Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-01
SAYS SOLID SOUTH"
CAN Be: BROKEN FOR
G. 0. P. BY HOOVER
Field Agent Submits Inter-
esting Data to Headquar-
. tiers of Forces Trying to
Secure Hoover Nomination
(The Atlanta Journal News BureaW
623 Riggs Building.
1y THEODORE TILLER

BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, April 3O.-It be-
came known here today that field
agent representing Herbert Hoover's
campaign headquarters has made
survey of all the southern states
and has reported that as the Repub-
Iican nominee Hoover can break the
solid SOUTH" This report was moi
made for general circulation, but was
prepared for guidance of the Hoo'er
Headquarters and for submission &c
Republican leaders in efforts to per-
suade them to nominate Hoover.
A copy of this remarkable docu-
ment. which was sent to certain Re-
publicans here by the New York
headquarters of Hoover. has been
seen by The Journal correspondent
The report goes so far as to claim
North Carolina for Hoover on the
Republican ticket, and asserts that
If Hoover is nominated four congress
sional districts in Georgia will &c
Republican.
Aside from it's use in inner circles
as a Hoover campaign document, the
special report if it truly reflects
conditions, shows an unusual situa-
ton in the southern states and is in
teresting reading, whatever the south
may think Of Hoover. Among other
things, the report says, that. Hoover
has an understanding of the pecu-
liar race problem of the southern
states.
The survey Of the south was made
by H. Ward Smith, who was sent
out from New York to go through
the southern states. Mr.. Smiths
report to his headquarters is alleged
to be based on first-hand informa.
ton and talks with prominent Dem
ocrats who are ready to break away
from the old party lines in all Sec
tions of the south. That part of
the report relating to Georgia was
evidently written while the Palmer
Smith Watson primary contest was
on, but it is announced Hoover clubs
will spring up there, now that the
primary is over.
z, 2. VS. for Hoover
No names Of Democrats about to
flop are carried except as to Vir-
ginia, where it is said:
ION coming into Virginia, we find
one of the oldest families of the
state, of perhaps one of the most
prominent. one that has always voted
the Democratic ticket, supporting
Hoover. Berkeley Williams, of the
old firm of John L. Williams &c Son,
Richmond. is st3te chairman, while
Alvin Smith is chairman of the city
of Richmond There is little doubt
in the minds of those who have had
practical experience in Virginia poll
tics that the Virginians will favor
Hoover after they have carried oui
their instructions for Lowden re-
ceived at the state convention
The H. Ward Smith report says in
part:
Memphis, Chattanooga, Nashville,
Knoxville and Columbus are all hot
beds of Hooverites. Clubs are being
organized throughout the state; the
leading Republicans are assisting in
the Hoover movement and large
numbers of Democrats have Joined
hands with them. Prior to Mr..
Hoover's letter from California, the
Democrats in Tennessee, North Car
DINA, Georgia, Alabama and South
Carolina had prepared to instruct
their delegates to the San Francisco
convention for Hoover. In Tonnes
see the Democratic majority is some
$4,000 out of a total of 100000. In
North Carolina, the Democrats have
majority of some 10000 out of a
total varying from 100000 to 270, 900.
This state sends twelve electors to
the electoral college.
1--WE find the same overwhelming
sentiment in North Carolina for
Hoover that we find in all southern
states; many of the delegates from
this state to the Chicago convention
frankly admit that they are for
Hoover. The student body, as we'll
as the faculty of the University of
influences in the state-are all for
Hoover, and the vast majority will
vote for him on the Republican
ticket. A Hoover Republican club is
being perfected, and as soon as the
state primaries are out of the way,
the leading Democrats, influential
not only in North Carolina, but men
Of national Importance, will declare
for Hoover Oh the Republican ticket
This practically assures the state
for Hoover in November.
I'm Georgia. there is a hot fight
which has come about since Hoover
definitely announced he would con.
slider only the Republican nomination
In view of the state Democratic
campaigns. the Hoover clubs canno
maries. The leading Republicans anC
Democrats are joining hands in Geor
gia for the support of Herber
Hoover.
THE Democrats frankly state the!
will vote for Hoover on the Repub
lican ticket should he secure TIL
Chicago nomination. If nominated
Hoover will poll the biggest vot
ever polled by a Republican in Geor
gia and will carry at least four con
gressional districts for the Republi
can party.
In Florida the sentiment is quit
as pronounced as in other southern
states, and for the first time the Re
publican party, if it dominates Hoo
yer. will enter Florida with a larg,
wedge. In Alabama, fifty of tn
states most prominent business mel
are organizing for Mr.. Hoover, an,
IN addition he will have the backing
Of the leading organization men o
The state. It is generally conceded
lie will have half of Alabama's four
teen delegates to the Chicago con
yention on the first ballot. If nomi
In the state, especially in Montgom
cry, Birmingham and Mobile
Similar statements are made re
garding a great deal of Hoover sen
timent in both parties in Louisiana
Mississippi and South Carolina. Hoo
YER is declared to be the only indi
vidual who can overturn the time
worn traditions of the southern Dem
o-rats. The southerner will vot
only for Hoover, the man, and tn
Hoover policy.
THE southerner recognizes tina
the negro is an American citizen
here l quote practically in its es
sence the summarized opinion o
iraGing men of the southland a
such is entitled to the rights guarar
teed to him by the constitution. 1
big local and social relationships,
= the southerner's conviction tina
az negro is citizen of the state In
@z-far as those customs and laws
rot violate or infringe upon his ma
tional rights under the constitution
Herbert Hoover fully appreciate
those facts, and that is one of tn