Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-20
PLATFORM FALLS
At NOTIFICATION.
zoo IN A HEAP
Dozen Believed To Be Seriously
Injured at Ceremonies For
Governor Marshall.

Parker was delivering his notification
speech. More than dozen persons
were injured, some of them seriously it
is believed.
The injured were taken into the
Democratic State club house. on Yer
mont street. in front of which the
stand was located.
Judge Parker, who was scoring
Roosevelt and the Progressive party
at the moment the collapse occurred,
was not injured.
More than 200 men, women and chill
dren were precipilated distance of
20 feet to the ground and buried in the
wreckage.
Governor Is Notified.
Governor Thomas r. Marshall this
afternoon was notified officially Of his
nomination for vice president of the
United States by the Democratic ma
uonal convention, and formally accept
ed the honor In brief speech. The no.
titcation speech was made by Judge
Alton B. Parker, chairman of the mott
fication committee
In his speech of acceptance Gov
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This campaign calls upon some for
justice, upon others for charity, upon
all for patriotism 1t does not call for
the bandying of epithets nor for an APP
peal TO the personal. We NAV safely
leave to that senie dementia which
has seized the so-caIed Republican
party the personalities Of this cam
paign. Its unfitness to rule the re-
public is disclosed by it's inability to
keep its temper. AS for the party's
bosses, the improper influences In
American political life are about equal
ly divided between them. Everywhere
Boss" Barnes is crossing swords with
Boss Finn. and their charges and
counter charges disclose greatness only
when we apply Emersons statement:
| Consistency is the hobgoblin of little
minds
What the Party Offers.
The voter who can not satisfy him
self this year is indeed censorious
Eliminating the verbiage of platforms.
taking their substance and viewing the
candidates placed on them. the voter
who believes that the cost of production
at home and abroad should be equalized
to the manufacturer of this country and
who wants an oligarchy to rule may
vote the straight Republican ticket
the voter who believes in similar
protective theory, but who prefers to
an oligarchy that the president shall be
the state. may vote the Progre ssive
ticket; the voter who believes this gov
| ha Int
cialism. may vote the Socialistic tick
ct: the voter who thinks that church
and state are not separate in America
and that the people have a right to set
tie religious questions and to determine
by ballot what is good and what is bad
may vote the Prohibition ticket, and all
those who insist that 1t is not the bust
ness Of government to equalize the cost
of production at home and abroad to
the manufacturer until ii eQualizes the
difference in the purchase price to the
consumer at home and abroad, who be-
lieves that the only equalization just-
fable in our government is the equali-
"a tion OF opportunity. who thinks that
public Office is a public trust. who does
not believe that disgruntled and de-
feated politicians are genuine reform
ers, and who think that reforms
are not born with sore toes may vote
the Democratic ticket"
Crowds Gather Early
After night of incessant lightning,
thunder and downpour of rain that re-
sembed deluge, modification day"
opened decidedly cooler, and before the
time for the forenoon auto ride the sun
frequently broke through the clouds to
the great JOY Of scores of visiting Dem
) ocratic celebrities and thousands of Wis
itors.
Although Tomlinson hall had been
: prepared for indoor ceremonies in case
of showers. crowds early began to gath
er for the open air program in Univer-
sity park. where $4,000 persons could
; congregate within sight and hearing Of
! the speakers.
As the Democratic hosts swarmed at
the Hotel Denison. where the smiling
Tom Taggart reigns supreme, the en-
tire absence Of silk hats and frock
coats constituted striking feature,
Among the notables were w. G.
McAdoo, of New York; Senator T. p.
Gore. the blind ora tor from Oklahoma !.
Joseph F. Davies, of Wisconsin; dele
cations from Louisiana and from other
far-off states. The special train car
rying 100 Illinois Democrats arrived
at 1870 p. m.
Following a sightseeing tour of the
city in automobiles a noon luncheon,
given by Thomas Taggart at his hotel,
occupied the time until the notification
ceremonies began.
At the conclusion OF the speeches an
auto trip. winding up at the home Of
Governor and Mrs Marshall where a
reception was held concluded the
days program.