Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-13

the Democratic national convention
at New York, they must tell the
, delegates from Tennessee for what
and for whom they shall stand in
| that convention.
Should Instruct Delegates
| ut is the true Democratic prin-
! ciple of government for the people
| to say whom they want nominated
| for office. If Tennessee has a
/ choice for the presidency, its dele
! gates should be instructed to express
| that choice in the national conven-
/ ton
For my own part, I should be
willing to have all the delegates
from every state sent to the nation
al convention uninstructed, provid-
ed the rule is applied impartially to
/ every state, but so long as our oppo-
nents insist upon instructions in the
states which they dominate, then
| progressive Democrats must insist
upon instructions in these states
where progressive democracy is in
control
BY this means alone can the
| movement to transform Republican
reactionarY government into reac-
tionary Democratic government be
defeated, and / am opposed to reac
tionary government whether it be
Republican or Democratic.
The Democrat party has no mis-
sion If it is reactionary; it has no
mission unless it Is the true servant
of all the people; it has no mission
unless it is prepared to fight and
sacrifice to maintain the immutable
principle Of democracy: Equality of
opportunity for all, special privilege
to none.
TO achieve and to maintain this
kind of Democratic government,
there can no compromise nor
faltering. The issue must be fought
I to a conclusion, and it is more i'm
perative that the issue shall be
| clear-cut and fought to a finish this
year than ever before in the history
of the nation.
Let us sharpen the issue between
| predatory interests and plutocratic
! power, which have found their flow
er in the reactionary Republican adj
minlstration, and progressive and
| honest Democratic government adj
ministered III the interest Of all the
|. people and by and for the people
I THE clarion call of a new cru
| 9'iue VI ItiOLdl anu DOllIlCdl right
/ eousness rings out in the land. 1t
calls to all our people to put on their
armor and enlist in the fight. It
will not be an easy battle, it can not
be won without sacrifice. 1T can
not be won without adherence to
| principles. 1t can not be won with
/ out enthusiasm.
1T can be won only if the hosts
| of democracy. men and women alike
subordinate selfish interests, exalt
righteousness and unite in an ire
sistible drive against corruption, in
competence and materialism, to
plant the standard of democracy,
justice and God so high upon the
capitol at Washington that it can
never be touched again by tainted
hands or plutocratic power"
Mr.. McAdoo touched slightly on
his Tennessee heritage.
Il am proud to be in Tennessee,
this historic Volunteer state with
which I am connected by ties of an
/ cestry and kinship and with which
the formative period of my ycu=g
manhood IS so Intimately associated
My father and my fathers father
were East Tennesseeans. 1t is with
just pride that L recall the fact that
my father was volunteer in the
ry Dewitt, and it was at the Chatta-
nooga bar that 1 began, in 1885, my
career as a young lawyer
ct is not because of my Tennessee