WOULD WIN EAISLY I WILSON IS STRONGEST AMONG V , THE DEMOCRATS | SHOULD BE NOMINATED Hjr } ? i Mwiiloi Hoke Smith's Reasons for Supporting New Jersey Governor That He Is Superior in Ability, Bent Chance and Is a Southern jp Man of Right Type. In an interview authorized Saturday, United States Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia makes his position ? It, Vila a r\ vr\nnnv r?f tho 71.11116 of Woodrow Wilson for Democratic , president. Senator Smith gives three reasons why he favors Gov. Wilson's candidacy?because Gov. Wilson Is without a superior among the candidates; because his prospects of eloction are the best; and because he is a Southern man, almost a Georgian, and nls wife is a Georgian. "He is today by far the strongest candidate for the presidency," says Senator Smith. "In every State he has powerful support." "Everywhere Gov. Wilson is the leading candidate." President Taft will certainly be renominated by the Republicans, according to Senator Smith; and Mr. Taft's nomination leaves a heavy disaffected Republican insurgent vote In Wisconsin, Minnesota and tho Dakotaa, Nebraska and Kansas to vote for Wilson, in addition to all the Democratic votes in those States. "I believe that the indorsement of Georgia will make his nomination certain, and that his election will follow," 8ay9 Senator Smith. Here is his authorized intorview In part. "Several weeks ago I reached the conclusion that the Democratic national convention should nominate Gov. Woodrow Wilson. I reached this conclusion In spite of my person* Hi attachments to another candidate. ?? T 1 I?# 4.1 J 4^,-, 4V. ~ J uai ueiuie iu? ucu-gaioa iu tuc Democratic national convention wore selected in Oklahoma, I was urged by friends there who knew my views to express in an Interview my conviction that Gov. Wilson should be nominated. I did so primarily to aid his cause in Oklahoma, where I had many friends, owing to the fact, in part, that the Oklahoma strip was opened under my administration as i.ecretary of the interior, and really believing at the time that Gov. Wilson would receive the indorsement of Georgia without a sorious contest. Now that a contest Is on, while desiring to avoid taking part in local politics in Georgia, I feel that I should give my reasons for believing that Georgia Democrats should support Wilson. First. Ho is certainly without a superior in ability among the candidates, and from him we may justly expect an administration unsurpassed in its service to the people. "Second. His prospects for election are the best. "Third. In his nomination and election we have the opportunity to place in the White House a Southern man, reared partly in Georgia, almost himself a Georgia, but one descended from a line of ancestors who have lived and worked In Georgia, thereby honoring our State and at the same time serving the best interests of our country. "Gov. Wilson was called to a professorship at Princeton; he bocamo the president of Princeton, one of the great universities of America. After a splendid administration as the president of this collogo he was called by the Democrats to carry their standard bearer as a candidate for governor of Now Jersey. The 3tate &ad been largely Republican for many years. By his power to present Democratic principles to the peoplo lie won them in thousands and carried the State Democratic by an overwhelming majority. His discussion of Democratic truths during this campaign and his subsequent wonderful administration as governor won the admiration of the voters everywhere. He is today by far the strongest eandldate for the presidency. "Do we wish a Southern man nominated for the presidency? If so, we should lay aside personal feeling, 1 quit wasting support on a man wiio is not really in the race, and give our support to the one Southern man . who can be nominated, and that man, ?very impartial person must concede is Wood row Wilson. 'It is equally true that no candidate offers to the Democratic party such prospects for succes as Gov. Wilson. The hold that he has al- j ready taken upon the people In all the States Is evidence of his popularity and of hts strength. "President Taft will be renominated. At leaet half of the Republicans of Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakota*, Nebraska and Kansas prefer Roosevelt or La Follette to Presides* Taft. This places those States In -a condition where Gov. Wilson wilt not only pull the Democratic vote, bat a large portion of the RepuMltaa strength which Is dlssatlsmm fled with President Taft. "Senator Meyers, the Democratic senator from Montana, gives tho same account of his State. Senator Chamberlain, tho Democratic senator from Oregon, assures us that Gov. Wilson Is our most available candidate In Oregon and Washington, and Senator Newlands tells lis tho samo thing of Nevada and California. "These being the facts, how can It be doubted that Gov. Wilson furnishes the hope for the Democratic party In the coming contest. He Is thoroughly sound on the tariff, but we cannot make the tariff alone tho Issue. President Taft has abandoned tho Payne-Aldrlch bill and Is himself recommending tariff reduction as a result of suggestions from his tariff commission. Gov. Wilson has given an administration in Now Jersey full of progressive work in behalf of govern-, inent by the people and human rights. Ills record in these respects appeals to the people throughout the entire country and places him In a position to be far stronger than a candidate who makes his race with nothing In hla record support of tariff legislation. "President Taft having mado the fight against Roosevelt has gathered the conservatives around him and they will not quit him. He has, however, alienated at least one-third of his party, who are insurgents. While Gov. Wilson has stood squarely for constitutional governments, for adherence to law and for a representative government, his record still appeals to a large majority of the Republican insurgents from whom the Democrats must except many of their recruits. There is also a large independent vote of college-bred men, and to them Gov. Wilson appeals as a candidate. "Without going further it must be seen that to him we shoi Id naturally turn as the Democrat who can gain a national victory. In many respects I admire President Taft, but I do intensely desire to see a Democrat elected president. I believe it will be for the best Interests o.f our people and I am convinced that Woodrow Wilson is the man to win. tie can poH as many votes as Harmon In New York and Ohio. He Is stronger than Harmon everywhere else. He can poll as many votes as Clarke west of the 'Mississippi. He is much stronger than Clarke east of it. "I cordially shall support him and hope that the Democrats of Georgia will vote for him because I believe that the endorsement of Georgia will make his nomination certain, that his election will follow, and that the benefits to which I have referred will come to our people." Veterans of the I>ost Cause. Back of the pomp and spendor that clothed the reunion or the Confederate Veterans at Macon lies a very simple yet deeply beautiful sentiment, says the Atlanta Journal. These soldiers of the sixties, grown gray and getting fewer and fewer as the years roll by, wherever they gathor rekindle and revive the memories of a glorious past in which they were the chief actors. It is the human chords they touch in our hearts that make their reunions sacred to every one of their descendants. As the Journal says a Crusader's armor is potent still to stir us with the glory and the ideal of a cenfiict of which we remember little save that men were brave and did great deeds. A rusty flintlock or a tattered flag of Colonial times quickens us with a new sense of the life our forbears led and of the nation they brought forth. But here among us, in our very homes, we have the living heroes who fought and suffered and then came home back from war to hope and toll that this generation might be prosperous and free. Humanity Is greater than all history because it Is fro-m the former that history is made. The Confederate Veterans' reunion at Macon thus the source of thoughts and sentiment that bring straight home to ns the nobility of which men are capable in their high moiqents. Thes^ are the warriors that taught the world new lessons of hardihood and love of native land. They are the heroes of whom the whole South Is proud, and who will nover cease to have our love and admiration because they richly deserve it. The world haB never produced truer or more valiant men than they proved themselves to be. ? ? Considering that the present pres Idcntial contest is becoming notorious for tho bickerings, charges and counter charges some candidates aro making It might be well to prohibit presidential candidates writing manifestoes or making speeches. Also any and every man having his eye on some high political office should abstain from all correspondence.. Letters have an ugly hnb!t of coming into the open when least desired | Wherever anything like a full vote was polled In Oeorgia on Wednesday Wilson won. He carried the cities of Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, Macon, and others, but he lost in tho country, where the farmers were too busy to vote, and the small vote that was polled was controlled by the heelers about the small towns, who no doubt were well paid, as the Underwood foil b seemed to have plenty of money. # \ RESCUING VICTIMS MANY FLOOD REFUGEES TAKEN TO SAFE PLACES MANY REPORTED LOST Probably Over One Hundred and Fity Thousand People Are Already in the Concentration Camps and the Work of llcscuc Continues as Iiapidly as Conditions will Permit. Fightln-* against time and the rushing flood waters of the Mississip pi River scores of relief parties today succeeded in bringing in refugees by the hundreds to the different points between Raton Rouge and Natchez, still above the water. Many lives have been lost in Northeast Louisiana. Nearly every incoming boat Is loaded, mostly with womeu and children, and the thrilling tales of adventures in the swift currents from the Torras crevasse, which to-night was reported 3,000 feet wide, were only repetitions of previous days. The United States army officers are actively engaged in directing affairs and nothing is left undone that can be done to get the hundreds of people yet remaning in the stricken district to places of safety. It Is estimated that more than 150,000 persons are in the concentration camps. Stories of dwellings and cabins being swept away with their occupants are told every day, while to-day a farmer coming into New Roads told of an entire negro family, the father excepted, being swept away with their cabin. A negro baby was swept from its mother's lap and drowned when the water rushed through the front door. There wore no more breaks in the main line levees though there were many rumors and considerable excitement. The work of strengthening the embankments is continuing under the direction of the officers of the United State engineer corps, who gove out reassuring reports to-night. A few more days of Bunshine, they say, will bo more beneficial than any thing else. The flood situation in this city concerns more largely the scenes of Activity around the relief headquarters, where carload after carload of supplies is being boxed up and shipped out tQ the regugee camps in central find Northern Louisiana, rather than any alarming condition on the river front. Stories of distress and suffering that would reach the hardest heart are heard everywhere as the floodstricken inhabitants of the Torras crevasse are brought on. Eeach party arriving has some new experience to relate of how they escaped the flood's fury and how they were finally rescued, but practically all of them toll of havng lost everything but the clothing they wear. Most of those rescued near Morganza yesterday and different points were negroes, but a number of white families were brought in. Among these was Mrs. Ermond Deauvais, the wife of a well-to-do farmer, who was compelled to desert her home on Ilayou. Fordoche several miles west of here. Mrs. Deauvais is the mother s\t f nn /-wV% i 1 ^ rnn VJ 4. IUU UUilVU bis, Eight of thera lived with hor. They lost practically everything. The smaller children were barefoot and were clad in slips pictaxl up as they were hurriedly rescued from their home Mrs. Heauvias was almost crazed from her experience and groef over the loss of her savings of a lifetime. Not a woman or child remains in Morganza and many of the town's male population who assisted their families In getting out of the flood have not returned. The water has risen two feet during the past 2 4 hours. It is estimated that 80 people have been rescued from the section of Pointe Coupee parish in the direct path of the Torras crevasso. Many more remain to be taken out. The work has been badly handicapped owing to accidents. One launch caught fire and before the flames were extinguished it was put out of commission. Several other motor boats were of no use owing to breakdowns. Eicht of the boats which havo been used by the rolief part lea developed leaks and sank. With all these difficulties 4 00 people were rescued during the day up to midnight. They wore all removed to camps along the Texas and Pacific railroad south of here. Twenty-live negro children were brought In early this morning from Norwood. The relief party reported that hundreds of others were still on the levees in Rayou Fordocho waiting to be rescued. Capt. Wood, of the battleship Nebraska, which 1h now at Dayou flara, received instructions from the Navy Department at Washington ordering him to give every possible aid to flood sufferers. Launches from the battleship will be sent out Into the flooded country to-day to assist In the roscue work. ? ? ? Tf you want to flatter a man ask him why he doesn't buy an automobile. v" i '"^piiriwp j \ Classified Column Pure-bred White Hock Cockerels?$2 to $5 each. Eggs, $2 per 15. F. W. Plttman. Enfield. N. C. {seed Ciiulu*?$1 per peck, or $3.GO per bu., not prepaid. Perry A. Jones, Defuniak Springs, Fla. l'>uriy Sweet Potato Plants?UeBt varieties. Descriptive circular free. Tinas Pecan Co.. Lumberton. Miss. I Eggs troin bred to lay S. C. W. Leghorns $1.25 per 15, after March 16, W. H. McOlothlln, Portland, Tenn. Eggs?Choice S. C. 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