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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—NO. 140
.DEMONSTRATIONS BREAK LOOSE AT CHICAGO
ARK. GOVERNOR
TOHEADI92ON
VISIT TO SUMTER
Big Party of Business
Men and Farmers
Coming Aug. 2.
For the purpose of studying pro
duction, methods of fighting the boll
weevil; how to ''breed better cotton
varieties and h.ow to fertilize for
larger yields per acre, a party of
leading farmery, bankers and other
business men from 71. cotton growing
counties of Arkansas are planning to
make a tour of certain sections of
Georgia, South Carolina and North
Carolina during ■ the first week in
August. The party will be organiz
ed and directed by the Arkansas
Profitable Farming Bureau in co
operation with The Soil Improvement
Committee of. Atlanta. Director J.
N. Harper of the committee’s stall
will be in charge of the trip through
this section. t ,
As planned now, six sixteen-sec
tion Pullmans will leave Tittle Rodk,
Arkansas, on July 31, and will visit
Americus on Monday, August 2, Ath
ens, Tuesday, August 3; Greenville
and Spartanburg, S. C., Wednesday,
August 4; Drfrlmgton and Florence,
S. C., Thursday, August 5; Bennetts
ville, S. C., Friday, August 6; and
Wilson, N. C., Saturday, August 7.
Returning, the trip will be made
through the famous “Land of the
Sky” around Asheville to Knoxville,
Tenn., and then to Little Rock.
Headed by Governc..
The party will be headed by Gov
ernor Charles M. of
Arkansas, and will be composed of
• about 192 leading farmers, mer
chants, bankers and other business
men who are members of the lead
ing Associations of that state. Ac-.
fenfording to H. M. Cottrell, agncul
'Mftiralist of the bureau, these men will
all cbme to learn conditions. They!
will each have a note book and WIIL
make Tnicmcranda of afiy imporcant
facts discovered. No .attempt will
be made to advertise the state oi
Arkansas, nor will any speeches be
made by any of the party with the
exception of the governor. It is ex
pected, however, that those men who
entertain, the party at its various
stops will have some one present to
tell about agricultural conditions ot
that particular section.
Recently R< W. Mattox, president
of thd Georgia branch of the Cotton,
association, was asked to recommend |
points of interest for these tourists,
to visit, and he has communicated,
with L. G. Council and A. F. Hodges
these gentlemen in turn asking the
Chamber of Commerce to take up the
question of entertaining these vis-,
itnra There will be about 150 in I
the parS is stated, and President;
Carr 1 Glover, of the chamber, yes
terday instructed Secretary Joseph.
Perkins to immediately invite them
to Visit Americus and Sumter coup-
Entertainment Planned.
It is planned by the authorities of.
the Chamber of Con ™ ierc h e t 0 L.
tertain the members of the party,
either at a banquet or a paroe-ue,
and they will also be taken for auto
mobile rides into various parts of
the county It is hoped a consider
able length of the new payed road
on the Dixie Highway will be fin
ished and open for traff* c ®, y th |
of their visit, in order that they
mav be shown the progress being.
Se here in the construction of
' iSXtour kind
„,d' by «r. and »
f Vvkansas The others were made
t° tl.e north and west primarily to
study livestock ani gram product on.
due tr. intelligeu methods oi brcc.
fay.bettor
Methodist Youngsters
Have Picnic at Springs
A large number of young people .
J withered this morning
and the Firs? Methodist church lawn
to*attend the joint picnic of the Meth
_j- a rhurrhes held today at Myrtle
Long before the automobiles ■
arrived‘for the crowds the merry
young people were on the lawn, await
ing the chaperones. Lunch baskets
filled with good things to eat, and
bathing suits securely wrapped in
neatly tied bundles,were carried by
the young neople upon this outing.
Swimming parties were in the cool
pool all dav long, and at a late hour
the tired but happy crowd came back
home all the better for a sunshiny
day at this popular resort.
THE TIMES ’RECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OR
RETRIAL ASKED
IN BIGAMY CASE
BY WAR HERO
McCoy Calls Conviction
New Crown of Thorn-
On Brow
“As I have served my God and my
country, I shall'serve this sentence,
unjustly imposed upon me this day,
when and if the higher courts of the
sovereign state of' Georgia shall so
decree.”
These were the words with which
A. H. McCoy, world war veteran
I member of the fanr us 151st Ma
chine Gun Battalion, hero of a sin
gle exploit rivallin- that of Alvin
York, Georgia volunteer soldier who
captured alone and single-handed 15
Germans and a machine gun during
the heavy fighting which preceded
the drive through the St. Mihiel sal
ient, received a jury’s verdict finding
, him guilty of bigamy in Supreme
I Court Thursday. “With the same
unfaltering courage that f have
; borne the suffering pressed upon me
! when my pure and innocent wife was
I torn from my side by a nrejudiced
father and held through processes
which both she and myself have been
unable to successfully resist, I shall
bear this new crown of thorns that
it is sought to press upon my brow.
I given much of my life already
that others and the world might be
made better, and if it pleases God to
place upon me further suffering then
I shall not be found wanting when
the call to bear this newest pain for
others comes.
Avows Innocence.
“All I have to say at this time,
is thaj I appreciate the efforts my
counsel have made in my behalf. I
want to thank them for their tireless
efforts in the preparation of this
case, and to say to everyone that I
am not guilty of this crime, of which
a jury has just convicted me. It is
only just to say of these twelve men,
good and true, that they have done
as they thought best, perhaps, yet it
is only human to err. When I mar
ried Georgia Pitts in Sumter county
in October, 1919, then and there I
consecrated my life and all my ef
forts to the task of making her hap
py. I had investigated the nretend
ed marriage with Miss Orpha D.
Wood, with whom I was associated in
France, and had sought and obtained
the advice of a lawyer, licensed by
the state of Georgia to advise per
sons in need of legal assistance, and
had been told that I was free to
marry the woman of my choice. I
have never concealed my relations
with Miss Wood. I stand true to my
ideals and those of every honest man
when 1 say to the world that both
Miss Wood and myself considered
ourselves as still in the single state,
a fact most evident. So if it becomes
my lot to don the stripes of a felon
and fill the placte of a convict, I shall
do this with the highest conception
of my duty toward my state and my
fellow men, and with a resignation!
that must be supported by stoutest;
courage.
Asks No Sympathy.
“I do not plead for sympathy from.
a public already sympathetic in itsj
attitude toward the stranger in trou-;
ble. I ask nothing merely because,
of my war record, bat I do ask, and I
I believe that the higher courts will!
and should grant me a new hearing;
because I have not had sufficient
time in which to prepare for the trial
which was forced upon me this day,
and because of the errors of law com
mitted in its conduct."
McCoy, who is prominent in Ran
dloph county, lives at Cuthbert, and
was convicted Thursday afternoon in
Sumter Superior Court Os having
married Miss Georgia Pitts, winsome
18 year old Andrew College student,
while he had another living wife,
Miss Orpha D. Wood, who he is al
leged to have married in France. ;
The contention in the case was that
the marriage in France was not legal,
the French marriage laws not being
placed in evidence in the case.
There is greatest sympathy here
for McCoy, and his attorneys have
appealed for a new trial 'y his 1-
half. The jury which convicted him
fixed his punishment at ont less than
two years nor more than three years
imprisonment.
Allies May Abandon
Conference at Spa
LONDON, June 11—The possibility
of the abandonment of the Spa con
ference between representatives of
the Allied governments and Germany
is being discussed in European capi
tals. The success of the Independent
Socialists and conservatives in the
German elections leads to the belief
in France that Germany is less than
ever inclined to carry out the treaty.
AUSTRIAN CABINET QUITS
VIENNA, June 11—(By Associa
ted Press) —The Austrian cabinet,
headed by Dr. Karl Renner as chan
cellor, which had held office since
the armistice, has resigned.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1920
Johnson Put Over Grandest Bluff
In Political History At Chicago
Party on Record Against
League in Any Form,
Says Rickey
BY H. N. RICKEY
N. E. A. Staff Correpsondent
CHICAGO, June 11—-(Special
Dispatch)—Aided and abetted by
Hearst, Hiram Johnson has put over
on the Republican
party the grandest
bluff in political
history under the
threat of bolting
and splitting the
party as wide open'
as he and Roose
velt did in 1912.
The California sen
ator bluffed the
resolutions com
mittee into a dec
laration on the
League of Nations
which is against
the conscience of
the majority of the
committee. It is a
fair assumption
r r . s " gM|
i K a
■wi
gj-
! that it is also against the judgment
. and conscience of a majority of the
delegates.
Borah was the Johnson spokesman
before the committee and in the back
ground was Hearst, whose Chicago
newspapers rfor the past two weeks
have been telling leaders and dele
gates that if Johnson failed to get'his
way on the League of Nations dec
laration he would bolt and head a
third party movement.
Borah threw the same threat into
the teeth of the committee on behalf
of himself and the committee took
it for granted he spoke for Johnson.
Os course Johnson did not intend to
bolt. He had nothing to bolt with and
no place to bolt. There are not two
delegates in the convention who
would walk out in obedience to a
call from Johnson or any one else.
, But Borah’s loud voice and shaking
; locks and Hearst’s publicity were too
; much for the nerves of, the old gen
tlemen composing' the reso’utions
committee and so the party has gone
on record against the League of Na
tions in any form.
Policy Based on Expediency
In a nutshell the Republican party
at this creat crisis in world affairs
has formulated its foreign policy on
the basis of political expediency.
it is not a pleasant thing to have
to write this. It may lay me open to
the charge of partisanship, but it is
the simple truth and everyone here
knows it. Most of the party leaders
and delegates who have participated
in this fiasco or by their silence con
sented to it are ashamed of it. The
onlv justification they claim is that
party success is the supreme consid
eration; that when the party gets
back into power it can be trusted to
formulate a safe foreign policy, that
the margin of safety is not great
enough this year to take the chances
of losing the suport of two such pow
erful campaigners as Borah and John
son.
So much for the platform adopted
at Thursday’s afternoon session.
Some time within the next twenty
four or forty-eight hours probably the
nomination for president will be ac
complished, if possible the question,
“who will be the nominee?” is shroud
ed in even deeper mystery than it
has been. A terriffic effort is being'
made by the Wood people tj> add to
the General’s instructed strength
from the uninstructed delegates.
The Wood managers have been play
ing the game much more intelligent
ly during the past few days and as
the zero hour approaches they seem
to have made some headway in reun
iting their forces, badly scattered as
the result of the boodle expose.
Wood Suffers Least
Wood does not seem to have suf
fered as much as Lowden from the
boodle expose. Wood and Lowden
will probably not be far apart in
their first ballot strength. Wood
will probably be given the right of
way to develop what strength he can
on the next few ballots if he can not
reach the goal by the fifth or sixth
ballot, Lowden will have the next call.
Lowden failing, anything may happen.
Sproul, the Pennsylvania govern
or, who Penrose says he is for, is be
ing much talked of as a favorite
among the dark horse candidates,
ly
One could speculate much more de
finitely about Sproul if there was any
way of knowing whether he was real
ly Penrose’s favorite dark horse or
just astalking horse. The idea per
sists in many quarters that Penrose
is really for Knox and has put for
ward Sproul for the sole purpose of
holding the Pennsylvania delegates
in line until the time comes to un
mask his real purpose.
Hoover’s name is heard oftener to
day than any day since the delegates
have been here. His managers have
announced that he will be placed
in nomination by Judge Miller, one
of New York’s beg four. It is not ex
pected that Hoover will get many
votes on the first ballot. He will not
get many unless the leading candi
dates have demonstrated their inab
ility to get the nomination. If and
when the convention reaches this
point and Sproul does not land, Hoov-
THE BIG NOISE AT CHICAGO TODAY
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Best Part of Convention On
Outside of Great Coliseum
BY MABEL ABBOTT
N. E. A. Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, 111., June 11—(Special
Dispatch)—The Republican National
Convention to most of the people who '
Bare here attending
it does not mean
the sessions in the |
Coliseum. Most of 1
them never get in-;
to the Coliseum at
all. There are
less than 14,000
seats in the build- ’
ing for which
there iVere more
than 150.000 ap
plications. The pos
sessor of a ticket
is the most envied
person in Chicago
today. A badge is
more of a decora-
ABBOT? tion than a Croix
de Guerre or a di
amond necklace. Many of the cen
veeners are outside on the side-walk
trying to make the Coliseum guards
believe that they lost their ticket or
that Chairman Hays told them to
mention his name and it would be
all right. And the rest of the 15,000, i
along with the many more thousands i
who didn’t even make application |
are seeing the side show part of the ,
convention in the blistering heat.
Michigan avenue is the biggest of ;
the sights. The candidates’ headquar- ■
ters and the space taken by most of
the state delegations are in the great
hotels that arise like cliffs along the
city side of the street covered with I
flags and signs like monstrous booths |
at a country fair. Free automobile i
rides, personally conducted shopping
tours, visits to the Art Institute and I
luncheons and teas in cool and ex-|
elusive clubs, and comfortable enter
tainment suites are offered by or-;
ganizations working for various can
didates.
But sooner or later everybody grav- !
itates to the Avenue where the bands I
blare and the news-boys yell and the ■
trains on the other side of the Park
roar and rattle. And the lake lies se- i
rene and incongruous beyond it ail.
By evening the street is a solid mass
of humanity, sweltering and swaying ;
toward the great side show attrac
tions in the hotels.
The candidates or their campaign
managers vary Somewhat in their
ideas of what will influence a dele
gate to vote for them. Consequently
some candidates offer a steady pro
gram of speech making, others add
er looks just as good as any of the
rest and very much better than most.
Not Such a Cinch After All.
The feeling has been slowly but
surely gripping the leaders and dele
gates that perhaps Republican suc
cess this year is not such a cinch af
ter all. This is in Hoover’s favor,
for there isn’t a man here excepting
perhaps Johnson—and Penrose would
be included if he were here —but who
admits that Hoover is the one man
whose nomination would be an equiv
alent to election.
If a western or middle western
man is nominated for president,
Coolidge of Massachusetts for vice
president is considered likely. Hard
ing, of Ohio, is a possibility for sec
ond place under certain conditions.
music and still others include sou
venirs. A favorite demonstration ;
among Hiram Johnson’s friends is to
jam the main stair case of the audi
torium Hotel absolutely full from
floor to ceiling of the lobby and stand
there singing “I’m for Hiram,” while
they sway in rhythm. This, of course,
is very convincing.
Wood headquarters is still distrib
uting feathers. The visitors like them
to take home to the children, so
Wood’s emblem is pretty widely dis
tributed. Hoover’s quarters are oddly j
quiet and business-like in comparison
with most of the others, but you
can get any amount of extremely en
thusiastic information about Mr.
Hoover if you show signs of being !
receptive.
Harding workers run to oratory. |
Why people should come to Chicago
where there is so much to be seen and i
heard and stand packed solidly in a !
room like an oven while a sweating ;
orator threshes the air is a problem in ;
psychology. But they do.
At Mayor Thompson’s Hospitality 1
Committee’s rooms a husky Chicagoan j
grades one who looks in. i
“Want to shake hands with the J
Mayor? Form in line to the right,” he |
directs. And in ten minutes more or i
less the line passes the mayor, purple
and perspired, and the visitor has |
another memory to take away.
Mrs. Catt Again Heads
World Suffrage League
GENEVA, Switzerland, June 11—,
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt was unan- ;
imously re-elected president of the
International Woman Suffrage Alli
ance at this morning’s session of the j
congress here.
Gardner Defeated For
British Championship
MUIRFIELD, June 11—Robert A.
Gardner, of Chicago, was defeated
for the British amateur golf cham
pionship today by Cyril Tolley, of ’
the Oxford team at the thirty seventh |
hole.
MARKETS -
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON. j
Good middling 41 cents. ;
NEW YORK FUTURES.
P.C. Open 11am Ipm Close
July 38.35 38.25 38.35 38.31 38.40
Oct. 35.45 35.30 35.42 35.42 35.49
Dec. 34.40 34.32 34.37 34.36 34.45
NEW ORLEANS FUTURES.
P.C. Open 11am Ipm Close
July 38.36 38.20 38.27 38.35 38.28
Oct. 35.37 35,13 35.28 35.29 35.30
Dec. 34.33 34.12 34.25 3L28 34.28
MOULTRIE LIVE STOCK MARKET
MOULTRIE, June 11—Hogs, 165
lbs. and up, 13 1-4 to 3-4; 135 to
165 lbs. 12 1-4-3-4; 110 to 135 lbs.,
11 l-4-3-4c; 110 lbs. and down, 9 1-4
to 3-4.
Roughs and skips are priced on ba
sis of quality. Piggy sows docked 40
lbs. Stags docked 70 lbs. Prices f. o.
b. Moultrie.
WOOD, LOWDEN, JOHNSON
CLANS IN CONTEST WHEN
NAMES ARE PRESENTED
Forty Minutes Uproar Follows Nomination Speech
of Allen For General Wood—Lowden’s
Followers Beat Record by 2 Minutes
COLISEUM, CHICAGO, June I I—Up to I :4I p. m. today the
Republican National convention had heard General Wood, Governor
Lowden and Senator Johnson placed in nomination for president. An
uproarous forty minute demonstration followed the nomination of
Wood by Governor Allen, of Kansas. The Lowden forces apparently
was well organized for a demonstration and caWied on an uproar on
the floor and galleries. The demonstration lasted forty-two minutes.
California then was called and the nomination of Johnson was made
by Charles S'. Wheeler. i ~ ~~
The Republican convention, all set '
for nominations today, was slow in
getting underway again. It was
10:06 o’clock before the secretary
began calling the roll or states for
nominations. Alabama passed and
Arizona yielded to Kansas.
Described as the “outstanding can
didate in the minds of the people,”
Majter General Leonard Wood was
formally nominated by governor Al
len, of Kansas, for the Republican,
presidential nomination. “A plain J
blunt man with a blunt belief in
facts,” Governor Allen said of Gen-:
eral Wood, “he is today the best
known American. No man in Ameri
ca has been given so many construc
tive things to do in this generation
and no one denies that whatever he
has undertaken he has done superla
tively well.
“An expected period of confusion
has come upon us an aftermath of
the great war. Old ways are lost,
leadership is hesitant and drifts upon
an uncharted sea.
“Under the weak hands of a timor-|
ous government social disorders and ;
class-minded-isms caught from the
world struggle have grown to alarm
ing proportions. •
“The unchecked encroachment of,
sinister greed, appalling waste oif J
public money and immoral pandering
to class interest and class prejudice
have brought us to a point where the
nation demands and the world ex
pects from this great council a lead
er chosen out of the great need and
not through the cunning of political
expediency.”
Points to Plattsburg.
Declaring Wood’s record reveals
qualities needed for task, Governor
Allen described and praised his work
as civil administrator of Cuba as that i
of a great national organizer. “A I
president must be more than a busi
ness man alone,” said Allen, adding;
that he must be a statesman and must ■
have foresight. He pointed to Wood’s;
organization of the Plattsburg camp;
as an example of foresight.
“We heard from him no platitudes!
about a million men springing to
arms over night,” said Allen, and he;
told how Wood trained soldiers there.
He praised Wood’s work during the
Gary industrial strife, the Omaha
race riots, the West Virginia labor
troubles, saying Wood “visualized
not military power but a peculiar
determination which should always
be the American pledge to protect
the rights of all by a firm and right
eous government.”
In conclusion said:
“With full appreciation of the
hour I present to you the name of
the man who fits the hour, Leonard
Wood.”
Seconding speeches were made by:
Frank Knox, of New Hamshire, and.
Mrs. Douglas Robinson, of New
York. !
At the conclusion of Governor Al-;
len’s address thousands of Wood
colored turkey feathers were loosed,
from the ceiling and several hundred;
delegates started cheering. When!
the demonstration had been on ten;
minutes the inevitable procession;
started, led b$ the Minnesotans. It
looked strange to see women among,
the marchers. Cries were changed;
from “It’s Wood, Let’s Go,” to “We
Want Wood.” The demonstration'
lasted forty minutes before Chair-;
man Lodge succeeded in getting or- !
der for further speeches.
When Arkansas was called the |
[ state yielded to Illinois for nomina- ;
I tion of Lowden.
Lowden's Name Presented
Likening Governor Frank O. Low- I
■ den unto Lincoln and telling the del
egates that once before many years
ago Illinois was called upon to fur
nish a man when the nation was in
dire distress, Congressman* William
, A. Rodenberg, of Illinois, placed the
name of Illinois War Governor in
nomination for the presidency of the
United States.
“Three score years ago,’’ Congress
man Rodenberg said, “at a time when
the passions of men were stirred to
their depths the nation turned for
leadership to Illinois. We gave them
Lincoln and grandly, nobly, he met
the test. Illinois, in 1920, stands ready
to consecrate to the service of the
Republic another of her great sons.
We present the patriotic governor of
a patriotic state, Frank 0. Lowden.
Congressman Rodenberg said in
part:
“We present Him to you because he
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
I stanas ror law ana oraer ana consti
tutional government. Os fine legal
mind and training, with both legis
lative and executive experience, he
believe in re-establishing the powers
and prerogatives of every branch of
the Federal government as set forth
by the fathers in the constitution it
self and he is unalterably opposed to
executive usurpation of any legisla
tive or judicial function.
“We present him to you because
I his record demonstrates that he has a
I clear and comprehensive conception
i of the proper relations of capital and
, labor to each other. His work as Mem
ber of Congress and as Governor of a
great industrial state, with all its
complex and diversified interests,
stamps him as the living embodiment
of the doctrine of the ‘square deal.’
He believes in the interdependence of
employe and employer and in all of
his official acts he has accorded to
each exactly the same measure of pro
tection under the law. We present
him to you because he typifies more
I than any one of the distinguished
; gentlemen who, will be placed! in
; nomination before this convention the
; great, vital issue of economy in the
I administration of public affairs. He
■ believes in the application of sound
i and practical business principles to
i the conduct of government and as
proof of that belief we point to the
decreased tax rate and the increased
administrative efficiency of the state
over whose destinies he presides to
day.
“We present him to you because
he is in full accord with the true spirit
of America which still prefers the Na
tionalism of Theodore Roosevelt to
the Internationalism of Woodrow Wil
son. He believes that the sovereignty
of the United States must be kept
free and inviolate from European in
fluence or dictation and that while
maintaining a friendly attitude to
ward all nations, we owe it to those
who have gone before and to those
who are to follow us to enter into
partnership with none.”
As soon as the speech was over the
Lowden demonstration began, his del
l egates carrying large pictures. The
procession was headed by the lowans,
with Illinois and other states falling
in line.
Wheeler Presents Johnson
The Johnson fireworks broke loose
as Wheeler finished at 1:16 o’clock.
After thirty minutes Representative
Schall was introduced in a seconding
speech.
Hailed as the man to “scourge the
last of the bosses from the temple of
the Republican party,” Senator Hi
ram Johnson was formally nominated.
“The great responsibility is yours,”
I the speaker said to the convention
delegates. “The American voter ev
■ erywhere is saying of California’s
! son just as Roosevelt said of him—
: of all the public men in this coun
, try today, he is the one with whom I
find myself in most complete sym
j pathy.
“To the end that men and not
i masters shall administer the great
i trusteeship of the Republican party,
i to the end that this convention may
make no mistake; to the end that
I you who hold in your hands the partys
i destiny may go forth from these halls
, triumphant in the assurance of cer
tain victory; to the end that a Re-
I publican administration may once
' again broadcast the nation with hap
piness and prosperity; to the end that
the constitution of our fathers and
: the highest traditions of the American
people shall endure; to the end that
the patriotic principles of Washing
ton, of Lincoln, and of Roosevelt,
, shall live on and on and on—the sov
ereign state of California places be
; fore you in formal nomination Hiram
i W. Johnson.
“A ‘yellow dog’ is impossible and a
! ‘dark horse’ cannot win. If you expect
their vote, do not offer the people
a cold, incapable, nerveless, unsym
pathetic business administration.
They are in no mood |> take it on.
“If you shall select this son of
California, remember that in the con
duct of his campaign he has placed
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Forecast for Georgia—Fair to
night and Saturday; little change in
temperature.