The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-06-14
THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE
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cratic press.
The Journal complains that the
campaign against the New Jersey
candidate has been virulent and bit
ter--implying that so far as Govern
or Wilson and the newspapers be-
hind his campaign are concerned that
they emerge therefrom with clean
hands
We deny the allegation.
We have observed the campaign
very carefully and have yet to see
where the observation-disclosures
press has called Governor Wilson the
tool of Wall street"
Yet this is a favorite epithet that
has been continually hurled at the
other three democratic candidates by
the Atlanta Journal and it's puny fol-
lowing.
We defy the Atlanta Journal to
point to a single sentence where the
Clark Harmon Underwood press has
said that the Interests" were behind
Governor Woodrow Wilson.
Yet this wanton and malicious lie
has been a favorite expression of Mr..
Bryan, the Atlanta Journal and the
puny following that have sought to
injure these good men.
We defy the Atlanta Journal to
point to a single sentence where the
Clark Harmon Underwood press has
charged that Woodrow Wilson was
controlled by the 'bosses."
Yet this is another favorite ex-
preston used by the newspapers be-
hind Woodrow Wilson to bring into
disrepute the three able and consci-
entious men who are his rivals for
the presidential nomination.
We defy the Atlanta Journal and
its puny following to point to sim
gle sentence where the Clark-Har-
Underwood press has ever called
Governor Woodrow Wilson "reac-
Yet this is another favorite express
sion used by the newspapers behind
the New Jersey candidate to bemean
and belittle the three lifelong DEM
ocrats who are candidates against him
for the democratic presidential NOM
nation.
These newspapers assume and
have made a great many simple
minded democrats believe that re
democrat is everything
that is bad and contemplate in poll
tics.
A "reactionary" democrat is a
stumbling block in the way of prog
ress: he favors undoing everything
that has been done for the common
good; he opposes a downward revis-
ion of the tariff: he favors corruption
and the rule of plutocracy.
This is the kind of disreputable
warfare that the Atlanta Journal and
its puny following has hurled against
Champ Clark, speaker of the house
of representatives, Judson Harmon,
the illustrious democratic governor
of Ohio, Oscar w. Underwood, the
matchless leader OF the democratic
forces in congress.
We defy the Atlanta Journal and
it's puny following to point to a sim
gle sentence in any of the Clark-Har-
mon Underwood press where it has
charged that Governor Woodrow Will
son is the candidate of the special
interests"
Yet this bald, vindictive lie has
been a favorite weapon of the Allan
ia Journal and its puny following
hurled against the high characters OF
the men whose only offense is seek,
ing the presidential office, without
the consent and concurrence of Sen
ator Hoke Smith, the owner Of the
Atlanta Journal.
Why, the Journal goes so far as to
saw that the Clark-Harmon-U Under
wood press has accused Governor
Wilson of being a "schoolmaster in
politics"
We plead guilty to the soft i'm
parchment Is that an assault upon
his character or integrity?
The Atlanta Journal goes so far as
to say that these Clark-Harmon-Un
derwood organs in their desperation
went so far as to quote certain ex
tracts from Governor Wilson'S His
tory of the American People"
AS one of these organs we &C
knowledge the soft impeachment
Was that a desperate crime? When
man is in his library communing
with his own thoughts and opinions
is he not wholly and completely at
himself, and does he not paint him