Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-04-02


wandered in the direction Of Republican
pastures. but Champ Clark is the most
popular man in the state and Is going
to bring Missouri back TO Democracy,
whether he or Wilson is the nominee
of the party. AS speaker OF the house
OF representatives, he has rendered good
service to his country, and his party
can count upSn his faithful help in any
position to which he may be called,
from commander in chief to private In
Next after Clark comes Oscar I'm
derwood, almost a southern man, now
actually residing in our neighborinS
state of Alabama, floor leader Of the
Democratic party in the house of rep
resentatives, who has done splendid
service in the passing of many good
laws. 1t is true that a standpat Re
publican president has vetoed those
laws. but next year there will be
Democrat in the w mite House, and II
we keen Oscar Underwood or any other
competent leadership in congress TO
pass them again. they will become law
by the signature of a Democratic pres
ident.
WILSON A GEORGIAN.
Fourth comes Woodrow Wilson, gov
born indeed in the good old southern
state OF Virginia, but reared from in
fancy on Georgia soil, admitted to the
bar in Fulton county before our friend
Judge George Hillyer who sits every
dav with Paul Trammen on the rail-
road comission, married in your neigh
boring town of Rome to a Georgia
girl, one OF the sweetest and loveliest
women that ever blossomed like
foiwer under Georgia skies; a man
whose children were born in Gainesville,
whose life and thought have been turn
ed to the sweet and homely music Of
Georgia customs, and must ring true al
ways to her faithful traditions.
For others perhaps there may be
room for other choice between the can
didates, but you will not hold il against
me If I come here TO confess an hon
est preference for the man of our own
people. I have no word against the
others. but is il wrong for me to want
the Georgia boy? I don't believe you
will say so. why. my friends, he left
our midst some years ago, poor, in
deed. just as we are poor; without pow
erful friends or influential hackers, just
as you and 1 would be II we went to
the crowded cities Of the north; carry
ing in his veins as we would, the rich
red blood that comes from life MR.
tured on our old red hills, and in his
heart the same patriotism that you and
L would draw from the traditions OF
our well loved state. and the same reso-
lutte purpose TO write the name OF
Georgia high upon the cliffs, that you
and I ought to carry If our good old
mother state should send us forth to
illustrate her name.
50 WILSON'S PROVEN WORTH
at is not possible. my friends, that
woodrow Wilson could have wrought
the good works that stand TO his account
upon the books Of fame, unless he was
marked by the truest Of true worth. He
had no friend to press his claim, when
the great University of Princeton called
this Georgia boy to preside over it's des-
TIMES. They called him because they
recognized in this young man the same
qualities OF learning and craftsmanship
that had attracted the attention of Eu-
ropean statesmen and made his books
upon American government the standard
authority Of scholars throughout the
world. And so 1t was that he had no
political machine TO make Of him the
Moses that should bring back the De-
mocracy OF New Jersey from the Re-
publican wilderness. He had stood at
Princeton stalwart against the aristo-
cratic influences that were sapping the
life Of the university and had whipped
them single-handed. till he restored the
principles OF Democracy to the student
life; and when the Democracy OF New
Jersey, sick and tired of the machine
rule that had overthrow the party and
turned that state over to Republican
ism. rebelled against the party ma
chine it was upon the Democratic head
OF Princeton that they called to lead
them, and he ii was, this Georgia boy,
who turned a Republican majority of
1000 in New Jersey, into a Democratic
majority Of $4,000, guaranteeing that
in 1912 the good state of New Jersey
will have come back to the faith that
made her so long in years gone by a
Democratic bulwark in the presidential
years
and so IL was also, that his leader
ship as governor of New Jersey, forcing
upon her statute books wholesome laws
OF progress and reform, caught the ears
and inspired the hearts of patriots
throughout America. We are upon the
verge Of great reforms everywhere. A
new spirit Of a broader Democracy is
pulsing in the air. Progress and reform
are the watchwOrds today in every state
in the union, and everywhere the eyes
Of patriots in both parties are strain
ing for a sight of some one to carry into
the executive Offices of the United State )
government the same SORT OF REFORMS
that have been accomplished in Geor-
gia and Oregon and Wis ,onsin and New
Jersey. Wilson had no political ma
chine to boom his name for president,
but his deeds were trumpet-tongued to
speak for him. and so ii was that good
men everywhere in America, seeing his
good works as governor of New Jersey,
instinctively adopted the philosophy that
tells us, by their fruits shall We know
them and today from the Atlantic TO
the Pacific are calling to him from the
ballot box. Come up higher
A CANDIDATE TO WIN.
Now. my friends. as 1 have said.
any of these candidates would make us
good president 1 prefer Wilson, and
no doubt you feel as do that you also
would rather have one of our own state.
one whose training comes out of our
old homely Georgia ways and customs
where the latch-string always hangs
outside, one whose kinsfolk and whose
family and relations are among us. But
no doubt also you agree with me that
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