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VOL. XXII. NO. 91.
HARDING ACCEPTS WILSON’S CHALLENGE ON LEAGUE
Washington State Republicans Fear McAdoo
ARE SURPRISED BUT
HOPEFUL AT CHUICE
FOR pm LEADER
Westerners Would Have
Preferred Governo r Low
den or General Wood as
Nominee
BY DAVID LAWBENCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
SPOKANE, Wash., June 18. —War-
ren G. Harding is little known out
here, so the first reaction toward the
man chosen by the Republican na
tional convention is one of surprise
mingled with hope. This part of
Washintgon contains not a few pro
gressives, though the aggressive
number who are willing to be char
acterized as such is dwindling. Some
disappointment over the failure of
the Republican convention to name
either as president or vice president
some one around whom the progres
sives could rally is inevitable.
Four years the women of this
state gave the electoral vote to Wil
son. This year women seem to have
made themselves vocal only with re
spect to Herbert Hoover and now
that he is eliminated in the presi
dential contest the feminine section
of the electorate has no definite ob
jective. Senator Harding is being
represented as a good citizen, a sim
ple American, born on the farm and
a self-made man. If his managers
are skillful in their approach to
states like this, they will win votes
for Harding.
For, broadly speaking, the Repub
licans here would have preferred
Governor Lowden or Leonard Wood.
Indeed, there was a substantial con
fidence felt in the capacity of the
Illinois governor.-But Harding is all
new to the voters. The people are
favorably inclined, however. They
want to vote against the mistakes
of the Wilson administration, but
mostly they want an executive In
whom they can have absolute confi
dence. If the campaign managers
can instill such confidence with re
spect to the Harding personality,
the reSult, even at this early date, is
not difficult to conjecture.
McAdoo Strong with Democrats
But on the Democratic side there
s a pronounced leaning toward Mc-
Adoo and. as one Republican ol
prominence expressed it, the nomi
nation of McAdoo would give the
Democrats a fighting chance here
abouts. He was basing his assertion
on the strength hold -which McAdoo
has upon the railroad brotherhoods
and organized labor and their fami
lies.
Governor Cox has been very little
kno-wn out here, but since the news
papers have been telling how he car
ried Ohio three times during the
same period that Harding served,
the people are beginning to wonder
if the Democrats, too, are going to
nominate a man from Ohio.
Curiously enough, howevrfh, there
is a vital interest in whether or not
Cox and McAdoo are dry on the
liquor question. McAdoo has 'the in
dorsement of the Anti-Saloon league,
while Cox is believed by. local Demo
crats to have moist leanings. So
far as this state is concerned, the
drys -would have a better chance.
The people of Washington are
tired of the liquor question, but wrhat
they are mostly tired of is the liquor
question in politics. Any Democratic
candidate need not apply for votes
in the state of Washington on the
basis of wetness alone. He had bet
ter count’ on some of the populous
eastern states where the advantages
of prohibition still are imaginary.
Bryan and the Tarmer
Another thing is that William Jen
nings Bryan is looked upon by the
farmer as a teacher of agrarian gos
pel, and this is tha country where
he is by no means held in such light
esteem as in certain parts of the
east.
To be sure this is an entirely dif
ferent part of the world from ?4ew
fork, New Jersey and
For instance, while Republicans dis
like the Wilson administration as a
natte(- of/principle, they don’t dis
ike with the bitterness of depth of
feeling that the average Republican
in the east releases when engaged
in political conversations. -
Perhaps it is distance, but the
itate of Washington—or at least this
md of it —isn’t afraid that the
league of Nations or the pending
peace treaty will work the harm
;hat Senator Johnson say's it will
Sven the Republican newspapers in
;his section are willing to take a
tha’ice oh the treaty of Versailles 1
ind the league with reservations
Chpy think it better than nothing
ma if there is any concrete disap
>ointment about the Republican con
tention. it is about the platform
•ather than the candidate.
“Pussy-Tooted” on League Plank
A straight out-and-out declaration
ibout the peace treaty with reserva
ions would have been very welcome
lereabouts and folks now are inclin
d to look upon the plank about the
league of Nations as “a superb
ilece of pussy-footing,” as one Re
lublican expressed it
Jt is pretty early yet and such dis
.ppointment as prevails may disap
lisappear but the main things for
. party and a candidate to do to get
he votes in the state of Washing
on is to inspire confidence.
This is the task that Senator Har
ling and his campaign managers
lave before them. And there are a
;ood many progressives who will
tave to be coddled if they are to em
irace heartily the platform and can
lidate by the time November comes
round.
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WASHINGTON - - Miss Dora
Palkin, at the age of 24, is the
youngest woman 1g be admitted
to practice before the United
States supreme court. During the
war Miss Palkin was a member
of the Loyal Advisory board
which rendered advice to draft
ed men.
DETROIT WITH
993,739 COUNT
IS FOURTH CITY
WASHINGTON, June 18.—Detroit,
with a numerical increase and rate
of growth larger than Chicago’s and
second only to New York’s during
the last ten years, is now fourth
largest city of the country, displac
ing St. Louis and outranking Bos
ton, Cleveland, Baltimore and Pitts
burg, all of which were larger than
the Michigan city ten years ago. De
troit’s 1920 population, announced
today by the census bureau, is 993,-
739, an increase of 527,973, or 113.4
per cent.
Automobiles are more popular than
the movies it may he observed. The
increase for Los Angeles was 80.3
'per cent, compared with the increase
of 113.4 per cent for Detroit.
Cleveland has increased 42.1 per
cent with 236,173 more inhabitants
this year than in 1910. The popula
tion then was 560,663. This increase
places Cleveland third in the order
of gr.owth.
The others are Detroit, 113.4 per
cent; Los Angeles, 80.3 per cent;
Cleveland, 42.1 per cent; Baltimore,
31.4; Chicago, 23.6; Milwaukee. 22.3;
San Francisco, 21.9; Buffalo, 19.4:
New York, 17.9; St. Louis, 12.5; Cin
cinnati, 10.3; Pittsburg, 10.2.
With announcement of the popula
tions of Cleveland and etroit the
definite ranking of the country’s
eighteen largest cities has been es
tablished. New York and Chicago
remain first and second largest cit
ies, respectively. Philadelphia is the
only one of the eighteen whose 1920
population has not been announced,
but figures for the Pennsylvania city
are not expected to remove it from
third place. Detroit has gone into
fourth place and Cleveland into fifth
position, forcing St. Louis into sixth,
Boston into Seventh, Baltimore into
eighth and Pittsburg into ninth posi
tions.
Los Angeles advanced from seven
teenth rank to tenth and displaced
Buffalo, as ■well as attaining the
honor of being the largest city west
of St. Louis. San Francisco retain
ed eleventh place and Buffalo dropped
from tenth to twelfth, while Mil
waukee was forced into thirteenth.
Washington moved from sixteenth
to fourteenth position, displacing
Newark, which dropped into fif
teenth. Cincinnati, thirteenth larg
est city in 1910, now ranks as six
teenth, having been passed by both
Washington and Newark.
New Orleans, through the advance
of Los Angeles and Washington, was
forced from fifteenth to seventeenth
’place, while Minneapolis retained its
rank as eighteenth largest city.
The population of Lynchburg, Va.,
is given at 29,956, increase 462, or 1.6
' per cent.
Blairsville Man,
Sentenced to Hang,
Granted New Trial
i Ed Butt, convicted of murder and
I sentenced to hang for the killing of
I Bass Petty, in the town of Blairs
! ville, county site of Union county,
was granted a new trial by the state
supreme court in a decision render
ed Friday.
Butt and Petty got, intd an argu
ment about some hogs, arid Butt
shot and killed Petty. At the trial
of his case he was represented by
Attorneys William Butt, Thomas S.
Candler, Tohn M. Johnson, Garland
M. Jones and B. P. Gaillard, Jr. The
prosecutors were Attorneys J. G.
lins and Pat Haralson.
Judge J. B. Jones, the trial judge,
overruled a motion for a new trial,
and the case was taken up on a bill
of exceptions. The supreme court
reverses the judgment on the
grounds (1) that Judge Jones should
have charged the jury on manslaugh
ter. and (2) that he should have
charged on the laffr relating to mutual
combat.
The case attracted much atention
in northeast Georgia by reason of
the prominence of the parties in
■volved.
HOOVER ANNOUNCES
HE WILL SUPPORT
■ REPUBLICAN TICKET
In Statement Following
Breakfast With Harding
He Terms Most of Plat
forpi Progressive
WASHINGTON, June 18.—Herbert
Hoover today announce!! formally
that he will support the ticket nom
inated jy the Republican national
convention a’. Chicago.
In a letter to friends made public
after breakfast with Senator Hard
ing, the Republican presidential
nominee, Mr. Hoover characterized
the greater part of the platform
adopted at Chicago as “constructive
and progressive."
The announcement definitely clear
ed the doubt surrounding Mr. Hoov
er’s attitude as the result of the
Chicago He said that
he had received many hundreds of
inquiries from friends as to his
course.
Mr. Hoover reiterated previous
statements of Senator Harding that
Mr. Harding would issue no state
ment of policies until after the Dem
ocratic convention and then only
after consultation with all sides.
*‘l need not reiterate my convic
tion that the constructive ability so
critically needed for the vigorous
business reorganization of the fed
eral government and to meet the
many economic issues before us lies
in the Republican party,” Mr. Hoover
declared, in the conclusion of his
statement.
Mr. Hoover’s letter indorsed the
Republican platform except in some
minor particulars. Coming on the
heels of President Wilson’s condem
nation of that document, the letter
was regarded here as making further
consideration of Hoover as a Dem
ocratic presidential possibility out of
the question. He had been mention
ed by Democratic leaders now at
French Lick Springs.
Mr. Hoover, also declared against !
a third party, which, it is under
stood, many elements dissatisfied
with both old parties, wanted him to
lead.
Hoover’s Letter
In response to inquiries, Mr. Hoov
er said in a letter which has been
sent to the questioners:
‘‘l beg to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter. I have received many
hundred other communications from
friends advising various courses
with respect to the situation that
eventuated in Chicago, for undoubted
ly many of the independent and pro
gressive Republicans like myself are
greatly disappointed over some ten
dencies that were apparent at Chi
cago. The Chicago platform is not
radical; the greater part of it is con
structive and progressive; nothing
prevents the compromise planks on
labor, the league, etc., from being
given a forward looking interpreta
tion; some things, including a reor
ganization of our election expendi
tures and the primaries, are not ade
quately dealt with.
“In these times when the great
problems and issues created by the
war are new and so complex, we
must expect a wide divergence of
view among the members of the
party as to the methods by which
they are to be met. It follows,
therefore, that if there was to have
been unity in the convention, there
had to be a large measure of com
promise. The compromises on the
platform and the candidate are proof
that we have not arrived at an era
of new political arid social tenden
cies—and for this same reason the
same divergent groups and the same
attitude of compromise will be found
In the Democratc convention.
Party Splits
“Nothing could be more disastrous
than the development of several
party organizations representing the.
complexion of every group in the
country. With the legislative and
executive functions more widely sep
arated than in any other democracy,
the whole process of constructive
government will come to an end if
we have more than two dominant
parties. If we should come to this
position there will be no possibility
of the American people securing an
expression of the will of the ma
jority and we shall be entirely ruled
by log-rolling minorities or- sterile
political coalitions.”
‘‘l am convinced that those of us—
and I believe they are the majority
of the party—who hold more definite
views, could not, even were we so in
clined, successfully effect the con
summation of such views outside the
party, and that our duty is to en
deavor to bring them to realization
within the party organization itself
as the issues on which they bear
arise. The tendencies of the party
will gain tfieir meaning only from
actual administration.
”1 am convinced that unity of ac
tion among the liberal thinkers of the
party, especially if they exert them
selves in the curent of congressional
elections, will insure the country
against legislative reaction.
Should Support Party
“If the Republican party is not to
be irrevocably split I cannot conceive
that Senator Harding will for one I
moment submit the administrative
side of the government to the domi
nation of any group or coterie.
Furthermore, we have the possibility
of having measures and policies de
termined by full cabinet responsibil
ity, and of having co-operation re
stored with the legislative side of the
government. I need not reiterate
my conviction that the constructive
ability so critically needed for the 1
vigorous business reorganization of
the federal government and to meet
the many economic issues before us
lies in the Republican party.
“For all these reasons, I believe
that those of us who look upon party
organization not from the point of
view of partisanship, but Solely from
the point of view of its usefulness as
an agency of maximum service to
the country, should support the Re
publican party at the polls.” '
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1920.
FELIX JACKSON, , well
known Gainesville banker,
who is bein” urged to enter
the race for governor of Geor
gia.
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TWO WITNESSES
TO BE DETAINED
IN ELWELL CASE
NEW YORK. June 18.—The first
real legal detention in the & mys
terious case ors the murder of
Joseph B. Elwell, wealthy sports
man and whist expert who was shot
to death in his home here last Fri
day, was forecast today.
Assistant District Attorney Joyce,
in charge of the investigation at El
well’s home, issued the following
statement:
“Edward Rhodes, chauffeur for Mr.
Elwell, and Marie Larsen, house
keeper, will be taken to the court
of general sessions, where we will
ask that they be detained formally
as material witnesses.”
Detectives were particularly in
terested in revelations expected from
rMs. Larsen, and the owner of the
pink silk lingerie found in the
Elwell house, who were to face each
other and answer questions regard
ing the hiding of these articles the
morning Mr. Elwell was killed.
Mrs. Larsen already has revealed
the identity of the woman who is
said to be the owner of the lingerie
and who is reported to have rushed
into Mr. Elwell’s home the morn
ing of the murder in an effort to
obtain her belongings. Her name
has not been made public.
Efforts will also be made today
to ascertain definitely whether Mr.
Elwell went to bed the morning he
was shot or whether his house
keeper hurriedly made up the bed
after she found hjm in a dying con
dition. Throughout the investiga
tion it has ben assumed that Mr.
Elwell had not gone to bed, but in
view of certain retractions and cor
rections made in the testimony of
Mrs. Larsen, she will be questioned
definitely on this point.
District Attorney Swann said he
had not learned anything to warrant
suspicion that either of these wom
en was at all implicated in the mur
der. but that he thought they had
perhaps concealed evidence that
might tend to reveal the person or
persons responsible.
Mystery Woman Identified
“The mystery woman” who figured
prominently in the life of Joseph
Bowne Elwell, whist wizard, was
known as “Miss Wilson."
This revealed today by Mrs. Marie
Larsen, housekeeper for the murder
ed man. during an examination at the
office of District Attorney Edward
Swann.
Was “Miss? Wilson”
“I knew the girl as ‘Mis Wilson,’”
Mrs. Larsen said during an examina
tion in the presence of newspaper
men. “I have later found that was
not her true name.”
At this point Mr. Swann, who pos
sesses the real name of the woman,
said:
“To \protect the honor of woman
hood, we have decided to withhold
the girl’s real name for the present
and it will not be made public now.”
“Miss Wilson” had been in El
well’s company often recently.
“Miss Wilson” was at the Elwell
house on Friday, after Elwell’s mur
der had been discovered, Mrs. Larsen
said.
She denied that she had hidden the
revolver with which Elwell was shot.
She never knew of anyone making
threats against her employer. slus
said.
As far as Mrs. Larsen knew, she
and Elwell possessed the only keys
to the house.
Three Dead, Two Dying
As Result of Wreck
Near Cartersville
CARTERSVILLE, Ga„ June 18.-
In a head-on collision between a
switch engine and a work train one
mile south of here at 1 o'clock to
day, three persons were killed out
right and two others are dying.
Gompers Is Re-elected
President of A. F. L.
MONTREAL. June 18. —Samuel
Gompers was elected unanimously
president of the American Federation
of Labor at the convention here to
day.
Capt. Conrad a Suicide
GENEVA, June 18.—Captain Con
rad, an Australian naval officer in
the submarine flotilla at Trieste dur
ing the war apd reported to be a
relative of the Austrian fiekTrnarshal
of the same name, committed sui
cide yesterday on Lake .Constance.
It is said his action was due to his I
rejection by a Viennese actress. Cap- I
tain Conrad hired a motorboat and ,
when half a mile off shore shpt and
killed himself.
First Cotton Blooms
SYCAMORE, Ga._ June 18.—The
first cotton blooms of the season are
being- shown on the streets, and it is
hoped that the boll weevil will not
attack the early crop. j
OVERWORK ML
TO 0. W.
NOTEO FINANCIER
Had Been 111 for Some Time,
Once Was Partner of J.
Pierpont Morgan—Sketch
of Life
NEW YORK, June 18.—George W.
Perkins, financier, died this morning
in the Stamford Hall sanitarium,
Stamford, Conn.
It became known June 11 that Mr.
Perkins had suffered a nervous
breakdown but mefhbers of his fam
ily did not intimate at that time his
life was in ianger.
Mr. Perkins was taken to Stam
<o<d about ten days ago when his
son, George W. Perkins, Jr., an
nounced tire change was made to af
ford his father a complete rest and
seclusion from his friends who
sought his counsels during the polit
ical campaign preceding the Chicago
convention.
The affection to which Mr. Perkins
succumbed is believed to have been
the result of influenza and pneumo
nia contracted while serving with
the Y. M. C. A. in France during
the war.
A statement by the dead finan
cier’s phyisicans, given out at Mr
Perkins’ office, gave the time of hi
death at 2:15 this morning. Death
lesulted from an attack of “acute
inflammation of the brain, the re
sult of complete nervous exhaustion
due to intense and continuous over
work,” the announcement said.
Liberal Business Policy
i George Walbridge Perkins, for ten
years a member of the firm of J. P.
oMrgan & Co., was reputed to have
first suggested to and persuaded “big
business” to adopt profit-sharing, in
surance, service bonuses, sick bene
fits and old-age pensions.
It was Perkins who was also said
to have inaugurated the plan which
permitted employes of. the United
States Steel corporation and the In
ternational Harvester company, in
both of which he was at one time an
executive, to purchase stock on in
stallments and at less tlwn market
value on the assumption that “indus
trial justice is the most profitable of
investments, that justice promotes
peace, peace promotes prosperity and
that the workmen’s prospertiy is nec
essary to the prospertiy of the busi
ness man.”
Mr. Perkins was born in Chicago,
January 31, 1862, a descendant of
Jacob Perkins, an English ancestor
who settled in Boston in 1631. His
father, George W. Perkins, long en
gaged in the shipping industry at
Buffalo, was later a pioneer in the
life insurance field. The son entered
the insurance business in Chicago
when fifteen as a clerk, became a
bookkeeper, an agent and subsequent
ly manager of a Cleveland office. He
went to Denver and in 1892 was made
vice president of the New York Life
Insurance company. His achieve
ments attracted the attention of the
elder Morgan and in 1900 he was in
vited to become a member of the
Wall street firm. In this capactiy he
negotiated a number of big foreign
loans. He remained with J. P. Mor
gan & Co. until 1910, meanwhile be
coming a director of numerous large
corporations including the steel and
harvester companies, a number of
railroads and the International Mer
cantile Marine company.
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LONDON —Can you picture Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby
togging out like this and going over to the senate to perform? This
is Lord Curzon Britain's foreign secretary and leader of the House
of Lords, all dressed up in his lordly trappings.
DRIVE IS ORDERED
ON BITUMINOUS
COAL PROFITEERS
WASHINGTON. June 18.—A drive
on profiteers in bituminous qoal was
ordered Thursday by Attorney Gen
eral Palmer.
All federal district attorneys were
ordered to give special attention to
charges of such profiteering and to
seek indictment wher investigation
warranted.
“The department of justice,” said
Mr- Palmer's instructions, “is receiv
ing a number of letters in which com
plaint is made that bituminous coal
prices at the mines now range from
?7 to sll a ton, with a further in
crease imminent. 1 The writers say
that operators are attributing the
advanced prices to car shortage and
export demand, emphasis being
placed upon the export demand.
“Production cost figures gathered
by the federal trade commission
1,589 bituminous coal operators in the
principal production regions mining
roughly about 60 per cent of the
annual output, show that during Jan
uary, 1920, their costs per ton aver
aged $2.32 at the mines. Since then
there has been an increase of 27
per cent in the cost of labor, en
hancing the production cost to $2.79
per ton. The accuracy of these fig
ures is borne out by information in
letteis coming to the department
from purchasers of poal, from which
it appears that prices in May did not
greatly exceed those furnished to the
federal trade commission for Janu
ary.
“This situation demands the
prompt attention of all United States
attorneys. Please give specal at
tention to the matter and seek in
d:c:.n snts where inv*s;tg it‘.» i dis
close.'-' that an unreasonable profit has
been taken, advising the department
of the action taken.”
EARLY SOLUTION
OF MAIL ROBBERY
HERE EXPECTED
An early solution of the mystery
surrounding the robbery of about
§61,000 worth of Liberty Eonds from
a United States mail truck in At
lanta Tuesday night was apparently
foreshadowed Thursday, when post
office inspectors rounded up and rig
orously examined three men whose
supposed connection with the Case
was not divulged.
One of the three is J. D. Smith,
of 31 South Gordon street, arrested
Wednesday by city detect Wes while
in swimming at Piedmont park, and
now is in the Fulton county Tower
in default of a $3,000 bond assessed
Thursday afternoon by City Recorder
Johnson under the charge of automo
bile theft. The names of the other
two have not been given out, but the
inspectors prosecuting the investiga
tion do not deny that they were ex
amined.
Smith is alleged to have joined in
stealing a car owned by V. J. Meigs,
of 9,1 Crumley street. The machine
is said to have been found in Dah
lonega Wednesday by City Detec
tives Malcolm and Meek after it had
been sold there. Smith strenuously
denies any knowledge whatever con
cerning the bond robbery. He ad
mitted that he had been taken
to the federal building and ques
tioned by postoffice inspectors,
but declared that <hey gbt no infor
mation from him. He said the in
spection department is trying to
fasten the mail theft on him, al
though he is innocent.
Ever since a two-gun highwayman
held up the truck at Forsyth and
Hunter streets, overawed John T.
Widener, registry transfer clerk, and
J. E. Craig, negro driver, and looted
the registered mail pouch on a coun
try road beyond West View ceme
tery, the inspection department has
expressed satisfaction with the way
their case was progressing and has
indicated that important develop
ments might be expected almost
hourly. The entire staff of inspec
tors, aided by officials of other post
office departments and city detec
tives, has been giving practically its
entire time to the case.
The investigation has apparently
substantiated the report of the postal
employes on the truck concerning the
manner in which the hold-up was
j staged.
Cholera Serum
Is Money Saver
' AMERICUS, Ga.. June 18.—One
i hundred thousand dollars is annually
I added to the value of Sumter coun-
I ty’s hog crop through the use of SSOO
I worth of hog cholera serum monthly
I in the territory embraced in Chatta-
I hoochee, Marion, Macon, Stewart.
Schley and Webster counties. Dr. H.
I Wise, district veterinarian, who
makes his headquarters in Americus,
has just received a large shipment
of the serum, and will keep a quan
tity of this as a reserve supply
throughout the summer months. No
charge for this serum is made to
farmers, except exact cost. Previous
to the introduction and use of this
serum .only about $25,000 worth of
hogs were sold here annually.
George O. Marshall, county farm
demonstration agent, now states i
$160,000 worth of swine were shipped ;
out o fthe county last year, in addi
tion to about $25,000 bought by lo
cal butchers. Os the hogs shipped,
SBO,OOO worth were sold in co-opera
tive sales; $30,000 worth were sold
through other agencies for packing
house purposes, and $50,000 worth
; were sold either as foundation herds
or for breeding purposes.
S6OO Reward Offered
For Brutal Highwaymen
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS. Mo.,
June 18. —A reward of S6OO raised by
public subscription, was offered to
day for the two men who robbed
George M. Underwood, of Carrollton.
Mo., Wednesday night, and bound
him to a railroad track with the re
sult that his left arm and foot were
cut off. Underwood will recover,
physicians say, although he received
a serious shock partly extricating
himself from his barbed wire bonds
as a passenger train approached.
Officers working on the case said
they were not inclined to accept the
.single robbery motive ftrofered by
Underwood as the amount involved
was only S7O. In addition to county
officers a private detective agency
has been employed and operatives
for insurance companies in which
Underwood holds policies also are
said to be working to solve the mys- I
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ID ED ID PEOPLE
ON im ISSUE
President Takes Offensive in
Interview Denouncing G.
0. P. Platform Favors
No Candidate at Frisco
WASHINGTON. June 18.—Presi
dent Wilson’s Challenge to submit
the peace treaty to a referendum of
the American people was accepted
today by Senator Harding, the Re
publican presidential candidate.
“I am sure,” said Senator Hard
ing, "the Republican party will glad
ly welcome a referendum on the
question of the foreign relationship
of this republic and the Republican
attitude of preserved nationality
will be overwhelmingly indorsed.”
Senator Harding’s statement was
in reply to the interview with Pres
ident Wilson, published today, in
which the president discussed the
League of Nations issue and the Re
publican platform.
Herbert Hoover, whose name was „
voted on to the last at the Republi
can convention, had breakfast today
with Senator Harding, at the sena
tor’s invitation.
Another visitor today was George
Clark, of Canton, 0., chairman of
the Ohio state Republican advisory
committee, who came to Washington
to lay before Senator Harding plans
for the Ohio c|mpaign.\ Republicans
in that state, he declared, were ready
to go ahead as soon as the Repub
lican nominee had indorsed the plans.
Wilson Takes Offensive
President Wilson has taken the of
fensive for his policies at the start of
the presidential campaign, cabinet
officers nad administration senators
said here today.
In Mr. Wilson’s interview with the
New York World they said he has
not only pointed out the course he
believes the Democrats should fol
low in the presidential campaign,
but he has thrown down the gage to
his opponents in 4 .his own party.
Should this £age be taken up
should the Demociats at San Fran
cisco “pussyfoot" on the league—tho
president has left hanging over them
the possibility of his candidacy for N
a third term. Democrats as well as
Republicans here noted that the
president had not repudiated -such a
possibility. Republicans were ready
to comment oh it. Democrats were
not.
The gage to the president’s dem
ocratic opponents, his supporters
said, was contained in the utterance
that he “was as confident today as
I was when I returned from Paris
finally in July last that the peopls
of not only America but of the en
tire world are in favor of the League
of Nations,” and also when he de
clared that the American people want
a referendum the league issue
“above anything <else a political party
now may provide.”
In Mr. Wilson’s official family
these utterances were interpreted as
meaning that he believes the Repub
lican party cannot escape the league
issue and tl\at the Democratic party
will havd failed the country if it
does not take a positive stand for
the league. ’
When he declared the “processes
by which the Chicago platform was
accomplished seemed to me to have
been essentially Prussian in inspir
ation and method” and later refus
ed to comment on the Republican
candidates, he outlined the Demo
cratic campaign, according to ad
ministration views. This course is
an action on the Republican platform
with the incidental statement that
the nominees fit the platform.
There was also rejoicing among
Democrats that Mr. Wilson had re
frained from indicating a choice for
any Democratic presidential aspir
ant. Secretary Daniels was the first
cabinet officer to follow the presi
dent’s interview with a statement of
the same trend.
Comment on Interview
“I think the senate’s failure to
ratify the treaty is the tragedy 6t'
the century,” Secretary Daniels said.
‘‘The unrest throughout the world is
chiefly due to that failure. The
American people by an overwhelm
ing majority showed that they wish
ed the treaty ratified.” i
Representative Mondell, Republi
can leader of the house, declared the
president’s interview indicated he
was thinking of a third term.
‘‘The interview simply illustrates
that the president still adheres to
his idols,” Mr. Mondell said. “This
would convey the impression that he
would be a candidate for a third
term. He says he’s the issue. If
lie’s the issue he ought to be the
candidate.”
Mr. Mondell called attention to the
president’s support of the Lever act
and said no one had attempted to re
peal it or suggested its repeal.
Senator King, Utah, • Democrat,
said President Wilson’s interview,
•‘points the way v> , 'y clearly” for
the action of the Democrats at San
Francisco.
“The Republican platform inevita
bly made the issue when it decided
against any League of Nations,” Sen
ator King said. "The platform was
a negation of moral fodrees which
must operate among civilized na
tions. It was likewise reactionary
as to Democratic policy. President
Wilson recognized this and with re
markable precision placed his finger
on the issues that made.
The American people do believe in
a concert of leading nations of the
world. They believe in a League of
Nations and they believe in this
league with some reservations which
will not destroy its effectiveness.
President Wilson, I know is leaving
the door open for reservations. He
approves Hitchcock’s and the Taft
reservations. His interview points
the way very clearly for action of
of the Democrats at San Francisco
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