Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-25
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BY ROBERT T. SMALL
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WASHINGTON, March 22.-The
political pot keeps boiling, but so
far as the Democrats are concerned
the winds are so variable that the
escaping steam does not blow in any
one general direction. With the Re
publicans it is different. The fur
Their the Coolidge band wagon rolls
the more crowded it becomes. Soon
it would appear to be all over but
the shouting so far as the Repub-
lican nomination is concerned. Sen
ator Johnson is making brave but
losing fight. There is not even
mirage in the desert of his disap-
pointment.
The McAdoo supporters for the
Democratic nomination, cast down a
week before by the unsatisfactory
results of the primary in Missouri,
are elated now over the returns
from Georgia. They expected to
regarded down there as a Georgian,
despite his long residence in the
north and west, but they did not
look for the great sweep over Sena-
tor Underwood which the revised
figures show. The McAdOo triumph
in Georgia was not merely moral
victory, it was a popular tidal wave.
Yet Georgia is not a pivotal state
in the McAdoo campaign. 1t was
important to the former secretary
of the treasury that he carry the
state. OF that there can be no
doubt Mr.. McAdOo himself realized
it and that is why he Travelled all
the way cross the country to spend
the last four or five days of the prl-
mary campaign in the Empire State
of the South. Something was need
ed to give the McAdoo boom fur
Their boost. something to offset the
former McAdoo association with the
Doheny oil interests in Mexico;
something to offset Missouri. If
Georgia had gone against Mr.. Nc
Adoo it would have been disastrous.
Therefore, the victory was impor-
tant, but it leaves Mr.. McAdoo with
the great bulk of his work still ahead
of him. The pivotal states are yet
to- come and the way to the nominal
titon is long and hard one.
Has Good Machine
Still Mr. McAdoo has the great
advar tage of being virtually the
only candidate in the field with a
nationwide organization. 1t is an
old political saying that delegates do
not grow wild on trees. They have
got to be cultivated There must be
workers in the vineyards. Even the
Coolidge forces found this out not
so long ago. Therefore, the man
with the organization has Il great
advantage over all others in the dele
gate hunt and Mr.. McAdoo has all
of that advantage at this stage OF
the race.
Governor AL Smith, of New York.
is as shy as a. young gaZelle when
any one mentions his name for the
presidency. There is no doubt, how.
ever, that he will have the entire
state delegation back of him when
the Democratic convention begins
right in his own front yard. From
that point on no one knows just
wit is going to happen to the
Smith idea. IT is certain that Gov
ernOr Smith is not worrying his
head over the matter and is willing
to let nature take its course all by
itself. He will not permit the for
nation Of am organization in hisI
behalf.
Former Governor Cox, Of Ohio,
has thus far limited the use of his
name to his own state. His permits
sion to that extent has been hailed
in Ohio with great enthusiasm and
more may develop from it than now
appears upon the surface.
Senator Underwood's friends are
making comparatively limited
campaign in his behalf.
Only McAdOO Militant
Thus it will be seen that the Nc
Adoo boosters are the only national
mlitants in the political market
places and their work may be eX-
pected to bear more fruit in the fu-
ture than it has in the past
No matter how he may explain
his defeat in North Dakota, the fact
remains that Senator Hiram John
son lost a progressive or radical
state to the conservative now in the
White House and one trouble spot
in the Coolidge campaign has been
obliterated. The Coolidge campaign
managers are predicting a walk in"
for the rest of the way to the Cleve-
land convention.
1t was stated in these dispatches
two weeks ago that Senator Robert
NJ La Toilette, OF Wisconsin, had
made up his mind to head a third
party ticket if President Coolidge
won the nomination at Cleveland.
This forecast Of his decision was
publicly confirmed this week in
Washington and the third party folk
have all Of the enthusiasm of new
crusaders. The Democrats natu
rally are encoura ged over the pros
pect of the third party move for
they feel Senator La Toilette will
prove strong enough to take several
Republican states away from the
Coolidge banner, or better still that
he will so split the Republican vote
as possibly to turn some of these
states over to the democracy.
counsel, the bank will test the ques-
ton / expect to be in Washington,
d. c., the first of next week"
\ few days ago a similar summons
for the head bookkeeper to appear
with the banks records before the
committee was not obeyed on the
ground that it would interfere with
the normal transaction Of business
at the bank while the books were in
the capital.