The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-13
PRESS ON THE TICKET


 vention broke all records for duration : and ballot-taking, yet the predicted split
 in the party did not materialize. Un- ,. doubtedly this is a source of regret to :. the prophets, but of great satisfaction to
 the people of this country who are dis
 satisfied with the Republican adminis-
 trative record. It has been found that
 party solidarity is even more important
 than issues, factions and personal aspira- -s% tions. When party is unit under good ,5 and effective leadership the worth of its -e purpose and the quality of it's policies may be taken for granted. Right minded people always do the right thing in the long run of events. It IS obvious 7 that the various conflicting elements z that were revealed in the convention ', 7. were of superficial significance, and that :. below it all lay the continuous founda- 31- tions of party loyalty and a determiTla- sztion to win the victory in November. As siH soon as the requisite majority was cast - for MT. Davis all personal and factional :t differences. magically disappeared and | the convention presented united and ; unbroken front to the country. The di- 7. visions died with the convention, and any i. Republican effort to revive them will be [ futile They are no more. [. The press of the South is reflective of ,E Southern public opinion to a remarkable a degree. Mirrored therein lie the senti- 7. ments of the Southern people. They : are epitomized in the following from the .- Atlanta Journal: "Now that the conven- tion has ended it's long, grim battle in the : nomination of ticket deserving heart
 whole allegiance, broken ranks should be | closed and loyal forward march begun: 2 The party of Jackson, of Cleveland and <. of Wilson has stood for long age ! through shock and storm because within 2 it was a vital devotion to human inter- 2 ests and human rights. So long as that s1 spirit lives and rules in it's counsels De-
 rnocracy will endure, despite the errors of :. a season and divisions of an hour. The 7. Journal greets the Honorable John w. fs Davis with admiring good wishes and t-epledges him full-sinewed support" There .e. in speaks the voice of an entire grand 3a division of people. Y '. Similar attitude is expressed by the ! Louisville Courfer4Journal: "It seems al-
 most too good to be true that the Demo- as cratic national convention, after an ur1- Z precedented two weeks sway of storm
 and strife, has righted itself and rom- : mated John W. Davis for the presidency. :. By that action the convention took the
 best step 1t could have taken to repair -i the damage that was being done the . Democratic party and to save 1t from the 4g rocks toward which it was being driven. 2 The nomination of Davis has worked this
 miracle because it is, and is so universally recognized, the best nomination that could have been made; because the dele s1 gates to the convention, in the midst ,c of their persistent fights for other can didates, knew him to be pre-eminently .s qualified for the presidency; because throughout this whole country there is :: no intelligent person who has kept
 abreast of the public affairs of the last
 decade who does not know that in every
 way John w. Davis measures up to the :. high office of president of the United
 States"
 s "The Democratic party has not com 9 rnitted suicidey exclaims the Memphis
 Commercial-Appeal. "John w. Davis
 stands for the Wilson traditions. More
 practical than the great president, he ,. will strive in practical ways to reach !! these ideals" And the St. Louis Post ! Dispatch: "With his acknowledged fine = character, recognized and proven ability Z and thorough equipment for the office 2; of chief magistrate, MT. Davis is as good [, a candidate as the convention could have 7 named to combat the reactionary Cool ,s idge on the one side and the radical La- Toilette on the other" Reciting it's sup z port of MT. Davis from the conventions s
 beginning, the Savannah News re-
 marks: ''The nominee is more nearly like the late Woodrow Wilson than is any other man in public life today; indeed, he
 resembles the former president physic- a ally as we'll as mentally. He is a good ,. choice, the best that the party could have
 made. He is of presidential calibre, with
 international training. He furnishes Democracy the leader, not of faction, but of the whole party, that it really
 was seeking, blindly perhaps and stum-
 plingly, when it began the record-break- ing convention in New York"
 Another Georgia paper, the Columbus Ledger, declares: "The ticket, all sides and circumstances taken into considera- : ton, is a strong one, and it should ap-
 peal to the American people, especially I in view of, the splendid platform adopted at the opening of the convention" - While believing that, as far as the pres idential nominee is concerned, 'the con- vention was fortunate in it's selection,
 yet the Nashville Banner thinks that
 "the nomination of Charles w. Bryan for
 the vice-presidency was a blunder. Dem- " ocrats were far less fortunate in pick 2 ing their vice. presidential nominee than
 were the Republicans" However, per- < haps further study of MT. Bryan's record
 and popular appeal may serve to modify
 the Banners judgment. A majority of
 fifty thousand in a moderately populated state like Nebraska is no negligible |. tribute.
 qe The Atlanta Constitution regards the d9Davis nomination as a "redeeming and the New Orleans Times-Pic-
 ayune thinks that the convention "could .q,not have selected a man better fitted to I5 discharge the duties of president" Even : the Republican Kansas City Star con 2 cedes: 'After trying hard not to do it, I the Democratic national convention made
 a nomination that must command the reS spect of the country" Although some 4