Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-16
HOOVER SENTIMENT
IN GAINESVILLE IS
STRONGER THAN EVER
BY ROGERS WINTER

I NNI4NILEo v lI4ILID' NIct's NhSSi Sii
| IL anybody has the impression that
| the Hoover supporters Of this city
and county, where the original
Hoover petition was signed, have
gone over bodily to Attorney Gen
cral Palmer, as somewhat broadly
intimated in a recent dispatch from
here to an Atlanta newspaper, he
is very much mistaken.
What happened was that an in
vitation was circulated requesting
Mr.. Palmer to come here and speak
in the course of the campaign which
it has been announced he viii make
in Georgia for the support of Geor-
Sia Democrats in their preferential
primary to be held April 20.
OF course some Hoover support
ers. who had signed the Hoover
petition, readily affixed their sigma
lures to the Palmer invitation. II
would be unlike any Georgian to
refuse TO invite a public man to
come to his town to make a speech
especially when that man happens
to be the attorney general of the
United States.
If those circulating the Palmer
invitation intended to commit the
Hoover supporters to support of
Palmer, they said nothing about it
when they were circulating their
invitation. Hence the dispatch was
quite a surprise to the Hoover sup
porters.
There is not a word of truth In
the report that the Hoover supporters
nave gone flocking over to Palmer
said Colonel W. A. Charters, former
ly solicitor general of this circuit
now q lawyer at the Gainesville bar
and one of the ablest men in this part
of the state.
Il signed the Hoover petition with
full knowledge Of what Hoover is
he continued. 81 knew then that he
was neither an old-line Democrat nor
an old-line Republican, but was an
Independent progressive Republican
so far as he had any party affiliations
at all. That was before the war
Since the war his Identification has
been with the Democratic administra.
ton. He issued a statement in 1919
urging the election of a Democratic
congress to support the Democra tic
administration. II the country had
taken his advice, l might remark by
way Of parenthesis, we would not
now have divided government IN
Washington.
Il am frank to say that 1 would
prefer to give the Democratic nom
ination to some old-line Democra;
who has long been affiliated with tho
| party-if we had one who had any
| chance in the world to be elected.
But what have we got in the way
Of old-line Democrats who can win
Can Palmer be elected? 1 do not
think so. Can McAdoo be eleetedY
| do not think so, although 1 would
very much like to see him president
Can Champ Clark be elected? l think
that question answers itself.
I'VE have got to nominate a man
who will carry the independent vote
or at least part of it, if we want tc
elect Democratic president. II
| seems to be generally agreed
| throughout the country that Hoove,
| is the man, if there be a man. That
| is why 1 favor Hoover for the DEM
ocratic nomination. I consider hin
| by far the most available man WI
could place at the head of our ticket
Another Hoover supported inter
viewed by The Journal correspond
VII was J. CIlA JdCkSOll, d
banker, owner of the Jackson build
ing, and one of the leading business
men of Gainesville.
81 want a business administration
Of the national government" said he
"and Hoover is the man who Car
| give it to us. I am tired of polite
and politicians. Look what partisan
ship has done to the peace treaty.
What we need in this country Il
| a reduction of the taxes, a paymen
Of the war debt in a reasonab1,
| length of time, q general stoppag.
| Of waste and extravaganza, a firm
| and fearless handling of the acut,
| Industrial problem that has curtail
| cd production in every line.
''Who is the man that can give u
| such an administration? Herber
| Hoover. Who is the man who cal
| win for the Democrats, if anybod,
| can? Herbert Hoover. The countr,
| wants him but the politicians don't
there you have the answer to tn,
| situation in Georgia and in othe
states.
eff he were elected president, a.
[ believe he would if we nominate,
him, he would destroy every poiit;ca
AAhS Al ChO COuhI II y. AZ least, / ne
lieye he would, and that is anothe
reason [ am for him. That is rrob
ably the reason why all the ring poll
| ticians are against him. We've go
| some here in Georgia who are DOW
| erfully worried about his 'demCcr
| acy,' but they'd be the first to elm
| 20 the front seat Of the Hoover BAN
wagon if he were nominated, an,
| you wouldn't hear one of then
! chirp about his democracy
| '"Inis subcommittee action j,
| shutting us out of the primary i
| the most high-handed piece of poll
| tics [ ever saw put over anywhere
| If we cannot get Hoover's name O,
the ticket, [ am in favor of putin,
| on the name of some Hoover ma,
| whom the subcommittee cannot rul
off,
The latter suggestion was runnin!
! in the mind of Colonel H. H. Perry
distinguished Gainesville Democrat
| who circulated the Hoover petition
which nearly $50 Democrats of this
city and county signed some week:
| ago.
Il have just been reading Judg,
| Andrew CObb's interview in Til
! Journal" said Colonel Perry. I'll
makes All unanswerable argumen
| against the subcommittee action
and it is a judicial argument all tn,
| way through. The subcommittee
cannot defend itself against tina
sort of logic. Nobody can question