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The Democratic Nominee
and the Progressive Creeds
Woodrow Wilson, governor of New Jersey, is the nominee of
the national Democratic convention for president of the I nited
States.
The Georgian will support the Democratic nominee.
The Georgian, as a progressive Democratic newspaper, would
have supported any progressive Democrat nominated at Baltimore.
The Georgian has not only been a progressive Democratic
newspaper always, hut it has been a progressive Democratic news
paper in advance of the Democratic party, and it will continue to
he a progressive newspaper in advance of the party.
Whatever is progressive in the nominee of this convention, and
in the platform of this convention, this newspaper will indorse.
For anything less than progressive in the nominee or in the plat
form The Georgian will feel and express its regret, and will en
deavor to strengthen and amend the weakness in platform or in
candidate as the campaign progresses.
Because The Georgian and its kindred newspapers are con
vinced that the only true Democracy is progressive Democracy.
The Georgian does not hesitate to say, and has already earnest
ly said, that there were many things in the Baltimore convention
far from progressive and far from democratic. The spirit of the
convention and its methods are made open to attack upon many
lines, and, most of all. in the overriding by demagogy ami other
influences of the will of the majority, which is the will of the people
and the essence of Democracy.
We have made, and shall continue to make, the improper meth
ods and the undemocratic spirit of this Democratic national con
vention and of the Republican national convention a con
tinuous and double-barreled argument for the abolition of
national conventions in both parties and the substitution
everywhere of direct nominations—preferential presidential pri
maries, which will do away with conventions and allow the people
to choose all officers, from president down, directly by their own
will and their own ballots.
This is the essential lesson learned and the essential reform
made necessary by the errors and iniquities of both national con
ventions.
The circumstances and conditions surrounding the nomination
of Governor Wilson furnish the amplest vindication of Champ
Clark from the assaults and misrepresentations of (governor Wil
son s triend, Bryan Because the very influences about which Bry
an made his demagogic assault upon Champ Clark were identically
the same influences which at the appointed time brought about
the nomination of Woodrow Wilson
There is only one thing that is rankling in the hearts of Clark
men, and that is the false accusations, or insinuations, that have
been made against Mr. Clark.
It was said by Mr. Clark's opponents that Mr. Clark's man
agers had made deals with the interests. Those insinuations were
not only false, but they were not made in good faith.
A simple analysis of the vote will show, that it was the states
which the interests controlled that prevented Mr. Clark from get
ttng the nomination, and that it always has been the determination
.of the interests to interfere at any cost with the nomination of Mr.
Clark.
Ihe stales which I hoinas Fortune Ryan controlled were the
states instructed for Mr. Underwood. Those states were withheld
at the time when their votes could have given Mr. Clark the nom
ination, and they were released at the time when their votes could
and did give Mr. Wilson the nomination.
Both Mr. Wilson and Mr. I nderwood have had abundant
money at their command, and it is well known that Mr. Clark made
his campaign throughout the country and won the greatest number
of delegates in the presidential primaries with a pitiful fund of a
jew thousand dollars contributed by personal friends.
Io say that a man conducted such a campaign was or could be
the candidate of the interests is not only an unjust and unworthy
reflection upon a stainless public man, but is also a reflection upon
the common sense and intelligence of lhe American people.
And to say that the nomination of Governor Wilson was finally
made possible by the support of Taggart in Indiana and of Ryan
in \ irginia and Sullivan in Illinois and Tammany in New York is
not a reflection upon Governor W ilson, but is an all sufficient vin
dication ot flu slandered speaker of the Democratic house.
lhe one ipan upon whom the final support of the interests for
Governor Wilson does reflect most directly and seriously and per
manently is William .1 Bryan
Bryan, just at the moment when the transfer of the New York
delegates from Harmon to t’hamp ('lark gave ('hamp (’lark the
majority ot the convention s votes and fully entitled him to the
nomination—that moment William -I Bryan set out to defeat his
noble, loyal friend. Champ Clark.
Bryan hrazingly declared that he would support no man voted
for by New \ ork or whose nomination was made possible by New
s vote; broke his pledged instructions from Nebraska, turned
his a <>tcs to W ilson and halted ('hamp ('lark s march to victory.
Mark lhe hypocrisy of Bryan.
lhe next day font Taggarl, the most corrupt of all bosses,
swung Indiana s vote to W ilson and turned .the tide that finally
made Wilson possible
And Bryan, sullen, inconsistent and insincere, sat silent and
unprotesting in his seat.
II was the action of the New York delegation, led by Congress
man Fitzgerald, of Tammany, which made Wilson's nomination
certain.
And Bryan, who had betrayed and defeated Champ Clark,
as he said, simply because Xew \ ork had voted for him. sat silent,
sullen and insincere -without a protest in his seat !
Ami when Roger Sifllivan, whom Bryan had denounced as a
traitor ami a train robber, swung the .’>> votes of Illinois am! made
Wilson's election sure, Bryan still sat without protest at a change
of vote —sullen, silent and insincere to the end
Whoever else may rise or fall in the fortunes of lhe last con
vention of the Democratic party. William .1 Brian comes out of it
stained forever, and stamped b\ his hypoeris.i and kis hates as a
fraud and a demagogue, false in lamruage. false m profession and
false in iriendship .is to parti
The real reason lor Champ ('lark s defeat was the ntilgs and
genuineness of his progress)!. Dcniocracs
While others theorized Speaker ( hamp < lark struck with
force and dead 11 directness, at th* root of tin evil
Io the preachers ot progressiv< Demoeraio in gave praetn ,i|
Continued in L out Co'umn
The Atlanta Georgian
THE REAL SKY- ROCKET
By HAL COFFMAN.
j
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7 4 Jills
Landing on the Lockjaw Germ
How Science and Sense Are Helping to Save the Small Boy and His Fingers.
By JOHN BESSNER HUBER, M. I).
EVERY Independence day for
, more than a century and a
quarter past we and our fa
thers before us have been twisting
the British Lion’s tai).
Possibly the twisting has hurt
that gigantic feline some; hut there
Is no doubt but what it has hurt us
a great deal more. Eor every
fourth of July since, our glorious
Revolution we have had more of
our people killed and wounded, by
reason of the way we celebrate,
than there were casualties in our
whole seven years war with old
Mother England.
Don’t calculate our mannings and
killings by fireworks in* all the
years eince 1783, when our war for
American independence ended tri
umphantly lor us; and don’t calcu
late such misfortunes throughout
the length and breadth of out
Whole land in all these years, hut.
consider mily such losses in the
three years. 19117, liars and 1909.
and those only in New York city;
and we tihd a total of 1.339 killed
and Injured in ami around the
Glorious f-'ourth from fireworks
more than the casualties in the
Revolutionary battles of Lexington.
Bunker Hill. I'ort Moultrie. White
Plains. Fort Washington. Mon
mouth and Cowpens combined. And
these losses of ours have mainly
been not among fighting men, who
expect to be hurt or killed, but
among youths and maids (almost
all under eighteen) ami little chil
dren.
Ami tin- sufferings of these boj s
and girls and little children that
hnv,- died hav. been among the
nost agonizing known to medical
science; whilst of those who have
not died mans hare been maimed
ami disfigured for life.
Staitling Figures.
In the six years ending .with (90S
<mr p- ople throughout th.-s. I’nited
States gave up a festive offering in
honor of the birth of our freedom
neari\ ;io.mm killed and injured hv
firewo-ks 29.29(1 wounded for the
surge -n to tak( • ire of am] i.3itj
for the undertaker, 7.7 Gof those
d.-atne being from lockjaw In the
nim s ears since 19'G the . qua. in
numbers of mure than 39 regi
ments were killed or injured in
i elebi .ittng nip- Glorious I'ourth.
Sin . 1903 11-i . dreadful misfor
tunes h 1V» been I. 'selling sear hv
sear becausi of the campaign in
s;i t>: t • i b\ tt. \ men- n mlleii I
a. sociation, and waged b\ the pub
lic piess and aethiih s ;o- the
Rm-.1l s.g, founi'.iimn. Year hv
rat tic • Im and < omintmlt . - am
'■r. rtvl ri>.'( sering th*' light.
Yet la -1 ' • t I 911 >tln 1C w err ' ill
.-'glP.r’n - a-. of |m k>aw Ami be
sldi th* • .asrs there r* forts-
THURSDAY. J CIA’ L 1912.
seven deaths—eleven killed out
right by firearms, nine by powder
explosives, bombs or torpedoes, five
by cannon, two by giant fire
crackers, and eight, by blood
poisoning, the explosion of chemi
cals and so forth.
The most deaths last year from
any one cause svere twelve (includ
ed in the forty-seven just mention
ed). nearly all little girls, burned
to death like human torches in the
time of Nero, by fireworks, in sev
eral cases of the “harmless" kind,
small firecrackers and even "spark
lers."
What Is Lockjaw?
But what is lockjaw ’
The dm tors .-all it tetanus It is
a germ disease, and the germ *s the
tetanus bacillus. This germ is found
in earth and sometimes in putrefy
ing fluids. The reason -shy there
are not more deaths from loekjasv
is that 4 the germ fortunately w ill
not thrive in .he presence of air,
but only In wounds that are closed
up and d* void of the oxygen in the
air When this germ gets lodg
ment in a svound it generates poi
'ons (toxins the doctors call them),
which circulate in the lymph and
blood channels and thus produce
the dreadful symptoms of the dis-
So lockjaw happ.-ns whenever
any dirt or blank cartridge wads,
or paper from a giant firecracker
or a rag containing the germ, is
introduced into tl.,- wounds—espe
cially wounds of the head, face and
hands. The wound may be very
slight. nothing more than the
scraped skin or a slight limn, yet
the germ may find lodgme it in a
microscopic’ poc-kit beneath the
skin.
Great and open wounds do not
’ so muc’h result in lockjaw, because
the germ will not thrive in open *
wounds, ami because great wounds
ar*' taken at once to the doctor,
whilst slight and seemingly inno
cent wounds are either disregatded
or managed by household su’ge y.
There >s an "incubation period"
in lockjaw ; this is the time betsse. n
the introduction of the germ in
*he wicuid and the (Irselopmeiit **f
the symptoms which annoum e
the di-ease; this Incubation period
I.- from five' to fifteen diss.
Then come the heartrending
symptoms (’hills and high lever,
rapid heart beat, profuse sweat
ing, rigidity of the mcg !tt pi j i(v ,
a dreadful appearam-e of grinning
ot smiling, difficult! in chewing or
■w.ill.iwing anc! in breathing, mm»-
iiila’ spasms ami formation f i'..
I bridge" a curvature ot tin boil'
| resting on the back of the he .d .ad
the I'l-i’ls, from H e Inflammation of
the spurn \nrf think of
I agonies tn a little child. |
Up to very recent years death al
ways ended these sufferings. There
was really no remedy at all until
the appearance of tetanus antitox
in.
And how are we going to prevent
tliisj terrible "patriotic lockjaw*”—
this "Independance day tetanus?”
The first thing to do is to forbid
fireworks to children. But especial
ly the toy pistol (in which the
blank cartridge is fired), and which
is the most frequent cause of lock
jaw: the giant firecracker, which
is the next most frequent cause of
lockjaw, and also the toy cannon,
firearms, powder ami the bomb—all
/if which have caused lockjaw.
What To Do.
Then, for any wound; however
slight, a doctor must be summoned.
Heroic surgery "is the only svay to
treat such a svound." There must
he free incision under cocaine or a
general anesthetic. The wound
must be enlarged, it necessary. All
"pockets” in which the germ might
lodge must be prevented. Every
particle of dirt, or other "foreign
matter." such as a rag or a wad,
must be removed. The wounjj must
then be cauterized by a 25 per cent
solution of carbolic acid in alco
hol or glycerine. There must be a
loose, wet boric acid dressing,
changed every day. The wound
must be kept invariably open and
allowed to heal up from the bot
tom.
But most important of all. an
immunizing dose of tetanus anti
toxin (1.500 units) must be inject
ed by the physician. A timely in
jection. made immediately or very
soon ifter the injury, will almost
certainly protect the body against
the development of lockjaw. The
real failures from this remedy have
been because the injection was not
made until after the appearance of
the symptoms.
Help at Hand.
Yet this tetanus antitoxin should
b* used at any time, for it has in
some cases been found curative,
v.h, I) no other remedy h as ever
1; ■■n for tin- disease, when t’uiiy
il* Volope(I. rracticalls ill h.ealth
departments, st.it, and municipal,
an- no's .>|..n on Independence d.iv
and hav.- this antitoxin ready for
immediate us by physician.-, hos
pl’als .•hi.' dispensaries on tele
phone i ppll. at ion
(\ • a 1 < now substituting me -ate
.m;l s.me I'ourth (Without file
s' rl - ‘ * o tbe old, h’, H . i ha rlis ■
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ii > .s ill l>< d* prix il of i lot
fir ,I'll b. " 111 as- hl.- tit,gets an.l
■ and i.os’ihls hr- of..
I w hich is mm h gri .itei fun *f»vs di.
THE HOME PAPER
Dorothy Di x
Writes
" ON - •
To Marry or Not '
'-G X".
j ’ ' to Marry
Question for the
Individual
Only
DOROTHY DIX.
By DOROTHY DIX
I A SENSIBLE, level-headed girl
/-A writes me the following let
ter:
"I am twenty-six years old. in
business and earn a good salary.
I am successful in my occupation
and much liked by my employer
and fellow workmen, but I am not
pretty, and. therefore, do not at
tract men t although 1 have a host
of friends of my own sex. Now,
my mother is very much worried
because 1 am not married and
harasses me by continually urging
matrimony upon me. She seems
to think it little short of a disgrace
for a girl of my age not to b» mar
ried.
“I have no scruples against mai -
’ tying. In fact. I should like to mar
ry if the right man came along,
and there are times when 1 heartily
wish that 1 had a husband and a
little home of my own and the in
dependence they give a woman,
but I certainly have scruples
against a man unless I love him.
Fears Constant Nagging
May Drive Her to Marriage.
“So far as I can see I am in no
way an object of pity, and I en
joy my work, make a comfortable
income and have all lhe privileges
of the bachelor maid, yet my moth
er makes my life a burden to me
with her nagging about my marry
ing. and all of my girl friends who
are married or engaged look at me
with contempt and compassion and
’poor Mary’ me for being single un
til T sometimes feel that I will b,e
driven into matrimony in self
defense.
“What do you think of It? Is
there any reason a self-supporting
young woman should marry unless
she wants to?"
The situation in which my correT
spond* at finds herself is one in
w hich millions of other w omen have
been placed before her, but for
them there was no way out, while
for her there Is the open door if
she only' has the courage to use
it. The woman of the past whose
family and friends decided that it
was time for’her to be settled in
life was compelled to leap from
the home frying pan. jvheri it got.
, too hot to be comfortable, into the
fire of an undesired marriage.
• But the young woman of today
who is self-supporting is driven to
no such desperate alternative. If
her friends and parents, make her
feel that she encumbers the family
hearthstone, all she needs do is to
* pack her trunk and go. And if she
isywise she does so. instead of let
ting herself be fretted to ■death by
the continual interference of others
in an affair so purely personal as
marriage. Not even a mother has
j .
The Democratic Nominee
■! and the Progressive Creeds
1111(1 ui™ -I 1 JIWCIHIUIIWII.IIII ■■ —HI ■llli - - - ~
I
Continued from First Column.
illustration of what he meant when he stayed at his post, ami
Irom his seat ot authority as speaker started the investigation of
the Steel Trust ami the Money Trust, representing not hundreds
ot millions, but thousands ot millions of dollars—an inconceivable
power of money.
lhe investigation of the Steel Trust and the Money Ttusl sent
•I Pierpont Morgan and W. 11,.I 1 ,. ('orey to Europe, where they have
found it convenient to stay, pud lhe vast forces which Morgan and
( orey controlled, with th* l kindred interests which surround them,
mad*' up their minds that whoever else was nominated al Balti
more must not be, and should not be. the great, practical progr* s
sive in the speaker s chair at Washington.
It does not follow and we do not believe that Governor Wilson
made any deal or had any understanding with the interests which
finally secured his nomination.
I pon this belief in Goveruoe Wilson's inimceuce of any eon
nection with these evil forces, we are going to support him "i
this election.
But while we do this, we need not forget to honor ami ,n
eulogize that great Missouri Demoeral who uas by these inteicsis
| ma*|e the martyr lor his r* al progroisi'** Democracy.
a right to put a finger in that pts
It's hands off for everybody, except
lhe individual concerned in mat
ters of the heart.
VZfiy, mothers, who nresumabls
love their daughters and have their
interests at heart, should be so
crazy for their girls tn marry is
one of the mysteries past finding
out. Certainly few women have
been so blessed in their own mar
riages as to lead them tn think
matrimony an elysium. On the
contrary most of them have found
It a hard road to travel, full of
disillusion’, and disappointments,
and privations, and sorrow, and
tears; yet. in spite of their own
experience, and the observation
that they have fared no worse then
tlw great majority of wives and
mothers they see about them, they
are eager to set their daughter’ll
feet on this thorny path.
So we see mothers urging their
(laughters to marry, and so anxious
to see them married they do not
look too particularly at the man.
We see them so afraid their daugh
ters won’t marry that they plunge
little young, unfit girls into matri
mony. and when a girl does have
enough sense not to take the first
man who proposes to her. but
waits to pick and choose around
among men until she can find wha<
she wants in a husband, we ob
serve her mother getting as fidgets
as an old hen who is trying to
cluck and shoo her chick into the
coop at night. fearful lest she
might got left out of the fold.
Os course, where a girl is de
pendent on her family it is easy to
see where her mother might want
to shunt the burden of her support
on some man. but where a young
woman earns her own bread and
butter, and cake, and even con
tributes to her parent’s larder,
there is no possible excuse for h*>r
mother to marry off.
Cruel to Force Girl to Altar
Steps Unless She Loves.
Thorp is just one thing, and one
thing only, that makes marriage
worth while, and that is love—a
love so great and overwhelming
that it robs sacrifice of its sting,
labor of its weariness, and mak:s
i woman glad Io give all and do all
for the sake of the man she wor
ships. Unless a girl feels this way
toward a man. she is urong and
foolish to marry him. and when
she does feel this wai she won't
need her mother tn urge and push
her into matrimony
.'.nd wi on ><he doesn’t fee) thl
way It is a hard and cruel thing of
her mother to try to force on her
brow a wreath of orange blossoms
that are full of thorns.