WILSON CANNOT WIN NEXT YEAR Watterson Says President Will Not Be Able to Carry a Single State St. Louis.—Henry Watterson, edit or emeritus of the Louisville Courier- Journal, who is spending the winter at Miami, Florida, gave the following interview to a correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat The cor respondent put to him the direct tiueslion: "Will Woodrow Wilson be the Democratic candidate for presi dent in 1920?" ' "If Mr. Wilson wants the nomina tion he can have it, because the party machinery is wholly in his hands and there is 110 one of the national character and standing to oppose him," was the reply. "What about the third term issue?' "I am afraid,' 1 said Watterson, "that the Democratic party of the period is not much moved by the issues. Its objective is rather tlie concrete things of public life, the governmental patronage, the emolu ments of place and self; in a 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.' It Is still with the party leaders as it has ever jeen, 'What are we here for?' " "You don't give credit to the claim W the leaders that it is the country, the whole country, and nothing but tne country, they seek to serve " Party Label a Trademark "The trademark of the profesional politician," the veteran answered, "Is 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 a politician out of a job. I'.ut now eachv politician who has a Job calls hin\solf a statesman, and his claim allowed by the riffraff who rattle 'round as voters —some of 'em 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 a race of degenerates. I know them not I passed the better part of my life fighting Southern battles. The South fame out of an unequal war into whieli the wildest folly had pre eipiated it, a picked bird. Recon ronstruetion menaced It with politi cal extinction. The South's Experience "The Southern extremist of se cession vanquished, impoverished, ruined, was met by the Northern extremist of radicalism, imperious, savage of temper and malignant of countenance, proposing lo yield'.llls beaten adversary two rights, and two rights only, the right to be hanged and the right to ho damned. Kn liglitened conservatism and patriotic devotion to republican ideals rescued him from the boa constrictor of sectionalism. Once more he became a free man. Then what happened? As soon as he got on liis feet, or thought he was, on his feet, he plunged successively Into greenback ism and free silverism, and was lick ed to a frazzle in both, as he deserved lo 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 tlie people and will he not / save the country from what you, IMr. Wat terson, have called the feolsheviki of fanaticism 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. ITe has a mighty comfortable berth in the Whiet House; he likes it, he is of no liind to move, like the wise old rat upon his hunk of cheese, he de livers 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 bcautitude or calling time upon his intentions or in any wise of criticizing his exultation, though, whilst copy book maxims leem to be going and have weight with him, I cannot resist reminding him that exploitation may be carried too far. That pride sometimes rides fur a fall, and that his passion for ireaking precedents is a dangerous Indulgence." No Truckling to Royalty "Can you mean his foreign journey which has aroused such enthusiasm n England, France and Italy, and irought kings and queens, as well as >eople and governments, to his feet?" "1 Am an old-fashioned Democrat, md take precious little stock in •oyalties of any sort. When George I[i reminded John Adams that, bo ng an Englishman born, he ought 0 love England, the sturdy old'pal riot icntentiously replied: 'Sire, I love IO country except my own. Ido not ike to have the President of the nited States quite so persona grata to the great ones of Europe. do tot like his hobnobbing with crowns ind scepters, stars and garters, or, is the saying used to be 'ripping ivitli old Euripides and canting with dd f'antharides.' Wilson Can't Carry a State "Two pictures have just reached ne from the other side which will. nnko excellent campaign material I Cor the Republicans. One f>( these •opresenls Mr. and Mrs. Wilson standing, I will not say smirking, vith King George and Queen Mary •eforo the camern. The other de licts Mr. and Mrs. Wilson driving iroudly down the Corso in Rome vith King Victor Emanuel and Queen Telena. For one. I don't like it, t offends not only my plain Ameri can sense of republican simplicity nit what T may call a sense of nat onal propriety. There can be no uch thing as equality between n •itizen and a sovereign, and now that he President begins to think, feel ind act like a sovereign, be is out of ■haraeter and out of place in these lain-glorious exploiliations. He has diown himself, at times a-gnan of ery unequal, even of infirm, judg nent. With such handicaps to carry, I ilong with the third term Issue, I do lot believe that if he agrees to offer limself in 1920 he will carry a slate mtsoide the Bolsheviki provinces of he South.' Would ho a Second Diaz "Suppose you are mistaken, and he •uns and is elected?' "In that event, good-by to the re mbllcanism of Washington, Jackson ind Lincoln, and all hail the au ocracles of Bolivar, Rosas and Diaz. North America is next door to South Vmeriea, you know. But if he runs 1 gain, he will not be'elected. The tepublicans will haye an eosv thing, in easier thing than they had ast year. But, we shall see what ve shall see." FRIDAY EVENING. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 21, 1919. 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