Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-21
WILSON CANNOT
WIN NEXT YEAR
|Watterson Says President
Will Not Be Able to Garry
Single State

or emeritus of the Louisville Courier |
Journal, who is spending the winter
at Miami Florida, gave the following
Interview to u correspondent of the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat The cor I!
respondent put to him the direct
question: '"Will Woodrow Wilson be
the Democratic candidate for presi- |
dent in 1902"
IF Mr.. Wilson wants the nomina-
ton he can have it, because the party
machinery is wholly in his hands
and there is no one of the national
character and standing to oppose
him." was the reply.
What about the third term issue?' |
'I am afraid" said Watterson, !
that the Democratic party of the
period is not much moved by the
issues. Its objective is rather the
concrete things of public life, the
governmental patronage, the emolu-
ments of place and self; in n word, .
the loaves and the fishes. For the
matter of that, all parties are more |
or less afflicted with the disease ,
known of old as officials 1t is still |
with the party leaders as it has ever /
2een, What are we here for?
You don't give credit to the claim
Vt the leaders that it is the country,
She whole country, and nothing but
She country, they seek to serve "
Party Label n Trademark
"The trademark of the professional !
politician" the veteran answered, sis |
the party label; his asset, popular
majorities, or the hope of popular
majorities. Apart from these he is
nothing. You may recall the ingalls,
of Kansas once described a states
man as q politician out of n job. !
But now eachN politician who has |
job calls himself statesman and |
his claim allowed by the riffraff who
rattle round as voters-some of |
EN- banal and some of 'em vulgar,
but all of 'em hayseeds and crackers.
THAT seems hard on our Southern
people" the reporter observed.
The Southern people," exclaimed
the old confederate. ''They are n
race of degenerates. know them not
passed the better part of my life (
fghting Southern battles. The South .
came out of an unequal war into
which the widest folly had pre-
cipiated it, a picked bird. Recon-
construction menaced it with politi-
cal extinction.
The south's Experience
"The Southern extremist of Sc
cession vanquished, impoverished,
ruined, was met by the Northern
Extremist of radicalism, imperious
savage of temper and malignant of
countenance, proposing to yield. his
beaten adversary two rights, and two
rights only, the right to be hanged
and the right to be damned. En-
heightened conservatism and patriotic
devotion to republican ideals rescued
him from the boa constructor of
sectionalism. Once more he became
a free man. Then what happened?
AS soon as he got on his feet, or
thought he was. on his feet he /
plunged successfully into greenback-
ism and free silverism, and was lick
ed to frazzle in both, as he deserved
to be. He is now plunging into
prohibition. Such an animal deserves
not his freedom, because he neither
values it, nor is fit for it."
But" interjected the reporter, "is
not the President coming to the res
cue of the better classes of the
people and will he not lsave the
country from what you, EMr. Wat
terson, have called the Bolshevilli
OF fanatcism and ignorance?"
The Fable of the Frogs
"Do you happen to recall" said
Watterson, what happened to the
frogs who took Jupiter for their
king? Mr.. Wilson is a very able and
very astute person. Hasn't read
history for nothing. He has n
mighty comfortable berth in the
Whiet House; he likes it, he is of no
mind to move, like the wise old rat
upon his hunk of cheese, he de-
iivers beautiful lectures upon the
glory of life and living, the virtue
of sweetness and light.
"I do not relish the idea of break
ing in upon his beautitude or calling
time upon his intentions or in any
wise of criticizing his eXultation,
though whilst copy book maXims
seem to be going and have weight
with him, 1 cannot resist reminding
him that exploitation may be carried
too far. That pride sometimes rides
for n fall, and that his passion for
breaking precedents is u dangerous
Indulgence"
No Trucking to Royalty
"Can you mean his foreign journey
which has aroused such enthusiasm
in England, France and Italy, and
brought kings and queens, as we'll as
people and governments, to his feet?'
"I am an old fashioned Democrat,
and take precious little stock in
royalties of any sort. When George
II reminded John Adams that, be-
ing an Englishman born, he ought
o love England, the sturdy old patriot
tremendously replied: Sire, l love
no country except my own. do not
ike to have the President of the
United States quite so persona grata
to the great ones of Europe. do
hot like his hobnobbing with crowns
and scepters, stars and garters. or
as the saying used to be ripping
with old Euripides and canting with
Did Cantharides.'
Wilson Can't Garry State n
1.-TWO pictures have just reached
me from the other side which will
make excellent campaign material
for the Republicans. One of these
represents Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson
standing, I will not say smirking,
with King George and Queen Mary
before the camera. The other de-
picts Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson driving
proudly down the Corso in Rome
with King Victor Emanuel and Queen
Helena. For /one, / don't like it,
offends not only my plain Ameri-
fan sense of republican simplicity
but what I may call a sense of nat
onal propriety. There can be no
such thing as equality between Il
itiZen and a sovereign, and now that
he President begins to think feel
md act like a sovereign, he is out of
character and out of place in these
saf. er1r I0sl l,oA I,