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VOL. XXII. NO. 84.
THREE WOMEN AID
IN THE CAPTURE OF
ESCIIPEDPRISDNER
Eight Convicts Saw Out of
Federal Prison Hete.
Three Are Caught Shortly
Afterwards
Five convicts from the Atlanta
federal prison remained at large
Wednesday morning, of the eight who
sawed their way to liberty at 3:45
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. AH night
thirty prison guards searched the
territory within a radius of ten miles
of the prison. Wednesday morning
they were replaced by fresh men,
and the search was continued.
“Every peace officer we could reach
within a reasonable radius has been
notified,” said Fred G. Zerbst, ward
en. "Descriptions of the five men
have been sent to the papers.”
The convicts at liberty are:
Rector Sherrill, No. 8402, 26 years
old: 5 feet 6 1-2 inches tall: weight,
135: medium build; eyes, chestnut,
complexion, medium fair; occupation,
sailor.
Richard F. Dodge. No. 8456; white;
24 years old; 5 feet 11 inches tall;
weight, 154; blond hair; blue eyes,
former soldier.
Orville Harry Cook, No. 8854;
white; 28 years old: 5 feet 6 1-2
inches tall; weight, 145; hair, light
chestnut; eyes, blue; formerly drafts
man.
John Duffy, No. 9068; right name,
William Brusco; 28 years old; ap
pears older; 5 feet 2 1-2 inches tall,
weight. 135; complexion and eyes,
dark; formerly stonecutter.
Thurman A. Brown,* No. 8956, ne
gro, twenty-six years old, appears
older; five feet seven and three-quar
ter inches tall, weight 143 pounds,
color light brown, formerly laborer.
Three Women Capture One
The terms of these men range
from four to twenty years. Cook and
Brown were ringleaders in an escape
of fifteen prisoners some years ago
at Washington, D. C. Duffy and
Sherrill escaped from the Atlanta
prison not long ago, were at liberty
several months and were captured at
Louisville.
The liberty of three of the eight
escaping convicts was of short du
ration. They were apprehended Tues
day afternoon, and by all odds the
most spectacular capture was that
of Thomas Bilhauski by three
women.
The story is the kind you read
about and shake your head over—
only this time it actually occurred—
and the prison authorities are will
ing to be recorded as saying that
these three women showed more
nerve and resourcefulness than they
believed was lodged in the sex, even
if Bilhauski did get away from them
temporarily, ,in a mad break for lib
erty.
This is the way it was:
Spot On*
Mrs. W. A. Duke was at her home
on Bryant’s Mill road, perhaps three
fourths of a mile beyond the prison,
when the long-drawn wail of the si
ren announced to all the countryside
that a convict or several convicts had
got away from the prison.
Mrs. Duke was not particularly ex
cited. In about an hour, there came
driving in her motor car Mrs. Duke’s
daughter, Mrs. J. M. Phelps, of 233
Highland avenue, and Mrs. Phelps
was excited enough for both.
•’A guard got me to carry him
along the road, right up this way,”
she announced. “Eight prisoners are
out. They think one or two came
this way.”
This flurry had subsided when an
aunt of Mrs. Duke, Mrs. Samuel Mar
tin, of Lakewood ■ terrace, came to
call. The ladies got to talking about
other things than jail deliveries and
presently walked out into Mrs. Duke’s
garden.
And there, sitting inconspicuously
in the midst of a honeysuckle vine,
under a peach tree, was a man clad
in a gray sweater, blue overalls, and
a checked cap.
Mrs. Duke walked up to him.
“Who are you?” she asked.
Bring Tip “Artillery”
“Well, if you must know, I’m a
tramp,” rejoined the man, with a
great appearance of frankness. "I
came here from Birmingham, and I’m
tired, and I just came over into this
garden to sit down and rest in the
shade.”
And he assumed a more recumbent
posture, looking decidedly at home.
The trio of ladies continued their
stroll about the garden, but as soon
as they were out of earshot Mrs.
Duke said:
“I don’t like his looks. I think tie’s
one of the escaped prisoners. I’ll go
back and talk to him and you go and
get the revolvers.”
Two revolvers, it seems, hung by
Mrs. Duke’s bed in their holsters
She walked back to the man, who ex
hibited no uneasiness, and seemed to
b« under the impression that it was
a spend-the-day party.
Quite promptly Mrs. Phelps and
Mrs. Martin rejoined her, the revolv
ers carefully held back of their
skirts.
“Now,” Mrs. Duke addressed the
man, “I think you did not come from
Birmingham. I think you came from
the prison.’’
The man put on an air of surprise
mixed with injury.
“Is there a prison around here?”
he said.
Warns Prisoner to Be Good
“Oh, yes—a big one; right over
there,” said Mrs. Duke, pointing. »
“Thanking you for telling me,”
was the cool reply. “I might have
stumbled over it.”
“I think you’re going to, anyway,”
Mrs. Duke told him. “If you want
to know what I think about it, 1
think you’re one of the escaped pris
oners, and you’re going to stop here
until you are investigated.”
And at the same time Mrs. Phelps
and Mrs. Martin produced the re
volvers and presented them in the
general direction of the “tramp.’
The “tramp” remonstrated bitterly.
Was this the famed hospitality of
the. southland? Was this any way
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Leader of $1,200,000 Safe
Robber Band Spurns Pose
As a “Jimmy Valentine”
RICHARD ARMSTRONG
Richard Armstrong, the Brooklyn
youth who was the organizer of a
band of youthful thieves which early
this year looted safes in New York’s
financial district and obtained $1,200-
000 in cash, securities and jewels,
jeers at detectives for calling him a
“Jimmy Valentine.”
"I used my head, not my hands,”
he told them after having pleaded
guilty to a charge of burglary. "Look
at my mitts (he held out —is hand).
They’re a longshoreman’s hands, not
a Jimmy Valentine’s.” When it was
suggested that he had opened a cer
tain safe by ear, he said he had
found combination in the draw
er of a desk. - A detective who in
vestigated Armstrong’s statement
learned that when an expert from a
safe company had been called to
open the safe in the absence from
the office of everybody who was car
rying the combination in his head,
the expert noted the combination and
slipped the numbers, into the draw
er where Armstrong found the
memorandum.
PENROSE TO TAKE
HAND IN CHOOSING
LEADER OF PARTY
CHICAGO, June 2.—Pennsylvania,
with two potential presidential can
didates of its own and a directing
force in the person of Senator Boies
Penrose, is expected to point the way
this week to soma solution of the
present tangle over the party nomi
nees.
Seijator Penrose may or may not
come to Chicago finally, but in all
events he will be in direct touch by
wire with his lieutenants here and
is expected to speak out soon with
his recommendation for the national
ticket. His spokesmen in Chicago
meantime are working to effect an
understanding whereby Senator John
son will get behind Senator Knox
for the nomination if Senator John
son himself cannot win.
Senator Penrose has at least two
cards up his sleeve—Senator Knox
and Governor Sproul. He has de
clared that if the convention were
to nominate a man of the Lowden
type, "it might as well Sproul.”
He has added, however, that Senator
Knox would be “the man best fitted
for the office.”
It appears likely, therefore, that
Senator Penrose, when, and if Sen
ator Johnson and General Wood are
eliminated from possible nomination,
will enter Senator Knox or Governor
Sproul, or possibly both before he
gives his support to Governor Low
den.
He feels, if the attitude of his
lieutenants here is any indication,
that Senator Johnson must be fig
ured with in determining finally the
nominee. Senators Johnson and Knox
are great friends and Senator John
son has recently held a long confer
ence with Governor Sproul. Sena
tor Johnson will be in Chicago
Thursday and immediately open / sip
a tremendous last-minute campaign
for the nomination. He will make
at least one very important speech.
His arrival, coupled with either the
arrival or the direct wire action of
Senator Penrose through his lieu
tenants here, will mark the opening
of u®ftotiations that should in large
measure determine the party’s final
choice.
One thing is certain and that is
that Senator Johnson will be as
sured a fair fight for his objective.
Then, if he fails to land the nomi
nation, he will be expected to fall
in line and help put over some one
else.
The gossip along presidential row
still favors the chances of Governor
And while the various
deals and counter-deals are under
way between the supporters of the
respective candidates, there appears
to be less and less talk among the
political leaders that General Wood
will win, “Lowden or Knox” has be
come a slogan with something of an
air of finality about it that has had
a psychological effect on the poli
ticians here assembled.
House Committee
Unanimously Votes
Repeal of War Laws
WASHINGTON, June 2.—By unan
imous vote the house judiciary com
mittee today ordered out a resolution
repealing all war-time emergency
legislation excepting the Lever food
control act, the trading with the en
emy law and the District of Columbia
rent profiteering measure.
Chairman Volstead told the com
mittee that he would attempt to
have the house adopt the resolution
before adjournment Saturday. House
action, he said, would be attempted
under suspension of the rules, which
■ would permit only forty minutes of
, debate.
OFFICIAL OF UNION
ASSERTSSTRIKEOF
CLERKS IS ILLEGIL
Declines to Authorize Gen
eral Walkout and Orders
Men to Return to Their
Posts
While the strike of freight clerks
on leading Atlanta railroads and
other southeastern lines was official
ly’ declared illegal Tuesday evening
by the head of the national brother
hood, according to telegrams and
press dispatches, no general order in
structing the clerks to return to
work had been issued up to 1 o’clock
Wednesday by Vice Grand President
J. V. Nelson, of Atlanta, who is in
charge of the situation for the clerks.
Mr. Nelson takes the position that
the telegram from E. H. Fitzgerald,
grand president of the brotherhood,
which were sent through his chief
clerk at Cincinnati, may not be au
thentic. He will take no action un
til he receives advices direct from
Mr. Fitzgerald, he said.
The freight congestion at the At
lanta Joint Terminals was greatly
relieved Wednesday by the return of
fifty or sixty clerks Tuesday and a
formal decision as to the question
of coming back in a body was expect
ed at a meeting of the clerks with
officials of the Joint Terminals dur
ing the afternoon. Additional clerks
applied for reinstatement at the
Central of Georgia road Wednesday,
Superintendent M. B. Smith stated.
He intended taking care of as many
old clerks as possible, he said, al
though the Central has plenty of
workers.
The messags from the national
head of the brotherhood not only
declared the present strike illegal,
but flatly declined to authorize a gen
eral strike in the southeast. Ac
cording to the telegrams, all general
chairmen of the brotherhoods, other
labor organizations and the govern
ment have been notified by wire as
to the situation. An Associated
Press dispatch from Chicago Tuesday’
night quoted Grand President Fitz
gerald as saying the strike was un
authorized. This dispatch stated
that a grand lodge officer had been
sent to Atlanta to order the men
back to work.
The Telegrams follow:
An appeal to. Atlanta business
houses, asking that they call for
freight on hand at the Central of
Georgia warehouse, was issued by
Division Superintendent M. B. Smith
Wednesday. According to Mr. Smitl\
a large volume of freight is on
hand uncalled for and has served to
bring about a serious congestion.
Following are the telegrams
which declare the strike illegal:
“Mr. L. L. McDonald. Assistant
Superintendent Transportation, At
lanta Joint Terminals, Atlanta. Ga.:
I have following wire from Mr. E.
H. Fitzgerald, grand president,
Brotherhod Railway clerks, dated
Chicago, May 31, 1920:
“Wire general chairmen United
States and Canada there are no
legal strikes of this brotherhood,
and that I have not authorized a
legal strike since assuming the duty
of the office of the grand presi
dent. Th© laws of your organiza
tion must be obeyed, and the pro
vision of the transportation act com
plied with, and then confirm this
wire by letter, sending copy to chief
executives of the sixteen standard
recognized labor organizations. Al
so the secretary of the railway em
ploye department.
“J. E. M’QUADE.
“Chief Clerk to Grand President,
Brotherhood Railway Clerks, Sec
ond National Bank Building, Cin
cinnati, Ohio.
“CINCINNATI, June 1, 1920.—Mr.
L. L. McDonald, Assistant Superin
tendent Transportation, Atlanta Joint
Terminals, Atlanta, Ga.: I have the
following wire from Mr. E. H. Fitz
gerald, grand president, Brotherhood
Railway Clerks, dated Chicago, 111.,
May 31. 1920:
“ ‘Following wire to Nelson to
night: “Refer to your wire 5:35 p. m.,
which refers to action of Southeast
ern Federation. The grand president
is the only officer authorized to sanc
tion a strike, and he has not, and
will not do so, in present controver
sy. The last wire of yours is the
first request that you have made for
the authority to call a strike, and this
authority is declined. I am taking
the entire controversy before the la
bor board Tuesday morning. Advise
the members of the Southeastern
Federation accordingly. Confirmation
to you by mail. Repeat this to all
general chairmen southeastern dis
trict, instructing them to keep all
members at work in compliance with
th© law. Post copy of this message
on all bulletin boards.’
“J. E. M’QUADE.
“Chief Clerk to the Grand President
Brotherhood Railway Clerks, Sec
ond National Bank Building, Cin
cinnati, Ohio.”
UNION OFFICER SENT
HERE TO END STRIKE
CHICAGO, June 2.—A grand lodge
officer has been sent to Atlanta, Ga.,
to put striking members of the
union back to work, E. H. Fitzgerald,
president of the Brotherhood of
Railway clerks, freight handlers, ex
press and station employes, said yes
terday.
“No strikes are now on with the
authorization of this union.” said Mr.
Fitzgerald, who was attending a ses
sion of the United States railroad
labor board. “We have our case be
fore this board and we are abiding
by the law.” .
President Fitzgerald mentioned in
particular a walkout which bad oc
curred without sanction on the Cen
tral of Georgia railway.
Six Men Killed by
Explosion in Shaft
Os Ontario Coal Co.
PITTSBURG, June 2.—At least six
men were killed by an explosion in
the coal shaft of the Ontario Qas
Coal company, near Cokesburg, Pa.,
today. Then men were buried under
tons of earth, and the foreman in
charge of the work said he would not
be able to tell the exact number of
dead until the bodies had been re
covered.
The men were employed in seeking
a shaft for coal, and reached the
top of the coal late yesterday. Soon
after they 'went down the shaft to
day to resume work there the ex
plosion occurred.
Leland H. Williams
Named Postmaster
For College Park
WASHINGTON. June 2. —President
Wilson today sent to the senate the
nomination of Leland H. Williams
as postmaster at College Park. Ga.
He also sent the names of Andreita
M. Vigil, Trinidad. Col., and Joseph
W. Davis Harrisburg. 111. for re
appointment to postmasters.
ATLANTA, GA., THUSDAY, JUNE 3, 1920.
BONNIWELL CALLS
PENNSYLVANIA RACE
A“GHASTLY; AFFAIR
Leader of Plumb Rail Or
ganization Says No Funds
Have Been Contributed to
Any of Candidates
WASHINGTON. June 2.—Charges
that the campaign for the nomina
tion of Attorney General Palmer as
Democratic candidate for the presi
dency had been conducted in Penn
sylvania with an open appeal to the
distillery and brewery interests In
the state were made today before the
senate investigating committee by
Eugene C. Bonni-well, of Philadel
phia.
Mr. Bonniwell, who distributed
stickers during the primary cam
paign, seeking the nomination of W.
G. McAdoo, said that saloons and
bonded warehouses in some parts of
the state were now running “wide
open” and that this was proceeding
under the eyes of department of jus
tice and prohibition enforcement of
ficers of the federal government ap
pointed “with Palmer’s vise.”
The witness charged that the Pal
mer campaign in Pennsylvania had
been a “ghastly and debasing degra
dation” of law. He added that the
campaign he conducted for Mr. Mc-
Adoo had been entirely the work of
himself and his colleagues and
against the specific personal re
fusal of Mr.. McAdoo to allow his
name to be used.
Mr. Bonniwell said “it had been
estimated,” Palmer backers spent
$200,000 to $300,000 in Pennsylvania.
Flumb Flan Organization
Before going into the campaign
contests the committee examined Ed
ward Keating, former member of
congress from Colorado, and now
manager of the Plumb plan league.
He said the league had not contrib
uted “a dollar” to the campaigns of
any of the candidates for the Repub
Mean and Democratic presidential
nominations.
“It is taking no part in the cam
paign,” he testified, “excepE as it is
distributing information through its
weekly, Labor.”
“I’ve rather gathered the impres
sion that your paper is supporting
McAdoo for the Democratic nomina
tion. and Senator Johnson for the
Republican,” said Senator Kenyan.
Mr. Keating replied that the paper
had probably been more “critical of
the other candidates than these.”
He added that the sixteen railroad
labor unions supporting the league
had a campaign committee of which
he is a member, co-operating with
the campaign committee of the
American Federation of Labor and
that this committee had taken no
part in the presidential campaign.
“Its duty will be to convey infor
mation to members of the organiza
tion, principally about senators and
congressmen,” he said.
Plumb Plan Activities
Mr. Keating said this committee
might have sent out “information as
to the attitude of presidential can
didates, but that was all up to date.”
“You’ve got a plan as to the fu
ture, then?” asked Senatoi- Reed,
Democrat, Missouri.
“Why, yes,” Mr. Keating said. “We
have reported to our organisations
that to do future work in this cam
paign we will require SIO,OOO, and
they have undertaken to ask for a
contribution of one cent from each
of their members.
“Wee have suggested that central
committees be formed in each dis
trict, get in touch with liberal peo
’ with farmers and agricu’turai
labor, fi) anced and formed in local
communities, asking the boys to chip
in eough for headquarters. All w
can give them is advice as to the
best way to organize politics.”
Asked to explain the Plumb plan
league and its methods, Mr. Keating
said there were 4,000 railroad unions
each paying $lO a year, and getting
ten copies of "Labor,” and "some
thing more than 200,000 individuals,”
each giving a 'ar and receiving
the paper. The surplus over the
cost of getting out the weekly went
to propaganda, he said, supporting
six field men.
Glen E. Plumb, he said, was on
a salary, but he objected to giving
the amount, declaring that the ques
tion was outside the scope of the
investigation. Senator Reed insisted
and Mr. Keating said Plumb received
SI,OOO a month, “about one-half of
his usual income,” as a lawyer in
private practice now abandoned.
“You intend to make the Plumb
plan a national issue in this elec
tion?” Senator Reed asked, referring
to the plan for tri-partite control of
the railroads. ,
Mr. Keating agreed that the
league’s activities “would be direct
ed indefinitely” to getting the plan
in actual operation and that this had
to be done by effort in political
fields.
Anthracite Miners and
Operators Accept Offer
For Wage Commission
WASHINGTON. June 2.—Anthra
cite miners and operators formally
announced today acceptance of Presi
dent Wilson’s offer for the appoint
ment of a commission to decide their
wage controversy.
Bandit Villa Is
Up to Old Tricks
LAREDO. Tex.. June 2. —Francisco
Villa has destroyed the entire rail
way line between Parral and Jiminez,
Chihuahua, in an effort to retard pur
suit by government troops, according
to a Mexico City dispatch printed in
yesterday’s issue of the newspaper
El Porvenir, of Monterey, which also
quotes General P. Elias Calles as
saying that a “circle of troops” is
being placed around Villa “from
which he cannot escape.”
Atlantic City Boy Is
Kidnaped During Parade
WILMINGTON, Del.. June
ward Laßelle, 5-year-old son of Ed
ward Laßelle, an Atlantic City
printer, while watching a Memorial
day parade, Monday, was kidnaped
from his home in Smyrna. Del., and
efforts of the police of the eastern
states have been engaged in finding
him.
American cotton
ASSOCIATION P®
TO IM 5200,000
Definite Start Will Be Made
in Atlanta Thursday—Sus
taining Membership Is
Suggested
A campaign to raise $200,000 to
sustain the American Cotton associa
tion during the formative period of
organization while members are be
ing enrolled was launched Wednes
day morning by the executive and
finance committees in joint session
in this city.
It is proposed to raise the fund
by the sale of sustaining member
ships to large business concerns. This
was the plan used by the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States tn
its formative period. After its mem
bership had been built up it no longer
needed a sustaining fund, but with
out such a fund it likely would have
failed.
B. F. McLeod, of Charleston, a
former president of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States, and
chairman of the finance committee
of the American Cotton association,
presented in detail the plan of rais
ing a sustaining fund by this meth
od. It was received wit.h strong favor
and a number of excellent speeches.
Meeting Thursday
A definite start will be made in
Atlanta Thursday morning when the
executive and finance committees of
the cotton association go before a
meeting of 200 representative At
lanta business men who will be asked
to come to the chamber of commerce
at 11 o’clock for the purpose of hear
ing the plan outlined.
Preliminary to this meeting, there
was an informal conference Wednes
day morning between the cotton as
sociation people and Colonel Wil
liam L. Peel, P. B. ate-s and James
J. Ragan, all of Atlanta, who sug
gested the above-stated way of go
ing about the presentation of the
matter to the business concerns of
this city.
J. S. Wannamaker, of St. Mat
thews, S. C., president of the cotton
association and chairman of the ex
ecutive committee, presided over the
joint meeting of the executive and
finance committees, which has been
in session two days.
North Carolina Speaks
Among those who spoke in regard
to the necessity for a large sustain
ing found was J. A. Brown, a prom
inent business man of Chadbourne.
N. C., and a rilembe-r of the finance
committee.
“Cotton," said he, “is the life of
the south. Our whole prosperity
rests upon the prosperity of the cot
ton producer. Without organization
the producer cannot meet the many
new problems that confront him. If
the south last year could afford to
invest one billion dollars in automo
biles, it certainly can afford, to in
vest $150,000 to save the prosperity
of the cotton producers.”
This figure of $159,000 is the
amount proposed to be rai3»d in the
cotton belt by sustaining member
ships. The remaining $50,000 of the
$200,000 fund will be raised in other
sections of the country.!
House Resolution to
Adjourn on June 5
Now Is Before Senate
WASHINGTON, June 2.—The ques
tion of adjournment of congress next
Saturday was put up to the senate to
day when the house resolution adopt
ed yesterday was received. Under
this measure congress would adjourn
sine die next Saturday afternoon at
4 o’clock.
Leaders were speculating on the
probable attitude of President Wilson
towards adjournment. Some sug
gested that he probably might call a
special session about July 19 should
the adjournment resolution be adopt
ed by the senate.
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Virginian Who Is Head of
Congressional Campaign
Committee for Democrats
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'..52. HENRY D. FLOOD
. s photograph of Representative
H,.ry D. Flood, of Virginia, was
taken in Washington since his elec
tion as chairman of the Democratic
congressional campaign committee.
He has represented the Tenth dis
trict. in which is jocated Staunton,
President Wilson’s birthplace, for
twenty years without a break. Dur
ino' the war Representative Flood
was chairman of the house commit
tee on foreign affairs. He is re
garded as a likely possibility for the
nomination for governor of Virginia.
INDIANA’S PLANK
ON LEAGUE FACES
BOTH WAYS—TAFT
BY WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
(Copyright. 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
The Indiana’resolution on the sub
ject of the league is a plank dear
to the heart of Mr. Facing Both
Ways. It puts the party in opposi
tion to the treaty as presented by
the president to the senate, and it
Commends the Republican senators
for opposing .that treaty. It does
not commend the majority of Repub
licans tn the senate for voting for
the league with the Lodge reser
vations, and it does not commend
the bitter-enders. It leaves unde
cided the issue between them. It
accords them both freedom to act
in the same way in which they act
ed before; it does not restrict the
nominee in the course he may take.
It is a weak and timid consumma
tion made possible by the fact that
the opponents of an administration
do not need to be agreed on their
basis of opposition, and may post
pone the settlement of differences
between them until they must as
sume the responsibility for action.
Such an attitude should embarass
Mr. Lodge in his opening speech to
the convention, because by his
course for months he has approved,
to such an extent that the reserva
tions bear his name, the policy of
entering the league with those res
ervations. It will embarass the
nominee of the convention, because
lie will constantly during the cam
paign be presented with the query
whether he favors the league with
reservations or opposes it altogether.
It is a shifting of the responsibil
ity of the party representatives in
the convention to other shoulders,
with the hope that with a platform
Facing Both Ways, the party may
retain the support not only of its
sincere and loyal members who ap
prove the action of Mr. Lodge and
his associates but may secure the
support of the Sinn Feiners, the
pro-Germans and others who sup
port the bitter-enders.
It is neither a courageous nor
a wise thing to do, but the trend
toward Republican victory is so
strong that the result may seem to
be for a time a vindication of the
method adopted. The question must
be met after the fourth of March
when President Wilson will lose his
power to hold up ratification until
he can have his favorite Article X
unimpaired. His successor will then
face the necessity for a comprehen
sive and satisfactory peace. The
Versailles treaty will still be avail
able. and we may reasonably count
on enough Republicans and Demo
crats to do what ought to have been
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DECISION DELAYED
IN GEORGIA FIGHT
FOR CHICAGO SEATS
Florida Contests Also Passed
Over by Republican Na
tional Committee After
Tuesday Hearing
CHICAGO. June 2.—By unanimous
vote the Republican national com
mittee today seated the regular
twelve delegates from Louisiana.
This is apparently a victory for Gov
ernor Frank O. Lowden, as it was un
derstood the regular delegates were
pro-Lowden, while the contesting
delegates were understood to be sup
porting Major General Leonard
Wood.
The claim of the contesting Lou
isiana delegation was rejected on
the ground that it was improperly
brought and that the delegation had
no official standing.
This brings Lowden’s total of con
tests decided in his favor up to 18.
5 - The Louisiana contests centered
- chiefly on the application of Frank
1 C. Labit, who sought to have a re-
2 hearing on his claim for recogni
, tion as national committeeman.
L " The suspended Florida and Georgia
J cases were passed temporarily.
Further time to check evidence in
• the Georgia case was given to the
3 subcommittee headed by Charles B.
Warren, of Michigan, who said a
comparison of duplicate convention
rolls would take much more time.
H. L. Remmel, of Arkansas, x pro
posed that both Georgia delegations
be seated, with a half vote each, but
, was voted down.
In taking up the Tenth Minnesota
district contest, between two Wood
and two unpledged delegates, Secre
tary Miller announced that both
, claimed to be the regular delegates.
Representative Schall, the blind con
gressman, was one of the unpledged
delegates.
In its first decision affecting the
Johnson forces in the convention,
the committee, by 36 to 12, voted to
seat the Tenth Minnesota district,
who are counted as favorable to the
• candidacy of the California senator.
They were Representative Schall
and L. M. Mithun.
The first order of business today
was a supplemental hearing for the
regularly reported delegation from
l Florida, headed by National Commit
teeman Bean, and the delegation
headed by H. L. Anderson, of Jack
; sonville.
1 With that disposed of, the com
mittee planned to pass on to the
. Georgia cask involving the seating
• of delegates pledged to General
i Wood or counted in support of Gov
. ernor Lowden. The claim of the lat
-1 ter delegation, headed by Henry Lin
coln Johnson, an Atlanta negro, that
I it is the regularly reported delega
' tion, is disputed by the former dele
gation, known as the Pickett faction,
• which contends that it should be con
sidered the regularly accredited dele
gation, as Roscoe Pickett is the ac-
> credited state chairman.
Leaders Arriving
j Nevertheless, the official commit
tee list gives the Johnson delegation
as the regularly reported one and
the Pickett delegation was heard as
i the contestants. The fight brought
( before the committee the first clear
cut case in which a gain of delegates
for the Wood or Lowden forces was
' involved and it took first place in
the interest of the pre-convention pe
riod.
Political forces are gathering slow
i ly here, and while the pre-conven
-1 tion circle has its usual line of gos
' sip and prediction, no political lead
er of recognized importance has up
; to this been willing to attach
his name to a definite prediction of
whom the conventiqn will name as
its candidate or when it is likely to
do it. The end of the week, with the
probable adjournment of .congress,
however, will bring all the national
leaders to Chicago and by Saturday
or Sunday convention plans are ex
pected to begin taking definite form.
Representatives of the militant
branch of the Woman Suffrage party
are on the ground preparing to picket
the convention hall to enforce their
demand for a platform declaration
calling on the states which have not
ratified the woman suffrage amend
ment to do so at once. The national
committee yesterday, by unanimous
vote, called upon all Republican
states to act promptly on the ratifica
tion.
The Johnson forces are counting on
a burst of speed with the arrival o£
Senator Johnson here tomorrow. A
street parade and demonstration have
been arranged. Senator Harding is
coming also on Thursday. General
'Wood is here and at his headquarters
at Fort Sheridan, and Governor Low
den already is here.
Permanent Chairman
In the coming convention the un
instructed delegates are holding the
balance of power and already plans
for sounding out their preferences
are being discussed. A caucus of the
uninstructed some time after Sunday
is one of the plans being canvassed.
Such discussion of the platform
planks as .is going on among the
national committeemen seems to indi
cate a majority feel that the prohibi
tion question may be regarded as one
not necessarily to be included, be
cause the issue has been written into
the constitution and has becon»« the
law of the land.
The selection of a permanent chair
man seems to have made no progress
in the last three or four days. There
is now less talk among committee
i men of the selection of former Sen
. ator Beveridge, of Indiana, and more
I talk of an agreement on Senator Mc
| Cornlick, of Illinois.
i Political leaders here who are sup
' porting Senator McCormick clafrn to
I have the approval of Senator Penrose
for their choice.'
PHILIPPINES FIGHT FOR
INDEPENDENCE PLANK
CHICAGO, June 2.—The fight for
a platform declaration by the Re
publican party for full independence
■ for the Philippines was taken up to
day by a d< from the islands
neaded by J..mie de Veyra.
"By the Jones law of August 29,
1916,” declared Mr. de Veyra, “the
Philippines were promised their in
dependence. -- n as stable govern
• ent could be established on the is
lands. The Philippines have that
stable government today. America’s
official representatives in the Philip
piies testy tc its existence.”