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VOL. XXII. NO. 63
U. S. SEES BOLSHEVIK PLOT IN SWITCHMEN’S STRIKE
Coca-Cola Company Is Enjoined by Bottlers
M TO DESTI
RIGHTS IS CHARGED
TO DEUWARE CO.
Petition Alleges Public
k "Lured'’ to Invest in
• Stock Notable Array of
'•Legal Talent in Case
The Coca-Cola Company of Dela
ware, which formerly was the Coca-
Cola Company of Atlanta. Tuesday
night, was enjoined by Judge George
L. Bell, of Fulton superior court, in
two suits, from in any wise inter
fering with contracts between the
manufacturers of the well-known soft
drink syrup and the two principal
bottling companies of the 'lgnited
States—the Coca-Cola Bottling com
pany, of Atlanta, and the Coca-Cola
Bottling company, of Chattanooga.
The injunction, which is returnable
for hearing at 9:30 a. m., on Satur
day, April 24th, further restrains the
Coca-Cola company from furnishing
syrup for bottling purposes to any
other person whomsoever in certain
territory which is covered by con
tracts between the syrup manufac
turers and the bottlers: and from as
signing, transferring or conveying
my right in the trade mark “Coca-
Cola,” or any of the labels or de
signs used in connection therewith,
or from granting any license for
the manufacture of bottled Coca-Cola
in the designated territory; or from
the use of the trade mark In connec
tion with bottled Coca-Cola and from
themselves bottling, selling, or at
tempting to sell bottled Coca-Cola in
the designated territory.
The bills further restrain the Coca-
Cola company from making or at
tempting to make any contracts with
any person whomsoever, or under
taking; to convey or give the right to
—bottled Coca-Cola in the designated
territory or to use the trade mark or
labels thereunder on botUert-Goee-
Cola.
The manufacturers of the syrup
»re further restrained from making
, for sale any Coca-Cola syrup for
bottling purposes in the designated
territory except only to furnish and
supply the syrup to the two bottling
companies that are plaintiffs in the
action.
Ko table Legal Talent
The restraining orders signed by
Judge Bell precipitate in the courts
of Fulton county litigation which
promises to rank among the most
important and bitterly contested
suits in the history of the state. It
marks the culmination of negotia
tions between the parent bottlers and
the Coca-Cola company that have ex
tended over months—in fact almost
ever since the original properties
were acquired by the present Dela
ware corporation. It will bring to
tne front a notable array of counsel.
The plaintiffs are represented by
King & Spalding; Rosser, Slaton,
Phillips & Hopkins; C. T. & John L.
Hopkins; Brown, Spurlock & Brown;
Williams Lancaster. The names of
all these firms appear as attorneys
of record in the petitions signed by
Judge Bell.
It isl understood that the Coca-
Cola company will be represented by
Thomson, Candler & Hirsch; Ander-
son, Rountree & Crenshaw; and Al
ston & Alston. Associated with them
will be prominent legal talent from
New York.
The litigation is predicated upon
the contention of the bottlers that
they hold a perpetual contract with
the Coca-Cola company for the exclu
sive right and license to bottle and
. Coca-Cola syrup in certain stip
ulated territory, said territory em
bracing practically all of the United
States except the six New England
states. Copies of the original con
tracts with certain amendments
. thereto, are subjoined Jo the petitions
its exhibits.
It is thee ontention of the petition
ers that since the sale of the Coca-
Cola company by the Candler inter
ests and its acquirement by the Dela
ware corporation, a plan has been
conceived and is being undertaken to
destroy the rights of the parent bot
tlers and to secure for the Delaware
corporation the benefits of the busi
ness that has been established at
great expense by the bottlers. It is
charged further that the Delaware
corporation is seeking to appropriate
itself by new and forced contracts
if the bottlers, the contractees and
the licenses of the parent bottlers so
\ tkat it may gather to itself all the
•ibstantial profits of the Coca-Cola
1 settling business.
CURED HER FITS
Mrs. Paul Gram, residing at 916
Fourth street, Milwaukee, Wis„ re
cently gave o.ut the following state
ment: “I had suffered with Fits
l (Epilepsy) for over 14 years. Doctors
I and medicine did me no good. It
seemed that I was beyond all hope
of relief, when at last I secured a
preparation that cured me sound and
wall. Over 10 years hav® passed
and the attacks have not returned. I
wish every one who suffers from this
terrible disease would write R. P. N.
Cep so, 13 Island avenue, Milwaukee
Wis., and ask for a bottle of the
same kind of medicine which he gave
me. He has generously promised to
/end it prepaid, free to any one who
, writes him.”—(Advt.)
i TAKES ISSUE WITH
SENATOR HARRIS .
■ ON COTTON PRICES
Editor The Journal: Your Sunday's ;
paper carries an article from Hon. ;
W. J. Harris, senator from Geor- I
gia. In this article, in discussing the
fixing of a price for cotton during
the war, he makes some very in
teresting statements, which, if true,
convinces me that I have done the
president very serious wrong. In
the third paragraph of his letter, this
statement is made: ”The war indus
tries board claimed ,that under the
law, the president had the power to
fix the price of cotton, but he de
clined.” Now, who composed this
war industries board? Certainly
none except the president’s ap
pointees. Farther along he says, “If
blame is due for failure to fix the
price of cotton, that blame is on
the president, and if credit is due.
that credit is his. Congress gave him
the power, but he did not exercise
it.”
Either Senator Harris is wrong,
or the Congressional Record, and
every southern newspaper are un
mitigated liars. The facts as I
have always understood them are
that the southern senators and con
gressmen presented a united front
against including cotton in the food
control bill, and succeeded in get
ting our great staple removed from
the control of the president or his
war board.
There are a few other things which
I remember. In 1918 -™ he n, Sena
tor Harris was a candidate tor the
senate, when the September crop re
port came out, cotton began
Ing, and in a few days reached the
price of 36 1-2 to 37 cents at our
little inland market. Mr. Bernard
Baruch, chairman of the war board,
came out with a statement that his
board would “equalize the price ot
cotton.” The price made a perpen
dicular drop of about 4 or 5 cents
in a few days. Mr. Harris, know
ing that if this decline continued
he would be defeated for senator, ap
pealed to Mr. Wilson. I remember
hearing Mr. Harris read the reply
he received. Os Course, from mem
ory I cannot quote the exact word
ing of it, but I gathered the as
surance from it that the president
had no intention of interfering with
the natural law of supply and de
mand.
On the strength of this assurance
" r - Hir_
Very soon after the election the
■war board again began its talk of
stabilizing. Mr. Wilson gave it out
that he would appoint a single buy
ing agency to buy all cotton needed
by our government and by the allies.
Immediately the price began to de
cline again. On the signing of the
armistice, on November 11, the price
began to recover. Then came the
embargo on shipments to foreign
countries, and there was a steady
decline until October contracts
touched 18 cents, and cotton actual
ly sold for 19 cents on our streets.
And this condition of affairs lasted
until general clamor all over the
country caused the abolishment of
this precious war board, whose
machinations cost the southern farm
ers over one billion dollars, Georgia’s
part being about one hundred mil
lion. And now Mr. Harris, after
helping to put on the south the
infamous Susan B. Anthony amend
ment, taking control of the ballot
box away from the state and put
ting it in the hands of the federal
government, guaranteeing every ne
gro man and woman in the country
the ballot, with a federal deputy,
marshal or soldier behind it. poses
as the great friend of the south, and
his master as the greatest benefactor
we have ever had. Such balderdash
is enough to turn the stomach of
every true southerner.
Evidently he is out to muddy the
political waters and bring defeat and
shame to the greatest living Geor
gian, Senator Hoke Smith.
Now, Mr. Editor, I do not . have
access to the records, and the above
statements as to the cotton situa
tion in the fall, winter and spring
of 1918-19 are made from memory.
I may be mistaken in some in
stances, but believe them substan
tially correct. If I do Mr. Harris
an injustice I ask that you point it
out, and I will make all possible
amends.
I had the pleasure of hearing Sen
ator Smith’s speach at Dublin on
last Saturday. It was one of the
very ablest I have ever heard fall
from the lips of man. It thoughly
impressed me with the vigorous
Americanism and patriotism of Sen
ator Smith, and if we can elect him
president of the United States, we
will have a president broad enough
to consider the welfare and inter
ests of the whole country, while
at the same time every drop of blood
pulsating through his heart would
be laden with love of his native
south. We would have no counter
feit southerner in the White House.
We would have no one there try
ing to gather into the hands of the
central government all power. But
rather one whose great purpose
would be to retrace our steps back
to state’s rights as far as in him
lay.
Yours truly,
, J. P. MATHEWS.
Lovett. Ga.
Cotton Seed Meal
Seized in Mobile
MOBILE, Ala., April 14.—More
than 1,000 sacks of cotton seed meal
have been seized at Heflin because
of analysis which showed the ship
ments below the standards guaran
teed by the manufacturers. The in
vestigations showed that sixty-five
tons represented a loss to consum
ers of approximately $325. No one
will be permitted to move the meal
until proper brands have been made
and reductions in prices agreed upon.
Body of Rome Man
Taken From River
ROME. Ga . April 14.—The body ot
Larkin Garrett, aged sixty, who dis
appeared Sunday night, was taken
from the Etowah river here Tuesday
morning. A body was seen floating In
the river early Monday morning,
but it disippeared before searchers
arrived, and the boys were thought
to have been mistaken. Continued
absence of Garrett from his home
led to another search of the river
Tuesday and the location of his body.
He was a workman at the Rome box
I factory.
MW VOTES WON
OYSENATOR SMITH
INAUGDSTASPEECH
Able Exposition of League of
Nations Converts Many to
Reservations Refutes
Camp Hancock Charge
BY BOGERS WINTER
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal)
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 14.-—That
Senator Hoke Smith will carry Rich
mond county by a majority of at
least 500 votes over A. Mitchell Pal
mer and Thomas E. Watson com
bined, was the prediction made last
night to The Journal correspondent
by several of the best posted local
authorities after hearing his speech
in the Grand opera house and observ
ing its impression upon the audience.
On arriving in Augusta, the sena
tor was greeted with the information
in the editorial columns of the Au
gusta Chronicle, one of his old-time
opponents, that he would be “wast
ing his breath” to make a speech
here. Unfortunately for the Chroni
cle, this information proved slightly
in error. Instead of wasting his
breath upon a cold audience, Senator
Smith submitted his position on the
League of Nations and the various
other points in controversy and re
ceived a unanimous vote of approval.
• “Hurrah for Richmond county,”
said the senator when the vote was
taken, and the audience replied with
enthusiastic applause.
It was neither a cold audience nor
an unresponsive audience. It was
friendly to the senator at the start
and enthusiastically for him at the
finish. The seating capacity of the
Grand opera house is something over
I, It was practically filled and
standing room was taken in the rear.
In none except a few red-hot cam
paigns where public interest was at
fever heat has Augusta turned out a
larger audience.
Thoroughly Boprosonttivo
Men familiar with the personnel of
the audience said fully 90 per cent
of them were registered voters. Ev
ery element of the community was
well represented. They not only give
the senator a most attentive hearing,
with remarkably keen interest in the
League of Nations, but showed un
mistakably that they were with him.
As usual at the close of his speeches,
a big crowd gathered around to con
gratulate him in the warmest terms.
“After hearing that speech, I don’t
see how you can fail to carry Rich
mond county,” was the compliment
paid him by Mayor White.
Inman Curry, solicitor of the city
court of Augusta, one of the leading
young lawyers of this section, made
this comment:
“I was somewhat in doubt as to
how I should vote when I came here
tonight, but now I am not.”
These remarks were typical of the
general comment to be heard on ev
ery hand as the audience flowed down
tho marble stairway of the theater
and groups of men gathered on the
sidewalk to discuss the League of
Nations and voice theif opinions aft
er hearing Senator Smith’s magnifi
cent exposition of its provisions.
Among others on the stage were
Mayor White, Dr. James R. Lit
tleton, former mayor; W. A. Lee, a
prominent manufacturer and former
president of the Board of Trade of
Augusta, who introduced the senator;
J. P. Mulherin, Samuel F. Garlington
and Bryan Cumming, lawyers
of the Augusta bar; Bowdre Phinizy,
editor of the Augusta Herald; C.
Henry Cohen, former city attorney
and a leading lawyer; James U. Jack
son, a prominent business man; Hen
ry C. Morrison, contractor; Frank R.
Clark, manufacturer; Dr. M. T.
Cleckley; R. J. Edenfield, business
man and formerly- a member of coun
cil; John E. Murphey, lawyer: A. B.
Culpepper, merchant; Dr. A. A. Wal
den, J. M. Fender. Michael Blum, at
torney; Leland W. Woodward, auto
mobile dealer.
Citizens in Audience
Many prominent citizens and a
number of ladies were in the audi
ence. Rodney Cohen, a prominent
young lawyer, and Mrs. Cohen were
in a box. Jacob Phinizy, president
of the Georgia Railroad bank and
one of the wealthiest men in Augus
ta, was in a box. Frank H. Barrett,
president of Barrett & Co., large cor
! ton factors, a young business genius
who has made a brilliant success,
was in a box with a party. He is
. actively supporting Senator Smith.
Among other prominent citizens
' who heard the speech were: J. C. Mc
» Auliffe, paostmaster of Augusta.
Glenn W. Legwen, cotton factor;
■ Landon Thomas, Jr., a prominent
; young business matt and commander
. of one of the local posts of the
American Legion; Henry G. Howard,
a prominent young lawyer; James
S. Bussey, Jr., Lansing B. Lee and
• George Hains, members of the bar.
Judge Henry C. Hammond, of the
Richmond circuit, one of the noted
i jurists of Georgia.
' In his introduction of Senator
1 Smith, an interesting story was told
j by Mr. Lee of the reasons why he
t made up his mind to support him.
* He said a delegation of Georgia man
r ufacturers a few months ago went
. to Washington and gave a dinner to
c
(Continued on Page Column Five)
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1920
“The Constitution Refused '
To Publish Advertisement j
Showing Palmer ’s Bolting ”i
With Ample White Paper for
Campaign Slander, the
Constitution Can’t Find
Space for Palmer’s Party
Disloyalty, Says Hoke
Smith Committee
Hoke Smith headquarters Wednes
day gave out the following state
ment, charging that the Atlanta Con
stitution had declined to publish as
an advertisement a simple statement
of the numerous times on which A.
Mitchell Palmer had bolted the
Democratic party in his home state
of Pennsylvania:
“Tuesday afternoon the Massengale
Advertising Agency tendered to the
Atlanta Constitution an advertise
ment prepared by the Hoke Smith
campaign committee, setting forth
the long record of bolting by A.
Mitchell Palmer, and this advertise
ment was accepted by the Constitu
tion for publication in its issue of
Wednesday morning. Wednesday
night the Massengale Advertising
Agency was telephoned that the Con
stitution could not publish this ad
vertisement on account, of the short
age of white paper.
“Every dally newspaper in Geocs
, gia has accepted this advertisement
for publication. The Constitution,
which has ample white paper for pub
lishing campaign slander and false
hoods as news matter, is the only
paper in the state which has de
clined to publish this advertisement
on the ground of a paper short?
age.
“The real reason the Atlanta Con
stitution has refused to publish this
record of Palmer’s disloyalty is be
cause the Constitution knows that
the publication of this record is
equivalent to publishing the funeral
notice of A. Mitchell Palmer as
candidate in the Georgia preferenfi&l
primary.
“We have tendered the Consti
tution for publication tomorrow the
splendid editorial in Tuesday’s Geor
gian, exposing the Constitution’s
amazing duplicity in regard to the
Lusitania.
“Let the public watch and see
whether the Constitution’s supply of
white paper enables it to publish
this advertisement.
“We hope that this exposure of
the Constitution today will result in
that paper finding enough white
paper tomorrow to print this edi
torial, even though the publication
causes them acute nausea.”
The following is the text of the
advertisement which the Hoke Smith
headquarters charges the Constitu
tion declined to publish:
DEMOCRATIC LOYALTY
Presenting the Record of Party Loy
alty on the Part of Attorney
General Palmer and Sen
ator Hoke Smith.
The Palmer Campaign Com
mittee has issued a letter in
which they suggest that any
man ■who disagreed with the Pres
ident on any subpect is disloyal
to the party.
The suggestion is, of course,
absurd. But what is the record
of Attorney General Palmer as
to Democratic loyalty?
Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, of
Philadelphia, Pa., was tho nomi
nee of the Democratic Party for
Governor in 1918. It is true that
Attorney General Palmer tried
to keep him from getting the
nomination. The Democrats of
Pennsylvania nominated him in
i their primary and he is certain
ly entitled to be considered as a
leading democrat of that state.
In a letter to our headquarters
with reference to Mr. Palmer,
Judge Bonniwell says:
“This man has destroyed the
Democratic Party almost beyond
recall in Pennsylvania. When he
obtained control in 1911, the
Democratic party was repre
sented by ten democratic con
gressmen, eighteen state sena
tors and seventy representatives.
As the result of his deliberate
treachery in 1918, an act de
signed deliberately to insure the
election of William C. Sproul,
a most bitter partisan and ven
omous critic of the Democratic
party, and of the administration,
he pulled down to defeat scores
of Democratic party officers,
with a result that only five
Democratic congressmen were
elected in that contest, six state
senators and twenty-three repre
sentatives, and this in face of
the fact that despite of all his
treachery, I received, myself,
three hundred and seven thou
sand votes; forty-four thou
sand more than Palmer received
for .United States Senator in
1914.”
In a telegram to our Headquar
ters, Judge Bonniwell gives the
details as to the occasions on
which Palmer has bolted the par
. ty in Pennsylvania as follows:
“He is not a Democrat: he
bolted Democrat for governor in
1918. In past four years has op
posed and sought defeat of Con
j gressman Arthur G. Dewait,
(Continued bn Page 6, Column 8)
LETTERS SENT TO
PALMER SUPPORT
SENATOR SMITH
Thb following letters were given
out at Hoke Smith headquarters in
the Piedmont hotel Wednesday as
evidence of the claim that the Pal
mer campaign in Georgia has broken
down and that Democrats, whose
votes are solicited by the Palmer
campaign committee, are replying 1
with strong letters of indorsement ■
for Senator Smith:
Carrollton, Ga., April 12, 1920. i
Palmer Campaign Committee,
Rooms 108-110, Kimball House, !
Atlanta, Ga.
Gentlemen:
I beg to acknowledge receipt of
your letter- of sth, requesting my
support and influence in favor of the
Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer, in the
presidential primary of the 20th, and
replying thereto, I wish to say that
I have given the contents of your
letter very careful thought and con
sideration. and have decided that I
cannot consistently give my support
to Mr. Palmer, a Yankee, from the
rock-ribbed Republican state of
Pennsylvania, as against a true Geor
gia Democrat.
And my further reasons for not
supporting Mr. Palmer is because of
the crowd that is backing him in
Georgia, for I do not believe they
are sincere. It’s anybody with them
to beat Senator Smith that causes
them to line up behind Mr. Palmer.
Did they not try to substitue Gover
nor Dorsey in place of Palmer in
the primary in this state? Did you
some of your same crowd make the
boast in a meeting at the Kimball
house recently that they would sup
port Tom Watson before they would
Hoke Smith? I thought it well to
call your attention to these things,
and my reasons for no going with
you in the coming primary.
I yield to no man in my steadfast
allegiance to President "Wilson, for
I stood behind him in the primary in
this state in 1912, while your same
crowd was belittling, bemeaning and
maligning Woodrow Wilson in that
race just like you are doing Senator
Smith in his race in this primary.
You may be able to fool some few
people, but I am very much of the
opinion that you will fall far short
of fooling about one hundred and
fifty thousand stalwart, progressive,
red-blooded Democrats in Georgia
on the 20th of April.
You people need a regular old
time revival of Democratic religion,
and then maybe you would havo
self-respect enough not to try to de
stroy one of your own Yellow Geor
gians just because he merely differed
with President Wilson on a few fun
damental principles and policies, and
yet he is the same Woodrow Wilson
that you fellows bemeaned, maligned
and belittled in 1912. Shades ot
Moses, deliver us.
I am one that believes in stand
ing by the south this time, and
Georgia has the honor this time ot
furnishing one of her true and triea
Democrats in the person of Senator
Hoke Smith, who is known through
out the confines of this union from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from
the Lakes to the Gulf. A distin
guished American through and
this is the man we are going to
present to the San Francisco con
vention and invite the north, the east
and the great west to join hands
with the south and then march to
victory in November. These are my
reasons for supporting Senatoi- Smltn
on the 20th of April.
Yours very truly,
L. Z. DORSETT.
Holds Palmer to
Blame for High
Price of Sugar
WASHINGTON. April 14.—1 n fix
ing 17-18 cents as the maximum at
which Louisiana sugar could be sold
without prosecutions fog profiteerin.
Attorney General Palme? "caused an
elevation in the ideas of Cuban sugar
producers,” George A. Zabriskie,
president of the United States Equal-
I ization Board, testified before t!is
house sugar investigating com
mittee. Mr. Palmer’s action, he said,
was responsible, at least in part, for
the general price increase in the
sugar market.
Mr. Zabriskie said the board “had
the whole Louisiana crop practically
offered us at 15 cents,” and he agreed
with Representative Husted. Repub
lican, Massachusetts, chairman of
the committee, that the attorney gen
eral was without legal power “to fix
prices.”
“The market is now in a panic con
dition,” Mr. Zabriskie said, "and you
can’t tell what it would do. The run
away could have been prevented, he
said, by the government continuing
the board’s authority to buy the Cu
ban crop and equalize prices.
The committee decided to call the
attorney geheral as the next witness.
OFFERS FREE
PELLAGRA TREATMENT
A new treatment which is said to
be the most scientific method ever
known for overcoming PELLAGRA
or a general run down condition is
being distributed by the Argallep
company. Dept. 601, Carbon Hill,
Ala. This remarkable treatment has,
according to the reports of hundreds
of users, cured some of the worst
cases imaginable, one patient re
porting a gain of thirty pounds in
weight in sixteen days. The Argal
lep company are so proud of their
treatment that they offer to send a
full sized $2.00 package free to any
suffererer who will write them. All
they ask Is that if it cures you, you
recommend it to your friends. If
you suffer from PELLAGRA or a
run down condition send them your
name and address today for the free
treatment. — (Advt.) , t
FARMERS ARE HIT
HARD BY STRIKE; i
TRUCK IS ROTTING:
(The Atlanta Journal News Bureau)
033 Biggs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON. April 14. —South-
ern planters and truck growers have
begun to bombard their representa
tives in congress with telegrams
protesting against the railroad strike
and the consequent embargo on
freight shipments which is destroy
ing many thousands of dollars’
worth of perishable farm produce.
From Georgia up the Atlantic sea
board through Virginia, the protests
came. In a speech, Senator Dial, of
South Carolina, said truck farmers
of his section are facing financial
ruin.
These local straws in the strike
wind merely indicate the seriousness
of conditions as they exist today!
Official Washington is known to be
pessimistic. Serious conferences are
in progress at the department of jus
tice and the cabinet is called in spe
cial session for today for the first
time since the president became ill.
The house and the executive de
partments all show concern in some
way over the progressive paralysis
of the country’s transportation. Two
anti-strike hills have already been
offered in the senate, with others to
follow.
At the department of justice, the
question is what to do and how far
to go. The railroad strike has prog
ressed from a local beginning and
there Is difficulty about putting one’s
finger on tire men primarily respon
sible. < -
Badical Elements Blamed.
The situation appears to be partly
psychological, yet officials know that
under the- surface there is a dark
scheme of national disturbance and
that insiduously the spirit of discon
tent has been worked up by radical
elements, which are declared to be
outside of organized labor, the Broth
erhoods and A. F. of L., as it has
been dealt with here tofore.
It may be authoritatively said that
officials of the department of justice
believe, and are in possession of pro
paganda indicating that the present
Strike was not an overnight affair
The seeds of malcontent have been
adroitly sown and many honest labor
union men are being misled into dan
gerous paths.
It may also be said with authority
that officials of the department of
justice see in this strike much that
reminds them of the communist
movement of world revolution. These
officials are on the aleft to see how
far this spirit will get. Revolution
is not feared in America, but to a
certain point •this strike movement
has followed the communistic ideas —
to wit: First —A local strike grow
ing into a bigger strike; then the big
gen strike growing into a mass
strike; then the mass strike growing
into a national revolution, and the
latter becoming a world revolution.
Washington May Walk
It Is perfectly apparent that the
local strikes have widened until
, transportation of the entire country
is affected. The strike virus is
spreading so that even the employes
of the Potomac Electric Power com
pany and the Washington Railway
and Electric company have threaten
ed a walkout at midnight Wednesday
night. Unless their wage demands are
met, one of the principal streets car
lines of the national capital and its
only electric light and power com
pany will virtually shut down within
a few hours. This would not only
force Washington and congress to
walk, but would throw into.darkness
the thousands of Jio mes> various in
dustrial plants, and many govern
'• ment buildings.
; Going back to congestion or
I freight and the embargo on freight
; shipments both into and out of
Washington, Senator ' Dial pictures
the results that may come to every
; section of the country unless the
I strike is quickly broken. Southern
i truck farmers, he showed, are cut oif
from the eastern markets and their
produce is decaying at their depots.
Senator Dial read telegrams from
Beaufort. S. C., saying that there
were already "immense losses” and
that “we are facing financial ruin.”
Would Repeal Adamson Act
The real beginning of class legis
lation and truckling to labor organ
izations, Senator Dial indicated, was
the passage of the Adamson act.
Senator Dial said tho evil effects
of the Adamson eight-hour law would
be felt for a generation longer. He
expressed regret that anti-strike leg
islation had pot been included m the
Cummins-Esch railroad bill.
Anti-Strike Bill
Senator Edge, of New Jersey, has
introduced a drastic anti-strike bill.
One provision would make it manda
tory upon the attorney general to
apply for injunctions against per
sons agreeing or conspiring to inter
fere with transportation. Such ac
tion is now optional with the attor
ney general. The bill makes it a
penal offense for any person to
agree, combine or conspire to hin
der interstate transportation or to
aid, abet, counsel, command or in
duce any person to quit employment
when such action contributes to in
terference with commerce.
Officials believe that the I. W. W.
organization has had much to do with
fomenting the present trouble. There
is in official hands a copy of an “ad
dress to railroad workers,” circulat
ed by the I. W. W. publishing bu
reau in Chicago, calling on transpor
tation workers to unite in one big
union, and denouncing the “Big
Four” brotherhoods and the Ameri
can Federation of Labor as being no
longer alert to the needs of the
working men. They are as much out
of date, says this “address,” as an
ox-cart would be against an auto
mobile.
That thousands of workers are be
ing led unknowingly into the com
munist and world revolution move
ment is known to be believed in of
ficial circles, . ... . ...
PRESIDENT WILSON
15 WILLING TO HUN
oimira
David Lawrence Discusses
His Possibility as a Third
• Termer and Sees Him as a
Candidate If Called
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Copyright. 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14.
An extraordinary, almost incerdible
situation exists inside the jjemocratic
party with reference to the next
presidential nominee. The true story
has been known to few. It has been
kept quiet for a number of reasons.
It explains a multitude of inquiries
that have been puzzling the politi
cal world, including the mysterious
silence of President Wilson himself
on a third term.
Here are the mains points, but
the relationship and significance of
each to the other must be consid
ered:
First, Px’esident Wilson directed
Secretary Tumulty to advise both
Attorney General Palmer and Former
Secretary William G. McAdoo on the
same day that he had no objection
to their candidacies —indeed, they
were quite “agreeable” to him.
Second, the president did not say
he would not be a candidate for
a third term himself if the Demo
cratic party wished to draft him for
service. Once more not a word on
this phase of the matter was de
livered by Secretary Tumulty.
Third; neither Mr. Palmer nor Mr.
McAdoo nor anybody in Washington
knows the preseident’s own purpose
in respect to the Democratic presi
dential nomination. It was for a
long time suspected* that Mr. Mc-
Adoo knew the president’s mind, but
he doesn’t.
Fourth, although Mr. McAdoo has
made several visits to the White
House in recent weeks, and has spent
the night there, he has not had the
opportunity to talk with President
Wilson.
Whether this is due to the presi
dent’s desire to remain absolutely
neutral in the presidential, nomination
fight, in which his own son-in-law Is
a receptive candidate, or whether it
is due to Mr. Wilson’s unwillingness
to see anybody with whom he might
be tempted to “talk shop” on public
business, when his physicians insist
that his attention be given only to
the most vital matters, is something
which is puzzling everybody.
It is not unusual for guests at the
White House not to see the presi
dent, and the circumstance of Mr.
McAdoo’s relationship is considered
a plausible factor in the effort of the
president not to appear to be approv
ing or disapproving anybody’s can
didacy. Even though the treaty
and League of Nations covenant have
failed of ratification since the presi
dent sent word that he did not ob
ject to the candidacy of Palmer or
McAdoo, or others, there has been
no word from Mr. Wilson to indi
cate that he would like to be a can
didate himself.
Nevertheless, after a careful in
quiry among friends of the president,
persons who have followed the trend
of Mr. Wilson’s reasoning in politics
for some time, the writer has be
come convinced that President Wil
son for a long time did not wish a
third term, nor did he court the bur
dens of another campaign. The
treaty, however, is dear to his heart,
the League of Nations is, in his judg
ment, an ideal worth laying down his
life to achieve, and he doesn’t con
sider himself physically too weak
to indulge in championing the treaty
before the American people. 5
What the outside world may thin*t
of Air Wilson’s decline in health as
affecting his ayailablility for the
Democratic nomination is one tnmg,
and what the individual himself,
who looks forward hopefully to ear.y
recovery may think of getting back
with zest into the fight for the big
gest thing in his whole career is
quite another.
So while the president does not ob
ject to anybody else’s candidacy and
probably would not lift a finger to
give the impression that he wanted
the nomination himself, he has in mv
judgment simply decided to keep
himself available in the event that
the Democratic party in convention
assembled shall decide to draft him.
That is, while the president doesn t
say he will not accept the Demo
.cratic nomination for a third term
under any circumstances, a crisis
may arise, which in Mr. Wilson s
opinion would brush away precedents
and customs about a third term and
call for heroic steps.
The country may. in two months
be in the throes of a domestic in
dustrial disturbance or Europe, judg
ing by the signs of dissolution in
the Ruhr valley troubles, may be on
the verge of bloodshed. To a man
who reasons that the League of Na
tions is the corrective force an.l
revisionary influence needed to
stabilize economic and political con
ditions throughout the world, the
prospect of serving the peoplq once
more is not looked upon as merely
the gratification of a personal ambi
tion. , , , . . ,
The president has kept bis mind
focused on the world situation, not
on the things which have tended to
bring sharp criticism on his do
mestic duties. There arc many of
his intimiate friends who arg con
fident that the president has no idea
that his own stock has fallen or that
his prestige has declined, and that
Democratic leaders who come to Wash
ington insist that the Wilson load
is going to be a heavy one for any
candidate to bear In the next cam
paign.
Mr. Wilson’s seclusion has been
complete. It has been due to his
illness and the cordon which has been
drawn about him, shutting out news
and information about the state of
affairs in the Democratic party. Mr.
Wilson may want to remain avail
able for the Democratic nomination,
but it is altogether doubtful whether
the delegates now being chosen to at
tend that Democratic convention will
nominate Mr. Wilson for a thlfd
term.
Mr. Wilson has kept his hands off
too long to insure a renomination
through the spontaneous action of
the convention, though White House
influence always has been a last
minute factor in turning the scales
heretofore in both Republican and
Democratic conventions.
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WASHINGTON, April 14.—Evi
dence obtained by the department at
justice was said today to show—tfiat
the Russian communist Internation
ale is undertaking to use the rail*
road strike as the vehicle for the cre
ation of a mass strike in the Unltect
States.
Reports from federal agents wer«
said to have disclosed that the com
munist party was financing and oth
erwise aiding the strike through the
agency of the Industrial Workers : of
the World.
Evidence which the department
has received was declared to justify
the statement that the strike was to
be merely a step in the
plan of the communist group and the
end and aim was a mass strike to be
followed by a revolution.
Reports regarding the communist
internatiopale’s part in the strike
were understood to have been laid
before President Wilson and the cab
inet today by Attorney General
Palmer, but those present persisted
in their silence as to what decision
had been reached at the cabinet ses
sion.
Summoned by President Wilson to'
discuss the railroad strike, members
of his cabinet assembled promptly
at 10 o’clock for their first session
since the nation’s head was taken
ill last fall.
While the day’s chief parley was
being held in the White House, oth
er meetings were being held from
coast to coast in an effort to end the
tie-up affecting the nation’s busi
ness.
A meeting of all strike leaders on
the Pacific coast was to be held to
day in San Francisco, while in Jer
sey City, where forces at conflict
In the New York district assembled
yesterday, further conferences were
being staged.
While these efforts were being
made to induce the strikers to re
turn, railroads in all sections of the
country were seeking to meet condi
tions resulting from the walkout
Morning reports indicated that while
in the west the peak had been met
and passed, in the middle West and
New York district roads had diffi
culty in doiife more than hold their
own.
New Members Attend
This was the first cabinet session
called by the president since he was
taken ill last fall, and it was the
first to be attended by Secretaries
Colby. Payne, Meredith and Alexan
der, who have been appointed recent
ly-
By arriving in an automobile, Mr.
Palmer eluded the newspaper corre
spondents. Other members of the
cabinet would not discuss the meet
ing in advance. . ■■"**
While the cabinet was in session,
the senate interstate commerce com
mittee met to consider the nomina
tions of the members of, tho railroad
labor board which were sent to the
senate' yesterday. Action has been
deferred from yesterday p.s the com
mittee desired to obtain more infor
mation about the members.
Decreasing supplies of food stocks
in several large cities led the wSr
department last night to throw open
to the public its large reserves of
frozen and canned meats. Sales Will
be made through municipal and state
agencies at prices far less than those
prevailing in the open market. Offi
cers have been especially detailed to
the work of distribution.
Ominous for Ohio ’
The industrial situation in Ohio
became more ominous today with
many out of work in Columbus
and virtually every coal mine in the
state closed. A growing scarcity of
food supplies was reported in many
cities. A mail train was reported
to have been abandoned at Youngs
town and the mail returned to the
postoffice. Hope of ending the
switchmen’s strike at Columbus fad
ed when roadmen voted not to act
as strikebreakers.
A meeting of all strike leaders on
the Pacific coast was called for to
day in San Francisco.
VOLUNTEERS RUSH IN TO
t BREAK NEW YORK STRIKE
NEW YORK. April 14.—Officials of
the “big four” railroad brotherhoods
renewed their efforts today to bring
to an end the unauthorized rail
strikes in thia district, while thou
sands of volunteer railroaders pour
ed in offers of their services to break
the traffic tie-up, which was paralyz
ing most of the lines entering New
York.
Although initial peace
were unanimously rejected by tht>
strikers in Jersey City last night, the
brotherhood leaders expected to re
new their proposal that the strikers
return to work and submit their
grievances to the new railroad labor
board, appointed yesterday by Pres
ident Wilson.
In accepting the offer of college
students, former soldiers and citi
zens to operate trains, railroad offi
cials declared that the attitude of
the public would bring the strike to
a speedy close.
Body Found in River,
Five Men Are ?leld
NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 14.-—• ;
Four negroes and a white man have •
been arrested in Montgomery county, I
pending investigation following the
finding in the Cumberland river six !
miles below Clarksville Monday cf .
the body of W. Frank Smith, thirty- I
six years of age. who disappeared i
April 2 with $1,900 in cash ou his I
person. ,