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VOL. XXII. NO. 82.
CAMPAIGN FOR M’ADOO PUZZLING PROBERS
HOUSE KILLS PEACE RESOLUTION
BEPUBLICJNS MIL
TOO WIDE VETO
OF IMSIDENT
Vote Is 219 to 152 or 29
Less Than the Required
Two-Thirds Majority to
Override
WASHINGTON, May 28.—The
Knox peace resolution was killed to
day by the action >bf the house In
refusing to override President Wil
son’s veto of the measure.
The vote was 219 for overriding
and 152 against, or 29 less than the
necessary two-thirds.
Two Republicans, Representatives
Kelley, of Michigan, and Fulled, of
Massachusetts, voted to sustain the
president'a veto, while seventeen
Democrats joined the Republican ma
jority in an effort to override it.
was two less than the num
ber of Democrats voting for the peace
resolution when It was passed by
the house. The Democrats voting
to override the veto were:
Ashbrook, Ohio; Caldwell, New
York; Carew, New York, Cullen, New
York; Dooling, New York; Gallivan,
Massachusetts; Ganly, New York;
Goldfogle, New York; McKiniry, New
York; McLane, Pennsylvania; Maher,
New York; Mead, New York; O’Con
nell, New York; O’Connor, Louisiana;
Olney, Massachusetts; Sherwood,
Ohio; Tague, Massachusetts.
The house action blocks any fur
ther steps on this particular resolu
tion by the senate.
The vote came after 40 minutes of
spirited partisan debate, during
whcih democratic leaders said they
would vote to override a veto of the
president on a resolution which
would do nothing more than provide
for the repeal of the war laws.
JOHNSON NOT TO
BOLT PARTY IF
, H.&JSDEEEAIED.
CONCORD. N. C„ May 28.—Sen
ator Hiram W. Johnson will not bolt
the Republican party at Chicago if
he is not chosen the Republican pres
idential nominee there, he told an
audience of several thousand per
sons here in the first of eight po
litical speeches he will make in
North Carolina. >
“I am now engaged in a family
Quarrel, wholly a family quarrel,” he
said, “and when the selection is made
at Chicago two weeks the quarrel
will be ended.”
He spoke in fSallsburj' at noon and
in Greensboro this afternoon.
Senate Committee
Favors Embargo on
Exporting of Sugar
WASHINGTON, May 28.—8 y a
vote of 6 to 3. the senate agriculture
committee today .ordered a favorable
report on the McNary bill providing
for an export embargo on sugar.
Those supporting the bill were
Senators McNary, of Oregon; Cap
per, of Kansas; Kenyon, of lowa,
and Norris, of Nebraska, Republi
cans; Harrison, of Mississippi, and
Kendrick, of Wyoming, Democrats.
Senator Smith, of Georgia; Smith,
of South Carolina, and Ransdell, of
Louisiana, Democrats, opposed it.
Before taking final action on the
measure the committee amended it
so as not to interfere with sugar
sent to the United States by foreign
countries or their nationals to be
refined. Early consideration of the
bill is planned by Senator McNary.
Final action was taken on the bill
after a series of heated sessions
which extended pratcically through
out the day yesterday.
Admiral Sims Favors
Military Adviser for
Secretary of the Navy
WASHINGTON, May 28.—Legisla
tion reorganizing the navy
m"nt and creating a responsible mil
itary advisor to the civilian secre :
tary Was urged before the senate nav
al investigating committee today by
Rear Admiral Sims who continued
his testimony in rebuttal to Secre
tary Daniels and other witnesses.
The admiral ascribed the war-time
failures charged by him against the
navy to the present organization. He
decl. ed that Mr. Daniels in his tes
timony had not attempted to reply
to specific criticisms, but had en
deavored to “gloss over” the depart
7>«*nt’s failures.
CUREDHER FITS
Mrs, Paul Gram, residing at 91G
bkiurth street, Milwaukee Wis., re
cently gave out the following state
ment: “I had suffered with Fits
(Epilepsy) for over 14 years. Doctors
and medicine did me no good. It
seemed that 1 was beyond all hope
of relief, when at last 1 secured a
preparation that cured me sound and
well. Over 10 years have passed
and the attacks have not returned. I
wish every one who suffers from this
terrible disease would write R. P N.
Lepso, 13 Island avenue, Milwaukee
Wis., and ask for a bottle of the
; mo kind of medicine which he gave
me. He has generously to
send it prepaid, free to any one who
writes him.”—(Advt.)
He’s Only 15f
War Aged Him
Fwll
18k
CONNIE LAVENDER
CINCINNATI. —The horrors of
war so aged Connie Lavender,
drummer boy with the Highland
Khaki Kilties, that although he
is 15, he looks 40 years old. The
lard was examined by alienists
here on the petition of his em
ployer and discharged when it
was found the man was angry be
cause the boy wouldn’t enthuse
over Eugene V. Debs, Socialist
presidential candidate. Lavender,
ten ears old when he enlisted (he
told the jefficers he was older),
served with great distinction in
France, being given a sniper’s
badge for exceptional coolness and
efficiency. He was gassed and
injured internally by a shell. He
is gray and partially bald, and his
face is deepi/ lined.
GARY DENOUNCES
AGITATORS UNDER
GUISE OF ‘LABOR’
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NEW YORK, May 28.—A small
minority of the population, “conceal
ing their design under the word ‘La
bor* *1 are threatening to undermine
the constitution, E. H. Gary, presi
dent of the American Iron and Steel
institute declared in addressing the
annual meeting here today.
“Representatives of so-called labor
strikes, involving riot and injury to
property and person are instigated as
a part of the’campaign to disturb and
demoralize the economic conditions of
the country,” Mr. Gary said. “In
other lands very serious results have
been accomplished by the same
means which have been employed
here.”
Mr. Gary said the “small minority”
hopes to attract a majority of the
people and thus enable them to ob
tain “one legislative act after an
other until the constitution shall be
undermined and the whole structure
destroyed.”
“These men!” he continued, “have
already secured some legislation
which is wrongfully discriminating.”
Mr. Gary declared the safe and
natural remedy for the “perils” are
to be found' only in “Unity of pur
pose and effort on the part of the
whole crew on board our ships of
state, an individed loyalty to the
principles of our constitution and all
the laws which are pasesd in confor
mity to it.”
Speaking of the duties of em
ployers, Mr. Gary said they must
be “unselfish, reasonable, fair, sin
cere and honest.”
“You should without interruption,
give evidence of a disposition to con
ciliate and co-operate,” the speaker
said.
“Employes must realize that their
advancement and contentment de
pend on the progress and prosperity
of their employers; that except for
the willing and free investment of
capital up to the requirements of
business demands, together with the
null co-operative assistance on the
part of the best talent, enterprise
and initiative would languish and
disappear and that) indifference and
idleness would be substituted.”
Agitators who are trying to create
trouble between employes and em
ployers, are as a rule insincere and
selfish. Mr. Gary stated. The great
mass of employes, if left to decide
for themselves, “are loyal to the
country, to the public interest and
their employers,” he said.
Mr Gary said the honest man who
“reads, studies, thinks, works, \econ
omisses, saves, persists and uses his
best judgment” wilh succeed in this
country. *
"If he is neglectful, indolent, prof
ligate and dishonest, he will fail.
Ordinarily the men who complain be
cause of their poverty or position in
life, have only themselves to blame.”
Turning to the duties of the pub
lic Mr. Gary said, “There must not
be any discrimination against or in
favor of any group of persons if this
country is to retain the position
among nationsrto which it is entitled.
“The general public, he declared,
should co-operate with and assist
private enterprise.
Discussing the election of the -xt
president, Mr. Gary said a man must
be selected who is “able, wise and
web informed, of unquestioned i.Qn
esty. morally and intellectually,
eminently fair and impartial, frank
and sincere, broad-minded, deeply
sympathetic, courag<sus, sturdy and
well balanced.”
IMRS.SIHIHBMTT
IS CONVICTED M
GETS HO 8 HS
Motion for New Trial Made
by Defense and Hearing
Set by Court for the 19th
of June
Mrs. Stella Abbott was convicted
by a jury in the criminal division of
the superior court Thursday night of
a charge of voluntary manslaughter
and was sentenced to from four to
eight years at the state farm, it be
ing charged that she shot and killed
her husband, Johri H. Abbott, Jf.j
former'chauffeur for First Chief Wil
liam B. Cody, at their home on Bass
street on the night of January 27,
1919, following a telephone conver
sation between Mrs. Abbott and a
young woman who, it is alleged, had
called Mr.
At a previous trial, conducted
about ar year ago, Mrs. Abbott was
convicted and sentenced to ten
years. She appealed and was grant
ed a new trial by the court of ap
peals. Attorney Edmund W. Martin,
one of counsel for the defense, filed
a potion for a new trial Thursday
night and date of hearing was set
by Judge John D. Humphries for
June 19. The defendant was re
leased in $5,000 bonds pending the
hearing.
A verdict was reached one hour and
a half after the case had been placed
in the hands of the jury. Mrs. Ab
bott received the announcement with
out any outward signs of emotion.
Her two sons and several women in
the court room wept audibly. It was
said the jury was unanimous in its
verdict for voluntary manslaughter
from the start, but was divided on
the sentence. A new feature in the
deliberations of a jury was intro
duced by Foreman M. D. Smith, a
minister, when he opened the delib
erations with prayer, every member
of the.jqiqr joining with him immedi
ately upon entering the jury room.
Court Boom Crowded
The case went to the jury at 5:30
o’clock Thursday afternoon, after a
two-hours’ argument by Attorney
Reuben R. Arnold, counsel for the
defense, and the judge’s charge. Dur
ing the afternoori the court room
was cfOwded with spectators, many
of whom remained for the verdict.
The quickness in which the verdict
was reached was a surprise to many,
as at the rtr.evious trial the jury wps
out more than twenty hours. At
6:45 o’clock Judge Humphries sent
word to the jury to inquire if an
early verdict was likely. The fore>-
man announced that the verdict was
then being prepared. Fifteen min
utes later it was received in the
courtroom. Judge • Humphries 1 al
lowed the same bond of $5,000, which
was furnished after the first trial
to stand and Mrs. Abbott was taken
to the hqme of her father.
In his charge 'to the jury Judge
Humphries explained the law gov
erning self-defense and stated that
no one could create an emergency
which renders it necessary for an
other to defend himself and then
take advantage of the effort of such
other person to <l£> so. Neverthe
less, he said, one who provokes a
difficulty may yet defend himself
against violence on the part of the
one provoked if the violence, or
threatened violence, be dispropor
tionate to the seriousness of , the
provocation or greater in degree than
the law recognizes is justifiable un
der the circiMnstances.
Arnold Concludes
The second trial of Mrs. Abbott
started Tuesday morning and argu
ments were begun by counsel Wed
nesday afternoon, each side being
allotted four hours. Attorney Arnold
had the concluding argument. Mrs.
Abbott’s act, he said, was a blow
struck for her home. Tortured by
her husband’s actions and believing
herself and her two little boys in
danger she shot in self-defense, Mr.
Arnold declared.
“The most innocent of animals will
fight if it believes its children in
danger,” Mr. Arnold said, "ail'd Mrs.
Abbott only did what apy mother
would have done. When Johnny
Abbott revealed the name of the
woman who had "called him he real
ized his mistake and it infuriated
him. Mrs. Abbott struck a bi»w to
protect her home —an absolutely justi
fiable act. A woman’s instinct is
better than our judgment.”
Mr. Arnold said he had but two
hours in which to answer four hours
of arguments. He analyzed . the
statements made by the .prosecuting
attorneys and the testimony of the
state’s witnesses and claimed that
the state had made a mountain out
of a mole hill all through the trial.
Try These on the Family
Some of the hardest words in
the dictionary were given out at
The Journal spelling bee at the
auditorium Thursday night. For
the benefit of readers whose lov
ing friends pride themselves on
their ability to spell, we present a
few of the trickiest. Try ’em on
the folks!
Three words that all the spell
?rs missed -were —fuchsia, a flow
er; limn, to sketch; assafoetida.
Three words the champion had
to spell to win were—linsey
woolsey; legerdemain and reci
procity.
Some of the words missed by
some and spelled right by others
were—ecstasy, chiffonier, celebri
ty, carbohydrates, lingerie, solder
ing, phthisic, souvenir, mainte
nance, sirloin, sterilize, similar,
textiles, peevish, financial, fugue,
conspicuous. aquarium? prefer
ence, competent, entitle and ac
knowledge.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 29, ls2o.
STRIKE OF RAIL •
CLERKS SPREADS;
FREIGHT TIED UP
All but one of the principal rail
roads entering Atlanta were more or
legs involved Friday in the strike of
union clerks starting last week- on
the Central of Georgia railroad
which led to a sympathetic walkout
by congideiable numbers of clerl :al
workers on five other roads hurs
day <at noon, followed by similar ac
tion by another line Friday morning.
A practical tie tip of freight move
ments in Atlanta was reported at
four of the roads affected, while
.three roads involved were said to be
operating about -as usual.
At a mass meeting Thursday night
the clerks of all the brotherhoods
connected with the strike voted
’ unanimously to stay out until the
ultimatum issued by the Central of
Georgia road last week is withdrawn
-and their attitude has the endorse
ment of the union leader in charge
of the situation, J. W. Nelson, grand
xvice president of the national broth
erhood.
The forwarding and delivery of
freight was stopped Thursday morn
ing on the Southern railway, the At
lanta and West Point railway, the
Louisville and Nashville railway and
the Georgia railroad, on which lines
a large proportion of the clerks of
all departments were reported out.
At flie Atlanta, Birmingham and At
lantic railway, from 15 to 20 per
cent of the clerical force was
said \to be out, but the re
ceiving and delivery of freight
was proceeding as usual. At the Cen
tral of Georgia railway, the road
on which the controversy originated
last week. deliveries were being
made all day and freight for ship
ment was being accepted from 7
o’clock in the nTorning to 1 o’clock
in the afternoon.
A number of clerks at the yard of
fices of the Nashvyie, Chattanooga
and St. Louis road, were out Friday
morning, but freight service remain
ed uninterrupted, officials said.
The Seaboard Air Line railroad is
now the only line entering Atlanta
thart has not become, involved.
• Press dispatches Friday morning
reported that clerks of the Atlantic
Coast Line railway, Thomasville, Ga.,
and at St. Augustine, on the Flor
ida East Coast railway, had joined
the strike. ,
The strikers represent several hun
dred union clei-ks of the roads in
volved. The walkout became effec
tive Thursday when the employes did
not return to their posts after the
noon hour. There had been no no
tice of a strike, and according to
the local head‘of the brotherhood,
no strike order has been issued. The
situation is the result of spontaneous
action of affiliated brotherhoods in
sympathy with the Central of Geor
gia clerks, Vice President Nelson
states.
Conference on at Macon
A conference at Macon between
representatives of tl\e brotherhoods,
representatives of other Central rail
road crafts and officials of the road
was in session When the walkout in
Atlanta occurred and was to con
tinue Friday No progress toward a
settlement of the trouble was re
ported, and according to the union
head, the situation has been aggra
vated, if anything, by the delibera
tions.
Says Clerks Are Bight
“I believe those poor clerks are
absolutely right and that they will
not return to work until the Central’s
ultimatum is withdrawn,” said the
vice president of the union, Friday
morning. Mr. Nelson stated that the
walkout had not become effective
through any action of the general
chairmen of twenty-seven brother
hoods of southeastern lines, which
has been in session in Atlanta since
Sunday. The conference was to have
adjourned Thursday but will now
continue.
“There was no order from me, and
nobody else issued any specific or
dey,” stated Mr. Nelson. I think the
strike was a natural, intuitive spon
taneous action by the other clerks.
It was a demonstration of a prin
ciple propounded by the American
Federation of Labor setting out that
we do not believe in strikes, but if
we are struck at we must strike
back the best we can. 1 suppose the
whole southeast will be affected, un
less the ultimatum is withdrawn.
The Macon conference lias only irri
tated the situation. The*Central of
ficials are still sparring for time and
quibbling over minor details.”
Has Full Authority
Mr. Nelson stated that he had been
vested with full authority by the
grand president of the national
brotherhood to handle the situation
in this territory. At a mass meeting
Os about 1,(100 clerks last night, he
said, he asked any clerk to stand
who wished to go back under the
conditions stipulated by the Cehtral
road and there was no response.
The strike began Monday a week
ago when clerks at principal cities
of the Central of Georgia railroad
did not report for duty. No griev
ances or demands had been present
ed, according to officials of the
road, and no strike order had been
issued, both sides stated. Dissatis
faction with wage schedules and
alleged violation of the national
agreement by the railroad officials
precipitated the trouble.'-the union
claims. - The road maintains that
there is no justification for the
strike and that it is in violation of
the national agreement and the con
si tut ion of the brotherhood.
Water Power Bill
. Passes Senate After
Twelve Years’ Fight
WASHINGTON, May 28.—Ending
a twelve year fight, the senate to
day passed the water power bill as
it came from conference. The house
having already agreed to the meas
ure, it goes to the president for sig
nature.
The bill provides for a federal
power commission to supervise de
velopment of water power sites on
government controlled streams.
The commission would be given
power to issue leases, prescribe rates
and otherwise control private capi
tal invested in water power projects.
The vote was 45 to 21.
MN MTU
SIDES GUESSING ON
NEXT TREATY MOVE
Lawrence Believes Present.
x -ldea of President Is to
Keep Pact at White House -
Until Conventions Act
BY DAVID LAWRUNCE
(Copyright, 11'20, for Tiie Atlanta Journal.) ■
WASHINGTON, May 28.—Presi
dent ’Wilson not merely has his po
litical opponents, but his friends
guessing as to his next move in the
treaty situation, but unless the'
president changes hi’s mind abrupt
ly his present maneuver is to keep |
the treaty of Versailles in the White
House either until the two political '
conventions have met and declared 1
themselves and a new disposition is
manifested toward* the document or
until the American people have
shown by their votes that they sus
tain or repudiate the present mem
bership of the senate. .
The Republicans were eager for
the president to act on the Knox
peace resolution. The Democrats j
didn’t filibuster or engage in pro- I (
longed debate but hastened the reso- ,
lution to the White House. The Re
publicans expected the veto, but also
.expected the treaty to come-back to,
the senate with a statement of the'
reservations he would accept. Then. I '
havifig selected Senator Henry Cabot ' 1
Lodge to make the keynote speech at
the Republican national convention,
the expectation was that the Massa- ' :
chusetts senator would/discuss the
phraseology of reservations and ,
that the issue again would ap
pear to be only one of language. At
any rate it was believed the people
at Uie polls wouldn’t be able to
distinguish between the Demo
cratic or Republican kind of reserva
tions and that the treaty question
would be lost in a maze of contro
versies oyer domestic policies.
But the president is unwilling to ’
play into Republican hands. He !
plans to make it as uncomfortable ‘
as possible for his opponents. He :
is waiting to see what the Republi- 1
can national convention, with a tem
porary chairman advocating ratifi- >
cation of the treaty with reserva- 1
tions will do about nominating a 1
man who denounces the whole treaty, I
reservations and all, namely Senators <
Hiram Johnson or Philander C. Knox, ' ‘
Flaying Bold Hand „ 1
Mr. Wilson has consulted nobody i
in the senate and has worked out i
his own strategy. His tactics are <
not altogether pleasing to his Dem- i
ocratic colleagues but they admit he i
is playing a bold hand and may sue- t
ceed eventually in keeping the i t
treaty issue clear cut by retaining ,
the Versailles pact at the White I i
House. A’
Several senators on the ’ Demo
cratic side who are not particularly ! t
in favor of the president’s supposed ' {
plan, do nevertheless see various | f
grounds upon* which Mr. Wilson t
could justify his action. The presi- J
dent, as disclosed by his veto of <
the Knox resolution, accepts the ac- t
tion of the senate in failing to pass ’
the peace treaty itself as final. He 1
argues that there is no need for t
him to send the treaty back, as the
senate has notifiep him that it can- (
not pass. He appeals from the sen- t
ate to the American people. He t
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Calls Wave of Luxury
Buying in U. S. “Dance
Os Industrial Death’’
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J. H. TREGOE
In a letter sent to members of
the National Association of Credit
Men, J. H. Tregoe, secretary
treasurer of the organization,
called the present wave of luxury
buying in the United States ‘‘the
dance of industrial death.” He
added: ‘‘The nation is sound fun
damentally and the soundness will
continue if people will give up
:heir folly, become diligent and
work as human beings should
work during a time of stress and
strain.”
DIAZ AGREES TO
SURRENDER TO
REBELS, REPORT
fl. '
- VERA CRUZ, Mex.,’ May 28—
General Felix Diaz has agreed to
surrender his entire forces to Gen
eral Guadalupe Sanchez, revolution
ary coinmander, according to reports
received here today.
General Diaz arrived at Misantla,
in the state of Vera Cruz, and in
transmitting the proposal to give
himself and army up, asked for
guarantees of safe conduct to *he
city of Vera Cruz, where he intends
to take a steamer for some foreign
port, the report said.
Business in Vera Cruz is brisk,
and there apparently has been no ill
effect. felt here as a result of the
revolution and overthrow of Car
ranza regime. Passenger and freight
trains now are runing daily between
Vera Cruz and Mexico City, and
shipping in the harbor is practically
normal. >
OBREGON HOPES FOR
UNGUARDED FRONTIERS
MEXICO CITY, May 27..—Replying
toda yto a message of’'Xeli c >t ation t 0
himself and those associated with
him in the new regime in -Mexico,
sent by ■ a number of the members
o' £the municipality of Los Angeles,
General Alvaro Obregon expressed
his thanks to the senders and de
clared that if he chould be elected
to the presidency he would seek to
bring about amicable relations be
tween. Mexico and all other coun
tries, “especially those next to us
on the American continent."
“One of my greatest days,” added
Genera] Obregon’s reply, “would be
that on which the soldiers which
are stationed to guard all frontiers
leading to our country are with
drawn.”
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■ SEBIITE COMMITTEE
SEEKING LIGHT ON
5 North Carolina Witness Un
• able to Enlighten Anxious
Inquirers as to Headquar
j ters or Literature
\
WASHINGTON, May 28—The sen
ate campaign investigating commit
tee made further efforts today -to
get light on what Chairman Kenyon
; described as “this invisible McAdoo
i boom.”
■ Angus W. McLean, of North Caro
lina, a director of the war finance
; corporation, was examined. He do
; nied that lie was “a sort of southern
manager” for Mr. McAdoo’s cam
paign and attempted to read a pre- •
pared statement.
; “I know there is a McAdoo cam
paign,” interjected Senator Reed.
Democrat, of Missouri. “I move we
go ahead with this witness with
some questions and let the state
ment go until we find out why tlii
t secrecy.”
■ Replying to a rapid fire of ques
; tions, Mr. McLean declared that he
did not know there was A McAdoo
■ i beadquarters in Washington, or in
' the Pennsylvania hotel, New York,
' and that he was not informed as to
s the source of McAdoo literature sent
to Democratic delegates.
I He finally recounted a conversn
> tion with Mr. McAdoo as to the
North Carolina delegation. “I told
Mr. McAdoo there was an over
whelming sentiment in my state for
him,” he said. The committee in
terrupted to fix the date of the
conversation. Mr. McLean could not
remember the date of the conversa
tion exactly.
“I told him we were having a
primary down there,” Mr. McLean
continued, “and that his name would
go in whether he liked it or not. bui
that we would be in an absurd sit
uation, if we were voting for a man
who would not take the nomination
, “He said he was not a candidate,
wouldn’t turn his hand over to gat
the nomination, and did not want hi' -
i friends to take anv action about it.
Could Not Decline
“He did say that if the nomination
was tendered him a man could not
! decline.
“Some of his friends thought they
! ought to take the bull by the horns
... and go ahead whether he want
ed them to or not. There was some
sort of a dinner party up in New
York about it, and some fool went
and told him about it.”
“What was there?” Chairman Ken
yon demanded.
“Well, Mr. Roper,” Mr. McLean
said, referring to the former collec
tor of internal revenue, “and some
others.”
Later “some of Mr. McAdoo’s
1 friends were- pretty mad about it,”
Mr. McLean added.
“We all thought something should
be done to show Mr. McAdoo's avail
ability,” ‘Mr. McLean concluded, “but
I don’t consider I’ve done any work
for him.”
He had written letters to North ,
' Carolina, but he said he did not
know that any federal officials were
1 on' that delegation.
“Do you know anything ' about
plans to use the Liberty Loan pub-
I licity campaign organization for Mc-
Adoo?” asked Chairman Kenyon.
I “I do not.”
i “Have you seen Mr. Baruch’s book,
! ‘Men Who Won tiie War,’ with the
i laudatory articl eabout Mr. Mc
-1 Adoo?”
“I have not.”
“I want to apologize for being
rough with you,” Senator Reed put
in. “I’m glad some man is letting
the presidency seek him, not chas-
I ing it.”
; “If there ever yas a rabbit,” said
; Mr. McLean, “Mr. Adoo is it.”
; Mr. McLean said that he had talk
ed to Mr. Baruch. “We both of us
agreed that Mr.* McAdoo would be
i a good man.” he said. “My own
I idea was Wv ought to lay back 1 and
i see what the Republicans did.”
“Os course >ur delegation from
North Carolina will/support Senator /
Simmons,” he added, “not even ex
cepting Mr. McAdoo.”
Frank H. Harrison, a Nebraska
i newspaperman who -managed Sen-
I ator Johnson s campaign before the
i Republican primaries, was called.
I “Out of a total of $1,913 he used
in Nebraska.” he said, “SI,BOO wafe
I sent him from California, and the
I balance came in by $5. $lO and $25
j donations and in postage stamps.”
Wood's Ohio Campaign
Senator Norris, Republican, Ne
braska. campaigned the state with
Senator Johnson, he said, and tiie
1 traveling expenses were $167.
i “What would you have done with
j §500,000 if it ha dbeen handed you?”
Senator Reed asked.
: “What most other political man
; agers do—divide it up among
friends,” Mr. Harrison told, him
promptly.
Harry M. Daugherty, campaign
manager for Senator Harding, of
Ohio, recalled, declared the Ohio
States Journal, and the Columbus -
: Dispatch, had supported Senator
; Harding at first, and later support
'ed General Wood. Senator Reed
I sought explanation of the change.
; “I would be willing to go this.
far,” Mr. Daugherty said. “There
was a very active campaign made
around Columbus for General Wood.”
“I’ve understood that Mr. Wolf is
the controlling factor of both papers
and that he changed his policy to
'oppose Senator Harding and that
later everything indicated the ex
penditure of large sums of money in
the campaign,” Senator Reed said.
“Mr. Wolf pretended at first to
support Senator Hardnig,” Mr.
Daugherty replied, “and afterwards
went to the vigorous support of Gen-
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