Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-22
HOOVER'S NAME
CENTER OF HOT
COMMITTEERO
Reports Conflict AS To
What VIII Be Party
Program

! ATLANTA, Feb. 2l THAT the
rule of eligibility for candidates in
the Georgia preferential primary has
been construed SO as to require that
such candidates must be Democrats
and that Herbert Hoover has been or
will be asked to state whether he is
a Democrat is the information cur
rent in political circles as the out
come of a meetings in Atlanta of the
subcommittee appointed by the Dem
ocratic state executive committee to
fix the rules and regulations for the
primary, and this information has
been confirmed by Judge James j.
Flynt, chairman of the state commit
tee and of the subcommittee.
1t is further stated that the sub
committee, after making such con-
struction in its rule, has directed
Hiram Gardner to address to Her
bert Hoover letter requesting him
to state whether or not he is a Dem
ocrat and explaining to him the sig
nificance of his reply in connection
with the rule of eligibility as con-
strued.
And the Other Side.
However, information from anoth-
er source is that the statement may
be made on good authoritv that
majority of the subcommittee will
oppose any action which will seek to
bar Mr.. Hooker's name from the tick
ct, on the ground that. the subcom-
mittee having fixed the primary rules,
the citizens of Hall county having
fully complied with them in filing
their petition for entry of Mr.. Hoov-
er, that the matter is now beyond
the scope of the subcommittee and
! it has no authority to exclude that
name.
Moreover, if it seeks to do so, the
entire primary plan may be disrupt
ed
Furthermore, it is ascertained to be
a fact that, if the program carried
/ out here the morning of February 6
| by the state executive committee was
| to be gone over again at this time, it
would be made wholly different, and
in fact there is strong disposition
among some of ohe members to ask
/ that the committee be recalled and
asked to rescind its action. That,
however, is almost as strongly op-
posed by others, who contend that
/ the committee has acted and its is up
to the subcommittee now to make the
best of things and abide by the rules
| it has made.
The controlling rule is as follows:
''In any case where one hundred or
more white Georgia Democrats file
with the committee by April /, petit
ton requesting that the name of any
man, be placed upon the ballot his
name shall be so placed"
Denies Committee Rights.
81 can't figure said member Of
the state Democratic executive COM
mittee, what right the executive
committee has to go into an ascer-
tainment for itself of whether or not
Herbert Hoover will comply with the
Georgia definition of a Democrat or
what right that committee will have
to say whether or not Mr.. Hoover's
name shall or shall not go on the
presidential ballot to be voted in the
primary in this state"
According to reports received in
Atlanta from Washington, members
of the Georgia delegation in congress
have been amazed at the reports
brought to them through the mails
regarding the Hoover sentiment in
Georgia. Atlanta politicians likewise
say that Hoover is growing more
popular every day. The other night,
at local theatre, when pictures were
dashed on the screen of prospective
presidential candidates big audience
ii .erally went wild when Hoover was
shown. 1t was necessary to bring
back his picture second time before
the performance could proceed.
Although the Hoover presidential
boom has had no encouragement from
Hoover himself it is apparently grow
ing in all parts of the country. 1t
IS stated that nobody seems able to
put a finger on the cause of the boom,
hut the sentiment is there.
That the Democratic party to win
next November must put forward a
business man of the Hoover type, and
that practically means Mr.. Hoover,
and not merely politician and spell
o,nder, is the burden of observations
that come into Atlanta.