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PLATFORM LEAVES MANYJSPLEASED Vaunted Liberality of Demo crats, Not Apparent in Ac tion, White Declares. LABOR PLEAS IGNORED Fanner, Women and Other Groups Angry Over Planks, Edi tor Asserts. BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. NEW YORK, July 1 At the end of Us sisth-day session, after four days of static oratory, one night of dy namic debate, and one day of cautious balloting, a few definite things are evident about the Democratic national oonvention. The first of these is that the convention is not so liberal as it seems; its platform sounds better than it is. .Labor having taken forty-eight hours to think the platform over, is as dissatisfied with the Democratic platform as it is with the Republican platform. Practically nothing that the American Federation of Labor asked of the Democratic platform has been granted by the Democrats. They have declared that labor is not a commodity and let it go at that. And the Gompers crowd here in the lobbies of the hotels is as angry at the Democrats as the same crowd was angry in Cleveland at the Repub licans. The lobby for the League of Women Voters, which was more or less snub bed in Cleveland by a refusal of the platform committee to indorse the child labor constitutional amendment now pending, was treated with the same scant courtesy by the Demo < rats. There is this difference, how ever, between the attitude of the v, omen here and their attitude in Cleveland. In Cleveland, after they had been snubbed, they felt that th* Democrats would be glad to avoid the mistakes which the Republicans had made and would aland for th® child labor amendment When they got to New York, the chivalrous soul hern gentlemen from states which are exploiting child labor stood smilingly on the women's corns, lift i: g their hats politely, and explaining that Democratic votes helped to sub mit the ihild labor amendment to the people, and thus the saying has come trie as ti was written. “Hell hath no lury like a woman's scorn." Every One Dissatisfied. Persons desiring to observe a, fine display of fancy and staple language should breeze into- the New York headquarters of the various women's organizations. The farmers are equally sore. They left Cleveland -mpty handed. and got little more than three cheers out of the Demo cratic convention The wets and the drys both feel that they have been so The wets are, as a mailer of fact, angrier than the drys. They bad high hopes that some sort of declaration would be incorporated in the platform that would bind the party to light wines and beer. They were denud even » stone when they asked for bread. And the drys got only as much out of this convention as they got out of the Republican convention. The two conventions have passed platforms with absolutely no encour agement for a re*ubmission of the prohibitory amendment or a modifi cation of the Volstead act. In the platform making there has been lit tle difference between the two parties upon most fundamental issues. The j le-ague of nations, curiously enough, has been taken out of polities by the refusal of the Democrats to stand tex tile Baker amendment. The Repub licans in their platform vehemently cry out .against the league and then pledged the partv to support further co-operation with the league and to Join a world court set up and fos tered by the league. Democrats Contradictory. The Democrats in their platform are equally contradictory. They declare for ♦he league in stentorian tones, but refuse to pledge their party to sup port it until it haw been indorsed by a national referendum, which is consti tutionally Impossible. T pon the world court the two party pledges are exactly alike, As the sixth day of the convention drew to its close it developed its sec ond certainty—MoAdoo and Smith are afraid of each other. The convention has been pretty thoroughly polled, Each crowd knows pretty definitely its own strength and rather more definitely each crowd knows the other crowd's strength. So It Is pretty well known in the convention that Mc- Adoo. in and of his own right has nbout AO delegates, and Sipith has ; bout ion. What will happen when these two leading candidates poll their full strength is sheer prophecy and one man's guess is as good as another's, hut after the Klan fight in the convention, wherein the issues that are dividing the Smith and Mc- Adoo forces were clearly defined, it would be odd if Smith's Cath olic forces in the large cities would consent to nominate Mc.Vdoo, who is ;-o obviously supported by the Klan in Hie rural states. Neither, by the same token, would McAdoo's friends consent to the nomination of Smith. Cooling Off Effort geen. The nomination of either Smith or McAdoo would arouse the bitter an tagonism which leaders of the De mocracy from all sections, are trying *o allay. No one knows hettew than the.se leaders that the “spilled beans” of Saturday night and Sunday morn ing must some way be poured back in the bag. There is a conspicuous, perhaps almost too conspicuous, ef fort in the convention to cool off, to calm down, to get together to bury the hatchet. But it lo also obvious that in bury ing the hatchet each side knows ■where to reach the handle. If Mo- Adoo or Smith is nominated the losing orowd is going after the handle, and this is the third certainty- of the sixth day’s session of the Democratic con vention. The fourth certainty is that the league of nations U stronger by rea son of the Democratic foozle that tt would have been If the Baker fimend ment had carried. The league of na tions issue today is out of party I politics. It has taku a position now j Uko that occupied ten years ago by / prohibition and woman suffrage. j Neither party is committed to it and / neither party, as a party, can serious / ly declaim against it. Those free and / pioneering spirits who desire to <mi- I aade for a cause may now meet 1b non-partisan conclave, influenoe pub lic sentiment outside of parties, cap ture senators, and representatives as they can. appeal to the churches aa the prohibitionists and sqffnutfpts ap pealed, rally the moral sentiment of the nation and win their cause upon its merits without being beholden to any party. Nothlng*better could have happened to the league of nations, as an issue before the American people, than the defeat of the Baker amend ment, tragic as that defeat was to the memory of Woodrow Wilson. In the party which be led and honored. One hears sentiments like this from sup porters of the league In ths conven tion, who are satisfied with their de feat. Hlau tgpniiill ii Bitter. The Klan .fight, however, has left an reverse situation. The narrow victory leavee both sides with s. sense of defegL- Sack side Is going to gather strength and reappear either In the campaign or at some future convention, and Bryan, who led the fight for the Klan, la the only terse n who has acquired strength hy aturday night's contest. It is not impossible that when, or If, the lead ers In the hotel roe me fail to make a nomination by combinations and strategy. Bryan may rise up In the convent 100 and same the man him self. H» is an instructed delegate for McAdoo and conscientiously refuses to consider the second choice. Re porters have been giving him the third degree for three days to make him give a hint about his second choice. He has none. He has Just one qualification for his candidate If MoAdoo disintegrates as a candidate, and that qualification Is that the can didate must be absolutely dry. He would not take Smith nor Ritchie nor Silzer, but he might take Glass or Ralston. Twelve years ago Bryan nominated Wilson; twenty years ago, ignoring Bryan, the Democrats notn-' inated Parker and losL Bryan came before the convention today for a moment with a resolution of sym pathy, on behalf of the convention, for the death of Harding. It was a characteristically human thing for Bryan to do —a simple, sincere and rather odd thing, but essentially de cent. Love for Bryan was evident all over the convention. What he lost Saturday night he regained, and he fitood there with his shining bald head glistening under the morning sun. haloed by the affection of 15,(100 of his Democratic partisans, a dear, amiable, unsophisticated old giant, refreshed, but none the less a giant. I Copyright, 1921, by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) DENIES FRENCH DEFICIT. Senator Says Did Not Fall Behind in Accounts. PARIS, July I.—France collected JJ,000.000 franca more than she spent last year and did not have the deficit of 1.J50.000,000 franca reported by the chamber appVopriation commission. Senator O. Berenger yesterday told the Senate. He said the surplus was showti by the corrected books of the finance minister, which had several errors, including the failure to can cel an item of 750.000.000 franca which had not been expended and the failure to credit 500.000,000 francs in receipts for the sale of railroad ma terial. The senator gave the 1923 expenditures as 24,163,000,000 francs. Chicago is building a J 100.000,000 railway terminal, which will be the largest in the world. I pwiipsborn "HI \ fß6>§l4 A ELEVENTH 3 niWifinil . The season's best styles g] ( —at a special price White Kid [ Straps 5 | a - , | Sandals—Fancy Straps : Tailored Straps «As usual—Philipsborn’s Shoe Shop is just a “step ahead” with the new White Kid Footwear. More than K 20 different types included in the assortment— and all b representing values far in excess of this price. Short or Medium Round Toe Vamps; all with cov ered Box, Louis or Spanish Heels ranging in height from 1 to 2% inches. 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CHANCES FOR DAVIS APPEARBWGHTEST McAdoo and Smith Jockeyihg for Advantage Some Gains in Prospect. FORMER SEEKS MAJORITY Hope* Then to'Sway Other Dele gates to Follow With Neces sary Votes, BT DAVID LAWRENCE. NEW YORK. July I.—William Gibbs McAdoo led in th© race for the Democratic presidential nomination today, with every indication that the Smith forces would attempt lo break his strength hy throwing their votes either to Senator Underwood of Ala bama or John W. Davis of West Vir ginia. The chances of a victory for Davis appear brightest at the moment, as he has a strong following in both the McAdoo and Smith camps. But many things will happen be fore the break-up of either the Mc- Adoo or Smith groups. The strategy being played teday by the rival gen erals is intensely interesting, as it combines all the tricks of previous conventions plus a certain amount of psychology that attends every break. No tactician can predict with accu racy what will be the result of any particular move. Tho plan today was for the McAdoo generals to watch the Smith leaders to see how much of the reserve strength of the New York governor Is put Into the line. The Smith peo ple have from 40 to (0 more votes, while MoAdoo has about 88 more Which he hopes to get before night fall, and then, having a majority, the California candidate would stand be fore the convention Just as did Clark at Baltimore in 1918. hoping the dele gates will, in effect, disregard the two-thirds rule by giving him the re maining votes. Some of the things which may be expected before night appear to be as follows; 1. About twelve McAdoo delegates who have been voting for the former Secretary of the Treasury are really Smith men at heart and have been kept voting the way they have in order to provide a demonstration later on when they leave him and go to Smith. Strategy By Smith. 2. Although Mississippi has com plimented Senators Harrison, Robin son and Glass, her twenty votes are to go to McAdoo on later ballots. The Smith managers were trying early to day to swing the votes to Davis and to hold them there so as to prevent McAdoo from getting a majority. 3. Tom Taggart is friendly enough to McAdoo to give him Indiana's thirty votes as a compliment when McAdoo approaches the majority mark.. 4. Virginia, hoping for a reciprocal compliment from the McAdoo forces later, may switch her twenty-four votes to McAdoo during the day. All the strength in Ohio constitutes the McAdoo reserve. So long as Ohio sticks to Cox, neither McAdoo nor Smith can benefit, as the residuary votes in Ohio would not assist the Smith strategy but would tend to help McAdoo. In Illinois the ten votes for Cox can be counted on ultimately to go to Smith. Stays With Davis. Louisiana plans to stay with John W. Davis for several ballots. It was the first state to join West Virginia. Here and there are scattered votes for Davis, but his biggest opportu nity lies in the fact that he is second choice of scores of delegates and is looked upon as a log.cal compromise. The Smith managers are more or less under obligation to Underwood and may give him some of their votes in the haps of giving him a chance be fore the convention, but the southern MoAdoo states are not Inclined to help (jcderwcod because of his con nection with the recent Klan contro versy, so Underwood is not yet a probability. The outcome appears to be depend ent on whether the anti-McAdoo forces oan now break the former Secretary of the Treasury with Un derwood or Davis or both. The Mc- Adoo people are showing friendliness to Class of Virginia as their second choice, but they are not yet In a mood to concede that their leader is going to be out of it (Copyright. 1524.) MRS. HERT TAKES CHARGE Will Lead Woman’s Activities of Republican Party. CHICAGO, July 1.-Urt'A. T. Hert of Kentucky, vice chairman of the Republican national committee, today assumed charge of tho women's ac tivities of the party. Fred W. Upham, retired veteran na tional treasurer of the partv, was the first to call upon Mrs. Hert in her new quarters in Republican national head quarters. Everett Sanders of Torre Haute, Ind.. new chairman of the speakers’ bureau, and Earl Venable of Wash ington, executive secretary of the Republican congressional campaign committee, arrived today. They con ferred with Roy O. West, new secre tary of the national committee. WOMAN CUT TO DEATH. Husband of Choir Blunder Hunted for Crime. ELMYRIA. Ontario, July I—Mrs. Lome Borman, twenty-three, was slain Sunday shortly after she had returned home from church, where she sang in the choir. Her throat was cut, apparently with a hatchet. Her twenty-slx-year-old husband w*s arrested. 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