Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-11
Victory Considered a Ger
tainty Until Party's Lead
ers Demanded Surplus En-
tertainment Fund
BY ROBERT r. SMALL
Geased Wire Service to The Journal.)
Copyright, 1929

publican national committee meets
in Washington the coming week to
ratify Fred Upham's selection o.
for the Republican national con-
vention city for 1924.
The Democratic national commit
tee meets January Is, in Washing
! ton, to turn down New York's conf
| dent bid for the Democratic national
| convention. The chances are that
! the Democratic conclave will go to
| the Mississippi river or beyond. 1t IS
understood that st. Louis quietly IS
| gathering in the pledged votes OF
national committeeman and commit
| tee women.
Back of the Sudden slump in New
Works once rosy prospects of cap
turing the big Democratic poW-WoW
| is an interesting political story. Up
| to two or three weeks ago it ap-
peared to be almost a certainty that
| the metropolis would break its lie
| long record and become the meeting
! place of a national political cOnVen-
| ton. So confident were the pro.
motors of the plan they announced
that after capturing the Democrats
/ for 1924. the city would very kindly
! take in the Republicans in 1878. Inc
| thing was all threshed out. cut and
/ dried.
! Vast Change Ensues
But now vast change has come
over the situation. In order to get
| the Democratic convention, New
York said it was willing to raise the
necessary guarantee of $125,O00 Tor
| convention expenses, or even to raise
the ante to 100000, if need be. The
| Democrats said fine and dandy. They
| also said that of course, you under
J stand, you New Workers, that al.
moneys left over after convention
! expenses are paid go into the war
chest of the Democracy. We Demo
Gratis have a hard enough time as 1t
is to rise the necessary coin for a
! campaign ard we always insist upon
! having the convention leftover as .
nucleus for the national purse.
But, we can't do that, you know
said the New Workers, and we will
tell you the reason why. We 1idn't
undertake to go after the conVen-
ton simply because New York is the
greatest Democratic city in the
world We want the convention not
for any political advance or signlfl-
! canoe, but as a matter of civic pride.
We want the people of the country
to come to New York and like on.
city. We will show them a grand
time. SO we made the convention
! committee strictly non-partisan af-
fair. We put Will Hays on it and
he has been a fine worker. Now,
| Will was the chairman of the Re-
! publican national committee four
years ago Do you think that VIII
and the other distinguished Repub-
| liCan members of the committee
NwoIld agree to turn over any of the
funds they raised to the war chest
of the Democracy; to finance its
fight on the G.. 0, p? Do you think
so? We think not. AS matter If
fact, We think nay. You must re-
i member, you Democrats that VIII
ileft quite a little deficit when he
left the Republican, national commit
tee. We don't mean merely deficit
of personality, but a deficit of spon.
dulacs as well. SO if there should
be any leftover in the New York
fund, Will might feel peeved if the
Democrats got it all and the G.. o. P.
co. left.
Money Is Needed
Well. say the Democratic leaders,
we didn't want to go to New York,
anyhow. II you birds Of the metrop-
Oils really want a Democratic con-
vention you had better organize Il
Democratic committee next time
And put practical men on it, not
idealists. Remember the Republican
slogan of 1920: Boys, geS the
money" That's what we've gotta
get this year and the city that hangs
mp the best purse will be our selec-
ton. You New Workers are too
close to Tammany hall. 1t looks pad
to the rest CT the country. You let
Charley Murphy and Tommy Tag
CART and George Brennan so out to
French lick Springs and hold the
1924 convention ali in advance.
That's the impression the country
got, anyway. So, to send the big
convention into the lair. Of Tammany
would be bad politics. We will once
more take the advice Of Horace
Greeley and go west.
What do you mean, We held a
convention in French Lick" says the
Hon. Thomas Taggart. THAT is the
worst drive. ever written in the
newspapers. Mr.. Murphy, Mr.. Bren-
nan and I meet at French Lick at
least once year, often twice. Mr..
Brennan could be with us but few
days this fall. He had to hurry back
| to Chicago to attend a funeral.
eve talked politics, of course,
Who doesn't? But politics was in
cidental. Golf was supreme. The
stories that we vetoed certain candi-
dates and wrote the Democratic plat
form is the purest rot.
I'm the first place, there are many
| points of disagreement among the
three of us. This is particularly true
as between Mr.. Murphy and myself.
Mr.. Murphy is a wet. L am a dry.
! Mr.. Murphy thinks there should he
a Volstead modification plank in the
! Democratic platform. I do not
think so. and L do not believe there
will be one. The country is dry. In
| diana is dry-was dry before Mr.
Volstead's act was ever written on
the statute books, and so far as
can see, Indiana is going to stay dry
until doom's day.
THE story that we discussed Mr..
McAdoo and entered into a league to
defeat him is not true. We did not
! mention Mr.. McAdoo's name, or the
name of any other candidate. We
! Democrats are out to win next year
! and We are going to try to pick
| candidate We can win with. II s
! ridiculous to say at this time who
! that man shall or shall not be.
/ Personally, I am for Senator
Ralston for the nomination. con-
tinued Mfr. TaSgart. 1.-The Indiana
delegation will be for Mr.. Ralston
and will be with the delegation. We
will stick with the senator so long
as we believe he has a chance, and
I think that chance is growing day
! by day.
NOW" concluded Mr.. Taggart. II
have told you more politics than was
talked by the three Of US at French
| Lick"