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from some Is States of the South and
near South.
Take it by and large, the delegates
were pIeased with the convention.
They insisted it would lead the way
for a concerted action in the South
against he rt nomination Of Roosevelt.
None of them contended it meant that
nearly all OF the Southern States
would not send Roosevelt-instructed
delegations to the Philadelphia con-
vention next June.
Roosevelt Delegation Expected.
1t is likely that Georgia will wind
up with such a delegation seated in
the convention, even If Talmadge
takes an anti Roosevelt delegation or
an uninstructed delegation to the con-
vention. The Roosevelt forces In the
State already have begun building a
strong organization to send contest
ing delegation. That the Roosevelt
delegation would be seated in such
event n, one seems to doubt.
Nor was anything done at the
Macon convention which would lead
to the belief an independent Demo-
cratic ticket would be put into the
field after Roosevelt has been re-
nominated at Philadelphia.
If anything like that develops, 1t
will have to come after the national
convention. Many delegates to the
convention indicated. however, that
If Roosevelt is renominated and the
convention adopts platform indors-
ing the New Deal. as expected, they
will take a walk" along with AL
Smith. How many will 60 the length
of voting the Republican ticket is q
question. But that some Of these dis
gruntled Democrats will do SO Is
undoubtedly true.
Roosevelt Bitterly Denounced.
The invective poured by the con-
vention speakers on the head of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and on the New Deal
was amazing in its intensity and
degree. No convention Of Republicans
could have gone further in the de-
nunciation of the Democratic Presi-
utklU, dIlu ~ ID AOAOtAuA ~ AVSRA0AANesAAo
would have been so severe.
Not since the days Of 1928 when Al
Smith was bitterly opposed in the
South as a candidate for President
has anything been heard that paral-
leled the attacks made by the speak
ers at the Macon convention upon
Franklin D. Roosevelt. There was
no restraint in talking about the
President of the United States, just
as there was no restraint eight years
ago In talking about the Democratic
nominee for President. II this Is .
sample Of the campaign that is to
come, there can be no doubt Of the
mud-slinging in store for the coun-
try.
In the South, when Smith was q
candidate, the religious issue was
raised primarily against him. Judg-
ing from what transpired at the
Macon convention, the race issue,
with Roosevelt pictured as an advo-
cate of social equality for the Negro,
will be thrown into the campaign,
along with the charge that he Is q
friend of the Communist and OF aliens
and alien ideas.
The circulation in the convention
of q newspaper, published in Atlanta.
called the Georgia Woman's World,
picturing both the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt as favoring the Negro was
disavowed by John Henry Kirby. head
Of the Southern Committee to up
hold the Constitution, who with Gov.
Talmadge issued the call for the meet
ing But Kirby added that he sup
posed that such literature could not
be greatly condemned In the South.
Speakers at the convention, among
them Thomas Dixon, author Of the
Klansman, also undertook to link
President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roose-
velt with movements to grant the
Negro equality.
In addition to picturing Mrs. Roose-
welt being escorted from meeting ct
Howard University by Edgar Brown,
colored, described as Negro press
agent for the C. G. c., the Geor-
gia Woman's World declared that
President Roosevelt has appointed Is
times as many Negroes to public Of
nee as did any Republican President
! In history. It asserted that Presi-
dent and Mra RooaeYalt had enter.