The Brunswick news., 1922-07-07
HE ABANDoNs ALL HOPE.


publican party in Georgia.
The truth of the matter is that tn
Harding administration fell down fla
on this hope and on this promise
much in the same manner as it ha
fallen down on every pledge made t
the people in 1920, when its campaig
of Misrepresentation and abuse an
at time when the nation was reelin
from its recent activities at war, wo
it victory without parallel in the his
tory OF the republic.
We Say there is little wonder tina
President Harding has abandoned thi
idea inSsG eorgia and the other state
in the South:
The following from the Savannah
Press on the subject is of interest an,
clarifies the question splendidly:
President Harding is said to be
disgusted with the efforts to get
UP a Republican party in Georgia.
The process has failed also in
Tennessee, Alabama and South
Carolina, but the status of the
new movement in Georgia is es-
pecially distressing. .ss
To begin with this field seemed
especially promising two years
ago. The state election was won
by certain strange elements
which were anti5Administration
and seemed anti-everything which
the Democratic party had stood
for. This element had just been
repudiated by the National DEM
ocratic Convention at San Fran
cisco. Yet it carried the State in
the primaries and was unquestion-
ably in the saddle, having elected
its Governor and United States
Senator. Senator Watson, HIM
self, was quoted as saying that
the State had gone for Cox by
fluke in the national election in
November, 1920"
So President Harding and his
friends went leisurely to work to
build on the Democratic disaffec-
tion or division, or whatever it
was. The first mistake, of course,
was installing Henry Lincoln
johnson in power. He was the
National Republic in Comittee-
man and the White Republicans
refused to line UP behind him. OF y
course, President Harding found
that he could not win over any
Democrats to his party with
black center. The whites in Geor-
gia seemed hopelessly divided,
but they were not to be tempted
by colored leader. So Johnson
was sidetracked. He was given
an appointment in the District of
Columbia which required his abb
sence from the State, and then the
National Republicans made an
other try. They put in as referee
]. l.. Phillips, who proved to be
carpet Dagger from Philade1-
phia; that is, not a Georgian at
all. Mr.. Phillips found tlat he
had some accounts to settle with
the Department of Justice and
then the Grand Old Party struck
another snag.
No wonder that President Hard
ing gave up Georgia as bad job.
Georgia had, it is true, showed a
divided Democracy, but neither
wing encouraged the President to
build up Republican faction. The
victorious element of the whites
divided again and new align
ment took place in Democratic
councils. The Governor and Jun
ior Senator crossed swords; the
Watson element veered around to-
wards the man whom Governor
Hardwick had defeated two years
ago. The lineup has been criss-
crossed and reversed and we are
entering upon Democratic cam
paign which is to be fought out
largelyaupon State matters and fl
nancial issues.
No wonder that President Hard
ing and the Department OF Justice
turned their backs upon the faith
full, appointed good Democrat
United States judge and deferred
the winning of Georgia to more
convenient day.
The Democracy of the state, al
though divided in a preliminary
contest, will be found united in
the next national campaign.
LIADDIklN cnEAKo DEAL