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ASSIST John TEMPLE GRAVES ON WOOD
ROW WILSON

Wilson in Georgia continue to elect
him vociferously every day.
And the various states, as fast al
they hold primaries, continue to elect
somebody else!
Columns on columns, pages on pag
es, adjectives on adjectives of strong
assertion assure the people of Geor
gia every day that Professor Wilson
is already Overwhelmingly elected.
And on the other hand the Wilson
partisans in almost frantic uneasi-
ness, are striving to rally reluctant
voters to the primaries. Contradic-
tory, isn't it?
1t is easy enough to elect Wilson on
paper. But it is paper of the wrong
size and shape. 1t will not carry as
far as Baltimore!
1t is impossible to stampede Geo.
gia for Professor Wilson by strong as
sertions.
For a long time the Wilson boom
in Georgia was sustained by the
carefully nurtured belief that Wilson
was driving the band wagon" and
everybody wanted to "get on board"
That belief has gone. Kansas and
Maine, Oklahoma, Missouri and Indi-
ana have made it now quite evident
that the "band wagon" is not in the
professors hands and the stampede
is at an end.
The professor is trailing the pro-
cession now.
Once Professor Wilson held the
state in the hollow of his hand. That
was because he began long before
anybody else to organize and speak"
That was because he was the smooth
est speaker that ever trotted down
the democratic pike-even smoother
than Bryan, whose smooth speech we
followed, by the way, three times
to defeat! That was before there
was anybody to point out the reasons
that made Professor Wilson undesira-
BILE and impossible to be elected. That
was before there was any democrat
who valued party success above
smooth speech and smart professions,
and pointed out Wilson's Hamilton
ian histories, and his anti-Jacksonian
and anti-Jeffersonian writings. That
was before there was any democrat
to warn the democratic people of Will
sons antagonism of the foreign vote.
of his antagonism of the Catholics
and Hebrews, and his Carnegie PEN
sion supplication, of his party disloy-
atty, of his ingratitude to benefactors
and of his long and fearful list of alb
sences from the duties of the state
which elected and paid him for SER
vice and which finally was forced to
dock his wages for repeated neglect
of duty.
Just as soon as one arose to point
the danger to democracy in Professor
Wilson's unfortunate record, that mo-
ment the professors boom went
down. and has been going downward
since-"like Iser rolling rapidly
1t is April now, and Wilson has
only half state.
These are honest men and loyal
Georgians who are booming Wilson
so tremendously. But they are mis-
taken. They are out of touch with
the country. They will not see
things that are going on about them.
Professor Wilson has shot his ar
row.
The democratic country sees plain
ly that he cannot be elected.
1t is good time for Professor Will
son to wait. Let him prove himself.
He is young in politics. He could
hardly expect to step from the school
room to the white house. Let him
fight in the ranks this time, as he
has never yet fought in the ranks.
Let him help elect president.
Then, when his new views are sea-
soned into real convictions, it will be
full time for him to think of promo
tion.
But you may put it down as the
opinion of the thoughtful and impair
tial, that the "smoothest talker in
the democratic ranks is not destined
to occupy the White House for the
next four years at least.-John Tenn
pie Graves, in Georgian.
The friends of General Henry w.
ono will rn0rpt IN learn that he ia