Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-01
THE MACON NEWS
COMES OUT FOR
SENATOR SMITH

The Macon News in its issue Of
Tuesday comes out editoria1ly in sup
port of Senator Hoke Smith in his
campaign for the Democratic nomt-
| nation in the preferential primary.
The News. with its big circulation
and statewide influence, will un-
doubtedly be great help to the
senator's campaign, and the an
nouncement of the News stand will
be received with enthusiasm by the
Hoke Smith champions throughout
the state.
In the opinion of the News, Sena-
tor Smiths candidacy meets a de-
mand of the people who were about
to be disfranchised by having to
choose between two extremes, A.
Mitchell Palmer, indorsing every act
and every phase of the Wilson adj
ministration, and Senator James A.
Reed, opposing practically every phase
of the administration.
"At this juncture," says the News,
Senator Hoke Smith, realizing the
embarrassment Of the party in Geor-
gia, and actuated, as we believe, by
motives which do him great credit,
permitted the use of his name as
candidate in the primary, chiefly
on the platform Of the League of
Nations with those reservations,
vitality important, for which he
labored and voted in the upper house.
"The Macon News has, therefore
reached the strong and deliberate
conclusion that the only course for
+ ~ +o
is to vote for Senator Hoke Smith
in the presidential preferential pri-
mary on April 20.
1.-THE whole course of events point
to him logically as the only man in
Georgia around whom the Democrats
Of this state can rally in adopting
a middle course between the two eX-
tremes represented by Reed and Pal
mer, and the expressions Of opinion
that have been heard since Senator
Smith permitted the use Of his name
confirm the view that he will be
triumphantly elected.
THAT he is a man Of ability his
enemies themselves will not deny
For nearly thirty years, including
the period Of his service as a men,
Der Of the Cleveland cabinet, two
terms as governor of Georgia and
his present tenure in the senate, he
has been a conspicuous figure in state
and national politics. He has ac-
quired a store Of knowledge and ex-
perience which make him the peer
Of any man whose name is mentioned
for the presidency. On the issue
which President Wilson has DELHI
erately made paramount in the forth
coming election, he is in line with
the enlightened and patriotic senti-
ment of this country. He stands for
the League of Nations, but only on
condition that it shall be brought
into line with the constitution of
the United States, the supremacy of
the Monroe doctrine and the duty Of
this country to keep it's sovereignty
unimpaired.
Senator Smith is strong enough
to measure up to the duties of the
office if he should be nominated and
elected to the presidency, but he tells
the people frankly that he will readily
stand aside in favor of any other
Democrat of ability who develops
sufficient strength at the San Fran
cisco convention to secure the nomi-
nation on a platform such as Sen
ator Smith himself stands on and
which the people of Georgia would
indorse by sending him as their
''favorite son" to the convention.
Wisdom, patriotism and common
sense point to him as the man for
the place, and the Macon News trusts
that Georgia Democrats will elect
him by an overwhelming majority"