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."
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