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'®bt Atlanta Sri - WccWi? Journal
VOL. XXII. NO. 109.
HOKE SMITH READY TO MEET WATSON IN DEBATE
U. S. Likely to Be League Member Within Year
DGCUMEhITS FROM
OFFICIAL SOURCES
EVIDENCE OF MOVE
Full Machinery of Tribunal
Called Into Action in Dis
pute Between •Sweden-and
Finland
BT DAVID LAWBENCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
WASHINGTON, July 30.—Both the
Republican and Democratic candi
dates for the presidency may talk as
they like concerning the League ot
Nations as an issue in the present
campaign, but evidences are multi
plying that- the United States will,
within a year, be a member of "the”
League of Nations as provided for
by the treaty of Versailles.
Senator Harding may keep his
position ambiguous in order to keep
the votes of the Hiram Johnson fol
lowing and Governor Cox may talk
about reservations in order not to
alienate the people who didn’t like
Mr, Wilson’s insistence on an un
* qualified treaty, but the presence of
Elihu Root and Dr. James Brown
Scott in the meetings now taking
place abroad t® form a court of inter
national justice is looked upon both
in Washington by international law
years, and abroad 4>y diplomats and
statesmen, as the forerunner of Re
publican policy in the event that Mr.
Harding is elected.
Documents Give Details
Documents which have just come
to the writer from official sources
abroad describe in great detail the
part that Messrs. Root and Scott are
taking in the meetings of the ad
visory commission of jurists who
were appointed by the council of the
League of Nations to establish a
permanent court of international jus
tice.
"That the United States," says one
Os these-idccumcnts. "though not a
member of the League of Nations,
should have a dominating influence In
the formation of the permanent court
of international justice which is to
be the cornerstone of the league, is
the great anomaly of'the meetings
being held at The Hague. It is both
unexpected and unusual that a na
tion which has so seriously damaged
■ the idea of the League of Nations
I should nevertheless see . its own
■ viewpoint and experience largely jfre-
I dominant in one of the most vital
■ fields of activity of the league.
H "The reason Is not far to seek. It
I lies in the personality of two men,
■ Elihu Root, former secretary of
I state, and James Brown Scott, former
I solicitor of the state department and
I now head of the Carnegie endowment
■ for international peace at Mashing'
■ ton.
J: Presence Significant
I / To their tact and judgment is due
■ much of the direction which the
■whole committee is taking as well
■as the fact that the court which
■eventually evolves from the delibera
■tions here will be a court wholly in
■line with American ideals and expe
dience.
|T "These two men hold in the minus
■of European jurists a unique post-
Klo'n. It cannot be too strongly em
phasized that they do not represent
■th* United States government in any
■sense, for they have been appointed
■directly by the council of the League
Es Nations on the basis of their very
Erigh standing among the leading
■jurists of the world. They are.
■therefore, on the same footing as
■the other members of the commit
tee, namely, eminent jurists sum
■noned by an international organiza
tion to perfect plans for a world
Eourt.
■ “Nevertheless their position as
■Americans adds significance to their
Eresence, for the statesmen of Eu
■■ope are only too willing to recog-
Eire the bigness of spirit and view-
Koint which allowed Mr. Root, espe
cially, with his well-known political
in the United States, to
Accept an appointment of an organi
sation (the -.eague of Nations) to
flrhich his own country and even his
■wn political party has expressed
Buch vehement opposition. Os course,
flhe fact that he has been willing
Ho serve is taken, whether rightly
flr wrongly, as an indication that this
Boremost of American statesmen ac
■epts at least the broad lines of the
League of Nations.
K Interesting Excerpt
M “The committee had not been sit
fling a week be'ore it was possible
■o forecast that the court would fol
flowd exactly the lines of the supreme
■ourt of the United States. This
flesult followed not only from the
fl>gic of the situation but also from
Hlie presentation of the analogy of
eourt by Mr. Root, it is
that the same results would
Buve been reached without the pres
ence of Mr. Root but it cannot be
that they were greaNly ex
■edited.”
It is a curious commentary on the
that only by the failure of
Lodge reservations in the last
was it possible for Mr.
to go abroad. For one of the
jßeservations forbids any American
■roni accepting any position under
League of Nations without the
of the. senate and made no
for recess appointments in
event that the senate was no:
Session.
Perhaps the most interesting ex-
from documents discussing tile
now taking place in the
of tiie league and its sub-
is the following:
SB "The League of Nacicns Is building
hut not at all spectacularly.
cr. Prgi 6, Cslur.is 6)
The Needle, Watson!
Pet Chimpanzee Will
Thread It for You
’ WASHINGTON. Prof. W. F.
Shepherd has a pet chimpanzee who
can thread a needle as well as any
man—awkwardly, but eventually.
The photographer snapped the ape
while he was holding a needle be
tween his nose and his left hand
and slipping the thread through the
eye with his right hand. Shepherd’s
pet can also sew buttons on.his uni
form.
FOREIGN MONEY
ORDERS ARE GIVEN
NEW SCHEDULE
The marked depreciation of money
in Great Britain, France, Italy and
European countries, as compared
with the American dollar. Is recog
nized in a new schedule governing
the issuance of International money
orders at American postoffices, effec
tive August 15.
Hefelofore'. the poertofflee depart
ment has not taken cognizance of
the shrinkage of value in European
money, buyers of money orders pay
ing pre-war equivalents for the
pqund sterling, 'the ’ franc and other
foreign currency. The new sched
ule, announced •by Postmaster Gen
eral Burleson in a postal bulletin
just received at the office of Assist
ant Postmaster John C. Staton, fixes
exchange values approximating those
in effect at Ranking institutions.
Under the new scale the English
pound sterling is -worth $4, instead
of $4.87; the French. Italian and Bel
gian franc is worth exactly half its
value before the war, $1 now being
the equivalent of 10 francs and’3o
centimes, instead of 5 francs arid 15
centimes, and the Norwegian, Dan
ish and Swedish kroner show a lesser
shrinkage.
International money order busi
ness’at the Atlanta postoffice, with
respect to the countries affected, has
fallen off to a negligible amount since
the war, due to the more favorable
rates of exchange prevailing- at
banks. An American dollar at a bank,
for instance, would buy twice as
many frahics as at the' postoffice. A
substantial increase in receipts is
expected at the Atlanta office after
August 15, when the postal rate of
exchange becomes practically that in
effect at the banks.
— * ■ H
Instructions Issued
For Movements of
Coal in Northwest
WASHINGTON, July 30.—The in
terstate commerce commission today
sent out instructions for the move
ment of coal into the northwestern
region. .
Detailed instructions for transpor
tation of coal into New England were
also announced.
The total estiate of the north
western shipments is approximately
20,090,000 tons. ’
New England is to receive 1,200,000
tons monthly, according to the an
nouncement.
The commission is instructed that
4,000 cars for 100 days each carry
ing fifty tons be moved daily to the
northwestern territory.
Cox Asked to Change
Excess Profit Tax Ideas
WASHINGTON, July 30.—A plea
that Governor James M. Cox change
his attitude for repeal of the excess
profits tax was made in a letter ’sent
the Democratic presidential candi
date by Representative Griffin, of
New York. Copies of the letter were
given out here today.
Griffin says that repeal of the,tax
would not help bring down high
prices, and urges that the govern
ment, instead of taking only part of
the excess profits, take them all.
New York Grocer Is
Sent to Prison Here
NEW YORK. July 30.—A. Lessen,
proprietor of a small grocery store,
today faced a sentence of two years
in the penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga.,
having been found guilty of violation
of the section of the Lever act pro
viding against hoarding foodstuffs.
Federal Judge Howe, in imposing
sentence, said he might have chosen
tile alternative of fining Lessen $5,-
1000, but he did not want to “put
the dollar mark on his judgment.”
Evidence was produced in this trial
to Show that L.e con had hoarded
FRANCEAIHDEHGLAND
PUCE LIMITS UPON
DEMANDSJF SOVIET
Russian Reds t in Counter
Demand) Ask for Elimina
tion of Poland as a Barrier
State
PARIS, July 30.—The limitations
which Great Britain and France
would put upon soviet deanands of
Poland in the arranging of an armi
stice are set forth in a notifica
tion which has been dispatched to
the Warsaw government by the
British and French governments, it
was learned here today. Poland re
quested the views of Great Britain
and France on possible armistice
terms, and the governments at Lon
don and Paris have notified the
Polish government that they will not
permit Poland to accept possible
soviet armistice demands involving:
First—Whole or partial disarma
ment of Poland;
Second'—A change in the Polish
system of government dictated or
brought about by- the soviets;
Third—Acceptance by Poland of a
boundary line les-s favorable than
that provisionally drawn by Premier
Lloyd George
Fourth—The use of Poland as a
bridgehead, in any sense, between
Germany and Russia.
Munitions Sent to Doland
As bearing on the military situa-.
tion, it develops that vast stocks of
munitions from the allies are mov
ing toward Warsaw from Danzig
and from Rumania and Czecho-Slo
vakia. These munitions were for the
most part originally dispatched for
the army of General Denikine, but
were delayed on the way until too
late to be available for his use. The
munitions being sent from Danzig,
however, were shipped recently for
the especial use of Poland. Other
munitions are expected to be in pro
cess of shipment from France and
Great Britain for Poland within a
few days.
Hungary has asked the permission
of Great Britain and France to at
tack the soviet army. Such an-at
tack would involve permission, like
wise, to reorganize the Hungarian
army, the demobilization of. which
was provided for by the Hungarian
peace treaty.
The allies are hesitating over
Hungary’s request, according to a
high French official, because they
fear Hungary would expect too many
concessions in the terms of the
treaty byway of amelioration.
To Make Common Cause
In formation which has reached
the French government was said to
day to reveal that Letvia, Finland,
Rumania and Hungary were all anx
ious to make common cause against
the Bolsheviki now rather than be
compelled later to defend themselves
individually. To this end, it is de
clared, the four countries named are
making overtures to France and
Great Britain for support, moral and
otherwise. This situation, it is stat
ed on high French authority, is the
fnal card France and Great Britain
will have in hand to play if neces
sary in order to save Poland.
REDS WANT TO ELIMINATE
POLAND AS BARRIER STATE
WASHINGTON, July 30.—Demands
which in effect would eliminate Po
land as state between
Russia and Germany will be present
ed by soviet Russia as conditions to
peace with Poland, according to con
fidential information to the govern
ment today. v
The soviet peace demands also will
facilitate an alliance between Ger
many and Russia, according to the
government reports.
• These advices were looked on by
officials here as showing that Ger
many may have a hand in the Bol
shevik counsels and that her inter
ests will be taken care of as well as
Russia’s in the negotiations with the
Poles.
According to the government’s ad
vices, these are two of the principal
conditions to peace which will be
demanded by soviet Russia;
1. Free passage across Poland.
2. Restoration of Posen to Ger
many.
Man and Girl Held
8 Hours in a Safe
LONDON, Eng.—Locked in a safe
for eight hours has just been the
terrifying experience of a man and
a girl, employes of a dental supply
company. j
They were in the. safe, which is a i
strong room of concrete and steel,
when the door, which had not been !
closed for twenty years, swung to
and thb five bolts on each side auto
matically closed. Efforts to open
it were futile. The bolts, rusted by
long disuse, proved immovable, and
the key broke in the lock.
The prisoners were fed with sand
wiches cut to a thinness of fine
wafers, passed through a slit in the
door, but suffered from thirst and
semi-suffocation. Welding and cut
ting experts were eventually called
in who tackklked the solid six-inch
steel door and ,cut it from top to bot
tom.
Christensen in New York
NEW YORK. July 30.—Parley P.
Christensen, of Salt Lake City, pres
idential nominee of the third or Farm
er-Labor party, arrived here today to
confer with national and local party
leaders on national campaign plans,
and to attend a conference this after
noon called to complete nominations
for the Now York state ticket, with 1
o' two candidates for the
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1920.
Gov. Cox and Reporters Eating Meal He
Cooked Himself on His Farm Near Marion
I
Governor James M. Cox, of Ohio,
head of the Democratic ticket, has
demonstrated that he has not for
gotten what he learned on a farm
in his boyhood days. This photo
graph taken on his farm near
Marion, Ohio, shows him- with a
group of newspaper reporters eat-
DORSEY’S FEE AS
SENATE ASPIRANT
PAID BY FRIEND
A frientf of Governor Hugh
Dorsey on Thursday afternoon paid
the governor’s entrance fee of $250
as a candidate for the United States
senate, with the • governor's knowl
edge, but without his consent.
The money was telegraphed to
Hiram L. Gardner, secretary of the
Democratic state executive commit
tee, of Eatonton, Ga. This announce
ment was made Thursday afternoon
by Governor Dorsey, who stated
that he had not decided whether he
would make the race for the senate
and would not do so until Saturday,
at which time he would announce his
decision for publication in the
Sunday papers.
The fact that the governor’s en
trance fee had been 'paid was first
communicated to the newspapers by
a man who called on the telephone
and stated that he had paid the fee,
but declined to give- his name. Gov
ernor Dorsey later confirmed the
fact that the fee had been paid and
he also withheld the name of his-,
friend from publication. The gov
ernor gave the following account of
the circumstances:
He, stated that a friehd had come
hurriedly to the : r manSion ' at' i liis .
lunch time and informed him that
he was going to pay his entrance fee
as a candidate for the senate. The
governor said he requested -he gen
tleman not to do so because he had
not decided whether he was going
to make the race. ’ He said the
friend refused to comply with his
request and dashed off hurriedly
with the statement that he was go
ing to telegraph the money to Sec
retary Gardner of the state commit
tee. The governor said that on re
turning to his office in *the capitol
he received a telegram from Secre
tary Gardner showing that the tele
graph money order had reached him
and had been entered on the books
to his credit.
General, Kidnaped by
Sinn Feiners, Escapes
LONDON, July 30.—Brigadier Gen
eral C. H. T. Lucas, commander of
the Fermoy military area, who was
kidnaped late in June by the Sinn
Feiners. has escaped. He reached the
Tipperary military barracks today, it
is announced in Irish advices receiv
ed here.
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ing a meal which he had prepared.
The mqin items on the menu were
lamb chops and potatoes, which the
governor cooked over a bed of hot
ashes. According to newspaper re
ports the Democratic candicTate is an
accomplished chef. An arrow indi
cates Governor Cox.
WOULD-BE YEGG
CAUGHT SAWING
ON A. B. & A. SAFE
A two-night vigil by City Detec
tives Arthur and Austin and Special
Officer W. T. Romerts in an effort
to apprehend a man who had slow
ly and painstakingly been attempt
ing to saw the bolts from the hinges
on the safe in the office of W. E.
Paschall, treasurer of the Atlanta,
Birmingham & Atlantic .railroad,
ended at four o’clock Friday morn
ing in the arrest of Will Ramsay, a
negro.
According to officers Ramsay .was
caught while attempting to enter
the safe. Upon his refusal to obey
an order to throw up his hands the
three officers quickly close® in on
him and he was taken to the police
barracks.
Some days ago it was discovered
that one of the hinge bolts had
been sawed completely in two. This
was replaced and officers were, placed
on guard. At 4 o’clock Friday, morn
ing their vi§il was rewarded when
Ramsay, a cleaner employed in ' the
TTansportatioiUbuildiiig, erdpt to ' the
safe and renewed his efforts to take
off the hinges.
Ramsay, who is about forty years
old, had been in the employ of the
Transportation building for about a
year and consequently had keys to
tjie various offices. He merely used
his -own keys, according to the of
ficers, entered Mr. Paschall’s office
and when opportunity presented it
self, quietly put in a few minutes
work on the hinge bolts.
According to officers « Ramsay
showed fight when caught, but was
subdued without difficulty.
Ramsay is being held on the
blanket charge of “suspicion.” He
denied that he was attempting to
break into the safe and declared that
he was merely engaged in his duties
of cleaning the office when arrested
Wife Sues for Divorce After
Separation of Twenty Years
After a separation of twenty years,
Mrs. Lucynthia Kight filed . suit for
divorce against Oscar Kight. The
petitioner claims she was married
in November,. 1891, and her husband
deserted her in 1900. Attorney John
S. Highsmith is counsel for the
petitioner.
COX IS HONORED II
"HOME-COMING"
Eff DOT FOLK
Half Holiday Declared as
Non-Partisan Demonstra
tion Gets ’ Under Way.
City Gaily Decorated
DAYTON. O-, July 30.—Choice of
their fellow 'citizen, James M. Cox.
as the Democratic presidential nom
inee, was acclaimed today by resi
dents of Dayton and other portions
of the Miami Valley. They joined
here by thousands in a non-partisan
"home-coming” demonstration to
their distinguished native son.
A civic parade at 2:30 o’clock to
day was the main feature of the
celebration. Hours before the parade
crowds lined the eourt of honor,
flanked with high, white, decorated
pillars, and Governor Cox’s review
ing stand in front of the courthouse.
Speeches were banished from the
program and the crowds turned out
in response to requests for laying
aside of all partisan feeling and re
joicing over the selection of one of
their friends and neighbors as the
Democratic standard-bearer.
Half Holiday
For the tribute to the governor,
today was a half holiday throughout
virtually all Dayton. Stores, facto
ries, banks and public offices were
ordered closed at noon and Dayton
homes poured but more crowds. From
Middleton, Hamilton and other Mi
ami Valley regions, where Governor
Cox lived part of his life, others
came.
Elaborate floats were features of
the parade, tpgether with the re
nowned Rainbow division and Meteor
band. The latter, from Piqua, 0.,
became prominent at the San Fran
cisco convention. About sixty floats,
representing various civic organi
zations, some depicting the carder of
Governor Cox, were in the parade.
Assigned a prominent parading
place ’was the Cox Boosters’ club,
which made the trip to San Fran
cisco. The boosters had vivid uni
forms for the occasion. Fraternal
organizations, some of which boast
Governor Cox’s membership, and la
bor bodies also had positions in the
line.
City lavishly Decorated
So that newspaper employes could
march, Governor Cox’s plant issued
only an early edition.
Lavish deeprations blazed through
out the city and flags and banners
being mingled with lithographs of
Governor Cox, although the likeness
also of Senator Harding, his Repub
lican opponent, also beamed on the
festivities.
Daylight and night fireworks were
other features of tbday’s program,
with band concerts in several places.
The streets were festooned wish
electric lights for evening illumina
tion. The celebration was the only
break scheduled today in the gover
nor’s preparation of his speech of
acceptance, which was interrupted
briefly late yesterday by a visit with
Senator Walsh, of Massachusetts,
who has been prominent in Demo
cratic senators’ advocacy of res
ervations to the League of Nations.
The subject,* however, was not dis
cussed with the governor, according
to - Senator Walsh, who promised his
unreserved aid in the Cox campaign.
Dynamite Shatters
Bicycle Under Boy,
But He Still Lives
COLUMBUS, Ga., July 30.—A
negro boy. riding a bicycle, was
blown up by a stick of dynamite
yesterday while delivering packages
in the northern part of the city, his
wheel being torn to pieces. The
boy was picked up for dead some
distance from the explosion, being
unconscious, but later he was re
vived. Examination showed he had
lost three fingers, his left hand be
ing terribly lacerated and his body
being bruised considerably. His con
dition was not such as to indicate
that death will result, how’ever.
Just how the dynamite stick got
on the main streets of the city can’t
be explained. The police are inves
! tigating and • it is expected arrests
will follow. It was hinted that there
was a possibility some of the city
workers may have had the explosives
engaged in excavation operations
some days ago and dropped the dy
namite.
The explosion occurred in the cot
ton mill district of North Highlands,
and it is intimated the negro may
not have been “welcomed” to that
■ part of the city. The blast shook
the entire neighborhood, police re
ports say.
Lioness Helen Gives
Birth to Forty-First
NEW YORK, July 30. —Helen, a
lioness caged in Central ’ park, today
licked her forty-first offspring as af
fectionately as if the cub were her
first born. Her keepers explained
this unending maternal affection by
saying that the other children, save
two, which died in infancy, had all
been sent away to populate other
zoos.
Ackbar, the father, roared fiercely
when <><■ younn'iter was born, but
New First Lady
Os Canada
I ■■ ‘ J
’’’*• V* s
MQS. AfcTHU/l
Mrs. Meighen is the wife of the
new premier of Canada.
Meighen succeeds Sir Robert Bor
den,
Mrs. Meighen is acclaimed o(i£ of
the most charming and talented
women of the Dominion.
COLUMBUS HAS
31,125, GAIN OF
.51.4 PER CENT
WASHINGTON, July 30.—The cen
sus b.ureau announced the following
1920 populations today: New Bruns
wick, township co-extensive with
New Brunswick City, N. J., 32,779;
Clarksburg, W. Va„ 27,869; Colum
bus, Ga., 31,125; Missoula, Mont., 12,-
G6B; Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., 12,096.
Increases since 1910: New Bruns
wick township, N. J., 9,391, or 40.2;
Clarksburg, 18,668, or 202.9; Colum
bus, Ga., 10,571, or 51.4.
Decreases since 1910: Salt Ste Mar
ie, Mich., 519, or 4.1; Missoula. Mont.,
201, or 1.6.
The census bureau announced the
following other 1920 population re
sults:
Morristown. N. J., 12,505; decrease
2, no percentage.
Laredo, Tex-., 22,710; Neodesha,
Kansas, 3,943; Lyons, Kan., 2,516;
Fredonia, Kan., 3,954; Augusta, Kan.,
4,219; Abilene, Kan., 4,895; Fellsmere,
Fla., 333.
Increase since 1910:
Laredo, Tex., 7,855 or 52.9 per cent;
Neodesha, 1,071,_ or 37.3 per cent;
Lyons, 445, or 21.5 per cent; Fre
donia, 914 or 30.1 per cent; Augusta,
2,964 or 241.6 per cent; Abilene, Kan.,
777 or 18.9 per cent; Fellsmere, no
comparison—incorporated since 1910.
1910.
Clay county, Ala., 22,645; Frank
lin county, Ala., 22,011; Broward
county, Fla., 31,224 Jefferson county,
Fla., 14,502; Leon county, Fla., 18,-
059; Okaloosa county, Fla., 9,360; Su
wanee county, Fla., 19,789.
Increases from 1910: Clay county,
Ala., 1,639, or 7.8 Franklin county,
Ala., 2,642, or 13.6; Jackson county,
Fla., 1,403, or 4.7 Suwanee county,
Fla., 1,186, or 6.4.
Decreases since 1910: Jefferson
county, Fla./ 2,708. or 15.7; Leon
county, Fla., 1,368, or 7 per cent.
Broward county, Fla., no comparison;
county formed October, 1915, from'
parts of Dade and Palm Beach coun
ties. Oskaloosa county, Fla., no com
parison, organized from parts of
Santa Rosa and Watson counties in
1915.
Buffalo Man Orders
Two Tons of Snakes
PASCAGOULA, Miss., July 30.
Postmaster William T. Sparkman of
this city is in need of several expe
rienced and enterprising snake
charmers to fill an order for "be
tween 4,000 and 5.000 pounds of
snakes,” received from Bert Put
nam, a member of the chamber of
commerce, of Buffalo, N. Y. Delivery
of the snakes must be made within
the next six weeks, the order stipu
lates, and the price offered is 30
cents a pound. The applicant failed
to state for what purpose he desires
the reptiles.
American Trade With
Germany Increasing
WASHINGTON, July 30.—Trade
with Germany steadily increased dur
ing the fiscal year ended June 30, ac
cording to commerce reports made
public today. Exports to Germany
were valued at $202,176,079 and im
ports were valued at $45,085,975.
Exports for June were valued at
$19,700,154 as compared with $20,-
848.231 for May. Imports for June
'■ ' ■ ■1 at §8,540,073 as against 1
S CENTS A COPY.
$1.50 A YEAH.
SENATOR DECLARES
lit WILL DEFEND
RECORD HF PARTY
His Reply to Reported Chal
lenge Forecasts One of
Most Sensational Contests
in Georgia’s History
Senator Hoke Smith is ready to
meet Thomas E. Watson ob any
body else in joint debate in defense
of the record made by the Demo
cratic party. The senator so an
nounced in a statement issued Fri
day morning in comment on the re
ported challenge of Mr. Watson,
made in a speech at Tennille Thurs
day.
Senator Smith was shown the dis
patch from Tennille, as published in
the Atlanta Constitution, carrying
the statement by Mr. Watson that
he had challenged the senator to
meet him in a series of debates.
Asked what he intended to do, Sena
tor Smith replied:
I have not reserved the chal
lenge to which you refer, hut X
am ready to meet Mr. Watson
or anybody else, in defense of
the magnificent record which the
Democratic party has made dur
ing the six years which it was
in control of the White House
and both branches of congress.
I stated in my announcement I
w?,e ready to defend the record
of the Democratic party against
all comets, and I am. X stand
by it.
Big Race Forecast
This statement of Senator femith
following on the heels of Watson’s
reported desire for a joint discussion
gives Georgia voters the prospect
of one of the most sensational con
tests in the history of state politics.
It means that if Governor Hugh M.
Dorsey enters the race, he will be
invited to participate in the joint dis
cussions, and that Georgia voters
will have the opportunity of hearing
the issues and the platforms dis
cussed by the candidates face to
face. These debates, if they take
place, will attract such crowds as
have never attended political dis
cussions in this state before.
Further developments will be
awaited wish keen interest.
Dividing interest with the prob
ability of a joint debate in the sen
atorial contest Friday was the report
Jn the Atlanta Constitution that
either Walker or Holder would with
draw, in order that the opposition
to Senator Hardwick in his race
for governor might be combined on
one man to insure Mr. Hardwick’s
defeat. This report brought the fol
lowing interesting comment from a
well-known Democrat, who is anx
ious to see the Democrats present a
united front all along the line:
Why Divide Vote?
I notice in the morning’s paper
that the plan is to taka down
cither Walker or Holder, so that
one man may run against Hard
wick for governor.
X notice also * the suggestion
that some one else be put in the
race against Watson, besides
Senator Hoke Smith.
Those suggestions are hard
to understand.
If it is desirable to have only
one man run against Hardwick,
so that he may be defeated, why
is it not equally desirable that
the race be left to Senator Hoke
Smith against Mr. Watson?
Everybody knows that putting
another man into the race will
increase the chances for Watson,
and that Senator Smith, run
ning against him alone, will cer
tainly defeat him.
Xs there a desire to defeat
Hardwick and elect Watson?
This statement will be read with
much interest by Democrats wh®
want to’see the party’s record vin
dicated in the primary. Undoubted
ly the interview will strike many
good Democrats with the force of
its logic. If a house divided against
. Itself cannot stand in a governor’s
race, unquestionably many strong
administration supporters who voted
for Mr. Palmer in the recent pri
mary, will wonder if it is good strag
edy to put out another Democrat t®
divide Senator Smith’s vote in his
race against Mr. Watson in his cam
paign of denunciation of the Demo
cratic party, its record and its plat
form.
Senator Smith was back in At
lanta Friday after a visit to La
. Grange where he addressed a large
gathering- of Troup county citizens
on Thursday. He was much pleased
with his reception in LaGrange and
confident of carrying Troup county.
Cooper in Baco
Governor Dorsey is still undecid
ed whether to enter the senatorial
contest, although some unknown
friend has paid his entrance fee. H®
will in all probability announce his
decision in the Sunday newspapers.
John R. Cooper, Macon attornew.
has announced his candidacy for tfi®
senate in the following statement:
“I am going to run for the United
States senate on two planks. /
“I stand for the repeal of the
eighteenth amendment to the con
stitution of the United States. I
am in favor of light wines and beer,
local option and the liberty of th®
American citizen. I find that sine®
the national prohibition law went
into effect that more crime has been
committed, more homicides, tried in
my state/ than ever before. Os
<y>urse L>(tand for local option and
states’ rights.
“I am opposed to the League of
Nations. The old constitution of the
United States is good enough for
me. We are drifting away from our
fathers’ constitution. I don’t see
how any American lawyer who
knows anything about the constitu
tion cafi be In favor of the League
of Nations.
“I am not a drinking man. but t
want more liberty. We haven’t got
enough liberty. The San Francisco
convention nominated Governor Cox
for president of the United States
and I am going to support him.’’
Temperance Conference
MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay. July 30.
Announcement is made that the
world congress • of the Women’s
Christian Temperance union will be
held at Montevideo in December,
1922. This decision was taken after
an interview of representatives of
the union with President Brum, who
said bn word' l he rr’nd tr> hqv“ the
- ’’putevideo rn’l suggest-