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VOL. XXII. NUMBER 11.
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Effort to Piovide Vote on,
War Fails z — Wilson and ,
Hitchcock to Confer on;
Reservations -
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—The peace
treaty amendment presented by Sena
tor Gore, Democrat, Oklahoma, to
make an advisoryy popular vote man
datory before any declaration of war j
under the League of Nations, was i
rejected today by the Senate. *
The vote was 67 to 16, Republican |
Leader Lodge and other leading Re
publicans voting against the amend
ment.
President Wilson’s views on res
ervations to the treaty of Ver
sailles will be given to Senator
Hitchcock, of Nebraska, the ad
ministration leader, at a White
House conference within the next j
day or two. Secretary Tumulty said
today he was arranging with Rear
Admiral Grayson, the president’s
physician, for Mr. Hitchcock’s visit.
The Nebraska senator plans to lay
the entire treaty situation before the
president and give him his opinions
as to what reservations are likely to
receive the support of a majority in
the senate. The president in turn
will sav what reservations will be
acceptable to him. Mr. Wilson hass
repeatedly said no change in the
treaty which wor'd require its re
negotiation would be acceptable.
When the treaty was taken up in
the senate today. Senator Knox. Re
publican, Pennsylvania, introduced a
blanket reservation to release the
United States from any old obliga
tion to be bound by decisions or rec
ommendations of the League of Na
tions. Senator Knox said the pur
pose was to make this country a
"consulting member” of the league.
The reservation would give the
United States “the fullest and most
complete liberty of action” in regard
to league affairs, with “the sole right
to determine its own relations and
duties and course of action.” It also
would claim an unconditional right
of withdrawal, and would- make rati
fication of the treaty dependent on
affiramtive acceptance of the reserva
tion by the other powers within sixtv
days.
Denying reports he would support
the Gore amendment for a referen
dum before any declaration of war.
Senator Myers, Democrat, Montana
told the senate when he said he
would vote for “the pending amend
ment” yesterday he referred to the
La Follete labor amendment, al
though measurewas not formally
under consideration at the time.
Senator. La Collette. Republican,
■ Wisconsin, resumed the attack be
gun yesterday on President Wilson’s
course in negotiating the treaty.
Instead • of clearing away all
amendments to the peace treaty and
being free to consider reservations,
the senate today found more amend-
before it than on yesterday
Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho,
. had ready two new amendments
which would provide that the United
State decline to be bound by Ar
ticles 10 and 11, of the pact.
What progress would be made on
the treaty was impossible of fore
cast in view of expected long dis
cussion on the three amendments and
with Senator LaPollette, Republican,
Wisconsin, in line for further speech
making after he had unexpectedly di
verted the senate from the amend
ments yesterday by launching into a
review of the treaty proceedings. His
address was interrupted by recess
and he announced he would continue
it today.
Senate leaders were at sea over a
definite plan for action. The course
set by the leaders yesterday was
altered by the group holding out
against ratification of any kind and
just how far they will be able to
’ carry the opposition was a subject
of conjecture.
The LaFollette amendment to
strike the labor provisions from the
peace treaty was voted'down Wednes
day by the senate. The vote was 47
to 34.
For adoption: Republicans—Ball.
Borah, Calder, Capper, Cummins.
Curtis, Elkins. Fernaid, France. Fre
linghuysen, Gronna, Harding. Jones,
of Washington; Kenyon, Knox, La
Follette, Lodge. McCormick, “McLean.
Moses. New, Newberry, Norris. Page
Phipps, Poindexter, Shermanfi Wads
worth and Watson —29.
Democrats —Gore, Meyers. Reed.
Thomas and Walsh —5. Total, 34
Against adoption: Republicans—
Colt. Edge, Hale. Kellogg. Keyes
Lenroot. McCumber, McNary, Nelson
moot, Spencer, Sterling and Town
send—l 3.
Democrats —Ashurst, Chamberlain
Culberson, Dial. Fletcher, Gay. Ger
ry, -Harris, Harrison. Henderson
Hitchcock, Johnson, of South Dakota.
Jones, of New Mexico: Kendrick.
King, Kirby. McKellgr, Nugent, Over
man, Owen. Phelan, Ransdell. Robin
son, Sheppard, Simmons. Smith, of
Arizona; Smith, or Georgia; Smitn,
of South Carolina; Trammell, Under
wood, Walsh. of Montana; Wil
Hams and Wolcott—34'. Total, 47.
Os the fifteen senators not voting
the following were for adoption:
Republicans—Brandegee. Dilling
ham, Fall, Johnson, of California:
Penrose. Sutherland and Warren—7.
Against: Democrats Bankhead.
Beckham, Martin. Pittman. Pomerene,
Smith of Maryland, and Stanley—7.
Senator Shields, Democrat, Tennes
see. did not vote, and his position
Was not announced.
Clothing Prices Reduced
By Large Maaufacturer
CHICAGO. Nov. 3.—Mr. Jas. D.
Bell, head of the Bell Tailors. Adams
at Green St., Chicago, 111., said to be
the largest made-to-measure clothing
establishment in the world, recently
stated that his firm is now able to
quote prices on Fall and Winter
suits 35 per cent below what others
ask. To prove his point, he showed
the writer'a very attractive piece of
all wool cassimere for which they
, ask only $20.00 a suit made to indi
vidual measure, whereas the same
fabric Is now being offered by mer
Chants at $30.00 to $32.00 per suit.
Even larger savings arc offered on
their higher priced suits. Every
reader of The Journal should write
Mr. Bell for his price list, and a free
copy of his style book No. 386, which
contains large cloth samples of many
beautiful patterns.
RUSH IRWIN, who is on
trial in the Fulton superior
court ou a charge of murdering
George J. Moody, a boarder in
the Irwin home, and whom Ir
win charges was too friendly
with Mrs. Irwin.
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MRS. ABBOTT IS
GIVEN A NEW TRIAL
BY APPEALS COURT
Mrs. Stella Abbott, who killed her
husband. John H. Abbott, driver of
the automobile of the Atlanta fire
chief, was on Wednesday granted a
new trial by the state court of ap
peals on account of the letter pur
porting to have been written to her
by a man in Jacksonville, Fla., and
accidentally placed in the hands of
the jury by representatives of the
solicitor general’s office when they
turned over the state’s documentary
evidence at the close of the trial.
This letter, containing somewhat
affectionate langauge which tended
to reflect upon the character of Mrs.
Abbott, had been submitted to Judge
Humphries, the trial judge, while
the jury was excluded from the court
room, and had been ruled out by
Judge Humphries on the ground that
it was an attack upon Mrs. Abbott’s
character, and as such was inadmis
sible in evidence because the defense
had not made an issue of her char
acter. The law is that the state can- i
not introduce evidence touching the
character of a defendant unless the
defendant has put his or her char
acter in issue.
At the close of the trial Solicitor ■
Boykin bundled together his various
documentary evidence, and it was
turned over to the jury, as is custo- I
mary. Inadvertently'the letter ruled ;
out by Judge Humphries was placed j
in the bundle. This mistake was
subsequently discovered, and the
jurors were placed on the witness
stand by Judge Humphries to testi
fy whether they read the letter and
if so whether it influenced their ver
dict. Some of the jurors testified
that they read the letter; others tes
tified that they did not. All of them
testified that the letter did not in
fluence their verdict.
On this point of the court of ap
peals says: “No man can tell with
certainty what influences his mind —
what evidence or parts of evidence
had least or most weight in leading
him to a conclusion.”
Therefore, the court holds that it
was error for Judge Humphries lo
overrule the motion by Mrs. Abbott’s
attorneys for a new trial.
Mrs. Abbott shot and killed her
husband on the night of January
27, following a telephone call to Ab
bott from a young woman. Miss Mary
Powers. The trial was concluded on
February 24. when she was con
victed of voluntary manslaughter
and sentenced to ten years on the
state farm at Milledgeville.
Mrs. Abbott entered the defense
that her husband was killed in a
struggle over a pistol which fol
lowed a qaurrell between the two
over the telephone call.
Judge Humphries denied a new
trial, and pending the appeal Mrs.
Abbott was released under a bond
of $5,000. She is represented by
Attorneys Reuben Arnold and E. W.
Martin.
Armistice Day Celebration
DUBLIN, Ga., Nov. 6.—At the
monthly meeting of Laurens county
post, No. 17, of the American Legion,
plans were discussed for a celebra
tion of Armistice day in this city, in
conjunction with the American Red
Cross. j
The meeting strongly declared it
self in favor of the League of Na
tions, and the adoption of the peace
treaty without amendments or reser
vations. In strong resolutions, it
indorsed the work of the American
Red Cross, especially the third an
t nua] roll call of the same and pledg
, cd its whole-hearted support.
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STATE rara TO
ISHIM HIM SHOT
I!F ME BICK
Defense Contends Slain Man
I Was in Mrs. Irwin's Room
on Night of Tragedy-De
tectives on Stand
I Efforts of the state to prove that
Rush Irwin shot George J. Moody,
a boarder in the Irwin home, at 226
Peeples street, in the back on the
I night Moody was killed, and efforts
I of the defense to prove that Moody
was in Mrs. Irwin’s room just before
the shooting, featured the Thursday
morning session of Irwin’s trial be
fore Judge John D. Humphries in
the criminal division of the superior
ccurt.
Most of the testimony of the
morning was furnished by O. J. Hicks
and G. E. McClain, two private de
tectives, admittedly hired by Irwin
t<s watch his wife. They were in
the Irwin home on the night of the
shooting and were grilled thorough
ly by both sides in regard to what
occurred.
By a series o' questions, the state
strove to show that Irwin shot
Moody in the back without warning
and that Moody made no movement
of attack at all against Irwin. Testi
-1 mony in regard to the bullet hoies
i in the floor and on the wall was
used to bring out these points.
The defense centered its efforts to
draw from the two detectives evi
dence that there were tracks in Mrs.
Irwin’s room and that there was the
Imprint of a heel in the garden-bed
outside Mrs Irwin’s window that cor
respond to Moody's shoe.
R. H. Carpenter, an architect, was
one of the principal witnesses for
the state on Thursday morning, ex
plaining by means of blue prints,
which were introduced in evidence,
the location of the various rooms in ,
the Irwin home or . Peeples street.!
He pointed out the location of Mrs. j
Irwin's room on the first floor and
also the means of exit from this
room. Mr Carpenter was subjected
to exhaustive questioning by Solici
tor General John A. Boykin, And At
torney Reuben R. Arnold for the de
fense.
It was evident from the questions
propounded by the solicitor general
that the state will attempt to show
that Moody was shot In the back as
lie was sitting on the edge of hi«
bed, dressing. Mr. Carpenter ex
-1 plained the location of certain bullet
holes in the wall of the room where
Moody was shot, with reference to
the door through which Irwin is al
leged to have fired the fatal shot.
PROHISMOVETO
i BLOCK LIFTING OF
WAR LIQUOR BAN
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—Prohibi
tionists in congress today moved
to prevent President Wilson from
raising the war-time liquor ban.
Believing that Mr. Wilson intends
to end war prohibition as soon as
the peace treaty is ratified, the
aggressive dry element in the house,
led by Representative Randall, of
California, laid all its plans to
checkmate him it was learned.
Without waitin for the president
to act, the drys will ask that the
war-time prohibition law be ex
tended six months after the proc
lamation of peace. This would make
war prohibition overlap constitution
al prohibition.
Mr. Randall today declared his in
tention of seeking this extension
through an amendment to the bill
to extend for six months the I.ever
fooa“' and fuel control act, as re
quested by Attorney General Pal
mer.
Thus, with such a rider attached,
if congress votes to extend the I.ev
er law so Mr. Palmer can continue
prosecuting profiteers, at the same
time it will vote automatically to
make the war-time dry era effect
ive for six months after peace is
declared.
“If some of the war powers must
be extended.” Mr. Randall said,
“why not extend all of them.”
He pointed out that war prohibi
tion is closely related to food con
trol. in reality being part of a food
enforcement law. It is section 15
of the act enabling the secretary
of agriculture to enforce the Lever
act.
The unrest throughout the coun
try has caused many members to
nuestion advisability of lifting . th®
i wa» ban. More serious disorders
I would result if saloons were re-op
ened. thev think.
Should congress fail to extend the
war-time ban. Mr. said he
> nlsns to ask the ways and me-ris
committee to recommend a prohibi
t five tax on sale of Honor during
i the wet period. The present tax
■ on bonded spirits of sn.an a p-aPnn
means more. th"n noo one for
the government if the b°n is lifted.
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!H 'WETS' DEFEIT
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MTIFECATION CLOSE
Late Returns Gut Down Pro*
hibition Majorities on Four
Proposals—Kentucky Vote
Still Wet
COLUMBUS, O„ Nov. 6.—Returns
from Tuesday’s election compiled at
the secretary of state’s office today
from fifty-five of the eighty-eight
counties indicate the results on the
ratification of the federal prohibition
amendment an dthe Crabbe prohibi
tion enforcement bill will be close
with chances favoring the drys bn
the ratification proposition and the
wet son the Crabbe bill, according to
Chief Statistician Johnson.
The same returns are said to in
dicate defeat of the -2 3-4 per cent
beer proposal and the repeal of the
prohibition amendment.
These fifty-five counties, thirty
three of which are complete and
twenty-two incomplete, give the wets
a lead of 39,031 on ratification of
the federal amendment and 52,410 on
the Crabbe bill. They also give the
wets a lead of 22,999 on the two and
three-quarters pr»posal and 12,323
on the repeal proposition.
The thirty-three counties still to
report gave a dry majority of 33,-
795 for prohibition last year and if
this majority was maintained last
Tuesday, it would indicate defeat of
both the two and three-quarters and
the repeal proposals by safe major
ities. it was said. On this showing
also, the ratification proposal would
be approved by a small margin, it
was said.
CONGRESS TO QUIT
WITHOUT PASSING
NEW MEASURES
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. —Congress
is preparing to adjourn without enact
ing any big reconstruction meas
ures.
It has been definitely decided by
senate leaders that no more domestic
legislation of importance can be put
through at this session. They hope
to finish the peace treaty next week
and go home for a fortnight’s vaca
tion before the regular session opens
December 1.
This will leave undisposed of the
big reconstruction measure providing
for the peace-time military policy,
reorganization of the railroads and
the tariff.
House leaders are still fighting for
action on the railroad bills, but the
decision of the senate interstate com
tiierce committee to abandon the
Cummins bill until next session
dashes that hope.
Republican leader Mondell, house
majority leader and others are known
to be displeased at the senate’s fail
ure to co-operate in passing domestic
legislation. They are also known
to have spoken sharp words on sev
eral occasions over this situation.
When it became known that the sen
ate will not attempt to pass perma
nent railroad legislation at this ses
sion, he made a hurried trip over to
the senate and talked to Chairman
Cummins, but the situation has not
been improved as a result, it is
said. He declared the house plans
to go ahead with the Esch railroad
bill regardless of the senate’s atti
tude.
The army program Is in a similar
situation. Bills have been introduced,
hearings held, but no bill can be
put through until probably after the
Christmas holidays.
Tariff legislation has struck a
snag. The house has passed several
bills to protect the dye industry and
other industries likely to be hit by
European competition. These have
bumped against the stone wall of the
senate, however. Senator Smoot of
fered as a substitute for these bills
an anti-dumping measure to keep
out European goods offered below
cost, but Senator Penrose, wkiose
word is close to law in tariff mat
ters, has determined against legis
lation until the economic situation is
more settled.
Offers Reward for
Thief Who Took Sugar
For the recovery of two- pounds
of sugar the arrest of the burg
lar who Thursday morning entered
his home and removed the sugar
along with $lO in cash, J. W. Slaugh
ter, of 314 Lawton street, has of
fered a reward of the stolen $lO.
Mr. Slaughter stated to the police
that the burglai evidently went di
rectly to his pantry and removed
the sugar, the first he had obtained
in almost two weeks. “I don’t m.nd
the loss of the money, but I do want
my sugar back,” he stated to Chief
of Detectives Lamar Poole.
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Labor Leaders, Disappoint
ed by Government’s Firm
ness, Predict Long -
Drawn - Out Contest
WASHINGTON, Nov. s.—Author
ity to regulate the price, distribution,
production, sale, shipment, apportion
ment and storage of all coal, includ
ing anthracite, and coke, was given
Federal Fuel Administrator Garfield
today by an executive order signed
by President Wilson.
The government cannot accept the
proposal of organized labor to end th<>
coal strike by vacating the injunction
*ag inst the officials of the United
Mine Workers of America. Assistant
Attorney General Ames, in the ab
sence of Attorney General Palmer
announced today the government
could not abandon its position be
cause the strike was in vioaltion of
law.
Judge Ames issued the following
statement:
“The strike is a violation of law.
As long as it continues, we are
going to proceed in the courts. The
dispute between the mine owners
and workers is an entirely different
question that they can settle in their
own way. The government cannot
tolerate continued violation of the
law such as this strike constitutes."
Refusal of the government to va
cate the injunction means a long
fight in the coal fields, while its with
drawal would have opened the way
for settlement of the strike within
forty-eight hours, according to Edgar
Wallace, legislative representative of
the United Mine Workers of America.
Labor leaders who had taken a
bopefm view of the strike situation
after hearing of Samuel Gompers’
suggestion for a settlement, were
plainly disturbed by news that the
department of justice would let the
injunction stand. AU agreed it
would keep the strike going for some
time. This also was the view of
operators.
Coal Supply Cut Two Thirds.
The coal strike has reduced by
two-thirds the nation’s fuel supply,
according' to reports received here
today. Vice Presid .t Morrow of
the National Coal association estim
ated that bituminous production is
how approximately 4,000,000 tons a
day in spite of the walkout of the
425,000 y .ainers. This, he said, is
albout one third of the nation’s
normal production.
The coal strike is already begin
ning to affect other classes of
workers, according to W. G- Lee.
head of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen. He said today:
"Many hundreds of railroad workers
have been laid off or are on part
time as a result of the strike. One
railroad has cut down its sched
ules to the barest minimum dead
weight freight and is carrying only
perishables and necessities.”
Efforts to Sett’e
The second full day of the walk
out disclosed no less than three
separate efforts to reach a basis of
possible settlement with both operat
or- and miners confident of -he out
come. Coincidentally, John J. Lew s,
acting president o th United Mine
Workers of America, broke ’s sil
ence for the first time since he wafc
served with a restraining order from
ti j court of Federal Judge Andefrson
in Indianapolis last Friday. Mr.
Lewis said.
“The machinery of the joint sys
tem of bargaining in the mining in
dustry is Intact. It would le sim
ple matter for the government and
the coal operators again to set it in
motion to negotiate a wage agree
ment.”
One effort to reach a basis of
agreement for possible settlement of
the strike came from Washington at
a conference there between Fede-tl
Fuel Administrator Garfield and J.
D. A. Morrow, president of the Na
tional Coal association, an organiza
tion of the leading coal operators of
th. nation. What proposals the fuel
administrator had to make were not
disclosed.
The second effort for a settlement
came from A. L. Faulkner, federal
commissioner of conciliation. at
Cleveland, in the sugg-otion that the
government withdraw its Injunction
against the coal strike leaders at
once and that the miners return to
work under a guarantee of a wage
increase of 15 to 20 per cent effec
tiv' November 1 or upon their ’eturn
to work.
A third effort was seen in the In
troduction in the tenate of a resolu
tioi by Chairman Kenyon, of the
senate labor committee, proposing a
special presidential commission to at
tempt arbitration of the strike. The
measure was referred to that c r i
mittee without discussion.
It still is estimated that approxi
mately 425.000 miners are out. while
operators of non-union mines claim
to be running at capacity.
Government officials are of the
opinion that the broad powers of
! the restraining order issued last Fri
day soon will bring the strike to
a head. At the same time attorneys
for both sides are preparing for a
finish fight on the hearing to make
the injunction permanent.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Nov. 6. —At-
torneys for the United Mine Work
ers planned to ask federal Judge
A. B. Anderson today to dissolve the
restraining order preventing officials
of the union from furthering the
strike of coal miners.
A petition was to be presented in
accordance with the court rule that
such appeals must be made two days
in advance of arguments. The in
junction is to be argued Saturday.
By taking this action the miners
will be assuming the offensive in the
legal battle started in federal court
by Judge C. B. Ames, assistant at
torney general, in obtaining the re
straining order.
INCREASE IN SOFT COAL
PRODUCTION INDICATED
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—lnforma
tion in the hands of government offi
cials in touch with the strike situa
tion today indicated an inertase in
biuminous coal production, especial
ly in the West Virginia field. A fur
ther defection of union forces was
noted in the early morning reports,
although officials were not able to
say whether the break in the union
ranks was increasing to any great
extent. This phase of the situation
is being watched closely by the gov
ernment departments, particularly
the railroad administration and the
department of'Justice.
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WASHINGTON —Pretty little Corlis Theresa Nolan sat by her
daddy, Congressman John I. Nolan, on the f.oor of the house when
the king of the Belgians was received. In the gallery was Queeji Eliza
beth and the girl waved her a merry greeting. Then, wonder of
wonders, the queen asked to meet her, kissed Corlis on the cheek
and told her it was she who brought the sunshine, when she found
California was Corlis’ home.
Calvin Qoolidge, Law and
Order Candidate, Elected
Massachussetts Governor
BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 6.—Gover
nor Calvin Coolidge, Republican,
who made support of law anu
order the sole issue of his campaign
for governor of Massachusetts, was
re-elected Tuesday by a plurali
ty of 124,173 over Richard H. I ig,
Democrat. The revised vote of the
state complete: Coolidge, 317,847;
Long, 193.674.
The vote given Governor Coolidge
was the largest ever cast for gover
nor in this state, although his plu
rality has been exceeded. The total
vote was unusuualyy heavy.
Long also opposed Governor Cool
idge last year and was defeatc by a
plurality of 17,035. Yesterday the
Coolidge vote was more than 100,009
ahead of that of 1918 and the Long
vote 4,000 behind. Long’s, lead ot
19,909 in Boston last year was cut to
5,149 yesterday.
In his campaign Long "■'•'''■’led
particularly to the labor vote on the
/round that Governor Coolidge had
shown hostility to organized labor in
denouncing the striking Boston po
licemen as deserters.
That the appeal was unsuccessful
was shown by the result of the bal
loting in the cities of the state.
The entire Republican state ticket
was elected by large margins.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—President
Wilson from his sick bed tele
graphed Governor Calvin Coolidge,
of Massachusetts, congratulating him
on his re-election, which the presi
dent said was “a victory for law and
order.”
White House attaches said this
probably was the first time in his
tory a president had congratulated a
candidate of the opposite political
party on his election to office.
Administration officers shared the
president’s view. They said Gover
nor Coolidge’s sweeping- victory
should go far to encourage officials
generally over the country who are
combating radical propaganda, disor
der arid general social unrest.
PARTY LEADERS HUNT SIGNS
POINTING TO 1920 RESULTS
NEW YORK.—More complete re
turns on the off-year elections
Tuesday in several states did not
change the outcome in any im
portant respect. The smashing vic
tory of Calvin Coolidge, Republican,
in Massachusetts, re-elected gover
nor by the largest vote ever polled by
a gubernatorial candidate in that
state, shared honors with an equally
state, shared interest with the “wet"
or "dry” issue in Ohio as the most
striking result of the voting.
As a possible indication of the
CURED HER FITS
Mrs. Paul Gram, residing at 916
Fourth Street, Milwaukee, Wis., re
cently gave out the following state
ment: "I had suffered with Fits
(Epilepsy) for over 14 years. Doc
tors and medicine did me no good. It
seemed that I was beyond all hope
of relief, when at last I secured a
preparation that cured me sound and
well. Over 10 years have passed
and the attacks have not returned
I wish every one who suffers from
this terrible disease would write R
P. N. Lepso, 13 Island Avenue, Mil
waukee, Wis., and ask for a bottle
of the same kind of medicine which
he gave me. He has generously
promised to send it prepaid, free to
any one who writes him,” —(Advt.)
drift of popular sentiment prepara
tory to the national elections next
year, Tuesday’s results were being
' closely scrutinized by party leaders.
Kentucky was swept into the Re
publican fold in the governorship
aght, but late returns made It
certain New Jersey had reverted to
the Democratic column. Maryland,
the only ..other state in which there
was a serious contest for the gover
norship, was still in doubt, with the
Democratic candidate leading.
Local issues complicated the fight
in at least two states. In Massa
chusetts the police strike issue in
Boston was said to underlay the
purely party division at the polls.
Richard H. Long, defeated Democratic
candidate, had appealed to the labor
vote, while Governor Coolidge stood
squarely on his record in dealing
with the Boston police strike, and
rolled up a plurality of almost 125,-
000 votes.
In New Jersey, Edward I. Ed
wards, Democrat, running on a “wet”
platform, had an apparently safe lead
of 12.000 over Newton A. K.
Bugbee, Republican, but the legisla
ture will be Republican by a narrow
margin.
The defeat of Governor ames D.
Black, Democrat, former lieutenant
■ governor, for election in Kentucky,
where Edwin P. Morrow, his Repub
lican opponent, was credited ’with
a plurality approaching 30,000,
probably will be more discussed than
any other state result by party man
agers who have their eyes fixed on
i next year’s campaign. Previous
i Democratic majorities were upset in
some parts of the state.
The senate fight over the League of
Nations entered into the Kentucky
contest to some extent Governor Black
declaring for the league in his cam
paign. The Republicans also will
control the lower house of the Ken
tucky legislature, while the Demo
crats will control the senate.
The wet and diy issue also en
: tered into the Kentucky contest, a
state-wide prohibition amendment ap
parently having been defeated de
cisively.
Lee M. Russell, Democrat, was
elected governor of Mississippi by the
usual majority. He was opposed by
a Socialist, who polled only about
10.000 votes. The legislature will
be solidly Democratic.
In New Y’ork state the election
turned on judges of the supreme
court, Tammany Hall candidates suf
fering complete defeat. In the city,
Representative F. H. LaGuardia, Re-
I publican, was leading Robert L.
I Moran, the Tammany Democrat, for
president of the board of aidermen
but an official count may be neces
.sary.
In Philadelphia, Representative J.
' Hampton Moore, Republican, scored
lan easy victory for mayor, and in
I San Francisco James Rolph, Jr., was
' swept into office as mayor for the
I third time in a non-partisan fight, de
’ feating former Mayor Eugene E.
■ Schmitz.
I Os national interest in the New
1 Y’ork results was the election of
Theodore Roosevelt, son of the late
former president, to a seat in the
assembly from the Oyster Bay dis
trict. He scored a sweeping victory
over Elias Raff, his Democratic op
ponent, also a veteran of the world
war.
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Is Stored, He Charges.
Market Feels Effect
The charge that a tremendous syn*
dicate has been organized to buy an 4
held the 1919 cotton crop until next
spring was made Wednesday by J. 3.
Wannamaker, president of the Amer
ican Cotton association, in a state
ment telegraphed by him to the as
sociation’s headquarters in Atlanta.
Already the operations of the syn
dicate are • beginning to affect the
market, he says. He declares that
the financial interests supporting the
movement are operating in secret,
knowing that discovery of their spec
ulations will boost the price of the
staple with a Consequent reduction
in their profits.
In his statement Mr. Wannamaker
says:
“Realizing the Absolute certainty
of what will amount to practically
complete exhaustion of cotton —and
especially so as to the good grades—
before it will be possible to get any
from the 1920 crop, a tremendous
syndicate is being, or has been,
formed for the purpose of furnishing
loans to carry a large block of cot
ton over until next spring. This syn
dicate is being backed by some of the
wealthiest men in the cotton indus
try. Long staple already is practi
cally exhausted, and all cotton of
short staple is being closely followed
and examined, for it is realized that
cotton with any staple from one inch
up is bound to be worth a premium.
This is particularly true of the good
grades of the present short staple
crop, which will be available in a
lesser number of bales than perhaps
in a generation.
Qolden Harvest Expected
"It has leaked out that cotton is
being bought and stored, with ar
rangements made for the financing
of it until next spring, in the ex
pectation that the holder will then
be in position to virtually demand
his own price. The men behind this
movement are enormously wealthy
and realize that money thus invest
ed in cotton now offers to them a
golden harvest a little later.
‘Considerable cotton already has
been accumulated in this way and
this syndicate will carry in Control
about 2,000.000 bales of this year’s
short crop.
‘The financiers behind this move
ment are standing in the background,
realizing that a discovery of the
movement is bound to result in forc
ing the price of cotton higher than
they want it to go before they have
purchased the amount they desire.’
Upon the receipt of Mr. Wanna*
maker’s telegram the following gen
eral statement was issued by the
American Cotton association from
its Atlanta headquarters:
"Based on a personal survey of
the situation over the entire cotton
belt, measuring that by textile con
ditions of the world as obtained from
the most reliable sources, it is the
expressed opinion of J. S. Wanna
maker. president of the American
Cotton association, that no taw
product in use is going to be any
where nearly as considerably affected
by the readjustment conditions now
in process as cotton.
“Based on the information he has
gathered, it is Mr. Wannamaker’s
opinion that the demand for raw cot
ton is now just on the approach to
what is bound to come in a very
short time. The world Is now cot
toi) hungry, he says, and yet it is
destined to approach almost a cot
ton starvation before another year
passes and another crop can be pro
duced.
Super-Care Necessary
“These conditions demand, mor®
than at any time heretofore, exercise
of super-care in behalf of and by
the producers of the staple to insure
their realization of something near
the actual worth of their product.
"After the war between the states
cotton sold at $1 per pound, and yet
there was then not the demand for
or the scarcity of the staple that con
fronts the world right now.
“It becomes essential, therefore,
that the best mentality available de
vote itself to transportation,
bution and broadened markets iff
order to reach the point of actual
value. The methods of handling the
staple, as the direct result of the
operation of the American Cotton as
sociation. will undergo an entire
chang. Here are some of the rea
sons:
“It is computed that nine-tenths
of the clothing of the entire world
is made from cotton, and yet. out
of the world’s population of 1,800,-
000,000, .only 500.000.000 are com
pletely clothed; 750.000.000 are only
partly clothed and 550,000,000 are
without clothing.
“To provide for the actual needs
of the human race it is figured that
55,000.000 bales, or 15 1-2 pounds for
each human being, will be required
eAch year.
“The world's cotton consumption
of today is approx:mately 23.000,0)0
ba’es. and of this, during the last
decade, the American crop—the staple
of the south —averaged about 13,-
000.000 bales.
“Calculations of the best experts
In the world show there wil’ be an
enormous increase in the demand for
cotton as a result of enforced
changes growing out of the world
war; that in the coming few years’
time the sp nning world will demand
annually 35.000,000 bales of cotton,
and this, to meet the growing d wd
fr m year to year, under a new con
dition of affairs, must be proportion
ately increased.
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