Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-29
DEMOCRATS SLOW
To launch ATTACK
ON c. D. P. TRENCH
BY ROBERT Il. SMALL
Copyright. 1924. by the Consolidated fress
Association-Special Leased Wire
To The Atlanta JOurnaI.)

IN L. SA'AAAA>SS
lCopyrigbt 1924, by the Consolidated Press
ssociation-special Leased Wire
TO The Atlanta Journal)
WASHINGTON, July 26.-The
presidential campaign is moving
slowly forward, but there is no great
impetus apparent on either size. Inc
Republicans are waiting for the
Democrats to attack, but the latter
tillery in position. The Republicans
feel that they are holding the tort
are a little slow in getting their ar
and that it is up to the Democrats TO
come and try to take it away from
them.
Meanwhile Chairman Butler, OF
the Republican national committee
is extremely busy with mis- defense
works. He Is visiting the boys IN
the trenches all along the line anu
thinks nothing of being in Boston
one day and Chicago the mex, win
semi-occasional stops In Washln9-
ton and New York. Mr.. Butler is
proving himself an indefatigable
worker. He is leaving nothing I'M
done, Many persons have said that
Mr.. Buffers task in obtaining the
nomination for Mr.. Coolidge was
nothing at all. Mr.. Butler did not
take it so. He went about the work
In a manner that left no room for a
slip-up.
Late Start for Mr.. Shaver
Glen Shaver, the new Democratic
chairman. is several laps behind Mr..
Butler, but hopes to catch up. His
selection came more than month
after Mr.. Butler had taken active
charge of his committee. Mr.. Shaver
still is merely acting" and cannot
be elected formally to his position
until the Democratic committee
meets at the Clarksburg notification
ceremonies on August IL.
Mr.. Butler is laps and laps ahead of
Mr.. Shaver in the issuance of state
ments. AS matter of fact, he is doing
most Of the talking Of the campaign
thus far and is trying to put little
pep" in the tagging battle. Chair
man Butler may represent silent
candidate, but he believes in GER
tain amount of loquacity. Mr.. But
Ter is not much of a hand on being
interviewed. He likes to write out
his statements in his own way.
Chairman Shaver, on the other
hand, is proving almost as taciturn
as Mr.. Coolidge. They would make
a. fine pair. Mr.. Davis warned the
newspaper correspondents that they
would not find his West Virginia
friend a. very talkative soul, yet he
said Mr.. Shaver would have to edo
all the answering to chairman But
Ter. The latter is batting already
in mid-season form, so Mr.. Shaver
has his work cut out for him.
Although he is to be elected chair
man of the Democratic committee,
Mr.. Shaver will not officially be
member of 1t. Charles w. Osenton
has been reelected as national COM
mitteeman from West Virginia. This
will be the first time in many years
that a chairman has been selected
from outside the committee. AS
matter of fact it has long been
rule in the national committee that
it's officers must be chosen from it's
members. The Republicans have had
no such rule and usually the chair
man and the treasurer have been
chosen from the outside.
Rule Change Surprise
It was generally thought the old
Democratic rule would apply to Mr..
Shaver and that he would have to
be elected a national committee mem
Der before he could become chairman
of that body and director-in-chief of
the Davis campaign. But it appears
now that in the closing minutes of
the national convention at Madison
Square garden Sentaor Glass, of
Virginia, offered a resolution provid-
ing that the national committee
could choose it's chairman from the
outside. The resolution was reported
and adopted without discussion, few
persons knowing that this drastic
change had been made in Democratic
administrative affairs.
G. O. r. Claims West Virginia
A number of Mr.. Shaver's friends
recommended his election to the
committee regardless of the new
rule, but the Osenton followers in
sisted on his reelection and Mr..
Shaver's name was not formally pre-
scented for the place. West Virginia
will thus in effect have two members
of the committee.
The new national committeewom-
an from West Virginia is Mrs. Nancy
Murray Mann, of Huntington. Mrs.
Izetta Jewel Brown, who took such
an important part in the New York
convention, announced in advance
that she was not a candidate.
The Republican leaders of West
Virginia are holding that it is all
wrong to place that state in the Da-
Wis column, for sentimental rea-
sons" They say that the state nor
mally is Republican and some of
them have taken occasion to come
on here to Washington to tell Mr..
Coolidge TO be of good cheer, that he
will carry the state by $4,000. The
Republicans will not make a partisan
fight on Mr.. Davis for they esteem
him as a distinguished son of the
state, but they say they will not let
sentiment run away with party loyal
: ty and affiliation.
1nasmuch as some Of the Demo-
cratic leaders in Massachusetts in
sist upon giving that state to Mr..
Davis, the Republicans of West Nir-
cnia fool &c 70; H..