Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-06
BIG CROWD VOTES
ENDORSEMENT OF
SENATOR'S RECORD
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what he thought of the Hall county
outcome.
Il am not uneasy" said Colonel
Perry. "He won here today"
And that was the truth, simply
stated and truthfully told. senator
| Smith won here today.
"And what puzzles me is that the
verv crowd who have been the loud
est in abuse of the president, some
of them going so far as to retail
Islander of a personal nature apou'
him. are now the loudest in then
| sanctimonious demand that we in
| dorse every act and every phase OF
his administration. A few weeks
ago the progressive Democrats OF
| this commonwealth, the Democrats
| Of virility and independence, not In
| terested in patronage or spoils. I'M
dertook to launch a movement, as
| thew believe, for the good of the par
| nv. h11t we were DISTINGUISHED by
| the star chamber action of little
| subcommittee. In that sltuatloIE
| compelled to make choice betWeeA
| two extremes not acceptable to US
we issued a summons for a grea'
| Georgia statesman to lead our fight
and give an opportunity for an ex-
| pression of our viewpoint, and at q
| sacrifice to himself he answered oui
call and took up our fight. He Is
here today. We intend to present
| him as our choice for the Demo-
| cratic nomination. (Applause) But
| if he is not the choice Of the party
then he will be patriotic enough ano
big enough and loyal enough to re-
lease the delegates and set them
free to make choice with the lights
before them"
Senator Smith was greeted with
applause as he rose to acknowledge
the f1attering introduction by Colonel
w. A. Charters. He began by
saying he was not one OF those
who desPairs of success in the for n eGf
SECTION SECTION On the Contrary, he said, if
we act wisely and present our rec
ord as it should he presented we
can place again a Democratic presl-
dent in the White House. The Re-
publican party is shot to pieces and
the thing for the Democratic party is
| not to shoot themselves all TO
| pieces.
| 1--WE have to our credit" said SEN
ator Smith, "a ma gnificent record of
constructive achievement, a record in
which the Democratic congress
shares part of the praise with the
| Democratic president. We can plant
ourselves upon our achievements and
win in November, but it would be
stupid to launch our campaign upon
| the proposition that President Wilson
! has never made a single mistake and
| is incapable of making a mistake"
| q
audience and they responded with
| applause. The senator then men
| toned as among the matters on
which he disagreed with President
| Wilson the immigration bill and the
bill repeating the daylight saving
law. The immigration bill, as he
pointed out, was aimedj at keeping
out of this country the ignorant and
vicious scum of Europe. Congress
passed it and the president vetoed
it, and congress passed it over his
| veto.
Palmer asks you," said he, Ito
| approve the presidents veto and
| disapprove the action Of congress.
| He asks you to approve the presi-
dents veto of the bill repeating the
daylight saving law, which under
| took to change the sun and the solar
system, and to disapprove the action
| Of congress"
But he made it plain that
what he said was not a criticism
| of the president. He said he would
not be guilty of a single syllable of
| criticism of the presidents great rec
| ord. He was merely contending that
to write a platform at the San Fran
| cisco convention based upon the the
| Dry that President Wilson could do
no wrong and make no mistake would
be absurd and suicidal for the party.
ct do not believe" said he, "in a
| one-man government. That is not
| the kind of government our fore
| fathers fought for. If the admins
trative branch Of the government is
to pass all the laws then we might
as we'll dispense with the legislative
branch"
| With regard to Mr.. Palmer's can
didacy, Senator Smith said:
| HE is running in Georgia and
! Pennsylvania. The Democrats there
are vigorously opposing him because
| he bolted a Democratic nomination in
his state two years ago. They are OPP
| posing him because they consider him
disqualified as commander-in-ch chief OF
the army and navy because of his
| Quaker religious beliefs, 1 am going
to begin my candidacy by carrying
my own state, and then 1 am going
into Pennsylvania and make as many
| speeches against Mr.. Palmer as he
makes in Georgia against me Qaugh-
ter and applause), and when we get
to San Francisco I will have more
| delegates than he has. Of course
he thinks he is running strong in
Georgia because Colonel Dean and
| Clark Howell have told him so
/ (Laughter) He thinks he will carry
Hall county because Colonel Dean
has told him he would carry it
Laughter.) Hall county always
it by Colonel Dean"
This struck the audience as ex-
tremely amusing, and they respond
ed accordingly.
Then Senator Smith paid his re.
| spects to the Atlanta Constitution
For more than a quarter of a cen.
tury," said he, that newspaper has
sought to belittle and misrepre
sent my official conduct Prob.
ably it's grievance goes back tc
the time when I bought a little
afternoon newspaper in Atlanta an6
in two years built up circulation
superior to that of the Constitution
'In 1892 the Constitution supported
| David B. Hill for the Democratic
nomination and I supported Grover
Cleveland and helped to carry the
state for him and he appointed me
to his cabinet and the Constitution
never recovered. Then, in 1906
Clark Howell ran for governor ant
L ran against him and he carried,
believe, thirteen counties, and tina
hurt him awfully. Whenever my
name is mentioned the Constitution
cannot tell the truth. 1t has il