Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-01
GEORGIA DELEGATES
DENIED SEATS; DID
NOT APPEAL CASE
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tude which the regular delegates
found themselves up against: Felix
Jackson, a prominent Gainesville
business man and banker, who has
been urged to make the race for gov
ernor, and who was a supporter of
Senator Hoke Smith in the Georgia
presidential primary, ran across an
old friend from Texas in one of
the hotel Hobbies.
Mr.. Jackson lived for twenty-five
years in the Lone Star state and was
| more or less active in Texas politics.
His Texas friend greeted him with with
appropriate cordiality, as they had
/ been friends and political cronies in
! the past But when the Texas friend
discovered that Mr.. Jackson was
here as a member of the delegation
contesting the credentials of the
| asserted with brutal frankness that
"any man who supported Hoke Smith
| in the Georgia primary was not q
loyal Democrat or loyal American"
Then and thereupon Mr.. Jackson
told him just where to head in or
| where to get off, as the saying goes.
| His language was neither profane nor
rough, but it was equally as frank
as the Texans language. When Mr.:
Jackson finished the Texas friend
| walked around and approached Mr..
jackson from another angle and apol-
| ogized again. Later in the day ne
returned and repeated his apology,
which, of course, was accepted. But
when it came to a vote in the Gre
| dentials committee, the Texas mem
Der voted against the regular delega-
| ton.
This incident is typical of the
prejudiced attitude and hoStlle view
point which the regular Georgia aGiea
gates have encountered not only since
I the day Of their arrival in San Fran e
cisco, but almost since the, day Oh
their departure from Atlanta.
| Their fellow Democrats from eV-
erv state were informed in advance
| that they were bolsheviks and reds
and anarchists and hence were en-
| titled to no consideration In a Delho-
/ cratic convention.
Resent Palmer Mems Methoos
OF course, the mempers Oh th9
regular delegation do not intend ana
have not threatened to bolt their
marty. although some newspapers OIL
| Republican persuasion in san F Fran,
cisco have egged them on TO MARI ~ =
such threats in their accounts OF the
| Gaoreia controversy. But they DO
in+en1 to have their inning when
thew return home, and they Will pla o,e
| the blame exactly where IT pel1nge
| for the propaganda Whlch mas oeo--
The regular Georgia delegates 90
NOT resent the fact that they W WERE
| denied admission to the DenociaiCto
convention, if the mere oecls ~ IL
onIv thing involved. But what they y
| DO resent and resent very deeply -
| the fact that they were thrown 9 Cyl
because their fellow democrats; ote
not consider sd5nct then M t the 20
'iA what thew do resent with a great
| daal of intensity is the fact that
thev were branded before they got
here with the brand of dlsloyalLX u
their party and their 1r f tIo hsve been
treated as Ishmaelites who deserved
nothing better than political panlsl a.
! ment. Their resentment IS nv
/ against the Democrats mere assem- IN,
| h1ed from other states. 1t centers on
those who manufactured IN Geor a i
and issued from Georgia a propagah-
| da of villification and abuse. ,,
In the regular delegation are men Ell
Democracy from boyhood up: In the the
| delegation are men who sent the II
| sons to France, men who Went 70
! France themselves, men VINO saVeo
| and sacrificed to support the govern Ell, =
ment on the home front, men VINO
| have done the homely chores OF poll
tics for the administration since the
| dav President Wilson entered tne
| race for the Democratic NOMINATION
eight years ago IN the Georgia - :
Arguments the Same
Yet here they find themselves pan
| ished from participation IN Denlo-
cratic council by their haXl nra i GIni,
views which occasionally d1tf td g
with the views of other Democrats
In a convention of a party WhosS
cardinal principle is free oP1alon an ana 9
Excluded because their free opinion
| has been portrayed as disloya. opln-
| ion and because the majority Nnlc1
| thew represent had been pof way Gu
as a bolshevik MOB. -. +ba
! credentials committee at the near.
ing tonight were practlcaadltya 'n ne
those presented Saturday at the
hearing before the national commit
roll. Bv reason of being the con
testants while the Palmer delegates
were the contestees, the regular DEL
egates had the opening r and cIc Perr 81
laid the foundation of the regular
! delegates. Colonel Dean. and Ogdetl
| Persons spoke thirty minutes eaGn L
| Former Senator HardW1ck closed the
| Colonel Perry showed that all par
tv usage and court decisions, IN SO
far as the courts have ruled on the
| question, were on the side OF the
| regular delegates in their contention
that a state executive committee mas
no power to control the action OF
state convention.
Colonel Dean bore down on the
proposition that the presidential pri-
mary and the convention coupled with
| If were not a stated primary or a
! stated convention, but merely an ad
interim procedure put In motlon
bv the state committee. =
Hardwick-Dean Tilt
His argument was that While the
! state committee would have no power
to control the action of the state
| convention meetin biennially to make
party rules and elect a committee, in
this particular case the presidential
primary and it's accompanying con-
vention were solely the creatures of
the committee and as such were linn
tied to the rules prescribed.
Mr.. Persons dwelt at length on the
proposition that all of the candi-
dates submitted to the rules without
a protest and then the two defeated
candidates set aside the rules when
the contest was over. Former Sen
ator Hardwick made a poWderful ar
gument on the proposition that every
delegation from Georgia to national
convention TO reighty years has been
delegation elected by state con-
vention, and that state conventions
have always been recognized by ma
| tional conventions as the supreme
authority in the naming of state dele
cations.
Practically all members of both