Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-22

which was used to advantage by
the McAdoo forces. Senator
Underwood was condemned by
many Georgians, particularly
among the women, because he
refused to support the federal
prohibition amendment. Sena-
tor Underwood was condemned
by the prohibition forces with
out knowing what McAdoo' s
stand is or would have been had
he stood in Underworld shoes
when that amendment was be-
fore Congress.
The third reason for the
overwhelming McAdoo victory
we are informed from several
sources, was his support by the
Ku Klux Klan. Immediately
after the victory of MIR. McAdoo
was known, the following state
ment was issued by c. c. Car
lin, chairman of the national
Underwood committee, and
Robert c. Gordon, state chair
man for Underwood:
eve are compelled to admit
that Georgia has been lost to
Senator Underwood by the clev-
er intriguing of Mr.. McAdoo's
forces with the Knights of the
Ku Klux Khan. Immediately aft
er Mr.. McAdoo's statement of his
position on the Khan at Macon,
Georgia, four days before the
| primary, Mr.. M. o. Dunning,
chief of staff of realm of Geor-
gia of the invisible empire of the
Knights of the Ku Klux Khan,
issued an official statement de-
claring that Mr.. McAdoo's posi-
ton in Georgia, in which state
it organized and where its ma
tional headquarters is now To-
Gated, threw its complete strength
and its entire organization to the
support of Mr.. McAdoo, and sue
ceeded in defeating Mr.. Under
wood in Georgia.
THE male membership of the
khan in Georgia is estimated to
be 100000: and to that, the vot-
ing strength of their families and
the result in Georgia is easily un-
derstood."
Senator Underwoods views
with regard to the Ku Klux Klan
were stated in no uncertain
terms many months ago when
he first invaded Texas. This is
sue MFR. McAdoo evaded. Over
confidence and the bonus are
given as two of the reasons for
Underwood's defeat, in a discus
sion by the Columbus Enquirer
Sun in the following editorial:
Many reasons are advanced as
to why Mr.. McAdoo defeated
Senator Underwood in the Geor-
gia primary on Wednesday. Over
confidence on the part Of Under
woods campaign managers is
aseribed as one cause. The part
played by the w. c. 7. u, which
opposed Underwood because he
stood with Woodrow Wilson in the
matter Of prohibition is given as
a reason. From others we learn
that the Ku Klux Klan-an is
sue which McAdoo adroitly evad-
ed-was the deciding factor; that
labor also paid its tribute ballot
wise to the former secretary of
the treasury for his method of
handling railways during govern
ment control; that McAdoo fav-
ors soldier bonus; and that.
above all, he is native SON."
Any one or all of the forego-
ing why's" might account for
the victory of McAdoo; but it
seems to US the question now is
not how or why Underwood was
defeated, but what will be the eff
feet of the action of Georgia on
the other states which are yet
to be heard from. The opinion
of the Enquirer-Sun is that I'm
derwood's loss of Georgia to a
"native son." is far from being
a serious setback to the able
Alabaman's presidential chances;
on the other hand, if McAdoo had
failed TO carry his "nativo state"
the state where he was horn,
where he spent his boyhood-the
state for which he has always
evinccd such constant and en-
dearing solicitude-if in these
circumstances McAdoo had fail
ed t. carry Georgia then his
boom would have collapsed be-
yond all bolstcring.
The fact that McAdoo carried
his native state although he lost
his boyhood home county, can
not change single item in the
summing up of the qualifications
of Underwood for the presidency.
The Alabama senator has
courageously met every issue
he has never hesitated a moment
in stating his position, and has
scorned to stoop to quibbling.
Underwood, in losing Geor-
gia, has gained increasingly the
confidence of those who have all
along recognized the intrinsic
dnalities of his statasmanshin-