a lot of good ideas here...but the big thing is to stop Wilson's election in 1912...
Simple if unchivalrous way. Have his first wife die a couple of years sooner. Judging from its OTL effect, this would leave him so depressed that he probably doesn't even run - or at least insists on withdrawing when Clark gets a majority of delegate votes.
Clark would not necessarily be perfect on racial matters, but iirc, in 1915 he and his son led a posse to stop the lynching of a negro prisoner (a real-life Atticus Finch) and in 1917 spoke at the opening of a training school for Black officers, calling it a big step for the Negro race. So he sounds at the very least a lesser evil. Not so sure where WJB would have stood, as by this time he had moved to Florida.
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