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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—NO. 141
HARDING IS NOMINATED
A. F.L DECLARES
WARONG.O.P.’S
IGNORING LABOR.
Chicago Planks Hissed at
Montreal Labor
Convention
MONTREAL, June 12.—Amid tre-i
mendous applause the American Fed-1
eration of Labor convention today!
adopted a report condemning the Re
publican national convention at Chi
cago for “turning its back on labor” !
in the adoption of its platform.
During the reading of the report,
which was presented by President
Gompers and Samuel Woll, various
sections of the Republican planks
were hissed. The report was ordered
printed and distributed to organized
labor.
President Gompers announced the|
. executive counsel had directed that i
labor’s demands as presented to the -
Republicans be presented in identical;
form to the Democratic national con-;
vention.'
“The Republican convention has!
turned <its back upon labor” and hasi
adopted a platform “defiant of la
bor and not calculated to secure for
them fresh advantages and greater
privileges.” Gompers and Woll de
clared in a statement presented at
the convention.
No Doubt of Meaning.
“While there is no platform a
certain shrewdness in selection of
language, there is never an oppor-
for doubt as to true meaning
doßaeir provisions relating to labor,”
they added.
The statement, which was present
ed to the convention by President
Gompers, goes into great detail,
pointing out labor’s grievances
against the Republican platform,
and vigorously assails the Republi
cans for neglecting anti-profiteering
legislation recommendations.
“The Republican platform practi
cally ignores the profiteers” the
statement added, “and while recog
nizing the evils of currency inflation,
offers no remedy for that condition.
Specific proposals submitted by la
bor for relief from the high cost of
living and profiteering are given no
place in the platform.”
The Mexican plank of the plat
form, the labor leaders charged,
“clearly aims to undermine the sov
eignty of the Mexican people and to
make the maintenance of order in
Mexico the business of the govern
ment of the United States.”
For Exploiting Mexico. |
“It proposes the fulfillment of!
what have long been the hopes and;
aimes of those whose sole object is
the exploitation of the people, and!
boundless resources of Mexico,” ac-l
cording to the labor chiefs. ;
The Republican endorsement of I
the transportation act of 1920 was!
declared to be a “complete demal
and repudiation of the demands sub
mitted by labor and is an emphatic
endorsement of the labor provisions
of the Cummins-Esch railroad act.”
The section of this plank referring
to “peaceful arbitration of wage dis
putes” was said to be a “deniel of
the lawful righ't of the workers to
cease working.”
“This denial of the right to
strike,’ the labor chiefs assert, “the
party proclaims as one of its great
est achievements.”
“We hold no brief for the Demo
cratic party,” continued the state
ment, commenting on the Republi
can condemnation of the Democratic
administration for failure to enforce
the anti-profitem’ing laws, but “we
call attention to the fact that specific
proposals on this subject submitted
by labor are ignored completely.
Evades the Issue.
“The Republican platform evades
the issue and offers no remedy; it
denies the importance of profiteer
ing as the leading cause of the high
cost of living and endeavors to put
a part of the responsibility upon
what it falsely calls ‘dispropor ion-
advances.’ We have no
knowledge of any substantial or ef
fective anti-profiteering laws passed
by the Republican congress. The
plank regarding labor’s right to
strike, constitutes a denial of labor’s
demands and contemplates the erec
tion of government machinery for
the coercion of labor and for the
suppression of its power, lawful and
normal activities,” the statement
said.
“It proposes to erect government
tribunals vested with the power to
compel involuntary labor. The en
tire plank is a denial of freedom
and in addition subversive of the
best interests of our republic.”
The labor leaders asserted that
the Republicans failed to mention in
their platform labor’s demands for
a federal law for the legal right of
“voluntary associations” to protect
itself against “unwarrantable issu
ance of writs of injunction” and the
I THE TiMESH RECORDER
THRILLING BATTLE ROY AL
AS BALLOTING GOES ON;
Rickey Tells of Plot of Big Interests to Put Wood!
Over Despite Protests of
Many Leaders
BY H. N. RICKEY,
N. E. A. Staff Correspondent.
CHICAGO, June 12. (Special
Dispatch).—When Chairman Lodge
at 7:15 Friday
evening declared - " ■■■
and adjournment
until 10 o'clock '<
Saturday morning '
one of the most ' ®
thrilling and in- ;
te resting conven- A
tion sessions in
the history of ■ W >
American politics ? afi&Sg
was ended. For /
nearly 10 hours
without recess or ?
interruption .of >. .
any kind the
emotions of 14,000
delegates and vis
itors had been _ *
played upon until Q'C-K&y
during the final hours, while four bal
lots were being taken, the entire as
semblage was tense with excitement
and expectancy.
The session began with the air I
full of rumors as to the strategic I
plans of the three leading contend-;
ers for the nomination —Wood, Low-!
den and Johnson. I discovered yes-!
terday a plot of the big eastern steel;
and financial interests, headed byi
Judge Gary of the United States!
Steel Corporation, to force Wood’s 1
nomination at whatever cost—in spite;
of the protests of many leaders and
delegates that to do so would be to'
court defeat in btyvember. The;
great question that everybody was
asking was could they do it or could;
the other candidates, by backing 1
Lowden, keep the nomination from
going to Wood on an early ballot;
and then later put them both out!
of the running. It was a tremen-!
dous situation and the heat—charged!
air of the Coliseum was fairly vi-i
brant wit hthe sense of it. It prom-;
ised to be a battle royal for the'
greatest prize that the American!
Democracy offers to her sons and the
event fully justified the expectations.
Tense at Close.
When the great audience filed out
of the building after four ballots had
demonstrated the tenseness and
closeness of the struggle, with Wood
and Lowden fighting every inch of
the way, they moved quietly and or
derly as though they fully realized
that they had been participants in an
event that would live in history.
The nominating and seconding!
speeches gave the orators the first!
chance the convention, had offered;
them. In away they were disap-1
pointed. Mostly the honors went to
the women, particularly to one wom-l
an, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, sister of;
Theodore Roosevelt. I was about to
say that considering her sex she made
a great speech. That would be un-1
fair to her and to all women. Her;
speech was by all odds the finest bit!
of oratory of the session, including;
that of the men. She seconded the;
nomination of Wood and held that!
vast audience spell-bound, not be-j
cause they saw in her the sister of!
their beloved leader who lies in his
grave on Sagamore Hill, but because
in her own person she has those qual
ities of magnetism which set him
apart from the other leaders of men.
Her reference to her brother and to
his friendship for Leonard Wood!
were so delicate never ap
proached the dang ' Wit of mauldin
sentimentalism. Tnere is no doubt
that she helped the cause of Wood.
Other women spoke for several of I
the other candidates and all of them;
went through the trying ordeal with!
vigorous enforcement 'of the sea-1
man’s act and the most liberal in- I
terpretations of its provisions.”
City Sued For Lost,
Fire Extinguishers
ATLANTA, June 12.—A fire ex
tinguisher comparty h >re is suing the
city for $5,218.35 alleged due be
cause dnring the great conflagration
of 1917. When the water pressure
of the city fell low citizens flocked
to the company’s office and it holds
that it issued 696 entinguishers and I
that only 187 were returned. The!
city council refused to pay the bill!
I and the company, claiming it the I
I duty of the city to protect properly
i from fire, has gone to law for its
| money.
COLONEL HOUSE SAILS.
NEW YORK, June 12.—Colonel
E. M. House was a passenger on the
steamer Lapland sailing today for
England. He said the trip was pure
ly personal.
PUBLISHED IN THE ' HEART OP DIXIE;
dignity and credit to themselves and;
to the millions of women whom they i
represented. In a word the average;
of their oratory, what they said andl
the manner of saying it, was much!
higher than the average of the men. i
Willis Speaks Best.
Former Governor Willis, of Ohio,
in presenting the namfe of Harding,
took first prize among the orators.
He made friends for Harding. C. S.
Wheeler, of California, who nominat
ed Johnson, took the booby prize
Instead of starting a stampede for!
the California senator he almost!
started a stampede away from him. ]
All of Johnson’s friends regretted'
that Borah had not been selected for;
the job. He, at least, would have
had the good sense and the good
taste not to attack the other candi
dates and their delegates, considering!
that the only chance Johnson had>
for the nomination was that after]
the first few ballot he could get sup-]
port from them.
Judge Miller, of New York, pre-]
sented Hoover’s name in a speech!
that was a masterpiece of logical ar-1
guments. He asked for Hoover's !
nomination on the ground of his I
proven ability as an administrator!
and statesman and emphasized the;
fact that of all the candidates be-;
fore the convention Hoover would]
be the surest of election if nominat
ed. When Miller was introduced by]
Lodge and before he began speaking!
he received a five-minute ovation, the
most enthusiastic and spontaneous
greeting accorded to any of the nom
inators when introduced. When at
the conclusion he named Hoover the
audience, not the delegates, burst into
cheers and for thirteen minutes the
building fairly rocked and the gal-;
leries were a sea of waving Hoover!
flags. The demonstration was in full;
swing and would have continued in- [
definitely had not acting Chairman j
Smoot stopped it with his gavel.,
During the whole time the delegates,l
with the exception of two or three, |
sat mute.
Visitors for Hoover.
The Hoover demonstration was the ’
most significant event of the day
for this reason: The visitors tickets
are for the most part distributed by
the national committeemen to their
friends and not one of the commit
teemen is a friend of Hoover or
wanted to see him nominated. The
only ticket which the Hoover mana
gers had were twenty which they
purchase from the local committee!
for one hundred dollars apiece. And;
yet thousands of men and women in
every part of the galleries cheered
until they were hoarse and waved i
flags for Hoover. Hoover’s name
was more enthusiastically responded
to by the galleries than that of any
other candidate. And yet he was'
the only candidate for whom the ;
galleries had not been more or less
packed.
If on the fourth ballot the 14,000!
visitors, as well as the 984 delegates,!
had voted, the Republicans would ]
have had a candidate for president.;
His name would have been Herbert
Hoover. And the Republican nomi-|
nation for the presidency would not]
today have been on the auction block!
for sale to the highest bidder.
That it was on the auction block
and that the most shameless methods
were being used both by the steel
and banking interests backing Wood
and the machine politicians backing;
Lowden are facts so well known to I
everybody connected with the con-|
vention that nobody takes the trou
ble to deny them.
Has Dress He Wore as
Baby 67 Years Ago
J. R. Adams, who lives on Jefferson
street, has a remarkable old dress
which he w!”* when a baby 67 years
ago, he says. The dress is of pink 1
homespun material and made in the i
style of ante-bellum days. After he I
had worn the dress, Mr. Adams says, |
his mother cared for it and it was
worn by his daughter, now Mrs. Lau-1
ra Attaway, when she was an infant. |
He is keeping the old garment with
the intention that it shall be worn by |
I his first grand-child, .and it may yet j
be worn by four generations of the !
family, as it is in a perfect state of |
preservation.
Bomb is Hurled at
Premier of Egypt
CAIRO, Egypt, June 12.—An un
successful attempt was made today
to assassinate the Egyptian nremier
by a bomb.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 12, 1920.
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Warren G. Harding is 55 years
old and was born in Blooming Grove,
0., the son of a country doctor and
the eldest of eight children. Hard
ing lived the life of a farmer during
his boyhood and attended the rural
school, earning his way through Ohio
Central College.
He worked at various trades to
send himself through college, one
summer painting barns, the next
driving a truck and a third year
teaching school at the age of 17.
Printer Editor.
But it was the print shop that at
tracted young Harding most. He
learned the printing trade from top
to bottom and in 1884 took over the
management of the Marion (O.)
Star from his father who had moved
from Blooming Grove. The paper was
a greater liability than it was an as
set, and it was ‘tough sledding” for
several years.
Harding was all things in the paper
office from printer to managing edi
tor.
Harding married in 1891, Miss
Florence Kling, daughter of Amos
Kling, a business man of Marion.
STRAIN MAKES ~
PENROSE WORSE
Two of Senator’s Physi
cians in Attendance
At Home
PHILADELPHIA, June 12.—The)
prolonged strain o fthe Republican
convention has caused a sudden turn'
for the worse in the condition of
Senator Penrose. Reports to this
effect spread through the city today.
Color was given the reports by the j
announcement that two of the sena
tor’s physicians were in attendance
at his home this morning.
Mrs. Grady’s Sentence
Still Under Advisement
The May term of'Sumter Superior
Court was suspended yesterday by
Judge Littlejohn, after transferring
a number of misdemeanor cases to
the City Court docket. No sentence I
was passed on Mrs. C. L. Grady, con-i
victed of furnishing materials to 1
facilitate a prisoner to escape, Judge,
Littlejohn still having the mattei* ■
under advisement. Onlv four ac j
quittals were recorded among the en
tire number of cases tried during
the session.
Mexican Mission To
Come to Talk Peace
WASHINGTON, June 12.—Re
ports have reached Washington that
the new Mexican government is
about to send to the United States
a mission to discuss relations be
tween the two countries in an entire
ly informal way.
They have no children.
Harding entered politics in 1899,
serving in the state senate from that
year until 1903. He became lieuten
ant-governor in 1903 and served un
til 1906.
Sent to Senate.
Although he obtained the nomina
tion easily, Harding was defeated in
a race for governor on the Republi
can ticket in 1910. The Ohio voters
sent him to the United States senate
in 1914 with a majority of more than
102,000 despite the fact that in the
same year Ohio passed to the Demo
cratic column.
In the senate Harding was an ac
tive worker for the preparedness pro
gram. He was a member of the for
eign relations committee of the sen
ate.
While a great deal of Harding’s
business experience was as publisher
of the Star, he is identified with a
number of large business enterprises
and a member of the board of direc
tors of several of them. He is a [
bank director, and a trustee of the |
Trinity Baptist Church of which he I
is a regular attendant.
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BY WILL ROGERS,
Famous Oklahoma Cowboy Humor-, 1
j ist and Motion Picture Star.
i (Copyright, 1920, by The Newspaper ;
Enterprise Association.)
SOMEWHERE IN PHILADEL-!
PHI A, June 12. Senate: Penror.e I
land me sal iie.c i.i Phil;;'. IpLia with
• phones to our ears and he told them
out in Chicago when to start the
> convention.
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As none of the politicians pres- |
ent knew how to pray, they called j
in a professional.
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Os course, Mr. Penrose had told!
i them what to pray for.
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Some leading Republicans were;
i against having a prayer this year as I
[they didn’t think it necessary. But
to add variety to an otherwise
i monotonous show—they decided to!
! leave it in.
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During that prayer as Boies and
me sat in far-off Philly listening he
said, “i’ll bet that is the longest
Johnson ever went without talk
ing-”
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The senator seemed quite relieved I
at the finish when no one applauded!
as he said, “You never can tell what;
;a- Republican will do.” And you
I can’t, for they followed the prayer
with Dardanella.
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In place of a raise in salary they
gave Bill Hays a nice new hammer
gavel and told him every time he saw
anything that looked like a Demo
crat to take a wallop at it.
OHIO SENATOR
ENDS DEADLOCK
ON 10TH BALLOT
Penr.ose Sends Word to Convention Hall That He
Would Not Be Objectionable and Recess
Follows to Agree on Running Mate
COLISEUM, CHICAGO, June 12. (By Associated Press)
Senator Harding, of Ohio, was nominated for president of the
United States by the Republican NationaPConvention on the tenth
ballot here tonight.
Eight ballots having been taken;
and no nominee in sight was the
record of the convention when recess |
was taken at the close of that bal-i
lot until 4 o’clock. Word came to!
the convention floor from Senator'
Penrose that the nomination of Sen-!
ator Harding, of Ohio, would not be,
displeasing to him and this word was!
circulating throughout the hall. It
was reported that in addition to Mis
souri there would be a defection in
Kansas on the next ballot, with a
large increase for Harding.
“It will be Harding as soon as we
come back,” said Former Governor
Willis, of Ohio. A large group of
leaders on the platform said it was
important to have time to talk over,
the situation before entering another!
ballot. They assumed that there was
no longer any question but that;
Harding would win and wanted to]
talk over - the man for vice-president.;
Harding’s friends conferred with
Johnson during the recess with the.
View of inducing Johnson to accept
the ’vice-presidential nomination in
the interest of party harmony. Col. I
Proctor, one of Gen. Wood’s mana
gers, also had a protracted confer-,
ence with Governor Lowden. It was
reported that the Wood and Lowden]
forces were planning to pool their
strength temporarily for the. purpose
of “back-firing” the drift to Hard-;
ing.
In the midst of the roll call for the j
ninth ballot, Governor Lowden re- j
leased all his delegates. Meanwhile
Lowden’s votes were flopping to the
Harding column fast. No nomina
tion resulted, however, on this ballot.
Launching into the fifth ballot to
day»in search for a nominee for the
presidency, the convention was
cabled to order at 10:25 this morn
ing for the fifth day’s session. Visi- I
tors in the galleries were rather thin |
in spots, the prospects for another
blistering day probably melting the |
interest of many. Bishop Nicholson,
of Chicago, offered prayer.
Nicholas Murray Butler today re
leased his delegates and on roll call
for the first ballot of the day when
New York threw its 42 votes to Low
den a great roar swept the hall and
Lowden supporters went into demon- !
stration. General Wood had lost ;
14 1-2 votes up to that point and
Harding had made an occasional gain. ;
There was no nomination on the
fifth ballot. It showed Wood had lost
15 1-2 votes, but Harding and Low
den had both made gains. The sixth
ballot brought Wood and Lowden to
a tie with 303 1-2 votes each.
First Ballot.
No nomination resulted on the
first ballot late Friday afternoon, it
resulting as follows:
Wood 287%
Lowden 211%
Johnson 133 % I
Hoover 5% ,
Harding 64% ;
Sproul 83% i
Coolidge 29
Butler 69
DuPont 7
Borah 2
Poindexter 20
Sutherland 17
Pritchard 24
Warren 1
La Lollette 24
I Not voting 1
Second Ballot.
I The second ballot also failed to
| nominate:
Wood 289%
j Lowden 259%
Johnson .. ......... ................... 146
1 Hoover 5%
■ Harding 59
Sproul 78%
Coolidge 32
Butler 41
Borah 1
Poindexter 15
Sutherland 15
Pritchard 10
DuPont 7
I La Follette 24
Third Ballot.
The third ballot resulted:
iWood 303
Lowden 282%
Johnson 148
Hoover 5 %
] Harding 57
Sproul 79%
Coolidge 27
Butler - 40
Knox 2
CONVENTION
EXTRA
| Poindexter 15
i Sutherland 9
Borah 1
DuPont , 2
La Follette 24
I Watson 2
Fourth Ballot .
After the third ballot there were
cries for adjournment but on vote
the Wood and Lowden forces who
had been gaining voted it down. The
fourth ballot was then taken result
ing:
Wood 314%
Lowden 289
Johnson . ............................. 140%
Hoover 5i
Harding 61’%
Sproul 79%
Coolidge 25
I Butler 20
Knox . 2
i Poindexter 15
fatherland 3
; Borah 1
I DuPont 2
La Follette . 22
Watson 4
The convention then adjourned
until 10 o’clock Saturday morning.
Fifth Ballot.
The fifth ballot, with which the
. Saturday session was opened result
ed as follows:
Wood 299
I Lowden 303
.Johnson 133%
Harding /. 78
Sproul ............................ 82%
' Coolidge 29
, Hoover 6
Butler 4
Knox 1
Ward 1
Kellogg, (Minnesota) 1
Poindexter 1
Sutherland 1
La Follette 24
! DuPont 6
Sixth Ballot.
The sixth ballot brought Wood and
; Lowden to tie but resulted in no
i nominations:
Wood 311%
Lowden 311%
Johnson 110
Harding 89
Sproul 77
i Coolidge 28
Hoover 5
Butler 4
Knox 1
Kellogg 1
Poindexter 15
DuPont 4
La Follette 24
Watson 1
Ward : 2
Seventh Ballot.
j On the seventh ballot the first gain
I went to Harding, with two votes
! from Alabama, but there was no
! nomination:
■ Wood 312
; Lowden 311 %
! Johnson - 99%
Harding 105
i Sproul 76
: Coolidge 28
; Hoover 4
I Butler 2
, Knox 1
Kellogg 1
I Poindexter 15
: Dupont 3
I LaFollette 24
> Ward 1
Lenroot 1
Eighth Ballot
J Wood 299
! Lowden 307
i Johnson 87
Harding 133%
i Sproul 75%
I Coolidge 30
I Poindexter 15
! LaFollette 24
' Hoover 5
; Butler 2
! Dupont ..... 3
’ Knox 1
' Kellogg 1
’ Lenroot 1
The convention then recessed to
4 o’clock.
i Ninth Ballot.
There were no nominations on the
•. ninth ballot, which resulted:
Harding 374%
s i Wood 249
'Lowden 121%
I Johnson 82
I Sproul 78
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