Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-01
M'ADOO- MEREDITH
TICKET FORECAST
BY WASHINGTON
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hall is worth anything. Both the
McAdoo and Meredith and Champ
Clark and Bryan tickets sound about
| as good as any other, since no one is
enabled yet to figure out the situa-
| ton at San Francisco, and all the
forecasters are f1oundering around
just as they did at Chicago. Not one
man out of a hundred picked Hard
ing day before he was nominated,
and this applies to wise politicians
and newspaper men as we'll.
Hands OFF in Nicaragua
Referring to presidential cleo
lions, the government of the United
States today officially notified the
people of Nicaragua that it is taking
no sides in the presidential race in
that Latin-American country and
will express no preference for any
man who has been mentioned for
the presidency of Nicaragua" The
notification is to be delivered through
the state department and the Amer
lean legation at Managua, Nicaragua.
1t was couched in diplomatic Ian
guage, of course, with assurances of
esteem and friendship, and that sort
of thing, and with reference to both
governments in the third person
singular. Possibly, however, if Uncle
Sam had been privileged to use the
vernacular of politics and the street,
he would have served notice about
like this:
Listen, Nicaragua, we are not
going to take sides in your presiden-
tial rumpus. We are having a big
wrangle over here about the same
thing. Our Democrats are assem-
bled at San Francisco; William Jen-
nings Bryan, who used to sign notes
to you and treaties, is erupting again.
The vets and drys are in a dog-fall
and the corpse Of John Barleycorn is
showing signs of reviving after the
wake. The League of Nations won't
stay dead either. Go ahead and elect
your president and pray for us to do
the best we can Officially, the no
LITIGATION which the American min
lister is instructed to deliver in his
name to Nicaragua reads:
Repeated inquiries have been made
at the department of state at Wash
ington by Representatives of differ
ent political parties of. Nicaragua in
curing whether certain named per-
sons would be agreeable to the gov
eminent at Washington as candidates
for the presidency. In order to avoid
any misapprehepsion with reference
to the situation, by government au-
thorjZes me to state that the ques-
ton of candidates for the presidency
of Nicaragua is matter to be de-
cided by the people of Nicaragua in
CAAO Lo1l anu IL &C APAOSoAOI VI poD-
lie opinion.
THE exceptionally close relations
existing between Nicaragua and the
United States create in both govern
ment and the people of the United
States deep and abiding interest
that presidential elections in Mica
ragua shall be conducted on the high
est plane, assuring to every qualified
voter not only the free expression
of opinion, but also the accurate
registration of that opinion in the
final result.
"The government of the United
States has expressed no opinion with
reference to the persons who have
been mentioned as candidates for the
presidency. It's sole interest is that
the forthcoming elections be char
2cterized by the utmost fairness and
freedom: than an accurate accounting
of the votes cast be made. and that
the candidate receiving the largest
number of popular votes be declared
president-elect of Nicaragua