Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-29
GEORGIA REGULARS
To OFFER DIVISION
Of VOTES Of STATE
Credentials Committee NeM
to Hear Contest - May
Propose HoWeII-Vereen
Race inSeptember Primary
BY ROGERS WINTER
(Staff CORRESPONDENT of The JournaD

! on Monday afternoon for the second
! inning of their fight for seats on the
floor of the national convention it is
| quite probable that they will not de-
mand to be seated as a whole, but
| will ask for the same division of
seats which they proposed to the Pal
mer people in Atlanta convention,
and which was scorned by the Pal
mer people with quite show of self
righteous indignation.
They will not contend that the Pal
mer delegates ought to be excluded
altogether from the convention. They
| will offer to be as fair to the Pal
mer delegates as they ask the con-
vention to be to them. They will
suggest an apportionment of Geor-
gia's twenty Eight votes on a pro
rata basis according to the popular
vote in the Georgia primary or &C
cording to the county unit vote. In
either event this would figure ap-
proximately a division of the dele
cation into three. equal parts.
Of course the first question that
would be raised by the Palmer dele
gates when the above proposition is
submitted will be the question of
the national committeeman from
Georgia. The Palmer delegates will
hurry away. from division of the
votes for fear the Smith delegates
and the Watson delegates combining
against them would remove Clark
Howell from the national committee
and put William J. Vereen upon the
committee in his place.
Compromise Proposition
When the Palmer delegates raise
this question, as it is said that they
will do, the regular delegates will
submit to them the proposition that
the names of Clark Howell and Will
liam ]. Vereen be placed upon the
ticket of the Georgia state primary
to be held in September, that if Mr..
Howell receives a majority of the
popular vote or the county unit vote,
whichever way he desires to run, then
he shall continue to serve on the ma
tional committee for the next three
years, and that if Mr.. Vereen re-
ceives a majorit yof the vote then
Mr.. Howell shall relinquish his place
on the national committee and turn
over his proxy to Mr.. Vereen, who
shall represent Gergia in the ma
tional councils of the party for the
next four years.
The regular delegates are awaiting
with keen interest the reply that will
come from Mr.. Howell and his sup
porters on this proposition. They are
willing for Mr.. Howell to be elected
to the Georgia committe at this con-
vention if he will agree to referen-
dunn with the understanding that he
shall retire and give his proxy to
Mr.. Vereen in case Of his defeat
in the Georgia primary.
It is not expected that the Gre
dentials committee will be so one
sided in it's decisions of the Georgia
contest as was the national COM
mittee on Saturday afternoon. A
number of the members of the Gre
dentials committee have expressed
themselves in favor of seating the
delegates elected by the Atlanta con-
vention, or at least of apportioning
the convention votes among the three
factions. The action Saturday of the
national committee was a personal
victory for Clark Howell, who has
been a member of the committee for
twenty-five years, and is very popu-
lar with his colleagues.
Georgia shriners at Frisco
The city Of Atlanta an dthe state
of Georgia were as we'll represented
as any section Of the United States
in the crowds that thronged this city
on Sunday. Added to the two con-
testing delegations from Georgia,
there were in the city two hundred
Shriners of the Yaarab Temple in At
lanta and a host of Shriners from
Macon and Savannah. They stopped
here on their return journey from the
great Shriner convention held last
week in the city of Portland
The Georgia Shriners were erejoic-
ing over the election of E. A. Cults,
of Savannah, to the office of imperial
potentate of the imperial council
which is the highest office in the
Shrine. The Yaarab band gave con-
certs Saturday night and Sunday at
the San Francisco hotel, the Palace
hotel and the Chancellor hotel in
honor Of the two Georgia delegations.
They played no favorites when it
came to politics but serenaded them
ALL A great host of Shriners in gor-
geous uniforms spent Sunday here as
the guests of Islam Temple of this
city which kept open house for them
at the Shrine temple, gave them free
automobile rides all over the city, and
supplied them with a steady stream
Of handsome Frisco girls wearing
hostess badges. Take it from the
writer the Frisco girls have got the
goods. Nowhere else except in At
lanta can their equals be found. In
addition to the numerous Shrine pa
rades and concerts and other festiVi-
ties which have been in progress here
for thirty-siX hours there were sew
eraI parades for the various candi-
dates for the presidential nomination.
Georgians Parade
The Palmer parade was headed by
Colonel III: H; Dean, of Gainesville
who acquitted himself with great
dignity and eclat at the head Of the
procession Not even the attorney
general with all his gray hair and
stalwart figure can outclass the colo
mel when it comes to bulk Even
the coolnePs political adversaries
were constrained to admit that he
was no discredit to his state, so far
as looks were concerned, as he strobe
down Market street with a Palmer
pennant on his shoulder
Anticipating that they will be
seated in the permanent roll of the
convention the Palmer delegates have
made their nominations for the va
rlous and sundry committees. They
are as follows:
Credentials, Albert Howell; reso-
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