Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-01
STATE POSTMASTER
APPOINTMENTS To
WAIT ON Convention
Coolidge Not to Name Men
to Georgia Posts Until As
sured of G, 0, P, Nominal
ton in June
BY THEODORE TILLER
Atlanta journal News Bureau,
4nR Evans Binding.

WASHINGTON, Marcn 29.-It
was reliably understood here. Satur-
day that no Georgia postmasters will
be appointed by the present admin
istration until after the Cleveland
convention in June, or at least not
until President Coolidge is assured
of enough votes to nominate him
without aid of the Georgia Repub-
licans.
This means that more than fifty
"acting postmasters" in important
Georgia towns will continue to func,
ton for several months or more.
and other vacancies will not be
filled as they arise.
In some cases the postmasters
whose commissions are Acting
postmasters' who alaready have been
named will not be mOlested until
after the Republican national con-
vention.
Practical politicians are believed
to have advised the president and
his secretary, Bascom Slemp, that,
with Georgia Republicans wrans-
ling among themselves over patron
age matters, and with the control
of the state machine in doubt, the
president should not take sides with
any faction prior to the Cleveland
convention where there will be a
fight for control of the Georgia
delegation.
Assurance Ava
OF course, it is pointed out here
| if the president rounds up enough
delegates meanwhile to assure his
nomination on the first lallot, he
may safely afford to make postof-
| flee appointments in Georgia.
The postoffice department records
| show that when congress assembled
| in December more than fifty acting
postmasters" already had been APP
| pointed and were serving and still
are serving, at the following Geor-
| gia postoffices:
Albany, Arlington, Camilla, Carnes-
Vile, Gainesville, Cave Spring,
| Chamblee, Gainesville, ClaXton,
| Cochran, Commerce, Crumps Park,
| Dalton, Douglasville, East Point,
Edison, Fayetteville, Folkston, Fort
| Screven, Fort Valley, jefferson, La
fayette, Lithonia, Logansville, Luz
| dowici Lumber City, Manchester,
| Miilen, Nashville, Odum, Plains
| Quitman, Rebecca, SmithVille,
Sparks, Statesboro, Stone Mountain,
| Tallapoosa, Temple, Tignau, Tun-
mel Hill, Pnadilla, Union Point, Viii
la RIGA, Warrenton and Wrights-
| Vile.
The only office in the state where
an acting postmaster" appears to
! have been appointed after the con-
vening of congress Is Aragon.
All of the above offices are of the
presidential class
Many Examinations Held
Dozens of examinations have been
held b. the civil service commission
in recent months to select eligibles
at other offices where vacancies
have occurred, but the president has
sent in no nomination Of a Georgia
postmaster since he assumed office.
All indications now are that none
will be appointed until the Gle .
land convention, and the subsequent
settlement of the existing row
among Republican factions in Geor.
gia.
The civil service commission has
certified to the postoffice depart
ment that, at the recent examina-
ton held to name eligiblos for ap-
pointment at Dawson, Ga, none of
the applicants met the minimum re-
quirements for eligibility for an Of
flee of this class" Another exami-
nation wi. be held. but there ap-
pears no hurry about it, as Georgia
nominations are not worrying the
administrator 1T present.