The Georgia State Democratic Contention
Hon. Joseph M. Brown, of Marietta, Cobb
county, “Little Joe,” was yesterday at noon
nominated by a rising and unanimous vote of
1,800 delegates to the state convention to be
the democratic candidate for governor at the
coming state election in October.
For fully three minutes the delegates stood,
waved their banners, fluttered their handker
chiefs, shouted for their candidate and
beat the backs and seats of the chairs
which packed the Grand from the back
of the stage to the topmost gallery.
It was a fitting climax for the most spectac
ular convention ever assembled in a southern
state, where every delegate was for the same
candidate; where no other nomination was
made, and when the chairman put the con
verse of the nominating proposition:
“All those opposed—,” there was not a
sound.
The vast assemblage, which was reckoned at
from 2,800 to 3,700, remained absolutely quiet,
as though listening to see if there could pos
sibly be any opposition.
As his nomination was unanimous, so was
all the other business of the convention.
An Uninstructed Delegation.
The delegates to attend the national con
vention at Denver in July were presented to
the state convention by districts without in
structions, and elected by the convention as an
uninstructed delegation.
This action was in sharp contrast to the
convention of four years ago, when the dele
gation went to St. Louis, instructed for Alton
B. Parker.
The delegates will have free rein to cast
their votes as they consider to the best inter
est of the party.
