Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-05
MISSISSIPPI AND
SOUTH CAROLINA IN
LOWDEN COLUMN
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to take on real convention at
mosphere. By the time the crowds of
the coming of political leaders from
Washington. things are expected to
be going full blast.
The first cheers and the first songs
of the boosters are beginning to be
heard in the hotel Hobbies and on the
streets. Pianos are tinkling in many
of the campaign headquarters and the
song leaders and cheer leaders are on
the job beginning to drill the Choir
uses of willing workers that always
gather to participate jim the noisy
demons trations which accompany a
convention.
Publicity plans have had an i'm
petuS, too and beginning today
Wood, Lowden and Johnson will be-
gin giving two daily interviews to
newspaper men. Other candidates will
Join the plan as they arrive. Senator
Poindexter arrived today and on Sat
urday his special trains of boosters
and delegates are due in from the
west. From today on. carloads OF
delegates will be arriving from all
parts of the country to go through
the quadrennial preliminaries of eau
cusing, electing their delegation otd-
GERS, members of the various con-
vention committees and choosing the
state representatives on the Repub-
lican national committee.
There are also many little booms
not SO we'll defined or being supported
with such enthusiasm as the princl-
pal ones. There are candidates TO-
president and vice president who
have arrived with nominating
speeches already prepared, and now
DELEGATIONS trying to induce some
one to deliver them.
Vice President Marshall is going to
have a look at the Republican con-
test and possibly some of the conven-
ton on his way west. He is due mere
Georgia Case Up Again
BY comparison with previous con-
ventions. all the scenery and props
are on hand for this years big snow.
There are miles of bunting Mapping
and f1uttering in the late, spring
breezes of Lake Michigan; there are
buttons, badges and souvenirs by the
hogsheads; there are bands by the
score, all ready to begin blaring the
campaign anthems; there are rooters
and boosters preparing their voices
for the uproar; there are enthusiasts
ready to parade at a moments no
tice, and to cheer, with the winners
and mourn with the losers.
While all these preparations are
going on, the Republican national
committee, in it's meeting room at
the Coliseum. continues to g1nd away
cations. The Georgia case, when
Contains delegates for Wood or for
LoWden, is on the calendar for dis
posal today, and there are sugges-
lions that yesterdays decision IN
the Florida caseLWith g., SO ne MAJ
s1m1faT PTSeTe are some indica-
tions, however, that when the case
is called, it may be passed down
the list to the bottom of the calen-
dar and wait there until all the re-
naming contests are disposed of.
At the present rate of progress
there is hope among the national
committeeman that they may finish
their work Saturday.
Johnson's Arrival
Senator Hiram ": johnson. OF
day and made a brief speech against
the League of Nations. During his
trip from the railway station to his
hotel he was loudly chee"ed.
Thousands Of persons gathered in
front of the Auditorium hotel, where
Senator Johnson's political headquar-
tiers are. and demanded a speech.
He was greeted with a three-minute
demonstra ton when he appeared on
a balcony Of the hotel.
1--WE will continue to live our lives
in our way way without dictat1on
from Europe" the senator said;
when this campaign is over we will
ocne more be just Americans"
1T am here to see that there is no
pussyfooting, no hiding upon the
question of the League of Nations"
Senator Johnson said.
1--WE are going to have, if it is pos
sible to have it, declaration in this
convention that will reaffirm the
right of America to govern its own
affairs
Senator Johnson was met the
station by a reception committee of
several hundred, headed by a band
and a delegation of soldiers and SAIL
ors in uniform. The soldiers were
of the Siberian expedition
airy force, whose withdrawal from
Russia had bee nurged in the senate
by the. senator.
The Streets about the station and
the half mile route to the senator's
hotel were crowded. thousands of the
onlookers wearing Johnson buttons
and waving American flags.
The Republican national committee
voted Thursday to serve notice Oh
southern Republicans that they must
not hold district or state conventions
in buildings where negroes are
barred.