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VOL. XXII. NO. 79.
VILLA IS SEEN AS MENACE IN MEXICO
BEIL' -RECORD” DF
CONVENTION GIVER!
BI J. B. SMITH
Declares Palmer Forces Pre
vented Smith Men From
Indorsing Administration. *
Efforts to Trade Described
An interesting contribution to the
"record” of the recent presidential
convention was made Friday morn
ing by J. R. Smith, who had just fin
ished reading in one of the Palmer
organs a somewhat peremptory chal
lenge to ‘‘keep the record straight.”
Mr. Smith was one of the cam
paign managers for Senator Smith in
the presidential primary. He was
chairman of a committee of the sen
ator's friends who listened to a pro
posal by a committee of Attorney
General Palmer’s friends on the eve
of the convention. He was named by
the Smith floor leaders as one of the
alternates from the state-at-large to
the San Francisco convention. He
is in position to know a little some
thing about the “record.”
“Since everybody else is airing his
views,” said Mr. Smith, “I think I’ll
air mine. Since everybody else is
telling what he knows, I think I’ll do
the same.
“The, record is simple and easily
understood. 'The straighter it is
kept, the more it will be sanctioned
by Georgia Democrats, in my humble
judgment. There are some facts in
it which do not appear in the secre
tary’s minutes of the convention, and
they are the ones which I shall dis
cuss.
“Two main complaints are made by
the Palmer organs concerning the
convention. They complain because,
as they say. Senator Smith and Mr.
Watson formed a ‘combine’ to do two
things:
“I. To elect William J. Vereen to
the Democratic national committee
instead of electing Clark Howell.
“2. To prevent the adoption •of a
resolution indorsing the achieve
ments o fthe Democratic administra
tion.
Baited Trap
“As to the first complaint, ft does
not appear to be arousing any very
great cyclone of indignation over the
state. Os course, the cyclone may
come later, but the skies at present
seem to be clear and there is no
thunder so far as I can hear.
“As to the second complaint, the
Palmer people have themselves to
blame for failing to get an indorse
ment of the achievements of the
Democratic administration. As is
usual with ring politicians, they tried
to tie together with one indorse
ment, which was satisfactory, an
other indorsement which was not.
They presented their resolution in
the form of an indorsement of the
great achievements of the Democrat
ic administration in which the house
and senate had a part, coupled with
an indorsement of the League of Na
tions. They knew the first indorse
ment was entirely satisfactory to the
Hoke Smith people, and they knew
the second indorsement was not sat
isfactory. They wrote the first para
graph to tempt us with its language
coinciding exactly with our position,
and they wrote the second paragraph
to tangle out feet.
“We would have voted for the
first paragraph if they had submitted
it separately, but they wouldn’t do
so. We would have voted, for the
second paragraph if they had amend
ed it so as to indorse the League of
Nations ‘with reservations safeguard
ing American interests,’ but they
wouldn’t do that. They demanded
that we should stultify ourselves
with an indorsement of the League of
Nations, qualified only by ‘explana
tory reservations.’ In other words,
they tried to make us jump through
the hoop in order to indorse the ad
ministration’s achievements. We did
not jump. They have nobody but
themselves to blame. They ought to
have proceeded in a straightforward
manner instead of attempting a par
liamentary trick. So much for com
plaint No. 2. '
“And now to proceed a little more
extensively into the ‘record’ of the
convention. On the day before the
convention met, the Palmer people
came to us with a proposal for a
conference. In the language of Edi
tor W. T. Anderson, of the Macon
Telegraph, they proposed that we
and they should ‘solidify’ the Demo
cratic party by excluding Mr* Wat
son. In other words, that we and
they should play a little game en
titled ‘freeze out.’
Committee’s Inconsistency
“We reminded Mr. Anderson of
some very recent political history.
We reminded him that the Democrat
ic state executive committee of
which he is a member and one of
the stentorian voices, when we want
ed to put Herbert Hoover in the
presidential primary, took a micro
scope and gave that gentleman a
most minute examination, and found
him infected with the germ of Re
publicanism, and very promptly ruled
him out. We reminded him that
when "'T he friends of Mr. Watson
wanted to put him in the primary,
the state committee threw away its
microscope and accepted him with
out a single question of Democrat
ic eligibility. We reminded him that
Mr. Watson was supposed to have
a following of 15,000 or 20,000 vot
ers who would vote for Senator
Smith it Mr. Watson did not enter
the primary, and hence the state
committee was glad to welcome Mr.
Watson into the primary, and they
didn’t experience any qualms of
conscience or make any use of their
political magnifying glass.
“We reminded him further that
Mr. Watson had polled more votes
than Mr. Palmer and polled more
votes than Senator Smith, and now
they were asking us to join with
them in throwing him out of the
convention after they had welcomed
him Into the primary. We remind
ed him that they were asking us
to exclude Mr. Watson’s 50,000
voters from a single word of par
ticipation, after they had hailed Mr.
Watson’s entrance into the contest.
“We declined to trade on any such
basis. We informed the gentlemen
representing Mr. Palmer that vie
were not going to freeze out Mr.
Watson and not going -to freeze out
Mr. Palmer. We informed them that
we intended to deal fairly with both
(Continued on rage 6, Column 5)
SENATOR SMITH, ON
WAY TO CAPITAL.
ISSUESSTATEMENT
Favors Charles S. Barrett as
Head of Regular Demo
cratic Delegation to San
Francisco Convention
Senator Hoke Smith returned to
Washington Friday at noon to be in
the senate until the adjournment of
congress the first week in June. Be
fore leaving the city he issued a
statement concerning the events of
the presidential convention held last
Tuesday, and made it known that he
is in favor of the election of Charles
S. Barrelt as chairman of the regu
lar delegation to San Francisco.
Indications are that Mr. Barrett
will be the unanimous choice of the
regular delegation. Senator Smith
entertains the highest appreciation of
Mr. Barrett’s value to the Democratic
party as qjjairman of one of the state
delegations.
Former Senator Thomas W. Hard
wick is likewise warmly supporting
Mr. Barrett. Ihe friends of Mr.
Hardwick would have supported him
for chairman of the delegation if he
had not insisted on making Mr. Bar
rett chairman. Mr. Hardwick will
have his hands full with other work
at San Francisco, including the case
to be presented to the credentials
committee of the national convention
and the framing of the convention’s
resolutions. Hence he would not
consider the suggestion that he be
chairman.
Mr. Barrett is president of the Na
tional Farnfers’ JJnion, a position he
has held for fifteen years. The union
in the west is particularly strong,
with a large and active and influen
tial membership. Mr. Barrett is
known all over the country. Far
the past four years he has presided
over the joint conferences of the
five national farmers’ organizations
held in-Washington. He is probably
the foremost figure in organized
agriculture in America. His presence
on the floor of the Democratic na
tional convention as chairman of a
delegation from one of the largest
states will greatly strengthen the
Party.
Plans oT the’regular delegation are
going forward without delay. A
meeting of the delegation Will be held
at 11 o’clock next Wednesday morn,
tng in the Kimball house ballroom, at
which th* chairman and secretary
will be elected and the entire case
against the rump delegation, repre
senting Mr. Palmer will be mapped
out.
Mr. Hardwick has received, al
ready, assurances of support of the
the largest state delegations in the
convention. He has the" utmost con
reular delegation frOm a number of
fidenee that the regular delegation
will be seated.
William J. Vereen, of Moultrie, the
new Democratic national committee
man elected by the convention, will
be in Atlanta next Sunday and Mon
day on his way to New York to at
tend a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the National Association of
Manufacturers, of which he is a
member. He will not be able to at
tend the meeting of the delegation on
that account, but will confer with
several members of the delegation
before leaving for New York. Mr.
Vereen will support with the utmost
vigor and aggressiveness the creden
tials of the regular delegation
against the rump delegation repre
senting Mr. Palmer.
Senator Smith’s statement
ing the convention is as follows:
“I am glad the vote of the
Georgia Democrats in the San
Francisco convention will not be
cast in favor of the League of
Nations covenant as it came
back from Paris, although I
would have preferred the con
vention to express a willingness
to accept the leagne with reser
vations which nullified its objec
tionable features and protected
American interests and institu
tions.
“The Democratic party should
not attempt to force upon the
country the league as it came
from Paris. America will not ac
cept it, and our party could not
win on such an issue. The Geor
gia delegation will serve our
country and party by standing
firmly against the effort.
“It is gratifying that the
convention showed a desire to
treat all factions with absolute
fairness, and to give each fac
tion representation in proportion
to its strength in the election.
No minority has any right to
ask more. The attitude of the
Palmer delegates in demanding,
for a minority, control over the
convention, necessarily forced
the other delegates together to
prevent the substitution of ma
chine rule for the* expressed
wishes of the people at the bal
lot box. t
“If by refusing their fair al
lotment, the Palmer faction fail
ed to obtain any delegates to the
national convention, they cannot
blame the rest of the conven
tion for the result. I had asked
my delegates to stand for the
policy of fair treatment to all,
and to seek no advantage to
which they were not entitled,
and to refuse to neither of the
otner elements its just rights.
The record of the convention
shows how scrupulously they
carried out this policy, and I am
proud of their stand.”
Fireman Killed
OPELIKA, Ala., May 21.—L. H.
Pannell, volunteer fireman, was in
stantly killed, and Adrian Moore and
E. F. Jones, two regular firemen'of
the city, were seriously injured when
a large fire truck was dashed against
a tree while on the way to a fire
this morning.
LAWRENCE REVEALS
EASY m TO GOT
THE PRICE OF SUGAR
. -
Figures of Secretary Hous -
ton Show Consumption
Has Greatly Increased.
Urges Conservation
BT DAVID LAWRENCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
WASHINGTON, May 21.—1 f the
American people want to bring down
the price of sugar, they have a very
simple remedy available. David
Franklin Houston, secretary of the
treasury, who used to be secretary of
agriculture, and who just now is try
ing to exert the influence of the
treasury department in the move
ment to cut down the cost of living,
is the author of the suggestion that
the best way to handle the sugar
question is to point out some salient
facts about sugar consumption tha;
p. obably will be amazing to the av
erage householder.
“Did you ever look over the data
as to the amount of sugar folks used
to eat ten and fifteen ye ago?”
remarked Secretary Houston to the
writer as he took from the shelf in
his office a thick volume called “The
Statistical Abstract of the United
States,” and opened it to page 561.
Down the page of figures is the
vverage amount that was consumed
by every individual In the United
State's • °65. In that year, di
viding the total amount consumed by
the population of the country, ap
p imately eighteen pounds was -at
en. At the end of 1875, this had gone
up to fort”-three pounds. Ten years
more and the per capita consumption
was fifty-four pounds. In 1895 t
was sixty-two ■■nds d' in 1905 it
was seventy-one pounds. From that
year on, the amounts vary between
seventy and eighty pounds and in the
year 1918, when the food administra
tion was ~urging conservation, tne
per capita consumption was seventy
seven pounds.
Sweets the Cause
’ ,’ow, what do you think was the
average consumed last year?” con
tinued Secretary Houston. “It was
ninety-three pounds. Surely there is
no necessity for such a large con
sumption. We used- to 'get along' on
less and if we could only conserve
a third of ninety-three pounds per
ii vidnal, tlu .rice of sugar would
come down immediately. It isn’t at
the breakfast table where the over
consumption of sugar occurs. It
isn’t the sugar we take with our cos
-1 or with cereals that counts up.
But we eat so much more cake, and
pies and ice cre..m and candy.
“Time was when children were
cautioned against too much sweets
But their elders aren’t observing the
rule themselves. We could get along
and be just as healthy as people have
been forte last forty years if we
consumed less sugar. If each indi
vidual ate one-third less there
wouldn’t be any trouble about the
price.”
Indeed, Secretary Houston empha
sized that it was to a large extent
outside the home, in the restaurants,
cases, soda fountains and pastry
shops where the consumption or
sugar had risen, although the extrav
agant use of pics and other sweets
in the home was by no means a sma’l
factor in the ninety-three pounds pe
capita consumption last year.
Conserve One-Third
Nobody on the other hand, ex
cuses the profiteer who has taken
advantage of the demand for sugar
to raise prices, but if the demand
had not existed the profiteers never
would have had their opportunity.
Some people here are inclined to
think the coming of national prohibi
tion has had a good deal to do with
the over-consumption of sugar, but
it will be observed that the figure
93 was the average for the year
1919, before prohibition applied to
the more populous sections of -the
United States. Os course, in many
cities, like New York, the candy shop
and soda fountain has taken the
same quarters previously occupied
by the saloon and decorated them
so handsomely as to attract a con
stant flow of people who are temp
ted to eat candy with their lunch
eons.
The government used to be able
to control the amount of sugax- that
could be used in candy, but gov
ernment control of food consumption
is a thing of the past. Very few ef
forts are made toward conservation.
It is true that the food administra
tion didn’t apply its power of law,
but depended upon publicity and the
power, of appeal to get the co-opera
tion of the American people but the
licensing system was as effective as
any statute could be. The govern
ment therefore can only point out'
the facts from time to time to the
American people.
And Secretary Houston believes
that if the fathers and mothers will
searchj their recollections just a
trifle they will recall that the world
and the United States particularly
got. along just as well and perhaps
better, in the thirty years before the
European war by eating less sugar
than folks do now a days. And if
everybody conserves just one-third,
there will be more available for the
whole country and the government
will be better able to check up on
the profiteer whose argument today
is that the great demand is what
fixes his price.
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DANIELS CHARGES
NAVY - PROBERS
EXCEEDED RIGHTS
WASHINGTON, May 21.—Secretary
Daniel-s today accused the senate
subcommittee investigating Rear Ad
miral Sims’ charges against the navy
department’s conduct of the war with
having exceeded its powers in going
outside the original controversy over
naval war decorations. The commit
tee, Mr. Daniels told Chairman Hale,
had given Admiral Sims an oppor
tunity to make an “ostentatious”
presentation of his charges when it
required him to produce his letter of
criticism to the department.
The secretary appeared to undergo
cross-examination on his direct testi
mony, concluded yesterday. After
Chairman Hale, in a preliminary
statement, had stated that Admiral
Sims’ criticisms were impersonal and
aimed at “respohsible heads” arid
not at the navy as a whole, Mr. Dan
iels turned the tables on the senator
and questioned Mr. Hale regarding
features of the Sims letter. He chal
lenged the chairman to show by
reading from the letter that it re
ferred, as Mr. Hale had said, to the
first few months of the war.
In reply, the chairman read from
the Sims letter and testimony at
great length, but Mr. Daniels insisted
that nothing had been read showing
that Admiral Sims confined his
charges to the first few months.
Secretary Daniels declared Admiral
Sims had charged Admiral Benson,
former chief of naval operations,
with lacking the “will to win.”
Senator Hale replied that the
charge was not directed at Admiral
Benson, but at the man who had the
final responsibility.
“Whom do.you mean?” asked Sec
retary Daniels.
“He referred indirectly to the chief
of naval operations and directly to
the secretary of the navy,” replied
the chairman.
“And in view of that, you still
maintain that there were ‘no person
alities’ in the Sims letter?” asked
the secretary.
“Yes,” replied the chairman. “That
wasn’t a charge, it was a criticism,”
Mr. Hale said.
If Admiral Sims thought, when he
left the United States, that Admiral
Benson lacked “the will to win,” he
should have so notified President
Wilson. Mr. Daniels declared.
New Trial Motion
Denied J. W. Duke
ROME, Ga„ May 21. —Judge Moses
Wright, of Floyd superior court, has
overruled the motion of the defend
ant in the case of J. W. Duke
versus Jiome Railway and Light
company ’for a new trial, and, ac
cording to the defendant’s attorney,
L. A. Dean, the case will be carried
to the court of appeals.
At the January term of that court
the case was heard and a verdict in
favor of Duke was returned, which
gave him damages to the amount of
$7,500 for injuries said to have been
received when the plaintiff was in
the employ of the railway company.
The case was based on the claims of
Duke which stated that he had climb
ed a pole while on duty, the pole be
ing rotten, which caused him to
fall and receive such injuries that
he would be permanently disabled.
FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED!
LaGrange, Ga., Gains
205 Per Cent With
17,038 Population
WASHINGTON, May 21. —The cen
sus bureau announced today the fol
lowing 1920 population results:
Erie, Pa., 93,372; Bristol, Conn.,
20,620; Traverse City, Mich., 10,925;
Hopkinsville, Ky., 9,696; Mohawk, N.
Y., 2,919; LaGrange, Ga., 17,038;
Chickamauga, Ga., 905; Alpine coun
ty, Cal., 243; Shasta county, Cal., 13,-
311; Moultrie county. 111., 14,839;
Clark county, 111., |1,165; Unicoi
county, Tenn., 10,120; Clay county,
Tenn., 9,193: Trousdale county, Tenn.,
5,996.
Increases since 1910: Erie, 26,847
or 40.4; Bristol, 7,118 or 52.7; Hop
kinsville, 277 or 2.9; Mohawk, 840
or 40.4; LaGrange 11,451 or 205.0;
Chickamauga, 653 or 209.3; Moultrie
county 209 or 1.1; Unicoi county.
2,919 or 40.5; Clay county. 184 or
2.0; Trousdale county, 122 or 2.1.
Decrease since 1910: Traverse
City 1,190 or 9.8 per cent; Alpine
county, 66 or 21.4; Shasta county,
5,6v9 or 29.6; Clark county, 2,352 or
10.0.
Mill Creek township is not included
in the total for Erie.
LAGRANGE SEVENTH GEORGIA
CITY IN POPULATION
LAGRANGE, Ga., May 21.—The oD
ficial census for LaGrange shows a
population of 17,042 as against 5,-
587 in 1910. The city has grjwn
wonderfully in this length of time
and the conservative estimates here
today are for a population of 35,000
in the next few years. This census
gives LaGrange seventh place among
the cities of Georgia.
THE NEXT FIVE MONTHS WILL BE BIG
NEWS MONTHS
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Democratic and Republican parties will
soon be staged—
And then will come the campaign with all of its excitement
md enthusiasm—
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CONGRESS PASSES
RESOLUTION FOR
SEPARATE PEACE
WASHINGTON, May 21. —The Re
publican peace resolution, was adop
ted finally today by the house. It
now goes to the president.
The house majority accepted the
senate substitute for the original
house resolution, Democrats vainly
opposing it.
The vote approving the resolution
was announced as 228 to 139, which
was taken to indicate that a veto by
the president could not be overrid
den. „
Twenty Democrats joined with the
Republicans in adopting the resolu
tion, while two Republicans, Repre
sentatives Kflley, Michigan, and
Fuller, Massachusetts, voted against
it.
Veto by the president is a foregone
conclusion, as also the inability of
the Republicans to override his dis
approval.
Chairman Porter of the house for
eign affairs committee, in present
ing the resolution, adopted last Sat
urday by the senate, moved that the
house accept the measure unchang
ed, which action he said would pre
vent delay in sending it to the
president. Under house rules, only
one hour of debate was permissible
except by unanimous consent and
Mr. Porter announced that he would
refuse to permit longer discussion..
Democrats who have strongly op
posed the procedure were prepared
for their final attack on the meas
ure.
“Only ruin and defeat, face the
Democratic party in the next elec
tion, if it follows the treaty policies
outlined by President Wilson in his
letetr to Oregon and Kansas Demo
crats, Representative Huddleston,
Alabama, Democrat, declared in a
speech supporting the peace resolu
’ ticn.
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BANDIT LEADER YET
MAY GIVE TROUBLE
TDREVOUITIONISTS
Expresses Friendship for
America but Bitterness To
wards Politicians Car
ranza May Flee to U, S.
CHIHUAHUA CITY, Mex., May 21.
(By the Associated Press.') —With
the announcement by General P.
Elias Calles that he believed Fran
cisco Villa’s political aspirations
rendered a working agreement with
him unikely, hopes that the rebel
chieftain would be eliminated pain
lessly from the arena, went glim
mering today.
Through his emissary, Alfonso
Gomez, Villa declared he had no
intention of being eliminated, ac
cording to General Calles. The gen
era stated he would publish letters
from the insurgent leader and the
reply to be sent the latter.
During the conference between
Calles and Villa’s envoy yesterday
there was a buzz of excitement in
the Hotel Patio when it became
known that the probable course of
events in Chihuahua for months to
come was being decided.
Ezqujel Salicedo, labor representa
tive with General Calles, has re
ceived the folowing telegram from
the information bureau at Mexico
City;
“Relations between Great Britain
and Mexico are to be resumed when
the provisional president resumes
office. Generals Lucio Blanco and
Francisco P, de Mariel, followers of
Carranza, have offered to surrender
unconditionally. They have been or
dered to Vera Cruz to await in
structions.
"Carranza and a small escort are
reported fleeing across the moun
tains of Vera Cruz toward Bar
ranaulta, on the coast. Four mil
lion pesos and much bullion were
recovered from the Carranza train
recently captured.” y
CARRANZA WORKING WAY
TO SAFETY, SAYS REPORT
MEXICO CITY, Via Galveston, May
20.—(Night.)—Venustlano Carranza,
deposed president of Mexico, plans
to make hls way to some port in
the Tuxpam district and take ship
either for the United States or
Cuba, according to latest reports
here.
The revolutionary government, it
was believed, would not object to
the president’s escape, although in
some quarters it was said the revo
lutionists desired Carranza’s capture
so they could obtain a formal res
ignation before he left Mexico.
Stragglers from the presidential
party, who were brought back here
after the Carranzista defeat south
of Apizaco, believed the deposed ruler
and his followers probably would go
first to the United States, later
taking up their abode in Europe.
They described Carranza as accepting
his fall stoically and taking it as
all a part of the political game in
Mexico. He has large sums invest
ed abroad, they said, and will not
lack funds.
(phe choice of a provisional presi
dent, to be completed Monday, ap
parently has narrowed down to a
contest between General Pablo Gon
zales and Adolfo de la Huerta, for
mer governor of Sonora, with Gon
zales the favorite.
VILLA YET A FACTOR
IN MEXICAN AFFAIRS
IN CAMP WITH GENERAL
VILLA, BOQUILLAS, Chihuahua,
May 19. (Via El Paso, May 21.)
(By the Associated Press). —Fran-
cisco Villa, variously described as »
revolutionist, patriot and bandit, is
yet a factor in Mexican affairs, as
ready and willing to take the field
against the newest revolutionary
forces as he was against the Car
ranza regime, he told The Associated
Tress here today.
Villa, the man who eluded the
American army under General John
J. Pershing in close' pursuit of him,
after the raid on Columbus, New
Mexico, in 1916, when Villistas raid
ed that border town, declared the
successor of Carranza must fully sat
isfy his ideals of government before
he would retire >to private life and
quit the life of “Robin Hood.”
Villa does not like General Alvaro
Obregon, candidate for the presi
dency of Mexico, who apparently has
become the “man of the hour” in
Mexico through the country’s new
revolution. Villa, discussing the rev
olutionary leaders, joked and laugh
ed about Obregon’s actions at the
Convention of Agaus Calientes which
led to the selection of Carranza as
president of Mexico through a split
of revolutionary leaders.
Tells of Flag Episod.*
“Obregon signed the flag as did
others at the convention,” said Vil
la. “He kissed the flag and cried as
he kissed it. Then those who want
ed to break the agreement stole the
flag with the signatures of the dele
gates.”
Obregon is the Mexican leader who
first decisively defeated Villa. This
fight occurred at Celays. Obregon
then was leading Carranza troops
against Villa and later became min
ister of war in the Cars«wiza troops.
Villa would not make public the
guarantees he demanded from the
new government except politicians
must be kept from ruling Mexico.
An interpreter acting between the
correspondent and Villa, when asked
to direct a question to the rebel
whether- or not Villa was present
personally at the Columbus raid, re
fused to put the question. Villa sym
pathizers have denied he personally
was present, while evidence present
ed by persons at Columbus delated
he was there.
Villa’s first question to his inter
viewer- was concerning the health of
General Hugh L. Scott, of the United
States army, who held frequent con
ferences with Villa at the border.
Villa expressed a strong liking for
General Scott.
Bebel Chief Shows Emotion
Villa’s greatest emotional period
was during questioning concerning
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