Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-04-23
TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1919.
THE SQUARE DEAL.
Strong Appeal in the Interest OF
Woodrow Wilson.

Something has been said about a
southern man" for president Of the
United States, and there has been con-
siderable discussion Of that suggestion.
Woodrow Wilson, Champ Clark and
Oscar Underwood were all born in the
south, and Governor Judson Harmon,
in his early childhood. was for a while
a citizen of Kentucky. Senator John
H. Bankhead is the leader in the
movement to choose a southern man,
one now residing in that section, as
the successor of Mr.. Taft, and all the
stand-pat Republicans who have said
anything about II have wished the
the senator from Alabama success.
Then why doesn't Mr.. Bankhead
bring out q southern man for the nom
ination at Baltimore? Mr.. oscar w.
Underwood, whose campaign is under
the management of Mr.. Bankhead, Is
not a full candidate for president.
He Is only a near" candidate, run
ming in spots. He Is candidate IN
some of the cotton states-not all OF
them-and in New York city. He
is a candidate nowhere else, not even
in his native state Of Kentucky, II one
is to credit the Washington correspon-
dence of the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal. There he Is CASTOR protesting,
After you, my dear Champ" Down
in Florida Clark Is Alphonse, prudish-
ly asseverating, AFTER you, my dear
Oscar" Clark and Harmon are like
wise near" candidates running In
spots and members Of the combination
organized to defeat the only real can
date for the nomination at the Balti-
more convention-Woodro Wilson.
say real candidate advisedly.
Wilson is a candidate, north, south,
east and west-from ocean to ocean.
He Is q candidate in every state, In
every county, in every city, in every
town, in every hamlet, in every nelgn-
borhood in the entire Union. He only
asks fair play and that they re1use
to accord him. In Oklahoma, In Kan
sas, in wisconsin, in Illinois the op-
position to him combined on Champ
Clark. In Mississippi, in Georgia and
in Florida the opposition combines on
Oscar Underwood. In Texas the op-
position is combined on Harmon.
Nowhere is it fair standup fight.
I am a citizen of Kentucky. sup
pose l was for Oscar Underwood 1or
the nomination. / would be dlstran-
chised. That Is, 1 would not De al
lowed to vote for him, or for Harmon.
The bosses there have taken order
that I shall vote for Wilson, or the
candidate they have selected TO beat
Wilson. How is that for practical
politics? How is that for machine?
Did Quay or Tom Platt or Dick Gro
ker ever order 1t more skilfully or
more brutally? When? Where? How!
Name an exploit of any boss more In
defiance and contempt of fair play
than is this combination against WOOD
row Wilson.
that Clark, Harmon and Underwood
hut sadorR h0rSpS' in tnlS
campaign. No one Of them Is full
candidate. Each one Is afraid to ap-
pear before all the people and ask
their suffrage. 1t Is a combination TO
defeat the favorite Of the people.
What Is a dark horse" in politics?
He Is an instrument Of your boss,
who ekes out the lions skin with the
fox's.. 1t is the one thing that mas
brought the convention into disrepute.
But for dark-horsemen in politics
there would have been no clamor tor
a primary. It was because the bosses
would not allow a party to hold an
honest convention that the people
rose in their might and demanded a
primary, and in 1916 there will not be
a single delegate in either great con-
vention who does not hold his COM
mission from the people direct. would
il were so today If 1t were all oppo-
sition to Wilson would have collapsed
long ago.
Theodore Roosevelt was the idol
of the people when his term expired
as president. More than all else he
did, more than all else he said, his
popularitys was based on his demand
for a Square deal" 1t was an ap-
peal to American manhood, an inVo-
cation to the national honor. do not
ask the intellectual imbecile, who can
not understand, l do not ask the
moral pervert who will not avow,
but 1 appeal to the man Of average
intelligence and common honesty and
common decency and ask, Has Wood
row Wilson a square deal in this con-
test?
Here he is required to run against
Clark; there Underwood Is his COM
petitor; yonder Harmon opposes him.
And they say this is not a combine
SayOyard