Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-17
HIGHEST BID WON
CONVENTION FOR
NEW YORK CITY
Khan Issue Expected to Bob
Up in Writing Platform,
New York World Taking
Part in Party Affairs
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1924

BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Leased Wire Service to The JournaL)
copyright, 1924
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Selec-
ton of New York City as the meet
ing place Of the Democratic national
convention led to all sorts of infer
ences today as to the Significance"
of the move.
Any one who followed the inside
discussions cannot help reaching the
conclusion that variety OF circuri1-
stances, no one of them controlling,
brought about New York's victory.
To say it was defeat for the Nc
Adoo men who wanted San Fran
cisco is as illogical as to call it
victory for Governor Al Smith.
Money talked. The Democrats are
hard up. They were ready to send
their delegates across the continent
when San F'rancisco's offer was high
est The New York bid won the auc-
ton.
But il the influences that led to
the selection of New York were
numerous, the effects are even more
Sc. There can be no question that
two planlks will get more attention
now in the discussion Of a national
platform than they might otherwise
have got, On. One is prohibition, and
the other is the Ku KluX Khan.
New York has decidedly wet"
sentiment, and the atmosphere I'M
doubtedly will be such that a pros
posal for the modification of the
Volstead act will be brought up.
Whether the convention adopts it
is quite another matter. The fight
in the San Francisco convention for
q light wine and beer plank occu-
pied a day OF debate.
Must Face Khan Issue
AS for the Ku KluX Khan, the
Democratic party in the north draws
much OF it's strength from the Irish
voters. One of the leading bosses
in the Democratic party told the
writer that since the X. K. K. agi-
tltIon the Jews We're beginning to
vote the Democratic ticket, and that
in an important municipal election
two wards containing predominant
rumber Of colored voters were car
ried almost solidly by the Demo
Gratis.
Senator Underwood, of Alabama,
has already declared himself in IA
Nor of an anti-ku Klux Khan plank.
The democratic party will have to
-iiSOL tiiC IoSut3 IL ~ - DIOuS5 III DE-
| fore The convention, and present
prospects are that it will be. There
is mcS ement inside the Republican
party t. do the same thing at the
Republican convention at Cleveland.
IL the Republicans evade the ques.
I ton, the Democrats are liable to
argue that they may make political
capita. out of a platform plank
which opposes the X. *. *. IL the
Republicans insert it in their plat
form, the Democrats will find them
selves compelled to do likewise.
The selection of New York was
sought by variety of interests each
Of which saw advantages to the
! iarty in meeting in the Empire
state. Probably the strongest In
flaence was that OF the New York
World, whose advocacy Of New York
as the 1924 meeting place began
| many months ago. On the ground
ut the meeting OF the national COM
mittee were Herbert Bayard Swope,
| KrocS assistant to Ralph Pulitzer,
owner of tie World. The World
| fought the adoption of the eight
| zenith amendment, and has persist
| entity pointed out the flaws in the
| Fo1stea6 act.
Worlds Influence Strong
While the selection of a meeting
| place for a national convention is
not as rule influenced by what
| rewspaf ers are published in the
I city, it is fact that some OF the
arguments used against certain cit
les in the race related to criticism
CO tn, treatment afforded Demo-
cratic conventions by newspapers in
| previous years. The prospects are
that with the leadership the World
has assumed in the affairs of the
Democratic party it will play an inn
| portant part in the Democratic ma
! tional convention. The World was
| the first newspaper to uncover the
| workings of the Ku Klux Khan.
The meeting OF the Democrats
national committee brought with it
some Of tn eatmosphere OF a ma
| tloIial convention.
The Democrats feel they have q
| chance to elect a president. They
| talk confidently about the Failure
| they expect the Republicans to make
| of tax revision from the viewpoint
| of leadership, and many of the
| Democrats seem to think it will be
quite stimulus to party prospect
if the Garner bill is put through
| the house by coalition Of Demo-
ciatic and insurgent Republican
votes.
Charles F. Murphy the Tammany
! leaGer, was particularly happy over
| the outlook. He was glad New York
was chosen. George Brennan, the
| Democratic leader Of Illinois, want
! ed New York to get it If Chicago
| couldn't. Chief Murphy stayed in
/ his hotel rooms all the time, seeing
| people only by appointment. Tom
| Taggart, the veteran committeeman
from Indiana, was absent on ac-
count of illness. 1t was the first
| time in years that he has missed a
meeting OF the Democratic national
! committee. But he didn't miss very
much as the talk Of candidates is
| stiIl nebulous, and the selection OF
| a convention city was a simple auc-
ton in which the highest bidder
/ wen.