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|E. L. RAINEY
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OLLAPSE OF POLES WOULD
OPEN ROAD TO GERMANY.
FRANCE NEXT ON LIST.
\sT BULWARK WAVERS
lies Powerless Because of War
Weariness and Constant Bicker
ings. Col. House Sounds Warning
To United States in Statement to
Newspapel’l.
poland is now fighting a life or
.ath battle against the “Red”
rdes of Russia. More than half
. crvitory of the independent Pol
h republic, created by the peace
caty of Versailles, is overrun by
[ bolshevist armies of Lenine and
otzky, who are setting up soviets
the cuplul’l‘d cities and towns as
pidly as they fall under Russian
e, Warsaw, the Poles’ capital,
endangered and the “Reds” still
cep westward, despite the efforts
the Polish armistice commission
[ offect a stay of the fighting
pnding peace negotiations. The vic
ious Russians flushed by their
cosses and dreaming of world
pnquest, apparently do not want
pace.
Allies and U. S. Aroused.
The success of the soviet armies
B |lo plight of Poland apparently
’ < aroused not only western Eu
- but the United States as well,
the danger of a bolshevist sweep
at endangers the entire structure
present-day civilization.
While the soviet armies have
en making slow progress in
eir march through Poland to the
erman frontief, the bolshevist lead
< and especially the wide-flung
opaganda bureau, have been
ually active at the rear,
, The plans of Lenine and Trotzky,
cording to reports from Germany,
- blland and Sweden, are far-sweep
| bin scope. According to these re
rts, soviet Russia intends to séek
alliance with Germany to make
r on France, and if this is suc
sful to undertake a conquest of
oland and eventually America.
s soon as the Polish war, which
considered a purely Russian busi
-ss. has been finished, a note will
sent to Berlin, the soviet officials
, demanding permission to trans
troops across Germany for the
bich campaign. Upon refusal of
request, which is ” taken for
nted, a revolution will be insti-
Bci in Germany, the success of
ich the “Reds” asserted they
re prepared to assure by force
arms,
Col. House Sounds Warning.
Significant in its bearing on this
ation is a statement given Amer
n newspapers during the week by
. E. M. House, formerly Presi
ht Wilson’s confidential advisor,
o has been making a tour of Eu
pe for several months, paying par
ular attention to the political sit
ion, Col. House said ¢
“The police regulations are the
st noticeable thing to strangers
iting Holland. They are not un
e those in Russia in days gone
L The cause is bolshevism. It has
as yet reached Holland, but " the
adows are lengthening and each
v they loom larger.
“Poland is hopelessly crushed and
rmany is face to face with it. The
ur s critical and the next few
¢ks or months may determine the
je of Europe—of the world.
It is believed in Holland that
rmany has decided to cast her lot
th the East. If true, that is a mo
bntous decision and one in_ which
Iy nation has an interest, Its im
diate effect will be to create a
v hal:}n(-c of power, and its ulti
bte effect will be to determine
pether the present civilization is
b¢ replaced by that which seems
Jbe now in the making.
1t is not that bolshevism is be-
Ved in so much, but it is the mom
lary available instrument to which
1 testless, unhappy and .discon
ted turn. Before the world set
s down again to its age-long task
| Producing in order that people
v live there is every indication of
upheaval which may disturb the
ndation of our political, social
i economical life.”
f’_‘”ied Peoples War Weary.
‘“f’}j the collapse of Poland and
r;“'\’t:fl(‘c of the bolshevists to
ko the German frontier, the
"f“' upheaval enters upon a new
2¢. An exhausted and divided
-;;M civilization faces a renewal
.f]f." H;flaqlts of barbarism, of an
“‘ _(_llssolutlon, such as tem
iz overcome Roman and Greek
Vization more than 15 centuries
ka]'\ i*(\l-\‘}};evxst success is due pri
\\-{,d,”..t e extreme war weariness
g Europe and to the jeal-
P and bickerings between the
b I{’f_'at_ European powers of the
, . 'itain, France and Italy. Bri
rs o CCupled in two considerable
bh . Asia, with the Turk and
etcheg t‘gr?b, the Fiench have
: ‘utm( their military resources to
o oS limit to give Gouraud in
g tLyautey in Morocco the
lonia) “ve ';°°ps to complete two
watch o ures, while maintaining
A f(.l on the Rhine.
e of" Italy, she has lost in the
relt t;»lomal adventure and finds
b ""('l‘fftffi an exhausting war in
Wers ‘\\‘it\h atr},xe oF: the -thres ET eat
B 0 show £ e imallest territorial
7 the sam‘: t.or er successes, And
B ... time she faces one of
r hi?tor;t ~domestie crises in ‘n‘
SAVE WARSAW
Little Army Has Thrown “Reds”
Back Across Frontier. Peace
Mediations Continue.
The Poles have thrown back, at
leo ~mporarily, the efforts of
tk 'd’ia, “Pad” armies to over
run Fo.. Ly ‘~tate.terms of
peace from .. -~ egpital.
Fighting against ou. , to
one the Polish armies, u.. the
leadership of Gen Weygand, chief
aide to Marshal Foch during the
world war, and 600 other French
officers, and reinforced by French
artillery and ammunition, have
rolled back the soviet hordes to
their own soil. In a brilliant two
weeks’ counter-offensive the Poles
have completely defeated three of
the four ‘“Red” armies, forcing
them to retire from Poland in a
condition verging on a rout, cap
tured 75,000 prisoners, 600 can
nons, thousands of machine guns
and immense quantities of sup
plies.
$BO,OOO FOR STATE
OVER $160,000 IN ALL PAID BY
WOMAN’S PARTY FOR RIGHT
TO DABBLE IN POLITICS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Woman
suffrage leaders today let it be
known that they hope to disband
before long both the great national
woman’s organizations which fought
for ratification of the nineteenth
amendment. The National Woman’s
Suffrage Association algeady has
decided to merge into the National
League of Woman Voters, recently
organized at Chicago. This organi
zation, which is non-partisan, will
be combined supervisor of and clear
ing house for efforts to secure leg
islation affecting women.
Much Money Spent.
Uncertainty as to the organiza
tion of state macnmery to enable
women to vote this fall exists in 11
states, according to women here:
Alabama, Connecticutt, Florida,
Georgia, Louisiana, North Dakota,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Mary
land and Vermont.
The attorney general of Missouri
has ruled that women cannot vote
there unless special enabling legis
lation is passed, but the women say
that Governor Gardner has promised
a special session of the legislature
to pass such laws.
The National Woman’s Party to
day announced that its ratification
campaign cost about $150,000 and
about $BO,OOO of this was spent to
secure the thirty-sixth state. About
#lO,OOO of this was spent in Ten-i
nessee and the remainder in Dela
ware and other states.
The largest contributor was Miss
Mary 2. Burnham, of Philadelphiz,
who pave $14,000. Miss Fannie T.
Cochran, of Pennsylvania, gave
$64,100, Mrs. Charles Broughkton
Wood gave $5,000 and Mrs. H. O.
Havemeier $4,350. |
LAGUNA COTTON CROP:
UNITED STATES QUARANTINE
AGAINST IMPORTS FORCES
SALE TO JAPANESE.
TORREON, Mexico.—The acreage
devoted to cotton in the Laguna dis
trict this season is approximately
400,000, according to estimates of
planters who have been over much
of the territory. They say the aver
age yield will be about one bale per
acre, and that the pink boll worm
has done little or no damage.
The labor supply is abundant and
it is expected the crop will be pick
ed rapidly. Whatever surplus there
may be after supplying the mills of
Mexico will be exported to Japan,
it is asserted. .
The quarrantine of the United
States against Mexican cotton and
cotton seed has caused a new for
eign outlet for those products to be
sought. i :
= From an industrial standpoint the
Laguna district is a close second to
the Tampico territory in the mat
ter of development and richness. In
Torreon there are a number of large
manufacturing plants, including
smelter, guayule rubber factories,
soap, cotton seed oil mills and other
plants. =
Villa Tells How, With Broken Leg,
He Hid Five Weeks From Pershing
Bandit Leader Boasts That During
His Residence in Cave, American
Soldiers Were Often Near Him.
Francisco Villa, surrendered Mex
ican bandit, lived within stone’s
throw of some of Pershing’s troop
ers when the United States punitive
expedition was made into Mexico in
1916. He once more confirmed re
ports that he was wounded, saying
that his leg was broken in three
places by Carranzitas within five
days after the Pershing expedition
had entered Mexico.
Villa’s wound and suffering, he
said, came to him in the midst of
THE DAWSON NEWS
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- §61,863.56 GOLLECTED
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GIVES NAMES OF MERCHANTS
AND THE AMOUNT OF TO
BACCO TAX PAID. ‘
¢ TR 1
CITIES WERE NOT VISITED
sy i
Protests Reached the Governor From
Every Section of the State, and It
| Was Decided to Refund the Mon
ey Illegally Collected.
ATLANTA.—The collection of
certain taxes on cigarette tobacco
and papers from merchants in some
country counties of Georgia by spe
cial tax investigators appointed by
Governor Dorsey back in 1919 has
aroused consgiderable controversy.
The statement that many thousands‘
of dollars were secured from the
country merchants by the special
tax investigators has been challeng
ed in some quarters.
‘ In view of the conflicting state
ments issuing from various quarters,
the firm of Joel Hunter & Co., of
Atlanta, certified _public account
ants, has made an exhaustive exam
ination of the reports of the special
tax investigators as submitted to the
comptroller general. The report
shows that these investigators
operated in twenty-seven counties,
collected cigarette tobacco taxes
amounting to $51,859.56, that no
cigarette tobacco taxes were collect
ed in the large cities of the state,
but that they were collected in the
country counties.
-~ After the special tax investiga
tors had been operatin;: for some
time the wave of resentment from
merchants who had paid the tax un
der protest became so strong that
i Governor Dorsey felt constrained to
authorize a refund. This he did up
.on the recommendations of Comp
troller General W. A. Wright, who
from the first had ruled that mer
chants selling cigarette tobacco., but
who neither gave away or sold ci
garette papers, were not liable for
the tax.
DEMAND TENDENCY WILL NOT
EMBRACE FOOD. SOME LINES
MAY BE HIGHER.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Retail
prices, in the opinion of the federal
reserve board, will decline slightly
during the coming fall and winter
months and will slump next spring
to still lower levels,
Summarizing recent changes in
prices of various commodities the
board in a report last night said
that ‘“saving afforded by manufac
turers through lessened cost of ma
terials and increased efficiency of
labor must eventually be reflected
in a downward movement of retail
prices.”
Although a general slight slump
in retail prices during the next few
months was forecast, the board was
of the opinion that in some lines
higher prices were probable. Chang
es in the prices of raw materials,
which were reported to have been
sharp during the past few .weeks,
will not show their effect, according
to the board, in retailprices until
early next spring. . |
. The board stated that an ‘“im
portant downward tendency” in
prices of all commodities except
food had been evidenced through
out the country, the reduction in
prices of raw products having been‘
especially marked. i
Population of State’s Missing Cen.
sus District Adds 299 to the
Official Figures.
Georgia’s missing census enumera
tion district has turned up adding
299 more to the state’s population
recently announced and making the
revised total 2,893,900. The missing |
district was in Mclntosh county, but
its addition to the previously an
nounced total population of the
state does not amount to sufficient
to change the state’s percentage of
increase, which still remains at 10.9
per cent, :
his efforts to organize a great band
of followers to attack the Americans.
He declared he had picked 1,200
faithful followers to accomplish the
task of recruiting a great uprising
of the ecitizens of Chihauhau against
the Americans. Villa was confident
that he could have equipped at least
8,000 of these with rifles.
“I*never left Chihauhau while
Pershing was in the country,” boast
ed the outlaw chieftain. “After be
ing wounded two of my cousins car
ried me to a cave in the mountains.”
Villasaid he lived in this cave five
weekftnd often saw American sol
tdaieg on a hill within a skort dis
nce.
DAWSON, GA
, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1920
HARD ON GIRLS
New Heix Stylts £all For Red
Dye, Rats, Bangs, Marcel
Waves and Bib Combs.
CHICAGO.—The red headed |
girl finally has her day.
Hair dressers have decreed that
bobbed hair and ear flaps must
go in the scrap heap. Fluffs, rip
ples, water waves and permanent
waves will be the new styles in
hair dressing. -
Fair hair is to be applied liber- l
ally and hair dyeing this season
is to be done in red, according to !
leading hair dressers here on Sat
urday. |
The tendency, they say, is not
to dress the hair in box style, but |
to apply false hair wherever need
ed. Marcelled hair, it was said, l
will be seen more than ever.
Bangs, curled up in front in a
chic mode, are to be popular.
The very newest thing in hair |
dressing is the “butterfly coif
fure.” It is a huge affair with |
“rats” packed in to make it have
a striking effect. There are kinks |
a-plenty in it. : I
A real innovation is to be giant |
combs, twelve inches wide and ‘
six inches high- They are in all |
shades and colors amd cover near- |
ly a whole side of the head. i
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE
PROCLAIMED BY COLBY
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IS FORMALLY MADE A PART OF
CONSTITUTION OF THE |
UNITED STATES. ‘
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The right
of women to the ballot was formally
made a part of the constitution of
the United States Thursday when
Secretary of State Colby proclaimed
ratification of the nineteenth amend
ment.
Mr. Colby announced the procla
mation when he arrived at his of
fice, having signed it shortly before
at his home here, where the official
certification that Tennessee had be
come the thirty-sixth state to ratify
the amendment was taken early to
day.
A group of suffrage leaders who
had waited until a late hour last
' night for the arrival of the Tenifes
see certification were hurriedly sum
moned to the state department and
‘met Mr. Colby. They cheered when
told the last step to make the amend
ment operative had been taken.
Suffragists had expected Mr. Col
by to make the ceremony of pro
claiming the amendment a public
one and evidently were disappoint
ed.
Efforts will be made, anti-suffrage
leaders declared, to have the United
States supreme court pass on the
legality of Tennessee’s ratification.
"Suffrage opponents predicted the
court would hold that the legislature
' had no authority to act,
~ Seth M. Walker, speaker of the
Tennessee house of representatives,
wired Secretary Colby that Tennes
see had not ratified the amendment.
SECRETLY SET ASIDE
RESTRAINING ORDER
Action Is Denounced as High Hand
ed and Unprecedented.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Gow. Rob
erts today certified by mail to Sec
retary of Stace Colby, T2nnessee’s
ratification of the woman suffrage
amendment after receiving from At
torney Thompson an opinion that a
writ issued by Chief Justice D. L.
Lansden of the state supreme court
last night set aside a lower court or
der temporarily restraining the gov
ernor from taking such action. The
injunction was obtained by citizens
of Nashville opposed to suffrage.
So far as court action in Tennes
see is concerned the only thing in
prospect for the antis is to request
the supreme court to rescind the in
dividual action of Justice Lansden.
The court meets in Knoxville, Sep
tember 20.
Announcement this morning that
Justice Lansden had issued the writ,
followed an hour later by the state
ment that the governor had mailed
the ratification was a bomb shell
in the camp of the anti-suffrage
’forces and an agreeable surprise to
the suffragists. There had been 1o
intimation that such a course was
planned. |
Attorney General Thompson filed
the petition for the writ with Jus
tice Lansden at his residence’last
night on behalf of Gov. Roberts. ‘
The petitioners who obtained the
injunction, their attorneys and anti
suffragists generally, were amazed
at the coup and the petitioners, in
a formal statement, were bitter in
their criticism of what they termed
the “high handed tactics and un
precedented methods” involved in
the case.
Gov. Roberts would make no
statement.
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SCRUBBING COSTS TOO v o
MUCH FOR ENGLAND’S KING
Cleaning of Palace Discontinued Be
- cause of High Wages.
LONDON, England.—On order of
the king the summer cleaning of
Buckingham palace has been discon
tinued because of the high wages
demanded by serubwomen. The reg
ular staff of maids refused to do
the work. It was 2lso decided that
there will be no inside pain‘ing or
papering until the prices lecane £5
‘per cent. 3 .
750 REFUGEES, WARDS OF THE
RED CROSS, ARE COMPLET
ING LONG SEA JOURNEY.
CHASED EAST BY WAR
Story of Wanderings Reads Like a
Tale From Greek Mythology. At
One Time They, Barely Escaped
Being Captured.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Voyaging
around the world to reach their
homes 780 Russian waifs, all that
have been accounted for of proba
bly 6,000 children sent out of Petro
grad by their parents when revolu
tion gripped the old Russian capi
tal, are on their way from San Fran
cisco to New York by way of the
Panama canal.
They came from Vladivostok un
der the care of the American Red
Cross, of which they have been
wards for two years. They are go
ing back to Petrograd after suffer
‘ing and wanderings that for some
of them have blotted out every rec
ollection of their parents, the places
of their birth or even of their own
names.
Speaking of the experiences of
the children, who range in age from
'3 to 17 years, a statement by the
' Red Cross said:
.~ “The long sea journey, writes the
last chapter in a history of wander
ing and adventure in a revolution
torn country that can hardly be
' matched in the whole record of
world upheaval in the last six years.
Like Ancient Tales.
“It seems almost a tale out of the
old Testament or Greek mythology
and a thousand years from now, it
is perhaps not too much to say, the
Russians with their dramatic instinct
and mysticism will have made it a
part of their rich folk lore.”
Whea the revolution broke out in
Russia, the report continues, many
parents in Petrograd decided to
send the youngsters into peaceful
Siberia “until the trouble was over.”
They were sent east in charge of
nurses and teachers,
Later, a barrier of fire marking
the battle lines of the opposing Rus
sian and Czech armies had been
stretched between the youngsters
and their homes, Months passed.
Winter arrived, funds were exhaust
ed and hunger and war horrors men
aced the wanderers. The Omsk gov
ernment, appealed to for help, pass
ed it on to the Red Cross.
: Barely Escape Capture.
Group after group was taken over
by the Red Cross, which established
colonies in western Siberia and had
apparently solved the prgblem of
caring for its charges when the bat
tle line swayed eastward and the
bolshevik captured town after town.
Groups of children barely escaped
capture. Finally it was decided to“
take them to Vladivostok. |
“Three trains of specially equipp
ed box cars with a guard of Amer
ican doughboys transported the pre
cious cargo on a journey lasting
several weeks through a country
stripped bare of provisions,” the re
port continues. “It may be said that
ingenuity was taxed to the utmost
in obtaining supplies, avoiding dis
ease epidemic areas and evading
other troubles.” :
Finally the children were settled
at Russian islands in Vladivostok
harbor in barracks, with German
and Austrian prisoners pressed into
cervice to do the heavy work. Schools
and hospitals were established, nat
ural talents were cultivated and
thirteen of the larger girls took a
course of training which fitted them
to be nurses. Several youngsters
showed unusual abilities at musie,
painting and dancing.
The children will visit at Panama
canal ports and in New York city on
their way home.
STRANGE MANIFESTATIONS RE
PORTED IN IRISH TOWN.
REMARKABLE CURES.
BELFAST. Intense excitement
prevails in Templore county, Tip
peraiy, the scene of the recent mur
der of T. A. Wilson, over what are
repo:ted to be weird manifestations
of healing.
The Thurles correspondent of a
local newspaper sends details of
what he describes as an ‘‘extraor
dinary miracle” which he says began
and still continues. p
“About 6 p. m.,”” he says, “all
statues and holy pictures in the
house of Thomas Divan, a 2 news
agent, began to bleed. Crowds of
awed people witnessed the strange
manifestation and wondérful stories
are being told. *
“A erippled soldier carried to Di
van’s on crutches regained' the use
of his limbs. He had been three
years in a hospital. A little girl, 4
vietim of consumption, also was
cured.” .
R e e
OLDEST LOVE LETTER.
The oldest love letter”proposing
marriage was written 6n a brick.
This was 3,500 years ago, when the
hand of ar® Egyptian princess was
cought, and this substantial speci
men i said to be the only thing of
its kind in the werld. :
“SALESMAN”
Steals Goods ‘from a Store and
Returns” The mfor Cash in
Sae Establishment.
NEW YORK—The police of
Portchester on Saturday laughed
when their newest prisoner,
Walter J. Burchard, gave his oc
¢upation as ‘“salesman.”
They laughed because of the
way this description fitted the
charge against him. The com
plaint is that he entered the
paint store of William Wolff in
Main street, Portchester, picked
up a can of paint, carried it back
to the proprietor’s son, and said:
“This is one of the three cans
I bought the other day. I find I
don’t need so much. Will you
take this back?”
The can was accepted and the
merchant paid $4.50, which
meant he was buying his own
property. Burchard had $5OO
when arrested. It is alleged he
worked the game systematically.
$100,000,000 OIL
- STANDARD SUBSIDIARY GETS
CONTROL OF HUGE CORPO
RATION. WELLS ABROAD.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Official an
nouncement of the conclusions of
negotiations for the merger of the
International Petroleum company,
Limited, a subsidiary of the Stan
dard Oil company of New Jersey,
and the Tropical Oil company, con
trolled by the Benedum-Trees-Treat
Crawford interests of Pittsburg, a
deal involving approximately $lOO,-
000,000, was made on Sunday.
By the terms of the merger it is
planned to organize a new interna
tional petroleum company, Ltd., un
der the laws of Canada, with an au
thorized issue of at least 100,000
preferred shares, par value $5 and
at least 7,118,138 common shares of
no par value. .
The Tropical company has out
standing approximately 1,575,000
shares and the International has is
sued 2,606,802 shares of common
and 100,000 shares of preferred.
The International is a producing,
refining and marketing organization
and the Tropical a producing com
pany without sufficient facilities for
distribution, v
The International Petroleum com
pany, Ltd., was incorporated in Can
' ada in 1914 and acquired control of
three British corporations, the Lon
don and Pacific Petroleum. com
pany, Ltd., and the Lagunitos Oil
company and the West Coast Fuel
company. |
The company supplies the local
trade in Peru and exports to Chile,
Ecuador and Panama. |
The Tropical Oil Company was or
ganized in Delaware in 1915 and ac
quired the DeMares concession ofl
two million acres in Colombia.
e SRR
VICTIM THAT PROVIDES FEAST
ALSC SUPPLIES NAME FOR
NEXT BORN IN TRIBE.
LOS ANGELES, Cal—“ Which will
you have, the light meat or the
dark?”
“Gimme th’ light.”
In the Occident or the Orient the
reply” to the much asked question is
the same, according to William F.
Alder, explorer and lecturer, who
has just returned from a year’s visit
to the Kai Kai tribes of cannibals
in New Guinea. He states that the
natives want almost any kind of
meat, but they feel that the lighter
it is the better.
In telling of his experiences at a
lecture before the Southern Califor
nia Academy of Sciences in Los
Angeles, Mr. Adler described the
methods employed by the man-eat
ing tribes. He said that as the time
for a feast draws near one tribe
watches another and picks out the
man on whom attention is to be cen
tered. Then, im the night the can
nibals go to the village and awake
him. The first word he utters upon
awakening is the name the tribe be
stows upon the next born., After be
ing awakened he is hit on the head
and the meal is prepared.
Mr. Adler stated that white meat
is always preferable. A -missionary
who preceded him by a few weeks
lost his life among the cannibals,
and a Swiss scientist who was mak
ing an investigation at about the
time Mr. Adler went to New Gui
nea was killed. Only Mr. Adler’s ex
ceptional power over the natives en
abled him to move about .among
them. The explorer made pictures
of men who had néver before been
photographed. These he has made
into slides.
LIGHTNING STRUCK
DOWN FUGITIVE
DIXON, Ky.—A lightning
bolt aided justice in Evansville
when it struck down Ray Free
man, 25; Wheatcroft, Ky., who
escaped with several others
from jail here several weeks
ago. Picked up unconscious,
he was taken to jail, where he
vas held for Webster county
officers. The bolt only stunned
hifm.
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First Section
VOL. 38.—N0. 52
DEMOCRATS ARE PLANNING TO
FORCE THE CAMPAIGN IN
EIGHT STATES.
G. 0. P. IN THICK OF IT
Hopes Centered on Nevada Where
There Is Spirited Contest. Stiff
Fights in a Number of States in
The North and West.
WASHINGTON, D, C.—ln the
senatorial contests in the November
elections there are many complex
angles that put the contests apart
from the presidential battle. Local
conditions that will hurt or help this
or that candidate for the senate do
not apply to the candidacy ~f Gov.
Cox and Senator Harding.
Seventeen of the seats to be fill
ed in the November elections are
held by democrats and fifteen by
republicans,
Democrats Will Force Fight.
The democrats intend to force the
fighting against the return of re
publican senators from New York,
New Hamphshire, Connecticutt, In
diana, Utah, Illinois, Wisconsin and
Ohio. On the other hand the repub
licans have a chance to capture a
number of seats from the democrats.
The republicans believe they have
an excellent chance of re-electing
Senator S. P. Spencer, Missouri,
where the democrats are divided
through Senator Reed’s opposition to
President Wilson and his policies.
In Kentucky, another state nor
mally democratic, the republicans
have hopes of defeating Senator J.
C. W. Beckham, democrat. Last aut
umn Kentucky elected a republican
governor by a majority in the neigh
borhood of 40,000. The republican
candidate for senator is Col. Ernest,
who is regarded as a strong man.
{ While Oregon is normally a re
publican state it has twice elected
George E. Chamberlain, democrat, to
the senate. This year Senator Cham
berlain is a candidate to. succeed
himself, and is expected to have a
hard contest, although his popularity
with republicans is a factor in his
favor,
Hopes For Nevada.
Republican hopes are centered
upon Nevada, where there is a” spir
ited contest over-the selection of
a democratic candidate for senator
to succeed Senator Henderson, dem
ocrat, whose term will expire in
MarcH. One of Senator Henderson’s
opponerts for the nomination is Ray
mond T. Baker, director of the Unit
ed States mint.
The republicans intend to make a
spirited campaign in Maryland,
where Senator John W. Smith, dem
ocrat, is candidate for re-election.
His republican opponent is O. E.
Weller, who was defeated for gov
ernor by a small majority, and who
is very popular in the state.
It is very generally believed that
the seat of Senator Edwin S. John
son, South Dakota, democrat, will be
filled by a republican. .
See Good Chances.
In Idaho the republicans believe
they have a good chance for defeat
ing Senator J. F. Nugent, democrat,
and claim they are making headway
'in Arizona against Senator M. A.
Smith, democrat.
Senator Charles S. Thomas, Cole
' vado, democrat, has declined to
stand for re-eletcion, and here again
the republicans see an opportunity
of gaining a seat in the senate.
Senator Phelan, California, dem
ocrat, will be opposed strenuously
for re-election. There is a lively
contest- on -now for. the republican
nomination for senator, with Sam
uel Shortridge and former Congress
man William Kent as the main con
tenders. :
~ In North Dakota, A. J. Gronna,
republican, was defeated for re
nomination by Dr. Ladd, who was
also the candidate of the non-parti
[san league, and it is generally be
lieved that Ladd will be elected.
HARDWICK LEADS THE
LIST AS CAMPAIGN HUSTLER
Gubernatorial Candidate Has Spoke
To More Than 100,000 Georgians.
ATLANTA, Ga.—Political statis
ticians here are handing the plum to
Thos. W. Hardwick, candidate for
governor, for making speeches and
covering territory. It is estimated
that he has spoken to 100,000 Geor
gians to date, He has had only two
meetings at which less than 150 at
tended; he has had a dozen at which
the attendance ran into the several
thousands. He has had numerous
meetings at which the crowd ran
from 500 to 1,000. His Atlanta
speech was heard by perhaps 5,000
people, Foud
Whatever may be the chances of
the former senator to win the gov
ernorship, he is classed now at the
top of campaign hustlers,
ELLIS ISLAND SWAMPED BY
RUSH OF INCOMING ALKENS
5,000 Being Inspected and 3,000
More Waiting to Be Unloaded.
NEW YORK, N. Y—With 4,004
immigrant aliens on the boards of
Ellis Island for examinaticn and
several big steerage-carrying ships
coming into port, bringing at least
3,000 more to be landed as soon as
inspections can be made, t{nerc is
a rush of incoming aliens as in days
before the war. <