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FORTY-SECOND YEAR.—NO. 84.
JSmith Serious Candidate, He Declares Here
IS FIGHTING TO
SAVE PARTY, HE
TELLSJffiARERS
Declares He Can Carry
More States Than
Palmer
Senator Hoke Smith came to Sum
ter county today and with his old
time fire and vigor, sustained his
reputation as a campaigner. Talk
ing for two hours at the court house,
where the Superior court room was
jammed to capacity, the senior sena- ■
tor from Georgia, who is now a can-!
didate for the Democratic nomination
for the presidency, received round
after round of applause and cheer
after cheer. Perhaps he was speak
ing to an audience largely of the
Hoke Smith persuasion before he be
gan, but whether this was true or not,
it was a Hoke Smith audience, with
but few exceptions, before he had
proceeded far with his address. A
number of men from a distance heard
the speech. Several women also were
in the audience.
Senator Smith arrived by auto from
Macon, where he spoke last night, at
11 o’clock, an hour later than ex
pected, because of the rough roads.
He was driven by Carl Ansley in L.
G. Council’s car. Stopping a few
moments at the Windsor hotel to wash
the dust from his face, he proceed
ed directly to the court house where
his audience was waiting, escorted by
a number of prominent Sumter coun
ty citizens. His arrival was greeted
by cheering, which he acknowledged
gracefully.
Introduced By Furlow.
Senator Sniith was introduced by
T. M. Furlow, who was presented by
Representative Stephen Pace. Mr.
opened his introduction by re-
to the senator as “one of our
biggest and brainiest men, a man
who does things.” He referred to the
attempts of the republicans in 1914
to fix the price of cotton, and the
telegrams that poured in on Senator
Smith to defeat the bill offered. He
recalled that Senator Smith wired
back to Georgia, “Men, I’m on the
job.”
“And he was on the job and the
bill was defeated; and it is well it
was defeated,” said Mr. Furlow.
Mr. Furlow recalled the fight of
Americus for Souther Field and the
fact that Senator Smith had been
called upon for help in landing it,
which he gave. He also gave Sena
tor Smith credit for Camp Benning,
as the senator did not give up the
fight for that camp when all hope
for it seemed lost. “And today we
have the greatest school of its kind in
all the United States,” he declared.
“I am proud of a man who can do
these big things in a big way,” said
Mr. Furlow, concluding and present
ing the senator.
A Serious Candidate.
“I come to you in all seriousness,
asking your support in sending dele
gates to San Francisco instructed to
vote for me for the Democratic nom
ination for president of the United
States. I am not one of those who
believe we haven’t a chance this
year. I believe we can win this year
if we do not crucify ourselves. The
Republican party is shot all to pieces.
We can shoot ourselves to pieces, too,
if we want to, but we do not need
to commit suicide if we do not want
to, and if we don’t we have a good
chance to win. What we need is to
get back to old time Democratic
principles.” Here the senator was
greeted with tumultuous applause, the
first after he started speaking.
“The thing we want to do first in
this regard, now that the war is past,
is to wipe out the extraordinary pow
ers given to one man, to wipe out in
terference with the rights of the
PC “l'had not thought at all of enter
ing the race for president until Mr.
Palmer announced on a plats orm of
unqualified endorsement of President
Wilson’s acts and the Versailles
treaty and League of Nations cov
cnant as written, and he came down
here to get you to repudiate me I
want to say to you now that I
would rather be carried out of the
senate dead than see the League cov
enant endorsed just as the president
it to tne senate.
Fighting To Save Party.
“They say that I am fighting the
president and attempting to kill the
Democratic party. I am not fighting
the president. There are m ® n y
great things in his administration that
I endorse most heartily. lam not
trying to kill the party, but at
tempting to help save it. T believe
the only way to save the Democratic
party is to defeat Mitchell Palmer on
April 20, for to endorse him would
be to lead the party to o\ erwhelming
disaster in November.”
Senator Smith referred to Palmer
as a stalking horse for President il
son to obtain a third term nomina
tion for him at San Francisco. I
wouldn’t vote for any man alive or
dead for a third term,’ said he. I
have never yet missed an opportun
ity to vote for a Democrat, but that
THE TIMES-RECORDER
HOKE SMITH FOR SECOND
PLACE IN SAN FRANCISCO
IF HE WINS IN GA. TALKED
HAKPISBURG, Pa., April 7. —
Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, to
day inquired by telephone to the
state capitol as to the procedure re
quired by the Pennsylvania law to
qualify him as a Democratic presi4
dential preference candidate. The
period for filing papers expires to
morrow.
That Senator Hoke Smith, who
is in Americus today, is being dis
cussed in some Democratic quarters
for the vice-presidential nomination
at San Fyancisco, pdssibly with
Hoover or Cox heading the ticket,
was indicated today in a message
received from Cincinnati by an in
timate friend of the Times-Record
er, a Georgia man who is now in
that city on business. The message
also stated what many men high up
in the counsels of the Democratic
party feel, although they can’t say
much now, that the movement for
the nomination of Herbert Hoover
on the Demofcratib ticket is not
dead by any means. Says the mes
sage to the Times-Recorder:
“Democratic leaders of Ohio and
Kentucky regard Hoover and Cox
as the chief contenders for the
Democratic presidential nomina
tion, with McAdoo, Edwards, Mar
shall, Bryan, Hoke Smith, Owen,
Palmer and Gerard running in the
order named. Palmer personally
is one place I would have to draw the j
line.
“I couldn’t believe that it was pos-'
sible for any state to elect delegates
endorsing the league as it stands or ;
Mr. Wilson for a third term. I ’
couldn’t believe it possible. And now
come the results from the Michigan
primary. There we had five men on
the Democratic ticket. Four of them
were not candidates. They said they i
were not running and asked the peo- ;
pie not to vote for them. Palmer ;
alone was an avowed candidate, and I
stumped the state. What were the re
sults? Hoover leads, with over 17,-
000 votes. Then come Edwards,!
Bryan and Palmer leading at the tail j
end, with less than a tenth of the j
party vote cast. Now what sort of
a candidate would he be for us? How I
stupid would it be for us to nomi-1
nate the president for a third term ■
or endorse the League of Nations as
it stands.
Going To Pennsylvania.
“I’ll tell you what I am going to
do. lam going to Pennsylvania after
the 20th of April and beat him in
Pennsylvania. He is already beaten ;
there, however, so I am not claiming
much for myself. Pennsylvaniaj
Democrats send word that he is not'
seriously considered in his home state ,
for the presidential nomination. I;
haven’t a doubt but that as the
Democratic nominee I could carry a I
great many more states than Mitch- '
ell Palmer. I think he was really
sick yesterday at Gainesville, and j
that the result of the Michigan pri-;
mary had nothing to do with his con-1
dition. I sent him a telegram ex- j
pressing my regrets.. But I will say
that, were I in his place, and ran as ,
ho ran in Michigan, I would go ■
home.”
Senator Smith then discussed in
detail the League of Nations, pre
senting the reservations upon which
he insists and his reasons therefor. V
He showed that President Wilson
took to Paris six advisers—Messrs.
Lansing, White, Bliss, House, Auch
incloss and Miller—and that all of
these advised him most strongly ,
against the obligations put upon this
country by the covenant as adopted
i by the peace conference, and that all
were dismissed from the president’s j
councils sooner or later, the last one
being Secretary Lansing. He show
ed that Herbert Hoover, a confidential
adviser to the president, also urged
1 him most strongly in a confidential
; letter not to accept the covenant as
. forced upon him by the European
diplomats.
Not Same Article 10.
He showed that President Wilson’s :
article 10 as drafted here and taken ;
to Paris was totally different both I
in language and spirit from the ar- i
! tide 10 prepared by General Smuts,!
which the conference adopted. The I
president’s article 10 especially gave
I to subject people the right to deter- j
mine for themselves whether they :
i should be subject or should govern I
I themselves. He showed that article
10 as urged by Attorneys Auchincloss
I and Miller, the president’s advisers
on international law, was likewise to
! tally different from the General
I Smuts’ version which the president
! brought back and commanded the ;
I senate to accept without a change, ;
! for these advisers urged that the con- :
i trading parties pledge themselves to ■
j respect the territory of one another
and stop at that point, instead of
binding themselves to “protect and
I preserve” one another’s territory.
The senator explained that the re- !
| servation he wishes to make in ar- 1
tide 10 is nothing more destructive
or nullifying than a provision re
! quiring the approval of congress in !
; each separate case where the United
[ggU PUBLISHED IN THE HEAR T OF
is regarded highly, but his candi
dacy is not taken seriously or fav
orably from any point oY view.
There has been a suggestion in
leaders quarters that if Hoke Smith
carries Georgia he will be nominat
ed for second place at San Fran
cisco.’’
This message, giving the view
point of Democrats of that section,
is all the more plausible when it is
taken into consideration that, de
spite party affiliation, Senator
j Smith regards Herbert Hoover as
one of the greatest Americans, as
I he does Governor Cox, and would
I not be averse to seeing either of
them named to head the ticket.
Recently, when Hoover was being
discussed for the Democratic nomi
ation Senator Hoke Smith made a
personal investigation of Hoover’s
record and his principles, and is
understood to have stated that he
j found both beyond reproach. It
I is known that Senator Smith re
gards Hoover’s stand on the League
I of Nations as identical with his
own.
Many Democratic leaders believe
that Hoover stands little chance
of being nominated by the. Republi
cans, not being of the type of
! American that the bosses can con
trol, and that for this reason he
may still prove available at S'an
I Francisco.
States may be ask"d to participate
in a foreign war.
“We simply ask,’’ said he, sum
ming up, “that future generations
shall not be chained to the wars of
the world." (
“I am contending,” the Senator
continued, “for the right of Con
gress to decide each case upon its
merits. That is in accord with our
constitution. I am contending for
government by the people through
their chosen representatives.”
Won’t Prevent War. '
“Threats of War never has and
never will prevent war," said the
senator, “why the League of Nations
won’t prevent war. Here last' Sep
tember England and France had
their soldiers drawn up facing each
other in Mesopotamia and ready to
fire. In the peace settlement Great
Britain was to get some oil wells and
France some copper mines. When
France woke up England had them
both. France threw her soldiers
around the mines and England’s sol
diers marched up. Had not Great
Britain backed down there would
have been another war.”
Again referring to the Lansing
matter, the senator said there had
been no cabinet meeting since Lans
ing “was fired.” “They are afraid
to meet,’’ said he. “They might be
fired, too. No one has seen the
President but Tum'ulty, Grayson and
Mrs. Wilson, and it is through these
three that .this government has been
I object to that. We need a
cabinet now.’’
“I am tired of national interfer
ence with state questions,” the sen
ator said later on in his speech.
“We’ve had entirely too much of
that now."
The Race Question.
The senator claimed that some
questions that are purely state ques
tions would come under the juris
diction of the League of Nations if
’it were adopted without reservations.
“Why they’d tell us how we should
deal with the negroes down here in
Georgia,” he said. “And you must
remember that more than half the
members of the league are represen
tatives from such countries as Siam,
Liberia, Hajaz—black men and yel
low men—more than halt, I say, are
off color—they aren’t white. Do you
want them to tell us down here in
Georgia how to handle the negro
question?”
The senator went into a detailed
statement of his actions regarding
cotton, during the year 1914, 1915,
1916, 1917, 1918 and 1919.5 “On
October 22, 1914, I introduced a
resolution in the senate declaring cot
ton to be non contraband,” said he.
“Thrpe days later Great Britain sent
word that she did not claim cotton
to be contraband. Very soon after
that declaration three million bales
of cotton were on the ocean and cot
ton had risen from 6 to 10 cents."
Why Cotton Dropped.
He said that in 1919, it was Bar
ney Baruch’s ‘raid’ on cotton, with
the instructions cf the president, that
caused cotton to break from 36 cents
ito 28 cents. “They are determined
to fix the price of cotton and buy it
at that price lot foreign govern
ments,” said he. “I fought this with
all of my being. I went to tne presi
dent, but could not change him. The
senator again flamed the president
for placing an embargo on cotton,
thus breaking the price of the staple.
Just befo " closing his speech, Sen
ator Smith paid his respects to “that
thing in Atlanta,’ referring to the
Constitution, and the Macon Tele
' granh. “They accuse me of being pro-
German;- 1 have been pro-Georgian.
I’ll tell you this: There hasn’t been
| any one yet to come to my face and
accuse me of that—-and they won’t."
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 7, 1920.
JOHNSON LEAD IN
MICHIGAN GROWS;
PALMER TRAILS
Hoover Leads Demo
cratic Ticket, With Ed-
Wards Second
DETROIT, April 7.—Returns from I
approximately two-thirds of the pre
' cincts in the state primary of Mon
day continue to give Senator Hiram
Johnson a lead of more than 42,000
i over General Wood on the Republi-
I can ticket.
- Hoover leads the Democratic tick
et, running more than 4,400 ahead of
Governor Edwards, with McAdoo,
Bryan and Palmer following in the
order named.
ANOTHER PLOT IN
GERMANY NIPPED
Bavarian Uprising To
Parallel Berlin Revolt
Planned
BERLIN, April 7. (By Associat
ed Press).—A great military con
spiracy which was to have been a
Bavarian parallel to the recent Ber-
I lin revolution, has been discovered
in Munich, it was announced today.
■ Part of the plan was that General
i Ludendorff be made dictator over
Bavaria and Dr. Heim, of the Bava
rian separatists, a sort of civil and
economic dictator.
Architect Lockwood
Is Dead At Columbus
Word was received here of the
death at his home in Columbus this
morning of T. F. Lockwood, well
known architect, after a period of ill
health. The body will be taken on
Thursday to Philadelphia for burial.
Mr. Lockwood drew the plans for
a number of buildings in Americus,
including the new Turpin building,
the Times-Recorder building, the
I Rylander shops, an<| several rural
■ school and city residences, and was
engaged in handling work all over
s this section. His son, T. F. Lock
i wood, Jr., has been actively asso
! ciated with him in this work and will
' continue the projects, as well as con
duct the future business.
Plains Stock Sale
Brings Farmers $12,000
About $12,000 worth of Sumter
county live stock was sold at the'
farmers co-operative sale at Plains
Tuesday. Five cars of hogs and one
car of cattle were disposed of. The
; hogs sold for $15.35 for tops, and
| brought $10,210. They were bought
by the Macon Packing Company. The
1 cattle brought $8.70 for tops and
went to N. M. Jennings, of Plains,
I who will ship them to Montgomery.
Many Contests In Ga.
G. O. P. Convention
ATLANTA, April 7.—The Repub-
I lican State convention here today
was expected to develop a number
of contests, including those for dele
gates at large to the national con
vention and the election of a State
chairman and national committee
man. The convention was not ex
' pected to get down to business until
I late in the day.
Greek Troops Ready
To Meet Turk Reds
ATHENS, April 7.—Greek troops
have been authorized by the supreme
military co'uncil* of the Allies to ad
vance in Asia Minor in anticipation
of an eventual attack by Mustapha
Kemal. They have occupied h stra
tegic position east of the sector they
have held around Smyrna, according
to a news dispatch today.
Italians To Arrange
To Trade With Russia
ATHENS, April 7.—lt is announc
ed here that the Italian commercial
mission has arrived at Athens on its
way to Russia to negotiate with the
Soviet government for the purchase
of raw materials for manufacturers.
The mission is said to be provided
with several million rubles in cash.
Mrs. C. W. Collins, who has been
ill at her home on Hampton street,
for a week, is greatly improved.
Monkeys Replace Orchids With
These Easter Par ace Girls
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These two girls created a furore on Fifth avenue in New York
Easter Sunday by carrying live mon keys in their arms instead of wear
ing the usual orchids or violets. This is the first picture of the Easter
parade printed in this section.
ADMIRAL CALLS
SIMS INDISCREET
Rodman Says He Was
Guilty of Breach Os
Confidence
WASHINGTON. April 7.—Admi
ral Hugh Rodman, commander-in
chief of the Pacific fleet, told the
Senate committee today that Admi
ral Sims’ letter to Secretary Daniels,
criticizing the navy’s part in the war
“was very indiscreet.’j He said Ad
miral Sims’ indiscretions lay very
particularly in the breach of confii
dence in making public an intimate
confidential conversation which
should have been held secret."
Government Troops
March On Dusseldorf
AIX-LE-CHAPELLE, April 7.
German government troops are
marching on Dusseldorf, and the oc
cupation of the town is expected late
this evening or tomorrow morning.
TWO NAMED GENERALS.
WASHINGTON, April 7.—Charles
P. Hummerall and Henry Gervey
were nominated today by President
Wilson to be major generals in the
regular army.
MARKETS
LOCAL SPOT COTTON
Good Middling 42 l-2c.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
PC. Open 11am • Ipm Close
Mav 40.30 40.30 40.27 40.57 40.97
July 37.07 38.05 37.88 38.10 38.54
Oct. 35.08 35.01 34.93 34.95 35.35
NEW ORLEANS FUTURES
PC Open 11am Close
May .39.68 39.35 39.73 40.08
Jtfly 37.64 37.45 37.63 37.96
Oct .34.78 34.03 34.73 34.75
MOULTRIE LIVESTOCK MARKET
MOULTRIE. April 7. Hog
165 lbs and up 14 1-4@14 3-4 c; 135
to 165 lbs, 13 1-4013 3-4 c; 110 to
135 lbs, 12 1-4012 3-4 c; 110 lbs and
down 10 1-4010 3-4 c.
Roughs and skips are priced on a
basis of quality. Piggy sows docked
40 lbs. Stags docked 70 lbs. Prices
f.o.b. Moultrie.
HUN COMMUNISTS
FLEE TO ENGLISH
2,000 Cross Rhine River
Into Occupied
Territory
COBLENZ. April 7.—Two thou
i sand communists have crossed the j
Rhine into the British zone of oc
; cupation and have been interned.
Twelve hundred more are expected j
■! to arrive today. j
The flight of the communists into!
j the occupied territory is taken as an ;
indication that the revolt in the Ruhr
• region is neating an end.
3 Americus Dentists
Attend Vienna Meeting
The Third District Convention of
Dentists held an important session in [
Vienna today. Dentists who went '
from Americus to attefid the meet
ing were Dr. M. H. Wheeler, Dr. S.
H. McKee and Dr. H. H. Glover. On
account of illness Dr. C. P. Davis was
not able to go. Many important
subjects were discussed, and some en- •
tirely new subjects were brought be- •
I fore the convening board of dentists. ,
Dr. J. A. Kendall, of Cordele, is pres- •
ident of this association, and a num- •
■ ber of representative dentists were !
present.
Dr. Wheeler, Dr. McKee and Dr.
Glover left Americus early this morn- j
ing in their cars, and returned late in [
the afternoon.
Germans To Furnish
Munitions To Irish
LONDON, April 7. —Recent uncon
. firmed reports of a Sinn Fein plot for
, i an armed uprising in Ireland were
I based on fact, according to the Irish
• police. They state they are in pos
• . session of information indicating that
; certain Germans in Berlin had en
i gaged to furnish the Irish materials.
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II Forecast For Georgia.—Fair ’ to-
; night and Thursday; cooler in south
i and central portion tonight; proba-
I ! bly frost in extreme north portion to
il night; warmer in north portion
Thursday.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
PALMER ILL NOT
TO SPEAK HERE;
MISSES FLIGHT
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Trip By Airplane To
Macon Had Been
Arranged
The Sumter county Palmer club
was informed today that the At
torney General, who is now on a
brief speech-making tour of Geor
gia, would be unable to speak in
Americus Thursday as had been
hoped and planned. For several
days the state Palmer headquarters
had been withholding a definite an
swer to the request of the Sumter
club that he be sent here for a
speech between his Savannah and
Macon engagements, but word from
Atlanta today was that the Attorney
General had been forced by indis
position to cancel his Atlanta address
last night, and his Savannah engage
ment for tonight. He will make his
announced apearance at Macon
Thursday evening, however, it was
stated.
It had been planned by the Palmer
forces to bring the Attorney General
here via the Seaboard from Savan
nah, having him arrive here at 3 p.m.
Thursday. He would have spoken
probably an hour and have been start
ed at once for Macon, 70 miles dis
tant, for a night speech. It was at
first proposed to take him from
Americus to Macon by auto, but
when it was remembered that Macon
uses EasteAi time it was considered
next to impossible to carry out this
arrangement with any degree of
safety, whereupon arrangements
were made at Souther Field for an
airplane, in the hands of an expert
flyer, to carry the attorney general
from here to Macon, a trip of 40
minutes. This plan was communicat
ed to state headquarters and proved
of great interest there, whether the
consent of the attorney general to
an air trip could have been obtained,
or his backers would have been dis
posed to risk the neck of their can
didate in even this slight degree, is
not known here.
Sumter county Palmer men see a
slight hope of securing the attorney
general at a later date, as an effort
is now being made to have him ex
tend his time In Georgia for the pur
pose of making the Atlanta and Sa
vannah speech which he was forced
to cancel. A number of them plan
to hear his address in Macon on
Thursday evening.
It is reportAi the organization of
the Palmer club in Sumter county
is progressing, with names of many
voters being added daily.
PALMER TAKEN ILL AFTER
GREAT GAINESVILLE SPEECH.
ATLANTA, April 7.—An attack of
acute indigestion kept Attorney Gen
eral Palmer from coming to Atlanta
from Gainesville last night to deliver
an address as scheduled here. Mr.
Palmer’s condition was said to be
“not at all serious,’’ but it was added,
a physician thought it best for him to
rest.
The attorney general delivered in
Gainesville yesterday his first address
of a series he will make in Georgia,
where he is seeking nomination for
president in the primary. The at
tack followed the address in Gaines
ville. Nothing was made public about
his condition until just before time
for the address last night.
‘Mr. Palmer is not at all seriously
ill,’’ said E. R. Startwell, of Washing
ton, a member of the attorney gen
eral’s party. “He is more tired out
than anything else.”
One of the most masterful politi
cal addresses ever delivered in the
South was made by Mr. Palmer in
Gainesville. It wa listened to by
fully fo*ur thousand people.
Mr. Palmer spoke with great power
and force. His address, while touch
ing upon the local situation in Geor
gia, dealing with the dangers of in
surgency and the pitfalls of politi
cal demagoguey, was a masterful pre
sentation of the reasons why a Dem
ocrat should remain loyal to the par
ty that has been responsible for
seven years of constructive govern
ment, a world-victory in war, and for
a world pact for the brotherhood of
man and an everlasting peace.
Touching upon the Georgia cam
paign he said:
“1 enter the primary in Georgia
for the purpose of preventing the
Democrats of your state from unwit
tingly being made party to such a
plan, with which you could have no
sympathy. The change in the plans
of thp opponents of the administra
tion, which has resulted in entering
the name of a distinguished citizen
of Georgia as a candidate, ‘does not
materially change my duty with re
i spect to it. As 1 read the announce
i ment of Senator Smith, he is not a
j real candidate for president. His
candidacy in this state is not design
ed to advance his candidacy in the
nation, for he is not a candidate else
where. It is intended only to embar
rass the president and the party
which he leads. If this were not true,
I should have hesitated to oppose him
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