St. Landry clarion., June 05, 1920, Page 4, Image 4

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MANY DELEGATFS
FOR WET PLANK
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS
ANSWER QUESTIONNAIRE
OF WORLD
New York, May 29.-Convincing
proof that the prohibition problem is
to figure conspicuously in the delibera
tions of the national conventions of
the Republican and Democratic par
ties next month is provided by ad
ditional replies received to the ques
tionnaire addressed by the World to
delegates elected to represent their
States at Chicago and San Francisco.
In order to determine the trend of
this sentiment two inquiries were
contained in the questionnaire. They
were:
1. Should a prohibition plank be
put in the platform of your party by
Its national convention, and should
it be a dry plank?
2. Should it be in an expression in
favor of permitting mild beer and
light wine?
'The replies indicate that a very
substantial percentage of the dele
gates to the two conventions are for
an expression in the platform of their
respective party convention favoring
the repeal of the Eighteenth Amend
ment and modification of the Vol
stead Enforcement Law, rather more
D)emocrats than Republicans.
The most significant feature of the
views expressed by Republicans is
that they believe party expediency
should dictate an revision of the prohi
bition issue in the platform to be adopt
ed at Chicago. Delegates from the
most populous and important states
seem to be against prohibition. This is
particularly true of New York, New
Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio
and other manufacturing states.
The greater number of advocates of
prohibition naturally are included in
the delegates of both parties from the
agricultural communities. The wide
aspead demand for a frank declaration
against prohibition in the platform to
be adopted by the Democratic Nation
al Convention is reflected in the re
plies from the deelgates selected to it.
Some Under Cover
The replies of delegates to both con
ventions were sent to the World with
thq understanding that the names of
those replying should not be revealed
unless otherwise desired. A number
.of delegates, however, not only gave
permission to use their name but some
of them holding positive views on the
subject asked "for the fullest public
4ty'," or as one of the delegates ex
pressed it "let the people know where
I stand."
In accordance with request of this
character the World prints some of
the replies:
]plies received to the World ques
tioliaire up to date show the follow{
ing results:
Delegates canvassed 900.
Replies received 848.
i.mocratic delegats against a dry
plank 194.
Democratic delegates in favor of
dry. plank 53.
Democratic delegates non-committal
202.
, Republican delegates against a dry
plank 161.
SRepublican delegates in favor of
*ry plank 101.
Republican delegates non-committal
127.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
There is in American history no
more romantic figure than Jefferson
Davis, leader of the lost cause of the
Southern Confederacy, who was born
on June 3, 1908. A courtly, cultured
Sotuthern gentleman, he drew his
sword in a cause which he considered
Just, and, though defeated by force of
arms, it was not with dishonor.
Throughout the Southern States
Thursday his birthday was generally
celebrated, while the United Confed
erate Veterans and Sons and Daugh
ters of the Confederacy also honored
his memory. The observance of the
anniversay of Davis' birth as a legal
holiday has become more general with
,the passing of years. Now that the
breach between the North and South
has been wholly healed, and the na
tion stands as one unit, the character
of Jefferson Davis is presented in its
true light to the people of the North,
where for years following the war any
conceivable calumny regarding him
found ready credence.
By a strange coincidence Kentucky
was the birthplace of both Abraham
Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Less
than a hundred miles in distance, and
a little more than eight months in
time separated the birthplaces and
dates of the men who were destined
to play such important parts in the
greatest tragedy of their native land.
Soon after the birth of the future
president of the Confederacy the Davis
family removed to Mississippi, and set
tled in Woodville, Wilkinson county,
While the Davis clan was establish
ing a new home in the Southland, the
Lincolns moved nortward, settling
first in Indiana and later in Illinois.
These migrations, of interest at their
time only to those directly concerned,
had a profound significance in the his
tory of our country. If they had been
reversed, and the Lincolns had gone
South and the Davises North history
might have been very different.
Young Davis received a much bet
ter education than young Lincoln, fori
his father was a well-to-do planter.
Davis was sent to Transylvania col
lege in his native state, but left at the
age of sixteen to enter West Point
Military Academy. When Davis grad
uated, and was appointed brevet sec
ond lieutenant in 1823, "Abe" Lincoln
was making his first considerable jour
ney on a flat boat to New Orleans.
The destinie of the two Kentucky
youths again touch in 1832, when both
took part in the Black Hawk Indian
war. Davis served as a staff officer,
and later as a first lieutenant of dra
goons, and young "Abe" as a captain
of volunteers.
After a few years in the army as an
Iadian fighter, Davis resigned his comn
mission to settle down as a cotton
planter in Mississippi. Lincoln was a
Whig candidate for. presidential elec
tor, and Davis was a presidential elec
tor in Mississippi, the former support
ing Clay and the latter Polk. In 1845
Davis was elected to congress, and a
year later Lincoln was chosen a memr
ber of that body. Davis abandoned
his seat to take part in the Mexican
War, which he won distinction.
While serving as a lieutenant in this
conflict he met Ulysses S. Grant, who
later was destined to lead the army
which was to overthrow the Confed
eracy. In 1853 Davis became secreta
ry of war in Pierce's cabinet, and later
returned to the senate, in which he
had held office previously. Then the
misunderstanding between the North
and the South came to a head and
the country flamed into civil war.
Jefferson Davis, a staunch and bril
liant defender of the South's rights,
was chosen president of the Confeder
acy at just about the time that Lin
coln took up his presidency in the
White House. Davis took his seat
in Richmond, the Southern capital,
and there his leadership steadied and
encouraged te sorely beset people all
during the four long years of the des
perate struggle. He saw the flower
of the South flushed and triumphant
with victories over Hooker and Burn
side, the opposing Federal generals,
checked and hurled back at Gettys
burg just when it seemed that they
had victory within their grasp. He
saw the serried gray ranks of Lee re
cede before the persistent hammering
of Grant until Richmond was taken
and all lost. And in victory and de
feat alike Jefferson Davi, bore him
self as that splendid product of Dixie
a Southern gentleman.
BUILT MANY CENTURIES AGO.
Florida's Shell Mounds Believed to
Date Back kto Before Beginning
of the Christian Era.
Florida's shell mounds, which are
found in different portions of the
state, are unquestionably of human
construction, and were probably built
by some race of people who inhabited
the country about the beginning of
the Christian era. These mounds were
found overgrown with herbage and for
est as long ago as when the first red
man set foot in Florida, and the fact
that the deposit of earth above them
was pufficient to give place to the root
of trees proved their great -tge.
There have been found in all these
mounds pieces of pottery imbedded in
the shell conglomerate, as wdl as ar
ticles made of shell and bone, rude
stone implements and many bones of
fish and animals, uuch as deer, terra
pin, rabbits, alligators and others.
There are in the entire state, about
forty mounds, the most important of
which are thos of King Phillip's town,
near the outlet of Lake Harney, which
are 450 feet long, from 100 to 150 feet
broad, and with an average height of
of eight feet.
HANDICAP OF GREAT WEALTH
A considerable part of Marshall
Field's accumulations went to England
when his daughters and the daughters
of his partner, Levi Z. Leiter, married
into the British nobility, but doubtless
the greater part was left on this side
of the Atlantic, for when he died his
estate amounted to more than a hun
dred millions. It apears from the case
now before the Chicago courts that
the great merchant tied up his estate
until his heir or heirs reached the
age of fifty. We read that under the
will "Captain Field will get half a
million at the age of 30, $1,200,000 at
35, $1,8000,000 at 40; at 45 he will
receive the accumulated interest,
amounting to $90,000,000. During the
next five years he will receive $3,
000,000 a year and on his 50th birth
day he will get the whole estate.
Marshall Field's purpose in thus tying
up his estate, according to his own
statement, was to protect his descend
ants from "leading useless lives of lux
ury and .dleness," and to provide them
the "opportunity of becoming men
despite the handicap of great wealth."
But his plan, even if sustained by
law, will hardly achieve this worthy
purpose. Little incentive to make a
career for himself is left to the man
who knows that many millions will
pour into his lap at stated intervals
between thirty and fifty. The desired
results would be much more likekly
of attainment if Mr. Field had devoted
the bulk of his fortune to public bene
factions and only moderately provid
ed for his heirs, thus preserving them
from actual want while forcing upon
them the necessity of earnest effort
in order to make a place for them
selves in the world.
Wanted: A Ticket Seller.
"I see you advertise for a ticket
seller and ask that ladies weighing
nore than 200 pounds kindly do not
apply."
"Yes."
"Isn't that discrimination?"
"No, merely common sense. Any
ady shaping up larger than that could
not get into my glass cage."--Film
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