The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-08-30
PRESIDENT WILSON
HAS PROVEN HE IS
NOT AN MIGRATE
Refuses to Take Sides Agains;
Roger Sullivan, Candidate for
Nomination U. S. Senate.

President Wilson is not an in
cnate. This he has proven over ana
over again by the care he has taker
Of the Original Wilson Men" IL
has been especially kind to them.
But Wilson would be an migrate
Of the rankest sort If ne did not ap
preciate what Roger Sullivan did
for him at Baltimore That hi
pCES appreciate what Sullivan did
for him. is all to his credit.
We had been balloting six days in
Baltimcre-and getting nowhere. II
was than that Roger sullivan called
conference of the Illinois dele
gates. We had the room all to our
selves: and no man who was not a
delegate 70 the Baltimore conyen-
ton can know at first hands what
took place in that meeting. Every
man not present IN that meeting
was to hear of it second hand; and
no one can get secondhand re-
port of that meeting and fully APP
preciate the spirit and the import
ance of it.
Every delegate was perfectly and
wholly free to speak his mind. No
brake was put on anyone There
was no cloture rule enforced in that
meeting; no previous question was
moved to cut on debate. Every man
talked as long as he wished to talk.
And after the delegates got through
talking, Roger Sullivan, the chair
man of the delegation, began to
lalk--in a quiet, modest, appealing,
telling way. He told the delegates
that he did not behave that Champ
Clark could be nominated in that
convention. He said that we had
lone all for Champ Clark that We
lad been asked to by the men in
barge OF his campaig n-and n
reat deal more than we had been
sked to. He said that we had
cen absolutely loyal to Champ
lark during the six days Of the
invention. He told US why he was
ure that Champ Clark could not be
dominated in that convention. AS
hartman of the delegation and one
" the most influential men in the
convention, Roger Sullivan had a
OF OF information that the other
delegates did not have; and this in
.ormation he laid before the dele
gates In a strong, plain and telling
way.
Mr.. Sullivan said that nothing
was 10 be gained by doggedIy goin :
down with a sinking ship. He said
that it was possible for Illinois te
nominate the next President of the
United States. He expressed the
utmost confidence that If I'LL
nois swung its fifty-eight votes tc
/ Wilson that action would result in
the speedy nomination of Mr. VIII
son. And he thought it was goot
sense and good politics for Illinois
to make the move, break the dead
lock and nominate Woodrow Wilson
| He explained that by doing this W.
would stand in for political favor
later on--and he said, some of 20,
boys will probably want politica
favors later on Sullivan certainl.
| made a strong and convincing argu
ment in favor of going to Wilson
The friendly spirit that he Shove
toward all the delegates helped hi
cause.
When Sullivan finished his tai
he gave the delegates another chanc
to speak; but not very much wa
said after Rogers talk-for, as W
say, every man had his say befor,
Then the delegation was pollet
| And, as we remember it, about two
thirds of the delegation voted +
favor OF swinging to Wilson--an
that settled 1t, This was done tn
| next morning-the deadlock wa
broken and Wilson was nominate
in a hurry
| President Wilson knows thes
facts perfectly we'll. This is VIII
he refuses to take sides agains
Roger Sullivan at this time. SO ia
as Wilson, and McAdoo. and Tumul
ty, and Burleson, and other mel
close to Wilson are commemorative,