Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-04-16
WHEN WOODROW WILSON
COMES HOME TO GEORGIA
VIZ YHATEVER may be your political preferences,
Wv whether you zealously -or

whatever may be your pontlcal preferences,
Wv whether you zeaously -er
of the various presidential aspirants or are
Indifferent to them all, you cannot, Georgian
and particularly, Democrat, fail to be keenly
interested in the approaching visit of Woodrow
Wilson.
For, here is a man whose genius and attainments
have placed him in the forefront of the national
fe-a great thinker, gifted orator. leader of far
reaching power, personality that blazoned upon
the mind of the common country.
This man is now coming for four-days' sojourn
among the people of the state where he reared
and began his lifes work, where he was married and
where two of his children were born He will come
not as a stranger, but the old comrade of hun
dreds Of our own citizens Regardless of his candi-
daey for the Democratic nomination he will be well
coined home again as a Geo. %ho has brought
national honor upon the name of his state, and
wherever he speaks in the course of his visit, the
people will eagerly hear him of all that he
has done and all that he is, and because, too, by
every token he is to be the next president Of the
United States.
In the April issue of the Worlds Work magazine,
William Bayard Hale, in an impartial study of the
orators of today declares:
Governor Wilson is not only the most intel
IectuaI speaker that this generation, perhaps any
generation has seen on the stump; he is also
the most engaging. His t0ords come toith igor,
but toith gentle good nature, too-not good
ndtured tolerance of the ills he Is opposing but
good-natured confidence that they aoiII soon be
oUerthroton. A serene faith in the outcome is
one of the characteristics of Wilson'S attitude;
he is an optimist, and his speeches haze the in
Ui0ordting charm and potoer Of a call to join an
army tohich is nGrcbing to glorious and certain
Uictory"
We repeat, that whether one favors or opposes
for he nomination.
can i'll afford to lose the opportunity of hearing so
eminent and gifted a
It is not however what Governor Wilson says, or
his manner of saying it. that has made him national
figure: IL is 1Ohdt he has done. Long before he en-
tered actively into politics he recognized as one
of the countrys greatest pubicists and executives
As president of Princeton University he displayed
mastery of practical affairs and performed work
that would have done credit to the heads of our
largest business institutions
His record as governor of New Jersey has been
Justly called one of the most remarkable and inspir
ing chapters in the history of American government
When he entered the gubernatoral campaign, he was
at first derided idealist, who could not pos
sibly make Roadway against the machine organiza
ton But he was elected by majority Of nearly
fifty thousand votes the strongest opponent the
Republicans could put in the race and he is the first
Democratic governor New Jersey has had in sixteen
to do certain specific things. Within the FIRST year
of his administration he fulfilled virtually every
of those pledges despite the ~~Sned and strenuous
opposition of the machine bosses in both parties His
capacity for definite action Lor true leadership
has been tried, as in furnace of fire, and he has
come forth stronger in the minds and hearts
of the people.
1t is by what he has done, we repeat, that Wood
row Wilson has earned the confidence of this nation
eoIio.rv 1,o,tff Tho
Union. The laws he has had placed upon New Jer
sey's statute books are they are progress
sive. His work is that of a builder, not reckless
destroyer. AS he himself has declared
I'VE are cutting a,0oy anomalies, not institu
tions We are clearing G,0ay the Jungle and
letting in the pure light and air, not destroying
the wholesome forest creating aodste places
i0here there Sods productive 0'JlOth."
The American people are behind Woodrow Wilson
today because they have found him true to their
interests and because he has faith in the people
themselves.
"A tree is not nourished By its bloom and By its
Trut he has SAID but it is nourtshed By its roots
t0hich deep dot0n in the common and the hidden
SOIL and every process of publication from the
bottom 1t comes from the masses of struggling
human beings 1t from the Instructive efforts
of millions of human hearts trying to beat their tody
That is the voice of true Democracy. That is the
belief of Woodrow Wilson. Wall Street is against
him The old machine bosses of both parties
against him. But the rank and file OIL the American
people, the men who cast the votes and swing the
destinies of parties-these overwhelmingly for
him. and he needs only to be nominated to be elected
Such is the statesman who is coming to Georgia
on Tuesday April the eighteenth, to meet people,
who are his people, face to face. 1t is happy and
cir ar ha will he nv
Mrs Woodrow Wilson, daughter of state.
AS we said before, Georgia is presented, through
Governor Wilson's candidacy the opportunity of
placing a family of its people in the White
House Certain it is that through his approaching
visit we have the opportunity of hearing the great
est Democrat since the days of Grover Cleveland,
and one who is in every sense fitted to bear his
party's cause to victory in the national campaign