Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-01
RUMP DELEGATES
TOCLAIM PEOPLE
VOTED ON THEM

A Washington dispatch received
by The Journal Saturday afternoon
throws light upon the process by
which the rump delegation repre-
senting Mr.. Palmer propose to set
up a semblance of credentials at
San Francisco.
1t seems that the Democratic ma
tional committee ha stwo forms of
credentials. One is the form for
delegates elected in a primary, and
the other is the form for delegates
must be made on one or the other
of these forms.
According to the Washington dis
patch, the Palmer delegates have
| made out credentials. on the form
provided for delegates elected in a
primary, and these have been certi-
| fed by Hiram l.. Gardner, of Eaton
| ton, the secretary of the Democratic
state executive committee of Geor-
| gla. On these credentials, it ap-
pears, the Palmer delegates will I'M
| dertake to get themselves seated in
the national convention.
The regular delegates elected by
the state convention will undertake
to expose what they term the lab
surdity' of the Palmer credentials
by showing that no delegates were
| elected In the primary held in Geor-
gia. They will show that the sys-
tenn of voting for delegates in the
| some states, was not the system
used in Georgia, but the voters ex-
pressed a direct choice for the presi-
Dental candidates. They will fur.
ther show that the Democratic state
executive committee in calling the
primary also called a state conven-
ton to be held for the purpose of
e1ecting delegates to the national
convention. They will show that
this convention, held in Atlanta MAY
GENT and law, elected delegates ia
San francisco, and they will claim
that they themselves as the dele
gates so elected are the only ones
haTyIlng genuine. credentials.
taila 70 s guiar de!egates will under
gates have no credentials of any
character. Their contention will be
that the Palmer delegates cannot
claim credentials from a state con-
Ventlon, for the reason that the con-
ventlon held in Atlanta on May 18 ex-
| pllcltly voted down the Palmer dele
gates and elected the list nominated
IN opposition to the Palmer list Their
| contention will be that the Palmer
/ delegates cannot claim credentials
from u state primary, for the reason
that the voters in the primary did
not vote for delegates, but voted d.
rectlyC for presidential nominees.
Thus they will claim that the Pal
mer delegates have no standing on
either leg, but are merely rump del
| egates attempting to force them
selves into the national convention
in defiance of the wishes of a SOW
| erelgn state convention.
| Arrangements for making out the
credentials of the regular delegates
on the form provided for delegates
elected by state conventions are
proceeding apace. They will prob
ably be in the hands of the secretary
| OF the Democratic national commit
tee in the next few days. All other
details of the case to be presented at
San Francisco in opposition to the
claims of the Palmer delegates are
going ahead rapidly in the hands of
the steering committee composed of
Colonel III. H. Perry, Thomas w.
Hardwick and T. w. Hawse
The regular delegates will leave
Atlanta on the morning of Saturday,
June 49, and will arrive in San Fran
cisco on the morning of Saturday,
June 81. They will go by way of St.
Louis. Kansas City. Denver. Colorado
| Springs, Salt Lake City and Los
Angeles. They will return by way
of Portland, Spokane and st. Paul. j.
r. Smith, chairman of the committee
on transportation, states that res
ervations are being made rapidly.