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VOL. XXII. NO. 90.
SECURITIES MAILED
AND REGISTERED BY
RESERVE BANK HERE
Vigorous Investigation of
Holdup Being Conducted
by Postoffice Inspectors
and City Police
It was estimated by postoffice au
thorities Wednesday afternoon that
between $50,000 and $60,000 worth
of bonds were stolen in the robbery
Tuesday night of a mail truck in
charge of John T. Widener, registry
transfer clerk, and J. E. Craig, ne
gro driver.
Approximately $40,000 worth of
these bonds were government bonds
which were being mailed by the
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Assistant Postmastr John C. Staton
and Inspector Oliver C. Cole esti
mated that other bonds missing are
valued at between SIO,OOO and $20,-
000.
Twenty-six pieces of Federal Re
serve Bank mail were stolen, and
also thirty-six other pieces of mail,
the contents of which have not been
divulged.
Although no arrests have been
made a vigorous investigation is be
ing conducted under the direction of
Postoffice Inspector Oliver C. Cole.
Mr. Widener and Craig were ques
tioned at length by Mr. Cole Wednes
day morning. He is being assisted
by City Detectives Gillespie and
Cowan.
The registered mail pouch was
rifled shortly after 9 o’clock Tues
day night. According to Mr. Widener
he and his driver were held up en
route to the Terminal station and
forced to drive the truck to a de
serted field, where they were bound
and the pouch rifled, the two em
ployes reporting the affair soon
thereafter, when the greed them
salves.
Search Beggun
As soon as the truck failed to ar
rive at the Terminal station on time
postoffice officials began a search,
and whne the story of the holdup
was reported, Superintendent of
Mails Frank B. Ellis, Inspector Cole
and others immediately motored out
to the spot where the truck was rifled.
Bloodhounds were obtained in an ef
fort to pick up the trail, but this
attempt was unsuccessful.
According to the postoffice inspec
tion department, the robber in slash
ing open the pouches had evidently
cut his hand, as blood was spattered
nearby. This was confirmed by Mr.
Widener.
Widener’s Story
Mr. Widener, who is about 35
years old, has been employed by the
postoffice department for about
three yars. His story, as told to The i
Journal( was substan tialy as fol
lows:
“I am on duty from 3 until 10:30
o’clock p. m. We left the postoffice
at 9:10 o’clock Tuesday night bound
for the Terminal station with about
1,510 pounds of mail in the truck.
'"There was one pouch of register-!
ed mail, one registered jacket (an j
envelope) and a quantity of first i
class mail, parcel post and miscel
laneous mail.
"As we turned into West Hunter
street from Forsyth street a man
jumped on the running board. He
said, T’m an officer and here’s my
credentials.’ He pointed two guns
at us, got in between us, jabbing
one gun into my ribs and the other
into the ribs of Craig, the negro
driver.
"He made us turn up Madison
avenue. After we had gone about
a mile he made me lie on my face
under the steering wheel while he
tied Craig’s hands. He then tied my
hand behind my back, untied Craig
and made him drive out past West
View on the Adamsville road. He
made him turn into a field road, and
go for about a hundred yards. He
then tied Craig again and gagged
him. Instead of gagging me he
forced me to tell him about the reg
istered mail.
“He then went through the regis
tered pouch, opening the letters and
took what he wanted. He dragged
us aboht a hundred yards and said
he was going back to the first class
mail.
“In some way Craig got hold of
his knife and we got loose. I hur
ried to a nearby house; and a man
accompanied me bac kto the truck.
The man and I started reloading the
truck, while Craig caught a passing
automobile back to town. The au
thorities went to the scene with
bloodhounds.”
Describes Highwayman
“In tieing us the robber used rope
he had in his pocket. It took him
about an hour to go through the reg
isterel mail.
“He was abut five feet, 11 inches
tall, weighed abut 150 pounds, had
a lights, sandy mustache, wore a
dark suit, a round-top black hat and
a yellow four-in-hand tie. He was
middle-aged. ”
Anti-Saloon League
Opposed to Cox as
Democratic Nominee
WASHINGTON, June 16.—The An
ti-saloon league today came out un
qualifiedly in opposition to Governor
James M. Cox, of Ohio, as Demo
cratic presidential nominee.
Wayne B. Wheeler, general coun
sel of tho league, declared in a for
mal statement that "Governor Cox
is the logical oaudidate for the wets,
but now that rhe nation !s under con
stitutional prohibition, his candidacy
is unthinkable and a menace to law
and order.”
Aocornpanying Mr. Wheeler’s state
ment was an axcerpt from a state
ment by W. J. Bryan, also declaring
against Mr. Cox
Speaking of plans to have a law
enforcement plank put into the Dem
ocratic platform. Mr. Wheeler said:
’•Th* resolutions committee at Chi
cago adopted a law enforcement plank
and lost It between the commit
tee room and the convention. Mr.
Bryan will act as a body guard for
it, if It is adopted by the resolu
tions committee at San Francisco.”
LABOR ASKS 11. 5.
TO STOP JAPANESE
IMMIGRATION HERE
"Secessionist” Strike Is
Condemned —Fight Is Im
minent on Committee’s
Disapproval of Plumb Plan
MONTREAL, June 16. —The Amer
ican Federation of Labor today
called upon the congress of the
United States to cancel the “gentle
men’s agreement” with Japan and ab
solutely exclude Japanese and other
Asiatic immigration into the country.
The exclusion of "picture brides”
also was demanded.
Federation departments and inter
national unions . were instructed to
"co-operate and press” this legisla
tion.
Declaring that a band of "irrespon
sible agitators” are attempting to
discredit the "recognized organiza
tions in the railway servce” the fed
eraton unanimously condemned the
“secessionist movement” which re
sulted in the recent railroad strike.
The convention also instructed its
affiliated organizations to “refrain
from giving moqpl or financial sup
port, or assistance of any kind, to
any secessionist movement.”
The executive council was in
structed to investigate the desira
bility of forming an international
union of building service employes
of America, to include all wmrkers
known as janitors, janitresses, scrub
women, window workers and watch
men.
The convention adopted a resolu
tion urging the Panama canal com
mission to employ only American
citizens in the operation and me
chanical department in the canal
zone.
The convention rejected a resolu
tion that would have established a
legal department to serve as clearing
house for the defense of "all labor
organizations, against whom the use
of the injunction is directed in the
course of their legitimate trade un
ion activities.”
The i .an to have organized labor
form with the employers and busi
ness men of the country “a voluntary
arbitration body” to “settle labor’s
grievances in the future” was reject
ed. Other legislation along .this line
will be brought before the conven
tion later, it was announced.
Profiteering, the League of Na
tions, a non-partisan political pro
gram and industrial courts were
given the right of way in the conven
tion. The executive council’s commit
tee on reports was permitted, to make
its report as a special order of busi
ness.
Irish sympathizers opposing the
League of Nations, because they
claim it does not provide self-deter
mination for Ireland, declared they
would fight to a finish any recom
mendations by the committee, that
the covenant be indorsed without res
ervations.
The Plumb plan for nationalization
of the railroads, it was learned today,
has been rejected by the resolutions
committee by a vote of 6 to 3. This
subject probably will be reported to
the federation tomorrow. The rail
road unions have combined in an ef
fort to override the committee’s re
port.
John L. Lewis, International presi
dent of the United Mine Workers of
America, announced his organization
would support the Plumb plan of
railroad nationalization. The mine
workers have the largest voting pow
er in the federation. Their vote, with
that of the metal trades and railroad
organizations, Plumb supporters
said, would make it possible to over
ride the non-concurrence report of
the resolutions.
WOOD DENOUNCES
BUTLER’S CARD AS
MALICIOUS' LIE
CHICAGO, June 16.—Major Gen
eral Wood, in a signed statement
characterized as a “vicious and ma
licious falsehood,” a declaration by
Nicholas Murray Butler, that a
“motley group of stock gamblers,” oil
and mining' promoters, munitions
makers and other persons,”
backed the general’s campaign for
the Republican presidential nomina
tion.
General Wood said that he regret
ted to make the statement but that it
was necessary to “brand a fakir and
to denounce a lie.” Declaring that
the men who managed his campaign
were of “extraordinary high charac
ter,” the general said that the at
tack upon them “is infamous” and
that Mr. Butler’s action was "an at
tempt to ingratiate himself with cer
tain elements which exercised a
determining influence at the conven
tion.”
The statement follows:
“I have just read the statement
issued in New York by Nicholas Mur
ray Butler to the effect that a motley
group of stock gamblers and others
tried to buy the presidential nomi
nation for me, and that the forces
who were defeated in their insolent
attempt to buy the nomination rep
resent all that is worst in American
business and political life.
“The statement 'is a vicious and
malicious falsehood. I would ignore
j it if were directed at me alone, but
I I cannot remain silent when my
loyal friends and supporters are villi
fied.
“Colonel William Proctor, who
was chairman of my campaign com
mittee. is a man of extraordinary
' high character. known throughout
tiie length and breadth of the land
for his absolute integrity and hon
esty. His associates were men of
like character, most of whom re
sponde d to their country’s call dur
ing the war. They typify a group of
progressive Americans. The attack
upon them is infamous.
"The forces which brought me be
fore the convention with preponder
ant force were hundreds of thousands
of patriotic men and women in every
walk of life, who have indorsed me
at nation-wide state conventions, na
tion-wide state primaries and in a
nation-wide poll of unprecedented
size.
“This action of Nicholas Murray
INTERNATIONALIZED
CONSTANTINOPLE IS
won
Sovereign Commission Gov
erning "Zone of Straits” to
Be Controlled by England,
France and Italy
WASHINGTON, June 15.—(8y tho
Associated Press.) —Limited inter
nationalization of the port of Con
stantinople and its Inclusion with
in the "zone of the straits,” is pro
vided for in the provisional terms
of the Turkish treaty. This is dis
closed by an official summary re
ceived here today of the jurisdic
tion provided for the inter-allied
commission of control.
Granted its own flag, budget and
separate organization, the commis
sion, by the lines of the boundaries
fixed for the “zone of the straits”
will have authority over a territory
considerably greater than some of
the smaller nations of Europe. Made
almost sovereign in itself, the com
mission is to be practically independ
ent of the League of Nations as
stipulation is expressly made that
should it find liberty of passage of
the straits interfered with it shall
take such measures as may be deem
ed necessary to preserve the free
dom of the straits.
The zone includes not only the
Bosyhorus, Sea of Mormora and
Dardanelles, but also three nailes off
shore from the mouth of the Darda
nelles and the Bosphorus and the
Aegean Islands of Samothrace, Im
bros, Lemnos, Tenedos end Lesbos.
A land zone also is provided extend
ing from ten to seventeen miles
northwest of the Sea of Marmora
and 8-28 miles southeast of it. Iti
northwestern limit is partly common
with the new Greek frontier, 5 2
miles west of the Bosphorus on the
Black Sea; its eastern limit is 49
miles east of the mouth of Bosphorus
and its southwestern limit is partly
common with the district of Smyrna.
55 miles southeast of the entrance
to the Dardanelles. The zone also
includes an area on the western
side of the Gallipoli peninsula which
Turkey cedes to England, France and
Italy for war memorials and ceme
teries.
Regulations laid down for en
forcement by the inter-allied com
mission provide that:
No belligerent warships may re
main within ports of the zone longer
than 24 hours or take on food stores
or recruits.
The Dardanelles, Sea of Marmora
and the Bosphorus are to be open in
peace and war to every vessel of
commerce and war. The straits are
not subject to blockade.
No belligerent right to be exercis
ed and no act of hostility commit
ted within the z° ne except upon spe
cial authorization of the League of
Nations.
All military w-orks and fortifica
tions to be demolished and no roads
or railroads to be constructed with
in the zone for movement or mobile
batteries.
Greece and Turkey are prohibited
from constructing any new wireless
stations -within the zone, all present
ones to be taken over by the allied
powers.
These regulations are to be en
forced chiefly with naval forces and
a force of special police, recruited
within the zone and commanded by
foreign officers, as well as such mil- j
itary and naval air forces and guard |
ships of tfleir own as Great Britain,
France and Italy may deem neces
sary.
In addition to the general laws
pertaining to the administration of
the straits, the commission is fur
ther charged with execution of any
works considered necessary for the
improvement of the channels and
the approaches to harbors, the light
ing and buoying of channels, control
of pilotage, towage, anchorage and
al matters relating to wrecks, sal
vage and
Maintenance of the ports of Con
stantinople and Haida Pasha as
ports of International concern, where
the citizens, goods and flags of all
countries belonging to the League of
Nations shall enjoy complete free
dom is also placed within the control
of the commission, which shall pro
.vide at the two ports free zones for
the erection and use of warehouses.
MARSHALL WILL
LEAD FIGHT FOR
LEAGUE IN FRISCO
SA NFRANCISCO. June 16.—Vice
President Thomas R. Marshall was
expected to arrive here today to as
sume leadership in the national ad
ministration’s fight to have the Demo
cratic national convention indorse
the League of Nations, as desired by
the administration. Chief opposi
tion was expected from William J.
Bryan,, inclined to reservations.
Mr. Marshall was en route here
from Nevada by automobile, and is
due tonight. His arrival was ex
pected also to revive talk of “Mar
shall for president.”
Senator Robert Owen, of Okla
homa, was the first candidate for
the Democratic presidential nomina
tion to arrive. He opened fire with
a speech last night, declaring the
convention “will not be dictated to
by bosses.”
Others who arrived were Wilbur
M. Marsh, treasurer of the Demo
cratic national committee and na
tional committeeman from lowa, and
E. H. Moore, campaign manager of
Governor Cox.
Five of the national commitee’s sub
committee on Chair
man Homer S. Cummings, J. Bruce
Kremer, of Montana: E. G. Hoffman,
of Indiana; P. H. Quinn, of Rhode
Island, and Charles Boeschenstein, of
Illinois, were here today.
Political observers today predicted
the selection of Bainbridge Colby,
secretary of state, as permanent
chairman of the convention, and Car
ter Glass for chairman of the reso
lutions committee.
Butler is an attempt to ingratiate
himself with certain elements which
exercised a determining influence at
the convention and possibly to ex
plain his own political weakness. It
is a self-seeaing cowardly attack,
made under the cloak of an alleged
public service, which was never in
tended or rendered.
“I regret to make a statement of
this kind, but it is necessary in this
instance to brand a fakir and to de
nounce a lie.”
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDA-Y, JUNE 17, 1920.
HARDING’S HOME, BIRTHPLACE AND NEWSPAPER. The photos below show: Top, the
present home in Marion, Ohio, of the Republican nominee for president. Lower left, the birth
place, near Blooming Grove, Ohio, of Senator Harding. Lower right, the office of the Marion
Star, Senator Harding’s paper.
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G. 0. P. WEAK IN
WEST, DECLARES
SENATOR SMITH
That the Harding-Cooledge ticket
nominated by the Republicans in Chi
cago is strong in the east, but weak
in the west, and that the south may
look for a reign of negr officeholders
if the present Republican organiza
tion goes into power in the coming
election, were opinions expressed j
Wednesday by Senator Hoke Smith
on his return to Atlanta.
Following the adjournment of con
gress Senator Smith went to New
York to spend a few days with his
daughter, Mrs. Pratt, who was Miss
Callie Hoke Smith, and who has just
returned with her husljand from a
business trip which took him to sev
eral European countries. The sen
ator is at the Piedmont hobel, and
will be there continuously for the
next two months. He will not go
to the Democratic convention in San
Francisco.
Asked whether he would make
race for re-election .to the senate, he
jokingly replied to the reporters that
he would send for .them when he
got ready to make an announce
ment on that subject.
“My information is,” said Senator
Smith, “that Harding and Cooledge
are acceptable to the Republicans
of the east and are probably as
strong a ticket as could be nominated
for that section, but everything west
of Ohio has been disregarded. We
carried the election in 1916 by carry
ing Ohio, the south and some west
ern states. We ought to be stronger
this year in the west than we were
four years ago.”
With regard to Democratic candi
dates the senator said:
“The two candidates principally
discussed are McAdoo and Cox, with
a good deal of quiet sentiment in
favor of Marshall. McAdoo has a
good following everywhere. Cox, it
is claimed, is very strong in Ohio.
He has carried the state three times
for governor. His friends all say
if we nominate him for president
we will beat Harding in Ohio. If
Cox were nominated for president,
and Meredith, the lowa secrtary of
agriculture, or Chamberlain, of Ore
gon, were put on for vice president,
they would make a strong ticket.”
With regard to the Republican
platform, the senator indicated that
he considered it a rather shrewd
piece of work notwithstanding the
ridicule with which Democrats have
greeted it.
"We have ridiculed the Republi
cans for adopting an indefinite plat
form on the League of Nations,” he
said. “It would, indeed, be very
unfortunate for the Democrats to
specifically indorse the League of
Nations as the president brought it
back from Paris. We might indorse
it with essential reservations or
without destructive reservations and
get along. The people who believe
in substantial reservations regard
them as essential. They regard
them as destructive of all that is
dangerous in the league and de
structive of nothing that is good in
the league.”
On the south’s prospect of Repub
lican office holders in the event of
Republican success in the presiden
tial election, Senator Smith thought
this prospect ought to be remember
ed by Georgia Democrats who have
been talking of votin gthe Repub
lican ticket.
“We might as well understand
down here in Georgia,” said he,
“that if the present Republican or
ganization captures the country, we
are going to have trouble here in
our local offices. It will take the
hardest kind of a fight to the white
people of the state. Senator Moses,
cf New Hampshire, hr<3 his resolu
tion pending to investigate elections
in the south. Henry Lincoln John
son has been made Republican na
tional committeeman from Georgia.
We may look for as ugly an effort
to force on Georgia objectional Re
publican appointees under a Republi
can administration as we have ever
experienced. What might happen if
negro deputy marshals and collec
tors of internal revenue enforcing
prohibition should swarm the state?
Even the white Republicans ought
to quit the party in Georgia after
the performance in Chicago.”
Judge Decrees Women
Must Wear More Clothes
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, June 16.
Judge Frank W. Geiger of common
pleas court today issued a warning
that young women who apply for di
vorces in his court must be careful
of their dress.
The judge told attorneys “I don’t
care if it is as hot as these wom-
en have got to wear more clothes
I when they come into court. This
tiling of pekaboo waists and see-more
| skirts has got to stop.”
V—■ • - •. —J
DEMOCRATS MAY
SELECT DAVIS IN
CASE OF DEADLOCK
WASHINGTON, June 16.—1 f the
San Francisco convention deadlocks,
John W. Davis, ambassador to Great
Britain, will be one of the .first men
considered as a compfbffi'lSe candi
date, prominent Democrats agreed
here today.
This prediction, it was explained,
was based onthe belief that Mr. Da
vis would be acceptable to all wings
of the party except the violent anti-
British group, which is said to feel
that Mr. Davis should have made a
more vigorous protest on the occa
sion of the recent demonstration at
a London theater where Laurette
Taylor, an American actress, was
playing.
President Wilson, it is known, re
garded Davis as an able and tactflul
public official, who sympathizes with
the president’s own aims tn questions
of foreign relations.
Mr. Davis’ name will be placed
before the Democratic convention by
the West Virginia delegation, but he
is not expected to get many votes
on the first few ballots.
If it should be found, however, that
William G. McAdoo cannot muster
enough votes to win and if W. J.
Bryan develops enough strength to
successfully veto the candidacy of
Governor James M. Cox. of Ohio, the
convention may turn to Mr. Davis,
Democrats say.
DAVIS IS WILLING
TO ACCEPT NOMINATION
LONDON, June 16. —American Am
bassador John W. Davis today an
nounced that while he was not seek
ing the Democratic nomination for
president, he woulud not refuse if
nominated.
Mr. Davis said he made this an
nouncement as a reply to friends
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MARION, 0., IS
SWOLLEN WITH
PRIDE IN HARDING
MARION, Ohio, June 16.—Marion
is simply swollen up with pride—
an ounce more ?.nd it will break the
galluses it wears.
From Clarence Sipes, the little
Quaker, who runs the little "any
where-for-a-quarter” jitney car, to
Lou Miller, who is close to eighty
and one of the first printers Warren
G. Harding hired to work in the
dingy pressroom of the Marion Star,
they “know there never was a man
like Harding.”
But that doesn’t mean that all
Marion thinks Harding will be the
next president by any means.
At least half of the Marion folks
never dreamed he’d get the nomina
tion and there are still a lot of them
who think “he won’t cut the mus
tard.’’
But that doesn’t prevent them
from celebrating the “home town”
victory in the G. O. P. nomination.
Twin Calves Named
McAdoo and Cox
GREENVILLE, S. C„ June 16.
John M. Phillips, formerly mayol
of West Greenville, today learned
that one of his Hereford cows gave
birth to twin calves nine days ago
and that the pair, which he named
McAddoo and Cox, are doing nicely.
who had been urging him to make
a declaration. He also declared that
the story current in London that
Colonel E. M. House was en route to
London to offer him the Democratic
nomination was “moonshine.” He
said he had no knowledge of the pur
pose of Colonel House’s European
trip. •
MINNESOTA NOW IS
PLACED 111 COLUMN
DFOOUBTFULSTATES
Republican Party There Vir
tually Is Dominated by
Non-Partisan League.
Hiram Johnson Popular
BY DAVID &AWBENCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
ST. PAUL, Minn., June 16. —First
impressions are not always conclu
sive, but the reaction of this part of
Minnesota to the nomination of Sena
tor Harding is on tlfb whole rather
favorable. And yet reasons entirely
apart from the personality of the
Ohio senator make it possible even
at this early date to write Minnesota
down as a doubtful state.
For the truth is the Non-Partisan
League has practically taken posses
sion of the Republican party in Min
nesota and the league’s candidate for
governor in next week’s primaries is
regarded even by opponents of the
league as certain of nomination. Now
the Non Partisan League was very
friendly to Hiram Johnson, and this
state was for Johnson. Mr. Harding
is not acceptable to the Non-Partisan
League because of his conservatism
and with the elimination of Johnson,
the league’s vote probably will go
toward Senator La Follette or who
ever happens to be t the nominee of
the party soon to be started at Chi
cago by the famous committee of
forty-eight.
Indeed, if the Non-Partisan League
captures the Republican primaries in
the gubernatorial race, Democrats
and Republicans alke will be urged
to fuse their strength in support of
the Democratic candidate. With a
Republican state ticket favored by
the Non-Partisan League and a Dem
ocratic state ticket supported by all
parties, the vote on president may
be divided into three parts, which
means that the normally large Re
publican vote could easily be split
so that no section of it would be as
big as the normal Democratic vote
and the Democrats might win the
Electoral vote in Minnesota.
Boosevelt Territory
Much will depend upon the out
come of next week’s primaries, but
it will not be forgotten that this is
Roosevelt territory and Johnson was
a prime favorite and that in 1916,
Woodrow Wilson fell just 397 votes
short of overturning an overwhelm
ing Roosevelt majority and taking
the whole state from Hughes.
The conservatives In the state, on
the other hand, are rather glad that
Johnson was beaten, and they are
confident Senator Harding need not
worry about the outcome in No
vember. Many Irish Democrats are
deeply grieved over Johnson’s de
feat. They are among the most bit
ter critics of the Wilson adminis
tration and were all prepared to en
ter the Republican party. Just where’
they now will go is hard to say but
it Is doubtful if they will vote the
Democratic ticket unless something
concrete is pledged toward the cause
of Irish freedom. And if they do
not vote th4 Democratic ticket, they
probably will be found supporting
Mr. La Follette or the Hearst ticket
if there is one. They received a rune
shock by the omission of an Irish
plank from the Republican platform
and now are waiting to see what
the Democrats shall promise at San
Francisco.
The wet. and dry issue also wilt
enter into St. Paul’s decision. This
Is a town of decidedly moist proclivi
ties. In all probability a Democrat
will be sent to congress for one of
the Democratic aspirants has an
nounced ' himself on a platform
which he himself calls ringing wet.”
Danger of Split
Any such statement or hint of the
same thing by the head of the Dem
ocratic ticket would win votes here
though it would lose vote else
where in the state. Johnson would
have" been an ideal Republican can
didate for Minnesota. He was damp
enough and radical enough and anti-
Wilson enough and antl-League of
Nations enough to catch most every
body. This state started out very
favorably inclined toward the Leagu?
of Nations. Reservations were, of
course, advocated by Republican
newspapers, few of whom saw anv
terrible menace in the idea of a
league. But Hiram Johnson came
up here and started things In the op
position direction.
Business men and conservative
Democrats and Republicans see
great opportunities in the elction of
Harding. Radicals, and they are
numerous here, see only confirma
tion of the methods of the “capital
istic” regime which they palaver
about so often hereabouts. They
call the Republican “old guard” who
choose Harding, the real minority
trying to rule the majority.
Conservative Democrats and Re
publicans fully expect a Harding
victory throughout the country. The
reaction against the Wilson admin
istration is even greater than it was
a year ago. The request for a man
date over Armenia, judged by the
public sentiment here at least, was
an ill-advised move. It was looked
upon as proof of the argument that
the League of Nations meant the
sending of American troops abroad.
The Democratic presidential nominee
will have to give convincing evi
dence of an intention to steer clear
of internationalism to hold the
Democratic vote —and, as said be
fore, holding the Democratic vote of
1916 might mean a Democratic vic
tory here, if as seems likely, the Re
publican party is split by the ma
chinations of the non-partisan
American Missionary
Killed in Attack by
Chinese on Mission
HANKOW, China, June 14. —(De-
layed)—W. A. Reimert, American
missionary of the Reformed Church
at x Chow, Hunan province, was
shot and killed forces under
General Chang Chin Yao, governor
of Hunan province, attacked the mis
sion, according to information reach
ing the American consulate here.
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HARDIBG TO LAUNCH
VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN
IN MIDDLEOF MI
Republican Candidate Con
fers With Party Leaders
Denies He Was Born in
Log Cabin
CHICAGO, June 16.—Drafts of
platforms of liberal parties which
will hold their national conventions
here beginning July 10 and 11, are
being worked out so they will fit to
gether in case it is decided to amal
gamate in support of one presidential
ticket, it was learned/here today.
Both the labor party and the Com
mittee of Forty-eight have practi
cally decided on the presentation of
duplicate labor planks to their con
ventions.
These planks, according to offi
cials of both parties, will differ only
in their wording and will approve
public ownership of transportation,
natural resources, stock yards, grain
elevators, telephone, telegraph, flour
mills and all the basic industries and
participation of workers in the man
agement.
The league of nations issue has
so far been left untouched by the
platform builders. Opinion on the
subject is divided.
Liberal leaders do not expect it to
cause a smash-up.
The committee of forty-eight has
opened a campaign to popularize it
self through the circulation of pam
phlets containing declarations of
principles adopted at its conference
in St. Louis last December.
"Bust the trusts,” was expected to
be one of the popular slogans if
both parties unite on one candidate.
In the pamphlets, the committee at
tacks the “steel, oil, beef, milling
and coal trusts.”
Leaders advocating formation of a
third party today believed their cause
strengthened as a result of Dr. Nich
olas Murray Butler’s statement thatt
“a motley group of gamblers” tried
to buy the pyesidency for Major Gen
eral Leonard Wood.
The name of Frank P. Walsh, who
served as chairman of the federal
industrial relations commission and
head of a delegation from the peace
conference to study the situation in
Ireland, received attention among
liberal party leaders here today as a
presidential candidate.
Though the Non-Partisan League
is not now expected to amalgamate
with the other parties, it was sail
it would support any presidential
candidate adopted by the major par
ties.
Labor party leaders expect to con
fer with other liberal leaders here
the first week in July, it was an
nounced at Labor p<rty ehadquarters
here today.
HARDING DENIBS HE WAS
BORN IN A LOG CABIN
WASHINGTON, June 16.—Eight
een holes of golf will probably break
the monotony today for Senator
Warren G. Harding, Republican can
didate for president.
Aside from relaxation on the golt
links Senator Harding finds himself
in a continuous routine of answering
telegrams and reciving visitors bent
on paying their respects.
Senator Harding expects to play
today on President Wilson’s favorite
course at the Washington golf and
country club across the Potomac
river in Virginia.
He is planning the leave Wash
ington about Sunday, but has no’,
yet chosen the place where he will
spend a few days before going to
Marion, Ohio, where he will launch
into the active campaign.
The senator today squelched tho
’log cabin” story just as the cam
paign orators were dusting it off
and remodeling it for use this sum
mer.
“I am sorry to to say it but
the truth is I was not born in a
log cabin,” Senator Harding said
today.
“I was born in a frame house in
Morrow county. It was a modest
place but not a long cabin.”
Senator Harding’s statement about
his birth place was in reply to cir
culated reports that his Ohio friends
had organized to buy and restore the
place in which he was born.
Senator Harding’s campaign plans
are now rapidly rounding into shape.
It was decided yesterday that he
would make his formal spech of ac
ceptance about mid-July and that
his campaign would b e a "front
porch” affair conducted from
Marion.
Walter F. Brown, of Toledo, who
was Senator Harding’s floor man
ager at Chicago, called on the sena
tor today. Other visitors included
Senator Stanley, Democrat, Ken
tucky, and former Sena’tor Suther
land, of Utah.
Among messages of congratula
tions received today by the nominee
were letters from Mayor Moore, ot
Philadelphia; former Governor Brum
baugh, of Pennsylvania; Miss Mabel
Boardman, head of the American Red
Cross; Mrs. John A. Logan, widow oi
the civil war veteran, and John Bar
, ton Payne, secretary of the in
terior.
Senator Harding today formally
withdrew from the Ohio senatorial
race. He wrote Harvey Smith, sec
retary of state of Ohioo, asking with
drawal- of his petition filing for the
primaries.
Senator Harding today sent the fol
lowing letter to Major General Leon
ard Wood in reply to the latter’s
telegram of congratulations.
“I do not know quite how to ex
press my feelings in dictating an
acknowledgment to one who was a
contender for the distinction which
came to me. Perhaps I shall ex
press myself sufficiently if I say
that had the distinction come to you
instead of me, I should have found
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