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COMMONER WILL ASK CONVENTION TO INDORSE LABOR BO ARM
BRYAN CHIDES
CUMMINGS FOR
DRY OMISSION
Keynoter Ignored Greatest
Achievement of Party,
Commoner Says.
CITES TREATY PRINCIPLE
By WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
Copyright, 1920, by W. J. Bryan,
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.—The
convention opened In regular style,
with Incidents calulated to unloose
any lurking spirit of enthusiasm.
The flag was unfurled when the
“Star-Spangled Banner” was sung.
When a large sized picture of the
president was unveiled, the conven
tion had its first opportunity to give
vent to its feelings.
The demonstration lasted for some
twenty minutes, during which the
delegates marched through the aisles
carrying the standards of the states
and cheering lustily.
The applause was renewed when Tem
porary Chairman Cummings referred to
the president and the treaty.
Mr. Cummings’ speech was well re
ceived and it embodied, as such a speech
should, a review of democratic achieve
ment* —not a complete review, for sing
ularly, it omitted reference to prohibi
tion—the greatest achievement to which
our party can lay claim.
It woald stem imposlble, were it not
true, that any democrat large enough to
be considered for a keynote speech could
be terrorized Into silence by the friends
of the saloon, even after the liquor traf
fic has been barred by the constitu
tional amendment and that an amend
ment, enforced by criminal law*, sus
tained by the supreme court of the laud,
should be avoided on the theory that it
is dead.
When did a corpse ever before pos
sess such a power to frighten?
If the avoidance of the subject is due
to political expediency, what an indict
ment against the defenders of the home
that their zeal should so little impress
politicians.
FIN'DS IT POSSIBLE
TO EXCUSE CUMMINGS.
But Chairman Cummings halls from
one of the three states that failed to
ratify and a recent convention in his
state declared for wine and beer.
He may have thoughtlessly mistaken
this for a state convention.
The delegates from the remaining
forty-five states may repair the harm he
has done by adopting a dry plank con
gratulating the party on its honorable
part in tUia great moral victory.
Believing that compulaory arbitration
is not compatible with American Idea*,
but that the public has a right to know
the facts In any dispute that affects the
general welfare. I shall submit for con
sideration of the committee a Tery simple
plan which* Is Identical in its general
provisions with the principle embodied
in t’ulrtv treaties with three-quarters of
the world and afterward made the cor
nerstone of a league of nations.
Even before I suggested It for Interna
tional disputes. I endeavored to have it
applied to industrial disputes.
It eontnplates a permanent board of
three members, one chosen from the
workers, one assumed to be in sympathy
with the employer, and the third selected
with a view to finding a person as nearly
impartial as possible.
This commission should have authority
to investigate an Industrial dispute at
the request of either side or upon its own
initiative.
In each disputes two members would
be added to the commission, one chosen
by each side Li order t£at each side
might be sure to have a representative
on the commission
A little time would be allowed for in
vestigation, the report of the commission
would not be binding on either side, but
would be a guide of public opinion.
Such a commission would not make
strikes Impossible, but the fact that such
Bn Investigation could be made would go
far toward compelling conciliation and
the establishment of such a means of
adjusting disputes would reduce to a
minimum the Influx of prejudice. Just as
a peaceful means of settling interna
tional disputes Is calculated to lessen
the partisan propaganda that. In itself,
ineerases the probability of a conflict in
convention.
LABOR ASSURED
OF FAIR ACTION.
Mr. Gompers Is here and will doubt
less be heard by the resolutions com
mittee.
He is not likely to haT# any difficulty
in securing a recognition for all the
rights of labor, for this is quite a differ
ent convention from that which assem
bled in Chicago three weeks ago.
I shall ask the committee to include in
t>t platform a provision for a permanent
Investigating commission with a view to
settling industrial disputes before they
reach the strike or locknut stage
At present the third party, the public,
seems to be ignored, and yet It Is the
public that furnishes the money for both
employer and employes.
The need for some such plan was forci
bly emphasized last fall when a strike
threatened to close the coal mines Just
before the beginning of winter.
The mine workers numbered between
500.000 and fIOO.OOO and the number of
stockholders in the mines could not have
amounted to many hundred thousand.
The moat extravagant estimate would
not put the number of indirectly Inter
ested in both sides at more than 1.000.000.
Counting five persons to a family, not
more than 5.000,000 men. women and chil
dren could have been directly Interested
in the controversy, and yet it looked for
a while as if the remaining 95,000,000 of
our people would have to freeze while the
dispute was being adjusted.
BRITISH WATCH
’FRISCO MEETING
London Declines to Express
Preference, but Likes Davis.
LONDON, June 29.—Newspapers and
British officials hero manifest consid
erable Interest in the democratic national
convention at San Francisco.
The Dally News said: "ff on this
side of the water would be accused of
prejudice were we to express a pref
erence among the aspirants for the dem
ocratic nomination for president.
“Therefore. It is unn®oesary for us to
say more regarding the claims made for
American Ambasador John Davis than
that he has shown good judgment and
the power of Inspiring respect for both
himself and the great nation he repre
sents.
“This will Insure a high place even In
the notable list of distinguished men who
during the last 125 years have filled
this office. - ’
The same newspaper declared hostility
of American labor would defeat A.
Mitchell Palmer.
“The democrats have little hope of
winning on a Wilson platform, but thev
probably can make a stiff fight If they
are able to draft a platform which will
conciliate labor and the Irish In the
ITnJ—4
r’ 1 "'" fcwl
Senator Thomas F. Walsh of Montana,
who was expected to contest with Sen
ator Carter Glass of Virginia the chair
manship of the resolutions committee, not
only did not contest, but seconded tne
nomination of Glass, who was unan
imously elected.
Democrats in
Melee Open Up
Jack Pot n’Joy
Scrap Over N. Y. Sign Gives .4.
Mugg and Chelsea Mcßride
Only Thrill So Far.
By A. MUGG,
Delegate to the Democratic National Con
vention Per Damon Runyon.
(Copyright, 1920. by International News
Service.)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29,—A1l of us
democrats are very much pleasured up
and full of speed because we got our
convention going most successfully,
what with a battle and one thing and
another.
Os course it is not much of a battle,
but still and all. it is a battle end any
way people can not expect too much of
the first day, even from us democrats,
especially when you figure this prohibi
tion business.
In fact, if it is not for little old New
York we will not have even as much of a
battle as we do, because tip to some
everybody is certainly pretty much sunk.
There are practically no battles In
sight anywhere, and nobody to throw
out of our convention except maybe Jim
Reed, so it Is commencing to look as if
the meeting is more or less of a bust
when little old New York weighs in at
the battle.
DIG UP BATTUE
ANY OLD PLACE.
One thing about New York guys you
can always depend upon them to dig up
a battle no matter where they go, be
cause they generally 'arry their own
battles with them so as to be sure and
have some on hand.
In fact, this battle this morning la one
of their own hattleß, although they do not
try to keep it private, and one and al!
are welcome to take part in It at all
times.
What the battle Is about nobody knows,
but the chances are it is about nothing
much in particular, for New Y’ork guys
do not have to have anything in particu
lar to battle about.
Anyway, everybody is very grateful,
indeed, at this time to New York for put
ting on this battle and jazzing up our
gathering no little.
As near as I can figure out. one of the
lads gets all steamed up while we are
cheering for President Wilson's picture,
although It is not a picture to cheer so
much about, at that, and he tries to
snatch the New York sign so he can Join
In what la called a demonstration.
NOT WORTH MORE
THAN TWO BUCKS.
Well, of course, nobody cares a darn
about the sign, or what he does with tt,
because it is not worth more than two
bucks at the most, but as there is noth
Ing else in particular doing one of the
other lnds triea to put the tap on him.
which is a way of saying he tries to slug
him.
Well, naturally, some of the other lads
Join in because it Is very tiresome sit
ting around a convention where there Is
nothing doing, and soon it Is very good,
indeed, and getting better right away,
especially as fast aa the lada can get rid
of their coata.
Abont tbie time a San Francisco cop
comes up. and, of course, one and all
atop trying to put the slug on each other,
and figure to put the slug on the cop. for
there la nothing any guy loves to slug
more than a cop, and nothing a op loves
to slug more than a New York guy.
But it aeema the cop is no aucker. anl
he does not wait to get slugged, so the
boys go back to slugging each other.
Sly friend, Chelsea Mcßride, claim s
that while it is going on he aees some of
the lads trying to get a few tiepins and
kettles, a kettle being a way of saving a
watch, but the chances are the boys for
get they are among themselves and not
among strangers, and no doubt all prop
erty will be returned in good order as
soon as possible.
Well, the battle stops after a while,
hut not before a pleasant time Is had
by one and ail and they let the guy take
the sign and go where he pleases with
it, because nobody cares a whoop about
it anyway and furthermore everybody
forgets by this time that the sign ig
the cause of the battle.
I am going back to the hotel with my
friend, Chelsea Mcßride, and this Goofy
Beers, tho nut. and I am saying to them
that after all New York Is as good a
state as yon will find anywhere, and
that the committee on resolutions is en
titled to thank the New Y'ork guys for
what they d-> for this convention, when
Chelsea Mcßride says to me like this:
"Yes,” he says, “they certainly do
grand work today, and,” he says, “I am
certainly glad I am there to see H come
off.
“For several years.” Chelsea says, “I
am wondering about certain guys around
New Y’ork, and especially about how
they can sock.
"I get a chance to see some of them
sock this morning, and.” Chelsea says,
“I now know who 1 am going to match
myself against them right away.”
Harding to Reply
to Cummings Talk
WASHINGTON, .Tune 29.--Senator
Warren G. Harding intends to reply to
the keynote speech of Homer S. Cum
mings to the democratic convention In
his acceptance speech next month.
Harding read the democratic broadside
catefullv today, but declined to com
ment.
Tl- epublican nominee was back on
the Job today fresh from his vacation
in New .T'ersey.
Ha leave* for Marlon, 0., probably
Saturday,
INTEREST RAPT
AS CUMMINGS
GIVES KEYNOTE
Unqualified Stand in League
Defense and Prompt Pact
Ratification Taken.
TREATY ATTACK IS SEEN
By DAVID STARR JORDAN.
Copyright, 1920, .by International
News Service.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.— The
first day of the democratic conven
tion was marked by the eloquent and
masterly keynote address of the tem
perarv chairman, Homer S. Cum
mings.
Spoken in a full, clear voice, it held
the unflagging attention of the great
audience and frequently moved it to
genuine applause.
Its salient points were:
A review, deservedly scathing, of
the obstructive attitude of the repub
lican senatorial cabal.
A statement of the effective domes
tic legislation brought about by the
democratic party.
An account of the great achieve
ments of the war, admittedly the
work of the whole American people
under democratic leadership.
A brilliant eulogy or the president
and his Inspired world-vision of a
league of nations, together with a
moving appeal to the heart of America
for the keeping of the faith.
The speaker thus took unqualified
stand for the party. In defense of the
league, as submitted by the president,
admitting no validity in the criticisms
so profusely directed against it.
LEAGUE PLANK
PREPARED.
According to the press, the administra
tion forces, now apparently in the lead,
have prepared a platform plank, deslg
nating the present league of nations as
"the surest If not the only practical
means of maintaining the peace of the
world and terminating the Insufferable
burden of great military and naval es
tablishments.” Cotlnulng. It pays a very
high tribute to the president for his
achievements in the war and peace.
Prompt ratification of the treaty 1s
demanded nnd with .“no reservations
which would Impair Its essential integ
rity."
It is, however, commonly believed that
the first serious contest In the conven
tion may take the form of an attack on
this position.
Its opponents demand reservations of
a more votal character.
Senator Wash of Montana, In co-opera
tion with Mr. Bryan, is fearful that the
country may be entangled In an agree
ment which will deprive us of all we
have gained through sacrifice. '
The proposed amendments are listed
under four beads which I may here
briefly summarize:
The United States shall make no
pledge to engage in foreign wars
nor to arbitrate questions of vital
interests.
The nation shall be its own Judge
as to its need of .defensive armament.
The United States shall have as
many votes in the league as any for
eign state or empire.
It shall aceppt no covenant that
endangers or Impairs the Monroe doc
trine or which prevents withdrawal
from the league on proper notice. r
WHAT IS COVERED
BY RESERVATIONS.
The first of these reservations covers
the much discussed Article 10.
But -it seems almost certain that no
such clause Is necessary, as under our
constitution the country can not wage
war without positive aetton by con
grass.
The phrase “vital Interests" has never
been explained, and can not be ac
cepted without exact definition.
As to the second, the ehtef function of
the league should be to bring about dis
armament and in this movement the
United States should naturally take the
lead.
Regarding the third Item, the pro
posed change as to representation In the
aserobly In which nothing of Importance
Is decided by majority vote. Involves an
impossibility and can be urged only to
destroy the league; Canada, Australli,
New Zealand nnd South Africa are self
governing common wealths bound to
Groat Rrltaln by ties of affection only.
They aro already members of toe
league, and can not be expelled; neither
Is it possible to form anew world leagae
more acceptable to financial senators.
These dominions are surely hh well
entitled to separate voice as our own
proteges, Hawaii, Santo Domingo, Nica
ragua and Panama.
Lastly, as to the fourth, if by the
Monroe doctrine we mean the actual pro
nouncement of Mori roe to the effect that
we would not look with favor on fur
ther conquest or colonization tn America
by European powers, that doctrine Is
fully safeguarded In the league.
MOULD PREVENT
JOINING LEAGUE.
These reservit’ons. for Hip most part
Individually innocuous or needless, would
ns a whole virtually prevent our entrance
into the leagu?.
The question of wet or dry ia a very
real one and may lead to an open con
test.
The delegates from the Atlantic sea
board seem to be pledged to a modifica
tion of the Volstead act.
But the courage of the thirst has
abated somewhat since they crossed the
desert and they are satisfied with a very
slight degree of inoist.ness.
The present alternatives are the bone
dry proposition, eloquently urged by Mr.
Bryan or absolute silence on the question.
A plank mildly facing both ways—im
pllclt obpdienep to the constitution, yet
with hopes of future relaxation —is un
der discussion.
But in this matter wet. is wet.
Such a plank is certainly bad politics
ACTION AT ONCE
IS BRYAN’S IDEA
Commoner’s Treaty Plank
Cal is for Basic Change.
SAN FRANCISCO. .Tunc 29. -The
treaty plank which W. .1. Bryan will
endeavor to have adopted by the demo
cratic convention was made public to
day.
It. calls for immediate convening of
the senate to adopt a constitutional
amendment for ratification of treaties by
majority vote for ratification of the
treaty with Germany “with such reserva
tions as a majority of the senators may
agree upon reserving for the future, the
making of such changes as we may deem
necessary and appointment by the presi
dent of American delegates to the league
of nations, to serve until regularly
chosen delegates are elected and quali
fied."
Flection of permanent delegates should
be by direct vote of the people, the plank
snvs. and they should he Instructed not
* . —e- war except on specific lit;
stmetions by congress or the people.
These delegates should be instructed
the plank says, to Insist on wo;#4 dis
armament as tha foundation of .enduring
peaca.
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1920.
McAdoo’s Running Mate?
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SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE E. T. MEREDITH.
Secretary of Agriculture E. T. Mere
dith of lowa Is being talked of as the
democratic nominee for the vice presi
dency to run with William Gibbs Me-
Adoo if the latter Is nominated for the
DEMOCRACY’S
FAIR SEX BEST
(Continued From Page One.)
const who had been fooling men in poli
tics until he had grown gray as a fox,
put up a nea**’lttle game by which he
Intended to get all the best seats in the
convention hall for the men and keep
the women In the background.
He put down his wires with skill and
confidence and when he had everything
aet pulled away and found a local
woman had been before him and copped
off every choice seat for a woman.
But I know better Instances than that.
I have seen here some of the most ac
complished artists In political flimflam
talk to a bunch of women for half an
hour and apparently make the right im
pression and go away and then I have
heard the women talk about him and I
wouldn’t for big money be In that faker's
place.
They tore nil his tricks to pieces and
hung them on the fence and they did it
with a merciless sarcasm that to tell you
the tru'h made me shudder.
I don't want any of them turning that
kind of scalpel on tne. believe me.
There are thirty eight women dele
gates and two or three hundred women
alternates in this convention, and I don't
know why or how. being unschooled In
these mysteries, but they certainly do
have the women In the republican con
vention beaten several ways for Sunday.
There's no comparison.
At Chicago the women alwnys seemed
to be scared abont aomethlng, I don't
know what, being In a strange place, or
too many millionaires, maybe, or all that
society lug. you never can fell.
But you can bet the women here aren't
scared; here it's the other way about.
They've got the men rattled and guess
lng what's going to happen next, and no
wonder.
THEY GET WHAT
THEY GO AFTER.
Here the women settled down right on
the start, for certain things they wanted
tn the platform.
Wise business.
They wanted to get the party natled
hard and fast to a program of social
reform laws to protect children, to fur
ther education, to reduce the cost of
living, tn protect working women, to im
prove the public health and that sort of
thing
So they went after these reform* and
never let up until they got them.
Now, you see, that's the kind of a
platform they wanted, and if It Isn’t a
million times better than the old punk
stuff men have been feeding to superior
male voters these forty years. I'm a clam.
So here's one thing about having
women In this game.
Brass taeka —see? Cut out the guff
and get something that, has a meaning.
And now. here's another.
A good many folks thought, or said
they thought that when women got. Into
polities they would be Just, another lot
of reactionaries and God knows we don’t
need any more than we’ve got.
Well, come to now and get hold of
the facts
So tar anyway the women have shown
themselves a heap sight more radical
than the men; more radical, more prac
Heal, more direct and landing what they
wanted every clip.
So far they have shown so much more
of natural good sense and wit and pep
and the art of getting things done that,
if this democratic platform bears out Its
promise and comes anywhere near hit
ting Ihe democratic opportunity It will
be partly due to the new spirit the
wemen have brought along.
There is so much of novelty about all
Hits that even the old stagers are be
ginning to wonder what a national con
vention will be like four years hence,
when probably 50 per cent of the delj
gates will he women.
Order of Convention
Fixed by Committee
SAN FRANCISUO, .Inne 29.
The order of business for the con
vention recommended by the rules
commission is ns follows:
Report of eredentials committee.
Report of committee on permanent
organization.
Report of roles committee.
Nominating speeches to begin at
I p. m. Wednesday.
Adoption of report of resolutions
committee.
Balloting for nominees for presi
dent-
Balloting for vice president.
Presentation of reaolutlona
presidency, hr now seems prohable.
The secretary of agriculture squelched
a Meredith for-presldent boom that had
been started by hig supporters at San
Francisco.
TEN CANDIDATES
PUSHED FOR V. I\
Meredith Backers Seek Coali
tion With Cox Men.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 29 -Vice
presidential booms were being Inflated
today by backer* of ten potential can
didate*.
Both Gov. Cox of Ohio and Secretary
of Agriculture Meredith of lowa, today
■continue to be mentioned as possibilities
for the vice presidency, although both
will he placed In nomination to head
the ticket.
Meredith's friends are striving for a
coalition with C'ox supporters, while <’ox
1* doped hy some for second place on a
McAdoo slate.
Meredith’s formal statement of with
drnwal from the presidential race t* be
lleved to have greatly strengthened hla
chance* fop rhe second place.
Others whoae names are being put for
ward are:
Gov. S. V. Stewart. Montana; former
Gov. James H. Hawley. Idaho; former
United State* Senator J. Hamilton
Illinois: Brig. Gen L. S. Tyson, Ten
nesaee; Edward Ij. Doheny, California;
former Gov. David I. Francis of Ml*
sourl; former Gov. G. II Hodges. Kan
tas, and Vice President Thomas R. Mar
shall.
BRAINS NEEDED
IN AGRICULTURE’
Purdue Extension Man Ad
dresses Indiana Grain Dealers.
"We need all the brains we can gel
In the agricultural world to help feed
the nation." W. A. Ostrander, of the
Purdue university agricultural extension
department, declared In speaking at th<>
mid summer meeting of the Indiana
Grain Dealers’ association at the board
of trade today.
Mr. Oatrander explained the importance
of planting only the correct varieties
of wheat In the state.
Ruasell G. East, county agent, Shelby
ville, spoke on the subject, “Experience
In and Method for Treatment of Seed
Wheat by the Hot Wafer Process to
Prevent Spread of Smut."
Other speakers on the program Includ
ed Andrew Smith, secretary of the In
dlana Bankers' association, who spoke on
the subject, "General Financial Condi
tions and Outlook": A. t>. Keyuolds.
Crawfordsvllle, "Geueral Business Coudi
tlons and Prospects for the Grain Trade" :
Fred G. Horner, president of the Illinois
Grain Dealers' association, Lawreneevlllc.
111,, on "Anti Paternalism and Its Rein
tlon to the Co-Operative Movements";
H H. Potter Rensselaer, ''Cost of Han
dllng Wheat, Country Elevators"; Les
lie F. Gates, president Board of Trade.
Chicago, “Grain Exchanges and Future
Trading In Wheat”: V. E. P.utler Indian
apolis, director Grain Dealers' National
Mutual Fire Insurance Company. " Audit
ing of Grain Dealers’ Hooks and Its Im
portance." and Charles Quinn, 'Toledo, 0.,
secretary Grain Dealers' National nsso
elation on "The Grain Trade In the War;
Did Tt Make Good and What Is Its Pr<'s
r-nt Status Relative to Government Obli
gations aud Agencies?"
Representatives of rhe Indiana Federa
tion of Farmers' Associations, including
the following members of a temporary
grain committee. M. P. Hill, Pulaski
county: Oscar Larin. Oxford: Earl Craw
ford, Wayne county, and Marshall A'og
ler, Eighth district, attended Ihe meet
ing today in the Interests of the farmers'
organization.
Woman Facing Two
Charges After Raid
Sergt. Deeter and a squad of police
raided a residence nt 939 Shelby street
early today arresting one man and a
woman.
The couple are held on statutory
charges.
James Crawford, 3. r >, of 1005 Sanders
street, ts the name given bv the man.
and the woman wos Myrtle Hudson.
An additional charge of contributing
to the neglect of a child was placed
against, the Hudson woman.
Price of Passport
to Advance July 1
Noble G Bntler, clerk of the federal
court, announced today that instructions
have been received ,'vom Washington to
advance the price <s? passports from S2 to
$lO, beginning July 1.
The increase, he said, was ordered by
an act of congress.
READ REED AND
GEORGIA GANG
OUT_OF_PARTY
(Continued From Page One.)
vi>le, Tcnn., and Mrs. T. T. Cotnam of
Little Rack, Ark.
Although tired from the excitement of
the first clay's session am' heavy eyed
at the long vigil, they .Vwely stuck
it out in the tobacco-smoked atmos
phere of the stuffy room and listened at
tentively to the presentation of evi
dence.
In both cases they voted with the ad
ministration supporters.
WOMAN STICKS
TO HAND BLOW.
One other woman sat through most of
the long session
was Mrs W. W. Martin, an alter
nate from Cape Girardeaux, Mo., and
she stuck it out tn order to make a
speech against Senator Reed.
She got her ham e long after midnight
and it was due to a great extent, to
her convincing argument that the vote
against seating Reed was so large
"Kansas City and the Fifth district,
from w hieh Senator Reed comes. i so
boss ridden that it needs a good clean
ing. she told the committee.
"It is not-only boss-ridden, but it has
two kinds of bosses—‘rabbit bosses' ant,'
‘goat-bosses.’
"The Fifth district needs to be taken in
hand by Missouri and attended to.
“You have ail seen a spoiled child get
stubborn and say, ‘I want that or noth
ing at all.*
"Weil, In this rase Ma Missouri said to
the Fifth district, ’you will have to take
soaudblng else besides Senator Reed or
go hungry.'
"Now the bad child is trying to steal
down to the pantry and tuke what has
been forbidden.
"If no one sits In Senator Reed's seat
the Fifth district and Missouri herself
is better off, because they are better rep
resented by nobody at all than by Jim
Reed.”
Senator Reed's side of the argument
was presented by Francis P. Wilson, dls
triet attorney of Kansas City; Joseph B.
Shannon, a political associate, and by
Emil P. Rosenberger of the Ninth dis
trict.
He was opposed by E. F. Goltra. Mis
souri national committeeman and by Col.
John Gosgrove, an S2-year-old veteran of
Boonevllle. Mo.
Shannon declared Senator Reed was
being denied a seat solely because of his
opposition to Mr Wilson’s policies, par
tlcu’arly the league of nations.
"Since when. ' Shannon demanded, "has
:he democratic party held a convention
and resd out of the party every man
who does not indorse the league of na
tions?
“Renumber, gentlemen, that at Chi
cago two men holding as widely di
vergent views a* Murray Crane and Bill
Borah got together on the same plat
form on this question.
"Why can't we apply the same prin
ciple here?”
Shannon's pleas, however, fell on deal
ear*.
The membe's of the committee. 75
per cent of whom were advocates of the
league, were determined that the senlot
United States senator from Missouri
should get out and put him out they
did, v-tth considerable gusto.
HECKLED BY
GALLAGHER.
Col. Cosgrove was "heckled” by Gab
lugher of New Jersey.
Cosgrove declared he believed tn "stick
Ing with the organization," which he
charged Senator Reed with falling to do.
Cosgrove also was an ardent supporter
of Wilson.
"You believe in going along with the
organization, eh?" said Gallagher. "Then,
tell me, do you ever know of Woodrow
Wilaon sticking with the organization in
all bis life?”
"I don't know," replied Cosgrove, “i
think Mr. Wilson Is too broad, too big,
too much of a humanitarian to be bound
by a machine.
"He is a friend of hirmanlty."
Senator Reed himself did not attend
the hearing, leaving on his friends the
task of looking after his Interests.
The smlth-Watson Palmer case was
more easily disposed of than was the
Reed contest.
The Insurgents were represented by ex
Senator Thomas U. Hardwick of Georgia
and by Col. 11. 11. Perry of Gainesville.
STRESS TIIEIR
STRONG rOINT.
They presented the facts of the three
cornered Georgia primary to the commit
tee. stressing the fact that the Talmer
delegation represented but. one third of
the democratic voters of Georgia, while
the Smith Watson combination had re
ceived the votes of two-thirds
The Palmer delegation was represented
by Albert Howell of Atlanta and by H.
H. Dean of Gainesville.
They declared the Georgia law gave
Mr Palmer the right to send a delega
tion to the convention, as he had polled
a slight plurality over both Smith and
Watson in the primary.
Dean drew many laughs from the
committee by comparing the case to a
three-handed poker game.
Palmer, he said, had shown down a
pair of aces; Watson a pair of kings and
Smith a pair of Jacks.
By all the laws of Hoyle, he declared,
rnlmer was the winner, hut after the
showdown Smith and Watson had com
bined their hands, making two pair and
claiming the pot.
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ila ij ,|
Ml ill Ist
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer,
NMiUiilate for the democratic nomination,
ami his personal bodyguard, Jimmie Gal
lagher. us they looked when tnc credeu
tials committee seated the Palmer dele
gation from Georgia.
WOMEN ENTHUSE
OVER OPENING
OF CONVENTION
Approve Recognition Given
Them by Democrats at
San Francisco.
By MRS. GEORGE BASS.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.—1f ‘‘well
begun is half done" were really the truth,
I the delegates to this greatest of ail con
{ ventions would be starting homeward to
night instead of enjoying themselves in
this wonderful city for the rest of the
week, for never was a better beginning,
aud surely never has there been a more
inspiring keynote speech than that of the
chairman of the democratic national
committee.
At a caucus of the women called after
ward to discuss other matters one en
thusiast moved that this speech be no
cepted as voicing the spirit and sentl
j ments of all the women present and an
other announced that the national com
: mittee might as well save itself the ex
pense of a handbook as all the Informa
, tlon neceasaryy to go out and win the
campaign was contained in this pro
: nouncement of the achievements and
principles of the democratic party.
WOMEN REPRESENT
MANY PUBLICATIONS.
Old convention campaigners say this is
one of the most comfortable, so far as
arrangements, accouatics and weather arc
i concerned, that has ever been held.
Notable among the hundreds of corre
| spondents gathered from the four quar
ters of the country are a number of
i women representing dally papers, week
lies and women’s magazines.
I am told that only one of the leading
women’s magazines had the courtesy of
a press sent In Chicago—only one woman
; representative, that is, for there are still
editors abroad in the land who think tb*
last "cub” reporter is entirety capable of
writing up anything for or about women.
However, it is to be hoped on this oc
casion that the editor who wired his rep.
resentative "cut out the politics and send
us ‘sob stuff.’ " is in the minority.
FOR POLITICS,
NOT "SOB STUFF.”
For women are here for politics, not
I to supply Mtonal thrills to that por
j tlcular kind of editorial sanctum, and
j they have very definite ideas, fsr removed
! from "sob stuff" and lovely abstractions.
Nothing more fiercely downright and
i concrete than a woman bent on political
' action has ever made its advent in
; American life.
i No sooner had the women adopted a
resolution of thanks to Gov. Roberts of
j Tennessee for calling a special onvention
I In order to urge ratification than other
women called attention to the need for
j haste, since tie women of eight states
will lose their primary votes
I prompt action is taken. ft
| Once wo would have been content with
I the mere announcement that the so*aion
! would be called.
No, everything except politics is ad-
Jitrned as far as the women of this con
vention are concerned and they are con
tent to leave fuss, feathers and frivolity
i to the visitors who are making the city
gay with their red caps as they flock
| homeward from their recent meeting in
| Portland.
McADOO CERTAIN
UNLESS MIRACLE
COMES TO PASS,
(Continued From Page One.) f
cannot be reached by them or anybody
else.
Pluggers for McAdoo are claiming 200
votes on the first ballot, then 200 morn
after the favorite sons and compli
mentary votes have been cast.
Six hundred votes for their man weie
predicted for the fifth or sixth ballot and
the necessary two thirds—72B out of a
total of 1,092 —on the next and finaL
INSIST NAMING OF
McADOO IMPOSSIBLE.
The faction behind Attorney-General
A. Mitchell Palmer, however, insist thej
nomination of McAdoo Is impossible.
“It will be Palmer or a
convention with ultimately a dark
winner." one of Palmer's
today.
Palmers backers this morning
the eonv-ntion was called to order
claiming 320 votes on the first
against the claims of 200 by the
Adooers.
Gov James M. Cox’s boom today
seemed about stationary, no marked
variation being observable since yester
day.
The Palmer crowd reported a certain
weakening in the ranks of Cox's army,
backing up this assertion with the one
that some of his cohorts were talking
"second choice" for the first time since
their arrival in San Francisco.
’FRISCO NEWS
IS BEST TONIC
President Pleased Over Results
of First Day.
WASHINGTON, June 29—President
Wilson today was described as “highly
pleased" over the results of the first
day of the democratic national conven
tion. rn
One official at the whitehouse said the
convention news was the best tonic the
president has had since his illness.
The story of the convention was re
ceived over a United Press leased wire
running into the whitehouse and car
ried to the president.
Copies were made for other officials
also and throughout the day a little
group sat in the executive offices read
ing the United Press dispatches.
Probably the most pleasing feature to
the whitehouse was the effect of the
keynote speech of Homer S. Cummings.
But what officials regarded as of more
practical significance was the apparent
willingness of the convention to indorse
the president and his administration.
It was said that if this sentiment at
the convention continues to prevail, it is
probable that Wilson will have nothing
more to say for publication until the
convention has finally adjourned.
It was declared Wilson has had no
long distance telephone conversations]
with San Francisco since the conventidefj
opened. ?,
Plan Junior Chamber
of Commerce in City
Plans for the formation of an Indian
apolis Junior Chamber of Commerce will
be discussed Thursday by the board, of
directors of the Indiauapolis Chamber of
Commerce.
If a Junior Chamber of Commero; ia
organized here, men between the ages of
18 and 28 will be allowed to join the. new
organization.
The junior chambers have flourislzed tn
other cities.
Frank Jordon, George Dixon. W. A.
Mooney, Wallace O. Lee, Merle Sldener,
F. O. Keizer, Fred Mlllis and John Rey
nolds compose a committee which is con
sidering plans for organizing a junior
rhamber.
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