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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—NO. 141
■HARDING AND COOLIDGE ARE NOMINATED
A. F. I. DECLARES
WARONG.O.P.’S
IGNORING LABOR
Chicago Planks Hissed at
Montreal Labor
Convention
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MONTREAL, June 12.—Amid tre-j
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” I
in the adoption of its platform.
During the reading of the report,!
which was presented by President
Gompers and Vice-President Woll,
various sections of the Republican
planks were hissed. The report was
ordered printed and distributed to J
organized labor.
President Gompers announced the
executive counsel had directed that
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 has
adopted a platform “defiant of la
bor and not calculated to secure for
them fresh advantages and greater |
privileges,” Gompers and Woll de
dared in a statement presented atj
the convention.
No Doubt of Meaning.
“While there is in the platform a
certain shrewdness in selection of
language, there is never an oppor
tunity for doubt as to true meaning
of their 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,
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!
aims of those whose sole object is i
the exploitation of the people, and|
boundless resources of Mexico,” ac-i
cording to the labor chiefs.
The Republican endorsement of
the transportation act of 1920 was
declared to be a “complete denial
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 “denial of
the lawful right of the workers to
cease working.”
Negress Is Fatally
Stabbed Down Town
Bertha Coleman, a negro wom
an who lives in) Babcock’s al
ley, near the Seaboard station, was
fatally stabbed last night about 8
o’clock by Joe Mann, a negro por
ter for the Americus Drug Co. The
stabbing occurred in the rear of the
drug concern’s establishment on
Jackson street, and Ed Lanier, wit
nessed the affair. According to La
nier, the woman was the aggressor
in the fight which preceded the stab-1
bing- ~ .
Following the stabbing, Mann I
went into the drug store and was i
arrested by Police Lieutenant Kim
sey. He does not deny cutting the
woman, and says that he was com
pelled to protect himself, after she
had attacked him. The Lanier ne
gro says Mann was talking with an
other woman when the Coleman wo
4*nan came up and attacked - ’im be
cause of his attentions to other
negress. She had something in her
hand, he said, when she attacked
Mann who struck at her with a
knife
After she had been cut the woman
ran to the corner of Lamar and Jack
son streets and fell upon the ?ide
walk in front of Hightowers Book
store. She was movedl s.on after
ward to the office of Dr. J Wade
Chambliss, where it was found she
had received om serious stab wound
which Dr. Chambliss said would re
sult fatally. Another wound was
only a scratch, and probably was
made with the same flourish of the
knife. She was unconscious when
taken to the nhvsician’s office and
made no statement concerning the
affair. She is said to have worked
as a domesti: for a prominent Col
lege street family.
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COOLIDGE HARDING*
Warren G. Harding is 55 years
old and was born in Blooming Grove,
O. 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-
FLAG DAY TO BE
OBSERVED HERE
IN TWO EVENTS
Parade at sp. m. and
Neighbors’ Meeting in
Evening Planned
Three squads of men from South
er Field will be in line Saturday af
ternoon in the Flag Day parade
through the streets of the city when
the procession, principally made up
of school children, moves from the
Salvation Army headquarters where
it will form. All children of school
age are asked to be at the Salvation
Army building at 5 o’clock, carrying
an American flag. The men of
Souther Field are participating in
this event as it is the request of the
government at Washington that all
military camps throughout the coun
try give fitting recognition and prop
er observance to this day.
Following is the musical program
for Neighbors’ Meeting on the eve
ning of Flag Day, June 14, at 8
o’clock, at the Community House, to
which every one is cordially invited:
Program.
Orchestra.
Male Quartet—Walter Tiedeman
Gordon Howell, George Marshall, R! |
P. Stackhouse, Jr.
Group of Songs—(a) “If You'
Would Love Me,” J. G. McDerwid.
(b) “If No One Marries Me,” Liza 1
Lehman, (c) “You’re a Million Miles
From Nowhere,” Walter Donaldson,
Miss Melva Clark.
Community Singing—Led by J.
Ralston Cargill.
Ladies’ Quartet —Sopranos, Mrs.
J. W. Harris, Jr., Miss Anna Mur
ray; altos, Mrs. Frank Anderson, Miss
Emmie Morgan.
Orchestra.
Community Singing—Led by J.
Ralston Cargill.
Piano Solo.
Community Singing—Led by J.
Ralston Cargill.
Orchestra.
Weather
Forecast for Georgia.—Generali/
fair and continued warm weather
Sunday.
PUBLISHED. IN THE HE AR T 'OF
tracted young Harding most. He
learned the printing trade from top
to bottom and ia 1884 took over the
management of the Marion (0.)
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 Amo
Kling, a business man of Marion.
THRILLING BATTLE ROYAL
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
an i adjournment
until 10 o’clock
Saturday morning
one of the most
thrilling and in
teresting conven
tion sessions in
the history of
American politics
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
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
full of rumors as to the strategic
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 by
Judge Gary of the United States
Steel Corporation, to force Wood’s
nomination at whatever cost—in spite
of the protests of many leaders and
delegates that to do so would be to
court defeat in November. The
great question that everybody was
asking was could they do it or could
the other candidates, by backing
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
brant with the 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
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 1920
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They have no children.
Harding entered politics in 1899,
serving in the state senate frojp 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-
and Lowden fighting every inch of
the way, they moved quietly and or-1
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-)
pointing. Mostly the honors went to ;
the women, particularly to one worn- J
an, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, sister of
Theodore Roosevelt. I was about to
say that considering her sex she made j
a great speech. That would be un- j
fair to her and to all women. Her!
speech was by all odds the finest bit j
of oratory of the session, including)
that of the men. She seconded the j
nomination of Wood and held that;
vast audience spell-bound, not be-I
cause they saw' in her the sister of)
their beloved leader who lies in his I
grave on Sagamore Hill, but because)
in her own person she has those qual- ’
ities of magnetism which set him I
apart from the other leaders of men.!
Her reference to her brother and to
his friendship for Leonard Wood
were so delicate that they never ap-|
proached the danger point of mauldin
sentimentalism. There is no doubt,
that she helped the cause of Wood.
Other women spoke for several of)
the other candidates and all of them'
went through the trying ordeal with
dignity and credit to themselves and
to the millions of women whom they
represented. In a word the average
of their oratory, what they said and
the manner of saying it, was much
higher than the average of the men.
Willis Speaks Best.
Former Governor Willis, of Ohio,
in presenting the name of Harding,
took first prize among the orators. I
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
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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
is a regular attendant.
SEABOARD MEN
OPPOSE $lO TAX
AS PRINCIPLE
For Distribution of Bur- ■
den on Basis of
Wealth
Declaring that they oppose the im-'
position of the proposed $lO annual
commutation tax “as a matter of 1
principle,” workers employed at the
Seaboard Air Line shops here have I
adopted resolutions protesting!
against that method of raising money I
for the support of the city’s schools. |
The resolutions, which are brief, are
signed by J. H. Cameron and V. C.!
Melton, committee. It was explain-!
ed by J. C. Pouncey, who brought)
the resolutions to The Times-Record-1
er for publication, that they repre- .
sent the attitude of the entire body!
of shop workers, including all crafts!
employed there, toward the proposed |
tax. The resolutions are as follows::
“Whereas, It is apparent that la-j
boring men of Americus are unani- )
mous in their opposition to the pro-!
posal to levy a $lO head tax annual-:
ly for the support of the city’s
schools; there be it,
“Resolved. That we, the working;
men employed at the Seaboard Air :
Line shops in Americus, Georgia, add
our protest to the voice of other? j
who have heretofore opposed the:
levying of this tax; be it further,
“Resolved, That a copy of these
resolutions be sent Hon Stephen
Pace, Sumter county’s representa
tive in the legislature of Georgia
and that he be asked to give same
due consideration when deciding his
attitude toward this proposed bill;
be it further,
“Resolved, That the Rotarv Club,
the Kiwanis Club, Chamber of Com
merce, and the City Council of Amer
icus be requested before endorsing
tax measures in future to solicit and
ascertain the views of laboring men
upon such proposed legislation; be it
further,
“Resolved, That we do not oppose
the granting of living wages to em-l
ployes of the city of Americus in any .
department, and that we oppose the ■
institution of this proposed head tax!
as a matter of principle, it being our!
belief that the burden of taxation
should be distributed -in the com
munity according to the wealth of the
individual, and not according to the
OHIO SENATOR
ENDS DEADLOCK
ON 10TH BALLOT
Penrose Sends Word to Convention Hall That He
Would Not Be Objectionable and Recess
Follows to Agree on Running Mate
OLISEUM, Chicago, June 12.—Senator Warren G.
Harding, of Ohio, and Governor Calvin Coolidge,
of Massachusette, will lead the Republican party in
the national presidential campaign this fall. Sena
tor Harding was nominated for the presidency on
the tenth ballot by the Republican national conven
tion about 6 o’clock this evening, ending a deadlock
between Wood and Lowden that had existed from
the first ballot Friday afternoon. Harding’s vote on
the tenth ballot was 520. An effort to make the
nomination unanimous was blocked by the refusal
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- S. from the Wisconsin delegates who had voted con-
sistently for LaFollette. Lowden’s delegates had been released in
the midst of the ninth ballot.
Immediately after Harding had
been declared the nominee Senator
Lenroot, of Wisconsin, and Gover
nor Coolidge, of Massachusetts, were
placed in nomination before the con
vention for the vice-presidency, and
Coolidge named on the first ballot.
The convention, tired out by sessions
since Tuesday and the delegates eager
to start for home, adjourned sine die
at 7:30 o’clock.
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
! lot until 4 o’clock. Word came to
j 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
j souri there would be a defection in
I Kansas on the next ballot, with a
! larjpj increase for Harding,
j “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
Ino longer any question but that
Harding would win and wanted to j
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.
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 I
! ninth ballot, Governor Lowden re- |
leased all his delegates. Meanwhile
, Lowden’s votes were flopping to the !
I Harding column fast. No nomina- !
I tion resulted, however, on this ballot. |
I Launching into the fifth ballot to- :
| day jn search for a nominee for the !
presidency, the convention was
! called to order at 10:25 this morn
j for the fifth day’s session. Visi
: 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. ■
( Center on Harding.
I Senator Harding, ( f Ohio, emerged
! from all night conferences the dead
! lock chieftains as the man with whom
they hoped to break the deadlock on !
I the presidential nomination. On him:
> they planned to concentrate their )
I strength should the convention fail |
| to break the blockade. The nlans were!
contingent upon the failure of the!
I early votes today to result in the I
! nomination of Wood, Lowden or!
I Johnson.
Backers of the Harding boom ar
i gued that if Johnson could be induced
!to accept the vice-presidential nora-
I ination on a compromise ticket prac
| tically his entire strength could be
swung into line. Coolidge was also
mentioned as a possible running mate
for Harding.
The backers of the Harding boom
claimed they could muster between
150 and 200 votes for Harding on
an early ballot today. The sixty
New York delegates, it was said at
one conference, could be swung to
Harding atany time. The arguments
used by thb backers of the compro
mise was that Harding'had a good
record—was not involved material
ly in the senatorial campaign expen
ditures inquiry and had the confi
dence of the conservative and pro
gressive interests.
Nicholas Murray Butler today re
! leased his delegates and on roll call
! number of inhabitants.
! “Adopted this the 11th day of
June, 1920.
“J. H. CAMERON,
“V. C. MELTON,
“Committee.”
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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 inui, 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 2 11%
Johnson 133 %
►g°°j? r 5%
Harding . 64%
Coolidge ..J. 29
Butler 69
DuPont 7
Borah 2
Poindexter ' 20
Sutherland 17
Pritchard 24
Warren y
La Lollette ’ 24
Not voting 1
Second Ballot.
The second ballot also failed to
nominate:
Wood 289%
Lowden 259%
Johnson 145
Hoover ,
Harding 59
Sproul 78%
Coolidge 32
Butler 41
Borah 1
Poindexter 15
Sutherland 15
Pritchard 10
DuPont 7
La Follette 24
Third Ballot.
The third ballot resulted:
Wood 303
Lowden 282%
Johnson 148
Hoover 514
Harding ...i 57
Sproul 79 %
Coolidge 27
Butler 40
Knox 2
Poindexter 15
Sutherland 9
Borah 1
DuPont 2
La Follette 24
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 5 ;
Harding 61%
Sproul 79%
Coolidge 25
Butler 20
Knox 2
Poindexter 15
latherland 3
Borah 1
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
Lowden 303
Johnson 133%
Harding 78
Sproul 82%
Coolidge 29
Hocwer 6
Butler .. 4
Knox 1
Ward 1
Kellogg, (Minnes.ta) 1
Poindexter —1
Sutherland 1
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