Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-29
STORM AGAINST
SUBCOMMITTEE
SWEEPS STATE
Judge Andrew Cobb For
Letting Voters
Say

ATLANTA, Feb. 28.-The storm
of protest against the action of the
subcommittee of the State Demo
cratic Executive Committee in de-
clining to permit the Democrats of
Georgia to vote upon the availability
of Herbert Hoover as the Democratic
presidential candidate has assumed
gigantic proportions.
Unfettered and unterrifed Demo-
Gratis in all sections of the state, from
the mountains to the sea, from Sa-
vannah to the Chattahoochee, are
uniting in the support of the Hall
county Democrats who insist that the
people and not members of the state
committee should decide whether
Hoover is eligible for consideration
in the forthcoming preferential pri-
mar
ignificant development of the
day was the editorial protest of the
Savannah Morning News against the
action of the subcommittee. The
Savannah Press heretofore has de-
clared itself il opposition to the at
tempt to prescribe Mr.. Hoover, and
The News takes equally as positive
q stand.
Judge Cobb Against Committee.
Judge Andrew Cobb. of Athens,
former member of the Supreme Court
and one of the staunchest Democrats
in Georgia, has come out in favor
of placing Mr.. Hoover's name on the
ballot in the preferential primary,
former administrator is the choice of
many Democratic voters of Georgia.
There is a large number of citizens
in the state who want to vote for
Hoover and will do it if given the op-
poItunity, said the jurist. Judge
Cobb said that the Democratic party
should nominate business man, and
that means Hoover. He stated that
the people of the state should be
allowed to vote for Hoover wheth-
er he has committed himself or not.
He, in the opinion of Judge Cobb, has
not been against the party nor the
administration.
GAS to announcing himself a DEM
ocrat before his name should be plac-
ed on the ticket, it is known that the
Republicans nominated Grant for the
presidency after he had voted Dem
ocratic ticket all his life," said he.
General Zachary Taylor was nomi-
mated by the Wings after he had
been in the army for twenty years
and had never made public his party
affiliations. 1t is said that Hoover
voted for Wilson in 1916. If that is
true we know that he is at least par
tial to the Democrats"
Wilkes Democrats Speak.
The Democrats of Wilkes county
are outspoken in their demand that
Mr.. Hoover's name be placed upon
the ballot, as instance the following
telegram:
"The people of Georgia demand an
uninstructed right to elect their can
didates for president. They demand
that Hoover's name be presented to
the people of Georgia. We can get
one thousand names here to that eff
feet. The San Francisco platform
will be presented to the chosen stand
ard bearer of the convention and if
he accepts it he is Democrat.
(Signed) William Wynne, Luther
Lattimer, A. S. Quint, John G. Lee,
H. L. Amason, John 7. Allen, T. A.
Burke, R. Motto Smith, Clement z.
Sutton, Carroll Colley, Hobart Mil
Ter, George w. MOORE T. u. OASlI-
ings, G. G. Harwell, H. A. Moore, M.
/. Cheney, T. B. Willard, R. M. Whit
mire, A. S. Jackson, W. D. WALTON,
J. NJ. Brooks, E. B. Morris, A. c.
Sheppard, George NJ. DuBose, Gar
nett A. Greene, John G. Colley, H. W.
Paschal.
From Thomson, in McDuffie coun-
ty, comes the news of the formation
of Hoover club. In fact the Hoov-
er boom is breaking out all over the
state. In many places netitions are
being circulated and the indications
are that within a short time the state
committee will be confronted by re-
quests from thousands of good Dem
ocrats that Hoover's name be placed
on the ballot.
Col. H. H. Perry, of Gainesville,
and other leaders in the movement to
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