Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-05
UNABLE To CONCEAL
biTTERNE: AGAINST
SMITH OPPONENTS
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
(Special Leased Wire to The Journal
DOWNRIGHT 1924

ton. Inc ACCOMMODATIONS ho'9
wonderful, the entertainment mas
been lavish, but the crowds at the
convention have been anything but
fair. New York always has prldeu
itself before on it's fairness, its toler
ance, it's hospitality.
New Workers contributed large
sums of money to bring the Demo
cratic convention to this city to snow
the people of the country what fine
big town" this was and to allay the
prejudices of the "outlanders
against the metropolis.
Many things have happened at the
convention which the visitors will
not soon forget. Perhaps it would
have been different if New York City
had not had a real native son of the
sidewalks in the running for first
honors Perhaps then the gallery
crowds would nave been fair; per-
= haps they would not have Kissed and
booed the demonstrations of the Nc
Adoo followers on the floor; perhaps
the band would not have insulted the
Georgians by playing the battle song
of Atlanta to the sea; perhaps there
would not have been such unauthor-
lied running in of spectators with
out tickets.
1t was thought this latter evil
would be stopped after the gate
crashing which marked the first
Smith demonstration, but it has con-
tinued and many legitimate ticket
holders, including those who had Of
ficial business at the convention.
have been brushed aside by the po-
lice at the outer portals to make
room for some friends of some city
official.
Seats Are Usurped
Wednesday night of this week The
invaders" had become so bold that
they uSurped seats belonging to
delegates and many of the latter
had to stand up during the greater
parts of the sessions. This state of
affairs finally brought a. protest
from the long suffering permanent
chairman, Senator Walsh.
Perhaps also if the khan and anti
khan fight had not been carried to
the floor by the radicals who swore
to high Heaven that nothing short
of a specific denunciation of the
hooded order by name in the plat
form would satisfy them the dis
turbances in the gallery would not
nave been so great.
New York is a hot-bed OF anti
klanism. The oratory on this sub
ject aroused the passions and
prejudices of the local people and
they expressed their desires in the
matter in no uncertain terms.
The legitimate business of the con-
vention has been seriously retarded
by the noisiness and unruly conduct
of the galleries and by the croWding
and commotion on the floor. The
Democrats have a hard enough time
composing their own differences of
opinion. When the galleries begin
to take hand in the proceedings
the situation is well-nigh hope
less
In this convention, as in many
another, Alabama has dimmed the
freshening hopes of other candidates
by persisting in casting her vote for
Oscar w. Underwood. Some one
asked Victor Hanson, of the Ala
bama delegation, how long they were
going to stick to the senator this
time
Until October, if necessary" re.
Piled the Birmingham editor with
determined look in his eye.
The Alabamians have insisted
from the first that Senator Under
wood was the logical choice" of the
Democracy.
Vets for Smith
The idea that Governor Smith has
received his entire support from the
so.called wet" states that are neigh
bors of New York is not entirely cor
T. 10 l.
votes in Pennsylvania, Massachu.
sets, Connecticut, and Rhode Island,
but he has also found support in
some of the dry and radical states
of the great northwest. Also he has
had some support in the south.
Colorado has given the New York
governor a block of votes from the
very beginning. In the Michigan
delegation, twelve of the delegates
have voted consistently for Smith.
From Minnesota he has received no
less than Is votes. Montana has
given him 1, Nebraska, 3; North
Dakota, 5; Wyoming, 4 IL, and Wis
consin, %.
New England also has had a lean
ing toward the chief executive of the
Empire state. Mr.. Coolidge's old
home state of Vermont has consist
entity cast seven of her eight votes
for Smith. New Hampshire has given
him four and Maine, A IL.
The official food of the convention
is the succulent ''hot dog" New
kennels" for frying the sausages
have constantly been added to the
garden equipment and the price OF
the animals has never varied from
10 cents. In the convention news
paper club, maintained by the New
York World and the Baltimore Sun,
the "doggies" have been served with
the compliments of the two news
papers.
Some folks insist that this continu-
Gus and alarming consumption OF
hot dogs accounts for all the growl-
ing and barking heard in the con-
vention.
The most sepulchral voice in tbs
convention belongs to a long tai
Texan. who occasionally announces
the vote of that delegation for Will
liam Gibbs McAdoo.
Texas Voice Applauded
The voice always gets a hand. The
delegate uses it in the convention
with a smile. But if 1t were ever
raised in anger it would strike ter
Tor TO tbs soul.
Volunteers constantly are being
rushed to the chairman's desk as re-
lief workers for the hard pressed
reading and tally clerks. The con-
fusion lad crowding in the haH have
made. tho work of these officials eX-
tremely difficult, and trying on the
nerves. 1t is almost next TO impos-
sibie for the clerks to hear the replies
of the states, and. IN order to make
themselves heard, they have TO