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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1912)
WOODROW WILSON'S NONIWION WOULD DEFEATDEWIfICRftTS —Jas. L. Anderson. Hon. James L. Anderson, who has acquired a unique prominence in Georgia as an accurate political prog nostician, has prepared a striking statement bearing upon the political situation, in which he declares that the nomination of Woodrow \\ ilson world mean the inevitable defeat ol the party in the national elect ion. For three times Mr. Anderson was the state manager of the Hoke Smith campaigns for governor, but iu the recent election he supported Joseph M. Brown. His published communica tions in that contest will be recalled as among the most effective contribu tions to the literature of the cam paign. In a communication prepared for the press of Georgia, Mr. Anderson analyzes the national situation as follows: DECLARES WOODROW WILSON CANNOT BE ELECTED. By James L Anderson. The Hon. Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey has been for more than two years an active and definite candidate for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. In this candidacy Mr. Wilson of New Jersey is strictly within his constitu tional privileges. He has a right to run for president whenever and how ever he pleases to do so. 1 have been strongly inclined to support Governor Wilson, pleased by his graceful ora tory and his persuasive eloquence, It is a very important question with Democratic voters whether Mr. Wil son is the man they wish to nominate for president. But the all-important question with Democratic voters is, Can they elect Woodrow Wilson if they should nominate him? Up to Democrats to Win. The Democratic party wishes to win. It must win. The party has been out of power since. Grover Clev& land's time. It is a far greater and worthier party now than in Cleve land's day. Its principles and poli cies are essential to the preservation and progress of popular government. The Democratic party must win. it earnestly desires to win. Can the Democratic party win with Wilson if it nominates him at Balti more? It is my conviction that the Demo cratic party cannot win with Gover nor Wilson as its candidate. There is neither prejudice nor ill will in this opinion. I want the Dem ocratic party to win. I do not be lieve it can win with Wilson, and 1 am ready to give reasons for the con viction I have expressed. As a candidate, Governor Wilson’s record and utterances would put him most unfortunately upon the defen sive from the first day of the cam paign until the last day. Not an Aggressive Candidate. In the hands of a skillful and pow erful Republican opposition, what Gov ernor Wilson has said and done would make him from first to last that la mentable thing, a defensive candidate, Governor Wilson has been able merely as a candidate for the nomi nation to preserve silence toward his own party under many serious charges, owing to the unwillingness of Democrats to press charges against one for whom they might be called upon to vote. But with the battle on in earnest, the relentless organs of Republican opposition in full pursuit would make Governor Wilson’s candidacy one long, unceasing explanation! Governor Wilson would be asked to explain, and would be compelled to explain as a Democratic candidate: 1. His willingness to accept a pen sion at the hands of Andrew Carne gie, so long the head of the great American steel trust. Has Voted Against Democrats. 2. His ballot cast in two campaigns against the nominee of his own party for president, and once withheld alto gether. 3. The extraordinary suddenness of his change from an ultra conservative teacher at Princeton to the popular side as an ultra progressive politician immediately upon the beginning of his active candidacy for president, ad vocating among other Populistic doc trines that wildest and most unsound of all political vagaries, the initiative, referendum and recall. 4. To the red-blooded and large hearted voters of the country his ex traprdinarily sudden and almost fero cious attack upon Jim Smith of Jer sey, whose money and influence help ed so powerfuly to make him gover nor, and what Henry Watterson has denominated his “base betrayal” of George Harvey, who was the chief factor in making him a candida f e for the presidency. What the people will demand to know is why Jim Smith was not as well known to Governor Wilson while the Smith money and the Smith influ ence were being poured out like water in his behalf, as when Jim Smith was squeezed dry and no longer essential to the presidential boom. Did Not Attack J. Pierp;nt Morgan. They will also demand to know why and for what reason Governor Wilson did not, in a public speech, attack the all-powerful money magnate, J. Pier pont Morgan, rather than turn his back upon his benefactor, Harvey, who was only objectionable because of his alleged connection with J. Pier pont Morgan? 5. The utterances in his “History of the American People,” which reflect so seriously and severely upon the Italians ,the Hungarians and the Poles, who make up so large and im portant a part of our population in ! the larger cities of the country. 6. To the people of the Pacific coast j the 'views expressed toward the Chi | nese which are so radicaly at vari i ance with their own. 1 I 7. To the thinking Democrats 1 throughout the country the spirit and tone of his various hooks, which so criticise Jefferson and Jackson, and so eulogize Hamilton as to induce ex- Speakcr Cannon upon the floor of the house to cal! him a “Hamiltonian I Democrat.” 8. The antagonism his candidacy has aroused in the great Catholic church and the great Hebrew race throughout the country. Neglect of Duties as Governor. 9. One of the most serious criti- I cisms which Governor Wilson as a i candidate would be asked to explain would be his astonishing record of absentism from his post of duty—neg lecting his duties and deserting his I office of governor in the promotion of his candidacy for another office. It ■ lias been stated that Governor Wil son has been absent a greater num ber of days from his post of duty than any governor of New Jersey or I any other state. During 1911, the first year of Gov ernor Wilson’s term, he was absent from New Jersey about two months. Senator Ernest R. Ackerman, then | president of the senate, has been sworn in five times as acting gover nor, on as many different absences of Governor Wilson. Upon one occasion his salary as governor was deducted because of his continued absence in his own person al interest. As a consequence, the state of New Jersey wont. Republican in the next election following Gover nor Wilson’s. It is freely predicted that. Governor Wilson, if nominated, cannot possi bly carry New Jersey because of these absences and the factions he has made. Cannot Carry New York. It is absolutely certain that, he can rtot carry New York and without this state he cannot be elected. Governor Wilson will be fronted by his Republican enemies with the sharp contrast to his own neglect of duty in the faithful and diligent de votion to duty of Champ Clark and Underwood and Harmon to the duties to which they were elected and for which they were paid. There are a dozen other curious and complicated things which the gover nor of New Jersey would be asked to explain as a Democratic candidate. Now, there need be neither animos ity nor prejudice in this discussion. It is a matter of discretion and of common sense. Tt is a question of winning or losing the election. The Situation in a Nutshell. The Democrats of this country have •only to open their eyes, look the sttu- I ation. fairly and squarely in the face, rise above smooth speeches and pleas ant personalities and new-found ad vocates, and ask themselves this sin gle question: Is there any other man in all the list of Democratic candidates who would have so many difficult ques tions to answer, so many unpleasant situations to explain, so many antag onisms to allay as Woodrow Wilson? Ts there any other candidate who would so easily be forced by his ene mies to assume the defensive? We do not want a defensive year for a progressive Democracy! The party's watchword is progress, and its policy should be and must bo aggressive from the beginning. A loyal Democrat, bolding the suc cess of my great party far above the success of any individual, in view of (his self evident situation, helieves that Governor Wilson is not the man to nominate for president.. Tt may he possible to nominate Woodrow W’ison. Tt seems scarcely | possible to elect him. Do we want to win? GEORGIA EDITOR PUT HIS FOOT INTO IT When He Said That Underwood Was Too Young and Inexperienced Atlanta, Ga. —A well-known Georgia | editor recently allowed his enthusi asm for Woodrow Wilson to lead him j into making some statements that he I could not substantiate. He actually I stand that Oscar Underwood is too I young and inexperienced to be pres ident. When it was pointed out to him that Mr. Underwood is fifty years old, he acknowledged that he had been misinformed on that point. But he was in even greater error when he spoke of inexperience, for against Governor Wilson’s year and a half’s experience as governor of New Jer sey, to which position he had been elevated from a college presidency, was pitted Mr. Underwood's experi ence of seventeen years in the na tional house of representatives. Dur ing that time he has served on ev ery important committee of the house and his experience in the legislative branch of the government better fits him for the presidency than any oth er man who has ever aspired to it An intimate knowledge of the work ings of congress is an essential qual ification for a president. The Geor : gia editor's comparison was partic ularly unfortunate for his candidate, as Governor Wilson has had less ex perience than any man who is offer ing for the presidency on either the | Republican or the Democratic side. | THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, AFRIT, 11. 1012 ■ —-j. I Origin of Easter lily Is, in the great no tlons of the world, being I frJjoi considered as important j llh'Sel nowadays, on account of its j KlLPfii symbolism, as the holly or j iVtJjNri the evergreen. Indeed. there seems to be little dtf- | ference between the im- I portance accorded to Christ mas and that given to Eas gSM. ter. Each stands in Its sym sw holism for a deep religious event, and each in its place tt holds a significance not to be filled by the other. It is regretted by some people that an observance such as the Easter festival had its Inauguration in a cere mony that was on outgrowth of a pagan festival. But to the broad- 1 minded the fact appears as an evi dence of the lasting traits of man. re -1 currlng in different ages, and modified to suit the conditions of the times. The twentieth century celebration Is the modern evolution of heathen ideals influenced by those of the Christian religion. From time im memorial man has celebrated the birth of spring—the passing of the gloomy days of winter. Easter, through the happy initiative of the Emperor Constantine in the fourth century, was celebrated not on the day of the Jewish Passover, but the Sunday after. The variation of the date depends upon the fact that the vernal equinox, of the 21st day of March, is the point from which the first Sunday after the full moon Is reckoned. The first observance of Easter dates back as far as 68 A. D. From that > time it has meant much to Christians, , and in the Joyous rebirth of Christ there is a general heartfelt resolution to emerge into the springlike fresh ness of newer Ideals and better things. t TYPEWRITERS GIVEN AWAY The Emerson Typewriter Ccmti pany of Woodstock, 111., haye re- I cently given away over 400 of the highest grade, wholly visible Em i ison Typewriters made in the world. They have gone into every state and territory in the United ; States. There may be some in , your town. 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