Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-01
CANDIDATES DRIVEN
To BACKGROUND BY
WRANCLE ON KLA|V
Both McAdoo and Al Smith
Deny Plank Affects Their
Candidates.

NEW YORK, June 29.-The khan
issue overshadowed all else at
the Democratic national convention
and "boom row"-the candidates
acknowledgements almost deserted
and the campaign managers virtual
| ly ceased to campaign.
Disposition of the khan question in
| the platform fight Waged in the pat
form committee and in the full con
vention touched so directly on the
candidates. of several aspirants for
the partys highest honor, that the
| forces behind these men packed ur
and went to Madison Square Garden.
Besides all of their working ma
terials-the delegates-were down
| there.
Most Of the emanations from the
headquarters, as it was, reVolVed
about the khan question.
Franklin y. Roosevelt, campaign
manager for Governor Alfred E.
| Smith, denied that his candidate
would withdraw If the convention
voted down the Smith Unsupported
! plank for specific condemnation of
the khan.
David L. Rockwell, leader Of the
forces behind William G.. Meade,
also touched on the khan question in
public statement, declaring that
should an anti-klan plank be voted
into the platform Mr.. McAdoo would
in no way consider himself .elini-
mated or his chances adversely at
fected.
Thomas Taggart, the Indiana
leader, like Br'er Rabbit, The lay
low" while the khan battle was the
hottest, but even he had been forced
out early in the day when an at
tempt was made in some quarters
to fasten the khan label on his can
didate, Senator Samuel M. Ralston
Taggart denied it vigorously, meet
ing the stories with a smile, but
declaring Ralston would welcome
antiklan, khan and any other kind
of support he could get as he was
1.-The candidate of all factions and
peoples, even though he was not a
klansman."
These declarations SK three of the
leading campaign managers were IN
terpreted as a move to set the sails
Of their candidates so that regardless
of the shift of the wind over the
Khan question in the convention,
their crafts would not be blown out
of the water.
The Underwood hackers, however,
seemed to take particular delight in
the conventions khan fight, and con-
tinually pointed to declara tons by
the Alabama senator months before
the convention which asserted had
been largely instrumental in bring
ing the khan issue today before the
convention. The minority plank on
the khan was placed before the con-
vention by William r. Pattangall,
of Maine. who seconded the nomina-
ton of Senator Underwood, and sup
porters of the Alabama man said
that option if nothing else was suf-
ficient to tell where their candidate
stood.
The khan controversy was declared
by the proponents of the movement
behind John w. Davis to have unaf-
fected their campaign except as it
brought a day of inactivity because
the mind of the convention and its
component parts was centered not
so much as to whom the nominee
should be as to what the platform
should contain.
Suspension of activity also was
noticeable about all the other head
quarters including those opened for
Senator Glass, of Virginia; former
Governor Cox, of Ohio; former Secre-
tary Houston and Governor Richie.
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