Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-21
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THE CLEVELAND CONVENTION is OVER
AND DONE WITH

TNHOSE who never attended national
presidential convention can hardly get
N the real data in their minds by read
ing the newspaper accounts of it. 1t is in
a manner understandable. | witnessed one in
1912, the Roosevelt convention, as | was in
Chicago at that time and attended three
days.
1t was a boiling convention also because
the regulars had renomnated President Taft
and everybody but the regulars understood
that Mr.. Taft was not the choice of the
people of this nation. The enthusiasm was
! boundless, and the immense Coliseum was
packed to it's limit Bands of music were
always ready to fill the air with popular airs
and the crowds were shouting applause al
every opportunity.
Possibly its like may never be seen again
because Mr.. Roosevelt failed in the election
and Mr.. Taft while receiving an immense
vote, carried only two states, Utah anC
Vermont, both small states. President vii
sons election was an easy matter, with the
solid south and the divided Republican vote
from Maine to California.
1t was an object lesson, and party that
bolts and thus divides itself will be OF
two things, namely, only weak protest
attempt by wreckers to stampede theil
own organization, which unfortunately has
traitors inside its ranks and bent destruc-
ton maybe bribed by the regular opposi-
ton, for politics is game where money
counts large and promises are made to be
broken. There may be other attempts, but
the result will probably be the same as oc-
Cured in 1912. | full grown and
twenty when the Democrats held three
political conventions early in 1860, and nom
mated three presidential tickets-headed by
Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckenridge
and John Bell, of Tennessee.
Although there We're Democratic votes
enough given to overwhelmingly defeat Lin
coin, the three tickets all lost out and Lin
coin was the successful candidate.
stephen A. Douglas received 1,276,780
votes and Lincoln 1,S58,20 If there had
been single Democratic ticket it would
have been overwhelmingly elected in Noyem-
Der, 1860. The southern Democrats support
ed Breckinridge- was the leading ticket in
all the southern states except Missouri.
The vote for Douglas would have elected
him if Bell had withdrawn in his favor
not counting the southern votes for Breckin-
ridge, 812,500
There was full convention of all the
Democrats in Charleston, S. c., April %,
1860. When that convention broke up with
out candidate, they met in Baltimore on
june IS. The slave states all withdrew
from the Charleston convention.
Herschel Y. Johnson was vice presidential
candidate the Douglas ticket, a distin-
guished Georgian, but the slave states NOM
mated Joseph Lane, of Oregon with Brock
inridge, as vice president
AS these Figures it hardly seems
fully sane and sensible to thus bolt two con
ventions and thus precipitate the election oil
Lincoln.
Boiling conventions is a risky business,
unless a candidate is named who is known
to be unworthy of public trust and danger
Gus to be placed in authority.
THE MURDER PLEA, NAMELY, INSANITY
IN HE Mcdowell trial, going in St.
Petersburg, Fla, and the Chicago de-
generates Leopold and Loeb, are cases
that will illustrate what | am trying to pre-
sent to the readers of the Country Home col
umh. What is society going to do about
relieving or cOndOning such murderers under
the plea of insanity?
This plea is money making proposition
for the lawyers, when the knspeople are
very rich, and it is evident that some Chi
cago lawyers also get rich il they work
the rich parents to the limit in the lawyers
fees.
Doesn't the Bible say "All that man
hath he will give for his life?" and these
rich fathers would think it a good bargain
to give half or all that will be coming to
their degenerate sons to rescue them from
the gibbet or the electric chair.