Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23
Il Tide That Rises Stronger
With Each Attembt to Stem II

With Each Attembt to Stem II
-H HE little group of political dictators
who have so stubbornly decided to
do both the thinking and the voting
for thousands of their fellow Georgians are
finding it impossible to kill what they set out
to kill
Not only are their repeated attempts to
crush the life out of Hoover supporters in
Georgia proving fruitless, put occasionally
they are proving drol1. To announce the
death of public movement one day, only to
make the same announcement a few days
later, is, to say the least, bewildering That
is, it would be bewildering to any one to
whom it was not patent that these frequent
inquests are being held over remarkably
lively corpse.
The fact of the matter is that the sub
committee of the Democratic State Executive
committee and it's clique of partisan primary
rulers are trying in vain to assasinate, by
word as we'll as deed, statewide sentiment
that grows stronger with every blow they
strike against it.
Three times they struck hard. Once a
caucus of the subcommittee sought to bar
Hoover's name from the preferential primary
and cram their own program down the
voters Threats by arbitrarily fixing a rule
to suit their own case. Once again the sub
committee, with a typically partisan inquiry
and typical political trick, strove to force
into politicians uniform the man whom the
people want because, first of all, he refuses
to be bound blindly in advance by any parti-
san pledge. A third time, desperately re-
solved to exterminate this peril to their own
pleasure and profit, they deafened their ears
to the voice Of the entire state, and again re-
fused to listen to appeals from every part
of Georgia.
Each time they planned death-blow, each
time they congratulated themselves that they
had successfully throttled this menace to
themselves, even though it meant the throt-
Ting of every instinct of true democracy and
fairplay.
eve have killed it," they said. "Let the
play go on
/. But did they kill it?
The answer is the signed statement last
week of two hundred and thirty-fve Demo
Gratis of Hall county, original signers of the
petition for Hoovers name the primary,
including county officials, county judges,
chairman of the county Democratic executive
committee and other members OF the COM
mittee, the mayor of Gainesville and city Of
ficials, the president of the chamber of COM
merce, presidents of the railroads, presidents
of the banks and the colleges superintendent
of mills and factories, lawyers and doctors
and a host of other thinking, reputable cit
liens of high standing, declaring their con-
viction that in his principles Herbert Hoover
is a true Democrat and reaf1rming their de-
nland that his name go in the Georgia pri-
mary.
The answer is the declaration of Colonel
H. II. Perry, prominent lawyer of Gainesville
that far from subsding in Hall county, the
sentiment for Herbert Hoover is stronger
and more widespread than ever,' and that
s'in addition to the town feeling, I am cred
IDLY told that two-thirds of the voters
throughout the county are strongly fol-
Hoover
The answer is the open ietter addressed
last week to the State Executive Committee
by Lon J. Mcconnell, leading Democrat OF
Royston, from which we quote part: The
great body of Georgia Democrats are doing
some very earnest thinking and plain talking
about your invading their rights at the bal
lot box in the approaching presidential pri
mary. They are not willing for the servant
to assume the role of master, nor for the
creature to dictate to and coerce the creator
Your committee has shut the gate on every
body but professional Democrats, and has
told the real Democrats to go to the devil
The answer, again, is the organization il
Chattanooga Friday of Hoover-for-Pre
club at meeting attended by two hundred
leading Democrats, including the editors O.
both Chattanooga newspapers, and the ap
pointment of a committee to organize SINH
lar clubs throughout the state of Tenn essee
The people want him in Tennessee. They
want him in North Carolina. They want hin
in California. They want him in the middle
west, in the gulf states and along the shores
of the Great Lakes. Everywhere, east, west
north and south, there is lusty, spontane
Gus, insistent cry from the rank and file o
the Democratic voters of the nation for Her
pert fzoover for president. It is not from
the politicians-the old-line rulers of boil
parties fighting it tooth and nail-it i
from the men and women who pay the taxes
bear the burdens and carry on the real bust
ness, make the real tissues of America. The
are sick and weary of the political jugglers
who have made American elections their owl
pet vaudeville shows and have never missed
the chance to turn American government int
a stage for their own strutting.
No coterie of cock-sure autocrats, AM
mated by a desire to hug to themseve
the power and privileges of a positio
which is theirs only by the sufferanc
of their fellowhen, can set themselves up t
defeat the overwhelming will of determine
people and ride down their rights as thong
they were so many tumbleweeds in the road
Herbert Hoover's boom for the presidency