Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-17
G.. O. P. WEAK IN
WEST, DECLARES
SENATOR SMITH

That the Harding-Cooledge ticket
nominated by the Republicans in Chi
cago is strong in the east, but weak
in the west, and that the south may
look for a reign of negr officeholders
if the present Republican organ1Za-
ton goes into power in the coming
election, were opinions expressed
Wednesday by Senator Hoke Smith
on his return to Atlanta.
Following the adjournment of con-
gress Senator Smith went to New
York to spend a few days with his
daughter, Mrs Pratt, who was Miss
Callie Hoke Smith, and who has just
returned with her husband from a
business trip which took him to sew
eral European countries. The sem
ator is at the Piedmont hotel, and
will be there continuously for the
next two months. He will not go
to the Democratic convention in San
Francisco.
Asked whether he would make the
race for reelection to the senate, he
jokingly replied to the reporters that
he would send for them when he
got ready to make an announce
ment on that subject.
my informa ton is" said Senator
Smith, that Harding and Coolidge
are acceptable to the Republicans
of the east and are probably as
strong a ticket as could be nominated
for that section, but everything west
of Ohio has been disregarded. We
carried the election in 1916 by carry
ing Ohio, the south and some west
ern states We ought to be stronger
four years ago"
With regard to Democratic candi-
dates the senator said:
"The two candidates principally
discussed are McAdoo and Cox, with
favor of Marshall. McAdoo has a
good following everywhere. Cox, it
is claimed, is very strong in Ohio.
He has carried the state three times
for governor. His friends all say
if we nominate him for president
we will beat Harding in Ohio. If
Cox were nominated for president,
| and Meredith, the Iowa secrtary of
agriculture, or Chamberlain, of Ore
gon, were. put on for vice president,
With regard to the Republican
platform, the senator indicated that
he considered it a rather shrewd
piece of work Notwithstanding the
ridicule with which Democrats have
| greeted it.
1--WE have ridiculed the Republi-
| cans for adopting an indefinite plat
| form on the League Of Nations he
said. "It would, indeed, be very
unfortunate for the Democrats to
specifically indorse the League of
Nations as the president brought it
back from Paris. We might indorse
it. with essential reservations or
without destructive reservations and
| get along. The people who believe
| in substantial reservations regard
them as destructive of all that is
dangerous in the league and de-
structive Of nothing that is good in
the league"
On the south's prospect Of Repub-
lican office holders in the event of
tial election, Senator Smith thought
this prospect ought to be remember
| ed by Georgia Democrats who have
been talking of votin gthe Repub-
| lican ticket.
I'VE might as we'll understand
that if the present Republican or
| ganization captures the country, we
are going to have trouble here in
our local offices. 1t will take the
hardest kind of a fight to the white
people of the state. Senator Moses,
CT New Hampshire, has his resolu-
ton pending to investigate elections
in the south. Henry Lincoln john
| son has been made Republican ma
t1onal committeeman from Georgia.
We may look for as ugly an effort
to force on Georgia objectional Re-
publican appointees under Republi-
can administration as we have ever
negro deputy marshals and collec-
tors of internal revenue enforcing
prohibition should swarm the state?
Even the white Republicans ought
TIC quit the party in Georgia after
| the perfOrmance in Chicago