The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-03-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington City,
March is, 1912.

SOuiCe VI CoHloTI W Tie hepuDIlcdnS
and one of their main hopes just now.
Somebody is trying to have Georgia
DO her part towards making Grants
prophecy come true this year.
How any human being who has ever
been out of his own militia district can
imagine that Oscar Underwood, an AL
ALBANIA congressman, can be elected
president of the United States this year
Is the most incomprehensible thing |
have struck in monkeying around with
politics since the days of the Green
hackers.
| am not knocking Mr. Underwood.
He is good Democrat and a substan-
tial man. But what's the use of throw
ing away chance?
1t will take something besides the
Solid South to elect Democratic Pres
sdent, and if there is state in the
United States outside of the Solid South
that Underwood could carry have not
heard of it here in Washington, which
10 the greatest political manufacturing
city in the United States. It's entire
output is politics except one little fac.
tory that makes straws for sucking
mint julips, and that is out in George
town.
1t is all politics, from every Congress
sional district in the United States, and
II you can find any Underwood senti-
ment outside of Alabama and the
worked-up boom down in. Georgia YOU
can beat me, and even that is net heard
If here and nobody knows about it ex-
oept few from down home who read
the Atlanta Constitution dozen or SO,
maybe.
There are few men who say any
Democrat can carry New. York. They
are of the same type as those who, just
before the war, declared they could
drink all the blood that was going to be
split.
Have these people figured on the
Taft majorities of 1908 that have got
70 be overcome. and the Roosevelt ma
iorities of 1904 that have got to be
swept away? Do you think the land
slides of 1904 and 1903 can be slid the
other way with an Alabama congress-
man who, though he may be a good
man and deserve the Presidency, is as
Do al Ill ,o
would run about like Parker ran and
the politicians here know it. So they
are not even thinking about Underwood
as the nominee.
With the Democrats the contest is be-
tween Woodrow Wilson and Champ
Clark, with Governor Harmon, of Ohio.
splendid figure, but for whom Bryan s
snife is already whetted.
1t looks like Wilson to me.
He is the only southern man who has
the ghost of a show.
| figure that he could carry New
Jersey sure and would be stronger in
New York than any other Democrat,
because New York and New Jersey are
pretty close together politically as well
as geographically
Wilson is the type of man that woul d
run well in Massachusetts. He is re-
ported here to be strong in Maine anC
he is very strong in the middle Western
States.
If Roosevelt is nominated by the Re
publicans it will make split between
Tafts friends and RoOsevelt's friends
n Ohio that would give the state tt
Wilson | do not believe that Ohio
would vote for Roosevelt after he has
gone to the nomination over the poIti
cal corpse of President Taft.
AT the same time the Republicans
admit that a strong Democrat like Viii
son can defeat Taft.
Woodrow Wilson is a former Geor.
gian. The State should delight t.
honor MIN. The fact that he has gone
North and been elected Governor OF
New Jersey does not keep him from be-
ing near to the Southern people. He
has the chance. No other Southern
man has chance, Then, why throw
away the chance?
If the South refuses to support Viii
son it may keep him from getti ~ the
nomination and result in The noG7 aa-
ton of a weaker man, and that would
mean defeat @
AS for Underwood, the possibility Of
his nomination is unthinkable. and as
for his election-the party might as
well go to the cemetary without wait