before he throws away
his vote on oscar w. Underwood, run
| ming as he is under the inspirations ana
! influeces of Wall street.
| we know that Woodrow Wilson is
/ Democrat, from his heart, that his rec
/ ord is pure and undefiled. that if he IS
1 nominated by the Democrats he viii
/ surely be elected president of the Uu:C
! cd States Wall street doesn't wan,
/ him president, and there is no limit 20
which they would not so to defeat
| him."
Underwood Bill Scored
AS BIunder and Outrage
! NEW ORLEANS. March 13.-Louisia-
mas protest to congress against the
massage of the bill putting sugar On