Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-05-07
A GAME OF BAMBoozLEMENT.
ForcefuI Review Of Presidential Cam
paiqn Up to Date.

paign Up to Date.
Even in those flush days when Marx
Hanna held the campaign skillet
and caught the fat fried out Of the
greasy beneficiaries of the Republi.
can tariff system, there was no at
tempt to break the "Solid South" by
a frontal attack. The vast body OF
southern Democratic voters is un-
purchasable and the Republican man
ayers knew it. They saved their
money for "blocks of five" in the
doubtful states.
But there is a way of letting the
south remain solidly Democratic In
November and at the same time man.
ipulate the south's primary and con-
vention vote for president to the direct
benefit Of Republican principles and
the Republican machine. That idea
was developed before the last presi-
Dental campaign when Republican
newspaper in New York, the most
consistent spokesman for the money
trust" sent representatives into the
south to manufacture following for
"favorite sons" They were afraid Of
Bryan's election II nominated, and
they were willing to invest good deal
ans hold on the south was too great
for that unorganized flank move
ment to prevail.
Up to late last summer there was
but one serious Democratic candidate
in the running besides Woodrow Will
son. That was Governor Harmon. 1t
soon became apparent, however, that
the progressive spirit Of the people
everywhere, with the alleged favor
shown Harmon by Wall street, and Mr..
Bryan's opposition to him, made the
Ohio governor unavailable.
About that time Mr.. Bryan and Mr.
Underwood had a passage at arms.
leaning to the interest Of the steel
trust. We recall seeing this in an anti
Bryan paper: IF Mr.. Bryan does
not stop attacking Underwood the Ala
bama man will be nominated for
president" The first suggestion Of
Underwood's candidacy came as a re-
buke to Bryan. At that time, mark
1t we'll. southern Democrat, who had
established himself as a national fig
ure with q national following, had
been for months the accepted south
ern candidate, and the foremost can
didate.
Then followed the Harvey-Wilson-
Watterson episode, which was the
outgrowth Of Colonel Harvey's con-
viction that Governor Wilson is mimi
cal to the interests of his friends and
associates" The Wilson opponents
from Wall street themselves declared
the fight upon him to be war; and
they planned in their conspiracy, that
the explosion should come on the eve
of the Jackson Day dinner in WASH
ington, where Wilson was to speak and
where they expected his recention to
be cold.
When Colonel Watterson failed to
arouse the south against Wilson, the
conspirators, backed by tremendous
financial resources, took another
course, and determined to split the
solid south with a golden wedge by
concentrating their support on differ
ent men in different states. Clark was
made the leader of the opposition in
Florida Underwood the leader in
Georgia, Harmon their leader In Tex
as-in each Of those states the weight
Of their money has been with the man
against Wilson. They felt out South
Carolina with Harmon and he was
dropped; then there were feelers for
Clark, but the people were found un-
responsive. Now the Underwood man
ayers have taken hold and they have
spent, according to the Anderson Mail,
5000 for postage alone in that one
county In one week! ana tney are
pouring money into North Carolina!
What is the game, fellow citizens?
Simply to abrogate the natural wish
Of the south; confuse the people un-
accustomed to such campaigns, and so
break into Wilson's forces that Har-
mon or Clark-there is absolutely no
chance for Underwood-may be nom
mated and then defeated by the Re-
publican nominee. The game is to use
the south to defeat the strongest DEM
ocratic candidate and so to contribute
to the success of the Republican tick
ct.
That plan is twenty times easier and
just as potent in the final result as
breaking the solid south in the No
Vember election.
Tom Watson supported the game
in Georgia, and Georgia has fallen
into the trap; Joe Bailey supported
their game in Texas and Texas refus-
ed to be led astray and stands, over
whelmingly, by Woodrow Wilson, the
great southerner.
Whom will South Carolina follow?
The state cannot be debauched; will
ii be bamboozled ?-Columbia State.