Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26
FIGHT Of REED FOR
CONVENTION SEAT
MAY Be SPIRITED
Supporters Are Planning
to. Offer McAdoo as
Compromise Prohibition
Fight May Not Develop


Democratic national committee in
making up the temporary roll of the
convention today was scheduled to
settle two fights for convention seats.
One of the disputes conferred on the
contest over Georgia's twenty-eight
seats, while the other involved one
of the two seats from the Fifth Mis-
souri, district.
Senator James Reed, one of Presi-
dent Wilson's most bitter opponents,
chosen by his district as a national
delegate, was rejected by the Mis-
souri, state convention and his seat
declared vacant. AS the matter
stood, the alternate, James T. Brad
shaw, of Kansas City, Reed adhe-
rent, was slated to occupy the sena-
tors place in the national convention.
A few days ago the persons who
constituted the district convention at
which Senator Reed was elected
unanimously reelected him. The ma
tional committee has taken the atti-
tude that the district convention, ait"
err discharging it's duties in electing
him originally, had no legal status
and that Senator Reed would have to
file formal protest with the COM
mittee.
Up to an early hour, Reed, who Is
now in San Francisco, had not done
this.
Should he fail to make contest
before the national committee ne
could still take his, case before the
credential committee which makes
I'D the permanent roll, or even later
90 before the convention and ask that
he be included on the permanent roll
Georgia Contest
There are two full delegations from
Georgia each claiming the right to
he seated, The delegation elected by
the regular state convention is mead
ed by Charles S. Barrett. president OF
the National Farmers Union; 1t is
uninstructed as to candidates. but
opposed to a platform indorsing the
League of Nations as brought from
Paris yzPresident Wilson The 9TH
err delegation, chosen at meeting or
the supporters of A. Mitchell Palmer
which was held after their participa-
ton in the regular convention, Is IN
structed to vote for the attorney gen
eraI.
The contest for national commit
teeman from Georgia is involved In
the fight for seats in the convention.
The Palmer delegation. if seated, will
present the name Of Clark Howell Tor
reelection, while the Barrett forces
will nominate w. J. Vereen, who was
chosen by the Georgia state conven-
ton on roll call vote.
The committees decision in the
Georgia contest will be appealed TO
the credentials committee of the con-
vention, it is believed, regardless of
which Of the factions is placed on
the temporary roll.
The Reed case may prove diff
f1cult to deal with. An effort to place
the senator on the floor Of the con-
vention, although the Missouri state
convention rejected him as a dele
gate-at-large, was expected, and, be-
cause of his attitude toward the ad-
ministration during senate battles
over the peace treaty, it was said to
would be met before the committee.
McAdoo Boom PERSISTENT
The third contest, from oregon,
was not regarded as a serious case
and might not, it was said, material
ize at all. In fact, national commit
tee officials did not know before they
assembled to examine credentials
what appearance was to be made in
any of the contest cases.
Overnight developments showed
two matters that have been in
nebulous stage since the first Demo-
cratic leaders arrived here to be
approaching more definite shape.
These were the mysterious and per-
sistent boom for nomination of Will
liam G.. Meade, even against his
fat declaration that he was not
candidate, and the conflict as to
prohibition enforcement plank in the
platform.
McAdoo adherents were said early
today to be shaping their plans to
withhold his name from the ballot
ing throughout the early stages.
They have learned that the former
secretary of the treasury still has
strong following, but are said to feel
that in view of his attitude 1t would
not be expedient to present his name
Gnless the expected deadlock ~.
tween the leading candidates, Palmer
and Governor Cox, of Ohio, should
develop.
In that event there appeared to be
little doubt that McAdoo would be
put forward to break the blockade
with the assurance aof considerable
stdength at the start. His friends
are said to have put their heads to-
gether to formulate plans of this ma
ture, and map out strategy Of the
subsequent campaign to obtain fs3
him the two-thirds majority on
which Democratic nominations must
rest.
May ignore Prohibition
On the prohibition enforcement
question, heretofore the most promi-
nent subject of discussion in coHr
vention circles. there developed yes
terday a sudden movement to ig-
more the question entirely in the
platform. Suggestions Of this ma
ture came to Chairman Cummings
of the national committee, from
camps representing various shades
of opinion ranging from bone dry TO
almost as completely wet.
These feelers toward a harmony