The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-30
TALMADCE HAS
CONVENTIONS
ENDORSEMENT
Strategy Is to Seek to Read
Roosevelt Out Of Party
at Philadelphia
NOT HOPING TO STOP
HIS NOMINATION
By HARRY FERGUSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
MACON, Ca, Jan. 80. (UP)-
Governor Eugene Talmadge of
Georgia was endorsed for presi-
dent of the United States yester-
day at a noisy convention of dis
contented Democrats, who pledged
themselves to try to drive the New
Deal out of office in November.
Delegates from Id southern
states roared their assent when
Hugh Howell, chairman of the
Georgia Democratic executive
committee, stepped to the loud
speakers and said:
"Let's ask old Gene Talmadge
to let us use his name to go be-
fore the people of the United
States as a candidate for presl-
dent. Let's vote on it."
The answer was wave Of
cheers from the 1000 persons
gathered in Macon's municipal
auditorium. Talmadge, chewing a
cigar and sitting on the platform
next to a farmer in oVeralls, grin
ned and waved at the crowd.
John Henry Kirby, who Joined
with Talmadge in issuing the call
for the grass roots" convention,
said yesterday events made Tai
madge a candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination at the Philadel-
phia convention.
eve put him in the race here
today and we're going to norl-
nate him at Philadelphia" Kirby
said.
Talmadge, a cannv politician,
refused to commit himself along
those lines, realizing it virtually
will be impossible to prevent Pres
ident Roosevelt from being re-
nominated in June.
Instead, his plans are based
around the strategy of trying to.
read President Roosevelt out of
the Democratic party after he is
renominated. Talmadge t h e n
would invite-as he did yesterday
all disconnected Democrats and
Republicans to support his candi-
dacy.
Talmadge told the United Press
Tuesday that he was a candidate
for president and that he would
like to have either Senator Will
liam E. Borah, Idaho Republican,
or former Governor Joseph B. Ely
of Massachusetts, as his vice presi-
dental running mate.
"Do you still stick by that an
nouncement?" he was asked yes
terday.
81 sure do" he replied.
"What do you think about the
endorsement the convention gave
you today?"
"You saw it and heard it," the
governor replied, 81 may have
statement later on"
Strange events occurred here
Wednesday in the red clay hills OF
southern Georgia where Talmadge
is strongest.
Residents of President Roose-
velt's adopted state tried to take
away from him the titular leader
ship of his party by adopting
platform asserting, eve do not
regard the present occupant OF
the White House as Democrat,
The grass rooters adopted a plat
form calling for return to the
Democratic platform of 1882,
which, they said, Mr.. Roosevelt
has violated.
Out of the Louisiana bayous
came the Rev. Gerald l.. X: Smith,
follower of the late Huey P. Long,
to try to make an alliance WIN
Talmadge. No two men differed
more in their economic belle1S
than Long, the radical share-the-
weather., and Talmadge, VINO
shaves budgets to the bone, tavors
hard money, individual initiative
and government economy.
But Smith and Talmadge trad
ed nice sounding compliments OH
the platform at yesterdays con-
vention.
Talmadge himself suggested ms
presidential candidacy to the dele-
gates when he said, referring u
himself:
Lets rewrite the Democratic
platform of 1882. Let's nomlnaCe
a man whose word is so good ina
the best test of it is to nave 'ne
New Dealers call him a liar.
Wandering across the stag
sometimes far from the micro
phone over which he was DrodG
casting, Talmadge closed ms in
speech by saying: "Right mere tha of
Georgia let's light the loren ina n,,t
will drive the Communists Iat
of the White House and never i
them return" .,o,,.
Well dressed men and 1arni .ho
wearing overalls raced down. o Tme
aisles and climbed on the platto."
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