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FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 1 52
DEMOCRATS ANNOUNCE PLATFORM
KLAN ISSUE SPLITS RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE;
MAJORITY REPORT
TO PRECIPITATE
BIG FLOOR FIGHT
Platform Presented to Delegates Declares
America Should Assume ‘Moral Leadership
in the Family of Nations’ and That There is
No Substitute for League of Nations —Ques-
tion One That Should be Lifted Above Par
ty Politics in Order to Establish Permanent
Foreign Policy—Would Lift Burden of War
From People—Referendum Is Favored.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New June 28. (Bv the
Associated Press.) —The Platform Committee of tdre Democratic
National' Convention at 3 o’clock (standard daylight saving time)
:h.is afternoon presented its draft of the party’s platform to the
delegates for their consideration.
A minority report of the Resolutions Committee is epect
»d to be read to the delegates later in the afternoon.
The text of the majority report the platform committee
ts as foliows:
Democratic National Platform |
We, the representatives of the i
Democratic party, in national con-1
vention assembled, pay our pro
found homage to the memory of
Woodrow Wilson.
We affirm our abiding faith in
his ideals, and pledge ourselves to
take up the standard which he bore
and to strive for the full triumph
of the principles of democracy ,h«|
Which heAledicated his TtU.
Freedom of Religion, Freedom'
Speech, Freedom of Press
The Democratic party reaffirms
its adherence and devotion to those
cardinal principles contained in the
constitution and the precepts upon
which our government is founded,
that congress shall make no lavs
respecting the establishment of re
ligion, or prohibiting the free exer
cise thereof, or abridge the free
dom of speech or of sh e press, or
the right of people peacebly to as
semble and to petition the govern
ment for a redress of grievances,
that th e church and the state shall
be and remain separate and that
no religious test shall ever be re
quired as a qualification to any
office of public trust under the
United States. These principles we
pledge ourselves to defend and
maintain.
We insist at all times upon obedi- •
ence to the orderly processes of the
law and deplore and condemn any
effort to arouse religious or racial
dissension. Affirming our faith in
these principles we submit our cause
, to th e people.
League of Nations
The Democratic party in its
League of Nations plank declares
“it will be the purpose of the next
administration to do alt in it’s pow
er to secure for our country that
moral leadership in the. family of
nations, which in the providence of
God, has been so clearly marked out
for it.’’
There is no substitute for the
League of Nations, the plank de
clares, as ;;n agency working for
peace, therefore, the Democratic
party believes that, in the interest
of permanent peace and in the lilt
ing of great burdens of war from
the. backs of people and in order to
establish a ‘ permanen foreign pol
icy on these supreme questions, not
subject to change with changing of
party administration, it is ‘desir
able, wise and necessary’’ to lift this
question out of party politics and
to that end take the Kituse of Amer
ican people at
advisory to the. ..governpient to be
held officially under an act of Con
gress, “free from all other questions
and candidacies after ample time
for full consideration and discus
sion throughout the country.’’
Democratic Principles
• The Democratic party believes in
equal rights to all an * Special priv
ilege to nene. The Republican par
ty hold tha.t special privileges arc
essential to national prosperity. It
believes that national prosperity
must originate with the special inter
ests and seep down thorugh the'
channels of trade to the less favor-
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PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OR DIXIE
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Jed industries to the wages earners
| and small salaried employes. It
I has accordingly enthroned, privilege
and unturned selfishness. The Re
publican party is concerned chiefly
with material things; th Democra
tic party is com rned chiefly with
human rights. <
Comp* of Parties.
-■Rparo *-'&-£ '-t unsull
of Democratic adninistra -
VwTlvith that of the Republican ad
ministration.
Republican Inefficiency, Corruption
Npver before in our history has
th e government been so tainted by
corruption and never has an admin
istration so utterly failed. The na
tion has been appalled by the reve
lations of political depravity which
have characterized the conduct of
public affairs. We arraign th e Re
publican party for attempting to
limit inquiry into official delin
quencies and to impede, if not to
frustrate the investigations'to which
in the bc.r.nning of the Republican
party and leaders assented, but
which later they regarded with dis
may.
Such are the exigencies of parti
san politics that Republican lead
i ers are teaching the strange doc
i trine that public censure should be
directed against those who expose
crime rather than against criminals
who hav e committed the offenses.
If only three cabinet officers out
of ten are disgraced, the country
is asked to marvel at how many are
free from taint.
Issues
The dominant issues of the cam
paign ar e created by existing con
ditions.
The Democratic party pledges it
self to the following program;
Honest Government
We pledge the Democratic party
to drive from public places all who
make barter of our national honor,
its resources or the administration
of its laws; to ptffiish those guilty
of these offenSes.
To put none but honest in pub
lic offices; to practice economy in
the expenditure of public money;
to reverence and respect the rights
of all under the constitution.
To condemn and destroy govern
ment by the spy and blackmailer,
Ms by this Republican administra
tion was both encouraged and
practiced.
Tariff and Taxation
The Fordney-McCumber tariff
act .is the most unjust, unscientific
and dishonest tariff tax measure
ever enacted in our history.
We denounce the Republican tar
iff laws which are written in great
part in th e aid of monopolies.
Thd greatest contributing factor
in the increase and unabalancing of
prices is unscientific taxation. Af
ter having increased taxation and
the cost of living tly two billion dol
lars under the FordneyMcCumber
tariff, all that the Republican party
could suggest in the way of relief
wag a cut of throe hundreds million
'dollars in direct taxes, and that was
(Continued on Page Five)
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 28, 1924
OPEN Mim
FOP BONUS WORKERS
ONE NIGHTJCH WEEK
Corps of Trained Workers Will.
Assist Adjusted Compensa- |
tian Officer in Task
NEGROES PROVIDED FOR
J. D. Anderson and Dr. Coffee
Will Aid Negro Ex-Service
Men Secure Payments
Adjusted compensation headquar
ters, through which bonus payments
due ex-service men in Sumter coun
ty will be handled have been open
ed in the office of R. C. Lane, sec
ond flood Allison building begin
ning next Tuesday night, July 1
7:30 F. M., R. L. Crawford, Adjust
ed Compensation Officer for Sum
ter assisted by a corps of
workers members of the John D.
Mathis Post No. 2, American Legion
will be .on hand to assist
men in the task of filing their appli
cations for Adjusted Compensation.
This office will be open ex : service
men on Tuesday night in each week,
til the task of filing application of
every ex-service man in EjUmte’
county has been completeed. ;
Application blanks, together wit
instructions relative to applying fi>.
adjusted compensation will be fun)-
ilsbed to any ex-service man, and
same can be secured either from R.
L. Crawford, adjusted compensation
officer, or from R. . Lane, com
mander of John D. Mathis Post No.
2, American Legion, under whose
supervision this task of assisting
ex-service men in filing theif appli
cation is being conducted.
■Realizing the immense task which
haj been undertaken by the adjust
ed compensation officer in endeav
oring to serve both white and color
ed ex-service men of Sumter coun
ty in the filing of their applications,
J. D. Anderson, Manager of the
North‘Carolina Mutual Life Insur
ance company and Dr. E. B. Coffee,
proprietor of Coffee Drug com
pany, on Cotton avenue, have
volunteered their services to assist
the colored ex-service men in mak
ing out their‘applications, and these
ex-service men have been furnished
with a supply of application blank*
' o be delivered bo colored ex-serv
ice men applying to them, and w : H
p.lso assist the veteran in filing his
application..
In filing an application, the vet
eran if he so desires may fill ouS
, his or her own application blank,
but before being mailed to Wash
ington, it will he necessary that
applicant call at adjusted compen
sation hoadquart.-rs in Allison build
Continued on Page Three.
HUGE SNAKE KILLED
NEAR ICE PLANT HERE
A huge rattlesnake, measuring
, five feet thre inches long and ad
i mittedly the largest snake killed in
this section in a long time, was on
exhibition during Friday afternoon
near the plant of the Atlantic Ice
& Coal Co., nt the foot of Spring
street. Many persons who saw the
snake’s carcass stated the reptile
was th e largest they had ever seen,
including those exhibited in travel
ing circuses, and generally advertis
ed as “the largest boar constrictor
in the world.” The snake was kill
ed, according to CapL Van Riper,
by Ross Hubbard, and was located
on the land surrounding the Dudley
Warehouse property, near the ice
plant.
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tonight.
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DELEGATES QUIT
TILL 3 O’CLOCK
TO FRAME PLANK
Delegates Recess Until 3 O’clock, Eastern Day
light Saving Time Still Seemingly Hopelessly
Divided On Issue of Whether Ku Klux Klan
Is to Be Named Specifically in Platform
Chairman Cummnigs Makes Dramatic Re
cital of Committee’s Deliberations—Bryan
Asks Divine Guidance For Convention.
NEW ’l ORK, June 28.—Democratic party leaders failed to
day in renewed effort to reconcile their differences over the Ku
Klux Klan issue and avoid an open fight on the floor of the na
tional convention.
The morning session of the convention was adjourned to
provide opportunity to further peace conferences, but after more
than twp hours in consultation with other party chieftains, advo
cates of an out-and-out klan plank announced that the issue must
be settled by the delegates themselves.
Bainbridge Colby, former secretary of state, was selected
to conduct the floor fight for a plank condemning the klan by
name and it appeared likely that William Jennings Bryan would
lead the element that only wants to put into the platform a gen
eral reaffirmation of the principles of religious liberty.
CONVENTION ADJOURNS
TILL AFTERNOON
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN,
June 28.—Responding to the ap
peals of party leaders to give more
time for platform committee work
on thc y Ku Klux Klan plank, tha
Democratic national convention, af
ter a brief morning session, re
cessed until 3 o’clock this after
noon, eastern daylight saving time.
Seemingly hopelessly divided on
the issue of whether the klan is to
be named specifically and surround
ed by war clouds loaded with
threats of a party split, the conven
tion managers sent Homr Cummings
Chairman of the platform commit
tee, to the bat to explain to the
Convention why the platform is be
ing delayed and to plead for more
time.
Tired and worn by continuous lons
bf sleep since last Tuesday, Chaii
man Cummings gave as dramatic
recital as ever been heard in the
national convention. Explaining
the deliberations of the committea
and its inability to reach an agree
ment, he told, amid the deathly sil
ence. bow, after an all-night session
the committeemen gathered around
their table, in the breaking dawn es
anoher day, and recited in unison
the Lord’s prayer, after which
William Jennidgs Bryan had raised
his voice and spoken in prayer for
divine guidance.
COMMITTEE FAVORS
LEAGUE REFERENDUM
NEW YORK, June 28.—A pro
posal for a national referendum on
the question of American member
ship in the league of nations was
approved last night by the plat
form committee of the democratic
national convention by a vote of 34
to 16.
With this subject disposed of, the
committee took up the other single
controverted matter—the Ku Klu\
Klan—-with every indication that
majority and minority reports on
the question of naming the klan
would be submitted and the fight
then thrown into the convenioa.
Except for the league and klan
planks, the platform had been put
in final form and the committee
made a determined drive last night
to complete these so that the entire
plaform might be presented to the
convention early tomorrow. To lo
this members said a near all-night
session would be necessary.
m adoo leaders openly
‘DUMP’ KLAN AT N. Y.
NEW YORK, June 28.—The,
McAdoo leaders here are openly and
militantly dumping the Ku Klux
Klan, according to James A. Hollo
mon, special convention correspon
dent of the Atlanta onstitution,
Hollomon asserts that the dumping,
process began when Major Jack Co
hen was firs quoted as saying there
were no klan dekgates from Geor
gia, and when prepared statements
were given out by Judge Rockwell
denying that his candidate had any
klan allegiance of any klan sym
pathies.
As an offset to this however,
there were further circulations of a
(CContinued On Page “Three)
FARMERS MAKE FORTUNE
IN DIVERSIFYING CHOES
ATLANTA, June 28.—The farm
ers in the vicinity- of Sylvester,
Worth county, according to re
ports received by the A. B. and A.
agricultural department, have 1,000
|acres of sweet potatoes, 1,000 acres
in watermelons, 750 acres in canta
loupes, 500 acres in tomatoes, mid
500 acres in tobacco.
Their cream checks amount to
$5,000 a month and they are fi
nancing their present operation with
money received from their dairy
and poultry products. Diversifica
tion, it was shown in that section is
the keynote to successful farming
in South Georgia.
STORM TAKES
DEATH TOLL IN
ILLINOIS TOWNS
Bodies of Woman and Babe Found in Field Near
Cloverdale—Two Reported Killed at Clover
dale—Westbound Big Four Train Lost Since
6:45 This Morning—Storm Devastates Path
2 Miles Long and 3 Miles Wide Through
Downtown Section at Peoria.
PEORIA, His.. June 28.—Eight persons were killed, scores
injured, in a tornado which struck Peoria and the surrounding ter
ritory early today, according to available reports.
The bodies of a woman and her baby were found in a
field far from their home at Cloverdale-
At Morton two reported killed, with many injured.
No trace of a westbound-Big Four passenger train has been
found, due here at 6:45 a. m.
The storm’s path was two miles long and three miles wide
over the downtown section of this city.
Three or four were reported drowned when house boats on
the river front capsized.
PROPERTY DAMAGE
HEAVY AT DES MOINES
DES MOINES. lowa, June 28.—Two persons are known
to have been injured, and thousands of dollars of property dam
age caused by a tornado which struck here early today.
ARKANSAS RATIFIES
20TH AMENDMENT
LITTLE ROCK,, June 28.
Arkansas today became the first
state to ratify the proposed child
labor amnedment to the federal
constitution when the senate ap
proved the measure in a vote 15
to 13. The hous e voted to rati
fy the amendment yesterday.
IORKJST OF BJLL'!!
W IS IMPOSSIBLE
Sixteen Names Now Before
Delegates While Platform
Fight Unabated
NEW YORK, June 28.—Ab 6
o’clock (standard eastern daylight
saving time) this afternon it was
impossible to forecast when ballot
ing upon presidential candidates
will begin at the Democratic na
tional convention. Sixteen mimes
have been presented for the honor,
these being as follows:
Oscar W. Underwood, of Ala
bama.
Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas.
William G. McAdoo, of Califor
nia.
Willard Saulsbury, of Delaware.
Samuel M. Ralston, of Indiana.
Jonathan M. Davis, of Kansas.
Albert B. Ritchie, of Maryland.
Woolbridge N. Ferris, of Missouri
igan.
David F. Houston, of Missouri
and New York.
Charles W. Bryan, of Nebraska.
Fred H. Brown, of New Hamp
shire.
Alfred E. Smith, of New York.
George S. Silzer, of New Jersey.
James M. Cox, of Ohio.
Carter Glass, of Virginia.
John W. Davis, of West Virginia
and New York.
| Shortly before this is written the
1 resolutions committee had present-
I ed its report embodying the party
I platform which is now being debat
’ ed upon the convention floor.
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ALLEGED DRUG ADDICT
SENTENCED FOR YEAR
ATLANTA, June 28.—Fopnd
guilty of violating the Harrison nar
cotic act, Charles H. Crosby, of
Columbus, Thursday was sentenced
to serve one yRr in the Atlanta
federal pen by Judge Samuel H.
Sibley in federal district court. Dur
ing that time he will undergo treat
ment-as a “dope addict.’’
The same jury found James Elli
son, a negro, guilty of the larceny
of a watch in Columbus. He also
was sentenced to one year in the’
federal penitentiary.
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HIEEKMKI
OKIE 81 CROPS IS
com Bl SUM
Rain and Hail Strip Corn and
Colton on Methvin and Ma
this Places in 28th
HEAVY RAIN AT LESLIE
Unusual Downpour Experienced
in Neighborhood of Both De-
Soto and Cobb
Extensive damage was done to
crops throughout Sumter county by
a heavy nail arid rain storm ex
perienced during last night, accord
ing to reports reaching Americus
this morning, probably the heaviest
damage sustained was on the farms
of John T. Methvin, George Math
ews and Eugene Summerford in the
Twenty-eighth district. On these
farms a considerable area planted
to cotton and corn was stripped al
most entirely of its foliage and
the lands badly washed. A total of
five inches of rain fell upon the
Methvin farm and adjoining lands
within a brief space of time, it was
stated today by Mr. Methvin.
Farmers and business men com
ing to Americus from Leslie and
DeSoto reported an excessive rain
fall in these communities' extend
ing as far as Cobb in the south
eastern edge of the county. At De-
Soto a rainfall almost comparable
to a cloudburst was experienced, it
was said here this mornnig, lands
in that entire community being bad
ly washed as a result. The heavy
rainfall was noticeable along the
road between Americus and Leslie
as far this way as the farm of
Claude Johnson in Huntington
community. Little hail damage
was experienced there.
SHERIFFS WANT TO
ABOLISH HANGING
ATLANTA, June 28. —Substi
tution of the electric chair for the
gallows in executions in Georgia
was urged upon the legislature in
a resolution adopted by the Geor
gia Sheriffs’ Association in annual
convention here.
Sheriff J. A. Beard, of Musco
gee county, declared the electric
chair a more humane way to take
the life of a condemned person
than hanging and said that most of
the sheriffs of the state ar e of the
same opinion. The resolution was
passed unanimously.
Officers of the association were
re-elected as follows:
J. A. Beard, president; C. O. No
ble, Tift county, vices-president,
and H. G. Bradley, Atlanta, secre
tary-treasurer.
