Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-22
MISSOURI LANDS
CHARM GEORG|ANS
ON WAY To FRISCO
Contest Committee Hurfies
by Direct Route So as to
Be on Hand for Hearing
Friday Afternoon
BY ROGERS WINTER

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(staff Correspondent of The Journal.)
KANSAS CITY, June 21.-A gov
eminent guarantee of 1925 per bush
ell for wheat has marked this country
with conspicuous evidences Of pros
perity on every band, but one thing
noted by the Georgia delegates on
their all-day ride through the golden
wheat fields Of Missouri was the fact
that automobiles are not nearly so
plentiful as in the south. They are
here, Of course, but not in such num-
bers. The average Georgia town on
a Sunday afternoon is freckled with
cars when the train goes by. A Mis-
souri, town is freckled with buggies,
with occasionally an automobile. But
while the Missouri farmers have not
gone in for motor cars on such a
scale as Georgia farmers, they GER
tainly are prosperous. Their bound
less fields of golden grain, their
waving corn, their painted homes
and bullying barns, their stock and
cattle grazing in clover, proclaim
prosperity all the way across the
state.
Sunday morning at st. Louis the
Georgia delegates were Joined by the
10 a
cars were coupled together on the
Missouri Pacific train. The two
DELEGATIONS lost no time in getting
acquainted with one another, and the
Georgians did some valuable work
in presenting the case on which. they
base their credentials OF admission
to the Frisco convention.
The Alabama delegates were In
c1ined to favor McAdoo for the nom
nation. His unexpected withdrawal
from the field has left them unde-
cided what candidate to support.
Cox, however, seems a favor1te with
most of them. Edward W. Barrett
nublisher of the Birmingham Age
Herald and national committeeman
from Alabama, has relinqu1shed MS
Mace to his successor, Colonel w. L.
Sanders. who defeated him in the
recent Alabama primary. Mr.. Bar
rett is entitled to serve on the ma
tional committee until the new COM
mittee is elected by the convention,
! but he decided to make the trip
Measure trip and let his successor
worry with the politics. Mr.. Bar
rett is accompanied by his wife and
children. The Alabama delegates
parted company with the Georgia
DELEGATES at Kansas City and the
two parties went by different routes
to Colorado Springs, where they were
scheduled to meet again on sight
seeing trip Monday afternoon.
Pine Missouri Lands
Politics was not discussed among
the Georgia delegates on the Sun
day ride. They divided their time
between the Alabama delegates anu
admiration OF the magnificent Mis-
souri, farming country. Even the
south Georgia delegates, who regard
their home as the garden spot Of the
world, were compelled to admit that
here was a country which rivals
their own. But while Missouri has
kept pace with progress in an agr1-
cultural sense, the old Missouri rlV-
err has ceased to be the highway OF
that great stream of paddle-wheel
traffic that used to roll down from
Kansas City and the region beyond
The Georgia delegates counted one
steamboat, and it was a housebou'
named "Champ Clark" ~. arriving
| in Kansas City Sunday afternoon
the Georgians, were met at the sta
ton by Senator Reed, of Missouri
who has been elected a district dele
gate to the 'Frico convention. Not
withstanding the action of the Mis-
souri, state convention, he expects
to be in the national convention.
Go Direct to Frisco.
| Those members of the Georgia
delegation who will present the case
before the national committee or the
makeup of the temporary roll nave
arranged to be diverted at Salt Lake
City and go from there direct toSSan
Francisco, while the others continue
on the route through Los Angeles, as
originally planned. Among those to
take the short cut will be William j.
Vereen, Charles S. Barrett, Thomas
w. Hardwick, H. H. Perry, Felix
Jackson Arthur Lucas, Albert Eos
ter, Benjamin NJ. Blackburn and The
Journal correspondent. They will r
1 rive in San Francisco Friday morn
ing.
The national committee will hear
the Georgia contest Friday after
noon.
All members Of the party are in
fine health and spirits and are en-
| joying the trip immensely. Most of
the running has been through fire.
quent showers that relieved the heat.
| There h not been mishap, Sc
rious delay or a missed connection.
The valiant old Pullmans, though not
built of steel, are holding together
without a cracked seam. The COM
missariat gives promise of holding
out to the end of the journey with