Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-28
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NEW YORK, June 26.-William
Nc. McAdoo was placed in nomina-
ton for the presidency at the Dem
ocratic national convention Wednes-
day by former Senator James ID.
Phelan, of California, with the decla-
ration that he is the natural leader
Of progressive thought and achieve
mem"
This year demands the return
of triumphant democracy, said Mr..
Phelan, 1.-The Progressives Of the ma
ton look to the Democratic party
for their leader. Shall we give him
to them? There is room in America
for but one reactionary party, and
the Republicans have preempted
that field. The party's chance OF
success depends upon its choice tor
candidate for the presidency of this
man."
Tracing Mr.. McAdoo's career
both in the government service and
in private life, Mr.. Phelan declares
that the vast problems of the con-
tinent are his familiar themes; the
prosperity of farm and fOerst and
mine, factors of natural growth and
strength and transportation and ir-
rigation, these are not strange sub
jects born of restricted environment
and narrow outlook.
In the broadness of his vision,
his sympathetic understanding, his
aggressive personality, his burning
patriotism, he is an ideal American"
continued the speaker. And so the
country will accept him.
''The vast machinery Of the gov
eminent rumbles diScordantly along
the road; the parts do not fit; the
crew recreant and rebellious, and
the chosen chief engineer has been
succeeded by the heir of an accident
Trained and Tried Chief
"Where should the people in all
prudence turn? Continue the mex
perienced and inept, or take u train
ed and tried chief who can at once
step into the cab and give COM
mand. We want a man who knows
where he is going, and who is 60
ing where the people want him to
go-capable, progressive, confident
of his power and alert and eager to
serve"
| While Mr.. McAdoo was secretary
of the treasury, the convention was
told, he "cleansed it of the foul
growth of favoritism and repealed
the insidious attacks of the power
full, made it the repository of the
peoples hopes and the instrument
tally of sound finance, the safe
guard of honest business and in
| dustrial prosperity"
1--WE honor President Wilson, who
left a great heritage of character
and achievement to the democracy"
continued Mr.. Phelan, but we shall
not forget the toiler by his side, the
! inspirer of ideas and the doer of
things, the great secretary of the
! treasury in the most eXacting and
soul testing administration since
Lincoln's''
Asserting that Mr.. McAdoo under
stands the farmers problems far
better than any aspirant for the
| presidency-either Democrat or Re
publican" Mr. Phelan added:
From every side today come
urgent demands for adequate soIu
ton of agricultural problems. What
man is better equipped to solve
them than this man, who was raised
on a farm, who during his long ad.
ministration of the treasury depart.
ment, of the farm loan bureau and
Of the railroads came into daily con-
hotCI Win La INNS pIODlClIlo VI every
description, and who had then and
has now the vision to see the RENE.
dy and the courage to effect it,"
Railroad Administrations
AS for Mr.. McAdoo's administra.
ton of the railroad, Mr.. Phelan had
this TO say:
"The workers knew his senti.
ments toward labor. He gave them
the eioht-hOrr rT1es and overtime
and otherwise amelIJrated their con.
diti0n. Assuming complete control,
he brought order out of chaos. re.
lieved congestion, opened ports and,
loyalty supported by his men, sue
cessfully moved to tideWater-a vital
operation-the tiedup troops and
supply trains.
while doing justice to railroad
labor, he yet remembered always the
interest of the public. 1t is a strik.
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