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RADICAL MOVES PROPOSED TO END DEADLOCK
.CALVIN.JR..GRIMLY
CLINGS TO LITE JS
FEVER RAGES ON
/
Faint Hope Survives Among
Bedside Watchers—Criti
cal Night Passed
WASHINGTON, July 7.—The last
point of gravity was reached this aft
ernoon in the condition of Calvin
Coolidge, Jr., son of the president,
suffering from blood poisoning at
* Walter Reed Army hospital.
He was clinging to life with won
derful tenacity but hope was about
all that was .held out for his re
covery. All of his medical attendants
were remaining close by, and find
ing as chiefly marvelous the stamina
the boy was exhibiting.
Gas was said to be forming in the
stomach, an additional indication of
the progress of* 1 the infection and
making it impossible for him to take
nutrition by the ordinary means.
The president and Mrs. Coolidge
werp remaining immediately at hand.
Despite all of the unfavorable con
ditions, his bedside watchers and
physicians still held to hope that he
might recover by means of the de
termined fight he is making for his
life. .■ I
Thrice Within Shadow
Three times during the night they
were called from an adjoining room
when it was (feared he was about to
die. At midnight oxygen was admin
istered and a blood transfusion was
resorted to. Two enlisted men of
Walter Reed Army hospital volun
teered for the operation.
Throughout today the physicians
were in close consultation. They were
encouraged by young Calvin’s un
suspected ability to withstand so
stubbornly the ravages of the blood
poisoning which has enveloped his
body from a blistered foot, but they
made it very clear that his condition
still was extremely critical and that
he had already suffered as much as
the humany body could be called
Upon to survive.
It became evident that the disease
had not entirely centralized in the
leg which was operated upon Sat
urday and that the poison was run
ning again through the body.
Injection of serum to fight the '
condition had to be resorted to and I
the battle became one between the '
power of the poison and the endur- i
a nee of th.e boy’s heart in carrying
the injections necessary to check
the disease.
Too Weak for Operation ,
Physicians said today that the
boy was under gas, rather than
ether, during Saturday’s operation.
Even though the poison might local
ise again in some portion of the body
it was fetred that he could not stand
another operation.
After a consultation of physicians ;
early this afternoon, President and I
Mrs. Coolidge decided to go to the j
White House for luncheon, indicat
ing that the doctors felt that their i
patient was not actually in a dying ■
condition.
The need of a stomach specialist
to cope with the later developments
in the case brought in another
L physician. Dr. William Gerry Mor-
of Washington. A washing out
Mflr the stomach was completed suc
It was announced soon after 7
o'clock this morning that the presi
dent’s son was “somewhat more com
fortable,” after having passed
through hours regarded as' marking
the most critical stage of his illness
from septic poisoning.
One of the physicians who remain
ed in attendance described his sur
vival of the night ws a "miracle,”
adding that the bojl now had a ‘‘bare
fighting chance” for recovery. The
fact that gives the greatest promise,
he said, is that "no vital organ has
broken down under the strain.”
Midnight Blood Transfusion
The physician confirmed reports
that a blood transfusion had been
resorted^to, presumably about mid
night, and said the youth had “re
acted well to the transfusion and
other things that/ have been done
for him.”
While it was states in one quar
ter that oxygen had been adminis
tered during the sinking spells early
today, the physicians refused to com
ment on this phase of the case.
The president and Mrs. Coolidge,
who remained at the Walter Reed
army hospital near their son’s bed
side throughout the night, were
called at each of the sinking spells
suffered by the patient. After a
broken rest, they were up at 5
o'clock this morning, planning to go
to the Wh*te House for breakfast
a.n ( l to return Immediately to the
hospital.
| The Weather
Virginia and North Carolina: Tues
day probably fair; slightly warmer.
South Carolina. Georgia. Florida
and extreme northwest Florida: Un
settled, showery Tuesday.
Alabama. Mississippi: Unsettled
with scattered showers Tuesday,
warmer in north portion.
Tennessee, Kentucky, West Vir
ginia, Ohio: Unsettled with local
showers Tuesday: slightly warmer.
Louisiana: Tuesday generally fair.
Arkansas: Tuesday generally fair.
Oklahoma, east and west Texas:
Tuesday partly cloudy.
Published Every Ttiesday, Thursday and Saturday
CALVIN COOLIDGE, JR.,
16-year-old son of the Presi
dent and Mrs. Coolidge, who is
critically ill at the White
House. Young Mr. Coolidge is
suffering from septic poisoning
as a result of a burst blister
on his foot becoming infected.
HRLut fl
Isll
MORE WARRANTS’
ME ISSUED FOR
FAIRBURN BANKER
FAIRBURN, Ga., July 7.—War
rants charging forgery and larceny
after trust were sworn out here to
day against H. W. Cook, banker and
wealthy landowner who returned to
his home here Sunday after having
been missing since June 17, when,
according to a warrant sworn out by
a tenant on one of his farms, he de
parted from Pyrone, a small rail
way station in Campbell county, in
company with the farmer's 17-year
old daughter. Kidnaping was
charged in this warrant.
Today’s warrants were taken out
by Judge J. W. Parker before
Homer McDanial, acting city judge,
and it was said that they would be
put into the hands of Sheriff G. E.
Jenkins at once. It was claimed
that Cook forged the name of W. C.
Cook, his brother living in Fayette
county, to a note in June, 1923, The
larceny after trust was said to have
taken place in January, 1923.
Father Criticizes Sheriff
The father of the girl whom Cook
is charged with kidnaping, stated to
day that he would go to Atlanta
Tuesday to cohfer with department
of justice agents and put the case i
into iheir hands. He planned then ,
to see Claud Smith, solicitor general ,
of the Stone Mountain circuit, and i
complain of the failure of authorities i
of this county to arrest Cook. He
criticized the sheriff severely for not
arresting Cook wnen he returned
home Sunday. He went to Fair
burn Monday to confer with his at
torney, W. E. Suttles. No word has !
been received from the girl, and her
father said that he had no idea of
her whereabuts.
Sheriff Jenkins .asked concerning
the case, said: “I have nothing to say
to the papers. lam too busy attend
ing to my own affairs to talk about
anything.”
Cook, who is said to have dyed
hair and shaved off his mustache
lately, is 57 years old and has a wife
and five children, all grown.
The girl’s father, who has thirteen
children, expressed the opinion Mon
day that Cook had disappeared again.
It was reported in Fairburn this
morning that Sheriff Jenkins plan
ned to arrest Cook/ when he ap
peared on the streets of Fairburn.
Cook’s son-in-law, Harry Jones, hav
ing requested the officer not to
make the arrest at the home. Cook
having returned voluntarily After a
long search had been made for him,
it was presumed that there would be
no difficulty about his apprehension.
No arrest had been made up to noon,
however, and relatives of Cook said
that he had gone to Atlanta.
Wide Search for Cook
A wide search, especially through
out the west, has been made for
Cook during the past few weeks, it
was said here. The kidnap warrant
was issued by Judge J. Wilson Park
er shortly after Cook left home
Jane 17. It was cl;’.med ’’~t the
girl met Cook at Pyrone, and that
the two boardeu a westbound train.
1. w:u ot known here today wheth
er the girl named in the warrant
had yet returned to her home.
Two post cards, signed with
Cook’s name and postmarked Den
ver, Colo., and received by a Fair
burn citizen, constituted the only in-,
formation jcencerning the banker’s
whereabouts until Saturday nigh:,
when it is said that his family re
ceived a telegram from him in Bir
mingham.
Cook was a director of the Bank oL I
Campbell county, which failed some I
time ago. and lus estate, valued at ‘
| $250,000. was placed in the hands of I
■J. H. McClure, of Fairburn, soon
after he disappeared.
“IT S NOBODY'S BUSINESS
WHERE I’VE BEEN, SAYS COOk
"I feel that I am 21 years old and
able to go and come when I please
without it's being anybody's busi
ness.” This statement was made by
- H. W. Cook, of Fairburn, over long
distance telephone to The Journal
early Monday when he was asked j
I concerning his long absence from !
, home and the kidnap warrant issued ■
1 for him. Cook added that he knew i
: nothing officially of the warrant, I
and that having returned home only
yesterday, he thought that he ought
to investigate fully the various ru
mors concerning him before he made
any extended statement.
LA FOLLETTE ENTERS
PRESIDENTIAL RACE
AS AN INDEPENDENT
Third Party to Be Launched
Later If Wisconsin Sen
ator Is Successful
CLEVELAND, July s.—(By the
Associated Press.)' —After indorsing
Robert M. La Follette as a presi
dential candidate and providing for
the organization of a new political
party next January, the conference
for progressive political action
wound up its convention early to
night.
The conference empowered its na
tional committee to select a vice
presidential candidate after confer
ence with the “La Follette for presi
dent committee.”
La Follette wafe indorsed as'a can
didate on his own platform. The
convention then adopted for itself a
platform embodying the ideas con
tained in the Wisconsin docihnent
and in the statement of principles
issued at tjie St. Louis session of
the conferehce last February.
The final day of the gathering
worked out strictly according to
plans of the leaders and without ap
preciable opposition. But just be
fore adjournment, some of the dele
gates, dazed by the rapidity of events
had to be assured by the chairman
that I,a Follette actually had been
“nominated,” and that definite pro
vision had Been made for the new
party.
The confusion arose from the fact
that the report of the committee on
organization recommended this ac
tion and that no separate motion of
indorsement was offered. The report
itself was adopted without a dis
senting vote, but the significance of
this action did not dawn on either
delegates or galleries and there was
a total absence of demonstration.
La Follette Cheered
Repeatedly today, as yesterday,
the name “La Follette” nvas the sig
nal for cheering and applause. Yet
the culmination of the convention’s
work, coming in the form of a com
mittee recommendation. did not
draw even a pattering of handclaps.
All elements in the convention
were intent on showing they were
back of La Follette’s candidacy. Aft
er losing a fight before the organi
zation committee for immediate for
mation of a new party, the socialists,
led by Morris Hillquit, of New York,
were the first to second the indorse
ment report.
The farmer-labor party elemcii.*
who backed P/rley Christensen in
the 1920 campaign and who also had
urged the “third party idea.” then
rallied to the support of La Follette
as an independent, \ Abraham Lefko
witz, New York, being their spokes
ma n.
Speaking for the women of the
convention, Mrs. Harriot Stanton
Blatch. daughter of Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, pre-Civil war suffrage ad
vocate, urged all members of her sex
to work for the election of th e Wis
consin senator.
The railroad brotherhoods and oth
er trades union delegates ‘ spoke
through the chairman of the com
mittee, E. J. Manion, president of
the Order of Railway Telegraphers,
and reinforced his work with a
mighty "aye” when’the report was
adopted.
No sooner was the convention
ended than the national committee
and the state delegation groups gath
ered to plan a campaign. The con
vention decided to rely upon popular
subscriptions for its campaign fund
and tonight's meetings were calcu
lated to get machinery under way
for circulating Iba Follette ballot pe
titions and to collect money.
Headquarters at Chicago
National campaign headquarters
probably will be established in Chi
cago. It was explained that liaison
could readily be maintained there
with Representative John M. Nelson,
of Wisconsin, who will be La Fol
lette’s personal campaign manager,
directing his activities from Chicago.
By the organization committee re
port, the national committee of the
conference was continued in office,
directed to enlarge its membership
to at least fifty and empowered to
act as a campaign committee.
It is to direct the conference ac
tivities not only on the national tick
et but also was ordered to co-oper
ate for the election to congress, state
legislatures and other offices of all
candidates “pledged to the interests
of the producing classes and to the
principles of genuine democracy in
government.”
The committee was definitely in
structed to meet and organize for
the campaign on July IS and on No
vember 29 to issue a call for the Jan
uary new party convention.
"The object of this convention,"
said the report, “shall be to consider
and pass upon the question of form
ing a permanent independent politi
cal party for national and local elec
tions, upon the basis of the general
principle laid down in that platform
adopted by this convention and for
the transaction of such other busi
ness as may come before the con
vention.”
The platform approved today was
in accord with the expressed views
of Senator La Follette on the politi
| cal situation. The initial plank
i pledged "use of the power of the fed
; eral government to crush private
(Continued on Page 3, Column 5)
MOVIE MAD
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
begins in the next issue of The Tri-Weekly Journal
and will be published in liberal installments. This
is a delightful and absorbing story of the adven
tures of a girl who goes to Hollywood for a career
in the motion pictures.
Read it and vou will find it a rich treat.
BALLOTS
i — 9
EIGHTY-THIRD BALLOT
Alabama, 24: Underwood, 24.
Arizona, McAdoo, 3 1-2; Under
wood, 1; Robinson, 1; absent, 1.
Arkansas, 18: Robinson, 18.
California, 26: McAdoo, 26.
Colorado, 12: McAdoo, 3; Smith, 4;
Davis, 2; Underwood, 1; absent, 2. j
Connecticut, 14: Smith, 12; Me-
Aloo, 2.
Delaware, 6: Saulsbury, 6.
Florida, 12: McAdoo, 10; Glass, 1:
Smith, 1.
Georgia, 28; McAdoo, 28.
Idaho, 8: McAdoo, 8.
Illinois, 58: Davis, 3; Glass, 3: Rob
inson, 3; McAdoo, 14; Smith, 15.
Indiana, 30: Smith, 10; McAdoo, 20.
Kentucky, 26: McAdoo, 26.
Louisiana, 20: Davis, West Vir
ginia, 20
Maine, 12: Davis, West Virginia,
1-2; McAdoo, 2; Smith, 2 1-2; Under
wood, 7.
Maryland, .16: Ritchie, 16.
Massachusetts, 36: McAdoo, 2 1-2;
\Smith, 33 1-2.
Michigan, 30: McAdoo, 4 1-2; Smith,
11 1-2; FerYis, 7 1-2; Underwood, 2;
Davis, West Virginia, 3 1-2; Glass,
1.
Minnesota, 24: Davii, West Vir
ginia, 1; Robinson, 1; Glass, 1; Mc-
Adoo, 6; Smith, 15.
Mississippi, 20: Ralston, 20 .
Missouri, 36: Glass, 35.
Montana, 8: McAdoo, 7; Smith, 1.
Nebraska, 16: C, W. Bryan, 3;
Smith, 3; McAdoo, 10.
Nevada, 6: McAdoo, 6.
New Hampshire, 8: Smith 2 1-2;
McAdoo, 2 1-2; Walsh, 3.
New Jersey, 28: Smith, 28.
New Mexico, 6: McAdoo, 6.
New York, 90: McAdoo, 2; Smith.
88.
North Carolina, 24: McAdoo, 14 1-2;
Davis, West Virginia, 7; Underwood,
1 1-2; Glass, 1
North Dakota, 10: McAdoo, 5;
Smith, 5.
Ohio, 48: Smith 21 1-2; Robinson,
4 1-2; C. W. Bryan, 2 1-2; Glass, 2;
Ralston, 4; Davis, 6 1-2; Underwood,
6; Senator Wheeler, 1.
Oklahoma, 20: Owen, 20.
Oregon, 10: McAdoo, 10.
Pennsylvania, 76: Ritchie, 1-2,
Glass, 1; Underwood, 3 1-2; Davis,
West Virginia, 6; McAdoo, 25 1-2;
Smith, 39 1-2.
Rhode Island, 10: Sjnith, 10. x
South Carolina, 18: McAdoo, IS.
South Dakota, 10: McAdoo, 9;
Walsh, 1.
Tennessee, 24: McAdoo, 24.
Texas, 40: McAdoo, 40.
Utah, 8: McAdoo, 8. '
Vermont, 8: Glass, 1; Smith, 7.
Virginia, 24: Glass, 24.
Washington, 14: McAdoo, 14.
West Virginia, 16: McAdoo, 1;
Davis, West Virginia, 15. £
Wisconsin, 26: Smith, 23; Roose
velt, 1; Underwood, 1; McAdoo, 1.
Wyoming, 6: Smith, 3; Glass, 3.
Alaska, 6: McAdoo, 1; Smith, 5.
District of Columbia, 6: McAdoo, 6.
Hawaii, 6: Underwood, 1; Smith, 1;
i McAdoo, 1; Davis, West Virginia, 3.
Philippines, 6: McAdoo, 2; Smith,
j 2; Glass, 2.
Porto Rico, 6: Davis, West Vir-
; ginia, 5; Smith, 1.
Canal Zone, 6: McAdoo, 3; Smith,',
3.
lowa, 26: McAdoo, 26.
Kansas. 20: McAdoo, 20.
The totals of 83rd ballot were:
McAdoo, 418; Smith, 368; Davis,
West Virginia, 72 1-2; Underwood,
58 1-2; Glass, 76; Ralston, 24; Robin
son, 27 1-2; Ritchie, 16 1-2; Walsh,
4; Saulsbury, 6; Owen, 20; Wheeler,
1; Ferris, 7 1-2; Bryan, 5 1-2; Rocse
vfclt, 1. Total, 1,096; absent, 2.
EIGHTY-SECOND BALLOT
Totals on the 82d ballot:
, McAdoo, 413 1-2; Smith. 366; Da
vis, West Virginia, 71; Underwood,
49; Glass, 78: Ralston, 24; Robin
son. 28 1-2; Ritchie, 16 1-2; Walsh,
I 4; Saulsbury, 6; Owen. 21; Ferris,
| 12: Bryan. 4 1-2; Daniels, 1; Roose
velt, 1. Total, 1,096 —absent, 2.
EIGHTY-FIRST BALLOT
The result of the 81st ballot:
McAdoo, 433; Smith, 365; Davis,
West Virginia, 70 1-2; Underwood,
48; Glass, 73: Ralston, 4; Robinson,
29 1-2; Ritchie. 16 1-2; Walsh, 8;
Saulsbury, 6; Owen, 21; Barnett, 1;
aDniels, 1; Bryan, 4 1-2; Ferris, 16;
Roosevelt, 1. Totals, 1096 —absent, 2.
EIGHTIETH BALLOT
Totals for eightieth ballot:
McAdoo, 454,1-2; Smith, 367 1-2:
Davis, 73 1-2;* Underwood, 46 1-2;
Glass. 68; Ralston, 5; Robinson, 29
1-2: Ritchie, 16 1-2: Walsfr. 4: Sauls
bury, 6; Owen, 1: Ferris. 17 1-2; Dan
j iels, 1; Bryan, 4 1-2: Roosevelt, 1.
■ Total. 1,096; absent, 2.
SEVENTY-NINTH BALLOT
The totals of the seventy-ninth bal
lot were as follows:
McAdoo, 507 1-2; Smith, 366 1-2;
West Virginia, 71; Underwood, 50;
Glass, 17; Ralston, 4; Robinson,
28 1-2; Ritchie. 16 1-2; Walsh, 6;
Saulsbury, 6; Ferris, IS: Gerard. 1;
Roosevelt, 1; Bryan, 3. Total, 1,096.
Absent 2.
SEVENTY-EIGHTH BALLOT
Totals for the 78th ballot: McAdoo,
I 511; Smith, 363 1-2; Davis, 73 1-2;
. Underwood, 49: Glass, 21; Ralston, 5;
I Robinson, 22 1-2; Ritchie, 16 1-2;
i Walsh, 6; Saulsbury, 6; Ferris 17;
Bryan, 3: Gerard, 1; Roosevelt, 1.
’ Total. 1.096. Absent 2.
Three Persons Hurt-
By Bomb Explosion
DETROIT, Mich., July 7.—Three
i persons were injured—one of them
| fatally—when a bomb explosion
wrecked a wholesale sugar house
■ here early today.
Pm SCHISM SEEN
BYMDHKE
INDEADLOCK'SWAKE
Two Conventions, One Nam
ing Smith and the Oth
er McAdoo, Forecast
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Special Leased Wire to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1924.)
MADISON ’ SQUARE GARDEN,
New York, July 7. —Two conventions
each nominating a candidate —Mc-
Adoo and Smith —just as the Repub
lican party has split with, Coolidge
and La Follette, may be the outcome
of -the deadlock of the Democrats
here.
The conference committee appoint
ed to labor over Sunday accomplish
ed virtually nothing. Two proposals,
the one representing the method by
which McAdoo hopes to win and
the other representing the strategy
of the anti-McAdoo forces and par
ticularly the Smith group, were the
outcome.
When these proposals were read
to the convention, it was obvious
that the delegates did not approve,
whereupon Bruce Kremer, of Mon
tana. a McAdoo leader, suggested
that the rules be suspended and that
a new meeting of the rules commit
tee be held to revise the rules. The
purpose of it was to secure an aboli
tion of the two-thirds rule and nomi
nate by a majority vote. The anti-
McAdoo delegates recognized the
scheme and it was beaten by a
chorus of noes without even a roll
call. 1
The convention then started to
vote on the seventy-eighth ballot
amid the groans of many delegates
who saw only a monotonous resump
tion of the futile ballot? last
week.
Little Change in Standing
Ve - little change in the standing
of the leading candidates was re
rded over the week-end. The
hours were spent in useless confer
v ’.ce. The efforts to eliminate both
McAdoo and Smith came from the
favorite sons. Governor Smith was
represented as being ready to with
draw though this has been denied
by >e ais managers. His voli
tion is that McAdoo must withdraw
first c be beaten. The McAdoo
forces showed themselves obdurate
on the question of withdrawal. The
former secretary of the treasury
told his delegates he would be a
traitor if he withdrew after the
splendid fight made by his support
ers.
While the conference proposals
got nowhere, there is no doubt that
both schemes had in them the means
of breaking the deadlock. Ths sug
gestion of the anti-McAdoo men, for
instance, called for the ieleasing of
all delegates who were instructed.
No other candidate except McAdoo
would be seriously affected by this,
as he has nearly 400 instructed dele
gates while no other man has more
than fifty or sixty. The humor ot
this device was the subject ot a bit
of sarcasm by Mr. F. K. Davis, of
San Antonio, Texas, who rose in his
seat as the morning session began
and asked the permanent chairman,
Mr. Walsh, if it was true that D. F.
Houston, former secretary of the
treasury, who hasn’t received a vote
in this convention, had agreed to re
lease the delegates he had under in
struction. This represents the feel
ing of the McAdoo delegates. They
want no plan which merely weakens
their strength and promises no cor
responding opportunity of victory.
McAdoo Plan Offered
The McAdoo counter-proposal was
somewhat of a surprise but it was
drafted to prevent McAdoo from be
ing in the position of singly continu
ing the deadlock.
He proposed that both the unit rule
j in state voting and the two-thirds
I rule be abolished. He has been chal
■ lenged by his opponents several times
to propose that. But Mr. McAdoo ac
companied it with a proviso that the
low man on each ballot be eliminated
and that absentees be voted on a
proportionate basis by those still
present. The last two suggestions
defeated the whole proposal, for it
takes a two-thirds vote here to sus
pend the rules. All the favorite sons
think they have a chance and they,
together with a few anti-McAdoo
men control more than one-third of
the votes, so no motion could be
passed and the balloting had to be
resumed.
The determination of the McAdoo
forces is as great as it was on the
day the first ballot was taken. They
insist they are fighting for a prin
ciple and that their opponents come
from states which never go Demo
cratic in the general elections. Cer
tainly neither McAdoo nor Smith has
been persuaded that their chance of
victory is gone. Possibly they never
will. And two conventions might well
take place if things are to be car
ried to their logical conclusions.
Heat Wave Reaches 149
In Algiers Vineyards
ALGIERS, July 7.—Heat so in
tense that it has been described as
"a wave of fire,” has been sweeping
the widespread vineyard districts
near here during the last few days
and has been badly burning the
heavy wine grape crop. On Friday
the thermometer registered as high
as 149 degrees Fahrenheit.
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday > July 8, 1924.
FIERY DEVOTION FOR M’ADOO
SHOWN BY HIS SUPPORTERS
AS THEY BATTLE EVIL CABAL
BY MAJOR JOHN S. COHEN
(President and Editor of The Atlanta Journal)
NEW YORK, July^.6. —The delegates from the Empire state of
the South are profoundly grateful to the loyal men and
of Georgia who are sustaining them by telegraph, telephone and
otherwise, in the great battle for progressive Democracy and
William Gibbs McAdoo.
It has been my lot to meet and know many fine men and
women, but never in all my life have I seen a more representa
tive, courageous, intelligent and devoted band of men and
women than those who represent our great state in this tragic
and dramatic Democratic national convention.
The defeatists in Georgia, who were the architects of their
own misfortune because at heart they were reactionary and
because their principles in politics were are pri
marily responsible for the bad advertising which the New York
papers gave our delegation before its arrival and have continued
to give it since.
They even went so far as io try to convince the polyglot
population of New York city that myself, the editor of The At
lanta Journal, a newspaper which has fought religious intoler
ance with more fortitude than all the other Atlanta newspapers
combined, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and was elected
by them as the national committeeman from Georgia. No
deadlier lie was ever perpetrated on any individual.
NEW YORK IS TOLD THE TRUTH
ABOUT THE GEORGIA DELEGATION
The source from which it came has my heartiest contempt
and I am sure that the people of Georgia who know me —for I
was born in our state and have lived there for 54 years—know
this to be veritable calumny. But these people who speak with a
foreign tongue and whose manners are typical of the bowery,
believe it.
As long as these attacks concerned me, I paid no attention
to them, but when the guns of the metropolitan press were
turned upon the noble men and women who came here to rep
resent Georgia, I felt that this time had come to speak.
As clearly and succinctly as I could express it, I told the rep
resentatives of all the New Yorn newspapers the truth, the whole
truth, and'nothing but the truth —that Georgia is not a reactionaiy
state; that the men and women composing the Georgia delega
tion are the flower of the manhood and womanhood of the state.
That the papers would not print it, means nothing. Since
they have been here, they have been the targets of ridicule, abuse
and misrepresentation, but the people of Georgia should glory in
the fact that the progressive democracy of America considers
the Georgia delegation as progressive democracy’s tenth legion.
When Oscar Underwood’s campaign manager made excuses
for his overwhelming defeat in Georgia, injecting the religious
issue into the campaign, be furnished an opportunity for the
-Democratic ward bosses in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and
other cities, backed by the big business and liquor interests of
the United States, to drive a wedge into the Democratic parly
which may destroy its chances of success in the coming election
and perhaps for many decades to come.
For Mr. Underwood personally I have the highest regard. 1
believe him to be an able, conscientious senator, but one whose
thoughts and opinions so coincide with those of Calvin Coolidge
and the Republican party that his nomination would be a tragedy
unspeakable.
INJECTION OF RELIGIOUS ISSUE
DEATH BLOW UNLESS M’ADOO IS VICTOR
The injection of the religious issue into the campaign by
his campaign manager and the railroad attorney of Washington
and Birmingham, who nominated him, will, 1 believe —if Mc-
Adoo is not nominated—be the death blow to chances
in the election and perhaps for many years to come.
The nomination for president is on the knees of the gods.
If the big business and liquor interests can starve out the del
egates from the south and west, Al Smith will be nominated. If
they cannot William Gibbs McAdoo will be nominated.
No more heroic fight in the history of American politics
has ever been recorded than that waged by the delegates fiom
the south and west who believe in the progressive principles of
McAdoo.
Coupled with the liquor and big business interests is a sort
of senatorial cabal which has the sympathy, if not the avowed
support, of seven or eight Democratic United States senators.
What a travesty upon popular government and real democracy
that Oscar Underwood, who has carried only his own state; Sen
ator Robinson, who has carried only his own state; Senator
Glass, who has carried only his own state; Governor Ritchie,
who has carried onlv his own state, and many others too numer
ous to mention, should join in with the big interests and liquor
business.
Here we have in William G. McAdoo a candidate who has
the people’s interests at heart and who has won every contest in
every Democratic state that he has entered. Not one of those men
had the nerve to make a contest for himself in his own state,
much less to make a canvass in anybody else’s state.
The Democratic delegates from the south and west are men
and women of limited means. They are not panhandlers. They
shrink from asking aid or financial succor from any source.
They are gentlemen and gentlewomen; but necessities are necessi
ties and as reasonable as have been the New York hotels in
their charges, living up to their agreements, it Is manifestly
impossible for many of our delegates to remain longer in New
York without receiving financial help from some source.
Whether they will stay or go no man knows. There are no
McAdoo funds. The money is all on the other side and lias
been from the start of this convention until this very hour.
FLAMING ZEAL MARKS FOLLOWERS
IN SPITE OF HISSING GALLERIES
’ A flaming zeal and fiery devotion has actuated the Mc-
Adoo delegates. They have withstood the financial loss, boos
and hisses of hostile galleries, demonstrations from states
which never were Democratic and never will be, and they are
going to stick it out until the last ounce of moral, physical
and financial strength is exhausted.
I take my hat off to the men and women who represent
the state of Georgia. I take my hat off to the men and
women who are for McAdoo.,
God knows that no human beings could have shown more
zeal aud devotion than that of the women from forty states
when they went to the McAdoo headquarters yesterday morn
ing and prayed to God that the cause of progressive democracy
and righteousness shall prevail. And I want to bow in rever
ence to the woman in politics. Men may flicker, and men may
trade, and men may fail, but the women —God bless them—
they are as eternal as the peaks of the Blue Ridge mountains.
There has been some misunderstanding of the course of
Andrew Erwin, Pleasant Stovall and Miss Marion Colley.
Therr is easily understood. The hostile, mendacious
prelh has pictured all the “f ‘.he Georgia delegation
as being members of the Ku Klux Klan. Mr. Erwin, in my
judgment, only spoke to express his opinion. If any man or
woman on the Georgia delegation has objected to this, I have
not heard them saV so. He is not responsible for the fact that
the band played “Marching Through Georgia,” nor was he
responsible for marching around on the shoulders of the
Rhode Island Al Smith wet delegation.
This is one of the comics of the convention, that the wet
New York press has, with the propaganda from the. enemies of
McAdoo and the crowd that was defeated in Georgia, attempted
to discredit the men and women in Georgia.
My own personal judgment is that either McAdoo or Smith
will be nominated in this convention or that it will break up in
a row.
I cannot conceive that harassed, tired, and almost impecunious,
as our delegates are, that they would ever vote for any ot the
favorite sons who have let their own personal ambitions mike a
festering sore in the Democratic party which it may take
decades to cure.
If I were a delegate and bad a vote I would prefer to see
no man nominated who has claimed to be a favorite son candidate
in this convention. I would let it be a war of roses —either one
man or the other—McAdoo or Smith—to carry off the prize.
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M’ADOO SUPPORTS -
CONVENTION PUN
TO END DEADLOCK
Session Is Adjourned Until
8:30 O’Clock Mon
day Night
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, N.
Y., July 7. —By action of the Demo
cratic national convention itself to
day, all delegates were released from
pledges and instructions on presiden
tial candidates.
The action of the convention did
not affect the two-thirds rule or the
unit rule. By its action the conven
tion approved the stand of the fif
teen minority candidates including
Governor Smith. Mr. McAdoo’s
counter proiiosal did not come up for
a vote.
The vote came on motion of for
mer Governor Gilchrist, of FloriCa,
and over technical objections inter
posed by Gavin McNabb, of San Fran
cisco, a McAdoo leader.
Earlier in the day the convention
had brushed aside consideration of
the resolution of the fifteen minority
candidates and the counter proposal
by Mr. McAdoo also. Apparently ev
erybody was full of fight and un
yielding.
But five more tedious ballots in
the steaming Madison Square Gar--
d\n took some of the belligerency
out of some of the delegates and
when they came to vote on the reso
lution as it finally came up the vote
was so dose that Chairman Walsh
was unable to determine who had
it and ordered a roll call.
Text of Resolution!
The resolution upon the adoption
of which the convention vbted was
as follows:
“Resolved, That the time has ar
rived when, in the opinion of this
Democratic convention, all delegates
should be and are hereby released
from any pledges or instructions of
any kind whatsoever, touching upon
any candidacy for the nomination
for president.” ,
The McAdoo peoplf passed the
word that Mr. McAdoo wanted »1 :
his people to vote for the resolution
as he did not wish to appear as an
obstructionist. The result was that
the votes in favor of the movement
tumbled in so fast that its passage
was assured before the roll call was
half over. The effect of releasing
delegates from instructions and
pledges, while retaining the unit
rule and the two-thirds’ rule, will be
developed in the balloting immedi
ately.
There are delegates in the cmi
vention instructed by state conven*
tions or primaries who say they are
ready to change their votes.
The eighty-third ballot showea
practically no change in the voting,
despite the convention’s actlcm in re
leasing pledged delegations. McAdoo
received 418, and Smith 368, the for
mer gaining 4 1-2 and the latter 2.
The convention adjourned until
8:30 o’clock tjmight.
Passed Overwhelmingly.
The vote on the motion by Mr.
Gilchrist was 985 in its favor and
105 against it and eight rot vot
ing. It was 258 more than required
to pass it.
Chairman Walsh stated his inter
pretation of the resolution It djes
not abrogate the unit ru’e which
prevails wherever It was ordered. It
merely expresses the sense of the
convention that instructions and
pledges are and ougnt not longer to
be binding; the idea being that when
instructions and pledges were giver,
it was anticipated that a not
would be made in a reasonable tirhe
and a reasonable number of ballots.
No delegate, the chairman said,
would be subject to legitimate criti
cism for now changing his vote if
he wished to do so.
The convention then plunged into
the 83rd ballot and the effect of the
resolution just adopted was watched
with the greatest interest .
There was a strong effort in the
lowa delegation to switch the vdte
of that state front McA.i‘ , o to j'.
T. Meredith, former secretary of
agriculture. Some members of the
delegation predicted hv the change
would be made Immediately.
Glass Gets Try-Out
Senator Carter Glass, of Virginia,
was the “dark horse” brought out In
the balloting early today, after the
first three roll calls had shown little
change in the leaders’ standing.
The principal change on the 82nd
ballot was occasioned by Mississippi
with her 20 votes transferring them
from McAdoo to Ralston. The lead
ers stood McAdoo 413.5; Smith 366;
Glass 78; Davis 71; Ralston 24.
This showed a heavy loss for Mc-
Adoo, continuing through two bal
lots. David L. Rockwell, the Mc-
Adoo campaign manager, said he was
not alarmed. • •
At the end of the eighty-first bal
lot McAdoo had dropped to 432 and
Smith to 365, while Virginia’! favo
rite son was third with 73. Davis
got 70 1-2.
On the first ballot today the lead
ers stood this way: McAdoo, 511;
Smith, 363.5; Davis. 73.5. ,
This was a loss of 2 for McAdoo! a
loss of 3 1-2 for Smith, and three
for Davis. '
The 79th ballot saw the leaders
standing this way:
McAdoo, 607.5; Smith, 366.5; Da
vis. 71.
1 This vz-as a loss of 3 1-2 for Mc-
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