Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-22
M ADOO' STRENGTH
STRIK|NGLY SHOWN
BY NEBRASKA VOTE

CHICAGO, April I9.-David Ladd
Rockwell, chairman of the McAdoo
national campaign, issued the follow
ing statement after a conference
with Arthur Mullen, Of Omaha, Neb.
newly elected Democratic national
committeeman of that state:
lone of the most significant of all
| expressions Of public opinion so far
| in the Democratic presidential nomi.
nation campaign is that of Nebraska.
Several facts in relation to the Ne.
braska situation so to make this So
I'm the first place, there was no
candidate for The Democratic pres
identjal nomination filed in the state
of Nebraska. William Gibbs Me.
Adoo was not filed, out of Difference.
TO his belief that he should not enter
The state in which Governor Charles
w. Bryan was prospective candi.
date. Governor Bryan did not en-.
ter because his name could not an
pear twice on the same ballot and
he had filed for denomination as gov
ernor.
Accordingly the official ballot at
the Democratic primary had on it:
For President with a blank line un.
der it.
Got 10000 Without Effort
The McAdoo forces in Nebraska
made absolutely no effort whatso.
ever Tor writing in of Mr. Nc
Adoos name. Arthur Mullen. the
McAdoo leader in the state made no
ueclafatlon VIII -soever because of
the desire on Mr.. McAdoos part not
10 be an entry in the primary. There
was no newspaper publication, or in
tdcL any movement of any type to
nave Mr.. McAdoo's name writer
INTO the ballot. Yet the result of thes
electlon was that about 10000 people
wrote MI. MtAdoo's name in on the
palIQt and in addition to this DIT
cross mark beside it. The result
IN bO3 precincts out of 1900 in the
state was:
.McAdoo 3,677; Ford, 435: Smith.
4l8; w. j. Bryan, $40; Chas. BRYAN,
$50; Gilbert Hitchcock. 1GS; Senator
Thomas j. Walsh, "a; Thomas Allen,
30; James M. Cox, 81; Oscar Under.
wood, 25; LaFollete, "a.
The vote over the entire state
gave McAdoo about the same proper.
tlon. The Smith vote was a great
ueaI less, the main part Of it 900
votes having been cast in the city
or omaha. in which McAdoo got
l,987, Ford 209, w. j. Bryan 149,
Charley Bryan 30, Walsh ~, Hitch.
cock TO, Underwood 10, Ralston 8.
Ihe significant thing about thee
vote for McAdoo in Nebraska was
that IN each instance the voter had
not only 10 write Mr.. McAdoO's
name IN on the ballot, but to mark
a cross by that written-in name.
There were thousands of voters
who wrote Mr. McAdoos name in
but did not mark a cross there. I'm.
der the ruling of the state election
officers, such ballots were not
counted, even though the intention
was plain
EquaIIed Wilson in 1912
For 10000 voters in Nebraska
who had written Mr.. McAdoo's
name. in on the ballot and to have
checked cross mark by it, in an
election in which Mr. McAdoo was
not entered and in which no effor;
whatsoever was made by his adj
herents to secure such writing in,
Is certainly magnificent demon
stratio of the outstanding strength
Of Mr.. McAdoo throughout the west.
The showing is even more remark
able because an organized effort had
been made to have Governors
Charles w. Bryan's name written
in. The total McAdoo vote was n
least two to one of the sum total
of all the other candidates.
In 1912 a very active campaign
was carried on in Nebra ska by three
presidential aspirants: Champ Clark.
Woodrow Wilson and Judson Har.
mon. Each group had a thorough
organization in the state. with coun.
ty machinery. active leaders, prop
uganda, etc. The total vote cast in
the 1912 Democratic primary and
that in the 1924 Democratic pri-
mary in Nebraska were about iden.
teal In the 1912 primary the re.
suits were as follows in round fig.
ures: Champ Clark. $4,000; Wood
row Wilson, $4,000; Harmon, II, 900
The striking feature of this years
election is that Mr.. McAdoo, with
out his name on the ticket and with
the voter having to make a great
physical effort, and without any
campaign of any sort, secured ap.
proNimately as many votes as did
either wilson or Harmon in 1912
What finer demonstration could
there be that Mr.. McAdoo is the
hope of progressive democracy and
the natural leader of the progress.
i've forces in the party, with the
keen attachment of the rank and
file all through the middle west