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THE WEATHER
Tonight, fair; Thursday probably
fair; continued warm.
VOL. XXXIII.
fEWMEYER MAY
Ibe NEXT HEAD
BF ADVERTISERS
Bew Orleans Associate Pub
lisher Looms as Likely Suc-
B cessor of Donnelley.
■OHNS ALSO MENTIONED
V With a convention city chosen and
■rith most of the departmental ses-
Rtons closed, delegates to the con
■ventkin of the Associated Advertis-
of the World today turned
their attention to the election of a
president for the coming year.
Numerous presidential possibilities are
being considered.
Nominations for the presidency and for
the office of secretary-treasurer of the
association will be made from the floor
of the convention at the closing session
of the general session tomorrow.
A nominating committee was to meet
at noon today at the Claypoo! hotel to
make the nominations for vice presidents
and those nominations will be presented
before tbe convention Thursday after
noon.
BOOM XEWMEYEK
FOR PRESIDENT.
A movement in the interest of Arthur
0. Newmeyer. associate publisher of the
New Orleans Item, for president was un
der way here today and many delegates
have expressed approval of Newmeyer.
Newmeyer is associate editor of the
New Orleans Item, of which James
Thompson, son-in-law of Champ Clark,
is principal owner.
■William H. Johns, president of the
George Batten Advertising Company of
New Tork City, is also prominently men
tioned for president.
Although George W. Uopklns, general
Bales manager of the Columbia Grapho
phone Company, is being discussed, it is
understood that he has stated it would
be impossible for him to accept the office.
DONNELLEY COCLD
BE RE-ELECTED.
It is admitted by the delegates to the
convention that if Reuben H- Donnelley
of Chicago, at present head of the asso
ciation. desired the renomination he
could have it withont opposition.
Announcement has been made that
President Donnelley could not accept the
presidency for next year, although he
greatly appreciates the honor attached to
the position.
At the convention tomorrow, th epresi
dents will recommend that the bylaws of
the association be amended permitting
the election of tbe vice presidents for a
term instead of one.
■Ilf S POSTERS BRI\G
Wh]MEDIATE RESULTS
Y The advantages of the poster as an
'advertising medium were discussed in
■ addresses before the final session of the
poster advertising section of the conven
tion, Tuesday afternoon.
••While poster advertising has more
often been employed for other purposes
than to produce direct, immediate re
sults.” A. l>e Montluzin of Cincinnati
said in an address before the poster ad
vertising men yesterday afternoon “this
medium has been proven to be practical
■when qfilek resuits are wanted.”
He mentioned cases in connection with
the use of posters in commerce, where a
direct result was sought and especially
that of a manufacturer of a certain brand
of overalls, saying that the poster cam
paign had been declared by the company
a great success.
George E. Throop told how a certain
packing company of Chicago tried out
th" poster-plan of advertising in Chicago
Bed at the end of a year found it so
profitable that the poster system was
adopted for a national advertising cam
paign.
Celver Gordon of the Ivan B. Nord
panv of New York told how a
flHmfn fountain pen company used a
r poster campaign to annonnee the sign
ing of the peace treaty and to tell of the
use of the ren the company manufactures
by those who signed it.
He said the same system had been
used by the same company with the out
break of war with Germany, many pos
ters being placed in the cantonmetiis and
ft*, public advertising the pen and asking
parents, sweethearts and wives to send
their soldiers and sailors that pen.
COPY MUST HAVE
PRODUCT BEHIND IT
“The advertising agency that fosters
the impression that advertising success
is a matter of magic, of cleverness in
■wording, is fostering an nntruth and
demeaning an honorable profession.” de
clared William H. Rankin, of the Will
iam H. Rankin Company. Chicago, in ad
dressing the Association of Advertising
Agencies, Tuesday afternoon. In the last
of their departmental sessions.
% “Success In the long run depends upon
a worthy product, sold and guaranteed
by a worthy house, and advertised at
tractively. sincerely and consistently,” he
continued.
*'An advertising agency builds busi
ness by showing the value of continuity,
and the waste in spasmodic effort, as
well as by creating advertising with a
view to stabilizing business.”
Mr. Rankin declared that the agency
that is working for its client's interest
will make the apppnl that earns the con
fidence of the class of people who are
steadfast in their allegiance, and that
i it should above all help make a bust-
I ness grow by making the executives
Lrealize that advertising is not clever
ness in words, but the presentation of
Bhe Ideals of an institution.
VALUE
OF FARM PAPERS
The farm paper in Indiana, instead of
inducing its subscribers to depend on
correspondence with advertisers, rather
has a tendency to cause the farmer to go
to the market or city closest to him. and
call for the articles advertised, said Ben
F. Biliter cf Huntington, Ind.. publisher
of the Farmer’s Guide. In addressing the
firm paper division of the advertising
clubs yesterdav.
“The state farm paper,” he said, "or
the one with a limited circulation terri
tory, has its influence with the business
farmers who go into the market and
buy, patronizing the home industry,
rather than depend upon correspond
ence.”
DEALERS BACK
PAPERS IX STATE.
Mr. Biliter stated that in Indiana the
friendship and co-operation of the local ;
dealers had been gained, and that they
have been kept informed of what the
farm paper is doing for their
customers and for the improve
ment of conditions in the state.
•; The meeting held yesterday afternoon
was the last ofo the department sessions
fpr the farm paper division.
This afternoon representatives of this
section met other representatives in the
Interdepartment session.
Charles A. Taylor, publisher af Farm
Life, of Spencer. Ind., in addressing j
the farm paper division stated that the
national advertiser, seeking a national I
market for hi* goods, cau best reach tho j
(Continued an I‘sgo Two.)
Published at Indianapolis.
Ind., Daily Except Sunday.
Representatives of
China , Chili and
Mexico in City
| Bt
baM aft-
Upper—A. H. Hager. Middle—Sciero
Salcado. Lower—Guillermo Enriquez M
moni.
China, Chile and Mexico are repre
sented at the Associated Advertising
Clubs of the World convention in A. H
Hager of Shanghai, China; Senor Severo
Salcedo of Santiago, Chile, and Senor
Guillermo Enriquez Simon! of Mexico
City, Mexico.
Each has a distinctive mesesge sot
the advertising men.
“Federal Incorporation of American
companies in China must be brought
about in order to establish permanent
trade relations there,” declares Mr. Ha
ger. who for nineteen years has been a
resident of China, chairman of the dele
gation of the American Chamber of
Commerce in China, formerly of Chicago.
“South America, and particularly Chile,
is growing by strides, and we expect
to develop even more during the next
two years! we expect to establish, how
(Contlnued on Page Two.)
Get Confidence of
Women Buyers , Word
to Advertising Men
Nothing greater or more beneficial
could befall the advertising profession
than to form a partnership with the in
telligent housewives of the country and
spread the idea of what a great friend
is advertising in
the reduction of
costs and in the
'irTwWlA maintenance of
iliSy (| uali Iv, Mrs.
Christine I'red
9 .I—erlck of New York
fiz told advertising
gP men and women
attending the gen
eral sossion of the
Associated Adver-
JHjy&jfjfP-t Using Clubs of
" the "’orb at Tom
' ' *'( linson hall todav.
- “The chief theme
of mv talk this
Mm. Frederick. morning will be
now advertising
can help bring
down the cost of living,” said Mrs.
Frederick.
“It is necessary,” she said, “that the
woman consumer and advertising form a
closer partnership and understand each
other better.
“The two chief functions of advertising
from the consumer's point of view are:
First—Advertising reduces the cost of
selling; second, advertising establishes
standards of buying, by both of these
means helping the consumer obtain
products at the lowest price and with the
least waste of money.
“MESSAGE SHOI'LD
GO INTO HOME.”
“Gentlemen, you as a body, at all cost,
should obtain the co-operation of lead
ing women to educate the homemaker
about advertising, especially since wom
en are now voters.
“From my talks with congressmen,
and with others in public life, I am cer
tain that if the cost of living continues
to be such a burden a severe antagonism
will be developed against advertising,
unless such educational co-operation Is
effected.
“You will have to show the home
maker the true value of advertising with
the same clearness with which you were
able to show 24,000.000 of people why
they should buy Liberty bonds.
“Tou will have to show her how deal
ers and jobbers insist on the largest
profit in every case where there is no
consumer demand.
“You will have to prove to her that
when you spend even a million dollars
in advertising, you can reduce the cost
of the article to the woman consumer
because an article which moves fast at a
low margin of profit, can be sold cheaper
to the consumer thau an article that
move* slowly and on which the dealer
requires a large per cent of profit.
“In other words ycu will have to make
her believe how greatness of demand and
many and rapid orders based on her
good will and satisfaction result iu less
and less cost and in greater values.
"Further, you will have to sell her on
your vigilance work.
“You have made a great fuss over it j
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Jnirtatta Paihj cEitucs
Entered as Second Class Matter. July 26. 1914. a:
Postoffice. Indianapolis. Ind., under act March S, 1879.
BOAT CARNIVAL
CITY BIRTHDAY
FETE TONIGHT
Scores of Decorated Craft to
Join in Spectacle at
Riverside.
PAGEANT BIG SUCCESS
A water pageant at Riverside park to
night and a repetition of the centennial
pageant at the state fair grounds tomor
row night will mark the closing of the
celebration of the one-hundredth birthday
of the city of Indianapolis.
Scares of elaborately decorated and
lighted water craft will appear in the
water pageant competing for prizes.
The boats participating in tile
pageant will take their formation at 7:30
o’clock and the pageant will start as soon
as it is dark.
The T'nited States navy recruiting band
of Chicago will take part in the pageant
under the direction of A. Novarac, band
master.
PAGEANT PROVES
BRILLIANT EVENT.
The history of Indianapolis from the
founding, presented in a prelude and
eight episodes was given in the pageant
at the Coliseum lust night and proved
to be one of the big successes of the cen
tennial celebration.
Tbe stage settings, the lighting Bud
scenic effects were all beautifully worked
out and the performance moved smoothly
and dramatically to the climax.
Mrs. Demarchus Brown as Indiana, and
Mrs. Myra Richards as Indianapolis, oc
cupied thrones at each end of the pit.
giving the explanations of much of the
pantomime enacted on the stage.
The first entry and dance of the In
dians was egective and interesting.
Then the coming of the two white
families, the Pogues and the McCor
micks, in old-time wagons and on horse
back were well done. The part of John
McCormick was taken by Clayton Martz.
C. J. Buchanan portrayed George
Pogue.
Mrs. Elizabeth Frve was Mrs. McCor
mick and Mrs. Jennie Thompson was
Mrs. Pogue.
James Caskey and Elmer Kruse were
the other Pogue brothers and Huston
Carey and John McCormick were the Mc-
Cormick brothers
There waa much that was interesting,
humorous and dramntle in this first epi
sode and the prelude.
DISAPPEARANCE OF
POGUE PORTRAYED.
I The second episode represented "Select
| ing the Site.”
Here the governor nnd his nine cam
i inissloners made their decision for th*
future of Indianapolis as the capital of
the state.
In this episode came the tragedy of
the disappearance of George Pogue, who
was supposed to have been killed by the
Indians.
‘ Platting the Town,” the third episode,
was one of the most interesting of all.
"The Master Builders" nere an effective
hit of the historical part.
The selling of the lots, the highest price
paid being SSOO. furnished a bit of humor
In view of the present day scale of
prices for the ground sold.
A wlerd and fantastic dance, showing
all the hardships the pioneers were to
undergo, was splendidly achieved.
The fourth episode. "The Primitive
Life," furnished most of the comedy.
The old-fashioned school was one of
the cleverest parts of tbe pagesnt.
"On Muster Day." the fifth episode, be
gan rumors of tbe coming conflict with
Mexico, bringing in Col, Alexander Rus
sel and Capt. lew Wallace.
"An Outlet at Last" bringing the Madi
son and Indianapolis railroad was an
episode of much rejoicing.
WAR FEAT! RES
NOT LACKING.
"The Inevitable Conflict” brought In
the first protests that led up to the Civil
war and "Call to Arms.”
"The Ballet of the Gifts.” showing all
the wonderful civic developments that
have come to the city and state concluded
the performance which wns one of the
beet planned and executed that Indian
apolis has ever given.
The performance was rather long nnd
it was necessary to eliminate a part of
the last episode in order to shorten the
pageant.
Those in charge promise that the per
formance will be shortened before it is
presented again.
W O. Bates is the author of the book
of the pageant and the direction was in
the charge of George Somnes, director of
the Little theater.
EARNINGS OF CAR
COMPANY GROW
Report Shows Expenses Keep
Pace, However.
That the gross earnings of the com
pany from Jan. 1 to June 1. 1920. show
an increase of more than 20 per cent, but
that the operating expenses have corre
spondingly Increased, was shown In the
annual report of the Indianapolis Street
Railway Company af its annua! meeting
of stockholders today.
With the excepiion of Charles S. Beck
er, all of the directors were re-elected
as follows: Henry Jameson, Robert I.
Todd. Henry C. Thomson, Henry H.
Hornbrook, John J. Appel, Walter J.
Ball of I/afayette. W. T. Durbin of An
derson, R. K. Willmnn of Hartford City
and Joseph A. McGowan. Mr. Hornbrook
succeeds Mr. Becker. Dr. Jameson is
chairman of the board of directors.
The following officers were re elected
by the directors: President, Robert I.
Todd; vice presidents. Henry C. Thom
son and John J. Appel: secretary and
treasurer, Joseph A- McGowan; assistant
secretary and assistant treasurer, AV. F.
Mllholland. The directors re-elecred
Henry Jameson and Henry C. Thomson
as members of the executive committee
and elected Winfield T. Durbin to suc
ceed Mr. Becker as a member of the
committee, of which Dr. Jameson is
chairman.
It was further stated In the report that
the company had paid all the deferred
coupon Intereat on Indianapolis Street
Railway Company and Indianapolis Trac
tion and Terminal Company bonds and
is meeting its current interest obligations
on time.
To do this, it was explained in the re
port, it was necessary to obtain loans
from local hanks.
Under the head of inventory, the report
set forth that “an inventory of the com
bined properties of the old Indianapolis
Street Railway Company and Indianapo
lis Traction and Terminal Company was
mnde as of June 30, 1919, based upon the
Inventory of 1917, revised and corrected.
"The inventory of June 30, 1919, shows
physical property to the value of $18,641,-
151.50. These figures do not include ex
penditures for engineering, supervision,
insurance, interest, legal expenses and
taxes during construction, which are ad
ditional factors of value recognized by
standard engineering authorities in arriv
ing at a total valuation.”
ADDITIONAL FREIGHT
TERMINALS NECESSARY’.
The reports set forth that “the con
stantly increasing freight business of the
various intefurban lines makes it neces
(ConUnued on E*S° Ten.)
INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1920.
11DIEIN CRASH I
OF TWO TRAINS j
IN N. Y. STATE
Speeding Express Plows Into
Standing Passenger Near
Schenectady.
24 SERIOUSLY INJURED
SCHENECTADY. N. Y., June 9
Crashing into the rear of New York
Central passenger train No. 28, three
miles outside of Schenectady early
today, train No. 34, an express train,
killed eleven persons and injured
thirty-two others.
A preliminary investigation by rail
road officials has failed to disclose the
cause of the wreck.
Two of the injured are probably
fatally hurt, twenty-four are seriously
hurt and six slightly injured.
Martin Doyle, Albany, N. Y., engineer
of the express, was killed outright.
Two other men, two women, a child
and a baby in arms, alt as yet unidenti
fied, were killed
SEVENTEEN INJURED
TAKEN TO SCHENECTADY.
Seventeen injured are in Ellis hosp!i*l
ut Schenectady.
Others also were treated at the scene
o£ the wreck.
The injured are ail from New York
and Massachusetts points.
Wrecking craws from Albany were on
the scene quickly and began the work
of clearing away the wreckage.
By S o'clock rallroAd officials declared
they had accounted for all the passen
gers and gave up tbe search of the
wreckage for other bodies.
ONE SLEEPER DRIVEN
niKOFGH ANOTHER.
The express was traveling at such
speed it lifted the rear sleeper of train
, No. 2S, bodily, and drove it through tbo
sleeper just ahead.
The forte of the impact derailed a
third sleeper on train No. 28 and split
tbe second coach in half.
The shattered side* dropped away
from the wreck as the rushing express
was brought to a halt,
j The dead and most of the passengers
| severely Injured were in the last two
coaches.
GIRLS FLEE AS
FIRE BREAKS OUT
Flames Attack West Side Bed
Spring Factory.
More than 100 girls and 150 men were
driven from the Puritan Bed Spring fac
tory, Kentucky avenue nnd White river.
Just before noon today, by a lire that
started in the "dipping room.”
Early estimates of the loss made by
George S. Thornton, president of the
j company, placed tbe damage to the
i building at $20,000, while the damage to
■machtnery amt manufactured * products,
j lie said, may reach another $20,000.
I The loa* is almost fully covered by In
; surance.
"Nick” Glazier and P.arry MlPhel were
In the dipping room when suddenly the
| flames shot out from under the enamel
ing oven and they reached for fire ex- I
tlnguishera
The flames extended across the dipping'
tanks and the enamel caught fire, com
pelling the two men to run from the room
to save their lives.
WALLS FAIL TO
STOP FLAMES.
On either side of the dipping room are
heavy brick tire walla tint the flames
I spread an rapidly that they ate through
the floors above and below and reached
other parts of the factory.
Officers of the company stated they
were unable to get the door of the Amer
ican District alarm box open and that tbe
"long dlslauce" operator of the Bell
Telephone Company bad the telephone
linos tied up and refused to connect with
the Are department.
This, they said, gave the fire u five
minutes start and when an employe ran
a block to a lire alarm box the flames
had gained great headway.
Great clouds of smoke with a dull red
flame poured from windows and through
the opening In the roof when the fire
men reached the scene and a second
alarm was sent in.
Tlie building is three stores high on I
the Kentucky avenue side and is almost
a block In length nnd it is built of brick \
The dipping room is located ia the
center of the building.
MOST OF EMPLOYES’
1 CLOTHING DESTROYED.
I Almost every one of the employes, in
cluding more than 100 girls, had their
hats, coats and street nttfre in locker
rooms near the dipping room nnd this
clothing was cither destroyed or badly
damaged.
The officers of the company .are: George
D. Thornton, president and treasurer:
Charles S. Thomas, vice president; Ar
thur It. Baxter, secretary.
A sensation wns caused soon after this
i firemen reached tbe seette.
[ Three men placed a ladder at one side :
i of the building and a man clad In brown
overalls ran up the ladder, climbed
through the window and disappeared In
a cloud of smoke.
"He won't get out." yelled a fireman,
j but an Instant later the man In brow n
overalls appeared with a kitten.
He climbed down the ladder nnd said
he could not find four others and the
mother cat.
“What's your name?”
"Never mind," he answered. “I work
in the shipping department."
Then lie disappeared in the crowd with
the kitten.
CALLS FOR NEW
GERMANCABINET
Ordered by Ebert in Face of
Anti-Government Vote.
BERLIN, .Tune 9.—Former Chancellor
Hermann Mueller has been asked by
President Ebert to form n new cabinet as
the result of the anti-government vote
In the general election and Is engaged on
that task today.
If Herr Mueller Is unsuccessful, It Is
reported that Herr Trlmborn, a centrist
leader, will be asked to form a ministry.
According to newspaper estimates the
447 members of the national assembly
will be divided as follows:
Coalition supporting Ebert govern
ment. 219 seats.
Opposition, including 130 conservatives,
228 seats.
A private estimate, based upon incom
plete returns, apportioned 428 of the
6eats among the various parties, as fol
lows :
Majority socialists, 10; independent so
cialists, 77; centrists, 63; German nation
alists, ffl; German peoples party, 53;
democrat. 43; Bavarian peoples party,
12; gucl&ilsts, 5; communists, 2; scat
tered, 6. | /
LA CK OF LEADER STOPS REPUBLICANS
G. 0. P. BOSSES
ABANDON FOUR
AS IMPOSSIBLE
Penrose Sends Word That Con
vention Must Pick Winner
to Insure Party Success.
GROOM DARK HORSES
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS.
CHICAGO, June 9.—The battle be
tween the republican old guard and
the young guard of the party is or..
After a beginning devoid of all
Chromatics, the second day of the
G. O. P. convention brought with it
the conviction that within thirty-six
hours the crisis over the n< ruination
would be reached and the beginning
of the ind In sight.
The fight Is over the control of
the convention, and not the least
strange feature of the contest is that.
In the fight between the old guard
leaders and the unhoused at the cau
cus, the latter do not know there is a
fight. That is, the members of the
republican young guard know they
are engaged In a passage at arms
with skilled adversaries, but to them
it is only a friendly bout let win who
may.
The Indication* are, however, that the
old guard leaders are out to win and that
ao far as they are concerned the struggle
now engaged in ia one of life or death.
Over the question of the nominee, the
: oddly matched forces have come to
grips, one grim, determined, decided; the
| other smilingly unconscious of what 1*
' ahead.
BLUE PENCIL
STRIKES FOUR.
Already the process of elimination has
set In. Four candidate*, it is under
stood, have already been *trl<*ken from
tbe list by the blue pencil of the old
guard, and the haud ia said to be poised
to strike off other names beside*
' Those said to have had their fate
1 sealed for them, so far as the old Hue
1 crowd are concerned are:
j Gov Frank O. Lowde-a of Illinois
MnJ Gen. Leonard Wood
Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio
Senator Hiram Johnson of California.
The reason* cited for *uch elimination*
by the old guard leader*, varied with the
j Individual rnndlate.
Gov, Low den. It Is said, was one of th*
favorit** of hi* party and few hold him
to blame for any misuse by others of
the money he contributed to his own
campaign. But those opposed to his se
lection do not. wish to give the detuo-
I oratie party any such strangle hold on
th* republican nominee in the tight to
com*.
Gen, Wood, they argue. 1* In prelty
much the same position as I.owden, as
fnr as campaign expenditure* are con
cerned, while In addition there is the
other objection that he rode roughshod
over the old line party organizations,
(Contested the states of favorite sons,
j hitting to the right or left regardless
of the feelings of the recognized leaders.
Against Senator Harding two thing*
, are said to have told : His comparative
weakness In his home state of Ohio, and
hi* animosity to Theodore Roosevelt.
Some of the senator’s writings against
Roosevelt were used against him In the
(Continued on Puge Three.)
RUMOR SAYS WOOD
PUT WATSON OVER
Hitchcock Prepares to Make
His Final Drive for General.
CHICAGO, Juno 9.—"A terrific drive”
to make MaJ. Gen. Leonard Wood the
presidential nominee of the republican
party was launched here today.
Tbe Wood forces started a simulta
neous offensive from several angles. Their
strategy was directed by Frank 11. Hitch
cock.
The sudden collapse of the opposition
to James K, Watson of Indiana for the
chairmanship of the resolutions commit
tee late yesterday and the almost simul
taneous selection of Senator Lodge of
Massachusettst, temporary chairman of
the convention, os the permanent chair
man were among early indications to
those initiated in political mysteries that
something was going on.
Tracing these results, investigators
found Indications that Hitchcock and had
n hand in bringing about the settlement
of the two contests.
Reports of a "deal” on both the perma
nent chairmanship and the resolutions
chairmanship were flying today. They
were to the effect that Hitchcock had
stepped up to take the reins of the
“unbossed” convention and had made the
arrangements for putting Lodge and
Watson in two of the most important
places in the convention.
Another Indication of the Wood of
fensive was renewed pressure in dele
gates instructed for candidates other
than Gen. Wood to turn to Wood after
technically fulfilling their obligations on
the first two or three ballots.
MRS. E. 1. LEWIS
JOINS PICKETERS
Indianapolis Woman Volun
teers for Chicago Duty.
CHICAGO, June 9.—Suffrage pack
ets are going to continue their dem
onstrations during the republican na
tional convention and they may use
more sensational methods in the fu
tnre. according to n statement today
by Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the
national woman’s party.
‘‘The form which our protest will
take during the convention and aft
erwards will depend upon circum
stances,” declared Miss Paul.
"It will he the most effective and
powerful protest possible.
“As to the success of our demon
stration, 1 can only say that I beiieve
that It has contributed toward the ac
complishment of our object, the re
moval of the republican party's ob
struction of suffrage.”
Among those who volunteered for
picket fine duty today were Mrs.
Ernest J. Lewis of Indianapolis and
Mrs. Mary Giles Howard of Chatta
nooga, Tenn.
FORCIBLY RESri E WOMBS.
CHICAGO, June o.—Mrs. Elisabeth
Miller, living on the'second floor at 2739
Shields avenue, was forcibly rescued by :
two firemen, when she refused to leave I
tfie building, which was burning.
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AS IT HAPPENED
Coliseum, Chicago, June 9.
10:35 A. M. —Delegates are coming In
slowly, entertained by glee club singing.
Women Join In the chorus. Senator
Lodge, permanent chairman, is meeting
the national committee In executive ses
sion.
11:08 A. M.—Seven minutes past time
set for opening and delegates still
"milling" about hall with no indication
convention will resume sessions at once.
11:10 A. M. —Senator Lodge walks to
plat form.
11:17 A. M.—Crowd commences to sing
“Long, Long Trail.” Not much enthus
asm despite efforts of a song leader.
11:18 A. M.—Three eheers culled for by
cheer lender. Given with a vengeance.
11:21 A. M.—Senator lodge open* con
vention by rapping his gavel and wild
cheering—real cheering—breaks loose.
Lodge given three rousing cheers.
11.23 A. M.—More singing. When Rev.
Stone finishes prayer, song leader
starts up “Tho Star-Spangled Banner.”
tier.”
11.25 A. m.—Senator Lodge calls for
report by committee on credential*.
lt:S0 A. M.—Unanimously adopt re
port of credentials committee.
II .32 A. M.—Gov. Morrow, Kentucky,
presents report of the committee on per
manent organization. Given a cheer.
11:34 A. M.—Committee urges miking
temporary organization permanent. Mo
tion made and carried unanimously.
11:34 A. M.—Convention calls for re
port of committee ou rules. Howland of
Ohio presents It.
11:43 A. M.—Report of committee on
roles adopted unanimously.
11:48 A. M.—Lodge announces commit
tee on resolutions reports progress, but
not ready to report.
11:44 A. M.—( hauncey Depew rolled on
for speech. Crowd yells for him.
12:04 P. M.— Depew finishes talking—
gets rousing round of applause.
12:03 I*. M.—Crowd yells for “Uncle
Joe” Cannon.
12:06 I*. M.—Mr*. Margaret Hale Mc-
Carter, Kansas, railed to platform to ad
dress convention.
12:15 P. M.—Convention adjourns until
11 o'clock tomorrow morning.
So endeth the second session.
KNOTS RETARD
WORK OF G. 0. P.
PLANK HEWERS
Platform Not Expected to Be
Ready for Convention Be
fore Tomorrow Noon.
MAY NOMINATE FIRST
CHICAGO. June 0 Th* writing of a
platform for submission to th* repub
lican convention may not be completed
hv the resolution* committee before noon
tomorrow, members of the platform
"steering committee ' declared.
When th- "steering committee" went
into executive session this morning it
wn* confronted with the complex nnd
difficult ta*k of meeting a wide di
vergence of view* as to how the league
of nation* and other disputed planks
ahouid he drafted.
Senator Watson of Indiana, chairman j
of the resolutions committee, presided j
over the executive session of the "steer
ing committee."
Senator B srah, of Idaho, leader of j
the treaty •‘lrreconcilable*," wag an ae
tive participant at Its meeting.
Upon the recess of th "steering com- |
niittee,” Senator Ball of Delaware was j
called as temporary chairman of the j
whole committee in open session.
Senator McCormick of Illinois present- j
ed a set of resolutions without recoin j
mendatlon* providing federal legisla- I
tlon against lynching, "Jim crow" pas
senger traffic laws *id uniform quali
fications for presidential electors.
THEN THERE ARE
SCADS OF OTHERS.
Tbe Cook resolution opposing h league
of nations in any form and favoring a
policy that will get us out of Europe
forever: the William Hale Thompson j
resolution, agnlnyt the league of na
tions and with an anti military training
clause, n clause In favor of a soldiers'
bonus and an income tax law for all in
comes of $3,000 or more.
A. S. Orossfield of the Philippines, pr“- :
seated a resolution which provides for a j
ooutinuunee of American sovereignty as !
outlined by previous republican presl- ;
dents and protests against the partisan i
rule of the democrats.
Joseph Obergfell asked for a plank
permitting manufacture of light wines ;
and beer.
Jane Addams of the Hull House, ap- j
pea red as representative of the Women’s j
International League for Permanent |
Peace.
She presented four resolutions after i
approving the failure of the league of j
nations, which she said no nation was
In favor of, advocating an international ;
organization replacing the league of na
tions which provides for the disarma
ment of all the powers with the United
States taking the lend.
Tlie resolutions usk for the restora
tion of constitutional rights taken away
during the war; universal physical train
ing for girls as well as boys in place
of universal military training; a cam
paign of education that will create a
better understanding between the gov
ernments and people of the United States
and Mexico.
It was stated the "steering committee" j
(Continued on Page Three.)
Shot in the Arm Necessary
to Take G. O. P. Off Stretcher
By LOWELL MELLETT.
CHICAGO, June 9.—They might do it
by bringing Penrose to Chicago on a
special train and carrying him in the
convention ball on a stretcher: they
they might do It ny escorting William
Howard Taft to the platform and asking
him to smile; they might by presenting
Charles Evans Hughes suddenly to the
apathetic delegates. They’ve got to do
it somehow.
They've got to Inject a salt solution into
the veins of this convention or see its
little white soul go fluttering into the
beyond of an unripe age.
The convention lapsed into a state of
coma within an hour after Chairman
Hays called it to order yesterday, and
all the red and green feathers that the
Wood adherents wear had not succeed
ed in tickling it hack to consciousness
today.
Once or twice the convention had op
ened its eyes, hut those at the bedside
agree thnt it showed no signs of recog
nizing any one. /
If not a salt solution, then a medicine
dance. Perhaps Hiram Johnwon, with
the devastating speech which he is said
to be containing only by herofc effort;
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Delegates Baffled by Lack of Orders, Yet Find
Some Powerful Influences Behind
Chicago Convention.
DEPEW RELIEVES COLISEUM STRAIN
(By Staff Correspondent.)
CHICAGO, June 9. —From some unknown source, believed by many to
have been the Penrose camp, there came a warning to leaders of the
convention that the time had not arrived for further proceedings, and ’
under the pretext that the resolutions committee could not report until
tomorrow, the big show was halted after an hour’s session.
Fear that a settlement of the league plank controversy might throw
an advantage to one or the other of the leading contenders for the nomi
nation doubtless made the pause possible.
Who ordered it, why the order was obeyed and how long the pause
will last were the subjects of endless speculation.
No overshadowing leader has come forward yet to seize control
This le probably responsible for the exceedingly placid character of the
proceedings.
The old guard is broken up, Roosevelt is gone, and so far nothing has
developed to fill the places of these two once-powerful convention forces.
The delegates are waiting for the right man to “start something” and
point the way. •
They were lost when the convention found itself with nothing to do
and they paid little attention to the orators who attempted to fill the gap.
This delay, it was conceded, would make necessary a suspension ot
the rules, which were adopted when the second session convened, and the
preliminary test of the strength of the old guard was expected on that
question.
Will Hays to Land
G. O. P. Nomination ,
Indiana Editor Says
TERRE HAUTE. Ind., June .
The Terre Haute Post today, under
signature of Its editor. It. H. Gore,
predicted the nomination of Will 11.
Hays, republican national chairman,
as the presidential nominee of the
republican party.
The Post said Its information was
that the Wood delegates have been
set up to owing to Hays following
a nomination of Hay by Senator
Waton of Indiana, after which the
Pennsylvania delegation will swing to
Hays with the Lowden delegates then
earning into line.
The t'nited States Steel group is
now engineering the Hays conp. with
Bole* Penrose sanctioning, the Post
said.
There la already one man in rath
state delegation pledged to Hays, and
at the opportune moment these men
will rtse waving a flag as a second to
the motion that Hays be nominated,
the article added, thus starting the
stampede.
HIRAM TO TAKE
SECOND PLACE?
NEVER, HE SAYS
Californian Delivers Another
Broadside When Delaney
Puts Question.
By JOHN F. DELANEY.
Int-rnatlonal News Service Staff Cor
respondent.
CHICApO. June 9.—" Any report that
I am to take second place on the re
publican ticket is absolutely false and
Just another suggestion or invitation of
some of my 'friends' who do not be
lieve I am fit to be president, but want
to place me Just a heart beat from the
president.
"I have received many of these In
vitations.
"I am in this fight to win and we
are going to win."
Senator Hiram Johnson thus branded
the report that was current that he
agreed to accept the nomination for the
vice presidency as a running mate to
Philander C. Knox.
The Californian was visibly peeved at
the report and made it plain beyond a
question that he is not n candidate for
vice president and will not take the
nomination for any office but the presi
dency.
Weatherman Turns
on Heat in Chicago
CHICAGO. June 9.—The weather
for the second day of the republican
national convention today wn* clear
and worm, with the heat oppressive
In the middle of the day.
PERU SCHOOL FOR AVIATION.
Pefu has established a school for mil
itary aviation and hJs purchased twelve
French airplanes, while two seaplane
services between coast ports are planned.
perhapß Henry L. Allen, whose admirers
hint is going to duplicate Bryan’s feat
of 1896, except that his speech may read
''You shall not press down upon the
brow of capital this crown of thorns,”
etc.
If Johnson provides this the medicine
dance by his enthusiastic followers is as
sured.
If Allen—then it depends on the mer
its of the incantation.
DELEGATES FIND
SOMETHING MISSING.
The delegates miss all the old fa
miliar features. They're In a mood to
welcome the reappearance of the old
steam roller Itself and If the remnant of
the old guard could get that remorseless
chariot to hitting on more than one
cylinder they'd be justified In roiling out
‘‘Well, after Wood, who are you for?”
an Arizona delegate was asked. “Oh, I
don't, know; I guess that Coolidge is as
good as any.”
There you are. The best that average
delegate has to say for almost any of the
delegates is that he is as good as any
body else. And‘some of the mexpress it
profanely because there is a little sf
(down right with ttoflr
Indifference *
NO. 25.
► Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massa
chusetts was elected permanent chairman
of the republican national convention by
acclamation through adoption of the re
port of the committee on permaent or
ganization which went through in fast
time together with the reports of the
committee on rules and credentials.
Chairman Lodge then told the conven
tion that he had been requested by the
committee on resolutions to state that
it was not yet ready to present a full
report. The chairman added that this
concluded the regular business of the
session and asked the pleasure of the
convention. There were calls from many
parts of the house, “Depew, Depew!”
“When Senator Lodge says I am an
old man he is mistaken,” Depew began,
lie described getting a letter from a
westerner who, when told Depew's age,
said he was “either a miracle or a damned
liar.”
DEPEW TALKS
OF LINCOLN'.
Depew contrasted the present conven
tion with the one which nominated
Abraham Lincoln for the second time,
| saying that the present session repre
■ sent* the whole country whereas the
second Lincoln convention represented
only half the country.
He contrasted the debts of the Civil
war and the last war, emphasizing that
I the Civil war debt was wiped out and
prosperity restored under a republican
administration. A republican adminis
tration is necessary, be said, to clear off
the present war debt and bring down
prices.
Fepew frequently was Interrupted by
applause. He told abont Washington
during the Lincoln administration and
the Washington of today.
WITH LODGE OX
league issue.
“The league of nations is here, the sit
uation is here and no pen or tongue can
add anything to the description of our
needs or our condition that was given
by our temporary, now permanent, chair
man,” Depew said.
Depew declared that on a recent trip
through the south many democrats told
him they would vote for n republican if
a good man were nominated, charging
that Wilson had violated American prin
ciple. Depew said this feeling was uni
versal among democrats.
Depew closed with an eloquent predic
tion of republican victory and left the
platform amid cheers, handclapping and
laughter.
first woman
EVER HEARD.
A yell was then raised for “Uncle Joe"
Cannon, but Chairman Lodge announced
that Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter of
Kansas would be the first woman who
has ever spoken from the platform of .t
republican national convention. She is
n member of the republican executive
committee.
Mrs. McCarter said her appearance on
th" platform was an honor to all women
and that it marked an epoch in repnb
llenn history.
"I stand here as the representative of
20,000,009 women,” she said. “19.000.000 of
whom are members of the republican
party.”
Mrs. McCarter said the women were or
ganized and trained and that they stood
loyally hy the party of Lincoln, the party
that has never “failed in its loyalty to
the good old stars and stripes.”
Mrs. McCarter pledged the convention
that the womanhood of America would
not be found wanting in upholding the
great republican ideals.
The convention adjourned at 12:17 p. m.
until 11 a. in tomorrow. It had been in
session fifty-seven minutes.
By MARLEN E. PEW.
COI.ISET'M. Chicago. Juno 9.—Hall,
hail, the gang's all here again. Serious
business confronts them.
There's trouble in the air.
The Old Guard is chasing. Senator
Hiram Johnson around the room with
a three-tined fork, one tine for Lowden,
one for Sprout and one for Harding.
Maybe there's an invisible tine on that
fork.
It’s “middling hot,” as they say lo
Kansas.
Eastern men wear soft, rolling collars;
westerners wear starched affairs. re
(Continued on Page Three.)
Depew for Butler ,
and Then Lowden
Coliseum. Chicago, June 9.
“Who are you for?" a lady politi
cian asked the famous old convention
war horse, Cbauncey M. DePew.
“Butler,” he replied, with a gallant
bow.
"Who's your second choice?” the
lady fired back.
“Lowden Is, I think," Depew nn
swered, but his tone conveyed re
proach.
“Young lady,” he said, “when a
young man la proposing to you do
you ever ask him who hia second
choice is?” -s