Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-07
There's a Row in the
Georgia McAdoo
I Camp


ton in Atlanta on April % to
name delegates to the Demo-
cratic National convention. This
convention will be McAdoo
convention, inasmuch as Nc
Adoo carried the state, and this
matter was settled before the
primary. Every county will be
represented by McAdoo coun-
ties regardless of how it went in
the primary.
After the election, the county
executive committees immediate
ly named McAdoos delegates,
but somebody. somewhere in the
McAdoo organization, HE'D to a
back room in Atlanta and ALL
the delegates from the 100
counties were appointed from
Atlanta, without consulting the
county chairmen or any one
else.
Overnight, county autonomy
was kicked as high cooked hat.
Men who had fought for Nc
Adoo were side-tracked for
those whom the Atlanta head
quarters wanted on the, Atlanta
floor.
There must have been strong
reasons for so radical a deal
and probably there is. But
what2
"a, The convention will decide
who is to be the national com
mitteeman from Georgia. That's
one reason, but probably not
THE reason.
Have the Atlanta McAdoo
managers turned the convention
over to- the Ku Klux Klanp A
state politician who knows what
he's talking about says this is
what has happened. that in the
list of delegates from over the
state there are many men known
or suspected of being klansmen.
Mr.. Underwood was openly
opposed to the khan. Mr.. Nc
Adoo skilfully evaded the is-
sue. Men said to be klansmen
spoke in favor of the McAdoo
candidacy. Is the khan now col
lecting2 aot
That answer may come from
the floor of the state conven-
ton, in the form of a platform
plank-and it may not.
At any rate some of the APP
pointed delegates to. the Me
Adoo state convention are re-
fusing to accept places and are
raising row that is being heard
from one end of the state to
the other.
The Journal of Labor, Allan
Ia, states that labor was abso-
iutely ignored in the selection of
delegates; that while labor
threw its almost unanimous sup
port to Mr.. McAdoo, possibly
holding the balance of power in
labors hands, not a single out
standing laboring mans name
appears among those selected to
take part in the state convention.
That's one row in the Nc
Adoo camp that may bring far
reaching results.
There's no kick on the rule
that bars Underwood delegates
from those counties which were
carried by the Alabama senator.
The kick is on the manner in
which the McAdoo delegates
were selected.
The Atlanta Constitution.
which supported M c A d O o.
claims the fundamentally sound
and democratic system of coun-
ty autonomy - holding each
county as unit in the fabric of
Georgia $ governmental system
has only been wholly and ig-
ANONYMOUSLY violated in the man
ner and methods employed in
selecting the delegates from the
100 Individual counties, saying:
In all of the wave of discon.
tent that is sweeping over the
state today regarding the auto
cratic and wholly unprecedented
method employed in naming the
delegates from the 100 counties
in Georgia to the approaching
presidential convention, The
Constitution has only one inter-
est and one concern, and that is
the integrity of the individual
county's rights in Georgia's sys-
TEN of representative 2 govern
ment.
In the instance at issue not