Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-28

aggress iveness,~ assumed and still holds
to the idea that the way TO show it's
faith is by its deeds-that the way to
keep reactionaries out of the party is to
keep them. out, and that the way to
keep them from being nominated is not
to nominate them. 1t also feels that
the way to get progressive platform
is to have it written by safe and sane
progre ssiVes.
The Georgia delegation has persis-
tently and consistently resented by
Bryans efforts TO run the Baltimore
convention entirely his way, and large
ly to Bryan's advantage and glory. It
feels that Bryan himself has ultimate
designs on the nomination, and not
few of the delegates cling TO the notion
that Bryan is determined down in his
heart, to run the party Bryan wise or
bolt
The Georgia delegation attached lit
tie Importance to Bryans resolution as
a thing likely to accomplish some good
1t feels that the Democracy can not
fool anybody with mere resolutions Of
goodness and political austereness.
The Georgians feel sure, and have felt
sure all along, that this convention is
in no danger of nominating a Morgan
or Ryan controlled man for president
and it resented Bryans resolution as
thing insulting in its nature and slap
in the face of a convention willing and
anxious to do it's duty by the people
and that without prodding resolutions
and certificates of character issued to
itself by itself in advance of its acts
A Crazy Night.
One wonders at the utility and ut
ter uselessness of adtectives when he
attempts to tell in intelligent language
of that wild, crazy, thrilling. wearisome
awful night here in the Fifth regiment
! armory in old Baltimore town, just
passed into history.
Whatever Bedlam was or is. that was
worse. man sitting next to me along
about midnight said there were $4,000
people in the building 1t struck me
as rather curious that he didn't say
29,467 or 2S,99S or something like that,
for all he knew. Long ago some mathe
matical and otherwise wise philosopher
said it was impossible for the human
mind to conceive a million of anything
l thought last night of him, and won
dered if there might not be. really, a
million people in that armory. One
knows that all Baltimore was not in
there, of course, besides the visitors. for
outside there was jam terrific. and
down town the streets were crowded
early in the evening with thousands and
thousands watching a suffragette pa
rade
I think the adjective that Ats the
needs of this reportorial moment more
nearly than any other is crazy. Last
night was a crazy night a lunatic night
perhaps, in that a lunatic is said to
have perfectly safe and sane intervals
at times. Anyway, | marveled that
men could lose all seeming sense of
proportion upon so little prOvocation
now and then and behave so much like
monkeys and very small children with
out, In calmer retrospect. any actually
compelling cause
The Clark Upheaval
However that may be, I leave to
heads more clear, to pens more sure
and to tongues more confident than
mine, to say this morning. My emo
tions, along with those of the crowd,
ran the whole scale, over and over
again l got mad, and then l got glad.
| almost went to sleep time and again,
and ! enjoyed long between nodding
intervals, when | felt as if sleep never
more should come to me. and for that
| was thankful. When Champ Clark's
name was mentioned for the nominal
ton that thing that breaks loose in
Georgia at times broke loose good and
proper here. Believe me, that's a fact.
There was one hours and five minutes
of 1t. or five hours and one minute Of
1t, ! don't know which, and l don't
care. 1t was the craziest thing I ever
saw. and yet ! was for 1t, strong and
militant and l got into 1t, right up to
the neck. because a part of it, and had
rafting good time while II lasted. 1
previously had taken a hand in the I'm
derwood demonstration, too. I was
right there with the goods when it
came to demonstrating last night One
would have thought that the demon
stration business surrey was my long
suit, That's a mistake. however, for
after the Clark round ] retired with
we'll earned laurels and victorious
eagles. My demonstration average
stood then easily at .999
PendIeton in Ecstasy.
Colonel Pendleton said last night, on
the way to the convention hall. that
he was going there to perform the
sweetest and most satisfactory service
to Democracy he ever had performed.
He was going to cast. for the first time
since the war. Georgia's vote in a nom
mating convention for Southern man.
Oscar Underwood ; And the grim old
war horse Of Bibb sat tight through all
the wearisome hours of the night and
the morning, and well after dawn there
came to him that opportunity for
which his heart had yearned and his
soul had thirsted so long. In brave,
booming words. dignified and erect, his
good gray head thrown well back, the
Georgia chairman cast al last. his
states vote for his sister states ia
vorite son. and then he sank back. tired.
but almost Historically happy.
As TO the things in detail that hap