Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-01
Georgia Regulars, Denied
Seats By the Credentials
COMMITTEE, Did MOI Appeal
BY ROGERS WRITER
lEtaH Correspondent of The Jouru


SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.-By a
vote of forty-three to four the Gre
dentials committee Of the Democratic
national convention last night reject
ed the credentials of the regularly
elected Georgia delegates and seat
ed on the permanent roll of the con-
vention the delegation representing
Attorney General Palmer.
The vote was taken at IL O'Clock
Monday night in committee room
Of the city auditorium where the
contest was. sheard-a . 1t was KEN on
roll call in open session. One or
two members of the committee sug
gested going into executive session
to discuss and decide the Georgia
contest, but the overwhelming ma
jority of the committee were ready
to vote without g. discussion, and
saw no necessity for an executive
session.
So small was the vote in favor of
the regular delegation that they did
not request their four lone friends
on the credentials committee to take
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the convention as they realized that
a further fight was useless. The
losers took their medicine with
smile and promised their friends of
the Palmer delegation to see them
back home.
aeorgians Good Losers
It was not a surprise to the regu-
lar delegates when the credentials
committee turned them down, al
though the majority of the vote
against them exceeded their expecta
lions. They fought an uphill fight
they landed in San Francisco, but
they fought it gafnely, and kept
their temper in the face at times OF
extreme provocation and when the
vote was taken in the crowded room
of the credentials committee, with
triumph, they took their medicine
with the smile of good losers,
From the beginning it has been
apparent to every member Of the
We're stacked against them. The
scant consideration accorded them.
and accorded their credentials, and
accorded the convention which elect
ed them and accorded the hundred
thousand Democrats whom they rep
conducted against them from Geor--
gia sources since the adjournment
of the Atlanta convention.
The campaign charges of disloyal-
ty heaped upon those who did not
the contrary, they were kept up with
ing bitterness. The regular delega-
ton had hardly got started on their
| journey to San Francisco before they
realized that their opponents in Geor-
sheviks and reds. They got dose
| of this propaganda hurled in their
teeth from the first delegation with
which they came in contact en- route
to San Francisco.
Regulars Victims of SANDER
| The more delegations they met,
the more they became aware Of the
sort of fight which had been going on
against them under cover. But they
| did not lose heart or give up cour-
age. They came on here to the end
of their journey. and presented their
| credentials on their merits and ac-
copied philosophically, but not with
out protest, a verdict which they
knew would be against them.
! AS stated above. it was extremely
] difficult at times for members of the
/ delegation to hold their temper when
the unmitigated charge of party dis
| loyalty and national disloyalty was
uttered about them in their hearing
| The first thing that greeted them
on their arrival was an interview
| given out by the headquarters
| spokesman of Attorney General
Palmer, describing them as bolshe-
wiki and reds and charging all those
who voted against the attorney gen
eral in the Georgia primary with be-
ing opponents of law and order. This
interview was quite in harmony
with the whole propaganda which
had been issued from Georgia sources
to prejudice their case. Their fell
Il low-Democrats from every state in
the union had been made to believe
that they were not loyal to their
party, that they were not loyal to
their country, and that the voters
whose commission they brought to
San Francisco were enemies of the
party and enemies of the nation.
They found that everybody in the
state of Georgia who voted against
Attorney General Palmer in the Geor-
gia primary had been Jumped togeth-
er in the same category and branded
to the bone with a propaganda issued
against them by their late opponents
in what might have been. but un-
fortunately was not, sportsmanlike
contest.
A Typical incident
Here is an instance of the atti-
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