Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-04-19
TENNESSEE DEMOCRATS
ARE UNITING FOR WILSON
Factions Are Coming Together
in His Support According
to Reports
Especial Dispatch to The Journal)

Especial Dispatch to The Journal)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. April 16.-Unless
all signs fail Tennessee will send dele
cation to Baltimore that will vote for
Gov. Woodrow Wilson for the nomina-
ton for president of the United States.
Governor Wilson's strength IS not con-
fined to any faction of Tennessee but
men regardless of the factions that have
existed in the past few years have come
together under the banner Of Gov.
Woodrow Wilson and are working for
his nomination for president. The first
real steps to a united party in Tennessee
dates back to a meeting call of the
friends and supporters of Governor VIII
son held in Nashville.
In this meeting the leaders in the
movement were from both factions of
the party and this did much to bring
around the harmony in the Democratic
ranks in Tennessee that has just been
perfected and Tennessee will again face
the nominee of the G. o. P. with a uni
ted party.
In this first meeting was Judge r. NJ.
Barton, who was defeated for the ap-
pellate court in 1910 and Judge Joseph
Z. Higgins, who was elected to this
court on the ticket that opposed that
Judge Barton ran upon. 1t was the
same with other members. Hon. Lewis
Coleman, vice president of the Wilson
organization for east Tennessee at that
time said: This means harmony in Ten
nessee under the banner of Woodrow
Wilson.
WORKING FOR WILSON.
Judge Thomas E. Mathews, state pres
ident Of the Woodrow Wilson organiza-
ton. is leaving nothing undone to for
ward the cause With him he has an
organization, rs weekly Democratic pa
pers and the majority of the daily press
in the state supporting Governor Wilson.
Besides this organization no candidate
is stronger with the masses in Tennessee
than Governor Wilson. Straw votes
have teen taken in east Tennessee by
the Knoxville Sentinel and Chattanooga
News and Wilson leads. In west Ten
nessee the Memphis News Scimitar Is
making a postal card straw vote and
G>Iernor Wilson has more strength than
the combined opposition by two to one.
WILSON AGAINST FIELD.
Going back 20 years ago it was Grover
Cleveland against the field. The Atlanta
Constitution was booming David B. Hill,
of New York. Henry Waterson boosting
Horace Boise, of Iowa, and other ia
vorite sons were mentioned. The COM
bination 90 years ago could not defeat
Grover Cleveland and it cannot today
defeat Gov. Woodrow Wilson.
HARMON. AND UNDERWOOD To-
GETHER.
In Tennessee the Harmon and Under
wood forces are working together to
some extent. On the same floor and in
adjoining rooms. are the headquarters
of these two Organizations. Mayor Hill
larry Howse, of Nashville, is the Under
wood leader, and Maj w. o. Vertrees,
a strong Harmon man. In the city
of Knoxville John w. Flenniken, an I'm
derwood leader who attends the meetings
of Harmon men said well If we can't
get Underwood then we will take Har-
mon; he is our second choice" As to
Tennessee there is no Underwood senti-
ment except among a few men. Under
wood has a cousin living in Knoxville
and well known in politics, but he is not
taking an active part. All over the
state of Tennessee there is being organ
lied Woodrow Wilson clubs. Each day