Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-10
FORLORN M'ADOO FOES CLING
TO LAST FRAGMENTS OF HOPE,
WRESTLING TO Be CHEERFUL
Champ Carks Defeat at Ba fillmore Is Pointed to Fondy
As Indicating Chance to Beat McAdoo Today
Rockwell Sees WIsonian Victory


votes, leaders of the coalition
against his nomination are engaged
| in drawing a comparison between his
strength and that of Champ Clark
st Baltimore. They are seeking to
discount McAdoo's admittedly inn
pressite following by pointing to
! Clark's defeat at Baltimore even aft
er he had mustered a majority vote
in that memorable convention.
To these efforts of the opposition,
which are centefed sin the AL Smith
, headquarters, David Ladd Rockwell,
McAdoo's manager, has authorized
a statement pointing to the error
to the parallel and likening McAdoo's
| following to the faithful progressives
who nominated Woodrow Wilson al
Baltimore.
That the anti McAdoo forces are
really apprehensive over the
strength of the Georgian has been
further demonstrated by their fran
tic floundering during the week.
Blows Hot and Cold
First, Franklin Roosevelt, Smiths
manager, committed him to dry"
plank in the platform, admitting
that McAdoo win control the con-
veution. Then, when wet" dele
gates from Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Massachusetts, protested and threat
ened to bolt Al's candidacy, Roose-
welt withdrew his original declara-
ton.
His next move, following the re-
suit in Florida, was TO inspire the
announcement that Governor Smith
would pick as his running mate
Governor Charles w. Bryan, of Ne
bcaska, brother of William Jennings
Bryan, who led the McAdoo ticket
in Florida.
And now the Smith men are sorry
they spoke of this possible combi-
nation, for by so doing they aroused
the outspoken hostility of Orville
S. Poland, general counsel for the
Anti-Salocn league. Until now, Po-
land has had little to say about the
Democratic nomination, but the sug-
gestion of Smith-Bryan ticket
brought from him today the declara-
ton that such talk is inspired only
by the forlorn hope of beating Nc
Adoo.
And on top 1-of all this, George
Bl ennan, the Illinois boss, visiting
in New York, let it become known
that he does not intend to commit
his delegation to the candidacy of
Smith or any one else at this time.
AS matter Of fact, McAdoo is as
sured of ten votes in Illinois and
probably will receive more.
Indiana Another Thorn
The refusal of Senator Ralston,
of Indiana, to permit his state con-
yention to instruct for him is an
other thorn in the side of the anti
McAdoo forces, and now they are
wondering if, at the last minute
Tom Taggart will deliver Indiana to
McAdoo.
The statement authorized by
Judge Rockwell follows:
1.-The apparent similarity betwe en-
Clark's strength at Baltimore and
McAdoo's strength today is only SUI
perficiaL The real comparison is of
the underlying forces. In this con-
nection. the likeness of the elements
involved in the Wilson candidacy
and those of McAdoo is indeed strik
ing.
In every convention the outcome
is determined by the. combat of fun.
damentals. That was the case az
Baltimore, and that was why Wilson
| won. That will be the case at New
York, and that will be why McAdoo
will win.
There is amazing similarity of
support between Woodrow Wilson
n 1912, and William Gibbs McAdoo
in. 1924. Behind the now martyreG
Wilson were outstanding forces of
progressive Democracy. They We're
moment&rily outnunSoered, but they
were sustained by the faith of right.
eousness. Inspired not by consider
atoms of political eXpediency,' but
by ideals and fundamental beliefs,
they withstood the assaults of their
| opponents ard triumphed.
Same Forces Back of McAdoO
Behind MCAdoo today are group
! ed, in even more impressive array.
the same stalwart progressive force )
which backed Wilson twelve years
ago. They are moved by similar
| ideals, beliefs and hopes. They will
resist their foes with equal courage
and unshakable determination.
I'm a contest of forces. someone
has to yield. Is it likely that these
men and women, animated by such
jealous faith, will ever yield? When
the antiMcAd>1 forces Find them.
selves battling vainly against u
stone wall, they will be sure to &C.
cept the inevitable. Oii-~p- SCrom-
wells Ironsides will have its coun-
terpart in McAdoo's progressive sol,
diery at Madison square.
1T must not be forgotten that
| the long and tedious process of
| building up a majority for Clark ut
Baltimore had the accompanying eff
feet of solidifying the Wilson
strength. In New York McAdoo be.
gins with majority. There is
| hardly standpoint of similarity be,
tween the Clark and the McAdoo
strategic position. except the super
1 fetal one of mere numbers.
McAdoo'S Lead Conceded
Our opponents are whistling to
keep up their courage. They con-
cede McAdoo's impregnable lead, and
their tenuous claims and compari-
sons are full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing The triumphal
march of McAdoo states for the last
month indicates with dnerring pre-
cision the final outcome. Not even
New York City With its lavish enter
tainment and its barbaric splendor,
can change the outcome.