Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-20
NEW ENGLAND RULE
WILL Be TARGET Of
HARRISON KEYNOTE
Mississippi Senator Chosen
as Democratic Tenn
porary Chairman
Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
408 Evans Building.
BY THEODORE FILLER

408 Evans Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, D. c., May IL
The cry of New England domina-
ton" is expected to be one of the
full tone notes in the keynote speech
of Senator Pat Harrison, of Missis-
sippi, who today was selected as
temporary chairman Of the forth
coming Democratic national con-
vention in New York. Senator Har
rison, who is one of the persistent
senate critics of the opposition party,
is expected to ring all the changes
in his general denunciation of the
opposition and its alleged deficien-
cies, but New England domination"
will be a new sound in the keynote
address, and Mr.. HarrisOn's Dem
ocratic friends predict that he will
emphasize it, appealing to the pro-
gressive west and south, and the
hinterlands.
Senator Pat Harrison doubtless
will recite eloquently that Massa-
chusetts, by adoption, and Vermont,
by birth, has a president in the
White House; that Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge, of the Bay State, is
chairman of the powerful foreign
relations committee in the senate,
and his reservations killed the
League of Nations.
He will stress that the chairman
of the house committee on interstate
commerce, handling vital railroad
legislation, is Representative Wins
low, of Massachusetts; that the
speaker of the house is Frederick
II. Gillett, of Massachusetts; that
the new chairman of the Republican
national committee is William NJ.
Butler, again of Massachusetts.
Going on with increased fervOr,
the Democratic keynoter will be able
to stress that John w. Weeks, of
Massac husetts, is secretary of war;
| further, that Senator George p. Nc
| Lean, of Connecticut, dominates and
is chairman of the banking and cur
rency committee; that Senator Lee
baron Colt, of Rhode Island, heads the
| immigration committee; that Senator
Frank Brandegee is chairman of the
| judiciary committee; that Senator
Freddie" Hale, of Maine, is chair
man of naval affairs; that Senator
Bert NJ. Fernald, of Maine, heads
public buildings and grounds, and
That Senator George II. Moses, of
| New Hampshire, sits in the big chair
of the senate committee on printing.
On the house side and in addition
to Chairman Winslow, chairman
ships of other important committees
are now held as follows: Education,
Representative Dallinger, Massa-
chusetts; merchant marine and fish
cries, Representative Greene, M S
| sachusetts; and, as to minor com
mittees: Library, Representative
Luce, Massachusetts; woman suf-
| frage. Representative White, of
Maine, and mileage. Representative
| Beedy. of Maine.
Teapot Revelations
| Senator Harrison naturally Will
discuss the disclosures of the con
gressional investigations as they re-
late to Daugherty, DENLY, Fail,
Jess Smith and other Republicans; lie
will verbally chastise the Repub-
leans for many alleged shortcom-
| ings: assail the foreign policy of the
ness and agricultural depression
cite the presidents veto of the bonus
bill. and maybe of the taxation bill
|
it is believed here on reliable re-
ports that the Democratic keynOtor
! will most loudly demand to know
whether this is to be a gOvernmen Mt
by New England and Massachusetts,
or a government in which the other
sections of the country supposedly
have voice. And Senator Pat
probably will be at his best at the
4 New York convention
GOVERNOR AL SMITH
PLEASED WITH SELECTION
ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., May Il.
Governor Smith, of New York to.
/ night declared himself perfectly
satisfied" with the selection of Sena-
tor Pat Harrison as temporary chair
man of the Democratic National
convention
Il am very we'll acquainted with
Senator Harrison" said Governor
Smith Il have known him for a
long time and l regard him as 4
highly qualified man"
Governor Smith said he was here
for a rest