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©be titania ©rMWeMa Wwraal 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. SCENTS5 CENTS A COPY. $1.50 A YEAR, OFFIGIALS UNCOVER i ALLEGED SCHEME DF RUSSIAN BOOT - i- Volunteers Help in Effort to- Relieve Congested Condi tions in New York — Ar rests in New Orleans LJf 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. ,