Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-05
Full Details Of Methods
Georgia Palmer Men WlU
Use In Effort TO Be Scared

primary, promulgated by the state
ccnG2aI committee, together with q
complete copy OF the returns, show
ing che votes received by the various
candidates fer delegates and alter
nates, by districts or taken in the
aggregate, throughout the state, ac-
cording to the method of selec-
ton"
OF course, it was impossible for
Secretary Gardner to show the votes
received by candidates for dele
gates and alternates," since there
were no such candidates. But he did
put in a copy of the rules of the
state committee for the conduct of
the primary, as Well as a copy of the
order for the holding of the primary
promulgated by the COMMITTEES
Around Rule X, on which the Palmer
mission to the national convention,
he drew a ring to call special atten-
ton to it. And he put in also copy
of the resolution adopted by the
subcommittee on rules of the state
committee, declaring Mr.. Palmer the
winner of the primary and declaring
him entitled, by virtue Of rule x, to
name the delegates to the national
convention. And he put in also
copy of the resolution adopted by
this action by the subcommittee.
On its face, the credentials issued
to the Palmer delegates by Secre-
tary Gardner constitute a certificate
that Pleasant \. Stovall and the
other Palmer delegates were duly
state in the Democratic national
convention" when as, matter OF
fact there were no delegates elected
in the primary.
This Form or Nothing
But in view. of the tact that the
h11t
forms, and in view of the impossi-
bility of using the form provided for
delegates elected by a state conven-
ton, it was absolutely necessary to
certify that the Palmer delegates
were duly elected in a primary" 1t
was either that or nothing, and they
had to have something. So they got
from Secretary Gardner certificate
saying they were elected in primary,
and their evident intention is to
twist Rule 10 to fit these credentials.
No such embarrassing difficulties
beset the regular delegates elected
by the state convention. The form
of credentials provided for delegates
elected by a state convention fits
their status like a glove. They. do
or amend them or explain them or
attach brief to them. Neither do
they require from any state chair
man a certificate of something that
did not exist and does not exist, as
the Palmer delegates were forced to
require from Secretary Gardner in
getting his certificate that they were
duly elected in primary"
The form of credentials for dele
gates elected by a state convention Is
as follows:
"This is to certify that at q state
convention Of the Democratic party
of the state of ..........., duly and
regularly called, convened and organ
lied, by authority of the Democratic
state central committee, in accord
ance with party rules and customs
and the laws of the state, in the city
OF. ..........,o on the ..... day of
.............., 1890, the following
named persons were duly elected
delegates and a1ternates to represent
the said state in the Democratic ma
tional convention to be held in the
city of San Francisco, state of Cali
fornia, on the 2sth day Of June,
1920, to witt"
the names of the delegates And
after the names the following certi-
fcate by the chairman and secretary
Of the state convention:
State Chairman's Certificate
''In witness where. we, the under
signed, respectively chairman and
have hereunto set our hands this
...''... day of. ........... 1890"
And below this certificate is the
following to be signed by the chair
man of the Democratic state central
committee:
At hereby certify that. .........,
were duly Constituted oaicers Of a
state convention regularly called and
convened for the purpose of e1ecting
delegates ana a1ternates to the Dem
ocratic national convention from the
state state OF 5000. as aforesaid, and
e eeat they ns are s TS
Given under my hand this 49,. day
of ............, 1920, in the city Of
........., state of ............."
AS will be observed from reading
the form Of credentials provided for
delegates elected by a state conven-
i glove samu uegG L. owe See chair
man, and E. B. Moore, secretary, of
the state convention held in Atlanta
May Is, will sign these credentials,
and Chairman Flynt, of the state
committee will sign the certificate.
tificates above reproduced, it will not
be necessary for these gentlemen to
amend, qualify, explain, change, ex-
tenuate or modify what they sign in
single particular.
The primary credentials for the
Palmer delegates were signed by
Secretary Gardner on May 81, on the
day following the state convention,
and were turned over to Clark
Howell, Democratic national COM
mftteeman from Georgia, and by him
forwarded to the secretary of the
national committee in Washington.
The convention credentials for the
regular delegates will be signed by
Chairman Olive and Secretary Moore
of the state convention, and certified
by Chairman Flynt of the state COM
mittee, and will be forwarded to the
secretary Of the national committee
in the next few days.