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THE WEATHER
Fair tonight and probably Friday;
moderate temperature.
vol. xxxm.
3 TRACTION
LINES GRANTED
RATEINCREASE
Three-Cent Fare Authorized
by Public Service Com
mission.
ORDER EFFECTIVE JULY 1
Three electric interurban railroad
companies ■were today authorized by the
Indiana public service commission to
charge 3 cents a mile for passenger
transportation.
JT he order will be placed in effect
pßter July 1.
r The Terre Haute. Indianapolis &
Eastern Traction, the Union Traction
and the Indianapolis & Cincinnati Trac
tion Companies were the three petition
ers who were Uowed power to increase
their rates.
With the establishment of the S cent
rate commutation book prices will be
increased.
Rates in Indiana hare since Jan. 10,
1919, been 2*4 cents a mile.
New passenger rates on the electric
lines are equal to the rates charged by
steam railroads throughout the state,
end parity with rates charged by simi
lar electric lines in Michigan, Illinois
and .Ohio.
The commissioners refused to grant au
thority to the Union Traction Company
to increase the price of commutation
books on account of the poor service
shown commuters.
NO ACTION' ON BROAD
RIPPLE KATES.
New rates affecting Broad Ripple on
the line operated jointly by the Indian
apolis Street Railway Company and the
Union Traction Company are still pend
ing.
It is petitioned that a 10-cent fare be
charged on that line, but commissioners
have not yet taken action on the ques
tion.
Employes of the Prest-O-Lite Company
at Speedway City will be charged ac
cording to the new rates to commuters
on the Terre Haute, 'Indianapolis & East
ern Traction Company.
Rates to be charged on the line pass
ing the speedway, as adopted for the
rest of the system and by the other two
traction companies, are quoted at twenty
five times the price of a one-way trip
for a forty-trip book, with a minimum
of $3.25 for each book.
The rate is based on the new threc
cent fare.
A valuation of $32,000 a mile in the
case of all three companies was used
as a rate basis "by the public service
commission, which held that such a
(valuation is conservative.
TOST OF COAX
REASON' FOR BOOST.
• Advanced cost of coal is stated as the
principal cause of the necessity for fare
readjustment, though the evidence re
vealed continued upward trend of cost
of all other items of malntalnance and
operation.
At various traction hearings the evi
dence showed that coal which ten years
ago cost traction companies from 30 to
SO cents a ton at the mines, according
to market conditions, and that was
transported on freight rates which ran
from 50 to 65 cents a ton according to
destination, now is hitting the high
levels of approximately $4 a ton deliv
ered.
Increased cost of coal, labor, materials
and supplies used in the maintenance
and operation of these utilities, as shown
in the finding, would, If present rates
were continued, reduce the earnings to
approximately 3 per cent or less, ac
cording to the commission.
The order further Indicates that the
advance from 2*4 cents to 3 cents a
mile will not offset entirely the In
creased cost of the upkeep of the utili
ses.
Estimates of the commission indicate
in the case of the L'nion Traction
FL'ompany, the earnings under the new
[ fare system would be only 5 per cent
| on the valuation of $324)00 a mile, with
I no allowance for depreciation.
In a like estimate the earnings of the
T. H., I. & E. Traction Company would
be 5.3 per cent. Including 1 per cent for
[ depreciation ou equipment, and for the
Indiana pods & Cincinnati Traction Com
pany 5.3 per <ent, with no allowance
for depreciation,
rAY NEW RATE
lit INADEQUATE.
While these rates are Inadequate, ac
cording to the companies, interurban
railroads are unable to go beyond the
lares of competing steam railroads.
Both the Indianapolis & Cincinnati and
the T. H., I.& E. Traction Comuanies
filed petitions for increased rates on
April 28, while the Union Traction Com
pany petitioned for Increased rates and
commutation fares on March 16.
Commuters filed remonstrances in the
Union Traction Company commutation
fare case, alleging poor service.
Following an investigation of the in
terurban train service at Indianapolis
and Ft. Wayne by the commission for
the months of March and April of this
year, it was shown that the service of
the Union Traction Company was far be
low the standards of other railways.
Train services of the Union Traction,
the T. H., I. & E„ the Interstate Public
Service, formerly the Ft. Wayne & North
ern Indiana, companies were compared In
the investigation.
CAXE L'NION TRACTION
SERVICE POOR.
It is held by the commission that not
only was the service of the Union Trac
tion Company below the standard in
point of running the cars on scheduled
time, but the company was unreliable in
cancelling scheduled trains.
Following a table which shows in
ferior character of service the public
Bkcvlce commission in its order says ‘‘lt
aSEjtparent that the service on the petl
r'a road is Inadequate, and is far
Tmort of what the patrons have a right
to expect."
The commission admitted that it was
reluctant to make the decision, In view
of the present financial condition of the
company.
The present charge by the Union Trac
tion Connpany for a forty-trip book is
lAfc cents a mile, with a minimum charge
of $3 for each book.
Arthur W. Brady and H. A. Nlchol ap
peared in the hearings for the Union
Traction Company.
MANY PROTESTS
AGAINST INCREASE.
. The petition was protested by sev
eral hundred individuals.
The new 3-cent rate to go into effect
on the Union Traction Company will af
fect patrons in Anderson, Muncie, New
castle, Marion, Noblesville, Tipton. Ko
komo, Peru, Logansport. Elwood, Alexan
dria, Wabash. Bluffton, Hartford City,
(Continued on Page Two.)
Sons Fill Pulpit
for Preacher Papa
I FAIRFAX. Okia., June 24.—Rev.
I John Templiu of -Fairfax is baring
[tiling?** rather easy these days,
k His three sons, all of whom are
Liso preachers, are visiting him and
tiling his pulpit alternately.
Published at Indianapolis, Entered as Sscond Class Matter, July 26, 1914, at'
Ind., Dally Except Sunday. Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 8, 1879.
JUST LEAVE IT
TO THE FIREMEN
Typist , Locked in Skyscraper,
Rescued in Wee Hours.
It required the efforts of two po
licemen and a squad of firemen
with ladder truck to rescue Miss
Julia Markowitz, 22, of 1133 Belle
fontaine street, from imprisonment
in the City Trust Company building,
Delaware ' and Market strets, early
today.
Miss Markowitz remained in her
office writing letters until 1:20
o’clock this morning and when she
started to leave the building she
found that the night watchman had
locked the street door and gone home.
She was without a key.
She was able to reach the hallway
on the first floor, but unable to get
out of the building.
Waiting until she saw a newsboy,
Bshe pounded on the glass of the
door and made known her trouble.
The boy called police headquarters.
Motor Police Harris and Landers
tried about a hundred keys in the
lock, but could not open it.
Then they telephoned fire head
quarters and a fire truck loaded with
ladders and a squad of firemen was
sent.
A twenty-five-foot ladder reached
from the Market street sidewalk to a
window on the second floor.
A policeman climbed the Sadder,
entered the office of a company on
the second floor and opened the door
leading to the hallway.
Miss Markowitz, assisted by the
policeman, climbed through the win
dow and down the ladder to Market
street.
The fireman held the ladder until
she was on t:.e sidewalk and then the
gallant policemen took her home in
the patrol wagon.
Atlantic City Gets
1921 Shrine Meeting
PORTLAND, June 24. —The conven
tion of the Mystic Shrine will be held
lu Atlantic City, N. J., the Imperial
council, in session here today, decided
Druggist Convention
at Culver Closes
CULVER. Ind , June 24.—The 1920 con
vention of the Indiana Pharmaceutical
association closed its sessions here today.
It was the largest meeting of druggists
ever held in the state.
Dean Stanley Coulter of Purdue univer
sity gave the principal address.
May Play With Rest
When She Acts Pretty
LONDON, June 24.—Germany will be
invited to join the league of nations
when she shows an earnest desire to car
ry out eer obligations under the peace
treaty, Premier Lloyd George announced
In the house of commons this afteruooa.
Spite Bullet Proves
Fatal to Hoosier Boy
FORT WAYNE, Ind., June 21.
After a valiant but futile battle for
life. Wayne Uavlee, 20, of Hoagland
died here early this morning as the
result of a bullet wound through the
right lung, which the police say was
inflicted on the night of June 5 by
June Oak Sherer, 22, living at Os
slan.
Havice was shot, the authorities
say, in a spirit cf revenge after he
had been forbidden by Havice's moth
er to eall on her daughter.
Sherer is said by the police to have
shot Ilavice in order to “get even”
with the mother.
Oh, Diogenes — Here!
Bill Schlangen, motor policeman at po
lice headquarters, today had a big prob
lem to solve, but he solved it.
Schlangen started to headquarters
yesterday morning carrying his lunch
wrapped In a newspaper.
He had written his name on the pack
age. that it might not become mixed
with lunches brought to headquarter*
by other policemen, for Schlangen is a
iarce man and is known as a "big eate* - .”
The lunch was a large one.
It was not until noon that Bill really
became hungry and then he remembered
that he had left his lunch on the street
car.
An honpst conductor found the lunch
and turned it in at the car barns.
Bill brought another lunch to police
headquarters today; he also found yes
terday’s lost dinner waiting for him.
Schlangen had two dinners and ate
them both.
‘Absent Healer’ Will Not Promise
Court to Quit ‘Art’ if Released
Declaring that she received a gift of healing power from a spiritual
vision and a conversation with her dead father, Mrs. Catherine A. BrAun,
today in a trial before Federal Judge A. B. Anderson on a charge of using
the mails In a scheme to defraud, would not promise the court to discon
tinue her “absent healing” and “healing by laying on or the hands” if
allowed to return to her home in Peru.
Mrs. Braun and her husband, John F.
Braun, alias M. A. Rose, thereupon were
ordered returned to the Marion county
jail while the case was taken under ad
visement.
Miss Laura May (alias Bonita) Braun,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Braun, was
released when the evidence showed that
she had not practiced any "healing
arts” for more than a year, and that at
the time she was practically forced into
the scheme by her mother.
Miss Braun told the court she had
never believed in the healing power as
sumed by her mother and at present
Is engaged as a stenographer and typist
at Camp Grant 111., in government work.
HE TELI.B LONG
STORY IN COURT.
Mr. Braun told the court n lengthy
tale about his having not participated
in the healing game since his release in
1013 from the Ft. Leavenworth federal
prison.
Under the questioning of the court,
Humana Sails limes
BOOZE RAIDERS
MAKE CLEANUP
IN SOUTH BEND
44 Federal Agents Work With
State in Rounding Up
Violators.
ORBISON IN CHARGE
Special to The Times.
SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 24.—Work
ing under the personal direction, of
Charles J. Orblson, federal prohibition di
rector for Indiana, five prohibition In
spectors, with thirty-eight federal agents,
swooped down on South Bend today for
a systematic cleanup of the city for the
purpose of putting an end to the illicit
sale of liquors and trafficking in nar
cotics, for which South Bend has gained
rational notoriety during the last two
years.
The state of Indiana is represented in
the raid by Willard Gemmil. assistant
attorney general, who was directed by
Ele Stanshury, attorney general, to come
to South Bend to aid In the prosecution.
He is stationed at the county jail to
receive bonds when the persons arrested
are brought in.
PUBLIC OFFICIALS
MAY BE INVOLVED.
Conditions at South Bend are admit
tedly among the worst In the stnte and
it would not be surprising in the light
of recent revelations here if public of
ficials are not involved In the cleanup
now in progress.
Polities enter into conditions here in a
marked degree, the county administra
tion being democratic and the city ad
ministration republican.
Ever • attempt 'to prosecute violators
of the law. and especially resort keep
ers, has been blocked because of political
differences.
There have been frequent rumors of
official protection of law violators.
There has not been a time In recent
months when one could not easily obtain
any desired quantity of liquor at a price.
Some time ago the question of official
possession o? confiscated liquor was
taken to courts and was carried to the
appellate court of the state.
The county officials attempted to have
turned over to them a large quantity
of booze seized by the police depart
ment.
The police department refused to pro
duce the booze and atilt was brought for
its possession in the St. Joseph county
superior <~ourt.
The county officials won the ease and
it was appealed to the appellate court
by Chief cf Police Kline.
Kline also asked for a writ of prohl
tiitlon to prevent county authorities from
seizing the booze.
A temporary writ was granted by the
court, bur the case was finally dismissed
on motion of the appellee.
BEAMED POLICE FOR
T 1 ING OF lIAMIS.
A South Bend newspaper has made fre
quent revelations of conditions here, but
its demands for law enforcement have
<t ontinued bn Page Two.)
MILLER LAWYERS
SEEKING FLAWS
Will Argue Case Should Be
Quashed on Wording.
Arguments on a motion seeking to
quash an indictment against Sheriff
Robert F. Miller on a charge of falling
to provide "proper" food for the pris
oners at the Marlon county Jail, will be
heard by Henry If. Vinson of the su
perior court of Tippecanoe county In the
Marion county criminal court on Julv 6.
Attorney John Rncklestmus asked that
the case lie heard In September, but this
was opposed by Prosecutor Claris
Adams, who has a trial date in July.
In the motion to quash, the defense
sets up I hat thp charge Is too Indefinite
to constitute offense and apparently is
based on the theory that the term
"proper food” has various meanings.
Indications tire that the* defense will
attempt to present sufficient legal argu
ment In an effort to have the case
thrown out of court.
SEIZE 4 JUGS OF
‘MOUNTAIN DEW’
Police Get Moonshine in Raid
on House.
Four one-liaif gallon Jugs of real Ten
nessee moonshine whisky were taken by
Lieut. Ball and Patrolman Judson In a
raid on the home of William Spangler,
151 I.eota street, today.
Spangler Is being held on a blind tiger
charge.
lie admitted to the police that he had
bought tbo booze down south, where he
said he had obtained It by leaving his
money on a stump and later returning
to find the booze.
The same policemen also raided the
home of William Sanders, 137 North Ala
bama street.
They said when they entered the house
Saudcrs broke seven one-half-pint bot
tles of whisky, but that they succeeded in
obtaining one full bottle for evidence.
16 Dine on One Egg
SANTA BA KB AKA, June 24.—Six
teen guests t a tourist hotel here
dined last night on a single egg.
It was an ostrich egg cooked into
an omlette.
he did admit, however, that he had
acted as chauffeur and doorman to hU
daughter, Bonita, while she was engaged
in the healing business in many cities
and towns throughout Indiana, Ohio,
Illinois, lowa and Michigan.
Records show that Braun served a
term of one year and a day in the Ft.
Leavenworth federal prison in 3913, and
that he was sentenced to another term
of four years in the same prison by
Judge Landis at Springfield, 111., in 1014.
Both times he was convicted on charges
of conspiracy and the use of the mails
in schemes to defraud.
Botli Mr and Mrs. Braun had been be
fore the police, city and state courts
many times in the last twenty years on
charges including violation of medicine
practice acts of several stntes. j
The policy they have always followed,
the court was told, was to pay a fine or
(Continued on Page Two.)
INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1920.
Scene of Democratic Convention
‘ **' **' '^ L ?' * * \
Exterior and interior views of the Auditorium at San Francisco, and Homer S. Cummings, tem
porary chairman at the democratic national convention.
Previous Democratic Conventions
and Candidates They Nominated
Date. Place. Nominee. Ballots.
1832 Baltimore Jackson 9
1814 Baltimore ...... Polk 4
1848 Baltimore Cass 9
18:12 Baltimore Pierce 17
1856 Cincinnati Buchanan 9
IS6O Charleston and Baltimore Douglas
(No choice at Charleston; convention moved to Baltimore, bolting
convention nominating Breckinridge.)
1864 Chicago McClellan 1
18C8 New York Seymour 22
1872 Baltimore Greeley 1
1976 Baltimore TUden 2
188‘) Cincinnati Hancock 2
1884 Chicago Cleveland 2
1888 St. Louis Cleveland Acclamation
1892 Chicago Cleveland 1
1896 Chicago Bryan 5
1900 Kansas City Bryan Acclamation
19C4 St. Louis Parker 1
1908 Denver Bryan 1
1912 Baltimore Wilson 46
1916 St. Louis .Wilson Acclamation
Votes in 1920 convention, 1,092.
Necessary to choice. 728.
Indiana to have 30 votes in convention.
HOUSE DIVIDED
IN CITY COURT
Dish Water and Child Who
Chased Hall Figure.
Mrs. Dove Adair anil Mr*. Mamie
Connor live in the two side* of a
double house In the 1200 block in
Avondale place.
Mrs. Adair appeared in city court
today charged In an affidavit sworn
to by Mrs. Conner with trespass.
Mr*. Connor said Mrs. Adair threw
dish water on her side of the back
porch.
Mrs. Adair denied the allegations.
Mrs. Connor also charged that
Mrs. Adair's litlte girl threw a ball
Into her back yard and then came
over and got it.
She further stated that while
there is no partition fence and no
railing dividing the back porch she
has numerous “no trespassing"
signs along the property line with
the lettered side facing the Adair
side.
After several witnesses for both
sides were heard the case was dis
missed by Judge Pritchard.
GOODRICH WON’T
TALK OF SESSION
Refuses to Say When—if Ever
—He Will Call It.
Gov. Goodrich continued today to re
fuse to discuss the proposed special scs
ilon of the legislature which ho an
nounced some time ago he would call.
Ho was in his office, but refused to
see newspaper men and refused to give
any official Intimation as to when the
session will he called or whether It ac
tually will be called.
It was the general opinion at the
statehousn that the assembly will not
convene next Monday ns was originally
anticipated but that, If Gov. Goodrich
actually does issue a call, it may be
convened during the latter part of next
week.
The governor's plans for a special
session have been considerably upset with
the fact becoming evident that he will
not be able to control it or to designate
what business will come before It.
Since the governor’s most recent an
nounoemet that he will call a session
scores of Interested persons and organi
zations have been busy preparing bills
with which to deluge the assembly.
It is understood, also, that the appro
priation bill to take care of the mainte
nance of state Institutions has not been
completed.
Necessity for those appropriations was
given as the estuse for threatening to
call a session.
HOOSIERS ON WAY
TO LOS ANGELES
Indiana Supporters of McAdoo
in Cheerful Mood.
Hy ROBERT A. BETTER.
ON HOARD DEMOCRATIC CLI'H SPE
CIAL EX ROUTE TO SAN FRANCISCO
CONVENTION, June 24.—Indiana sup
porters of William Gibbs McAdoo f r
the democratic nomination for the pres
idency were in a cheerful mood as the
special train hearing the Iloosier dele
gation to the national convention pulled
away from Salt Lake City today.
They were much pleased hy the news
obtained from Salt Lake City papers
that Uurris Jenkins of Kansas uttv
would place Mr. McAdoo In nomination
at the convention, regardless of Mr. Me-
Ailoo’s recent statement that he would
not. permit his name to be presented.
At Denver, Colorado Springs and Glen
wood. where I lie train stopped, the Im
pression prevailed that Mr. McAdoo would
not make the race if nominated.
Salt. I,nke City democrats hail no such
impression and predicted freely that Mr.
McAdoo would be nominated.
The Indiana delegation was only one
of a number that stopped at Salt Lake
City Wednesday.
Six hundred boosters for Gov. James
M. Cox of Ohio arrived on the Ohio spe
cial at the same time the Indiana train
arrived and immediately proceeded In at
tempts to convince the Indiana delega
tion that Cox Is the man for whom they
should vote.
There was a sentiment among Ohio
men that next to McAdoo Cox is the best
possible votegetter, but they were care
ful not to antagonize McAdoo’s friends.
The Indiana special will make Its next
stop at Los Angeles, arriving there late
Friday.
Ryan Ousted From
New York Exchange
NEW YORK, June 24. Allen A. Ryan
was today expelled from membership In
the New York stock exchange by the
board of governors.
The action followed an Investigation
Into trading In Stutz Motor stock, in
which Ryan was interested.
Ryan announced several weeks ago
that he had resigned as a member of
the exchange when trading in Stutz stock
was suspended.
The reason given by the board for Ry
an's expulsion was "conduct inconsist
ent with just and equitable principles
of trade.”
Htutz motor stock was barred aftet
Its price increased from SIOO a share
to S4OO a share within a few days.
Ryan has started court notion against
the exchange, the nature of which has
not been made public.
not... )By Carrier, Week, Indianapolis, 10c; Elsewhere, 12ct
Subscription Kates. ) By Mall r , ofc Per Month . 55.00 Per y ear .
BATTLE LULL
IS SHATTERED
IN N. IRELAND
Sinn Feiner Reinforcements
Arrive and British Troops
Are Helpless.
BELFAST. .Tune 24. Following a com
parative lull of nearly twenty hours
another violent battle broke out fit Lon
donderry thin afternoon, according to
Information received from that city by
telep hone.
The fighting was said to surpass
Tuesday's sanguinary fray tti fierceness.
Both Sinn Felners slid unionists were
firing from behind barricades.
Sinn Feiner reinforcements have
reached Londonderry .tad are engaged in
tbe conflict. •**
The reinforced British troops were said
to be helpless in tbe face of the new
"offensive."
Communication with Londonderry has
become difficult.
A man and woman were killed during
the morning and another prison died
from wounds received on Tuesday.
Quarters are being prepared at Lon
donderry for 5,000 British troops.
An attempt is being made at London
derry to open the shops closed by the
rioting.
t LSTKR VOLUNTEERS
ARE ON HAND.
Ulster vpliintoers, an aid to the anti-
Sinn Fein forces, have camped In force at
Estrabane and are said to be ready for
any emergency.
Comparative quiet prevailed at London
derry early today, following u night of
terror. In which bullets from rifles and
revolvers raked the streets.
A report from Londonderry later in
the day said that attacks by the soldiers,
some made with machine guns, practi
cally had ended nil rioting.
Among tlie dead found in the streets
was a woman named Wilis.
An unconfirmed rumor was current that
soldiers turned machine guns against
snipers hidden in the trees on the
grounds of St. Columbus coliege, killing
fifteen of them.
All shops of the city were boarded tip
and citizens remained in their homes.
Outbreaks of rioting in outlying dis
tricts continued, but outbreaks were in
control on the main streets.
Authoritative estimates of the number
of dead in the rioting, which has been
almost continuous since Friday night,
could not be oblalred.
The food situation was desperate ow
ing to inability of citizens to reach the
shops.
Actual war conditions existed in the
(Continued on I’age Eight.)
Women From Every State Play Big
Roles at Democratic Convention
By MRS. GEORGE BASS,
Chairman Woman’s Bureau, Democratic National Committee.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 24.—Never before in the history of a political
party and a political campaign have women taken so distinguished and sc
effective a place.
To say that more than one hundred delegates, more than 150 alter
nates and an equal number of women and men on the executive and na
tional committees will assemble in San Francisco during convention week
is to give but a partial impression of the exact relation the new electorate
will bear to the whole body of the delegates.
A newspaper correspondent said today
in estimating that about 400 women
would exert an Influence in nominating
a candidate for president, that, women
would aggregate one-tenth of the dele
gates.
I called his attention to the fact thnt
this did not state the real algniflcnnce
of the women's Influence in this conven
tion.
If the 400 women were a wait, voting
together their number might mean ex
actly what the figures symbolize, but as
a matter of fact every state h.ts a part
in that 400. *
No delegation will meet and caucus
on the party platform without hearing
them and dlrectljr the woman's point of
HOME EDITION
2 GENTS PER COPY
THINKS DEMOCRATS
WILL BE SILENT ON
BOOZE AND IRELAN D
Senator Glass Goes Into Conferences With
Party Leaders on Arrival at ’Frisco—
Says He Has Wilson’s Views.
r
BELIEVES VIRGINIA BUILDED WELL
SAN FRANCISCO, June 24. —President Wilson is not in favor of the
democratic national committee taking any cognizance of prohibition or the
Irish question in the democratic platform, it was learned today.
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia is conferring with party leaders today,
giving them the president's views on the party platform.
JOHNSON SOURS
SWEETNESS OF
G. 0. P. STRAINS
Californian’s Attitude Now
Big Flaw in Nominee’s
Organization.
WASHINGTON. June 24.—Hiram W.
Johnson's barp criticism of the Chicago
convention today was the big flaw in the
fabric of republican harmony which
Warren O. Ilardlng has been endeavoring
I to weave since his choice as presidential
nominee.
Progressive and conservative republic
ans, except the Johnson and Borah fac
tions, have promised support to Hard
ing.
This includes the Wood partisans, such
as Cos!. William Procter and Gov. Henry
J. Allen of Kansas.
Harding's advisers had also received
Indirect word that Johnson “would be
all right" und were expecting his sup
port.
Harding has refused to comment on
Johnson's utterance that the day will
I come when the "people will prevail.”
Republicans here for the most part do
j not believe Johnson or Borah will try to
lead a third party.
Harding's belli f is that republican vic-
I tory will be easy if the party is united.
Harding headquarters believes effective
j harmony can be achieved regardless of
; Johnson and do not believe he can repeat
1 his feat of 1916, although his grip on
■ Califorina is admitted.
TAKES RAP AT
G. O. P. METHODS
SACRAMENTO. Ca!.. June 24.—Repub
lican politicians today were speculating
ou the probable effect of Senator Hiram
Johnson's first public utterance since the
' Chicago convention.
Senator Johnson yesterday addressed a
few hundred of his home town people
who grreltHl him at the Southern Pacific
• depot, in this wise;
“Don't imagine I'm cast down by the
result of the convention. I’m happier
than ever before. I started the campaign
on a shoestring and when I got through
1 had the people of the United States
with me, even though I eooid not win
; the majority of the delegates.
"I went into the fight in one fashion
and came out In the same fashion. 1
made no compromises, but fought to the
last ditch.
“it doesn’t make any difference if a
few politicians sitting In the Blackstone
hotel in Chicago said, ‘The people be
, damned,’ for the time Is coming when
: the people will come into tbclr own.
"The future will find me as good ma
tured and as full of fight ns ever and
determined that in time to come the peo
| pie shall rule instead of n few men and
International bankers sitting In New
York.
"Politics Is behind me for the time be
-1 Ing. I won’t discuss or dent with them
until I have had a little enjoyment in
: dear old California.’’
TO CARRY HIS
CASE TO PEOPLE
LINCOLN. Neb., June 24.—Frank A.
! Harrison, of Lincoln, manager for Sen
ator Hiram Johnson’s Nebraska presi
lentlal campaign, who recently charged
, that "the treachery and desertion of the
| delegates front instructed states broke
; the heart of the Johnson movement," to
-1 day made public a personal note from
j the senator. In which the Intter said he
j desired to take steps to "hold up to de
! served public obliquy and scorn” those
| who, he said, "broke faith" at Chicago.
Senator Johnson Said he planned to
j make this move in every state.
; "To be frank with you I never doubt
|ed what the Nebraska delegation would
! do, but I knew you were exerting your
; self to prevent the betrayal." he added,
j “Let's make it Impossible by branding
j these scoundrels and prevent a recur
' rence of such treachery."
LAY PLANS FOR
NOTIFICATION
NEW YORK, June 24.—Wi1l Hays, re
i publican national chairman, conferred
hero today with Harry M. Daugherty,
1 campaign manager for Senator Harding,
! republican presidential nominee.
Hays and Dougherty discussed plans
! for the notification ceremonies which will
I take place in Marion, Ohio, Harding’s
; home, the latter x>art of July.
view, whether the problems are dis
tinctly those in which women are most
intet-ested or whether they lie wholly in
the domain of economics and politics.
We are being asked almost every hour
by representatives of the press whether |
women are to be placed on the platform j
committee and when we explain that state
delegations meet to choose their own i
representatives who are named in open i
convention' thereafter when the roll of;
states is called, we find it necessary to \
emphasize the point that whoever is i
chosen, whether a man or woman, car
ries into the platform committee the re- j
suit of the conference of the then and 1
women of that state.
NO. 38.
*T am not an ambassador to the con
vention from the president,” Senator
Glass said. “I bring no formal mes
sage from the president and I have no
draft of any planks that the president
has prepared. I believe I have a clear
cut idea of what the president wants,
however.
"I conferred with the president at the
whitehouse and left him" to board the
train for San Francisco.
“I have the Virginia platform with
nie. The president has indorsed that
platform. I believe it is good enough.”
AGAIN BRINGS UF
VIRGINIA PLATFORM.
Questioned concerning prohibition and
Irit-h planks in the democratic platform.
Senator Glass said:
"The Virginia platform made no men
tion of prohibition. The Virginia plat
form made no mention of the Irish
question, Virginia has enough trouble
without going to Ireland for more.”
While - Senator Glass refused to make
any flat statement as to whether the
president had voiced his opposition to
prohibition on Irish planks, be inti
mated strongly that such was the case
and that he was prepared to inform
democratic leaders to that effect.
Senator Glass is prepared* to fight for
the administration's viewpoint on the
platform and .anticipates that there, wdlt
he a struggle between the administra
tion supporters and a group led by Wil
liam J. Bryan on the question of a
league of nations plank.
"Mr. Bryan has pretty clearly indi
cated what he intends to do, and we
won’t have to wait much longer to see
wjat the result will be,” Senator Glass
raid.
The Virginia platform which Senator
Glass will propose as the president’s
Idea of the party platform provides for
ratification of the peace treaty and the
league of nations, with nothing more
than interpretative reservations.''
Mr. Bryan Is opposed to such a plank
and favors ratification upon the baa*
terms possible.
SAYS WILSON TO
MAKE NO DEMANDS.
“The is not making any de
mands upon the convention,” Senator
Glass said.
"I have a few suggestions which I
will make to the resolutions committee,
however. -
"They will get the president's views
and they are incorporated in the Vir
ginia platform.
"The Virginia piatform covers every
thing that is necessary,” Senator Glass
continued, ‘•and the president has for
mally indorsed It, so it seems to me that
the president's platform views are pretty
well known.”
Senator Glass Is mentioned for the
place of chairman of the resolutions
committee which will draft the plat
form.
Senator Glass refused to take seriously
reports that Senator David Walsh,
Massachusetts, who Is opposed to the
league of, nations, would be elected as
chairman of the resolutions commit tea
by anti-administration forces.
"They were electing Senator Walsh In
Washington when I left, but the con
vention Is here,’’ Senator Glass said.
PLATFORM HIS
CHIEF CONCERN.
Senator Glass gave the impression that
the president is far more concerned with
the platform than with candidates.
His characterization of the report that
the president would demand a coinpli
mer.tary nomination for a third term as
"absurd" effectually disposed of this
matter, following the declaration of Ho
mer S. Cummings, chairman of the na
tional committee, to the same effect.
The Virginia senatm-, who Is an un
willing candidate hinftelf by reason of
the instructions to the Virginia delega
tion to vote for him, gave the impres
sion to interviewers that he is strongly
for McAdoo.
Whether In this he reflects the presi
dent's view could not be learned. „
Glass does not regard McAdoo out of
the race merely because he has with
drawn his name.
When the Palmer forces were claim-/
ing McAdoo's strength Glass made 'this
ii-ore or less crlptic remark:
“They had bftier see .Touet ShoUsa
and find out whom McAdoo is for,”
CUMMINGS DINES
fi ITH SENATOR.
Horner S. Cummings, chairman of the
democratic national committee, and Sena
tor Glass dined together last night and
then went into a protracted conference
in Senator Glass’ room.
The conference lasted until nearly mid
night and a thorough understanding be
tween the so-called "personal representa
tives” of President Wilson resulted.
“Mr. Cummings and I discussed mat
ters generally and the platform subject
was brought up incidentally,” said Mr.
Glass.
Mr. Glass, it is reported, favors adopt
ing the platform before the candidate Is
selected.
ARRIVALS SPEED
UP AT ’FRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, June 24.—The real
actors in democracy's quadrennial
drama began to pour Into San Francisco
today for thj convention which opens
ou Monday.
Nearly a dozen state delegations,
flanked by party* leaders great and small,
were among the arrivals and they gave
San Francisco the first convention touch
it has yet experienced.
Among the state delegations arriving
or scheduled to get in today were Il
linois, New York, Michigan, Florida,
Georgia, Louisiana Maryland West Vlr
gania Delaware Wisconsin and Nebraska.
Most of them were preceded by state
leaders.
Charles F. Murphy the grizzled, taci
turn leader of Tammany hall, accom
(C’ontinued on Page Two.)
What's Nomination
Between Friends?
SAX FRANCISCO, Juno 24.—Sen
ator Carter Glass of Virginia doesn't
take ills own presidential boom very
seriously.
“The Virginia delegation is in
structed for me, but I wish it hadn't
been done, for it makes it very em
barrassing for me,” Senator Glass
said today.