Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-15
NJ ADOO GOES To
MICHIGAN MEET |NC;
ROCKWELL ELATED

NASHVILLE, Tenn, May 13.-
David Ladd Rockwell, national chair.
man of the McAdoo campaign, left
this morning with Mr.. McAdoo for
Louisville. Mr.. McAdoo is going on
to Flint, Mich, where he will adj
dress the Michigan State Democratic
convention tomorrow night. Mr..
Rockwell will go to Lexington, KY,
to attend the Kentucky state conven-
ton tomorrow. Before leaving Nash
Vile Mr.. Rockwell made the follow.
ing statement:
Il think that [ can safely say that
such a reception as was accorded
Mr.. McAdoo was indicative of the
election Of a McAdoo delegation from
Tennessee to the New York National
convention.
ALREADY there are elected 459 Nc
Adoo delegates-many more than all
other candidates combined have had
elected for them. There is notF the
slightest doubt that the progressive
McAdoo Democrats will control the
New York convention and nominate
Mr.. McAdoo. Nor have I any doubt
that this year Tennessee will play
a proud part in putting a fourth Ten
nessean in the White House. The
country today is crying for another
Andrew Jackson, and McAdoo will
be the Old Hickory of the twentieth
century"
WARNING SOUNDED AGAINST
REACTIONARY CONTROL
NASHVILLE, Tenn, May 13.-It
the coming Democratic convention
is dominated by reactiOnary forces,
the party is doomed to certain de-
feat in the November election, Will
liam G. McAdoo, candidate for the
Democratic nomination for presi
dent, asserted in the closing address
Of his Tennessee campaign here last
night.
IF, on the other hand" ne said,
"the party is controlled by the pro
gressive forces of democracy, stand
ing for those immutable principles
which jefferson formulated, which
jackson indicated, and which Will
son sublimated, it will march irresis
tibly to victory in November, 1924
Two great forces are cOntending
for mastery; the forces Of reaction
and privilege on the one hand, and
the forces of Democratic progress,
justice and equality on the other.
There cannot, there must not be
any compromise between these
forces. There can be no twilight
zone between them. The issue must
be sharpened to the keenest edge so
the decision of the American peO-
pie may be clear-cut and definite as
to whethera they want privilege,
plutocracy and reaction to run this
nation with all the graft. corruption
and sordidness which has been dis
played by the Republican administra-
ton at Washington for the past
three years, or whether they want
a restoration Of Christian, progress
sive Democratic government, clean
and incorruptible, high-minded and
high principled like that our match
less hero of democracy, woodrow
WILSON, gave the nation for eight
years
Hits Democratic Reactionaries
The fight within the Democratic
party is between the reactiOnary ele-
ment. small in numbers, but power
ful in resource on the one hand. and
the progressive element, large in
numbers but not well organized,
which found expression in Woodrow
Wilson, on the other.
If the fight were confined to
these two elements within the Demo
cratic party, there would be no
doubt about the issue. But reaction
and privilege is so determined to re-
possess itself OF government that
Wall street and the reactionary Re
publican organization is acting in
concert with the reactionary ele-
ments in the Democratic party to
control one-third of the Democratic
national vention, with the hope
that through deadlock they can