Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, July 04, 1912, FINAL, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text4 GJ. DELEGATION LOST CHANGE TO CONTROL If Opportunity Had Been Seized Champ Clark Would Have Been Nominated. By JAMES B NEVIN Some one —perhaps a nm v*-y im portant some one said once upon a time that It Is not the farts of history that make It interesting so much as jt 4s the "if?" thereof Wherefore-, one may speculate °n gagingiy enough with respect to what might have happened In the Monu mental City had the Georgia delega tion to the national convention In Ba ■ timore elected to disregard Us Instruc tions for Underwood, In the sincere and righteous knowledge and belief that he could not be nominated, and tael Itr vote early In th» game for ("hamp Clark The Georgia delegation preferred Clark tn Wilson Had it ever come to the point where the Georgia delegates might have reg iste'ed an opinion as to that the truth of the assertion would have been es tablished in the written record beyond dispute. Ruf the Georgians were for Underwood first, and they were in structed for him under an iron-t'ad resolution that for downright stupidity and lack of common sense and fore sight could hardly have been surpassed. Could Have Named a President. At one time the Georgia I nderwood delegates had in their hands the nam ing of a president of the United States. One word from the Georgians would have nominated t’hamp ('lark But Georgia, hoist by its own petard, so to apeak, let the psychological mo ment pass And when Georgia finally realized that It had let golden oppot f tunitv go. it would have undone th thing It had done—or. rather, it would have done the thing it had foolishly left undone—but it was too late t'hamp da k received, and held for nine ballots a majority of the votes of the convention Ry every- rule of the game as theretofore played, t'latk should have had the nomination then Never before, save In one Isolated and subsequently disastrous instance, had a convention of either big party refused a nomination to n candidate once passing the majority mark Never lias a Democratic convention treated a favorite son so unfairly and so disloyally as t’hamp dark was treated in Baltimore Now. there Is n-« knocking of Wilson or "beefing" in this The New Jersey governor has won his fight, and. so far as HE is concerned, it was a clean and manly fight. Remember. Wilson says himself that he, despairing of a nomi nation when dark held so persistently to a majority , telephoned to Baltimore and released the Wilson delegates, so sure was Wilson that Cla-k would be awarded that which, under a majority rule, dark had won The point is that Georgia, having the certain direction of things in Us hands at a vital stag- of the proceedings, failed to rise to the occasion, and let go by the golden opportunity It had been hoping for. and through which It might have named the next president of the United States’ Dwts-red by Bankhead. Georgia was persuaded by Senator Bankhead that Underwood had a chance to be nominated, even after dark had received and held a majority through several ballots’ The hopelessness of Underwood's candidacy- was pointed out to the Un derwood delegates time and ‘again by dark leaders and others, ftom every point of the compass Many Under wood men were convinced, and wanted to switch tn dark, hut not the major ity of them The arguments of the da k men serf met with the bland and pious as surance of Senator Bankhead that Un de rwond must be the eventual nominet —-that a deadlock was Unde wood's compelling hope and sure omen of vic tory And Bankhead hU i the Under wood men in Hn* stubborn!' The "dope" of that point o' view rati thusw Ise. Bryan was blocking t'lark's nomina tion. and daik In retaliation, would block Wilsons Therefore. I'niifrwn.. ,f was the key to the deadlock Its palpable errors a-.- painfully clear t?>day. now that ft is all too late' Bryan did. In bad faith ami slander ous utterance, succeed in nutting through hfs part of the blocking of dark, but it was the unwitting and -i --reasonlng. the halfway pathetic, as sistance of the Underwood vote that enabled the Nebraskan to -onsummau that piece of political ' -actury and wrong When it came to the blocking of Wilson s nomination by the < !a'k rnetj. the Underwood delegates found that the dark men were not willing to go ’he length of depravity to which Bryan Inclined, and so. much to -..me Unfit wood surprise Wilsons nomination was achieved in much the same cii cumstances unde: which dark - un t-igMeously was mu !• impossible Bryan Thinking of Himself. Bryan had no thought of nominating Wilson when he stabbed dark to lie death He was no more fm Wilson pri marily than he Was for ''lark He was for Bry a i H< struck dow n 1 lark, wit li • the unwitting assistance .<<• recall .i ; ,i h« thought that dark might be depend, ed qpon to strike down Wilson even tually Out of that would .11 Ur a dead lock so Bryan thought front «bl- j n «ulr .on-i i--i I rirwo-'d for Hrv.iii han - ji a- -I h II THE BIG SCENE | / mike -J jUI 1 . • ' TT IMF ■■" ■ - e A , c: H . i . t ' "—-—is ’ ' THdS. E. WATSON ON BRYANTS TREACHERY TO CHAMP CLARK 1 — r state of Nebraska was carried by Speaker Clark. £ Bryan sought anti obtained a place on the Clark delegation to Baltimore. After this, he made speeches in Smith Dakota for LaEollette, and in Florida for Woodrow Wilson. t Did he say or do a single thing for Clark! \'o ; he did not. After having been instructed l>y his own state to secure the nomination of Champ Clark, he worked against him and spoke against him. Ihe Labollette votes that Bryan helped to get nominated Taft, by helping to win the chair manship lor I'Jilin hoot the rotten lawyer who virtually ruled that where thirteen men are ac cused of having received the same kind of stolen goods, at the same lime, twelve of the accused are a competent jury Io try the thirteenth. Having made speeches for LaFollette. the Republican, and for Wilson, the Pennsylvania Ryanite. Mr. Bryan went to Baltimore bent on knifing Clark. What is Bryan s charge against the Southern statesman? I hal he. ( lark, did not help Bryan defeat -fudge Parker for temporary chairman! And this is the same Bryan who. in 1904. spoke 65 times a day in the effort to make Judge Parker our president. Ihe bitterness anil mendacity with which Bryan has assailed our Southern leaders, Under wood anti Clark, are without parallel in recent polities. He has lied about them both, with shameless continuity ami creativeness. In the case of ('lark, Bryan’s infamy is this: He was sent to Baltimore to support ('lark, and he used the opportunity to stab him. Torn Watson, tn his "Jeffersonian." time and again in The Commoner—but Bryan! He showed that part of his hand when, the deadlock seemingly on hopelessly. Bryan gave out a list of "dark bo ses" that might do- Ketn. James. <>Gotman. All of those "dark hotse" suggestions meant Bryan. Who can doubt it" When it was all too late, when the Georgian- realized how Rrvan st al. bad ‘made monkeys" of them they wen not happy perhaps they are not happy yet. They might have played a great part in naming a president. In the end they were only permitted t" sing a melancholy "Me. too.” led by tiw persuasive and soft-voiced Bank head to a nomination they were not in favnt »f and against which they, in ■ grea' majority, had prayed the good l.ord vociferously and oft to deliver them. They might have remembered that the l.ord helps them tnat holt' them selw-l The last thing I heard when 1 left the Hot, Bel'edert on my way to the tram which should carry me Georgia war.i wa» ;> bunch of Princeton stu-| , dents warbling in the <>bby a song. I the chorus of which ra’n this way They say t >ld Riil Bryan, he am f got | no style. He's style al! the w hilt he's st y • all the while' ft, v -ay «>!d Bill Bivao. he ant go' n« style. IH< J sty.e all the while, a.I t.-ie while'" The Real Forces Berwod Him. hit-. :o. song w on: .. of :ht . x übtrame of youth and its effervescing! gladne*. those students were gublime. • ly happy tnat their toyed Wilson hgd won. ai”. 'h> o «ti< pa'mg tributt t<> : . ma n ’ < ■ i hong o most • n» 1 : u ' inertia 1 tn bringing site ,• Wilson » y . ii.rt I 'I • > t.■ • i .f>lji . h> if ~ THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. .ii'l-Y 4. 1912. Tom Taggart, and Roger Sullivan, with out whose co-operation and consent \\ ilson never w ould have been named for the presidency—they were frankly ami Joyously heralding Bryan as Wil son's nearest and dearest friend and helper. They were acknowledging the supremacy and the prowess of War wick as they figured Warwick to be brave ami magnificent in his king mak ing' But the song -ct me to thinking that the ope man in the United States today who can beat Wilson—perhaps the only man is that same Bryan Bryan ployed a sorry and an unap pealing jiar; at Baltimore, and if Wil son lets the Impression go aboa-d that In the event of his election, the -Ne braskan is to be the overshadow ing in fluence in the white house, the Wilson cause Is half lost before a battle is fought. Vnd Bryan, unless Wilson be pos sessed of 'he tact and diplomacy of a master, surely will "butt in' and as sume the center of th. limelight throughout the campaign, 'nd unto the i bitter end Rome Friends Send Wires to Mrs. Wilson ROME GA July « Simes of ion gratnl 'or< telegrams have been *• nt i fiom Rmne to Mt Woodtow Wil.-on it h< ■ sumini'r horn, in S< og i, N .1 afiei ibe new -of the nomination of b»r hu-band for the pr»sidem y of the I io- 1 ted Stites the message., were personal 'her from !■ girlhood friends -n Rotnt ! I v ' '» ’ m.ireied o. •-.•no. ‘ W ilson V Mi I •»' I.' t M> - y I ■ son is well known here, her father hav ing -erved as pastor of the First Pres byterian church of this city for a num ber or rears. To Drive Out Malaria and Build up the Sy«t*m Take the Old Standard GROVE’S TASTE LESS CHILL TONIC. You know what you are taking. The formula Is plainly printed on every bottle, showing it is simply Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form, and the most effectual form For grown people and children, 50c. INTEREST READY AT GEORGIASAVINGS BANK Atlanta’s Oldest Savings Bank Now Paying Interest to Its Depositors. Xtlanta s oldest savings bank •<» now paying tin July interest to their thou sands of depositors, ,M| depositors ere requested to bring their pass bonks to the bank and have the interest . reditiii as won as convenient. Four per cent interest is paid and • ompoundi'd January and July. lie posits made on or before July 10 will draw Interest from July 1. One dollar will start an account <'pen Saturday afternoons front t tn 6. In addition to regular morning hours. V • • Depositors with the TRUST COMPANY OF GEORGIA are protected by $2,800,000. Yet they receive 1 per cent internet on Snv in err. OEM. COMMITTEE GILLS ON MN Bryan’s Brother Represents Nebraskan at Conference at Seagirt This Afternoon. SEAGIRT. N .1,. July 4. -Charles Bryan, brother of William .1. Bryan, wired to Governor Woodrow Wilson, the Demo cratic nominee for president, that he would arrive at Seagirt this afternoon to represent his brother at a conference of the Democratic national committee No one at tht executive mansion would say what the object of the conference would be. or whether Charles Bryan bore a mes sage from the Nebraskan advising any course of aetioq. The executive household was astir at an early hour this morning in prepara tion for the reception of the national com mitteemen. Dean Fine, of Princeton, a guest of the Wilsons, was the first tn make his appearance. He left the. ex ecutive mansion shortly after R o'clock just as Charley Miller, the laundryman of the little white house, was putting the finishing touches to the two brass can non that decorate the governor’s lawn. Professor Fine was greeted with a cho rus of clicks from an already assembled squad of camera men and was besieged by the correspondents for an outline of the governor's program for the day. The professor said that other than the entertainment of the committeemen at luncheon tffls afternoon and a subsequent conference with the governor to outline the coming campaign and select a na tional chairman and campaign manager he knew of no official program. As the morning progressed autoS and carriages bearing the governor's well wishers and admirers began to line the drive In front of the mansion extending well wishes. The governor, who arose shortly after R o'clock and breakfasted with Professor Fine and his family, greeted the new comers with cordiality. Marshall Eager To Help Democracy INDIANAPOLIS. July 4.—Governor Thomas R. .Marshall. 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