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NEWYMKATTORNEY.
ONCE PROGRESSIVE,
1 SUCCEffIS_LANSING
Bainbridge Colby's Appoint
i
ment Comes as a Surprise.
Baker or Polk Were Ru
mored as Slated
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Bain
bridge Colby, of New York, who was
one of the leaders in the Progressive
party under Theodore Roosevelt, wUJ
Robert Lanslag as secretary
•a state. Announcement of his se
lection by President Wilson was
made today at the White House.
His nomination was sent to the
senate late this afternoon.
Mr. Colby’s appointment came as
even more of a surprise than the res
ignation of Mr. Lansings at the re
quest of President Wilson.
The first hint of Mr. Colby’s ap
pointment came a few minutes be
fore the formal announcement by
Secretary Tumulty. The early re
ports that he would get the place
were not generally credited.
Following the announcement of the
appointment Mr. Colby appeared at
the White House and was taken to
see President Wilsoi*.
With Shipping Board
I His latest connection with the Wil
son administration was when he was
a member of the United States ship
ping board. He resigned from that
position a few months ago.
Mr. Colby is a lawyer. His home
is in New York. He was born In
St. Louis in 18611.
During the Republican national
convention of 1912 he was in charge
of the contest to seat Roosevelt dele
gates. He was one df the .founders
of the progressive party and dele
gate to its first convention.
During the war he was a commis
sioner of the federal shipping board
and a member of the emergency fleet
corporation. He was a member of ,
the American Mission to the inter
allied conference at Paris in 1917.
Mr. Colby was a life-long Republi- I
can until the famous Bull Moose bolt i
at the • Chicago convention in 1912.
He had been actively identified with ‘
the candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt
lor the Republican nomination for I
president that year and was in
charge of contests to seat the Roose
velt delegates in the Chicago conven
tion. * X
When Colonel Roosevelt bolted the i
convention, Mr. Colby helped to
found the Progressive party and was
a delegate to its Chicago convention
in 1912. He continued an active
leader in that party and in 1914 and
again in 1916 he was a Progressive
candidate for senator York
state. - ,
. When Colonel Roosevelt threw the
weight of his influence to Charles
EVans Hughes in the 1916 presiden
tial race, Mr. Colby identified him
self with the Democratic party.
Mr. Colby was born at St. Louis
fifty-one years ago and .graduated
from William college,
He spent one year at the Columbia
Law school and has practiced law tn
New York since 1892. He was a
member of the New York assembly
in 1901-02.
Debate Due in Senate
When Mr. Colby’s appointment gets
on the senate floor for Confirmation,
debate on the Lansing-Wilson clash
is expected to result.. Immediately
after Mr. Lansing’s resignation, a
number of senators stated privately
they intended to look into the affair
when submission of the name of a
new secretary for congressional ap
proval gave them an opportunity to
do sd/ As the appointment may be
taken up in executive session, this
debate is likely to take place in the
committee which will consider the
nomination.
On leaving the White House Mr.
Colby said*
"I had a long and unhurried con
ference with the president which
impressed me with the great confi
. dence he has reposed in me. I hope
I shall not prove inadequate to these
great duties.”
Mr. Colby said that pending con
sideration of his nomination by the
senate he did not desire to make a
further statement.
A bitter fight will be waged in the
senate against confirmation of Mr. ■
Colby as secretary of state, several 1
senators declared today on hearing i
of his appointment. . •
Opinion among Republican senators, I
with the exception of a few progres- I
sives, was practically unanimous I
that Mr. Colby ‘‘won’t do.” But no ■
member would permit his name to!
be tised.
Will Oppose Selection
Though it is unusual for the sen
ate to oppose the president’s selec
tion of a cabinet member, this one
will be fought to the finish, these
senators declared positively.
It was recalled by Senators today
that when he was nominated for the
shipping board Mr. Colby’s confirma
tion was vigorously opposed in the
commerce committee and in the sen
ate, and he got through by the nar
rowest of margins in both bodies.
Both New York senators. Messrs.
Calder and Wadsworth, fought him
at that time.
His attacks on the senate critics
or the League of Nations also may
have something to do with intensify
ing the fight on him. He went int®
several states whose senators oppose
the league and attacked them. Mis
souri wap an example cited today.
Mr. Colby made speeches assailing
Senator Reed, who would not discuss
the appointment today.
President Urges
Oklahoma Suffrage
WASHINGTON. Feb. 26.—Presi
dent Wilson today sent to the Okla
homa legislature a message urging
ratification of the suffrage amend
ment.*'
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Hoovers Name Must Go on Primary Ballot
THE DEMOCRACY
of
HOOVER
The following principles for which Herbert Hoover stands have all been enumerated by himself in
signed articles and public speeches. They have been compiled by H. F. Burton, staff correspondent of the
Newspaper Enterprise association, and published in newspapers all over the United States.
DEMOCRACY means the progress of the average man. In business affairs democ
racy should limit itself to preventing the rule over the many by the dollars con
trolled by the few.
Managers of capital are laborers sifted out by competition in a contest of intelli
gence, skill and character.
The object of economic policy must be to improve the standard of living to all,
Man works to get things and service and for saving in old age and for protection of
his dependents.
Socialism will be here when man Avorks for work’s sake and service to his fellowman
—and then it won’t be necessary.
Trade unions safeguard opportunity. The right to combine implies the right to bar
gain collectively.
Corporations get too big when they dominate in wages, prices or production.
Nationalization of industry fails where all socialism /fails—by destroying the impulse
for efficiency and initiative.
The price we pay for the privilege of the play of initiative, ability and character "is
that some people get more than they deserve.
Inheritance taxes ought to be applied to reducing the public debt or for development
of rivers and other national properties.
The excess profits tax stimulates waste and is paid by the ultimate consumer.
America ought to help Europe help herself by furnishing her temporarily food, raw
materials, tools and credit.
The League of Nations offers hope of the ending of wars and permits economy in-mil
itary expenditures.
I’m not for any party dominated by men opposed to free speech or free assemblage
or free .representation. •
I’m not for any party dominated by men who hope for socialism or other destruction
of individual initiative.
. The well-grounded discontent won’t be cured until the misery due to selfishness has
been rooted out
Europe, with its 450 million people, is producing enough for only 350,000,000, large
ly because of socialistic impulses which assume: . • - -
That a man will work as hard for love of his fellowman as for himself, and
That some official can best pick out for a man the kind of work he should do instead
of letting him choose his own line of work, and
That something has been devised that is better than the school of competition in fitting
workers to the places where they can do best.
The American substitute for the socialistic disintegration of Europe must be founded in a
practical American way, on American ideas, on the American philosophy of life, on th'e
normal development of our natural institution, on the fundamental fact’that every section
of this country, the farmers, the city workers, the professional men, the employers are in
terdependent on each other for maximum production and better distribution of results.
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ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1920.
STATE PAPERS
DEMAND HOOVER
ON THE TICKET
SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 26.—The
Savannah Press says editorially this
afternoon:
”The question not only concerns
Mr. Hoover. He has not asked for
the nomination. In fact, he declines
to enter the primary in Georgia. It
concerns the right of the Democrats
in Georgia to vote for whom they
please.
“Mr. Hoover has proved himse.if
to be more of a Democrat than the
subcommittee which has changed, the
rules. He is more of a Democrat
than some of our national representa
tives, who, though electee! as Demo
crats. have been voting against the
administration and party principles.”
HOOVER'S NAME SHOULD
GO ON TICKET, SAYS ‘NEWS'
ROME. GA.. Feb. 26.—The Rome
News said in an editorial last Mon
day: “A preferential primary would,
not be what it Should be if the
voters are not permitted to express
their preference for whomsoever
they please, and if Hoover is a good
e..ough Democrat forth J members of
that party to vote for him, he is
good enough to have his name on the
ticket.”
The News as a Democratic news
paper believes that Hoover’s name
should be placed en the ballot in
the Georgia Preferential Primary,
regardless of whether he declares
prior to the primary that he is a
Democrat if the rules adopted by the
committee will not permit this the
rules should be amended. (Signed)
Robert H. Clagett, fnanaging editor.
HOOVER NOT ELIMINATED BY
TELEGRAM, TRIBUNE-HERALD
ROME, Ga., Feb. 26.—1 n the opin
ion bf the Tribune-Herald, Mr.
Hoover’s telegram in no wise al
ters the situation in Georgia,
hut is merely a consistent adherence
to his attitude throughout, namely,
that he is not an active and avowed
candidate for the Democratic nomi
-nation.- He dores not state "that lie
is not now a. Democrat, but says he
was not iidentified with the party
before the War and does not claim
identify with it because of his war
service.
This newspaper believes in the
fullest and freest possible expres
sion of the people’s will in this and
in all other political matters it
holds that if the Democrats of Geor
gia wish to instruct their delegates
to the national Democratic conven
tion to vote for Mr. Hoover, they
should be given an opportunity to so
express themselves. TRIBUNE
HERALD.
Text of Mr. Hoover's
Telegram, in Reply
To Secretary Gardner
NEW YORK, February 26, 1920.
Hon. Hiram L. Gardner.
Secretary State Democratic Executive Committee,
Eatonton. Ga.
I feel confident that it is not necessary for me to dwell at
length upon my gratitude to you for the honor implied in your
letter of February 22.
I specially appreciate it since I was not identified with the
Democratic party before the war. and my official connection with
the government has been solely a war service, and consequently
not of a partisan character.
I have not been able to persuade myself that any real pub
lic service will be performed by injecting myself into the race
for the nomination to the greatest honor at the disposal of the
American people. Therefore, aside from any other reason, I do
not intend to file my name. HERBERT HOOVER.
STEADY INCREASES
SHOWN IN PRICE DF
FOOD IND CLOTHING
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—The fol
lowing statement, presenting com
parative statistics showing the rise
or decline in prices of retail and
wholesale food at 'I other commodities
ay reported by fifty leading vAmer
ican cities, has been issued by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, United
States Department of Labor:
“According to reports received by
the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
the United States Department of La
bor from the retail dealers in fifty
cities, the av ge family expend
iture for food was two per cent high
er on January 15. 1920. than-on ’De
cember 15, 1919. The cost in De
cember was 2.6 per cent higher than
it had been in any previous m nth.
These 'igures show an increase of
nine per cent since January, 1919.
and an increase of 104 per cent since
January, 1913. The comparisons are
based on the average retail prices of
the following articles, weighed ac
cording to the consumption of the
average family: Sirloin Steak, round
steak, ib roast, chuck roast, plate
beef, pork chops, bacon, ham. lard,
hens, flour, corn meal, eggs, butter,
milk, bread, potatoes, sugar, cheese,
rice coffee and tea.
Since January, 1919. monthly re
tail prices of food have been secured
for forty-four food articles. During
the month from December 15, 1919,
to January 16, 1920, twenty-nine of
the forty-four articles of food for
which prices were secured in 1919
increased as follows: Cabbage, thir
ty-three pei 1 cent; potatoes, twenty
six per cent, granulated sugar,
twenty-three ;cr cent: onions, eleven
per cent; lamb and rolled oats, eight
per cent, each; hens, seven per cent;
plate beef, six per cent; flour, five
per cent; sirloin steak, rib roast,
chuck roast, bread and cream and
ri.ee, two per cent, each; ham, evap
orated milk, macaroni, baked beans,
tea, coffee and bananas, one per cent,
each. Bacon, nut margarine, cheese
and crlsco each increased less than
five-tentlis of one per cent.
The eleven articles which decreased
in price s were: Strictly -fresh eggs,
eight per cent; butter, five per cent;
lard and canned tomatoes, three 'per
cent each; pork chops, storage eggs
and oranges, two per cent, each; fresh
milk, canned corn, canned peas and
prunes, one per cent, each.
Prices remain unchanged for oleo
margarine, corn menl, corn flakes
and navy beans.
Changes in One Year
; During the year period. January,
; 1919, ito January, 1920, twenty-five
; c the forty-two articles for which
prices were secured on both dates
increased a 0- follows: Onions. 120
per cent; cabbage, ninety-eight per
cent; potatoes, sixty—nine per cent;
granulated sugar, sixty-five per cent;
raisins, fifty-three per cen canned
salmon, sixteen per cent; crisco,
thirteen per cent; cream of wheat
; and bananas, eleven per cent; oleo
margarine and strictly fresh eggs,
ten per cent, each; bread, eigh; per
cent; fresh milk and corn meal, six
per cent, eacl • hens and butter, five
‘per cent, each; evaporated milk and
storage, eggs, four per cent, each;
lard, two per cent; and lamb -nd tea,
one per cent, each. Articles which
decreased in price during the year
were: Navy beans, eighteen per jent;
plate beef, sixteen per cent; bacon,
fourteen per cent; canned tomatoes,
eleven per cent: chuck roast and
baked beans, ten per cent, each;
pork chops, eight per cent; ham and
canned corn, six per cent; round steak
five per cent; rib roast, f per
cent; cheese and canned peas, two
pej- cent, each; and sirloin steak,
nut margarine and oranges, one per
cent, each; The price of cornflakes
was the same as in January, 1919.
Soviet Russia Said
To Seek Peace With
The United States
LONDON, Feb. 26-—The soviet com
missary of foreign affairs has dis
patched notes to the United States.
Japan and Rumania, offering them
peace with soviet Russia, according
to a wireless dispatch from Mos
cow, received here today.
STATE DEPARTMENT HAS
NOT RECEIVED MESSAGE
WASHINGTON, Feb. £6.—State de
partment officials said ■ today they
had not received any communication
from the Russian soviet government
proposing “peace” between the
United States and soviet Russia.
SENATORS REED AND
FDANCE BITTER IN
ATTACK ON LEAGUE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Another
broadside of denunciation was loosed
by irreconcilable opponents of the
peace treaty today when the sen
ate took up the subject under an
agreement to keep it constantly un
der consideration until disposed of.
Senators France, Republican,
Maryland, and Reed, Democrat, Mis
souri, led off for the irreconcilables,
the former characterizing the treaty
as an instrument of “hate and de
struction” and the latter calling it
a “serpent of treason.”
The debate began after the senate
had voted with only a few scatter
ing “noes” to pass over article ten
until action had. been taken on all the
other proposed reservations. The
motion was made by Senator Lodge,
the Republican leader, and although
I Senator Knox. Republican, Pennsyl
vania, one of the irreconcilable
group, said he could not see the wis
dom of delaying a decision, no roll
call was demanded.
Senator France, presenting formal
ly the resolution he offered several
i days ago for a declaration of peace,
declared the reservations discussion
had descended to “sophistry” and
-/“mere quibbling over language.”
Neither the Republican or Demo
cratic reservations proposed, he said,
would materially modify the Leaguo
of Nations.
The France resolution also pro
vides for an international conference
to consider a concert for peace, but
provides that this authorization
shal Ibe ineffective© if a president
pledged for the league with or with
out reservations shall be elected next
fall. By this method, the Mary
land senator argued, the presidential
campaign could be made a referen
dum on acceptance of the present
league covenant.
, Beed Bitter
“This serpent of treason must be
killed a second time.” Senator Reed,
of Mossouri, Democrat, in opening
debate on the treaty. “Any senator
is warranted in taking any amount
of time he pleases to discuss it.”
Senator Reed brought the name of
Bainbridge Colby, newly-named sec
retary of state, into the discussion
at the very beginning of his speech.
“One of the men who most assid
ously misrepresented the League of
Nations to the people of the United
States, has just been named secre
tary of state.” said Senator Reed. “I
simply remark that if he doesn’t
know anything more about the league
and the foreign affairs of this coun
try than he did when he was out
in my state making speeches, he
needs a long and painful course of
instruction. But on account of his
acrobatic t ability he will doubtless
be able to change his opinion as
easily as he has in the past changed
political parties.”
Senator Ashurst, Arizona, came at
once to Mr. Colby’s defense, declar
ing he wanted to put into the record
“an antidote for the poison Senator ’
Ree dwas trying to spread against
Colby.”
He said Mr. Colby is courageous
and able.
“I think a mistake was mad© in
not nominating a Democrat,” added
Senator Ashurst, ‘‘but you will look
a long time before you will find a
better man than Mr. Colby.”
“What are some of these at
tributes?” asked Senator Reed. “Did
it take much courage to leave j.he
Republican party and vote for Wil
son? If it did then a lot of Ameri
can citizens are as brave ac Mr. I
Colby.”
Senator Reed “’declares that “it
takes more than the holy oil of I
presidential approbation to save a'
man Lom criticism in'the senate.” ■
Senator Ashurst said that Senator ;
Reed ..as “a master of infective and I
sarcasm.”
Newfoundland Dog
Saves Master’s Life
NEW YORK, Fen. 26.—Every ef
fort was being made today to save
the life of “Prince,” a big Newfound
land dog, shot by holdup men when
he went to the aid of his master,
Martin Matarch, a restaurant keeper
who was being robbed.
When the two armed men ordered
Matarch to “throw up his hands” the
dog entered from an adjoining room
and leaped on the intruders as one
fired a shot which grazed Matarch's
wrist. One of the bandits was thrown
to the floor but freed himself from
the <lbg’s hold and shot him through**
the stomach. Both thea tfled.
Scents a < op:
51.25 A
DEMAND NOT ABATED
OR LIKELY TO ABATB
SAYS COUJNEL PERRY
E. S. Ault, of
Charges That Subcommit*
tee Held Originally Hoov*
er’s Name Might Go o$
Ballot ' /
- ?
Having Read Me Out
Os Both Parties, Let’s
Get on With Issues
—HERBERT HOOVER
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Sen- '
ator Penrose having established
that Herbert Hoover Is not a
Republican and William J.
Bryan having read him out of
the Democratic party, the way
is now clear to “get on with
the before the country,
Herbert Hoover declared in a
statement to the United Press
here today.
“We are making decided
progress toward the determina
tion,” said Mr. Hoover, “for
political parties on the solu
tions of the great business and
social issues for the next elec
tion,” said .Mr. Hoover. “For r
instance. Mr. Penrose has de
clared I am not his kind of a
Republican. Mr. Hearst has de
clared I have not his variety of '
patriotism. I at once agree
with these gentlemen.
“Having now disposed of this
momentous matter let us get' •
on with the issues our,
methods of taxation for in
stance.”
Herbert Hoover’s telegram to "
Hiram Gardner, secretary of the atat«
Democratic executive committee, re
specting the forthcoming preferen
tial primary, has confirmed and
strengthened his friends in their de
termination to press him as a candi
date before the Democrats of Geor
gia.
Far from removing or eliminating
Mr. Hoover from the field of Demo
cratic ellgibles, his telegram to Sec
retary Gardner is construed as leav
ing the situation wholly unchanged,
although its publication has develop
ed diametrically opposite views
among members of the state Demo
cratic executive committee who were.
'Present at the first meeting of the
subcommittee.
■ Colonel H. H. Perry, of Gainesvllle.i
whose name heads the list of 100 Hall l
I county Democrats, who filed Mr,
< Hoover’s name as a candidate, is
t insistent in the demand that Mr.
Hoover’s name be placed upon the
i ballot.
! Judge Jarnos J. Fly nt, of Griffin,
! chairman of tfie state committee, “re
grets that Mr. Hoover did not sea
| fit to qualify under the rules," which
;he declares with emphasis were
formulated without having in nit nd
the name of any candidate or pos-<
sible candidate.
At Issue with Flynt
E. S. Ault, of Cedartown, a mem
ber of the state committee, takes is
sue with Judge Flynt, and declares
unequivocally that he was present;
at the meeting of the subcommittee
when the rules were formulated and
that it was then stated distinctly.'
the rules would permit Mr. Hoover’s
nanip to be presented to the
Democrats of Georgia in the prefer
ential primary. , •
Lon J. McConnell, of Royston,
Democratic war horse of thirty- sev
en years’ activity, in view of Mr,
Hoover's telegram, does not believa
the Democrats of Georgia will tol
erate any further attempt by the
subcommittee to deprive the Demo
crats of the right to vote for or
against Mr. Hoover in the forthcom
ing preferential primary.
Colonel Perry, Mr. McConnell affd
scores of other Democrats, without.
waiving their inalienable rights a<4
citizens to vote as they think, read'
in Mr. Hoover’s courteous telegram
to Secretary Gardner modest
sions that unquestionably qualify him ;
to participate in the preferential,
primary.
Mr. Hoover makes it plain that
while he has been identified with v the
Democratic party since the declara
tion of the war, he takes no -ereditJ
for this affiliation because, like,
many other patriotic Americans, hia
was primarily a war service.
Although Mr. Hoover makes no
mention of the fact, it is a matter ,
of public record and a cause of Re
publican resentment that in the las*
campaign he espoused the cause o£
the Democratic party and appealed
for Democratic support in the elec
tion of the senate and house of rep
resentatives.
But Mr. Hoover, in hk message to
Mr. Gardner, modestly ignores hl«
services to the Democratic party and
in a spirit of patriotism remarks that
his labors were of a non-partisan
character designed to help the gw*-
ernment in its period of greatest'
stress.
Doesn’t Forbid Use
Colonel Perry, Mr. McConnell and
other point out further that Mr. f
Hoover, in his message to the state
committee secretary, refrains from
forbidding the use of his name in »
the Georgia preferential primary. He
will not himself file his name as a
candidate, nut his silence is eloquent
and unmistakable concerning the ac
tivities of his supporters in Hal!
county, who are insisting that his
n .ie be placed upon the ballot.
Neither Colonel Perry nor any of his
associates have received word, hint,
or suggestion from Mr. Hoover or
any of his close, advisers protesting
against their action in propcflfc-ig him .
I
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