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VOL. XXII. NO. 29.
HOOVER LOOMING
STRONG US CHOICE
OF THEDEMDCMTS
Lawrence Hints Food Ad
’ ministrator May Get Wil
son’s Support—Conserva
tives Welcome Bryan
BY DAVID LAWBENCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
WASHINGTON. Jan. B.—People
who attend the Jackson day dinner
and the meeting of the Democratic
national committee —or, for that mat
ter, the Republican national commit
tee meetings, are essentially poli
ticians. Their conversation is about
delegates and convention rules and
booms and certain success and the
terrible faults of the other party.
Candidates have their boosters on the
job quietly sounding out sentiment
and extolling the virtues of the as
pirants for the presidency.
But underneath it all, when you get
them away from the formal stuff,
the politicians wh# are here for the
Democratic assemblage have some
definite ideas of what is going to
happen in the coming campaign.
Far from being as comfortable as
the Republicans were in their calcu
lation that any Republican could win
this time, the Democrats seem to be
saying that it will take “some can
didate,” not just any candidate, to
win on the Democratic ticket.
There is a sense of impending re
sponsibility for the selection of a big
man to be the standard bearer of the
party, but as usual at this early
stage of the game, the friends of Mc-
Adoo, Palmer, Governor Cox, Sena
tor Pomerene, Senator Hitchcock,
James W. Gerard, and last, .but not
least, William Jennings Bryan, have
a confident feeling that their man
measures up exactly to specifications.
Hoover Looms Strong
They' talk about their Individual
choices with the usual enthusiasm,
but running through it all seems
to be a belief that the Democrats
either will have to have a really big
personality or a strong issue. The
more or less disinterested of the
political delegates talk about Her
bert Hoover, and there is no under
standing his possibilities even by the
delegates and committeemen who
haye- candidates of their own to
espouse.'
Indeed, the most interesting bit
of political news in the Democratic
gathering is the pronounced friepd-
Mness to Herbert Hoover. *
"Is ne a Democrat?” is the ques
tion which I overheard one commit
teeman ask another.
“I don’t know,” was the reply, “but
the people down my way don’t much
care whether he is or not.”
Strength for Herbert Hoover comes
not merely out of the west, from
which section he hails, but from the
south. One of the men who has much
to do wjth South Carolina politics
and delegations, for. instance, told
me that if the convention were held
tomorrow, it would not be a difficult
matter to swing South Carolina for
Hoover.
But there are certain pledges that
always go for the first ballot. One
man who controls another state said
he aws pledged to McAdoo, but he
thought in the end he might be
found swinging his delegation to
ward Hoover.
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BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, Jan. B—Emerging
from the foliage and palm trees of
his winter home in Miami, William
Jennings Bryan suddenly is again
the most talked about man in the
Democratic party, and every candi
date for president is figuratively
trembling in his shoes over the
mysterious moves of the Nebraskan.
The average Democrat here be
lieves —or fears—that Mr. Bryan is
a candidate. The situation may as
well be faced as it is, they say, and
there has been more Bryan talk in
the cloak rooms at the capltol/with
in the past few days than since 1912.
This talk is by no means all fa
vorable, but it is unquestionably
nue that the big interrogation today
in Democratic quarters is:
“What about Bryan?”
There will be a dozen speakers at
the Jackson dinner here Thursday
night—most of the speakers being
national figures—but' the headline
attractions of that dinner will rank
as follows:
The letter from President Wilson
and the speech of William J. Bryan.
The Bryan come-back is one of the
mystifying things of Democratic
politics. Mr. Bryan dropped off the
front page with his resignation as
secretary of state. Everybody as
sumed he was dividing his time ,be
tween Asheville and Miami, or 1 mak
ing prohibition lectures, and let It
go at that.
Today, merely because he bobbed
up in Washington two weeks ago
and held a conference with Demo
cratic senators, ostensibly to dis
cuss the peace treaty, and because
he is a Jackson-dinner speaker and
was quoted at length in a Balti
more paper on national issues, W il
liam Jennings/Bryan is right back
on the front’ page and getting more
publicity than the president.
“The fellows seem to think he is
a candidate,” was the remark of a
Democratic senator who had recent
ly left the cloakroom. He spoke re
signedly. “But he/ can’t be nomi
nated,” he added, a bit more hope
fully.
Bryan’s Sample Case
“Why not?” suggested the inters
viewer. “Book what he has in his
sample case—all good stuff, except
government ownership of railroads.”
And then there followed this
resume of the situation at it is play
ing into the Bryan hands, to wit:
The silver' dollar has caught up
with the gold dollar, or, in the words
of Bryan, “the silver dollar is no
longer a cheap dollar; it is the gold
dollar that is cheap, if we may bor
row the phraseology employed by
financiers twenty-five years ago.”
Woman suffrage has been recog
nized by congress and the
rapidly ratifying the suffrage amend
ment. Bryan was talking and ad
vocating woman suffrage when some
of the suffrage leaders of today
were yelling about states’ "iyhts and
petticoat politics.
National prohibition is here. Bry-
was “dry” when some of the re
cent converts were sipping mint ju
leps in the back room and reluctant
ly admitting that local option might
The Democratic leaders don’t want
Bryan; that’s a certainty today. But
more than once they’ve not wanted
Bryan, only to see him land, right
side up, in some -party situation.
Hence the worry over the emerg
ing Nebraskan, who was thought to
be permanently submerged.
With what misgivings and alarm
Champ Clark, Oscar Underwood, At
lee Pomerene, Governor Cox and
other Democratic aspirants for White
House residence will view the per
formance of Mr. Bryan at the, Jack
son day dinner—and thereafter —is
readily /to be imagined, in view of
the disturbing comeback of the gen
tleman from Nebraska and Florida.
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Three Distinct Overtures
Made by Bolsheviki —Anti-
Red Forces Seem to Be
Completely Defeated
WASHINGTON, Jan.* B.—Soviet
Russia today has in full swing a
“peace offensive” similar to thos?
Which Germany launched at fre
cuent intervals, according to ad
vices repeived here today.
Complete defeat of the anti-Bol
shevik Russian forces of Kolchak,
Deniken and Yudenitch has dis-*
pelled almost all hopes for success
ful resumption of hostilities against
♦the Bolsheviki by the Russians
alone, officers of the military in
telligence here, •who are in daily
touch with the Russian situation,
believed today. The Bolsheviki are
masters of Russia from the Black
sea to the Baltic and Arctic ocean,
and from Poland to western Siberia,,
they said.
Within the past few days news
has been received in Washington of
three distinct peace overtures by the
Bolsheviki. These are:
1 — A new peace offer to the allies
from Lenine is reported being taken
to London by Colonel Tallents, Brit
ish representative in the Balt'e
states. This offer carries with it
the concession to abolish Bolshevist
terrorism.
2 Bolshevik Foreign Minister
Tchitcherin has offered peace negoti
ations to Poland, according to state
department advices, and has threat
ened Poland with a military offen
sive in the spring in the event of
her failure immediately to accept
the offer.
3 Tchitcherin also is reported to
have proposed to Italy a resumption
of relations with Soviet Russia, and
to have declared that the “imminent
capture of the Black sea coast by
the soviets will open the Black sea
route to Italy.”
Would Control Russia
Should the Bolsheviki succeed in
obtaining even tacit recognition from
the allies, they would be left in
complete control of all Russia, it
was said, as it is not believed that
the all-Russian forces can again suc
cessfully combat the Bolsheviki un
less they are rendered active and
complete support by the allies. The
British blockade fleet in the Baltic
sea, now the principal allied weapon
against the Bolsheviki would be
withdrawn and soviet Russia coull
then obtain badly needed supplies.
Lenine and Trotzky would be fre«
to concentrate on their purpose “to
subvert the existing principles of
government. a ,nd society the world
over, 'including' those countries in
which democratic institutions are '
already established,” which was re- i
vealed by Secretary of State Lans
ing in his memorandum to congress I
recently.
Following is a “birds-eye” view of
the present military situation in
Russia, as outlined by officers of
the military intelligence.
Siberian front: A Bolshevik force
of between 70,000 and rifles
and 6,000 cavalry now is believed to
be only a few hundred miles from
Irkutsk, with a demoralized Kolchak
army of between 30,000 and 58,000
retreating before it. Irkutsk, the
present capital of the Siberian gov
ernment, now headed by General
Semenoff, is threatened by Repub
lican revolutionists, who also are
holding sway over the region a few
hundred miles west of Irkutsk. But
the mikado has declared that the
Bolsheviki “shall not pass” beyond
Lake Baikal, and the Japanese gov
ernment' virtually has decided to
send reinforcements to her already
large force of troops in Siberia, to
check the red advance.
ATLANTA, Ga., FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1920.
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“Still’ Scene, Arresting Movie
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A SCENE AND TWO PRINCIPALS FIGURING IN THE UNIQUE INCIDENT WHEREBY UN
CLE SAM summarily broke up a movie re L arsa! in Lumpkin county Thursday. At the top may be
seen United States Deputy Marshal Ben Lan ft s in the center of the startled group of players he raid
ed while they were enacting a “nioonshine” At the lower left is Dr. Craig Arnold, of Dahlone
ga, who had aided and abetted the To the right is Miss Irma Harrison, comely little
star of “The Daughter of Devil Dan,” one "prisoners” taken into custody by the federal offi
cer. Milas Harrison may be recognised infthe upper picture despite her costume.
MOON, REFUSED
$lO, KILLED HIS
MOTHER, HE SAYS
' VALpOSTA, Ga., Jan. B.—Melt
Moon, held in jail here charged with
the murder of his mother, Mrs.
Susan Moon, near Adel, <ast week,
confessed to the Cook county coron
er’s jury last night, according to
officials, that he alone was responsi
ble for his mother’s death. Moon,
who is described as of unsound mind
told the jury his mother had refused
to give him $10; that he kicked the
breath out of her, struck her over
the head with a stick of wood, then
cut her throat and stabbed her
through the heart.
After finishing his recital of the
brutal and fiendish crime, Moon de
clared that S. P. Cooper, Lacey’
Spires and Jim Johnson, young
white men who were also being held,
had nothing to do with the crime and
that any statements he had made
heretofore which would cast sus
picion on them were false. Johnson
was being held in jail here and he
v'as immediately released on the
charge, but was arrested on a war
rant charging him with hog stealing,
for which he gave bond and returnel
to his home. Cooper and Spires were
f: eed.
Governor Declines to
Pardon Dr. McNaughton
Convicted of Murder
Governor Dorsey Thursday de
clined to pardon or parole Dr. W. J.
McNaughton, who is serving at the
prison farm at Milledgeville a life
sentence for the murder of . Fred
an Emanuel county farmer
and turpentine operator whom Dr.
McNaughton is accused of poisoning
with arsenic ten years ago jn com
plicity with Mrs. Flanders.
Dr. McNaughton’s application for
a pardon or parole was heard by the
governor several weeks ago. It was
supported by numerous friends of
the prisoner, including a Baptist
minister of Savannah and a Meth
odist minister of Atlanta. Relatives
of Fred Flanders strongly opposed
the application.
In declining to grant clemency,
Governor Dorsey declares in a writ
ten statement that he is convinced
there was intimacy between Mc-
Naughton and Mrs. Flanders, and thai.
the circumstance of Flanders taking
sick about the time he was prepar
ing to move away from Swainsboro,
and the strange behaviour of Dr. Mc-
Naughton in connection therewith,
are irreconcilable, in his mind, with
any theory other than Dr. McNaugh
ton’s guilt.
The governor then states that a
commutation of Dr. McNaughton’s
sentence from death to life imprison
ment, granted by a previous gover
nor, in his opinion is a sufficient ex
ercise of clemency In his case.
1 Govewnent Sleuth Stops
Filing of Realistic Moun
taiFScene, Thinking Play
ers Real Moonshiners
It happened near Dahlonega, the
heart of Lumpkin county—famed for
gold and hospitality and mountain
scenery.
The film players making “The
Daughter of Devil Dan”—forthcom
ing six-reel screen production—were
at the crux of a tensely dramatic
scene.
Little Irma Harrison, leading lady,
make-believe daughter of a make-be
lieve moonshiner, was about to be
seech her father to give up his il
licit distillery. In a moment more
she was to blow up the nearby dam,
thereby sweeping away all evidence
of guilt before her make-believe
sweetheart, Kempton Green, leading
man and make-believe revenue offi
cer, arrived on the spot.
“Ready! Action! Camera! Shoot!”
commanded Director Frank Gordon
Kirby, nervously, in the tempera
mental way all reel directors have.
’ “Bang!” crashed a .38 Colt auto
matic, and in walked a determined
looking figure, booted, slouch-hatted
and truculent.
“You’re all under arrest!” he gasp
ed. \
“Get out!” shrieked Director Kir
by, “You’re not in the script! And
you’ve ruined the scene!”
“Scene—your necktie!” retorted
, the intruder. “I’m Ben Landers, of
Gainesville, and I’m a United-States
deputy marshal. This still is raid
ed. Everybody here’s’ pinched. If
' anybody don’t believe it, he can try
to outrun a bullet!”
Thus it happened that in the year
1920—last Thursday, to be precise—
in the commonwealth of Georgia, an
entire company ©f motion picture
players was gathered in by the long
arm of Uncle Sam.
Thus it happened that four prin
cipals in the filming of “The Daugh
ter of Devil Dan,” arc today under
bond on the charge of violating the
revenue laws of the United States.
Thus it happened that a charming
young screen star still wanes hys
terical when she tries to tell what
happened—that a well-known direc
tor side-steps -whenever he sees a
traffic cop—that one of North Geor
gia’s foremost citizens brings one
of the best stories to Atlanta that
has come from the mountains in
many a day.
Dr. Arnold's St°ry.
Dr. Craig Arnold., former state
legislator from Lumpkin county,
good roads evangelist, and a Geor
gian popular from Rabun Gap to
Tybee Light, narrates the tale. He
reached Atlanta Tuesday. So did the
fifteen actresses, actors, cameramen,
etc., of the Buffalo Motion Picture
corporation, of New York city, who
are producing a Georgia-made screen
drama. In fact, everybody’s here
except United States deputy marshal
(.Continued on Page 6, ernnmn 6)
i SOUTH GEORGIA
CITIES ASK HELP
FOR A., B. & A. R. R.
FITZGERALD, Ga., Jan. B.—Reso
lutions calling upon the Georgia sen
ators and congressmen to support
the Cummins railroad bill and endors
ing that measure insofar as it re
fers to the guarantee of income and
financial "-otection of railroads, were
adopted here by an assembly
o; rep -esentatives from various cities
along the line of the A., B. & A.
railroad. The meeting was called by
the Fitzgerald Chamber of Commerce
to consider the situation caused by
the report of the probability that
the A., B. & A. system may be
scrapped because of financial diffi
culties. Practically all the larger
cities along the line of the road were
represented by municipal officials or
officers of their respective chambers
of commerce.
The resolution follows:
“Whereas, the conditions now con
fronting the operation of the rail
roads of this state are such that only
a few of our lines are able to meet
their actual operating expenses, pro
ducing a condition most deplorable
and which we regard with deep con
»cern; therefore, be it
“Resolved, That we urge our sen
ators and representatives, both indi
vidually and collectively, to exer
cise themselves support of remedial
legislation, the two bills now in con
ference. It is the sense of this body
that we heartily indorse the Cum
mins bill in so far as it refers to
the guarantee income and financial
protection of the railroads for a pe
riod of six months after they are
returned to their owners.”
In attendance at the meeting were
I. H. Davis, mayor of Manchester;
J. S. Peters, vice president of the
Bank of Manchester; W. E. Algee,
secretary of the Tifton Board of
Trade; A. M. Smith, president of the
Brunswick Board of Trade; W. K.
Holt and J. W. McCall, of Rebecca;
J. H. Mays, W. A. Adams, S. G. Pry
or, Jr., J. J. Dorminy, D. A. Bragg,
W. R. McLendon, M. W. Garbull, I.
Gelders, Lon Dickey and I. C. Smith,
representing the Fitzgerald Chamber
of Commerce; B. L. Bugg, C. E.
Brower, George M. Gentry, L. R.
Waters, G. B. Eunice and E. H. Hill,
representing the A.. B. & A. railroad.
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JOURNAL TO PUBLISH
LETTERS OF KAISER
TOTHEFOMICMII
Under Arrangement With
Chicago Daily News, En
tire Correspondence Will
Be Printed for First Time
Willy-Nicky Letters Begin
In Semi-Weekly Journal
The Atlanta Journal has se
cured' from the Chicago Daily
News, exclusive rights for pub
lication in Georgia \Of the “Willv-
Nicky Letters,” seventy-three in
all, being those written by Wil
helm 11, former kaiser of Ger
many. to the late Nicholas Ro
manoff, former czar of all Rus
sia. The correspondence coyer*
the period of twenty years, 189 1-
1914, just preceding the war.
The first letter will appear in
next Tuesday’s issue and others
will follow at regular intervals.
By ISAAC DON LEVINE.
(Foreign Correspondent of the Chicago Daily
News.)
Upon the execution of Nicholas
Romanoff, the ex-czar of Russia, in
Ekaterinburg in July, 19181 a .case
containing his private correspond
ence was found among his personal
effects. This case was transmitted
by the soviet authorities to Moscow.
Among its contents was a batch of
letters written in English, addressed
to “Nicky” and signed “Willy.” Thei e
were seventy-three letters in the
latch, covering a period of twenty
years, 1894-1914.
I examined these original letters
during my fctay in Moscow last Octo
ber. The somewhat faded blue of
the stationery used by the German
emperor, his heavy and firm hand
writing as well as his quaint English
distinguished this batch from .t
number of other papers kept in the
Same safe. 1 cause to be made a
complete copy of all the letters, and
photographs of some of them.
The collection that Th.* Daily
News and The Atlanta Journal wi’i
publish is complete-—not a selects jn
ij'om the kaiser's letters to the cza* - .
It includes all such letters in exist
ence. None of these letters has ev*r
been published, although more than
a year ago a number of telegrams
exchanged between the kaiser and
the czar in the years 1904-1907 ap
peared under the name of “The
Willy-Nicky Correspondence.”
Without questioning the genuine
pess of tlie telegrams referred to ■ U
should nevertheless be
that the so-called “Willy-Nicky Cor
respondence,” being telegrams, can*
by their very nature be authenti
cated. For it is scarcely possible
that no errors should have b<en com
mitted in the transmission of a large
Lumber of telegrams. Tn the case of
letters here published we have really
a set of irrefutable and unquestion
able documents.
The first of these communication?,
was written in 1394, on the occasion
of the succession to the throne Oi
Nicholas Romanoff. The iast was
dispatched in 1914. The twenty
years encompassed by these com
munications from the kaiser to the
czar will always remain a period of
profound interest to the future his
torian. In these twenty vears the
forces which culminated in tti»
bloodiest and vastest war in the life
of mankind grew and developed.
After the countless contemporary
histories the causes of the world war
have turned into, dust and vanished
from the memory of man, these let
ters will hold their own.
As time goes on and passions and
prejudices givfe way to calm Judg
ment and impartial analysis, people
will peruse these pages more and
more frequently. What a boon to
humanity it would be if the enor
mous volume of truth lying buried in
the private archives of half a dozen
European courts, existing and ex
tinct, were suddenly to be revealed
to the world! So far little has come
out of the archives of the fallen Ger
man and Austrian royal houses. The
letters here published are the first
collection of its kind from the arch
ives of the deposed Romanoffs to see
the light.
The kaiser was the apostle of the
“principe de la monarchic.” This
appears very early in his communi
cations to the Russian autocrat. His
big purpose, running like a red
thread through all these letters, was
to divert Russia’s attention from
the west to the east and alienate
her from France. In the first part
of his program the Iflaiser succeeded.
He turned the attention of the czar
to the Far East, he aroused in Nicky
the belief that Russia’s mission was
to stave off the yellow peril, inas
much as the czar followed the sug
gestions of the kaiser—and this cor
respondence shows it—the kaiser
was actually responsible for the
Russo-Japanese war!
What would have happened to the
world had Europe’s mightiest autoc
racies joined hands in a military
alliance is a matter for interesting
speculation now. In all probability
there would have been no revolutions
in Russia and Germany, and Willy
and Nicky would still be on their
thrones. The whole world now prob
ably would be respectively under the
arrogant rule of Prussian and Rus
sian militarists.
It is impossible to recount here
all the charcteristics of the “admiral
of the Atlantic”—as the kaiser call
ed himself—revealed in these let
ters. Every letter contains a differ
ent feature, discloses a new trait, of
the kaiser’s nature. But by far the
most outstanding phase of Wil
helm’s mind appears to be his in
tense hatred of Great Britain.
The kaiser’s English is far from
perfect. His spelling leaves much
to be desired. “Allready,” “all
ways,” “wellfare” are some of his
commonest mistakes. He almost in
variably employs “&” for .“and.” He
writes “beeing” instead of "being,”
“wether” instead of “whether,” “un
noble” in place of “ignoble,” “cour
tesey,” “assisstance,” “takle,” “ex
istant,” “openess,” are some of his
other errors. Instead of “Turkey”
the kaiser writes “Turky” and in
stead of “Dardanelles” he spells
“Dardanels.” His letters are replete
with faulty constructions and con
tain scores of in addi
tion to those here mentioned. These
mistakes have been corrected in the
text of the letters as they are to be
published in The Journal.
Scents a copy.
81.2 S A jrfcAß.
HM SAYS
HE IS NOT RUNNING •
FUR PRESIDENCY
■ Senators Fighting’Pact Are
Called ‘Unpatriotic’—San
Francisco Claims Lead in i
Race for Convention - •.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—Resolu-
■ lions indorsing the treaty of Ver- :
ballies and denouncing as qnpat’riotic J
! the attitude of senators who vWtlld /I
I defeat it directly or by nullifying J
■ reservations weie unanimously adopit- B
cd today by the Democratic natioffal ■
committee in session.’ Jill
The “arrogant” Republican ledder-* yl
! ship of the senate was denounced gs
■ having earned the “contempt of the V
world" by throttling the treaty; z for 'ta
seven months, and the senate
.■al! fl upon to “quit playing
with tl.e question of
Senator 1 ’nderwood, of
a statement today.
would not be a candidate for'.'wß|l
I)-niovrati.- pretldcntial
"My friends have complimented
, me." the senator said, “by suggest-
Ing that 1 be a candidate for tjm
; Democratic presidential nomiuatioji, •' j
but I am In no sense a i i
have announced a candidacy son
I senatorshjp for Alabama and I
and expect to represent that e ‘ >
in the senate so»- another six
Roviev.ing the legislative recall 1
of the two Wilson administrations
and the manner in which the war ?f
was v.on. the resolutions also ex
pressed gratification that the., pres- ■
idem was regaining healtti dft'ef, a f
breakdown “duo largely to his efforts
for world ponce.”
The resolutions were adopted at
the committee’s quadrennial meeting ■,?
to select a time and place fer the
1920 convention. The choice will be.
made late today with the race be- .
tween Kansas City and San Francis- ; -
co and with the supporters of the
latter claiming they have enqilfeh
votes pledged to insure beyond dis- ;;
cushion the selection of their city.'
ICesolnticu on Treaty
Concerning the peace the
resolutions said: 'jS
"We affirm our approval Os the
treaty of Versailles and we condemn
as iihwise and uupatrlotie the atti- 'Z
tude of those senators who would U
defeat its ratification, either directly, ' |
oi- by overwhelming it with reser
vat tons that are Intended to, and will , -
have the effect of nullifying it.
“The failure of the senate Repub
lican leaders to offer or to permit
consideration of interpretative reso
lutions that would preserve the gen
eral putpote of the treaty and to so
permit its ratification condemns
them to- the criticism of the nation -
antj lo the Contempt of the world.” ' ’
The resolutions said that when the lj
Democrats came into powef in 1913
they found "the nation in a condi
tion of comparative industrial and
commercial depression" and With “the
banking system in the bands of, a
few men at whose will panics pe
riodically occurred.” - /.-.ma
It was added that “these and Ot .-
er ills had existed for sixteen years
under Republican rule without any
relief."
“To remedy this condition,’’ the
resolutions continued, “the Demo- '
cratie administration entered imme
diately upon a vigorous constructive - '
program,” adding that the establish- T'/
ment of the federal reserve banking
system “entitles the party to the
everlasting gratitude of thr'COUntry, M
while the farm loan banking system <■'!
gave to our agricultural interests
the relief long demanded by them.”
The resolutions then referred to
the enactment of the law giving “the
people the right to elect their United
States senators by popular vote,” and ■
said the party had “enfranchised the J
women apd for the first time gave
labor the fair showing to which it I
was entitled ” i
Referring to the avowed objects
of the country’s participation hi the
war, the resolution continued: j
“A treaty to this end was- nego- 1
tiated and for seven months-R has
been throttled by the misusea Re- J
publican leadership of the senate that
is so arrogant that it evb’n irfefuses
to let the senators of its own .party;
who desire to have the. rati- I
fied with certain reservations that 1
seem reasonable to them, tdtvtfte ac
cordingly. and thus to make at least
a start toward world-wide peace.”
• emand for Peace z
As a result, me rcsohrtioua: said,
■'conditions are unsettled, a definite
proclamation of the end of the- war ;
is delayed.” it'declares that had th’e
treaty been ratified “with reasonable
promptness, the world would now be |
engaged in the fruitful work of re.-.,
construction.”
“We Join,” said the resolutions*',
“the demand of the pulpits of the |
country and of its agricultural in
terests. of labor and of the; great I
business, industrial and comhiercial |
organizations of America that: tins ■
senate quit playing politics w+Qi tips
sacred question and give to tire world M
the word’that Amerca; is readx to at
least make a trial for uniyersa.
peace. We repudiate the inferential
suggestion that having joined our as
sociates in a war that is now leading
th mto chaos we are to withdraw’ j
and leave them to a merciless fat,©
in order’ that we might maintain a
so-called traditional state of ‘lsola
tion’ that we surrendered when we
went to the defense of our rights and
to the aid of struggling humanity.
"If this is to be our attitude, then "’“l
the 50,000 Americans who now. sleep
in France gave up their lives in yam
and the 2.000,00:0 more Who Willing
ly offered their lives for the cause
that called us there, have a right |o
ask for what were they summoned
to the colors.” - - \ ?
The delegation working for- San
Francisco went into the meeting de
claring they were absolutely assured
that the Pacific coast city would
win. Suporters of Kansas City were
not so optimistic, but said they srfill
had a chance. z
Clark Howell of Georgia was ap
pointed chairman of the resolutions
committee with A. R. Titlow, W&sU
ington; John Gary Evans, South
Carolina; Senator Saulsbury, Dela
ware, and Patrick H. Quinn. Rhode'
Island, as committee members.
There were a number of absentee*
both in the ranks of the committee
men and the women's associate com
mit ise when the gathering was call
ed together by Chairman Homer S.
Cummings.
A committee was appointed to hea>'
a request regarding the holding »■
primaries in the District of Colum
bia. It was composed of John W.
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