The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-04-13
senator HOke Smith for the DEM
cratic Presidency OF the
United States.


pendent, the official organ of the Amer
lean independence Union, is unusually rich
In reading matter.
The headlines on the front page somewhat
resemble the Jack Johnsons of the German
Army, they are so large and so black.
They read thus:
president Wilson Repudiated! Demo
cratic Convention endorses Holze Smith,
The American independent is published in
San francisco, where one or two of the
Hearst papers flourish, and where Abe Reuff
} and others went to Jail because Pat Calhoun
stole million dollars from the street rail
roads-so they say.
Realizing the keen and perennial interest of
mankind in Georgia's leviathan Senator
whose majestic form Sam Wilkes still dreams
about quote a few passages from the organ
OF the American Independence Union:
The first gun in the fight to defeat Woodrow
Wilson for President fired on Wednesday
night by the Democratic State Convention of Cali
forn1a for 1915, which repuoiated Woodrow Will
son and protested against his denomination for
President Of the United States
Four hundred and eighty-three Democratic
delegates from all parts of California gathered on
Wednesday night at the Civic Center Auditorium.
The convention was called together by the Ameri-
can Independence Union of California, under the
leadership of Daniel O'Connell, president, and D.
A
ST. Louis National convention in May, and instruct
them, if elected at the May primary, to vote for
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia.
In calling the assemblage Of 1873 men and wo-
men to order, Daniel OConnell, in reviewing Will
sons administration, proved conclusively that
Wilson had never been Democrat until he
wanted the nomination for Governor of New Jer-
sey that he had betrayed his party violated it's
principles and platform and that he was supported
by the Republican party evidence that he at
heart, and in his actions, not a democrat, but
politician seeking to make capital out Of the pres
ent European war to further his own political
ends
Mr.. OConnell was frequently interrupted by
stormy applause, approving his words. The con-
vention seemed to be solid against Wilson with
out dissenting voice.
Senator John P Hare elected chairman of
the convention and Mrs. Julia May Starting,
rotary.
Mr.. Pinther, who represented the Northern
Counties of California holding credentials from
the German-American Alnance of Sacramento
County, addressed the convention, stating that in
his thirty years of citizenship he haa
perienced unneutral a President Woodrow
Wilson.
Did this enthusiastic California Democratic
mass meeting elect delegates to the National
Democratic Convention?
It surely did Among those patriotic dele
gates, who detest Woodpile Wilson and dote
on Hoke Smith, I find the names of Mary
Colmar, Julia May Startling, Mrs. Kate
Cotes M. S. Goitzheim, H. j. Kuebler, Hend-
rick Quaas, Melchoir Diepenbrack and DR..
Max Magnus
Did the enthusiastic Democratic Conven-
ton appoint Committee on Platform?
1t did. No well-regulated Democratic Con-
vention could meet without trying its hand at
a platform.
Among the California Democrats chosen to
build platform for Senator Smith to stand
on, find the names of Daniel O'Connell
Carl Schoenino Cantain John McNahoe and