Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-29
JOHNSON IS LEADING
COOLIDGE IN DAKOTA
PRESIDENT PRIMARY
McAdoo Is Three to One Vic
tor in Race on Democratic
Ticket ohnSon's Margin
Grows

SIOUX FALLS, S. D.. March IL
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader, which
had supported President Coolidge's
candidacy, this afternoon declared
Senator Hiram johnson had won the
! Republican presidential Endorsement
in Tuesdays primary in South Da'
/ kota.
| Returns compiled by these newspa-
pers and the Sioux Falls Press, in
| Guiding a number of semi-official re-
ports from county auditors, gave the
senator lead of 1.743 votes over
| President Coolidge when all but $50
precincts had reported. These re-
turns from l 1884 precincts out of a
few more than 1925 in the state
gave Johnson 49, 43 and Coolidge 49,
| 500
Coming down the final stretch as
shown in unofficial returns, John
son pushed into the least last night,
held it until early this afternoon,
when again the president forged
ahead by d 3-vote margin.
Dewey county, reporting a two-to-
one advantage for the president was
responsible for the squirt on his part,
and showed 1928 of the state APP
proximateIy 1925 precints giving
Coolidge 81 ,4S0 and Johnson 81 AL.
Johnson again went into the lead
as complete returns from Hutchin-
son county, were nearly three to one
for the Californian, and 1856 pre-
cincts gave Johnson 1915 and
Coolidge 1868.
Only 35 votes separated the
two when tabulation was resumed
today in one or the closest contests
South Dakota has ever known.
Senator Johnson increased his
lead to 297 in later returns today
from another hundred precincts.
Coolidge trimmed a few votes off
Johnson's lead in the next 43 pre-
cincts to report unofficial returns.
the count in /, 512 precincts giving
Johnson 37,1S6 and Coolidge 1865
a Johnson lead of 221.
In the Republican senatorial race,
,374 precincts gave Governor w.
H. McMa ster SO, $50 votes and SEN
ator Thomas Sterling 2S,526.
Leading at one time by more
than $500 votes, President Cool
idge gradually lost ground yester-
day. His lead decreased with the
late day returns and finally he was
forced into second place BY the
Californian
William G. McAdoo, candidate for
the Democratic presidential prefer
ence Endorsement, carried the state
nea2Lsy. thseesvte atssS- over It he fi1sss
ton seeking to send an uninstruct.
ed delegation to the national con-
vention at New York, according to
statements by the party's @tate head
quarters These statements declared
that reasonably complete reports
received at headquarters, "substan-
tiated completely their claim to
victory.
MISSOURI PROGRESSINES
ENDORSE LAF0LLETTE
ST. LOUIS, March Ex-senator
Robert NJ LaFollette, of Wisconsin,
ment of the National Progressive
League Of Missouri at a meeting here
last night
SHAMEFUL" USE OF CASH
is CHARGED BY JOHNSON
ST. LOUIS, March Ex-senator
Hiram Johnson, of California, in a
statement here today commenting on
the South Dakota presidential pref
erence primary. charged that IF
ever an effort was made to buy an
election, it has been done in that
state
I'm the fight in South Dakota, the
most reckless and shameless use OF
money was made by the president.
said Senator Johnson, mot only in
hiring an army of orators, but in
buying full1page advertisements in
every paper in South Dakota and
in utilizing circulation without stint.
Unemployment OF politicians gave
way to most industrious employment
at very high salaries. There was
! no purchaseable element which was
! not. purchased, and the result is the
largest tribute that can be paid to
a citizenship. For if ever AN at
tempt was made to buy a citizenship,
it was made in South Dakota.
IF | win out there. it will be
| marvellous demonstration of how the
people of the west feel toward MIR.
Coolidge
SOUTh DAKOTA ANOTHER
PROOF OF MADOO'S GRIP
CHICAGO. March 26.-The result
Of the South Dakota primary sis
merely another proof of the fact
that liam loo is generally
held by the rank and file Of the
Democratic party of the United
| States as the hope of progressive
democracy, David Laid Rockwell,
national chairman Of the Mead }
can. ,aign, said in commenting on
the primary last night.
| Certain reaCtionary interests
| have been conducting South
| Dakota campaign against McAdoo
FIR months" Mr.. Rockwell said. I'm
South Dakota, as in Georgia and
| Missouri. every possible campaign
Islander that could be imagined
agai- Sc Mr.. McAdoo was given full
rein by the opposition
The voters. the statement said,
| have repudiated these insinuations
and have demonstrated faith in and
demand for McAdoo for the next
president
Referring to the results in Mis-
souri,, Georgia and the Dakotas. Mr..
| Rockwell said: THE progressive
| Democrats of America have already
acteE in a reliable cross-section OF
the country. They have announced
in no uncertain terms their demand
| for NJ ,, and their defiance to
! his foes. That he will be nominated
at the New York convention and
| elected in November is a certainty.