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2 THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINER, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1920. I Claims Insolent Attempt Made By' Wood Backers to Buy Up Nomination. PARTY FORCED TO DEFEAT GENERAL Republicans Foresaw Defeat and Crushing Dishonor if Bank Accounts Ruied. NEW YORK, June U. Charges that "a motley group of stock gam blers, oil and mining promotors, mu nition makers and other like persons seized on so good a man as General Wood, and with reckless audacity started out to buy for him tho presi dential nomination," were made in a statement given out tonight by Nlcho- lus Murray Butler, and unsuccessful i Republican candidate. ( "Jt was the cause of genuine sorrow- to mo as to many others of General Wood's pcrsosnal friends," ho said, 'to see him put in this unnappy posi tion. There was nothing to uo to save the Republican party but to aefeat the f band of men behind him with their 1 bank accounts. This meant we had to I' dcieat General wood. I Attempt to Buy Up Votes. "Tho forces defeated m thou inso lent attempt to buy the nomination represent all that is worst in Ameri can business and American political lite. It Is really too bad they hit upon General Wood as their choice. They should have found some one to sup port for whom the country has less i espoct and less regard. "The chief task of the convention was to prevent tho sale of presidential nominations at auction to the highest bidder. Had this not been cone, the party faced not only detoat, but f l rushing dishonor. Tne sucty-elght jj Now York delegates who voted for mo ' on the first ballot were the cniof fac- f lor in stopping the Ilindenburg drive 1 to overwhelm tho convention by the f power of unlimited money and by j strong arm -methods in preferential i primaries. I The story of New York's sixty-eight I votes for Butler shows, tne statement said, how General Wood was defeated. It points out that the first ballot gave General Wood a substantial lead, and that "the first task, thoretore, was to bring tho Yote ot his nearest rival, Governor Lowden, at least up to J Woods' vote.' I Owing to local and state compllca- I tlons, the statement oxplains, there I were few sources from which tne new i Lowden strength could bo drawn fo early. Pennsylvania, Massacnusetts, .Michigan and Ohio could not help, it added, because the release of able gates in those states probably would give Wood more votos than j-rowden. New York Becomes Belgium. "It was clearly necessary, tnere fore," tho statement continues, "ior New York to become the Belgium of tho war, and I cheerttilly gave my ap I proval of the plan to turn i'ew iorK's vote to Lowden in increasing volume on the second, third, fourth, titth.J sixth and seventh ballots, i sent woruj Ito me xnow -xotk aeicgauon tnut witn : me party sucess and party honor came first. 1 also said no personal inteicMC. should bo considered until party suc cess and party honor had ueen pro tected, "It was this New York vote for Low den taken from the slxty-oight votes: cast for me that gave Lowden his laud' in the fifth ballot, and that enubieci him substantially to equal the Wooui vote on the ballot following. When after the seventh ballot It was clear Lowden could not be nominated, we helped the drift toward i-iarding, and on the ninth ballot became the de cisive psychological factor by giving Harding sixty-six votes. "The Now York votes that contin ued to support me were ca.'st in pursu ance of earnest request's irom dele gates in Connecticut, Jscw Jersey, Michigan, Minnesota. Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, California, Washington, Texas and Kentucky, so' that If the effort to nominate Senator Harding should fail, my name mignt still remain upon tho list of candi dates. Purty Should Rejoice. "The New Yorkers whu care for tho Republican party and for the success of its principles, and who are Jealous of the honor, should rejoice and take satisfaction that their representatives in the Republican national convention, although by no means unified In sen timent or m organization, were both yet able to exert so commanding an influence in a great emergency. "Harding and Coolldgo are first of all patriotic Americans and noxt Re publicans. We are to have the satis ractlon of supporting and electing a real Republican ticket, Wo may now look forward with complete confi dence to the restoration of the na tional government to us old founda tions, which are love and roverenco for the constitution." oo F.X O A rATI O N WORK HALTED. CHICAGO, Juno 14. Excavation work for several buildings was halted today by a strik of steam shovel engi neers for higher wascs. The men aro demanding 51.50. oo High coBt of fuel has led Japan to! develop Immense water power. ! Will Not Be Candidate For Vice President and Has Not Been Offered Presidency. DEEPLY INTERESTED IN PARTY PRINCIPLES Will Urge Democrats to Adopt Strong, Liberal and Soundly ! Progressive Platform. WASHINGTON. June 14. Senator Walsh, Democrat of Massachusetts, in a formal statement tonight, an nounced he did not "purpose to accept any nomination for a national office." 'Several newspaper reports today," said his statement, "have mentioned my name as a candidate for the vice! presidency, running on the Democratic ticket with McAdoo or Cox, or on an independent ticket with Lafollette or Johnson or some other candidate. '-'I wish to state 1 have not even con sidered the possibility of such a can didacy, and that I have not been of fered nor do I propose to accept any nomination for a national office. "Just now I am' more interested in party- principles than in candidates. A a n rlr.lnnnr.i ut lorrifc In - a nnl Innll Democratic convention from Massa chusetts, I intend to do what 1 can to . hoye my party adopt a strong, liberal. soundly progressive platform und '. nominate as its candidates men of the broadest Americanism, who can arouse enthusiasm for Democratic principles and win the approval, con fidence and support of tho American people. "The best service that Democrats can render to tholr country and party between now and tho convention at San Francisco, is to assist in preparing a set of political principles, definite, specific and constructive, without tho slightest suggestion of dodging or straddling on a single issue before the American people. 1 hope the Demo cratic party will make an honest, courageous nnd truly American posi tion" on such Issues as the treaty, the league of nations, prohibition and bonuses. It should also proclaim a sound social and Industrial reconstruc tion program and' by vigorous and pointed recommendations make an earnest and serious united party effort to completely eradicate profiteering.") Flf E 11 1 LOO US House Chairman Announces txaot Amount For Great An nual Supply Bills. WASHINGTON, June 14. Approxi mately five billion dollars was appro prlted by the Sixty-sixth congress, said ' a statement prepared today by Chair man Good of the house appropriations: commute for the final issue of the Congressional Record. . The exact total as given by Mr. Good was 4. 859,890,327. Of this 54,373, 39o,279 is for government expenses in the fiscal year beginning July 1, and 5486,495,748 is to moet deficiency for the fiscal year ending this month. Chairman Good said congress had reduced estimate of government de partments by ?1, 474. 422,002, the total appropriations in only two measures exceeding tho estimates. Congress added $64,120,000 to the pension bill and 70,801,000 to the postal bill. Tho latter increase was to meet advances in pay to postal employe, while the pension increase was absorbed in part by Increased pensions. Thirteen Great Supply Bills. The total carried by the thirteen great annual supply bills, as given by Mr. Good, was ?2, 212,126, 298, as fol lows: Postofflee $4 62,575,190. Sundry civil $477,106,806." Naval 433,279,574. Army $ 392.55S.365. Pension 279,150,000. Legislative, executive and Judicial. ?104, 35,726. Agriculture $31,712,7S4. Fortifications $ 18,833,44 2. District of Columbia U8.373.004 River and harbor $12,400,000 Indian $10,040,655. Diplomatic and consular, $9,218,537 Military academy, $2,142,212. Permanent Appropriations! In addition, permanent appropria tions annual expenditures authorized by congress for stated periods amounted to $1,363,768,980. of which 59S0 000,000 is for interest on the credit balance. Miscellaneous appro priations included $725,000,000 by the ""importation act' of which 5300,000 -000 is to be used as loans by tho rail roads for 15 years. Minor miscellaneous appropriations with the deficiencies brought the total appropriations to $4, 859, 890,327 OARPENTIER IN OMAHA. I OMAHA. Neb., June 14. Georges I arpent er, hero for a boxing exhibi-i J" today, said he would not fight attllng Levinskio before November ovie contracts prevented an earlier ate, ho said Carpentler is returning '3 New loil: following an exhibition t Kansas City tomorrow, Carpentler's rlae. whom he hadn't seen for a onth, met him here today. LIVESTOCK MEETING. CHICAGO, June 1 4 . A three-day meeting of the National Livestock cx hange will open here Wednesday. J. ho delegates are expected from a'll .Mri?V"u0t cltle4I- Amne speakors S U THt8 B- n. president of the Institute of American Meat Packers. oo The largest lake In Japan Lake 3iwa la only 36 miles long. HJncrmes alrenctb of delicate, n err cms, 1 t H run-down people in two weeks' time in I I many Inrtances. Used nd highly es- S I oorjed by former United Statu Senators B I and Members of Congress, well-known 3 I physicians and former Public Health offi- 0 I about ItJk yUr d0CtqT 0rV droit -5 o Forty St. Louis Republican Voters Make Demand On State Committee. GENERAL CLEANUP NEEDED IN MISSOURI State Organization Must Act Immediately or Statewide Meet to Be Called. ' ST. LOt'IS. June 14i Demands for mulated at a meting of about forty local Republicans today, callig on the Plepubllcan stato committee "to eon-i veno at once to straighten out the sltu- ation arising from the derelictions ofj officials of the state organization " The meeting resulted from testi mony before tho senate committee In vestigating prc-convention campaign ; expenditures concerning distribution! of Lowden funds in this state. j Speakers asserted a "general clean-' up" was needed in the party In Ails-' souri. A committee of five men and j five women was appointed to pro3entj 'tho demands to the stato organization, and former Circuit Judge M. G. Rel nolds, who cnllod the meeting, said unless the stnto committee acted, a statewide mass meeting of Republi cans would bo called. . nn I Denies Charges of Non-Support and Cruelty Made By Wife. SAN I'RANCISCO. June 14. Wil liam Harrison (Jack) Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champion of tho world, took the witness stand in his own defense today in his trial here on charges of evading the seloctlve draft act. DempEoy denied charges of non support and cruelty made by his for I mr wife, Mrs. Maxlno Dempsey, in testimony given earlier In the trial. Dempsey described himself as hav ing been the principal support of his family from tho time he was 14 years old. He detailed experiences as a farm hand, miner, carpenter and box er, experiencing reverses when "the the end .as a budding champion. Dompsey said he had supported his wife until sho VSwti i Derif c&J&'tt otIis-u at Wl f e's Jaw. He denied that he had broken his wiro'3 Jaw by a blow while they were living at a hotel here, tiB she had charged, "because she had not earned any money ioi' him." Dempsey said ne never had struck his wife and that tho Jaw fracture was caused by a fall. Dempsey said his earnings In tho ring for 1 1 17 were about $4,u00. Tho next year a-large part of his time was spont in appeal ances at patriotic bene rits, out or which, he said, "besides traveling expanses, he got two wri3t watehes ana a gold pencil." "I wantod to do mo country some good," ho said in explanation of his uoxing tor nothing. ' Did any of your opponents get anything for these matcnes?" he was uBxed. iSo. Onco Wlllard was to get $30, 000 in Chicago," Dempsey replied. Wll'o Left Him in 1917. Early In 1917, soon after his mar riage, Dempsey said, he left his wife in, San Francisco whilo he went back to Salt Lane to box. He returned ten days later to find ner gone; discovered her living with her brother In an apartment house. Boxing promotors then told him he was worth 'about 30 cents" to them, because of remarks his wlfah m.o about ni3 "laying down to Flynn," the witness said. -Soon after they went to Seattle, ho paying all the bills as usual, Dempsey continued. From Seattle his wife went to Ya 10 aee ner mother, the pugilist testified, while he got a job in the shipyards on account of dullness In the boxing gamo, but she failed to re turn to him and. did not answer his letters. Dernpsey told of his work as a gov ernment recruiting agent for the snip yards lato in 191J, saying ho "guessed he got three or .four hundred men" to work in tho Philadelphia yards Cross-examination failed to alter or confuse his testimony. Tho defense announced that only one or two wit nesses would be called. W. H. Stolurow, a traveling sales man of St. Paul, testified he wroto most of the answers to Dempsoy's questionnaire at a Chicago hotel H said ho had done it in a spirit of friendly co-operation, and that noth ng was said to Indicate anything on the part of Dempsoy or his manager 1 Jack Kearns, but a desire to answori the questionnaire honestly. Dempsey I corroborated his testimony, and a. I similar story was told by L. Llchton-' stein of Chicago, In whose room tho I paper was signed. on LONDON STAR COMMENTS ON SEN. HARDING LONDON, June 14. The Star says: ,i1lef":.l,tofc?,irtl111" w,n represent in tho untied Suites very much what tho count Jon liberals represent In this country. Ke is the instrument, we mJRht any tho tool, of the cleverest group of men in American public life, the Republican senators. The senate Is dominated by tho trusts. "Senator Hardlntj JS a middlc-of-tlio road Republican, and the social I reforms, as urgtnt In tho United State! a here, will receive from ium, vo tear, neither sympathy nor solution." The Morning iTorkshlro Post be lieves "there is bettor prospect of hclp rul European policy than wo could have looked for had tlio choice of tho delegates at Chicago fallen on a poll mln h?,(iIn& tho opinions with which lllram Jonnoon Is credited with." oo riBW JOBK' uJune l4 The New iork cotton exchange will be closed baturday, July 3, and Monday. July 5. It was announced todav. jmr P These portable styles of the Victrola I 'H cSr ' enable you to have the best music vhea- ! HH J want it You can easily take them M jjj j Victrola IV, $25 : ''jf jj BB j V on the lawn -'v;- 1 H i A 1 on your boat fl I "S Jg to your bungalow J I cs"' or anywhere! ;. .J V , . M Victrola Vlf1 ' jjlj S '1 play any of the more than 5000 IE i H I ' catalog Hear them today at ' $Jf 1 1 1 jjjj ; 'ffi' ' ' l l Victor Talking Maciiine Co. ' tji I -: I i y cawlcrtha Udl Lock on tho labdl Jif j Camden, New Jersey victor talking machine oa -2L 1 ' H EDITORIALS ON HARDING CHANCES OF ELECTION LOSDOX, June 14. Evening paper, editorials on Harding aro devoted' largely to Senator Hnrdlng's chancca of election, and what effect tlint , would have on American forebrn noll- cy. Both tle tilobe and Westminster Gasctic decku-c tlmt Senator Harding's election is by no means assured If tho Democrats arc ublc to rind a strong candidate. Tlic. Globe thinks a Republican de feat is not Impossible, if such u num as AVllliam G. .McAdoo or Ambassador John W. Davis were nominated. The Westminster Gnzete declares Great Britain must preserve neutrality in a presidential conflict, but cannot dis guise its. interest. Jt is doubtful, in the opinion of tho pajor, if the elec tions can settlo the question whether rho United States puanuo a purely American policy or take n hand in in ternational politics. 'Hud President Wilson been avail able." says the inpcr, "he might have boldly carried his banner into the fight nnd rallied the majority to him hy the lofty appeals he knows so well how to inake. But in his default it is unlikely nny Democratic nominee will do this, or Of the sanction of the Democratic party for a pure- league of nations doctrine. "Ou the other hnnd tho Republican i party does not entirely close tho door : on American participation in world politics, and even seems to favor somo sort of extension of arbitral methods in world affairs. The choice of a snfo man saves us from active pursuit of an anti-European policy by that party of its nominee, and to that extent there is a point grained." STffUSET CAR HEARING. OMAHA, Nob., Juno 14.Thc stato railway commission voted today to take Jurisdiction in the case of tho street car employes . who aro asking a 13 cents an hour wage increase No! ' dato has been set for the h oaring; 1 MANY FEDERAL EMPLOYES TO BE PENSIONED WASHINGTON. June 14. Between 4,000 and 5,000 federal employes eli gible for retirement on pension will Ikj formally notified within n week of the automatic termination on Aucust 20 oi meir. active service. The recently enacted retirement act provides re tirement must take place ninety dajs from its signature, nnd tlmt employes . coming under tho statuto must be no- ! tilled 00 days ahead. j The retirement age is seventy for clerical workers and for mechanics. It is estimated that in tho District of Columbia alone 1.0Q0 government cm- j ploycs will be retired. on A largo area of wolfram has been. diacovered in Northern China. First Taste Maizes You "Want More TOASTIES Superior ComFlakes .WARNING ISSUED BY PROPERTY CUSTODIAN WASHINGTON. June 14. Warning was issued today by the alien property custodian against the transfer of stock certificates received from Germany in , cases whore the government has de manded all enemy title In such certifi cates. Several instances of the transfer of such certificates have been roported, it was said today, and closer co-operation between companies and their i transfer agents was urged to prevent I such mistakes. Transfer agents mak ing such transfers are liable for the value of the stocks, Francis P. Garvan, alien property cusctodian, said. . oo 'HEAT CAUSES CLOSE OF OMAHA SCHOOLS OMAHA, Neb., June 14. Because of the heat all public schools were cl03cd at 10 o'clook today. For the sevonth sucessive day the temperature today reached 90 degrees. The high est was 96 on Sunday. One death and I two prostrations were reported today. I oo POSSE OF 500 COMBS WOOD FOR WILD MAN! RPJD OAK, la., June 14. a posse1 of more than 500 men and bovs spentl Sunday combing a large timber tract near hero for a nude "wild man" who has been terrorizing farmers' wives for tho last two weoks, They did notl find him. DAS OF DEE'S STAFF. NEW YORK, June 14. The Rev W W. Page, last member of tho staff of General Robert E. Deo of the Confed erate irmy, and rector of St. Paul's church, Cornwall. N. Y., died in a hos pital here last night, it was learned today. He was SO years old and was at one tlmo religious editor of the New York Herald. oo NEW CABINET PROPOSED. BERLIN. June 14. Carl Trim born loader of the Center party, has ac cepted the task of forming' a new min istry to succeed that of Premier Braun, which resigned Juno $, it was announced today. JUDGE LAND IS SENTENCES II BOYS TO LEAVENWORTH II CHICAGO, Juno 14. Federal Judge ' ' Landia today declared that "the safest 'i i occupation in Chicago now is holding 4 f 91 ; up persons at the point of a gun and i J Hi shooting policemen," when he sen- i I WM tencod Wiliam McTwon. and two other f IB 18-year-old boys to fivo years In 3 " 19 Leavenworth penitentiary for robbinc ; Sfl a postal sub-station. Another mem- 1 ,H ber of tho band received 18 months 99 'ALARMING REPORTS OF I . H UPRISING IN INDIA mH r-JSD,0K' June u- farming con- kHI f dential reports of an intended up- J rising in India in tho autumn are reaching the government, according H to the Star today, which says that Boi- H shevik literature is known to bo be- A hind the movement. The India office ' H when questioned with regard to he 1 Star reports, declared that it had 're! H ceived. no. such information. H oo . . , H tJrTE,IL1XY ASS DEIAY. 1 BLRL1N, June 14.' Gormmv u H requested tho supreme T council tl grant a further delay of thrpn miLu H for the reduction of the Gcrma? to 200,000 men, says the Tl?ob?att I? was recently announced that the re ductlon of the German army to onn B 000 men had been accomplished heartburn I o? heaviness after meals are M mostannoying manifestations m ot acid-dyspepsia. jH g normal digestion. H