Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-13
WIN Coxs Nomination
Un;tes the PARTY
SALIENT and peculiarly happy aspect

SALIENT and peculiarly happy aspect
n of Governor Coxs nomination IS its
n harmonizing influence on mis- party. In
retrospect it is plain that of all the names
proposed at San Francisco his alone afforded
firm rallying ground for Democrats of every
clan Not that the others lacked merit and
appeal. for rarely has convention had so
rich a range of talent to choose from. But
in that Embossed battle" as the long, free,
history-making tug of four-and-forty ballots
has been called, one personality STOOD 1ortn
unique in general fitness and advantage
His record, his character, his very uempera-
ment, his full-sinewed and uneucumb3red
Democracy commended the Ohio statesman
to all workmanly elements in his party, re-
CARELESS of who their first preference may
have been, and finally swept a stubborn
deadlock into hearty union.
Thus we hear Democrats who in the con-
yention were holly opposed, and who per-
sonally may be at implacable odds, Joining
in pledges of stanch support to the CHOSEN
leader. Admirers of the Administration ana
critics of the Administration are equally cor
dial soft-pedalling Fasteners and rough
riding Westerners mutually pleased, and all
manner of Yorks and Lancasters agreed
when they come to speak OF James Mlddle-
ton Cox. Accept my heartiest congratula-
tions and all the support l can give IN Inc
campaign" Secretary Baker, of the War
Department, telegraphed Immediately the re-
suit was known. ST send my sincerest and
heartiest congratulations to you. wlred
Senator Reed, adding that the event brought
to thousands "a thrill of delight Whlch Is
prophetic of victory in November. Conslo-
ering the fusillade of hammers and tongs
which the senior Missouri Senator encoun-
tered at Frisco, one admires all the more
warmly nomination that enables him ana
a Wilson Cabinet member to stand on COM
mon ground and fight for common falth.
IT, as some observers report, ADMINISTRATOR
forces were against Governor Cox in the con-
yention, assuredly no echo to that effect
fingers in the White House. 1T was stra-
tegic and wise nomination." commented Sec
rotary Tumulty; "of course Cox is going TO
be elected" And the President himself sent
greetings: "Please accept my hearty congrat-
ulation and cordial best wishes" But what
about w. ]. B.? Well, if for the nonce he
sits in tears, who doubts that ere the perslm-
mons fall he will be the Great Commoner
again?
Nowhere is this spirit of Democratic accord
for the battle ahead more happily MANIFEST
than in Georgia The Presidential prefer
once urinary in this State was exceedingly
close in it's results, none of the candidates
winning majority of the county units. ana
all three being within few thousand OF one
another in popular votes. In sucn clrcun-
stances the pulse OF conflict naturaAv ran
high, and when the national convention gath
cred at San Francisco contesting delegations
from Georgia were found knocking for ad-
mittance. 1t were worse than useless now
to rattle dead bones and tell over the tale
of the regular delegations unjust reJectlon
The significant and essential fact is that the
larger detectives at which that delegation
aimed were indicated in the convention
ultimate acts. Especially significant and
pleasing to some hundred thousand Georgia
voters is the fact that the chief lieutenant OF
the Cox forces at San Francisco, Mr.. E. II.
Moore, national committeeman from Ohio,
made valiant fight for the delega-
ton elected by the Georgia Democratic
convention. Thus out OF shartest RI
valrly has come union for the partys and the
country's good. Senator Hoke Smith, long
an admirer of the Ohio Governor, has ten
dered him whole-souled support. The Geor-
gia friends of Attorney Generay Palmer
have done likewise. And Mr.. Watson also
has pledged ''the full power of whatever in
Thence I possess" So does the eve Of the
campaign find traditional Georgia renewed in
stanchness and redoubled in vim, cohorr
missing from the battle line, no Achilles sulll-
ing in his tent-a united Democracy, fit and
keen for the fray.
These evidences of party concord in the
State and throughout the country are con-
firmed when we look into the causal clrcum-
stances of the Cox nomination. Republican
paDers speak of the selection of the Buckeye
Governor as purely political exped1ent'
There is about as much truth in this ap-
prd1Sa1 as IN the charge tndL ne Is cndnl-
pion of "liquor interests the fact being
that his one reverse at the Ohio polls came
largely in consequence of his strict enforce
ment of prohibition statutes. Expedient his
nomination undoubtedly was, both in the fact
that he halls from pivotal State whose cleo
toral vote he probably can swing against
laardiSsg, also an Ohioan, and in the fact that
he is free from certain handicaps which
marked the other aspirants. But such as
sets, useful as they are, could not in them
selves have nominated him. Had he been
merely resourceful politician, merely con-
venient compromise, he would not be the
nominee today. For by it's whole drift and
bearing the Democratic convention showed
it's demand for merits deeper than these;
showed it's perception of the times higher
exigencies and of the nations larger needs
1t would have been as difficult to have nomt-
mated reactionary at San Francisco as il
was impossible to nominate a progressive al
Chicago. Granted there were backward
looking, pettifogging elements the impor-
tant fact is that whereas in the Republican