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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
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