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I II I I K K II K wax AND THE BATES COUNTY RECORD VOL. XLII. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1920. NUMBER 38 OPENED WITH A ROAR Democratic National Conven tion Opens at Frisao With Big Demonstration for Wilson LEAGUE OF NATIONS THE KEYNOTE Chairman Cummintfs Thrills and Sways Dem ocratic Delegates With Praise of President and Review of Accomplishments of Party SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., June a8. From the shadow of the Golden iGate the hosts' of Democracy sent a roaring tribute across tne country toaay lin President Wilson. The National Convention flung aside for the moment the business before -it while delegates carried on a demonstration wnicn swept the great gatn- r'na off lit feet. It was a half hour before the outburst evoked by a sudden display of thj President's oortrait could be stilled. Again and again as his name was mentioned the cheers broke out anew to culminate in the shout of approval that adopted and sent to the White House tonight a striking testimonial of this Dartv's faith and Dtide in the man Who has led through troublous years. As the noon hour and the opening approached, a color guard of marines. apoeared from the platform. A 6-toot sergeant stood on tne piattorm. At nis side stood, the armed noncommissioned officers of the color guard, and witlt them two marine buglers. BUGLE CALL SOUNDED When Vice Chairman Kremer of the National Committee gave the sig jnal a bugler sounded "Attention!" The sharp staccato call rang out over the uproar of conversation. The first notes of The Star-Spangled Banner rang out from the band and the organ together, and attendants stood in trib ute a monster flag, dropped from the ceiling to form a wall of color behind the platform. It obscured the view of the band gallery and organ loft, but as it fell the booming tones of the organ rose from behind it; joining with the majestic thunder in tne national antnem. from tioor ana galleries deie- isates and spectators joined in the mighty tones. Then came the touch that act the convention off with a wild shout of ex ajtation. The great flag was gathered slowly upward m its slings and as it rose it uncovered a tiag-araped ana uiuminea portrait ot president was on, placed against the high pipe of the organ. For a moment there was a briel pause. Then came the tumult. -- ; WILD CHEERING FROM FLOOR A wild shout rang from the floor. It was caught up and echoed from) side to side. Kising with hysterical torce, the sound grew. and grew, a form' less, toneless thing that had in it something that stirred the blood and pulled at the emotions. Delegates leaped on their chairs, waving and shouts ing. They stampeded into the aisles, jostling and cheering in a packed massj before the platform. ernor Smith of New York and Mrs. Helen Grenfel of Colorado were ap pointed a committee to escort Mr. Cummings to the platform. The chairman also got a demon stration as. he marched to the plat form metween a cross-fire of motion picture machines. V " After five minutes Vice-Chairman Kremer made an attempt to bring the convention to order, but the delegates would have none of it. The applause and cheers kept on coming in rolling waves and the repeated rapping of the travel was only answered with cries of "Sit down," and "Hurrah for Wil son." Standards were pulled up from the places marking the delegations on the floor and the demonstrants: bcgan"0fq ganiziug a procession about the aisles. Mr. Kremer gave up tlie idea of setting the convention in order and let the noise go on. After a few more minutes, assisted by the band, Kremer made another attempt to quiet the tumult and get the convention going. He was only answered by more - rolling choruses of shouts of "Hurrah for Wilson." While the demonstration was going on, the galleries sat in an interested way, but took little part in it. The whooping, roaring delegates parading on the floor, however, drowned out the band at times. While the dem onstration was at its height. Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, picked up the standard of the New York delegation and got in to the parade. Other members ot the delegation objected and there was a scramble in which a policeman took the part of the delegates who tried to stop Roosevelt. There was a lively scramble for a moment in which Roosevelt won out and started off with the standard. Fists flew thick and fast for the moment and it looked as if somebody was going to be injured. As f turned out, no damage was done. More attempts at order and more ear-smashing whacking of the gavel brought only more cheers. The dele gates evidently wanted -to demon strate for Wilson and did not intend to be stopped until they had finished. At 12:45 o clock the demonstration began dying away and the ice-chair man gave the order to the sergesnt- at-arms to clear the aisles. Mr. Kremer finally ucceeded in nuking himself heard and Monsignor Ryan,-vicar general of San Francisco, ottered a prayer. , The other events on the program were: . Reading of the call for the conven tion by Secretary E. G. Hoffman. Address by Vice-Chairman Kremer, announcing temporary .organization and presenting' National Chairman Homer S. Cummins as temporary presiding officer. Keynote speech by Chairman Cum mings. Announcement of committees. Adjournment. The convention was . a full how late when the delegates finally settled down to hear Vice-Chairman - Krem ers opening speech presenting .Na tional Chairman Homer S. Cum mings as temporary chairman of the convention. - Before order was called hundreds milled around in the aisles and there were frequent inquiries of "What's the delay?" "Were rarin' to go,yelled. a dele gate under the Illinois standard. After the prayer came the taking of the official photograph, a bugle again being used to bring the convention to attention. v Vice-Chairman Kremer then began nis address. Cheers and yells broke in frequently as the speaker praised Democratic performances of the last eight years and belabored the Kepub lican party as a party of "destruction and reaction. Ihe names of Jeffer son and Jackson also stirred up dem' onsiranons. When the League of Nations cove nant was mentioned a demonstration broke out which was second only to tne demonstration given to the Pre ident. When Mr. Kremer declared the world was waiting to hear the de cision of the American electorate on the league issue the convention rose and went in for some prolonged cneering. The band- broke out again amid the cheering which followed the conclu sion ot Kremer s speech, but ' quiet soon was restored and the formal reading of the call of convention fol lowed. Kremer denounced the Republican platform as an 'example of the art of evasion and an insult to the nrogres sive element wrongly pjaced in their ranas. ne labeled Harding as a rep resentattve of the "dynasty of . dol lars." You said something, partner r nusked en aged, bald-headed man with a gray mustache, standing in the aisle in front of the Pennsylvania del egation, as Kremer said the Republi can party had reached the decadent stage. As Kremer continued his verbal broadsides at the G. O. P, the crowd began to manifest more and more en thusiasm. There were cries of good," and loua laughter when he charged the Republican party had de generated into a crabbed old scold. The delegates jumped to their feet with a yell when Kremer mentioned the League of Nations and cheered for half a minute. On motion of Fred B. Lynch of Minnesota, the recommendations for the temporary organisation, including Mr. Cummings as temporary chair man, were adopted without dissent. Senator Phelaa of California, Gov- Chairman Cummings Makes Keynote Speech. San Francisco, Cal., June 28. The League of Nations covenant was championed as the "Monroe Doctrine of the world," by Homer Cummings, temporary chairman of the Demo cratic National Convention, in his keynote address here today. Of the peace treaty's defeat in the Senate, he said: "No blacker crime against civilization has ever soiled the pages of our history." He characterized the Republican platform as ''reactionary and provin cial." "Filled with premeditated slanders an J vague promises, it will be searched in vain for one construct ive suggestion for the reformation of the conditions which it criticizes and deplores," he continued. - "The oporessed peoples of the earth will look to it in vain. . It con tains no message of hope for Ireland; 110 word of mercy for Armenia; and it conceals a sword for Mexico. It is the work of men concerned more with material things than with human rights, it contains no thought, no purpose which can give impulse or thrill to those who love liberty and hope to make the world a safer and happier place for the average man." lie declared that the peace-time record ot the Democratic party from H. S. CUMMINGS Homer S. Ciimmliigs. chairman of the Democratic iiRlionnl committee, liosim as temporary clmlriiiitn of tbe Democratic niitlonal convention. MarcbjiQij,to the outbreak-ttf-tW world war has to its credit "more ef fective, constructive and remedial legislation than the Republican party had placed upon the statute books in a generation." Praising the administration's course in the war Jie said: "We fought a great war, "for. a great cause and we had a leadership that carried America to greater heights of honor and power and glory than she has ever known before in her entire history." When Chairman Cummings in his review of Democratic accomplish ments in winning the war referred t" the leadership of President Wilson, the audience went into another dem onstration, despite his efforts to stop it. Repeatedlv Mr. Cummings sig naled to his audience not to interrupt with applause and cheers, but the del egates persisted. When he referred to the accom plished and inspired leadership of Woodrow Wilson,' the convention went off into another tumult of cheering in which it was helped along Dy me nana. several women delegates were moved to tears by ' Cumming's dra matic story of President Wilson's illness "and the .hand of malice knocking, knocking, knocking at the sickroom door as he lav stricken with a terrifying illness. Cummings' voice throbbed . with emotion. Miss May Foy, one of the California delegates, was one of these to press her handkerchief to her face. for a long period there was hardlv a sound from the crowd: then thev broke loose with renewed anolause as Cummings placed Wilson among tne immortals. Partisan Investigations Failed l-et no one misunderstand us. These great affairs were carried for ward under the stimulus of American patriotism, sun ported bv the courage and spirit of our people. All this n freely and gladly acknowledged, but IUh - the timr H , a nm. a,kn H. cause of the calculated criticism and premeditated calumnies of the op position, we are entitled to call at tention to the fact that all of these things were accomplished under the leadership of a great Democrat and of a great Democratic administration. is fhe Republican leaders are not able to rejoice with us in tlfis American triumph, they should have the grace to remain silent, for it does not lie in the mouths of those who conducted tin Spanish-American war to indulge in the luxury of criticism. Referring to congressional investi gations by "smelling committees," he sain that over eighty investigations had been made, over $2,000,000 wast ed, and "the result has been to prove that it was the cleanest war ever fought in the history of civilization." 'The Republican party became so fixed in its incorrigible habit of con ducting investigations that it finally turned to the fruitful task of investi gating itself. They discovered fraud and graft and gross and inexcusable expenditures. The revelations dis close the fact that the meeting at Chicago was not a convention, but an auction. The highest bidder, how ever., did not get the prize. The pub licity which overtook the proceedings frustrated the initial purpose. The Chicago Convention left the Demo cratic party as the sole custodian of the honor of the country. Democratic Achievements Listed l'eace achievements of the Demo cratic party, he asserted, "freed the tanner lroin the deadening effects 0! usurious financial control. Labor was given its Magna Charta of liber ty, i'usiness ami finance were re leased from the tliralidoin of uncer tainty and hazard." "1 lie income tax law," he said, "re lieved our law of the reproach of be ing unjustly burdensome to the poo.-. In cxtravagaiicesjind iiiequitiesiii tlu: taria system" were "removed and a nonpartisan Tariff Commission cre ated. J'an-Americanism was encour aged and the bread thus cast upon the waters came back to us many foil!.' Alaska was opened to commerce and development. Dollar diplomacy was destroyed. A corrupt lobby was driven from the National Capitol. An effective seaman's act was adopt ed. The Federal Trade Ciunmissio:t was created. Child labor legislation was enacted. The parcel post and rural tree delivery were developed. A good roads bill and a rural credits act wyre passed. A Secretary of Labor was given a seat in the cabinet of the President. Litrht-hotir laws wi-n- adopted. The Clayton amendment to tile Miermaii antitrust act was passed, freeing American laoor and taking it from the list of commodities. The Smith-Lever bill for the imnrovompnt of agricultural conditions was nucArl U,AI" Practices act jwu, adopted. A weir-cb'nsidered warehouse act was passed. Federal employment bureaus were cr,ea.ted. Farm loan banks, pos tal savings banks and the Federal Re serve system were established. "The Federal Reserve svstem. . passed over the opposition of the leaders of the Kenublii-an nariv . ..l.l-j a . . . aoieu .uucrica to withstand the strain ot war without shock or panic and ultimately made our country the greatest creditor nation of the world 1 liming to the record ot th- li... publican Congress since 1018. Cum mings said it was "barren of achieve ment, shameless in waste of tim- nd money anil without parallel for its in competencies, failures and repudiations." President Wilson's tun am, i,. fore Congress for legislation dealing vwui proiiieering, reduction of taxa- iioiKfliid-.tor-sold lers and laws 1, prove relations of capital and labor were ignored, he declared, and "after a year of sterile debate our country has neither peace nor reconstruction." lie dwelt particularly on attarta made upon the President. Malice followed him to till! near uhl said, and widespread propaganda made it imperative when he returned from Paris to "make a trno-cU rn. that which had been won at incalcul able cost. This meant wreck of health, sickness for months n. kh of pain, and worse, the sickness of heart which conies from the knowl- o A t-r .Un. 1 . " I . t vviBt mai puimcai adversaries are savagely destroying not merely the work of men's hands but the world's noP.e ?t settled peace. This was the amicuon this the crucifixion." uiiiuuiiK9 continued tnat in one sense "it is quite immaterial what people say about, the President, nothing we can say can add or de- iraci irom the fame that will flow aown the unending channels of his tory. He cited the Republican and Pro gressive platforms of 1016 as part of ie record placing his country in iavor 01 tne lacue nf Nat,n "The Republican platform contains a vague promise to establish another or a outerent form of association,' he said. "There i nn mM,l A honesty more transparent than that which expresses fealty to a league of uuuns wnue opposing the only league .that exists or is ever ant to nant widely in 1919, asking for criti cism and receiving suggestions front Taft, Hughes and others that were 'actually incorporated into the re vised draft of the league." Senator Lodge, he said, refused to offer constructive amendments at any time. "So intolerant was his attitude that he would not even consider a compromise proposed by former Pres ident Taft of his own party and which was assured of support of forty Dem ocratic Senators. Senator Lodge knew that he controlled the Senate and that in his own time and way he would destroy the treaty. ' "This is the sordid story of its de feat," said Cummings, after reviewing the Senate's action in the matter. "No blacker crime against civilization has ever soiled the pages of our his tory. The last chapter was written at Chicago." "Let the true purpose of our party be clearly understood," he said in con cluding his address. "We stand squarely for the. same ideals of peace as tnose toe which the war was fought. We support without flinch ing the only feasible plan for peace and justice; We will not submit to the repudiation of the peace treaty or to any process by which it is whittled down to the vanishing point. We de dine to compromise our principles or pawn our immortal souls for seltish purposes. We do not turn our backs upon the history of the last three years. V e seek no avenue of retreat w e insist that the forward course is me only righteous course. "We seek to re-establish the fruit ul J-icto ry ,- to --re 1 11 s t a t et h er goo d la i t li ot our country and to restore it to its nghtlul, place among the nations of tiie earth. Our cause constitutes summons to duty. The heart of America stirs again. The ancient faith revives. The immortal nart ot man speaks tor us. 1 he services ilf, the past, the sacrifices of war, the hope of the future, constitute a spiril- 1'ial force gathering .about our banner;,. A e shall release again the checked loices ot civilization and America shail' take up once more the leader ship of the world." SPECIAL TELEGRAPHIC CON VENTION NEWS SERVICE THE TIMES has contracted with the International News Service for telegraphic service during the Dem ocratic Convention and is receiving the news of the convention by wire. A comprehensive bulletin service is being maintained at the front of Tne Times building and dispatches are posted for the benefit of the public as fast as received. BULLETIN- Senator Owen, Ok lahoma; Former Ambassador James W. Gerard; G. M. Hitchock, Nebras ka; Gov. Smith of New York, have been placed in nomination. Aaks What Nations Stand Outside Treaty. What nation eta nit nt.;1? Revolutionary Mexico, Bolshevist Russia, unsoeakahle Tni-lr. .nUl, IT-:. . " i u nor vet ton late. l et n Jjnd with the forces of civilization. The choice- is nlain It kta,M democratic party's support of the League Of Nation with nmmiii of peace, disarmament and world fra ,e1rn'tT. and the Republican party's platform of repudiation, orovincial- wm, militarism and world chaos." it is not . reservations that the President stands against, said Cum- minarSt, but nnllificatinn H tnlil how President Wilson had published tut taatetive text of the league-cove-! Began Nominating Wednesday. 'The Democratic National Conven tion wound up its preliminaries Tues day and got down to business W ednesday. The convention perfected its jr ganization, accepting Senator Josepii T. Robinson of Arkansas as us perma nent chairman, permitted states to upset the unit rule, provided for tak ing women on the Democratic Na tional Committee and prepared for the business of having candidates nominated by adopting an order of business which will permit the deliv ery ot nominating speeches before the platform is brought in. Ualloting for a nominee, however, will not be permitted before the plat form has been adopted by the con vention. With the slate thus cleared of pre liminaries and arrangements set for the principal business, the conven tion, after a three-hour session, ad journed, to resume at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning. What the second session lacked in the dramatic fire of the opening dav it made up in the smoothly working control wi"-n ainmnn, ,ii.fn Support ers exercised. Anti-Wilson contests such as that of Senator Reed of Mis souri, for a place on the floor were swept away with ruthless, but good natured, haste. Senator Carter Glass, of Virginia, is chairman of the Committee on Resolutions. Judge W. W. Graves has been selected a member of this committee. llryan and his followers were dis appointed in his not being nai,;.:d on the sub-committee of the Resolutions Committee to draft the platform and he has announced that he will not take his planks before the sub-committee, but will go before the Com mittee as a whole. BULLETIN Prolonged demon strations followed the placing in nomination for President of A. Mitchell Palmer, Homer S. Cum mings and Gov. Smith, of New York, and Governor Cox, of Ohio. Demon stration for Cox unchecked after 36 minutes and very similar to Palmer demonstration. BULLETIN As we go to press a bulletin from the International News service says that Wm. G. Mc Adoo had been placed in nomination by Rev. Burns Jenkins, of Kansas City. Tremendous outburst given Jenkins. "Had intended," Jenkins said, "to have made an address pre senting the name of McAdoo to the convention but on account of insis tent requests that his name shouldn't be presented in speech, had decided notto do so, but am sure "Make speech," came yells from gallery floors. "But am sure from the spirit manifested, this convention shall draft him for service of your coun iry. Furthermore we know that if so drafted he will accept the nomina tion. Any rumors or telegrams sup posed to have been received by me or any one else now or in the future denying he will accept the nomina tion are falsehoods perpetrated by enemies of our party. Therefore I place in nomination William G. Mc Adoo. Instantly a parade started. A fight started with Missouri delega.es over attempt to drag Missouri mark er into the melee. Standard finally dragged out on floor. Bennett Clark, son of Champ Clark was one of those who fought to prevent standard being aragged in. Halt dozen policemen mixed in melee. Standard badly "mussed up," but finally put back in place by Clark, who struck several hard blows. No arrests were made and order finally restored when tiov-J erner Gardner, chairman of delega tion, said he would not permit sign to be carried. After fifteen minutes most of the delegates were back in their seats. CONVENTION BARS REED DELEGATE AMID WILD CHEERS AS VV. G. McADOO J I sjv , W . 1 1 1 1 r- ' i v - li LOOKS LIKE McADOO I Shannon's Protest Hissed and Sen ator is Called Renegade. San Francisco, Cal., June 29. The last attempt to seat Senator James A Reed of Missouri, critic of the Wilson administration and the League of Na tions, as a delegate from the Fifth District failed this afternoon, when. over tne protest of Joe Shannon of Kansas City, the national convention adopted the report of the Credentials Committee, which voted -early this morning to deny Reed a seat. Wild cheers from the administration dele gaterand numerous federal office holders in the galleries greeted the adoption ot tne report which rang down the curtain on the Keed politi cai arama. Shannon made his formal protest to the adoption of the report follow ing the readme- of the committee s recommendation by Victor Hugo Asher of San Francisco. The condition of George M. - Un derwood, lying maimed in a hospital at Excelsior Springs, steadily is im proving and he will recover, it was said by physicians. Underwood, a cafe proprietor of Carrollton, Mo, suffered the loss of his left leg and a part of his left hand recently when crushed by a train. He said he was wired to the track near here after bandits in a motor s car had robbed him of $70. ' I But Opponents Say He Can't be Nominated. San Francisco, Cal., June 29. With the stage of the Democratic. National Convention drawing near when nomi nations will become the order of busi ness, with William Gibbs McAdoo, ex Secretary of the United States Treas ury, apparently still in the lead and the supporters of McAdoo showing every assurance that he will win, most of the spokesmen for other as pirants have quit making definite claims and are seeking relief for their wrought-up feelings in loud asser tions that "McAdoo cannot be nomi nated." Ther add significantly that after he has been beaten to a stand still the convention may fix its choice on a "dark horse." Among the dark horses vice Presi dent Thomas R. Marshall and John W. Davis are occupying the foreground. Friends of McAdoo asserted this af ternoon that they had 600 votes sewed up" for him, but added that for strategic reasons that from one- third to one-half of his strength would chniar on th first hallnt. This is a majority of the delegates. but it will be necessary for the pro moters of McAdoo's political fortunes ; to procure an additional 110 votes for him in nrHr tn malrs sure of the nomination. With the two delegates (mm tk fftnaf 7iui Hawing m vnt . there, will be. 1094 delegates in the conrentw. ' - .. c ,r..v--is