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Cox Starts Trip
Of 9,000 M?es
Into 22 States
Nominee Will Complete
Swing Around Western
Circuit at St. Louis
Early in Next. Month
?. # ???
First Stop Is in Toledo
Governor in Private Car
Once Used on Travels
by Wilson and Taft
Special Dispatch to Tho Tribun?
COLUMDUS, Ohio, Sept. 2,-r-Governor
James M. Cox departed to-night on a
month's speaking tour of the Far West.
He will travel 9,000 miles, through
twenty-two states. The circuit lies
through the northern tier of states to
Bellingham, Wash., to Utah, California
and to St. Louis, where his last sched?
uled spoech of the trip will be made
on October 3. The tour is the most
extensive undertaken by any Presiden?
tial candidate since William J. Bryan
ran the first time, in 1896. Sixty-seven
formal addresses are scheduled.
The campaign journey to-night be?
gan just two months before the elec?
tion, and :he last month before the
Toting will be spent by Governor Cox
in the Fast and Middle West.
The Governor will be met to-morrow
at Toledo by a committee. He will
miike rear platform addresses at small
towns, reaching Jackson, Mich., about '
noon. There he will address an open
air gathering. In the afternoon he will
make two addresses in Lansing. Sat?
urday he ?till speak in Milwaukee. Ho
will spend Sunday in Chicago and Mon?
da^, Labor Day, will speak at the Min?
nesota State Fair, near St. Paul.
Continuing, the tour will extend into
these states: North Dakota, Montana,
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Nev?
ada, California, Arizona, New Mexico,
Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, South
Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and
Missouri.
Governor to Us? Private Car
The Governor is using a private car
which in the past has served for Presi?
dent Wilson and former President Taft.
There was some disappointment
among Cox followers here to-day over
the adjournment taken by the Senate
Campaign Investigating Committee.
Comment on the recess resolved into
a statement that the committee did not
seem anxious to proceed with its ex?
amination of Edmond H. Moore, in Chi?
cago.
Ohio Republican headquarters, how?
ever seemed to take the view that noth?
ing is to be feared, for a statement was
issued as follows :
"Mr. E. H. Moore, departing for Chi?
cago as the representative of Governor
Cox at the Senatorial investigation,
says with regard to the ? fficials of the
Republican National- Committee who
are testifying there:
"They will b-^ under oath and facing
pains and penalties of perjury. I think
they will tell the truth.'
"That is precisely the point with re?
gard to the entire situation?the Re?
publicans will tell the truth and under
oath. Meanwhile. Mr. Cox goes about
the country making hi3 ridiculous
charge?, unsupported and free from all
the obligations of an oath. As Gov?
ernor Cox's representative at Chicago
Mr. Moore ..ill have nothing to offer
the committee except hearsay evidence
which he hss obtained from Governor
Cox. Everybody else connected with
the Democratic organization is in a
similar posi*: >n. On what basis of
reasoning G .nor Cox's wild
charges r ;' d seriously, as
against th? v. ?. imony of the Re?
publican 1 j. Why doesn't Gov?
ernor Cox j nself go to Chicago and
submit to ? mination under jath?"
Meets Edocatiojnal Committee
The Gover: s met to-day a commit?
tee of the ! education Associa?
tion, heade . Mrs. Ctfra Stewart Wil?
son, of Fra?.. rt, Ky., who seconded
his nomination at San Francisco. 'The
committee came to lay educational
propositions b.fore the Governor and
not to discuss politics.
Mrs. Wilson, however, said later that
?he expected to speak in the Governor's
behalf.
Earlier in tho day the Governor
spoke briefly to the National Board of
Farm Organizations. He said:
"The time has come when more
food old hard-headed farmers must
ave their feet under the table when
impoitant national policies are deter?
mined."
Promises to "Dirt Fanners"
The Governor stated that the farmers
are not onlv entitled to greater repre?
sentation, but that "the public interest
demanda it." He pledged that "dirt
farmers'' will appear on the Federal
Reserve Boani and the Tariff and the
Interstate Commerce commissions \t
he is elected.
After asserting that there is not a
man on the Interstate Commerce Com?
mission "who knows much about farm?
ing," Governor Cox said that one of
the great r.eeda to-day is a larger num?
ber of railroad owned instead of
privately owned cold storage cars.
"The cold storage interests, through
their control of th?3 phase of trans?
portation and their elimination of the
law of supply and demand, have caused
the public, without justification, to
look upon the farmer as a profiteer,"
he said.
"I reiterate that a national law
limiting the period of cold storage is
imperative."
Be urged greater development of
waterways, particularly the St. Law?
?tnee route, saying it would be a great
aid to the farmers in marketing then
trop?.
The farm organization's representa?
tives, about 125 strong, called to ask
tn? Democratic nominee "what the
agricultural interests can expect" If h?
? elected President. On Friday th?
'vnaext will send a delegation tc
Marion for a similar interview witk
beaator Harding.
m
Cooli.dge Orders Probe oi
State Treasurer's Actfi
fcweMifrJil to Be Turned on
Official Who Sought Adver
lifting From Bank?
BOSTON, Sept. 2/?Governor Coolidg.
?**? to-day appointed a committee, com
PM?a i>t two State Senators and thre?
???ix-r? of ?..,. [tou?e of R?pr??<>nU.
W?s, to investigate the conduct of Stab
Tftaanrer Fred U, Bujrrell. Ha sai?
3' >Bve?tigation was to determin
2"*?"?r there had been any miscondue
y atalfeasane? on th? part of the Sut
f_5B",?H ha? been severely criticise?
&L, ***_. ?^"?ittsd solicitation iron
?"?as of con'./-acts for an advert???:,;
2?*fJ wfcieb h? conducted- He U
?wa.lflaU tor r*nomination on th? K?
fWiican tx:k?,t at the primaries, an
*?? ?am? is m? on|y one printed on th
?52?V?* 8tftt* Treasurer. A atiek?
???psign for th? nomination Is b?in
***4mU4, however, by James Jacksor
{J"|?-?r ebitirnian ot th? New Knglan
"2?i?n of th? Red Cross, and "hyVrsui
jy?.N. Kfrrr. an unsuccessful eand
??*??? the nri?Di?rl?s last year.
-J*? ??publican ?tat? CommitU? ha
2J ttdorsed ?lth?r Jsekson or K?n
:22#?t*Tdair s?nt ? l?tt?r to Burr?l
YZJgMm? that h? withdraw bis mod!
Ohio Women Flout Cox's
Denial of Whisky Party
Delegation at Chicago Repub?
lican Conference Says Wet
Faction Exists in Ohio
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, Sept. 2.?Ohio women In
Chicago for the two-day conference of
Republican state leaders of twenty
states denied ' vigorously to-day the
statement of Governor Cox that there
is no longer a whisky party in their
state.
"If the Governor wants to persuade
the men of Ohio that there is no
whisky party in Ohio let him try it,"
said Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, vice
chairman of the national committee.
"But he can't for a minute pull the
wool over the eyes of Ohio women.
"They remember that very recently the
whisky party in Ohio brought about
a referendum against Presidential suf?
frage in that state. And they will not
be fooled by Governor Cox's state?
ment."
Hope that California would break
away in November from the Demo?
cratic column was voiced by Mrs.
Katherine Phillips Edson, member of
?the national executive committee.
"Great significance should be at?
tached to the nomination of Samuel
M. Shortridge as the Republican can?
didate for the Senate to succeed Sen?
ator Phelan, Democrat, from Cali?
fornia," Mrs. Edson said, "because Mr.
Shortridge based his campaign on op?
position to the League of NationV'
Will H. Hays, chairman of the Re?
publican National Committee, said, re?
garding the conference:
"The meetings have been most satis?
factory. Reports from everywhere all
show the same unprecedented interest
in Republican success."
Moore Admits
He Can^t Back
Fund Charges
(Continued from pass on?)
era have made and which they boasted
publicly would raise $16,000,000.
"I have the names of the men who
were to raise this money, and all other
evidence needed, so if this is not a var?
nishing investigation they can prove all
the charges made by Governor Cox.
If this committee follows out these
leads they can produce the evidence
that will give Truman H. Newberry, of
Michigan, plenty of company."
Mr. Moore named Henry M. Blair,
as the "personal money raiser"
that headed the national Republican
raising organization. Mr. Blair has
been under subpoena all week.
"I do not know what the committee
will ask of me," said Mr. Moore. "But
I am prepared to give the whole plan
which the Republicans made ,1o raise
enormous funds.
Tells of Money Boasts
"Before the public was aroused and
its dormant conscience awakened by
this expos?, the heads of this money
getting organization openly boasted
that they would raise $16,000,000 by it.
"I have the names of th? men through
which the committee can get absolute
proof of this. Treasurer Upham yes- j
terday testified that Georgia's quota i
for the Republican campaign was $25,- !
000 and that only $3,000 was collected. |
"I can prove that Atlanta's quota
alone was $25,000 and that it wa% all
collected before June 14 and that the ?
man who collected it was so disgusted j
with Harding's nomination that he quit j
the party. I can give to the committee
the name of that man and I guess there
will not be any trouble about getting
him to testify."
"Mr. Moore docs not know these
facts of his own knowledge, but he says
he is prepared to give 'us the names
of the men who do," said Senator Reed
in discussing Moore's evidence. "It
will be necessary, therefore, to get !
those men in here, and, as most of the j
committee have speaking engagements
over the week-end and holiday, we have
adjourned until next Tuesday. In the
meanwhile we hope to have these men
named by Mr. Moore here."
The investigation promised to take
on a much wider scope when Senator
Reed, during the examination of Sena?
tor Poindexter, demanded that Chair
man Will Hays and Blair be called
upon to produce lists of all the finan?
cial or. money-raising committees in all
the states.
?Senator Reed warned Senator Poin?
dexter that the appropriation of $200,
000 to be spent in thirty-two states in
the Senatorial campaign placed the Re?
publican leaders and candidates dan?
gerously near prosecution under cor?
rupt practices act, cited in the case^
?f< Senator Truman H. Newberry. Sena-'
tor Reed said:
"Ten thousand is the maximum a
Senator may spend. You have sent an
average of $6,250 into thirty-two states.
There is no limit to what your local
organization may raise. The court in
the Newberry case held that, if the |
money be spent by any organization in
the interest of the Senator, the Sena?
tor could be convicted under the law."
Upham's Words Upheld
Senator Poindexter confirmed the
testimony of Treasurer Upham that his
committee had been guaranteed a loan
of $200,000 by the Republican National
Committee. He said he had appointed
a. finance committee, composed of Sen?
ators Frelinghuysen, Elkins, McCor
mick and Calder, to ranse funds to re?
pay the loan, ami that this sub-com?
mittee had organized an auxiliary fund
raising committee, headed by Elliot
Wadsworth, of New York.
Chairman Kenyon first asked the j
witness to outline the plans for .rais?
ing funds and the cooperation with the
national and Congressional committees.
Senator Poindexter replied:
"The national committee requested
the Senatorial committee some time
ago to coordinate its work with the
national committee in raising funds.
An agreement was reached and modi
fled subsequently by having representa?
tives of ttie Senatorial committee, as
the sub-committee of which Senator
Freelinghuysen is chairman, take
charge of the matter of raising cam?
paign funds. The funds being collected,
negligible so far, are to be credited
against a written guaranty by the na?
tional committee of a fun<Uof $200,000.1
"Underwritten by the National Com?
mittee?" Chairman Kenyon asked.
"Yes.'* '?
"All fonds to be credited to this
$200,000?"
"Yes."
"If you collect mor? than $200,000
what would happen?" Senator Reed
interposed. <
"It would be placed with tho Na- |
, tional Committee." i
"Explain what the .Senatorial Com?
mittee doei," said Chairman Kenyon.
"There is no fixed procedure as to
how candidates are helped. I have h
fund of $6,000, which i? used for the I
general campaign to employ stenog?
raphers, rent offices and in general for
campaign activities in which we are
interested. In addition, we undertake
to circulate literature, and all activi?
ties of the committee are designed to
b? in harmony with local committees
interested in th? election of Senators
and in cooperation with the National
Committee. There Is no fixod system
or rul? as to how local candidate? or
committee* are to be helped."
Senator Reed then asked the witness
to tell of his plans for spending the
$200,000. Senator Poindexter replied:
"We do not apprehend that we will
spend that much money in any state,
?ad so far a? the Senatoi's own ex?
penditures are eonc*m?d we don't know
anything ?bout it, and have nothing to
4a wltbjfc. 1 presume we comply with
tbS?lr .**?***?? Ja*?* wfe?t *?-*?
^William Howard Taft
Discusses
Defeat of the Bolsheviki
By William Howard Taft
The defeat of the Bolshevik armies
in Poland and the saving of Warsaw
ore important events in the history of
the world. It was John Sobieski, a j
Pole, who saved Vienna from the Turks
in the heyday of their power and
turned back the Moslem from Christian
Europe. The present Bolshevik threat
to Christian civilization is just as ser?
ious as that of the Ottoman Turks cen?
turies ago.
Colonel House in his dispatches*to
The Public Ledger has emphasized,
the militant purpose of Lenlne and
Trotzky and their confederates. They
rely on the active and successful propa?
ganda being carried on in Germany,
Hungary, Austria and.in all countries
of Europe where unrest prevails and
where are the seed plots of Marxian
socialism or of anarchy.
The Third Internationale spreads its
net among all the European people and
welcomes everywhere "direct action."
Our own Socialists embrace the Third
Internationale with reservations; but
all know that the reservations are
merely of an opportunist character to
still the qualms of many who hesitate,
but who would be-sw?pt into the Whirl?
pool of Bolshevistic action the moment
that open measures were taken.
Great Britain's Hands Tied
The critical nature of the battles
about Warsaw has been greatly en?
hanced by the inability of the British
and French governments to come to the
assistance of the Poles under present
conditions. Great Britain, with Ireland
afame, with troubles in Mesopotamia,
India and elsewhere, and with a dan?
gerous protest against war with Russia
in her home communities, found it well
r.igh impossible. France, burdened with
troubles in Syria and the Near East
and with the work of reconstruction,
and with fear of German machinations,
cculd do little. She did, however, fur?
nish the invaluable aid of Foch's chief
of staff to organize the successful de?
fense of the Poles and thus has earned
the grateful appreciation of the civil?
ized world.
The. previous success of the Bolshe?
vik armies in overcoming those of
Poland and the danger to Warsaw hav?
been hailed by all radicals as evidence
of the strength of the Soviet republic
and the persistence and soundness of
the Bolshevik principle of government.
It has been sought to liken the Russian
success to that which attended the
arms of the Revolution of France
against the allied armias in 1789 and
subsequent years. The analogy fails
upon examination. The Bolshevik dis?
aster on the Bug and in the environs
of the Polish capital answers the sug?
gestion.
Lenlne and Trotzky are conducting
a government which is a worse despo?
tism than that of the Czars and rests
much more completely on pure military
force. The accumulation of evidence
upon this head is overwhelming. John
Spargo. the Socialist, has published an?
other interesting book on the subject,
in which he confirms, under the title
of "The Greatest Failure in History,"
his former conclusions as to the hol?
low mockery of liberty and the pursuit
Of happiness which the Soviet Republc
presents.
Extreme Reds Denounce Lenin?
Socialists from England of the most
extreme type, returning from personal
observation of conditions in Russia
under L?nine, have been cured and are
unmeasured in their denunciation of
his government and its policies. No
greater penalty could have been visited
upon Emma Goldman and Bergman
than the sending of them back to enjoy
the heaven of Bolshevism to which
they have been inviting their deluded
victims in this country. Their punish?
ment fits their crime.
The news of the defeat of the Soviet
forces willr of course, take some time
to reach the Russian people. The cen?
sorship of the press is such that every
effort will be made to minimize its
extent. The necessity for further re?
cruiting and the exacting of more sac?
rifices will, however, make it impos?
sible to keep from the now suffering
and overburdened constituencies the
facts, and the knowledge of them must
weaken the Soviet government and
will be one of the important factors
in its downfall.
But while we should all rejoice at
the Soviet disaster, we. should hope
that the Poles, too, have learned a
valuable lesson from their severe ex?
perience. They were too full of the
newly gained power' and they laid
themselves open to what has hap?
pened. They have enough to do to
consolidate '.their government and to
put it on an enduring basis without
going to war with Russia. They be?
long to the League of Nations, and
when they have a grievance against
another -country requiring affirmative
action to remedy it they should call
upon the council of that league for
consideration and hearing of the mat?
ter and await its recommendation of
settlement before beginning a war.
(Copyright, 1920, by P?iblto Ledger Co.)
pened in the Newberry case. Mr. New?
berry didn't spend any money, or prac?
tically no money individually, but the
court, held in that case, of course, un
clei the Michigan statute, that the
moneys that had been expended in his
behalf by a large number of individ?
uals and a large number of organiza?
tions, be charged to him, provided he
had knowledge of them and was in any
way concerned in a general plan.
Senator Poindextsr?Yes^,
Senator Reed?Now 1 am curious to
know how it is safe for the Republican
Senatorial Committee, a general com?
mittee from the outside, to get ready
to spend the maximum, and sometimes
in excess of the maximum, allowed by
the corrupt practice acts of the vari?
ous states?I am speaking, of course, of
those states that have corrupt praeticc
acts. How is it possible to carry on
that plan, then leave the candidate
free to expend money, then leave the
local committee free to spend money,
without utterly destroying or defeat?
ing of the purpose of the corrupt prac?
tice acts of the several states?.
Senator Poindexter?I have, never
been opposed to the use of a reasonable
amount of money to carry on cam?
paign activities. Everybody knows that
r.ny sort of a campaign costs money.
I am opposed, very much opposed, to
certain lines of campaign activities,
whether they cost a great^or small
amount. The most of the money of
tho Senatorial Committee is not ex?
pended in the way that you interpret
our activities to be; that is, in the ex?
penditure of money for the heip of a
candidate. We have, for instance, an
agent of our committee, Mr. McSween,
who was formerly connected with The
Philadelphia North American, and my
resistant in this matter, and he is
paid and his expenses are paid during
the campaign. He has been of con?
siderable assistance to me in seeing
people in connection with these Sen?
atorial campaigns in a number of
states, and bringing people together.
Senator Reed ?If that costs money,
isn't it u campaign expense?
?Senator Poindexter?Not a campaign
expense paid by the candidate, and
there is no expense so far as any par?
ticular state ?3 concerned.
Senator Reed?When men sit here
and sneer about buying the American
people as though somebody had assert?
ed that you were going out to pay
the great American electorate so much
for their votes, they don't quite meet
the question that money may determine
a Presidential election.
Chairman Kenyon?Don't get per?
sonal.
Senator Reed?Oh, I would not be
personal about it. at all. I have heard
a good many such remarks here. Do
you mean to say that money can buy
the American people?
Chairman Kenyon?Does that apply
to money raised by the Washington
headquarters of the Democratic party
as well as the New York committee
headquarters of the Republicans?
Senator Reed?It applies to any com?
mittee. You wouldn't regard the ex?
istence of a campaign fund of $15,
000,000 as a menace, would you Sen?
ator?
Senator Poindexter?I would con?
sider it a great abuse, a colossal abuse.
Senator Reed?What about $5,000,
000?
Senator Poindexter?I think that
would bo an abuse and unnecessary.
?Senator Reed?How about a cam?
paign fund of $4,821,000? That is
pretty close to tho $5,000,000 mark,
isn't it?
Senator Poindexter?Yes. - '
Senator Reed?-That would be an
abuse, wouldn't it?
Senator Poindexter?Well, I would
consider it too large an amount; my
personal opinion.
Senator Reed?Now, I think that is
all. Senator; thank you.
Chairman Kenyon?Don't you think
the cost of campaigns has probably
doubled since 1016?.
Senator Poindexter?Well, I think
probably it has, yes.
Chairman Kenyon?That to put on
the samo kind of campaign this year
"that was put on in 1916 for the Demo?
crats would cost about $4,500,000. Had
you taken these things into considera?
tion."
Senator Poindexter?No, I didn't; I
have given no detailed consideration
to that matter.
Chairman Kenyon?$15,000,000 you
think would be an abuse?
Senator Poindexter?I should think
so, although I confess that I haven't
undertaken to flgur4 up even the legit?
imate expenses of a national campaign.
Chairman Kenyon ?- Well, do you
know of any party that has $15,000,000
this year, Senator?
.Senator Poindexter?No, I do not.
The states listed as doubtful enough
j to warrant ipeciol assistance are, ac
? cording to Senator Poindexter, New*
: York, New Hampshire, Maryland, Ken?
tucky, Ohio, Indians, Missouri, Wis?
consin, North Dakota, Washington, Ida?
ho, Oregon. California, Arizona, Utah
and Colorado. He said that the devel?
opments of the campaign in Oklahoma
and Connecticut ?ay Add then to the
?W*.?. ;
Republicans Open
Intensive Drive
On September 17
Plan Vigorous Campaign
Beginning Constitution
Day; Hughes and Borah
in Van of Speakers for
Harding
-
The intensive Republican campaign j
will begin on September 17?Constitu?
tion Day. Senator Harding will speak i
on the Constitution from his front ?
porch at Marion to a delegation of
citizens from his own state.
On or rhorily aftf.r that day Charles
E. Hughes and Senator William E.
Borah, of Idaho, will begin campaign?
ing for Harding and Coolidge along
with other prominent Republicans, it
was? announced at Republican national
headquarters yesterday.
The demands for speakers, especially
those of national prominence, to ad-?
dres/ Republican rallies, in the East'
are coming in by the hundred at the
Eastern speakership bureau, of which
Colonel Thomas W. Miller, of Dela?
ware, is chairman.
The two speakers most in demand in
.the East are Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt
Robinson, sister of Colonel Roosevelt,
and Senator Hiram Johnson, of, Cali?
fornia.
Senator Johnson, who is also going
to take the stump for Harding and
Coolidge, has not yet left the coast.
Word has been received from Cali?
fornia that the outcome of the Cali?
fornia primaries was a victory for
Senator Harding and his policies.
Tho following telegram, commenting
on'the result, was received at national
headquarters here yesterday:
"In the nomination yesterday of
Samuel M. ?Shortridge as the Republi?
can candidate for United ?States Sena?
tor from California, with a smashing
plurality estimated at more than 50,
000, California indorsed Senator Hard?
ing and his policies in no uncertain
fashion.
"Of the three candidates Shortridge
throughout campaigned against the
Wilson League of Nations and stood
with Senator Harding's utterances and
tho Republican platform. The Repub?
lican Senatorial primary was a tre?
mendous Harding victory. In view of
the registration of almost 800,000 Re?
publicans, as against 282,000 Demo?
crats, for the November election the
piimaries yesterday removed all doubt
as to a Republican landslide in Cali?
fornia."
Deschanel Resignation
Is Denied Officially
French President Said Not to
Have Quit, hut Politicians
Discuss His Successor
PARIS, Sept. 2.?An. official denial
was issued by Elyso Palace to-day of
reports published by provisional news?
papers and widely circulated In Paris
that President Deschanel, at the re?
quest of Premier Millerand, had tend?
ered a letter of resignation from the
Presidency.
This letter is alleged to be in the
possession of the Premier, who is said
to be awaiting the settlement of vari?
ous diplomatic questions before ac?
quainting the country with the Presi?
dent's withdrawal.
Well informed circles, however, in?
sist that M. Deschanel will not return
to Elys?e Palace. His probable suc?
cessor is being onenly discussed by the
politicians.
m
Tribes in India Try
To Upset British Rule
Armed Crowds Menace Com?
missioner When Ringlead?
ers Arc Arrested
LONDON, Sept. 2.?An official com?
munication from Simla, British India
announces violent anti-British propa
ganda among the frontier tribes in th<
Manshara region, whero an attemp1
has been made to organize a provisions
government to supersede tho Britisl
administration.
The British Commissioner hurriec
from Peshawar and arrested the ring
leaders. Armed crow?is assembled an?
demanded tho liberation of the mei
under arrest. Eventually they wen
persuaded to retire, though at on?
time the situation looked dangerous.
Reinforcement troops have beoi
sent Into the district. \a* there han
been attacks on British post? and an
rest coBttaaasw .
4 ' . *
Harding Tells
Cubs One-Man
Team Can't Win
Senator Declares U. S. Star
in Washington Fumbled
in Domestic Affairs and
Then Struck Out* at Paris
Says'Squeeze Play' Failed
American Senate Had Ball
at Plate When the League
Outfit Tried to Score
from a Staff Correspondent
MARION, Ohio, Sept, 2.?No one man
can win a pennant, either in baseball
or the conduct of government, Senator
Warren G. Harding told the Chicago
Cubs, who came here today and won
an exhibition game played with a local
team for the edification of the nom?
inee. The Senator tossed the first
three balls in the game. One of them
was called a strike by a charitable
umpire.
"It ?s my observation that the na?
tional team now playing for the United
States played loosely and muffed dis?
appointingly in our domestic affairs
and then struck out at Paris," said
Senator Harding.
The semicircle of silk-shirted, sun?
burned young men grouped about the
Harding porch waved their new fall
hats and yeljed with enthusiasm and
complete understanding.
"As a spokesman for the Republican
party I am urging team-play govern?
ment on the home grounds, with all
tho home fans behind us, and" team play
when we represent America in the
all-the-world series," continued the
Senator. "There are too many men
batting above 300 to rely on one hit?
ter."
Grover Alexander, Cub pitcher, here
showed his appreciation by giving
Charley Herzog, second baseman, a
mighty clout on the shoulder.
Baseball Has Helped People
The Senator said:
''I pay to you my tribute to base?
ball, because I like the game just like
every other real American. It has been
in the blood for over a half century,
and it has helped us as a people. Of
course, there has been a vast improve?
ment since the early game, but I am
sure it is not reactionary to remind you
tha? you still try to hit them out, and
the big thing is to reach the home
plate. There aro progressive ideas,
but it rejoices the average crowd of
rooters to note an'old fashioned Tinker
to-Evers-to-Chance.
"I like the tension of a tight game.
It is great to be a rooter. It is line
to see him in recognizing a great play,
but I like his partisanship. That is
the explanation of baseball popularity.
We are all partisans of some team. I
am sure I rejoiced as much as Garry
Herrmann when the Reds 'copped' last
year. I feel the same way in big na?
tional matters. I like to think of
America first. I want our country to
float the championship pennant in the
contest for human achievement.
"You can't win a ball game with a
one-man team. I like a pitcher who puts
the ball over and trusts his fielders to
play their stations. Maybe it is old
fashioned, but I am for team play. I
nm opposing the one-man play for the
nation. Too much fanning out, too
much unpreparedfless. National un
prcpnredncss for war cost us many
precious lives and endless billions in
waste., and unpreparedness for peace is
costing billions more and holding us in
anxiety and uncertainty.
The "Squeeze Play" Failed
"And I am advocating something
more than play according to the
rules. The rules in the supreme
American game are in the Fed?
eral Constitution and the umpire is
the American people. There was a
meeting of League officials where the
contending team tried a squeeze play
and expected to score?six to one
against the United States. But the
American Senate was ready with the
ball at the plate and we are still flying
our pennant which we won at home
and hold respected throughout the
world."
Luncheon was served for the ball?
players at the Marion Club. Senator
Knox, of Pennsylvania, had luncheon
with Mr. and Mrs. Harding.
At the baseball field, the property of
a local club in which Senator Harding
formerly was a stockholder and per?
haps the most enthusiastic of Marion
fans, the Kerrigan Tailors, semi-pro?
fessionals, aided by a battery loaned by
the big league, plaj^d against the Cubs.
Senator Harding and a visiting dele?
gation of school teachers occupied
most of the grandstand and near?
ly a third of Marion's population
described a human arc about the field.
When the Senator entered the stand
there was a cheer augmented by the
horns and sirens of several thousand
automobiles. ,
Senator Has* Stamina, Anyhow
Tho Senator, In a blue coat, white
flannel trousers and a straw hat, pro?
ceeded to warm up with Grover Alex?
ander. However good a fan he may be,
the Senator is not a big league ball?
player. He gamely caught barehanded
all the balls tossed his way until one
of the players gave him a glove. He
threw with such vigor that his hat
bobbed around on top of his head and
puid little heed to the wild yells from
the crowd.
When play was called Senator Hard?
ing handed his hat to one of the Cubs
and took his place in the pitcher's box.
The Kerrigan Tailors were at bat, re?
splendent in new white flannel uni?
forms that made the gray traveling
uniforms of the Cubs look shabby by
contrast.
Senator Harding carefully wound up
and threw the first ball. The umpire
called a strike. The batter looked
hurt, but said nothing. The nominee
threw another. This went about four
feet outside the plate and within a foot
of the ground. Senator Harding was
taking no chances of "beaning" the
batter. '
"Ball!" called the umprie.
The nominee wound up once more,
The ball curved out of reach of the
hatter, and Senator Harding, followed
by such cheers as only Babe Ruth or?
dinarily gets on a ball field, retired to
the grandstand to enjoy every play o)
the ? to 1 game that was lost by the
Kerrigan Tailors.
Pledges Aid to Teachers
In his address to the delegation o
teachers, representing various organi
zations, Senator Harding pledged him
self to do everything in his power t<
insure better pay for the ?teaching pro
fession. He was asked to indorse th?
Smith-Towner bill providing for a Fed
eral department of education and i
larger participation by the Federal gov
crnment in school financing, but de
clined to do so.
"It is rather a curious indication o
the trend toward Federal control," th
Senator said, "that at this very momen
not less than four or five new Cabine
officers aro being proposed. I am no
a mirado of human intelligence, am
cannot pretend to say to yon to-da;
what ought to be done in each partie
ular instance.
"I am not a student of the Smith
Java?? bill* *?d I jMeiUMMrt be>?? a?
fair as glibly to pledge to you any spe?
cific action. But I do pledge to you the
most sympathetic concern and a deter?
mination, if responsibility comes upon
me, to call the attention of Congress
to the pending crisis in American edu?
cation and to urge the best thought of
the country to its early solution.
"The disadvantages that beset your
profession indicate a serious menace to
our national institutions. It is indeed
a crisis in American education that
confronts us. If we continue to allow
our public instructors to struggle with
beggarly wages we shall find ourselves
with closed schools; our education will
'languish and fail.
"We have reached a crisis when it is
imperative that something must be
done. Let us support adequately the
standards of our schools. Let all
Americans recognize the necess - and
determine upon relief.
"It is fair to say that the Federal
government is not responsible and can?
not assume to trespass, but it can give
of its influence, it can point out the
peril which ought to be clearly evi?
dent to every community, it can em?
phasize the present crisis and make an
unfailing call for the educational pre?
paredness for citizenship which is so.
es3ential to our continued triumphs."
Says Harding Has Already Won
After his conferences with Senator
Harding, Senator Knox issued a state?
ment in which he said: '
"I believe that the wholesome unaf
fectedness- and modest sincerity of
Warren G. Harding already have won
the confidence of the American pecpie
and given the assurance of devotion to
public service that promises his tri?
umphant election.
"Senator Harding has made it clear
that we are not independent if we sur?
render any of our functions of govern?
ment to an alien council, and but one
thing can excuse such surrender of our
independence, and that is our conscious
willingness to do so. Only an avowal
of lethargy and indifference to the
highest duties of enlightened govern?
ment can justify transferring their dis?
charge to strangers.
"You cannot conduct a political cam?
paign on a specific foreign policy. But
,you can on the question as to whether
our foreign policies, whatever they are,
shall be submitted to foreign control.
"{To agree to a League of Nations
on the basis of league control is in
effect, to agree to follow the majority
view.
"To say that we do* not have to ac?
quiesce m the will of the majority,
and may do as we please, is nothing.
\%o do that now.
"In his justice, generosity, modera?
tion and candor. Senator Harding re?
flects the becoming attributes of a
great people.
"He holds to Lincoln's rule that 'it
is on the understanding and not on
the sentiment of a nation that all safe
action must be based; for the im?
practicable, however theoretically en?
ticing, is always politically unwise,
sound statesmanship being the appli?
cation ot that prudence to the public
business which is the safest guide in
thnt o.f private men.'
"Senator Harding's fervent rever?
ence for his country, its institutions
and its people will guide him aright,
and with due regard for the spirit of
the age. his wisdom will reflect the
wisdom of the ages in matters of vital
import."
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Harding Policy Upheld
By Mexican Newspaper
Special Cable to The Tribune
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 2.?The Excel?
sior publishes, editorially, an article
from a prominent political observer
commenting favorably on the stand
taken by Senator Harding, Republican
Presidential candidate, on the Mexican
question. After reviewing the article,
the newspaper says:
"These ?demands, which give special
reference to Mexico and which the
alarmists hail as a menace, are nothing
but a simple redeclaration of the ele?
mentary right every nation has to
protect its citizens,wherever they are.
We sincerely wish that the Wilson
policy had limited itself to this pro?
tection without meddling at all in our
affairs, and the lamentable attacks on
foreigners and the responsibilities we
have had to face for these attacks
would have been much less frequent."
Samuel Goldwyn Resigns
Retires as President of Pictures
Corporation
Goldwyn Pictures Corporation an?
nounced yesterday the resignation of
Samuel Goldwyn as president of the
company and of F. J. Godsol as vice
presidlent and chairman of the execu?
tive committee.
Messmore Kendall, a member of the
board of directors, was designated as
director in charge of the company
pending the election of a new presi?
dent.
Mr. Kendall and General Coleman j
Du Pont have been elected members of
the executive committee in place of
Messrs. Goldwyn and Godsol, who con?
tinue as members of the board.
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Tennessee House Swears
To Reversal on Suffrage
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 2.-Tho
Tennessee Housev of Representatives
adopted to-day, 43 to 86, a motion to
furnish the Governor with a sworn
transcript of the action taken by the
House Tuesday in non-concurring in
the suffrage amendment resolution.
The motion included a request that
the Governor certify this transcriot
to the Secretary of State at Wash?
ington.
Wilson Regime
Called 'Reign
Of Autocracj^
Henry Lane Wilson Says
President Is a Ruler
'of Secretive Methods
and Unknown Purposes9
* Cox ' Made Submission '
Democratic Nominee Re?
ceived Blessing and Kiss
of Peace, He Asserts
i -
OGDENSBURG, N. Y., Sept. 2.?
President Wilson was described as an
"autocrat of secretive methods and un?
known purposes" and his Administra?
tion characterized as "a reign of au?
tocracy and incompetence" in a speech
tyefore a Republican meeting here to?
night by Henry Lane Wilson, of In?
dianapolis, formerly American Ambas?
sador to Mexico.
Mr. Wilson said the .Democratic Na?
tional Convention at San Francisco in?
dorsed the Wilson Administration; but
rebelled "at the dictation of the French
Lick political syndicate" and nominated
Governor Cox.
"For the moment this nomination
was believed to be the signal for the
throwing off of the shackles of Wil
sonism," continued tho speaker, "but
this belief was soon dissipated, for the
standard-bearer of the Democratic
party made his pilgrimage to Canossa
and, standing bareheaded in the pres?
ence of the autocrat of America, made
his submission, received the autocratic
blessing and the autocratic kiss of
peace, and went on his way to make
America safe for democracy.
Cabinet Called a Mere Cipher
"The mantle of Elijah, with all its
patchwork 'of autocracy, wastefulness,
internationalism, secrecy, arrogance
and intolerance, was transferred to
Elisha and humbly accepted by Elisha.
Mr. Hyde was transformed into Dr.
Jekyll."
The greater part of Mr. Wilson's
speech was devoted to an exhaustive
commentary upon President Wilson's
Administration. Some of the speaker's
comments were:
"The reign of violent prejudice, of
private feud, of petty injustice and
autocratic procedure initiated by secret
conclave was inaugurated. His (Presi?
dent Wilson's) Cabinet became a mere
cipher and his councils were directed
by petty men of unknown origin. In?
trigue took the place of statesmanship,
and by the advice nnd counsel of as
unwholesome a group of court favor?
ites, political satellites and adventurers
as the world has ever known, the coun?
try was hurried from one astonishing
innovation into another, from one dan?
ger to a worse. ?
"To this has been added what migh
be appropriately described as 'shirt
tail diplomacy,' a phrase which aims t?
describe the state of mind that induce
us to get up in the middle of the nigh
and see what our neighbors are doing
and if they are doing it to tell then
not to do it, and if they aren't doing i
to tell them to do it."
"Too much false altruism and no
enough plain, everyday common sense,'
was one of the speaker's characteriza
tions of the Wilson Administration.
President Wilson, the speaker saic
"appointed four nobodies and himsel
as delegates to the peace conference
and then with a retinue of eth
nologists, etymologists, psychologists
geographis'.s, secretaries, valets, hote
cooks and fiddlers sailed across th?
ocean with Oriental pomp and cere
mony to make the world safe for de
mocracy."
Socialiste Here Deny |
Charges of Colonizing ?
Vigorous ?forts Being Made toy
Get Oat Fall Vote for Five |
1 Ousted Assemblymen ?1,
Complaints have reached the offiee ????
the State Superintendent of Election?.,
that Socialists are colonizing in th?..
five districts in Manhattan, the Bron*/,
and Brooklyn where the ousted A*?-,,
semblymen Claessens, Waldman, Ony,
De Witt and Solomon are running ton,
reelection. ?'.
Socialist leaders said last night thatf
the charges were silly, aa investigation^,
would prove. ? ? .,,
Socialists in the five districts are,?
making ? vigorous effort to bring out .
all the new voters of Socialistic ten-,
dencies to register, so that they majrV'
vote at-the special elections oh Thar?*?
day, September 16. '
Democrats and Republicans, who haveJt^,
fused in the five districts, have eon
ducted no such intensive campaign.^;
All who live in any of the five district?-'
?the 8th and 17th, Manhattan; th? Si.
and 4th, the Bronx, and the 23d, Brook- *
lyn?and who* are citizens by birth and
will be twenty-one years old by Sep?
tember 16 may register at the. Mat;
nicipal Building to-day from 9 a. m. to ?
8 p. m., and on Saturday from th??
same hour in the morning until noon. ><?
Others who may registers are natu?
ralized citizens who have received their,1.
final papers since last Election Day..
and who have been in possession of.,?
their naturalization certificate at least*
ninety days on September 16, and those
who. have moved into the districts sine*? .
August 15. ?,
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New Angle to Woman Vote,
She Registers as "Miss," but
Will Be "Mrs." Before Election.:
Special Dispatch to The Tribune fi
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2.?Miss Dot- i
othy Dexter gave the registrars in her ?
division here a puzzle whichthey could
not solve to-day. She registered and
then asked if she might vote in ?No?
vember.
But before November 2 Miss Dexte?
does not expect to be Miss Dexter,
She anticipates being Mrs. -, well,
she didn't tell the registrars what her
name would be.
If she registered as Miss Dexter
could she vote under another name if <
she married? The registrars couldn't '
tell her.
NOVEL FOOD LAW ;
In Greece, at a compaAtively
late period, the legislature un*
dertook to insure the fresh?
ness of fish.
It decreed that no seller of
fish should sit down until he
had sold his entire stock.
?t CHILDS no such law is
necessary, for the fish is abso?
lutely fresh when received;
and is sold so quickly ?that its
has no chance to deteriorate?'
Delicio? clan ?tow? '
der, mm! fish eckst witfc '
tomato tbtso? ? memrr ?
STORE CLOSED SATURDAY, ALL DAY
564:566 aw 56S l^ifth^P^nur.^F 46TV am?.A77STS
Will Close Out Today
Several small groups of Summer Apparel,
particularly suitable for wear in Town or
Country over the Week-End Holiday?>
Remaining Sport Coats
Formerly to $125 at $25?$35?$45
An odd group of miscellaneous styles comprising the f
balance of many high-cost styles?long and short styles
in silk and wool materials.
Fashionable Duvetyn and Tricotine
Wraps
Formerly to $250 at $95?$125
High class styles suitable for wear now and later?
Street and Motor Coats
Formerly to $150 at $75
Of plain and checked materials?one of a kind, suitable
for motoring or general utility.
An Odd Group of
Washable Cotton Skirts
Formerly $10 to $18 at $5
Remaining Silk Sport Skirts
Formerly to $58 at $15
Clearance of Blouses
Formerly to $45 at $5?*10
A final regrouping of all remaining sty!
es.
Last of the Summer Frocks *
Formerly to $95 at $15?$25
Of crepe, organdie, dimity, gingham ?and dotted serias.