Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-01

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 idiotic phrase, I 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 al boilers because we stand by
I the platform, which is surely an as
| founding way to bolt.
Not satisfied with the foregoing
SANDERS, 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 | never limited to any hui
man being that I would be a pres1-
Dental candidate in 1915, and that l
am not a candidate. Consequently
their SANDER has been a gratultous
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 fail
ure, which God forbid, the nomination
| will not be worth having.
! Il never entertained the slightest
ill-will toward the President about
the Baltimore convention. | did all
I could to elect him. I have stead
| tasty supported him until we are
called upon to bolt the platform. l
! absolutely refuse to do any such
thing.
| fight for our platform pledges may
end my political career. There are
many things worse than being de-
feated for Congress or defeated for
to be defeated for the Presidency and
one of them is to repudiate the plat
form on which you are elected.
Happy Without Office.
II can be happy without the presi-
dency or speakership. If my constit-
uents who have stood by me with I'M
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
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
% on the rule, and that a change of
Is votes would have defeated 1t in a
House with IA 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.
ITO whom does the Panama Canal
belong, anyway? To the United
States of America We built it at
the enormous cost of S400 900. We
built it on American soil We have
forfeited it; We will control it, In
order to get chance to build it, We
created a republic.
For whose benefit did we build it?
Primarily for our own, seCondarily
for the worlds benefit.
In @
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 continen+a al rai!roads-the
Canadian Pacific and the Tehaunte-
pee National Railroad heading the Isl
Il 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 altruis-
tic generosity run mad, an outrage on
the American people ! refuse to in
dorse any such program
Not Rubber Stamp" Speaker,
The Speaker said that no one should
be a rubber stamp" Congressman and
that he refused to be a rubber
had never spent so much time think
inC 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 a po-
litical party. the highest authority
for the declaration of party princi-
pies, 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 II, we appeal
ed to the voters of the land for their
support; and they, responding to- our
Macedonian cry for help enabled us
to sweep the land from sea to sea by
amazing majoriues in the electoral
college.
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