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THE WORLD AND ITS LOGIC


in New York and Ohio, but his nomi-
nation has been rendered impossible.
Why impossible? Is this not a mere
What are the facts?
There was a strenuous, concentrat-
ed and determined effort to dislodge
Governor Harmons hold on the dem
ocratic masses of Ohio. In the pur-
suance of this program Mr.. Bryan
was imported into the state and used
all of his magnetic eloquence and ac-
knowledged power as an orator to
turn the masses against him by de-
nouncing him as 1.-The tool of Wall
street." and "the friend of the spe-
cial interests" But notwithstanding
these Napoleonic assaults Governor
Harmon is today the most popular
democrat in Ohio.
Governor Harmon, nor Mr.. Under
wood, nor any of their emissaries did
not invade the state of New Jersey
and attempt to WreSt 1t from WOOD
row Wilson in the primaries.
So, what becomes of the Worlds
"logic of the situation?"
With like fiimsiness the World dis
patches Champ Clark, who is by long
odds, the leading figure in the presi-
Dental race, with the following curt
sentence:
Champ Clark would be hopeless
ly beaten candidate in New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut"
The only reason it alleges is be-
cause Bryan lost those states three
times and would lose them again
The World started out by saying
that it is "a time for facts and not
theories"
We submit that it's elimination of
Clark from the presidential race is
theory thinner than gauze. Clark is
not Bryan any more than Woodrow
Wilson is Bryan. When in Florida
Mr.. Bryan championed the claims of
Wilson as against Underwood Ii
Wilson is nominated he stands in
closer relationship to Bryan than
either Harmon or Underwood, so We
confess that the Worlds stately pre-
pared logic appears grossly dense to
us.
But the World dismisses the claims
of Mr.. Underwood even more sum-
marily.
1t says:
Oscar w. Underwood is of presi-
Dental size, but he has been untest-
ed as candidate in the north, and
is an unknown quantity to most Of
the voters"
Then it goes on further to say:
Woodrow Wilson alone has a rec
ord of continuing victory in the Sec
ton in which victory is essential to
democratic success"
With no intention of raising as
much as a little finger against Gov
ernor Wilson, we simply ask if this
statement will bear investigation?
So far as we have been informed
Governor Wilson was elected govern
or of New Jersey for one term and
goes with an instructed delegation to
the Baltimore convention.
Governor Marshall of Indiana has
done that well. Governor loss of
had he permitted it,
could have done as we'll, and the
name of Governor Dix, we presume,
could be mentioned along in the same
category.
Why would not either of said gen.
tlemen be as strong in the states
named as Governor Wilson?
But, going back to Underwood, has
the World treated him with magnan-
unity and fairness?
If he is of presidential size, why
should his geographical location un
fit him as a presidential possibility?
He has been eighteen years a mem
Der of congress. He has made the
science of government a study His
capacity has been so we'll recognized
that the reins of leadership have been
placed in his hands, and the record OF
legislation has shown that this con-
tidence has not been misplaced.
If the democratic party is to win in
the present struggle it must win on
the issues fashioned in a large meas
ure by Mr.. Underwood as leader of
the democratic forces in congress
so why should he not be the logical
candidate?
Is there any logic in the statement
that he cannot win because he comes
from the far south? Is it giving him
a square deal?'
The World says:
During Gov. Wilson's public career
he World has been compelled to take
issue with him on many questions.
We regarded with grave misgivings
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