Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-08
DEPLORES ABUSE
IN THE PRESENT
STATE PRIMARY

Editor Journal: What a pity it is
that in the midst of political cam
paigns we cannot discuss the issues
dispassionately and unprejudiced.
The coming elections this year are
for the purpose of conserving the
public welfare and not for the selfish
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of any one, or the
appeaSing of malignant spleen and
myopic vengeance.
Personally almost any man who
announces for the presidency of the
United States is invariably good
enough to fill that office, but we
should not be influenced mainly by
our personal admiration for a candi-
date but mostly for the things the
candidate stands for.
In all political contests the voter
should think more of the country
than Of the candidate.
There are five distinct reasons why
/ am going to vote for Hoke Smith
in our preferential primary. First,
he is a Georgian; second, he is a
southern statesman; third, the DEM
ocratic party of the south plays the
leading part in the election of a
getting high time that the south was
enjoying this imperative and right
full recognition; fifth, Hoke Smith is
as great and as capable Democrat as
is seeking that distinguished honor.
1 have no personal objections to
A: Mitchell Palmer. I concede his
good citizenship, his substantiability
of character. L am opposed to him
because of some of the things that
he stands for, and because he cannot
carry the section Of country in which
he resides and because he cannot be
elected president of the United States
without the Democratic vote of the
south, and if in the election of a
Democratic president the south must
furnish the votes, she ought not to
be denied the privilege of furnishing
the president.
tain so-called leaders to arouse the
malice rather than the reason of the
masses, because they know that
malice blinds our mental visions and
loses the voter while reason turns
on the light, clarifies the situation
and enables the voter to see clearly
how to discharge his political duties
He who subordinates the welfare
of the state to the interest OF the
candidate commits political crime
There must be stop to mud-sllng-
n ng to tanddates and
their friends who indulge in, such
are unworthy of public support or
public trust, for they will betray
and misrepresent the people or the
cause they profess TO serve.
I am especially proud of the OPP
portunity of voting for a fellow,
Georgian, pre-eminently fitted to fill
the high Office of president. l hope
no Georgian will permit the, oppor-
tunity to pass by, without helping tc
remove the foul blotch from the es-
cutcheon of this republic which has
kept our southland from nr her 9eglt IL
furnishing the country her quota OF
splendid nd d PTeSd lent nt tm9fp s spr
"al1 things being equal" that would
not. support her southern, Democrat
with the possibility of election, IN
stead of a northern Democrat with
no hope of the nomination.
We want to see national cam
paigns removed from the quagmlres
of vilification and lifted above, the
dust of petty personalities and ne
farious vituperations/
I believe Georgia will prove herselt
worthy of the opportunity, that the
goth of May will bring to the X0ters
Atlanta, Ga, April 6, 1920.