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Kenyon Probe
el
Of Cox Slush
Charge Sought
Demand Is Growing That
Committee on Expendi?
tures Ask for Proofs
of SI 5.000.000 Fund
Witnesses' Names Wanted
Many Wonder Why Nominee
Does Not Take the
In it iative H i ni sel f
By Carter Field
r. - : .;,./.? 's KViqJtfnpton b ?
- WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.?A demand
'i? growing here that the Ken: on com
, :?. ? on c:.:.-.p.".i_n expenditures call
on James M. Cox for information and
carnes of witnesses to substantiate his
'barges of a ? 10,000,000 slush fund,
- iat Franklin D. R? osevelt
called on to give his information
am of witnesses as to his
- that the Republican slush fund
J30,0i 0.000.
?e White, of the Demo?
cratic National Committee, boasted
ngton recently, in the
?otrrse < *' a brief dictated statement,
^!iat ." ' the votes of Democratic
Senators which hael continued this in?
vestiga: it's: committee's functions, so
? ... : it would run through the cam- j
psign.
Even Democrats here admit that the
chargi s being made by the Democratic
:? would interest tho country
g groat deal more if they were promptly ;
ed by ah investigation by this
committee. The mere demand of
either Cox or Roosevelt for the com-:
mittee's investigation, it is admitted,
committee to act at \
once.
Expects Kenyon to Act
Incidentally there is some disap?
pointment that Senator William S.
Ker.yor. of Iowa, chairman of the com?
mittee, has not rushed into the situa?
tion by publicly cai'.ing on the Demo
cratic : to produce or retract.
Kenyon has never hesitated in tho past
to denounce the Republicans whenever ;
he thought they were spending too
much money. 1: was rather notorious.
during the early days of the investi?
gation into the prc-convention expend?
turcs by candidates, that ho collabo?
rated more with the Democratic mem
bers of his committee, Senators James
A. Reed, oi Missi uri, and Atlee Pome-!
.. with the Re-publican
Senat >rs Si cer, of Mis- .
..- . I Edge, of New Jersey.
The Kenye n committee was called
into being as a resuit of attacks made ;
- '. and ? ther advocates:
?' ?. r.at i n of Hiram Johnson.
in work in producing sensa?
tional news dispatches, which undoubt
e nomination of Gov- j
? - r Frank O. Lowden, although not!
gate at the Chicago convention i
raised his voice to blame Governor;
Lowden ly, and many think it
also prev nted the nomination of Gen?
eral Leonard Wood. Certainly tho
? r . . -' that committee gave the op?
ponents of General Wood a talking
used at Chicago to I
the ?.-.'most..
But now the committee, in the face
of a of plutocratic outpouring
of wealth, which those who have
watel Kenyon would natural.
t to put him on the war path,
-??. itely quiet.
nly reply so far made to the,
charges by Cox and Roosevelt, except
far a? *iey contradict each other,
has come from ( hairman Will H. Hays
of the Republican National Committee.;
And tiiis '.vas put out in such a way
that it did not achieve one-tenth of
: ; ublicity attendant upon the
a of Cox and Roosevelt. The
charges of both Cox and Roosevelt :
een pr nted on the first page i
of virtually every newspaper in tire ?
country and reiterated from day to
day.
The Kir.yon committee, it is pointed -
rce Cox and Roose- ?
? get down to brass tacks, and. as ;
luring 'he previous hearings
of the committee, there would be plenty
oi publicity.
Wonder at Cox's Stand
Aside from the irritation against
Sen tor Ker.yor. for not getting busy
with his committee on these Cox
charges, there is some wonder that
Governor Cox, instead of making blind
charces differing so widely from those
of I running mato that they could j
scarcely be founded even on the same ?
conver atioi loes not himself call on j
the committtee for action.
me was and is a mem- j
ber of the Kenyon committee and could |
. that tho committee convene '
al for the ] urpose of looking into ;
the chari
If G vernor Cox could prove his
ore a Senate committee at
least 1 -. Republican, it is
; the Democrats would have ;
a much better campaign argument j
than mere idli charges which tend to |
th ' Ivi because they are so
at variar.ce \ th other charges being |
roadc oi thi same subject by Mr. i
Roosi
-;' a beii j whispered around
""-' ' ?-' ?' that one of the causes for
the - nd of Governor Cox dwelling
i ein campaign contributions .is
that some very liberal contributors to
the Democratic campaign fund in the
Past have not beor? heard from as yet.
ire some of the men who were
?nthusiastic for McAtloo and who
nave not taken much pains to hide
their disgust at the failure of the con?
vention to nominate him.
There is still a great deal of feeling
among the McAdoo men on account of
l"e circulation of a leaflet on the
wreet and in the hotel lobbies of San
francisco, during the convention, stat
'n" that disclosures by this Kenvon
Committee would drive- McAdoo "off
We ticket within ninety days."
0f ,-'ry ?ne disclaimed any knowledge
the leaflet, which was anonymous
*n(' did not even carry the name of the
_ r* * ""? McAdoo people have
S?^er made any charges ns to who hael
">'3 leaflet nre-pared and circulated,
out they have not forgotten it by anv
"??^ns, and they arc not in a good
??mor about it.
"ays Returns From Trip; to
Confer With State Chairmen
, will H. Hays returned yesterday
?rom Augusta, Me., where on Saturday
'e addressed a large gathering. Mr.
ays. after calling up national commit
r*e headquarters, went out of town for
li!;* r.st of the day.
On Tuesday and Wednesday of this
?>ek Chairman Hays will confer here
?th state chairmen and bureau heads
If?m fourteen states -from Maine to
S Carolina and including Ohio.
H>e various state chairmen and cam
fa.!i?n managers will report on how
?lings are goingi
??* * 'rr't?uiif print? mor?- IamI Hankhnuk
v?nounf-eru, nia than all tho other New
?u?n I'a,>**'"a combined. Phone Beekman
v- ? AdvL
Harding Queried on Aid
For Disabled Soldiers
Chairman of League Charges
Lark of Interest ami Failure
to Pledge Relief
Charlea II. Gillin, chairman of the
National Disabled Soldiers' Longue, ?7
'?? Fourty-flrst Street, has addressed
an open letter to Senator Warren G.
Harding making several inquiries,
Mr. Gillin aska the candidate wheth?
er he was approached before his nomi?
nation by delegations of disabled sol?
diers who asked that he intervene in
their behalf and aid them in obtaining
legislation for the relief of them
selves und their families.
The chairman also asks whether the
candidate is aware that the Committee
of Education of the House of Repre?
sentatives made recommendations for
tho relief of disabled soldiers that
wore never acted upon.
"You aro no doubt aware," the let?
ter ^ays. "that I approached Will 11.
Hays, Republican national chairman,
on July i. asking that a pledge of as?
sistance to our cause be given by you
in your speech of acceptance, and we
now ask you point-blank the reason
for your lack of intercsl and your re?
fusal to make the requested pledge to
America's disabled soldiers."
Harding Calls
For Proof of
Fund Charge
(Continued (rom paqo on)
visitor at the Harding home, aided the !
nomineo this morning in receiving a
delegation of ball players and Civil I
War veterans from the soldiers' homo :
at Sandusky, Ohio. The team was made i
up of employees of the institution and
there wore half a dozen old soldiers |
and a couple of mascots in the party. !
The .team was scheduled to play a
Marion nine here this afternoon. The
Senator and Colonel Harvey were di- '
gesting the Sunday newspapers and ?
chipped beef and waffles when the cap- i
loin (if the baseball team rang the bell. !
A reporter from the Senator's paper,
The Marion Star, was on hand to in?
troduce the visitors.
Team Short of Outfielders
Each of the players was presented as
a "jpitcher and a fielder" or a "catcher
ana a shortston." Apparently all of
tl.em could catch or pitch.
"This is an accomplished crowd,"
sr.id Colonel Harvey.
"Here's a fellow that catches," an- |
nounced the nominee gleefully, as he j
shook hands with a heavily muscled
young chap whose wide grin revealed a \
vacant plnce between his front teeth,
and turning to Colonel Harvey he di- :
rected his attention to two gnarled
lingers on the proud plaver's calloused
hand.
"Pshaw, I've got a finger like that," ?
said Colonel Harvey, and held up a
crooked digit.
The Senator turned his attention to a i
stockily built young fellow named '
Minsk, whose blond hair and eyebrows j
wore, white by contrast with h?3 sun- !
burned face.
"Minsk?" questioned the Senator. ;
"Why. one of my earliest recollections
is of a piano and organ teacher named j
Minsk, over in Morrow County."
Voting Minsk identified the organ ;
teacher as a cousin of his father, and i
Senator Harding said:
"Shake again; you recall old times." ?
Then of an abbreviated individual
who came next he asked, "Are you a
catcher, too ?"
Might t'se a Mascot
"I'm a mascot." was the reply.
"If you're a good one I might use
you hero," said the Senator. Then to !
Colonel Harvey he said:
"We used to have a pretty good ball ;
team her? in Marion. We were in the \
State League. We had a crackerjack
catcher and sold him to a major league
I am for $5,000. He never showed any-.
thing in fast company, but we owners'
( f the club declared a dividend with -
the ?0,000."
Among the old soldiers was one vet-1
eran minus a leg and hobbling along:
on a crutch. With him the nominee
had an earnest conv rsation about con?
ditions in the soldiers' homo and Get?
tysburg, and they agreed that Grant
was a great soldier, after which the
ball players started for the scene of
their contest with the Marion team.
The theatrical and motion picture I
performers, headed by Al Jolson, who !
aro making a pilgrimage from Broad-;
way to the front porch, will arrive in a
special car Tuesday morning. They!
will remain al! day, breakfast at the
Marion Club, parade to the Harding
home in automobiles, listen to a speech i
by the Senator, and then go to White I
Oaks farm', three miles nut of town, for
luncheon. There is to be a flag-raising
ceremony there and stunts by the per?
formers and possibly the nominee.
?.-?
Miss O'Brien Resumes Post at
Head of Bedford Reformatory
BEDFORD, N. Y? Aug. 22.?Miss
Mary O'Brien, former superintendent
of the State Reformatory for Women
at Bedford, will resume her duties in
that capacity to-day. She succeeds
Mrs. Frank L. Christian, who for seven?
teen days has had charge of the insti?
tution and who in that time quelled
the race riots which broke out on
July 24.
It was explained that Mrs. Christian I
has suffered poor health recently and j
is in need of complete rest.
Not Enough Bulls for Fight,
So Spanish Town Mutinies
CASTELL?N. Spain, Aug. 22. Vil?
lagers of Canete-la-Real have mutinied
against the municipal government be?
cause the Mayor provided an insuffi?
cient number'of bulls for a bullfight
held in connection with a local festival.
The mutineers unlocked a corral, free?
ing the bulls which had been provided.
Tho?an:ma!s dashed through the streets
of the village, injuring several per?
sons and causing considerable prop?
erty damage before they fled to the
mountains.
..-~?-??-.-??
Mayor Hylan and Friends
Among 100,000 at Rockaway
Mayor Hylan and friends whom he
had invited to go motoring were among
the 400,000 persons who visited Rock
away Beach yesterday. The Mayor and
his "party went home about 7 p. m.
Anna Svres. seventeen years old, a
resident of Bay Tent City, was ar?
rested for insisting upon walking on
the Boulevard in a bathing suit- Will?
iam Bolen, oi Arverne, was arrested lor
wearing a one-piece bathing suit.
Fireman Killed nt Newark
Bv Blow on Head From Bridge
NEWARK. N. J., Aug. -12 Joseph L.
Berge!, of 808 Chambers Street, Wil?
mington, Del., a fireman on the Penn?
sylvania Railroad, was killed to-day.
He was standing on the tank of the
tender and his head was struck as the
train was passing underneath tho Cen?
tral Railroad bridge at Hamilton
Street. He was dead upon arrival at
the City Hospital.
Bottle Thrower Discharged;
Future Offenders Warned
Ernest Deinen, of 31.9 East 121st
Street, who was arrested yesterday,
accused of throwing a bottle from his
seat in the lower grandstand at the
Polo Grounds to the field, was dis?
charged in night court for lack of evi?
dence.
Magistrate Silverman served notice,
however, of his intention of giving a
jail sentence to any one convicted of
such an offense before him.
Cox Asks Hays
To Tell AM of
Fund Details
Wants lo Know How Many
Subdivisions Country Is
Divided Into, Extent
and Quota of Each
Requests Reply at Qnce
Declares Chairman Made
No Denial of Charge That
13 Millions Was Sought
DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. 22.?A request
on Will II. Hays, chairman of the Re?
publican National Committee, for infor?
mation regarding Republican campaign
funds was made to-night by Governor
James M. Cox. who came here to-day
from Columbus.
Governor Cox declared that Mr.
Hays's statement yesterday regarding
Republican funds was not a reply to the
Governor's charges that the Republi?
cans were raising a fund of $15,000,000.
"I was very much gratified," said
Governor Cox, "that Mr. Hays made his
response, but as 1 read his statement
it's no denial. He. says the irregular
preliminary 'estimate' is $3,000,000.
That doesn't mean anything. I want
Mr. Hays to tell us into how many sub?
divisions the country was divided by
the Republican managers. I want him
to tell us how many subdivisions there
are and what territories each covers,
and, incidentally, 1 want him to tell
what the quota was that was imposed
on each district.
"He has spoken publicly often about
these quotas, and the public is entitled
to this information. The Senate in?
vestigating committee will insist |n it,
and why not have it now?"
Governor Cox said that in his
speeches late this week he would deal
further with the question of Republi?
can finances. He has promised evi?
dence to support his charg.es that $15,
000,000 was the Republican "low mark,
with the sky apparently the limit."
Roed Board Meets To-day
The Governor has received a tele?
gram from Senator Reed, Democrat,
Missouri, of the Senate investigating
committee, regarding information to
be given the committee. Senator Reed
said the committee would resume its
inquiry to-morrow at Chicago and that
everything would be given "careful"
and thorough investigation.
That "a great deal of money is to
be expected outside of the Republican
National Committee" fund was stated
by Governor Cox in commenting on
New York newspaper reports of sub?
scriptions to an alleged history by
William Barnes jr., New York Repub?
lican leader. Governor Cox also made
public to-night a telegram sent to W.
P. G. Harding, governor of the Federal
Reserve Board at Washington, request?
ing that steps be taken to aid in mov?
ing the fall crops.
"My attention has been directed in
several parts of the country," said the
Governor's telegram, "to a condition
which 1 think the Federal Reserve
Board should and can correct. It is
with reference to the movement of trie
crops. Farmers allege that grain ele?
vators are unable to procure sufficient
credit to. take in the season's yield.
"The farmers are without sufficient
granary facilities to*carry it over. In
many instances this creates unnatural?
ly fictitious prices. I am giving this
infosmation as a private citizen, be?
lieving that the general welfare will
be conserved thereby."
Governor Cox came to Dayton from
Columbus early to-day. following his
return from his sneaking engagement
last Saturday at Canton, to clean up
personal affairs preliminary to his
speaking trip this week. He will leave j
here next Tuesday night to make an ad- j
dress Wednesday at Princeton and j
Evansville, Ind.; Pittsburgh on Thurs?
day; New Haven on Friday, and New
York Saturday.
Comments on Receptions
A statement made by tho Governor,
commenting on his receptions last
week, said:
"The most striking thing is the large
representation of young men. I think
the war has established idealism in
the new generation. I think they're
interested in government and especially
in bringing this war to an end. Their
moral vision has widened and their
normal outlook elevated.
"Next to this is the near approach to
the religious fervor which this cam?
paign is developing."
The statement also said that the
Governor was not making a partisan
issue of the League of Nations.
"We're making our tight," he said,
"on what we believe to be a righteous
movement, world-wide in its possibili?
ties for good. I believe the rank and
file of the Republicans are opposed to
tho Senate oligarchy."
Governor Cox added that he found
"resentment" among Republicans be-1
cause, he said, the popular primary
candidate was not chosen at Chicago.
Inspects His Farm
During his stay here Governor Cox
hoped to secure outdoor exercise and
rest to aid him to meet the hardships
of his future travels. To avoid visitors
he withheld announcement of his plans
to come here. The Goverrfbr spent con?
siderable time to-day inspecting his
livestock, garden, orchard and other
affairs on his farm at Trailsen.
He was informed of the denial made
to-night bv Senator Harding of the
$15,000,000 fund charges. The Gov?
ernor said that he had no comment to
make at this time. His statement call?
ing on Chairman Hays for information
was made prior to his knowledge of
Senator Harding's denial.
Father Is Accused of
Abducting His Child
Charles Beuker Alleged to Have
Taken ?Son From Wife's
Apartment
Charles Benker, thirty-two years
old, a chauffeur, of 430 East Fifth
Stieet, was arrested by Sergeant
Frazer, of the East 10-ith Street. Station,
yesterday on a charge of abducting
his child. Benker will be arraigned in
the Harlem Police Court this morning.
According to the police, Benker and
his wife, Cecil Russell Benker, have
been separated for a year. The wife
retained the custody of their child,
Richard, two nnd one-half years old.
On Friday night Mrs. Benker re?
ported that she had left the t>aby in
nor apartment, '-'-.O East 101st Street,
while ?-he went to a neighboring store.
When she returned the child was gone.
Sergeant Frazer says lie found the
baby in the father's custody at the
East Fifth Street address yesterday.
Tiie child was returned to the mother.
Ret?s Want to Send Envoy,
Onee Ousted, to Switzerland
BERNE, Aug. i.2. -The Russian Soviet
government has expressed a desire to
send an engineer named Ratmann as
its commercial representative to
Switzerland. Ratmann was a member
of the first Soviet mission, which was
expelled from Switzerland in 1918, and
; the Swiss government is hesitating
: over accepting him.
Guarantees for the strictest absti
; nence from every form of political ac
1 tivity wilt be demanded in the event
he is admitted.
Dry? Threaten Fight on
Wet State "Republicans
Anderson Serves Warning on
Hays of What Anti-Saloon
League Proposes
William II. Anderson, state superin?
tendent of the Anti-Saloon League, in
an open letter to Will H. Hays, chair?
man of the Republican Nntional Com?
mittee, serves warning that the drys
will not stand for wet control of the
Republican state machine. His letter
says in part:
"The Anti-Saloon League in this
state is not trying to defeat the Re?
publican party as such. We elo intend to
send this wet state machine to the junk
pile regardless of how long it takes
and are not afraid to take the risk of
accepting what se-ems to be a good
chance to do it this year. The beauty
of a moral issue is, no matter what
happens its exponents gain strength
provided only* they tight when a fight
ought to be made. While not indors?
ing either Harding or Cox, the fact
remains that as a matter of state
strategy we are not interested in see?
ing Tammany intrenched in Washing?
ton any more than wo are interested in
seeing this wet Republican bunch
again in the saeldle at Albany."
Roberts to Use
All His Powers
For Suffrage
(Continued from paco one)
which has become a judicial rather
than a legislative affair. Lobbies of
the hotels are almost deserted and all
of the frenzied bustle and hurried,
mysterious conferences are past.
League Sends Out Warning
The Tennessee Constitutional League
announced to-day that the injunction
would prevent t'ne enfranchisement of
the women of the nation for at least a
year and a half. The league has been
fighting ratification in Tennessee on
the ground that the state constitution
prohibits the present Legislature from
taking valid action. The league sent
the following message to the Covernors
of Vermont, Connecticut, Florida, Ala?
bama, Louisiana, Delaware and South
Carol ina:
"Tennessee has not ratified the suf?
frage amendment. The resolution has
not. legally passed the House. The mo
tion to reconsider was defeated by less
than the legal quorum. The Governor
and other state officials have been
enjoined against attempting to.certify
its ratification. No women will vote
for a year and a half at. least on ac?
count eif Tennessee's action, as the in?
junction will be carried to the highest
court. Any state official who attempts
to certify will lie attacked for contempt
of court, and Secretary Colby has al?
ready been warned that action in viola?
tion of the injunction is invalid under
our laws.
"Secretary Colby will also be en?
joined by an a.m. nded bill filed by
Charles S. Fairchild and the American
Constitution League at Washington.
"'There is no reason for any stampede
in either states on account of Tennes?
see's alleged .action, and press reports
assuming the ratification as completed
are entirely misleading. Therefore, we
earnestly ask you to make careful ex?
amination of ratification status before
doing anything that might have a ten?
dency to complicate the coming Presi?
dential election and the election of
Covernors, Congressmen, legislators,
etc., in many states."
Many Invitations Sent
Tennessee Insurgents
DECATUR, Ala., Aug. 22. The
thirty-one anti-suffrage members of the ',
Tennessee House who came here in or?
der to br?ale a quorum and prevent fur- \
ther action on ratification of the Nine?
teenth Amendment, staged an im-!
promptu demonstration ?it the railway!
station today when the president eif the
Southern Women's Rejection League
passetl through the city on hor way
from Nashville to Montgomery.
Mrs. Pinckard invited the legislators
to make their home in Montgomery
during their stay in Alabama. Colo?
nel W. T. Sanders, of Athens, Demo?
cratic, national committeeman from
this state, at the head of a delegation
of Athens citizens, extended a similar
invitation, stating that the people of
Athens were prepared to throw open
their homes to the legislators so long
as they desired to remain in the state.
United States Senator Underwood was
invited to-day to deliver an address j
here to-morrow night.
The insurgents attended services in
a body this morning nt the First Bap-j
tist Church, occupying front pews, j
and were visitors to-night at the First
Methoelist Church. Each wore a red
rose, the emblem of the forces opposed
to suffrage. During the day they were
the guests of citizens on an automo?
bile tour of Decatur and vicinity.
To-night found the legislators still
determined to fight to the last ditch
to prevent ratification of the suffrage
amendment by their state.
"We are determined to stick until
the finish," said Representative Hall,
leader of tho party. "There will be no
break in our ranks."
Hundreds of telegrams commending
the action of the insurgents in bolting
the legislature continued to arrive to?
day from ali parts of tho country, Mr.
Hall s-aying the total of such messages
now was at least one thousand.
Tammany Will
Use Cox Visit
To Boom Smith
Presidential Nominee To Be
Warmly Greeted Satur?
day, but Demonstration
Will Be for New Yorker
Women Will Take Part
_
Ohioan Told by Leaders
to Go Limit in Placating
Irish Voters on Leaprue
Tammany Hall has seized the oppor?
tunity presented by the visit of Gov?
ernor Cox of Ohio, the Democratic
Presidential candidate, to the Police
Field Day celebration at Shcepshead
Bay next Saturday to annex the demon?
stration tb Governor Alfred E. Smith'3
boom for reelection.
Governor Smith, Mayor John F.
Hylan, Police Commissioner Enright,
"Big Bill" Edwards, Collector of In?
ternal Revenue, and John M. Riehle,
president of the National Democratic
Club, will be on the stand with Gov?
ernor Cox, and Governor Smith will
introduce the Presidential candidate.
Charles F. Murphy at the San Fran?
cisco convention refused to support
Covernor Cox for the nomination for
President until Judge Moore, of
Youngstown. the Cox manager, after
an effort extending over two days, per?
suaded the Tammany Hall leader and
the Democratic boss of the state that
Governor Cox was a wet and not a dry,
as practically proclaimed by former
Governor Campbell, of Ohio, the head
of the Ohio delegation.
It is planned to make the greeting
for Governor Cox cordial and impres?
sive, but it also is planned to make the
demonstration for Governor Smith
eclipse anything that has gone before.
The Tammany leaders have urged
Governor Cox to "go the limit" in pla?
cating the Irish voters alienated by
President Wilson's League of Nations.
Joseph P. Tumulty, the President's sec?
retary, was in town last Saturday, to
confer with the Murphy men, "and
warned them that the White House,
would not stand for any repudiation of
the League of Nations by Cox or any
one else. Governor Cox has assigned to
himself the task of convincing the
Tammany men, wh.o will be present
next Saturday to hear him, thai the
League of Nations, with President Wil?
son's propo.-ed "interpretative reserva
tione" called for in the Democratic
platform, is only another step looking
to the self-determination of oppressed
nations, Ireland included.
Cox May Bid for Wet Vote
It is expected of Governor Cox that
he will indorse Governor Smith for re?
election, praise the Democratic state
platform, which calls for a modifica?
tion of the Volstead act that will per?
mit the manufacture and sale of beer
and light wines, and make a distinct
bid for the wet vote of New York City,
which went to Smith two years ago.
In the background is Mr, Hearst, who
already has served notice on Governor
Cox that he must come out against the
Wilson League of Nations, which means,
according to Mr. Hearst, the doom of
Ireland and other valiant peoples, or
take the consequences. Mr. Hearst and
Hearst men are conspicuous by their
absence from the list of the welcom?
ing committee for Governor Cox next
Saturday.
A .special stand is to be built, from
which Governor Smith and Governor
Cox may address the crowd, and a mag
navox, a powerful voice-carrying instru?
ment, such as was used a year ago by
President Wilson at San Diego, Calif.,
when he addressed 44,000 persons, will
be installed.
Police Commissioner Enright said
last night that the meeting, with Smith
and Cox on hand to make addresses,
would bo the greatest* in the history of
the city. Prominent women Democrats
will take part in the program. .Mrs.
David H. Knott, wife of Sheriff Knott;
.Miss Elisabeth Marbury, member of the
national committee, from this state;
Mrs. John Sherwin Crosby and sev?
eral other active Democratic women
workers will participate.
Program for the Visit
Governor Cox will go from the Grand
Central after his arrival from New
Haven at 10:07 a, m. to the Democratic
Club, where he will meet Governor
Smith, Charles F. Murphy, "Big Tom"
Foley, Representative Thomas F. Smith,
Assemblyman Marty McCue, Mayor
Hylan, Samuel Untermyer and other
men active in the. Tammany organiza?
tion. After a reception there he will be
escorted down Fifth Avenue by Gov?
ernor Smith and policemen to the Hotel
Commodore, where a luncheon will be
given. John M. Riehle will preside at
this function. Governor Cox will de?
liver a speech at the Commodore, after
which he will be escorted to Gravo3end.
Governor Smith, Charles F. Murphy
and Mayor Hylan will attend the
luncheon. Fifth Avenue will be deco?
rated with flags and bunting along the
line of march. The reception commit?
tee will complete the details at the
Commodore at 1 o'clock this afternoon.
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Berlin Denies Trotzky Visit
LONDON. Aug. 22.?A wireless dis?
patch from Berlin says the German au?
thorities officially deny a recent story
printed in the London Times that Leen
Trotzky, tho Bolshevik Minister of
War, has been in East Prussia.
Flowers that Bloom in the
Spring, Tra-la!
. Do you remember, a few years ago, the shoe
box that you received in the mail conveying some
very, very dead flowers with a friend's card of
greeting? ,
The box was battered and musty, and in the
inglorious state of the gift you certainly were
forced to take "the will for the deed."
Today you may telegraph flowers anywhere
and within a few hours they arrive, fresh, fragrant
and eloquent.
To enable you to do this, there exists a
National Association of Florists.
r With the aid of the florist even the mute may
be silver-tongued, for, whatever the occasion, we
are being taught by advertising that we may
"Say it with Flowers."
The florists must "sell" an idea to the nation.
Whatever the idea be, to eat more citrus
fruit; to line our chimneys with clay or to use
granite for monuments, that idea may be "sold"
to an entire nation by national advertising.
Advertising space in the Butterick publications
' is for sale through accredited advertising agencies.
Butterick?Publisher
The Delineator ? The Designer
($2.50 a Year) Everybody's ($2.00 a Year)
I ??.gazine
\?.75 a Year)
Thompson Begins
His Speaking Tour
Attacks Public Utility Officials
as More Interested in Stocks
Than Service
Senator Ceorge P. Thompson, of
Niagara County, in his campaign for
the Republican designation for Gov- !
ernor, got under way last week, speak- j
ing along the lake chore-at Medina,
Albion, Holley, Brockport, Spencer- j
port, Webster, Ontario and Williamson, j
He went by nuto. Senator Thompson is ;
chairman of the Public Service Com- ]
mittee of the Senate. In his address !
to the people of/Webster. Ontario and I
Williamson on Friday night, he said:
"One great help to the situation j
would bu to employ scientific and ex- ?
perienceel railroad men to operate the ?
railroads, and for the state to employ ;
scientific and experienced utility men,
including railroad men, to supervise \
public utilities, instead of a lot of j
lawyers and bankers who have no rail- '
road experience.
"The trouble to-day with our rail?
roads and other public utilities is that
those in control are more interested I
in stock market quotations of thc-r I
own and interlocked stocks than they
are in real service to the public or I
honest profits to their stockholders, j
What the directors want is that the ?
stock market should move; it is not j
of much importance to them whether |
it moves up or down, so long as it
move's in some direction, knowing in j
advance, as they do, that it is going >
to move, and in which direction and |
how far."
Judge Nathan L. Miller, of Syracuse,
candidate of the Republican organiza
tion in the primaries for the Cover- j
norship, will be in town to-morrow to !
confer with State Chairman Glynn; i
Will II. Hays, chairman of the national
committee; Samuel S. Kocnig, Jacob i
A. Livingston, Richard W. Lawrence
and various candidates on the state1
ticket.
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20 Nations Will Send
Envoys to Dry Congress
Pageant on Capitol Steps Will
Open Convention in Wash?
ington September 21
WASH?NGTON,' Aug. 22.-?Nearly
twenty nations will be represented by
speakers at the meetings of the Fif?
teenth International Congress Against
Alcoholism, which convenes in Wash?
ington September 21, according to the
tentative program made public here to
nighf by the American Executive Com?
mit;'- of the congress. Tnc program
has been prepared by the permanent
international committee headed by
Premier Beerenbrouck of The Nether?
lands.
The congress will open with a
pageant on the steps of the Capitol.
Prominent among the speaker;; list?
ed on the tentative program arp Dr.
Dazynska, of Poland; Senator Bjork
man. President of the Swedish Senate;
Miss Crommelin, the Dutch labor lead?
er; William Jennings Bryan, Secre?
tary Daniels and Attorney General
Palmer.
In connection with the congress
several related organizations will hold
meetings in Washingt . Among these
will be the World ?. ue Against Al?
coholism, the World Prohibition Fed?
eration, the International Order of
Good Templars, the Women's Christian
Temperance Union, the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union, the Intercollegiate
Prohibition Association and the Anti
Saloon League of America.
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Policeman Kills Lunatic
Escaped Inmate of Asylum Was
Committed for Murder
LEWIST'.;.*;. Me., Aug. 22.?James
Clabby, an escaped inmate of the crim?
inal ward of the State Hospital at Au-1
mista, was shot and killed by Eugene :
D. Hussey, a patrolman, here to night.
C!al by o ,; peared from the hosj ital
several weeks ago, and to-night the
police found him in this city.
Patrolman Hussey came upon him in
a dark street. There was a scuffle and
Clabby drew a revolver, but before he
could discharge it the patrolman seized
his arm and shot him three times.
Clabby was committed to the hospital
as insane after his arrest for the mur?
der of Patrick Fahey, of this city, in
July, 1919.
Fort Jay Guns Boom Salute
to Brazilian Battleship
The Brazilian battleship Minas
Geraes, which is no stranger to these1
shores, came to port yesterday and
went to an anchorage in the North
River off Ninety-sixth Street. As she
passed up the bay she was saluted by |
guns from Fort Jay, which she an?
swered with a one-pounder from the
quarterdeck.
Cerf's Condition Unchanged
At the Broad Street Hospital yester?
day it was said that the condition of
Louis A. Cerf, general agent of the
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Com?
pany, remained unchanged. Mr. Ccv:
suffered a fracture cf the skull lasi
Tuesday as tho result of an all?gea
assault.
Clash Feared
As Socialists
Rally To-night
American Legion to Censor
Meetings and "Deal Sum?
marily" With Any Dis?
loyal Soapbox Oratory
Police to Mass Reserves
Districts of Five Ousted As
semblymen Will Be
Watched for Disorder
The Socialists will open their cam?
paign to-night in the districts in which
a special election has been called for
September 20 to fill vacancies result?
ing from the ousting of the five Social?
ist Assemblymen. Officials of the Po?
lice Department said last night that
every preparation was being made to
prevent disorder growing out of the
meetings, which will be held in halls
and at street corners.
With the Socialist managers in the
Bronx planning great demonstrations
in that section and the -American Le?
gion preparing to resent any disloyal
remarks by Socialist orators, police of
the Bronx fear serious clashes, and all
available reserves will be mobilized to
patrol the precincts in which the first
meetings are to be staged.
?10 Legion Posts Aroused
Major Wilbur T. Wright, of 263 East
Kingsbridge Road, the Bronx, county
chairman of the American Legion of
the Bronx, announced last night that
he expected several hundred members
from the forty posts to watch the sec?
tions in which the meetings will take
place.
Major Wright declared that any de?
parture by speakers from political
argument into what may he construed
as disloyalty would b? met by a pro?
test from the legion, and that persons
showing hostility to the government,
state or federal, would be summarily
dealt with. ?
Declaring that the last Assembly
treated the ousted Socialists too
leniently. Major Wright said that in
the event the Socialist orators grew
vituperative the full membership of five
thousand Legion veterans would be
drawn to curb hostile Socialistic ora?
tory.
A general conference of the five
ousted Socialist Assemblymen and their
lieutenants was held yesterday in the
People's House, 7 East Fifteenth Street,
and plans were announced for a series
of meetings in the districts threatened
by the fusion movement, fostered by
the old panics.
Socialist orators will be drawn from
the country at large, and the night
meetings augmented by a systematic
canvass tinder the general direction of
a central committee, assisted by numer?
ous sub-committee.
Field workers also will be drawn
from greater New York and towns ad?
jacent. The leaders declare that the
Socialists of the nation are on trial in
the coming election.
National leaders of the Socialist party
made public yesterday a message from
Eugene V. Debs in which the impris?
oned candidate for President expresses
confidence in the ultimate victory of
Socialist doctrines.
*\ew Ministry at Belgrade
BELGRADE, Jugo-Slavia; Aug. 22.?
A new Coalition Ministry for Jugo?
slavia has been perfected. Milenko R.
Vcsnitch continues as Premier and
Anton Trumbitch as Foreign Minister.
Bank Robbers, Believed
Trapped in Woods,Escap3
Patrols Wateh Railroad Station-?
Near Sprina.fi?*ld. Mass., for
Gang With $4,500
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.. Aug. 22.?Th?
thirty policemen who thought they had
the five auto bandits who held up the
Portland National Bank in Portland.
Conn., yesterday surrounded n the
woods near here, discoverea to-dny
when they closed in and beat the woods
that the quarry had slipped through
their lines.
As the fugitives abandoned their au?
tomobile when they took to the woods
the widespread hunt which was in I -
tuted yesterday has been abandoned ari
the attention of the police is concen?
trated on railroad stations in the vicin?
ity. Although the gang had, about $>.
500 which they obtained in the bank
robbery, it is not thought likely that
they will take the risk of trying to buy
or steal another autorriobile.
On the chance that they may ba
afraid to visit a railroad station patrols
have been sent out to cover the roads t
in the hilly, wooded section where they
sought refuge. Most of the police and
practically all of the volunteer search?
ers have been recalled, however.
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Costa Riea Gives All a Vote
Citizens Enjoying Suffrage Must
Be Able to Read and Write
S?AN SALVADOR. Aug. 22.?A dis?
patch from San Jos?, Costa Rica, says
Congress has passed a law giving the
right of suffrage to all citizens, includ
ing women. Those enjoying suffrage
must read and write and be citizens of
Costa Rica by naturalization or adop?
tion. They will have the right to hohl
state, municipal and congressional
office.
France Aeeepts German Envov
PARIS, Aug. 22.?The Ministry of
Foreign Affairs has notified Germany
that Wilhelm Mayer von Kaufbeuren
will be acceptable as Germany's Am
? bassador to France. He formerly was
German Charge d'Affaires at Paris.
THE IRON MAN
Brant?me, the French histo*
: rian, tells how his uncle, from
infancy, took powdered iron
with his meals;
And how, at twelve, he was
so strong that he could stop
a wild bull.
Be that as it may, iron is
really necessary to perfect
health and strength;
And the fresh green vegc
tables served at CHILDS are
rich in iron in digestible form.
During the don dar? ?
more vegetable? and lea?
meat means more ^fyna
f ort and lew best.
SPECIAL REDUCTIONS
in
Men's High Grade Shoes
Lasts and patterns exclusively our own designs
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Season's End Prices
Men's 3-Piece Suits
ORIGINALLY
61.00 to 70.00 42.50
71.00 to 87.00 53.50
1 hey must be sold before the season's end-?
while they last the savings are extraordinary.
Men s Double or Single Breasted
BLUE
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formerly 67.50 to 70.00
SUITS
57.50
formerly 7100 to 77.50
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