Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16

! of course the boys are sore from having had
to cool their heels for six months after the
| fighting was over, they curse everything in
| sight, and particularly everything that has to do
| with the army. But by a year from No
vember their whole experience will have mel
lowed and will have assumed the halo of the
! browning event of series of generations. Their
hearts will be full of its memories and to a
man they will vote for him who was their
chief
Then there also appears the ultra modernist
to issue an alarm. He warns against failure
to consider that new factor, the woman vote.
He saws that all the women will vote for
Pershing and that his election will thus be
| assured He assigns as reason for this be-
lief the fact that PerShing was admittedly The
most imposing military figure OF the war.
He stood head and shoulders above them all.
All his points as to appearance were just what
| one would have liked them to have been.
And the women looked on and admired. They
saw him in the movieS-eyerybody saw him
| there. The appearance of the General on the
screen, and the sympathy he awakens as a
man of sorrow, will get an undivided woman
| vote.
BAH Says the opposition. Do you think
| the women want nilitariSt who will send
| their boys to war again? That is the one
| thing they may be depended upon to avoid.
| These contradictory views have puzzled the
politicians. Thy have not known whether Per
shing as standard bearer meant sure victory
or sure defeat. They have been inclined to
break the party which nominated him, but
that he did not seem a sure bet either way.
The politicians have not even known whether
| PerShing is Republican or Democrat. He
| seems not to have committed himself, He
comes from Missouri which is middle ground
where man is as likely to lean one way as
another. To be sure, army men generally have
in the past leaned toward the Republican party
as that party has been considered the army'S
best friend. To be sure, also he is son-in-
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horse in the Republican party. PerShing, how
| ever, is not man to be guided in his choice
of party by mere incidents of consanguinity.
Politicians generally have considered it pref
ty certain that PerShing would turn out to be
a Republican. The Republicans have main
tanned pleasant relations with the General have
flirted adroitly with him, have intimated that
he might reasonably hope to be their candi-
date. But they have not gone all the way
and said to hm "Here is a neat little nonna-
ton. 1t is yours if you want it,
| So Pershing S not sure of his ability to get
| the nomination from the Republicans. This
| leaves him entirely open to the display of the
charms of Miss Democracy. Possibly the Gen
eral is somewhat indifferent to both parties,
| believes in half the policies of one and half
those of the other Possibly while the Re-
publicanS are holding out a mere hope of a
nomination, the actual goods, all properly
wrapped up and sealed, coming from the Dem
ocratic side might look better
There is yet another possibility the cons d.
Grafton of which is giving Republicans the
creepS these nights Suppose that Woodr DIV
should see in PerShing the one great hope for
success in the next election. Suppose he should
take John j. to the top of the mountain and
tempt him, suppose he should give him the
assurance of the Democratic nomination, sup
pose ne should remind the General of all the
| honorS that have come to him because he,
Wilson, made him the big chief overseas-the
greatest military opportunity ever given any
man since America came to be- Suppose Wood
row Wilson should bring all his powers of per-
moment suppose that human nature is the
same as it used to be, and the first love OF
| the people proves to be the love of the fight
ing man. Suppose history repeats itself
Welll John PerShing would be the next
president, and the Democrats would :ontrol The
destiny of the nation during the years of world
reconstruction just as they have through The
great war