Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-31

| OeCldIlHS MN 10 ne lIlNOlNeu III a pan
| to defeat the President and disrupt
the party.
In another World article" he con
tinued, those of us who stand for
| American rights as against British
| domination are assailed for boiling
| the President Merciful God! What
an diotic phrase! l have heard of
men boiling platforms and of boiling
| nominees, but who ever heard before
| of anybody boiling a man in office?
| We are denounced by the plutocratic
| World as boilers because we stand by
I the platform, which is surely an as
founding way to bolt.
Not satisfied with the foregoing
| ISLANDERS it attributes the fact that !
am standing on the Baltimore plat
| form to the fact that | have not for
gotten the Baltimore convention. 1t,
alone with every editor in America
| who hopes to be Ambassador, Minis
ter Plenipotentiary, Consul General,
or to hold some other fat and juicy
| job, has placed me in antagonism to
/ the President ever since the election.
These papers declare that | am
/ opposing the surrender to Great
/ Britain as an opening gun in my
campaign for President in 1916. 1t
may surprise the obsequious cour-
/ tiers that l never limited to any hu-
man being that ! would be a presi-
dental candidate in 1916, and that |
am not a candidate. Consequently
! their SANDER has been gratuitous
mental degradation.
Always Supported Wilson.
1T will surprise these timber back
| ed incense singers still more to know
what have uniformly told those who
/ have suggested my candidacy in 1916.
| 1t is this-if President Wilson makes
a success of his administration, he
would be renominated and re-elect-
| ed in 1916 but if he makes a fail
ure. which God forbid, the nomination
will not be worth having,
! Il never entertained the slightest
i'll will toward the President about
| the Baltimore convention. | did all
could TO elect him. l have stead
| tasty supported him until We are
| called upon to bolt the platform |
absolutely refuse to do any such
| thing
The fact that l am making this
fight for our platform pledges may
end my political career. There are
many things worse than being de-
| feated for Congress or defeated for
4 the speakership, or even worse than
/ to be defeated for the Presidency and
one of them is to repudiate the plat
] form on which you are elected
Happy Without Office.
| Il can be happy without the presi-
dency or speakership. If my constit-
uents who have stood by me with un-
shaken fidelity should retire me to
private life, l would still be happy
in the love and affections of my wife
and children, in the society of my
books, and in cultivating flowers and
1 trees.
There has been much fluctuations
/ among the supporters of the bill about
their tremendous victory upon the
/ adoption of the rule. When 1t is re-
membered that the majority was only
2S on the rule, and that a change of
| Is votes would have defeated it in
House with 144 Democratic majority
| the grounds for their self-congratu-
lation is hard to discover
when Pyrrhus, King of Epirus
was walking over a battlefield where
on he had won a hard fought victory
and observed the number of dead and
wounded among his own soldiers, he
mournfully exclaimed
Another such victory and we are
undone.'
TO whom does the Panama Canal
belong, anyway? To the United
States of America. We built it at
the enormous cost of s4O000O,000. We
built it on American soil We have
forfeited it; we will control 1t. In
order to get a chance to build it, we
created republic.
For whose benefit did we build it?
Primarily for our own, secondarily
for the worlds benefit.
why did we build it? In order
to secure cheap water freight rates.
who fought the building Of the
canal for fifteen long. wearisome
, years? The trans continental rail-
roads. Who would be the chief ben
efciaries of this repeal bill? The
! same trans continental railroads-the
! Canadian Pacific, and the Tehaunte-
pee National Railroad heading the LIST.
Ii would be many millions of dollars
in their capacious pockets annually.
To so arrange a thing to enable them
| to hold up their old rates, is altruls-
| tic generosity run mad. an outrage on
the American people. J refuse to IN
| dorse any such program.
Not "Rubber Stamp" Speaker.
| The Speaker said that no one should
he rubber stamp Congressman and
]
stamp" Speaker He said that he
had never spent so much time think
ing about what his duty was upon
/ any question as upon this of the free
tolls repeal, and that since he had
made up his mind he had never asked
single member to vote as he did
He continued
Under our system a national con-
vention is the grand inquest of pQ-
! litical party, the highest authority
for the declaration of party princi-
Piles, higher than President or Con-
| gressional caucuses indeed higher
than Presidential and Congressional
caucuses combined. The declaration
in favor of free tolls for our coast
wise trade was written large in the
Baltimore platform. We went to the
people on that platform, headed by
President Wilson himself; we all in
dorsed it, Standing on it, we appeal
/ ed to the voters of the land for their
support; and they responding to our
Macedonian cry for help, enabled us
10 sweep the land from sea to sea by
amazing majorities in the electoral
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