Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-26
STATE CONVENTION
IS HELD ON MONDAY
IN CITY OF MACON

totally and unalterably opposed t.
the covenant.
With regard to the coming cleo
ton, Chairman FIynt declared it the
Cox and Roosevelt the biggest Dem
/ Ocratic majority in the history OF
the state.
| Governor Cox will not be able
to force through the senate the
League of Nations covenant, "said
| Chairman Flynt, but Senator Hard
ing, if elected, will be able to force
| upon us horde of negro office
holders. They put US on notice what
| to expect, when they elected Henry
! Lincoln Johnson to the national COM
mittee."
If there is any detection from the
ranks of democracy in the presiden-
| tial election, Chairman Flynt de-
clared, it will not consist of the
Democrats who voted for Hardwck
, for Palmer, Dorsey and Walker. This
comment brought tremendous APP
plause.
At the close of his speech Chair
man Flynt recessed the convention
thirty minutes for the credentials
committee to examine the credentials
Of the delegates.
The credentials committee had no
contests. their work was a mere for
mality, and was soon disposed of;
The rules committee recommended
that the rules of the house of rep
re sentatives be made the rules of
the convention, the report was adopt
ed.
Following these reports, Chairman
Flynt called for nominations Tor
permanent chairman. William j. We
III, L NlXrn ND
he was elected by acclamatlon. In
accepting the permanent chairman
ship, Judge Flynt reiterated his ap-
peal for the Democrats of Georgia
to give Cox and Roosevelt record
breaking majority on November z.
Chairman Flynt then announced
the committee on platform and res
olutions as follows:
J K. Hines, Fulton; G. C. Dekle.
Jenkins; r. c. Andrews, Thomas; e.
w. Foy, Taylor; A: D. Jones' Merl-
wether: o. NJ. Duke, Butts; c. M.
Head. Cobb: T. S. Lunsford, Ebert;
B. J. Stevens, McDuffie; j. +.
knight, Berrien; B. w. Moye, john
son.
Pott1e Nominated Kardwick
The committee retired to draft the
platform of the convention. During
a recess of ten minutes. Roland
Ellis. of Macon, reused the delegates
to a pitch of intense enthusiasm
with an impromptu speech DECLARING
W. Hardwick is back in the senate
This was followed Immediately py
the nomination of Mr.. Hardwick by
Joseph E. Pottle, the brilliant Mill
edgeville lawyer.
The triumph of Mr.. HardWlck,
said Mr.. Pottle, demonstrated tn MAJ
of opinion still rel gn in Georgia. 1t
demonstrated further, that the Dem,
ocrats of Georgia will not be ruled
by a callous political oligarchy that
ruthIessly brushes all who disobey
it's orders.
Senator Hardwick has not come
back" said Mr.. Pottle. He has
never been anywhere to come back
from. Two years he WAS made the
victim of the most cruel propaganda
in Georgia's political history. He
sacrificed the glittering prize of a
place in the senate before he would
stu. .ify himself by accepting op1n-
ions constructed for him by men i'll
high autho rity.
"He passed through the fire of
Islander and persecution and came
out tnsco thed, without the olor Of
fire npon his garments and without
scar upon his flesh.
To-day 1 have the honor and high
privilege of nominating him for the
high office of governor, a man of
full stature, a mans man, whose
courage has never wavered and
whose loyalty has never failed"
Mr. Politics. speech was brief and
full of eloquent fire, one of the
ever delivered in Georgia political
convention.
The nomination OF MIR. Hardwick
was seconded by w. J. Peterson, of
Montgomery county, whose eloquence
won repeated applause.
was then confirmed by the conven-
ton by an uproarious viva voce vote
and Chairman Flynt appointed James
B. Nevin, of Fulton; Clayton w. Rob
son, of Baldwin. and d. 3. Blalock
as a notification committee to escort
the nominee to the platform.
AS Mr.. Hardwick came on the
stage, the delegates rose en- masse
and gave the rebel yell in stem
torian chorus. A delegate rushed to
the stage with an enormous broom OF
green cane, bearing the label: The
Third District Stands for a Clean
Sweep"
Mr.. Hardwick acknowledged the
ovation with a bow and a smile, then
launched at once into his address OF
acceptance, the full text of which ap-
pears elsewhere in this issue of The
Journal.
McGregor dominates watson
Mr.. HardWick's address was de-
livered in his usual forceful style,
and was received with repeated out
bursts of 'pplause. At the conclu-
sion of the address, Chairman Flynt;
recognized Major c. E. McGregor, OF
Warrenton, to place in nomination
the name of Thomas r. Watson Tor
United States senator.
Major McGregor gave a brief and
interesting summary of Mr.. Wat
sons career, beginning with his boy
hood at Mercer University, coming
on down through the populist cam
paigns of the nineties, and dwelling
especially on Mr.. Watsons term of
two years in congress from the
Tenth district of Georgia.
'Mr. Watson" he said, was the
friend of the farmer when he took
part in framing the Ocala platform
In 1890. and has been the friend of
the farmer ever since. His imprint
upon The Legislative history of this
republic i'll his two short years III
congress will live in bright glory as
long as the republic endures."
In this connection, he mentioned
the act creating the rural free de-
livery, the act requiring safety APP
planes on railroad trains. the Wat
son exposure of drinking by mem
bers of congress and other features
of Mr.. Watson's record in the ma
tional house.
Paying 2 tribute to Mr.. Watson as
a historian, Major McGregor declar-
ed that his life of jefferson and Life
Of Jackson are the Democratic class