The Hattiesburg news., 1915-02-27
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. WILSON THE LOGICAL MAN. .
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(By Savoyard.)


publican from ocean to ocean who was
not relentlessly opposed to the nom
ination of Woodrow Wilson for Presi-
dent of the United States by the Dem
ocratic party at Baltimore, and in 1915
there is not one single Republican be-
tween earth and sky who is not bitter
ly hostile to the suggestion of Wilson's
renomination-not one. 1t was a
maxim of great soldier to find out
what the enemy did not want you to
do, and then go ahead and de- t. That
is what the Democratic party did in
1912 and that is what the Democratic
party is going to do in 1916.
Every expedient has been resorted
to by Republican statesmen in both
houses of congress to discredit the
Democratic President and to make his
policies impotent and odious. One
fellow will act up and speak to the
peop'e to the effect that the man is a
weakling. cringing to and covering be-
| fore poor old war-torn Mexico. Anoth-
er will follow with asseversations that
Wilson is a bold, bad man, despot
tyrant, Caesar, bent on bending con
gress to his will
Just now the only policy the G. o.
p. has is to force an extra session OF
congress. Why? Because such Repub'
lican leaders as Gallinger and Penrose
know that business is timid and fears
congress in session. The greatest
misfortune that could befa.l mankind,
according to Lodge and Root, would be
business prosperity and domestic tran
guilty while a Democrat Is in the
white house.
That will make your extra session.
They care not a rap about the ship
ping bill. If recommended by Presi-
dent of their party, as 1t would be If
Republican was in the white house.
every devil of em would be for 1t and
railing against the Democrats for
wicked and unpatriotic filibusters. But
what is the use of being hypocrite-
all the time? Why not try little hon
esty, just for a change, to see how the
novelty would fit?
Here is the Washington Post, stand
pat Republican, that between the set
of one sun and the rise of the next
changed its politics touching the Euro
pean war, pretending to discuss Demo
cratic politics and causing horses to
laugh with it's wailings and things
about the "Wilson machine" that is to'l
force his denomination" The Post
is becoming a comic paper, however,
and the law should require that 1t be
printed in colors, or be excluded from
the mails as sailing under false colors.
We are told that the national COM
mittee of the Democratic party Is to
hold a conference March 4 and that
the object is to forestall and obliterate
all opposition to the denomination OF
Wilson,. Who opposes his renomina-
ton? I'll bet you can't find a single
community Of the entire Union-out-
side of Tammany Hall-where can be
mustered one per cent of the Demo
cratic voters who are not enthusiastic
cally in favor of the denomination of
Wilson. The party in 1888 was unani-
mously in favor of the denomination OF
Cleveland-all but Tammany.
Mr.. Wilson is what Mr.. Cleveland
unfortunately, was not-a skillful poll
tician as we'll as a profound statesman
Had Cleveland been the politician Will
son is the Republican party would
have died in 1888. You can name no
man OF our.hemisphere whose study OF
politics compares with Wilson's. He is
a doctrinaire profound to degree,
and as q practical politician he Is a
match for all his adversaries. Whom
,, would the party select II not Wilson
Who is your candidate against him
and whence halls he? / did hear one
disreputable fellow suggest Under
wood, but all the oxen In Texas could
not draw Mr.. Underwood to that
scratch. Perhaps he is not Solomon.
Shakespeare and Bacon combined, but
Underwood knows that Wilson is the
only possible nominee CT the Demo
cratic party In, 1916.