Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-11-24
SOUTHERN MEN IN WEST
GREAT POLITICAL FACTORS
Made Possible Coalition Of
South and West That
Elected Wilson
New York Evening Post.)

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-One Of the
outstanding features OF the recent pres
idential election lies In the fact that the
! south and west Joined hands against
the eastern section of the country in
! electing President Wilson to another
term in the White House. The feat
has been hailed as a new development
| in the politics Of the nation, and as
forecasting other developments in the
future equally astonishing i'm their eff
feet on party alignments, such as the
suggestion of the early death Of both
the Republican and Democratic parties
and the substitution therefore Of con
servative and liberal partiesS 1t is pos
sible TO demonstrate that the recent
amalgamation of the south and west is
no sudden development, but the result
of a gradual increase in the predomi-
nance of southern political theories in
the west, due, possibly, in part, to
southern emigration to the west.
West OF a line drawn through the
Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma,
and Texas, there are eleven western
states, all of which, with the exception
of Oergon, were carried by President
Wilson over Charles f. Hughes. In tn
present congress there are twenty-five
senators from these states, only four
OF whom are natives of the territory
Mason and Dixon's line, and ten were
born in the south or the border states
This is an astonishing showing. 1t
may explain in part the final Joining
hands in the recent presidential con-
test, but it also points to something
deeper.
FIGHTING PARTY IN WEST.
Persons who have lived in the west
are authority for the statement that IN
kGa~ xsYY~-
prising number Of southern-born citt-
zens. There are several large cities in
the western states where an examina-
tion will show large southern popu-
lation. It has come to be recognized
fact that the young men in the south,
awakening from the lethargy OF the
Civil war, which overwhelmed their
fathers, have turned their steps west
ward rather than northward as .the
country best suited to their purpose to
start a new life elsewhere. The extent
of the immigration has been only fair
ly measured by the census office, but
the existence Of this immigration is
proved a reality. These men have built
up q fighting Democratic party In the
west, and with the appealing record
Of the Wilson administration as an
argument, they have finally achieved
a prediction frequently heard through
out the western country that some
day the west and south will show the
east that it is not the United States"
The list of southern senator's from the
west Is as follows:
Arizona-Marcus A. Smith, born in
Kentucky.
Observation-Disclosures S. Thomas, born in
Georgia; john f. Shafroth, born in Mis-
scuri.
Moatana--Henry L. Myers, bora in
Missouri.
Neyada-Francis G. Newlands and Key
PittmaI born in Mississippi.
New Mexico-Thomas b. Catron, born
in Missouri; Albert B. Fall, born in Ken
lucky.
Oregon-George Chamberlain, born in
Mississippi
washington-Mnes Poindexter. born in
Tennessee.
SENATOR CATRoN TO GO.
All of these men remain in the next
congress except Senator Catron, of New
Mexico, who, with his colleague, Senator
Fall, are the only two Republican sena-
tors of southern origin in the western
territory. In Wyoming, however, Sena-
tor Clarence d. Clark, Republican born
IN New York state, will give way to
John 3. Kendrick, the present governor,
who is a native of Texas. In all the
western country, most of which has not
yet reached the point when it can elect
only native sons to the senate, there are
only about FIVE members of both houses
Of congress who were born east of Ohio.
OF the thirty-three members of the
house from this section, eleven are wess'
ern born. eighteen northern born, mostly
from Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, and only
four were born in the southern states.
II is manifest, therefore, that slowly
but surely the far west is coming to
rely less and less on lar eastern men to
represent it in the halls of congress.