The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-10-04
ROoSEyELT's VISIT.

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Now that Roosevelt has come AID
gone, it will not be amiss to comment
on the effect of his visit and the po-
litical situation generally.
1t is our opinion that Colonel Roose-
welt has gained nothing by his pill
grimage to this state. He said moth
ing calculated to win votes for the
third term movement, and so far as
we can Judge, his efforts have fallen
fat. When we consider Roosevelt's
remarkable personal popularity, the
visit to Georgia was distinct fail
ure. A great crowd met him in At
lanta, and the auditorium was filed,
to overlooking, but it was a Wilson
meeting, and the cheering Of Wilson's
name when it was mentioned by
Roosevelt was so vociferous and pro-
lOnged that the sentiment of the vast
audience could not be mistaken.
Woodrow Wilson is going TO be the
next president of the United States.
We have no quarrel to make with
any Of our readers who wish to vote
the Bull Moose ticket We accord to
every man the right to vote his hon
est convictions. In fact. it is every
mans duty to be sincere and to act
on his best Judgment in casting his
ballot.
AS we see it, however, there is every
reason for united democracy in
Georgia this year. We have had ex-
ceptional opportunities for observation,
and long before the primary explained
the strength of Wilson and the weak
ness of the other candidates. Our
forecast has been amply justified.
The New York Herald, after can
vass, predicts that Wilson will carry
more states than have ever been car
ried by candidate for the presidency
in the history of the country.
1t is very gratifying to us that this
former Georgian, whose nomination
We urged more than six months ago,
has so fully sustained himself in the
fierce heat of the campaign and that
he has stood unfiinchingly for the
high ideals which are so dear to every
patriotic citizen. He fought the bosses
at Baltimore and won. Regardless of
consequences, he fought Boss Smith,
of New Jersey, and won. He has
shown that he is not afraid to antaga-
nize Boss Murphy, of Tammany Hall,
and when he is elected, as he will be,
we shall have an Embossed president.
president with ability to discharge
the duties of the office and with cour.
age and freedom to serve all the peo-
pie.
With such leader we see no reason
why any democrat should quit the
party and follow a former republican
who would have been the republican
nominee today if two or three contest
ing delegations had been seated by
the republican convention.
Roosevelt has been a republican
Office holder for nearly his entire life.
and 1t never occurred to him to start
a Bull Moose party until after his de-
feat at Chicago this year. He is sim
ply trying to change the name Of the
party which for fifty years has been
the unspeakably cruel enemy of the
southern people. 1t was Roosevelt
who slandered Jefferson Davis and
refused to answer a polite letter to
the ex-president of the Confederacy.
AS president he put negroes in Of
nee over the protests of southern COM
munities. He practices social equality
with negroes, and at the Chicago con-
Vention put his arms around negro
delegates. He boasts that he is half
southern, and shows it by being
against the negro in the south and for
the negro in the north. He is all
things to all men, but at heart he is a
republican under a new name.
Wilson is a true southerner and a
democrat, and he is the man for demo-
Gratis to follow.
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