Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-05
NOMINEE DECLARES
He IS NEUTRAL. IN
SENATORIAL RACE
Judge George, BoifeuiIIet,
Judge Howard and Others
Say Let People Do EIimi-
mating
BY HUBERT BAUGHN
journal Staff Correspondent

journal Staff Correspondent
MACON, Ga, Oct. 3.-After failing
in efforts to center on one senatorial
candidate from the Walker Watson
faction, a group of convention lead
ers, headed by Governor elect Walker
and Commissioner of Agriculture j..
j. Brown, at a conference in the
Lanier hotel this afternoon-the
sixth conference of the day-appoint-
ed a subcommittee to meet at once
and prepare another program for the
convention to be held tomorrow, and
report back at a final caucus to be
held this evening.
Fermor Barrett, Of Toccoa, at the
head of the subcommittee, indicated
the subcommittee would recommend
as follows:
THAT the convention meet at 10
o'clock Wednesday, declare the re-
suits of the recent primary, settle all
pending contests, elect a new DEM
ocratic executive committee, trans
act such other business as may be-
come it, and adjourn sine die"
1t is understood this subcommit-
tee will make the recommendation
that no convention be held on DC.
tober %, but that the new executive
committee meet after the senatorial
primary and declare the results.
Says Vereen Will Attend
According to Commissioner Brown,
who presided over the caucus this
Afternoon, things are working beau
tifully and the convention tomorrow
will go through without hitch"
Mr.. Brown declared he had just
been advised by long distance tele-
phone that w. J. Vereen. chairman
of the present Democratic, executive
committee, and e. w. Jordan, of
Sandersville, secretary of the COM
mittee, will come to Macon tomor-
row and attend the convention. He
said he understood Mayor Murray
Stewart, of Savannah, had been in
communication with Mr.. Vereen and
Mr.. Jordan with a view to securing
thei .rattendance on the convention.
Additional delegates poured into
Macon on every train late Tuesday
and the number now present ap-
proximates 600. The latest candi-
dates to arrive here are Judge Hor-
ace Holden, from Athens, and Carl
F. Hutcheson( from Atlanta. Mr..
Hutchinson was. accompanied by the
Rev. Caleb Ridley and John F. Pate.
To Indorse No Candidate
Commissioner Brown declared late
today that the convention tomorrow
positively will not 1ndorse any candl-
date for any office. He said indica-
tons point to a convention lasting
at least two days. He estimated it
would take almost day to write
the new democratic platform.
Considerable sentiment developed
today among the delegates fer a
convention nomination of a new
| United States senator to succeed the
! late Senator Thomas E. Watson and
q pension commissioner to succeed
the late John w. Lindsey, bur
through the combined efforts of Gov
ernor-elect Walker and Commission
err Brown, it is stated, this will be
prevented.
After making repeated but futile
efforts Tuesday morning to con-
solidate his forces on a single sem
atorial candidate in opposition to
Governor Hardwick, Clifford Walk
err, the governor-elect, came out
with a declaration of neutrality, say
| ing he would take no further hand
in the contest.
This was before the tentative pro-
gram, as outlined above, was agreed
upon.
J. J. Brown, commissioner Of az
| riculture, joined Mr.. Walkers eff.
| forts to eliminate and consolidate,
but refused to join him in a declara-
ton of neutrality and was insisting
that Colonel H. H. Dean, of Gaines
vile, was the most available man and
should be the~on selected to op-
pose Governor Hardwick.
Judge Walter F. George, of
Vienna, said he was approached by
an emissary who urged him to retire
"in the interest of harmony" and
that he informed the emissary that
"the people might eliminate him, but
no bunch Of politicians would"
Commissioner John T. Boifeuillet,
of the public utilities commission;
Judge G. H. Howard and President
/ Herbert Clay, of the state senate,
openly declared that they were going
Watson followers summoned here
by State Senator James H. Boykin,
| of Lincolnton, for the announced
| purpose of determining what candi-
date they shall support, will meet
| tonight in the Hotel Dempsey. All
of the senatorial candidates are seek
ing invitations to appear before the
meeting to present their claims. Com
missioner Brown announced his in
tention of going before them to pre-
sent the availability of Colonel Dean
/ nann1a do the p1iro a ting -
State Senator Joseph Benjamin
to "stick to the finish and let the
Jackson, of Jones county. was tell
ing the crowds in the hotel Hobbies
that he had fatty refused to be floor
leader of the Walker forces in the
convention tomorrow.
This amt a convention-it's a
confusion" he declared with en-
phasis. I'm not going to get my
self tangled up in it,"