Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-06
Senator's Home Party Sends
Missionaries to Win Sup
port Of Nearby States.
LEADERS DENY EFFORT
is FAVORITE-SON MOVE
Revolt Of Dixie Democrats Threat
ened to Have Southerner Named
at Houston Convention.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
STAFF Coryesponcen, OF Jas star.

OSHlOCEd@S nave tIiS4t D"A CdasoAbStS
for President-Senator Waiter Franklin
George. 1t is high time, they say, that
a Southerner be nominated and elected
President of the United States.
From the point of view Of the South
ern democracy, this IS true enough.
At every national election the sold
South" casts it's electoral votes for the
Democratic nominee. But not IN gen.
erations has Southerner been nonni-
mated either for the presidency or the
vice presidency by the Democratic ma
tional party.
Other Southerners have tried for the
presidential nomination. among them
former Senator Oscar w. Underwood Of
Alabama. but they have arrived
nowhere. One of the principal Diff
cuities has been to get the Southern
Democrats generally TO sponsor the
cause of candidate from their own
section. Underwood did not have this
support. II he had had the support
OF all the delegations from the South
at the Madison Square Garden conven-
ton the more recent political history
would have been very different. But
Underwood was a wet. Furthermore
beyond all that there stood the belief
among the Southern Democrats them
selves that it was useless 10 put up
Southern man for President; that he
could neither be nominated nor elected
If nominated.
Campaigning for George.
The supporters of Senator George are
trying today TO educate the Democrats
of other Southern States in the belle.
that merely because a man Is OF the
South he is not disqualified for the
Office Of Chief Executive and that a
Southerner is available They are
staging a real campaign in the press
by personal contact with the Dsno-
cratic leaders OF other States. They
are talking George TO Democrats OF the
West and North. too. It's too eariy 10
say how successful they will be with
this campaign. Senator George viii
go to the Houston convention, fsu-
ratively speaking, with the Georgia
delegation in hts pocket. It viii be
his to do with as he sees fit-to hold
on TO or TO throw to some other can
didate II he finds that he cannot be
nominated.
At the present his friends are speak
ing hopefully Of winning the South
Carolina and Florida delegations for
the Georgia Senator. They point out
that the State Legislature. nov N SeS-
sion at Columbia, S. c., has extended
an invitation 10 Senator George TO
address the Legislature before il ad-
journs- They see in this compliment
an indication that Georgias neighbor
IN the North Is getting ready 10 climb
on the George band wagon. Hopeful
words come from Florida. too.
Seen as Fayorite Son Move.
But no matter what the Justice Of
the demand for = Southern Democrat
for President may be, there are grave
doubts that Georgia Is going 70 be any
more successful III its drive foE the
Democratic nomination than vas Ala
oama with Underwood or Virginia
with Glass. II must be said that
Senator Georges candidacy. ~ far. Is
regarded III other Southern States as
merely "favorite son" candidacy.
This is true in Virginia. North and
South Carolina. All this may change
III the next few months. eu. even here
in Georgia there Is great Skepiic1Ssn.
The old idea still prevails among many
Democrats that IL is Idle 70 put forward
Southerner for the nomination.. al
past and the South has shown It's de-
sotion to the Union Ii TWO great wars
since then.
They tear the prejudice cs the North
against the South. They fear that
Southern man could carry only the
States of the South. and therefore fail
OF election, Still another reason Is
given for not nominating y Sou,her,lcr.
WHY. said Soaic VI these Southern
Democrats, pick our candidate !Oom
Georgia, or Alabama. or Mississippi, cr
Tennessee. when It IS Well understood
that all Of these states Will ~. Demo-
rratic9 Why not picS out &, candidate
from a dehatahlc State. re New, YarS
or New Jersey. n candidate who wr,,id
pick up Votes III States outside OF the
SouthH The only TWO Democrats who
have sat i'll the White House AIice the
Civil War were Grover Cleveland Cg
New York and Wo>dgoN WL>ou, who
went trcm Trentoll. N, J, e WASH
tngton,
George Appeals t. nr>>
Senator George is y Gsy la that fe~
SptcE he makes mcrc ri ~ appeal -
Southern States thAa d,G Se0Agev UH~
ierwOS'd four years ago, pVNnySS y tss.
gcins To set hsm any delegates 3y,ga
sNSN lNAA tI NTN SSiSfE SV MIS-
SettS, Hut II may help - Wvi3 as
south into a rghtsnS ggo.p - sHe
Democratic natirnal etnvenls>o sS a
Southern candidate and sey dry He
Georgia Senator is AN oratNy he sN>S
served oN She bench with distinction, and
IN the Senate, tie has qualities that git
him for the presidential N!,ile, II N
true that he Is nnt kncwn the CNatl;ty
over but he IL Anewn IL the SSstssh aud
The play INST new tSs ~ SIT the South ~
line up for u sSouEhernSr, ~ break ,s,'Wo
the Nld idea that the >ss'pth Is \ psASV
Whcrv r,vNldents yin sos grew
ar,h the Atlanta journal And the
Atlanta CanStituts>sa leSsdulS Georgia
neWslapers ate SurgNsfttng tae yam
ii,tacy NJ Senator ttr>Gse Visy0nuSay and
the press generalN Throughout tie State
Is to,ng tire SAME,
The rntlfv tN.naVFaeN of TIE State
appears to he hehtnd tha Netuge ua,,Vr~
ntent II il true that here ana ths}v il
heard the seSSip That the nAtSsnA' WI
Mai. john i, IN,lin
eily, Ii seeking to keep the lNm
Marty af the state harnsNNN,ts ..,,N
happy nv ms advocacy ~ a Sie<rSlA gan~
,tldate for President rather nsSsge than
IA The eslsef that he can he nldninAtsd.
stut whatever the truth N the asaASs NJ
the matter thste IL uN doubt that
the natisnas etaulut1seeaan Aua cha
Democrats hetv ealtet4lS ate beat AM
sen'tnls a ahild IseteN stiAn tVr ths SsesAA~
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