Just think of it! In the Tenth Congres
sional District, the Executive Committee
adopted a rule (“Rule 9”) which, in advance
of the nominating convention, declared who
should be the nominee, in case the Convention
failed to nominate on the first ballot.
In the Eighth district, Pussy-foot’s Execu
tive Committee tried to steal the nomination
for him by deciding beforehand which one, of
two contesting delegations, the convention
should seat—as though it were not the sov
ereign right of the convention to pass on that
question.
(Partner, don't you forget the hand which
Judge Enoch Calloway took in that outrage.
We'll give him his medicine, some day when
he bobs up serenely and seeks office.)
Then came the crowing act of all, in the
Atlanta Convention.
Remember those New Rules? The Com
mitte actually got that tumultuous host of
Hoke Smith’s friends to adopt rules which
deprived the Convention of all control of
itself!
No question could be put to a vote unless
the Chairman desired it. Nobody could de
bate anything. No amendment to the Com
mittee's report could be offered Nobody could
know what resolutions were being offered.
And nobody outside the Committee room
could know that the will of the people was to
be defiled by the abolition of the County-unit
plan, for which the people voted, two years
ago.
The Hoke Smith delegations from the coun
try counties did not know that they had been
deceived into ROBBING THEIR OWN
POPLE OF THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL
RIGHTS.
I confes that it did not dawn on me that our
county unit plan had already been abolished
after the elections were all over.
