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VOL. XXII. NO. 92.
DEMOCRATS UNCERTAIN OVER PROGRAM OF PARTY
Group, Not Individual, Controlled Republicans
CREIHTFORVICTOIIY
OF HARDING GIVEN
TO pot™
State of Washington Now
Appears to Be in Repub
lican Column, Despite
Friendship for Wood
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
TACOMA, Wash., June 21. —Poor
Warren Harding. Aside from the
Mual campaign yarns to which a
presidential nominee is compelled to
feten. he must now submit for the
Ipst of his life to inside stories ga
pre of how he was nominated at
Chicago.
I Even to this distance, strange tales
■eve been wafted telling vividly the
Kay the presidential nomination was
■estowed on the Ohio senator. Every
body is given credit for having had
■te lucky thought sometime between
laidnight and the sunrise hours of
Kune 12, which was the day on which
Mie Republican convention chose its
landidates.
I For seven years Woodrow Wilson
■ae been told how he was nominated
Bt the famous Baltimore convention
■i 1912. And it is recorded to this
Kass in the unwritten archives of the
democratic party that Roger Sulli-
Ban turned the trick; that Bryan did
■ ; that Colonel Harvey did it; that
MTtßiam McCombs did it; that Mitch-
Bn Palmer did it. But the fact is no
Bne man nominated Wilson and no
Bne man nominated Harding.
■ No single boss nor leader control-
Kd the Republican national conven
tion at Chicago. A group of men
Kifluenced it. Somebody has to do
Kiat with an unwieldly body of dele
gates. But the convention was a
Krntest betwen two sets of men—
Bowden and Wood managers—who
K*ied to manipulate the delegations
Knd there brought cn the deadlock
Khich yielded Harding the nomina-
Hon.
I| Colonel Harvey Praised
B But to take up seriatim the men
■ho are being credited with having
Bon the nomination for Harding.
Bolonel Harvey, editor extraordinary,
B given generous praise for his part.
BL is tru the conference was held In
■is room but in the same suite was
Khomas W. Lamont, of Pierpont Mor-
Han & Co., and it is a fact that neither
Holonel Harvey nor Mr. Lamont con-
Holled any delegates at Chicago; but
■ere merely interested onlookers; if
■deed they were able now and then
■ make a suggestion to their numer
■is friends who did control dele
■rtes.
■ Mr. Lamont by the way, is a per-
friend of President Wilson and
■me back on the steamer George
Washington with him from the Paris
conferehce. Mr. Lamont serv-
■ on the financial section of the
■nerican peace mission and has been
■ China and Japan helping to re
habilitate the finances of the far
■st, so his dropping in at the Chi-,
■.go convention were merely inci-
■ And he probably had no desire to
■fluence the Republican convention
■en when he did find commodious
Blatters w.th Colonel Har<e/ at a
Bmptuous Chicago hostelry.
■ Now Colonel Harvey hag been a
■we>r in Republican councils but to
Jpm inate him Republican boss is a
Bittle exaggerated. The Repub
■»n convention at Chicago was
or unbossed, according as
Me regards the half dozen or more |
who control the big delega-
Bons in any convention, be it Re-
or Democrats. Such a group
Bill always exist so long as Penn
sylvania. has seventy-six votes, New
eighty-eight and so on. Numeri
cally the big delegations are leaders
they control nominations when
situation becomes deadlocked.
■fc Where Credit Goes
for the nomination of Hard
■g must repose on these men:
Penrose, of Pennsylvania,
his representative at Chicago,
T. King, of Connecticutt;
B. Warren, national commit
■man from . Michigan; Senator
of New York; Nicholas
Butler, and State Senator
of New York; Senator Jim
of Indiana; Senator Lodge,
B| Massachusetts, and former Senator
Crane, of the same state,
Tobias Hert, of Kentucky.
are others—some 700 dele
—who played their part affirm-
too, but there is another list.
of Senator Hiram Johnson
Senator Borah, who put the veto
KJ Wood and Lowden by their fuss
campaign expenditures. Finally,
B 9 Senator Poindexter, of Washing-
Governor Sproul, of Pennsyl-
Frank Willis and Myron Her
■«, of Ohio, and Governor Allen,
KB Kansas—all of whom were per-
to hold their delegations in-
so that Leonard Wood would
get their votes in a pinch—to
men must some credit be given
creating the situation that gave
to the Harding candidacy.
■Newspapers will contend that the
was bossed and unbossed.
there were and negotiations
There always are in con-
Any such gathering with
a steering committee would nev
EB nominate anybody. But erroneous
tinned on Page 6. Column 3)
3 ADMIT PLANNING
TO HOLD UP TRUCK,
OFFICERS ASSERT
The three men held under sus
picion of complicity in the robbery
of $61,000 worth of bonds from a
United States mail truck in Atlanta
last Tuesday night all have admitted
planning to stage the hold-up but
deny that they carried out the
project, officials of the postoffice in
spection department state. Inspec
tors and city detectives were contin
uing their efforts Saturday to estab
lish the identity of the two-gun high
wayman who engineered the theft
and important developments were ex
pected at any hour.
Os the three suspects, two are one-,
armed —Henry Bone, former soldier
and son of an Atlanta policeman, and
C. L. Batchelor, convicted previously
as a yeggman. The third, J. D.
Smith, held under $3,000 bond on
state charge of larceny of an auto
mobile, also has figured in local po
lice records, it is stated. Bone was
arraigned Friday afternoon before
United States Commissioner Colquitt
Carter on the charge of conspiracy to
defraud the government and was re
leased in custody of his father. Pa
trolman William H. Bone, pending
a commitment trial. A complaint
charging the same offense was sworn
out against Batchelor Saturday and
he will be arraigned later. He and
Smith are in the Fulton county
Tower.
Examination of the three men, ac
cording to the inspection department,
brought admissions from all that on
the Saturday night preceding the
hold-up they had sat on the curb at
the corner of Forsyth and Hunter
streets and discussed waylaying a
postoffice truck. The hitch came when
the one-armed men declared they
could not handle the job, while Smith
refused to be “the fall guy,” the in
spectors say. The robbery folowed
on Tuesday night. A man wtih two
revolvers boarded the truck at the
corner mentioned, forced John T.
Widener, registry transfer clerk, and
J. E. Craig, negro chauffeur, to drive
to a lonely \road beyond West View
cemetery, and left them bound hand
and foot after looting all registered
mail in the truck.
Bone is twenty-four years old and
lives at 361 Capitol avenue. He lost
his left arm and suffered permanent
injuries that make him- a virtual
cripple when he was almost electro
cuted in an accident some months
ago. Batchelor is a young man also
and lives with his family at 287
Bellwood avenue. He recently served
a two-year sentence in the Atlanta
federal prison for “cracking” the
postoffice safe at Forsyth, Ga„ ac
cording to the inspection department.
They were arrested Thursday. Smith
lives at 31 South Gordon street. He
was arrested Wednesday on the
charge that he had helped steal an
automobile in Atlanta, selling it at
Dahlonega.
The discovery of about fifty Lib
erty bonds Friday afternoon in an
empty barn at the rear of 234 Wood
ward avenue for a time led the in
spection department to believe that
part of the loot stolen by the truck
highwayman had been recovered.
Two small boys at play accidentally
found the certificates in the loft
of the barn, wrapped in a newspaper.
An inspector visited the scene and
brought back the securities which
soon were found to be part of an
other theft.
The certificates represented $3,600
worth of Liberty bonds which had
been lost by a letter carrier on May
21, along with about $15,000 worth
of stock certificates of the Coca-Cola
company and other corporations.
They had reached Atlanta in four
teen pieces of registered mail ad
dressed to the Trust Company of
Georgia by various banks. The ne
gro carrier reported that he had lost
them while on his route. This loss
had not been made public. of
the stock certificates were found
with the Liberty bonds.
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EXPRESS COMPANY’S
PLEA FDR INCREASED
RATES BEING HEARD
Interstate Commerce Com
mission Examiner Here.
Shippers Cross-Question
Attorney for Petitioners
A two days’ hearing by Fred Bar
-clay, examiner for the interstate com
merce commission, began Monday
morning at 10 o’clock in the federal
courtroom on a petition by the Amer
ican Railway Express company for
an increase of interstate rates and a
general reclassification of commodi
ties.
In a general way the petition asks
for an increase of 33 1-3 per cent in
terminal charges and an increase of
20 per cent in haulage charges over
the rate fixed in 1914 by the com
mission, amounting to an average in
crease of 25.32 per cent, figured on a
basis of the calendar year 1919.
The express company was repre
sented by T. B. Harrison, general
counsel; R. C. Alston, associate gen
eral counsel; E. M. Williams, vloe
president: J. B. Hockaday, general
manager; F. S. Holbrook, traffic man
ager, and M. D. Smith, superinten
dent.
For the shippers Edgar Watkins
represented the Southern Wholesale
Grocers’ association, while Harry T.
Moore and W. N. McGhee represented
the Atlanta Freight Bureau. R. Hud
son Burr, chairman of the Florida
railroad commission, and J. H. Bench,
its rate expert, also were present.
To Conclude In Washington
Mr. Barclay has conducted hear
ings in New York, Chicago, Spokane,
San Francisco and Houston. After
the meeting here he will return to
Washington, where a final meeting
will begin June 28. Mr. Moore an
.nounced that the Atlanta Freight
Bureau and the Southern Traffic
League would present their case at
the Washington hearing, as they had
not had time to prepare properly for
the Atlanta hearing.
The morning session was occupied
principally by the presentation by
Mr. Harrison of the case for the Ex
press company, and his explanation
of a book of exhibits, consisting of
elaborate statitistics compiled to
show the progressive losses of the
American Railway press company
and its associated companies since
1911. The net operating income in
1911 was shown by exhibit one to
have been $8,445,116.52, while for the
calendar year of 1919 the net deficit
was shown of $25,105,968.
Mr. Harrison gave a brief histohy
of the regulation of rates by the In
teestate Commerce commission fol
lowing its investigation started in
1911. ;The regulated rates went into
effect February 1, 1914.
"This was a good scheme,” said
Mr. Harrison, “a better scheme than
the express companies had been able
to work out for themselves. But it
did not produce enough revenue to
make the express business self-sus
taining.”
Mr. Harrison showed by exhibit
one that the first year under the
regulated rates the express compa
nies lost $1,094,365.64. Then an in
crease of rates was obtained through
a state-rate plan which, in 1915 and
1916, produced a fair revenue, being
above $8,000,000 in both years. In
1917 the war period began; there
was a great lass of men; a general
abnormal condition obtained. In this
year the express companies failed to
break even by $245,355.20.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1920.
SOME OF THE GEORGIA CONVENTION DELEGATES to the Democratic national conven
tion in San Francisco. Top row, left to right, Charles S. Barrett, of Union City, chairman of the
regular delegation; Thomas W. Hardwick, of Atlanta, and Fred Kelly, of Lawrenceville. Lente
row, R. L. McKinney, of Macon; Arthur Lucas, of Atlanta; Benjamin M. Blackburn, of Atlanta.
Bottom row, H. L. Howard, of Sylvania; Albert. G. Foster, of Madison, and Felix Jackson, or
Gainesville. All are delegates from the state-at-large, except Mr. Jackson, w’ho represents the ninth
congressional district.
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GREECE IS GIVEN
A FREE HAND IN
TURKISH AFFAIRS
BOL'I.OG.XE, June 21.—(8y the
Associated Press.) —Greece was giv
er. a free hand in the military meas
ures in Turkey which were decided
upon at the Hythe conference yes
terday, according to information here
today. The premiers and their ad
visers found these measures were
required immediately because of the
grave situation resulting from Mus
tapha Kemmel’s nationalist forces
reaching the Dardanelles.
French and British troops and the
British fleet will be concentrated for
the defense of Constantinople and
the strri;
The delegates to the Hythe con
ference, it is declared, were of the
opinion that the taking of these
measures would be sufficient to deal
with the situation.
Premiers Lloyd George and Miller
and, "accompanied by Marshal Foch
and Frederico Francois - Marsal,
French minister of finance, arrived
here this morning. In tne party was
Premier Venizelos, of Greece. The
arrival of the two premiers com
pletes the delegations which will par
ticipate in the conversations here to
day and tomorrow, the Italian and
Belgian representatives having arriv
ed during the night.
A brief preliminary conference was
held before luncheon.
M. Venizelos will participate in the
sessions of the conference at which
questions of Turkey and Armenia are
discussed.
Questions relative to reparations
and Russia are expected to be the
two most difficult problems of the
conference, and may prolong the ses
sions to Wednesday or Thursday.
British delegates still maintain a
strong attitude regarding the man
ner in which the allies should deal
with Germany on reparations.
The only clause involved in execu
tion of the treaty of Versailles on
which all the allies come to the con
ference in perfect, agreement is that
relative to the disarmament of Ger
many.
Premier Venizelos will formally of
fer, in the name of Greece, to take
the mandate for Armenia, and he
will participate largely in all other
discussions of Turkish questions.
Count Carlo Sforra, Italian foreign
minister, will ask on behalf of Italy
for twenty per cent of the repara
tions to be paid by Germany.
It was understood the first subject
to be discussed this afternoon would
he reparations on which Premiers
Lloyd George and Millerand. accord
ing to best information, failed to
agree at the Hythe conference Satur
. day.
THIRD PARTY MEN
THINK LA FOLLETTE
WILL HEAD TICKET
CHICAGO, June 21.—Leaders of
progressive organizations will meet
here July 9 to take up the question
of the formation of a third party, it
was announced her© today by Frank
J. Esper, secretary of the National
Labor party.
Representatives will be sent by the
Nonpartisan league, the Triple Al
liance, the Wisconsin Equity league
and Wisconsin Socialists party, said
Esper. National executive officers
of the Committee of Forty-Eight and
the labor party will also attend.
Acceptance of the presidential nom
ination of the third party ticket by
United States Senator Robert M. La-
Follette was now considered likely
by the liberals. They are still wait
ing for Senator LaFollette’s answer
to the delegation which waited on
him early in June to sound him out
on his attitude toward the third
party.
Senator LaFollette was indorsed
Saturday at the state convention of
the Cojmmittee of Forty-Eight in
South Dakota. The Nebraska state
convention of the committee was ex
pected to take similar action tomor
row.
Alleged Auto Thief Is
Slain Trying to Escape
NEW ORLEANS, La., June 21.
Walter B. Daugherty, alleged mem
ber of an international automobile
stealing gang, was shot and killed
early today while attempting to
escape from the police. Policeman
False, who engaged in a pistol duel
with Daugherty, is seriously wound
ed, with a bullet through his abdo
men.
Daugherty is said to be wanted
by Marion. 111., authorities for the
alleged selling of a stolen automobile
in that city.
Daugherty was arrested Saturday
charged with transporting a stolen
automobile from one state to another.
Poles Are Beaten
Back by Russians
LONDON, June 21. —Russian bol
shevik troops have crossed the Dniep
er river in the region of Retchitsa,
and the Poles are being driven back
in the region of Knorsten, according
to a wireless dispatch received here
quoting an official statement issued
at Moscow yesterday. A Polish at
tack southwest of Polotsk has been
repulsed, j.he statement declared.
CIVIL WAR IS
SEEN IN TOWN
OF LONDONDERRY
LONDONDERRY. June 21.—Riot
ing was renewed in this city this
morning and resulted in one person
being mortally wounded and two se
riously hurt. Rifle and revolver fir
ing was almost continuous, and as
the people feared to venture out to
work, business was at a virtual
standstill.
The mob this morning openly fired
on the troops. At 1 o’clock this aft
ernoon the rioting was still in prog
ress.
One of the men wounded in yes
terday’s fighting between unionists
-end nationalists, died today, bring
ing the number of deaths for the
present outbreak of party strife up
to six.
Consular investigation of a report
that Irish police had seized the per
sonal arms of an officer on the Amer
ican ship Milwaukee Bridge, at Dub
lin, has proved the story was not
true. The captain of the ship told
the American consul at Dublin that a
police officer had boarded the vessel
and had asked if any arms other than
those owned by the officers personal
ly were on the ship. He was told
there were not.
The captain’s wordwas accepted,
an.d the officer left without seizing
an y t hing.
Grand Jury Probes
Escape of Bergdoll
PHILADELPHIA, June 21. —A spe
cial grand jury met here today to
determine who was responsible for
the escape of Grover C. Bergdoll,
wealthy convicted draft dodger.
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MISSOURI LANDS
CHARM GEORGIANS
ON WIO FRISCO
Contest Committee Hurries
by Direct Route So as to'
Be on Hand for Hearing 5
Friday Afternoon
BY BOGERS WINTER
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal.)
KANSAS CITY, June 21.—A gov
ernment guarantee of $2.25 per bush
el for wheat has marked this country
with conspicuous evidences of pros
perity on every hand, but one thing
noted by the Georgia delegates on
their all-day ride through the golden
wheat fields of Missouri was the fact
that automobiles are not nearly so
plentiful as in the south. They are
here, of course, but not in such num
bers. The average Georgia town on
a Sunday afternoon Is freckled with
cars when the train goes by. A Mis
souri town is freckled with buggies,
with occasionally an automobile. But
while the Missouri farmers have not
gone in for motor cars on such a
scale as Georgia farmers, they cer
tainly are prosperous. Their bound
less fields of golden grain, their
waving corn, their painted homes
and bulging barns, their stock and
cattle grazing in clover, proclaim
prosperity all the way across the
state.
Sunday morning at St. Louis the
Georgia delegates were joined by the
delegates from Alabama, and their
cars were coupled together on the
Missouri Pacific train. The tw’o
delegations lost no time in getting
acquainted with one another, and the
Georgians did some valuable work
in presenting the case on which they
base their credentials of admission
to the ’Frisco convention.
The Alabama delegates were in
clined to favor McAdoo for the nom
ination. His unexpected withdrawal
from the field has left them unde
cided what candidate to support.
Cox, how’ever, seems a favorite with
most of them. Edward W. Barrett,
publisher of the Birmingham Age-
Herald and national committeeman
from Alabama, has relinquished his
place to his successor, Colonel W. T.
Sanders, who defeated him in the
recent Alabama primary. Mr. Bar
rett is entitled to serve on the na
tional committee until the new com
mittee is elected by the convention,
but -he decided to make the trip a
pleasure trip and let his successor
worry with the politics. Mr. Bar
rett is accompanied by his wife and
children. The Alabama delegates
parted company with the Georgia
delegates at Kansas City and the
two parties went by different routes
to Colorado Springs, where they were
scheduled to meet again on a sight
seeing trip Monday afternoon.
Fine Missouri Lands
Politics was not discussed among
the Georgia delegates on the Sun
day ride. They divided' their time
between the Alabama delegates and
admiration of the magnificent Mis
souri farming country. Even the
south Georgia delegates, who regard
their home as the garden spot of the
world, were compelled to admit that
here was a country which rivals
their own. But while Missouri has
kept pace with progress in an agri
cultural sense, the old Missouri riv
er has ceased to be the highway of
that great stream of paddle-wheel
traffic that used to roll down from
Kansas City and the region beyond.
The Georgia delegates counted one
steamboat, and it was a housebout
named "Champ Clark.” arriving
in Kansas City Sunday afternoon,
the Georgians, were met at the sta
tion by Senator Reed, of Missouri,
who has been elected a district dele
gate to the ’Frico convention. Not
withstanding the action of the Mis
souri state convention, he expects
to be in the national convention.
Go Direct to ’Frisco.
Those members of the Georgia
delegation who will present the case
before the national committee or the
make-up of the temporary roll have
arranged to be diverted at Salt Lake
City and go from there direct
Francisco, while the others continue
on the route through Los Angeles, as
ori-inally planned. Among those to
take the short cut will be William J.
Vereen, Charles S. Barrett, Thomas
W. Hardwick, H. H. Perry, Felix
Jackson, Arthur Lucas, Albert Fos
ter, Benjamin M. Blackburn and The
Journal correspondent. They v. ill r
rive in San Francisco Friday morn
ing.
The national committee will hear
the Georgia contest Friday after
noon.
All members of the party are in
fine health and spirits and are en
joying the trip immensely. Most of
the running has been through fre
quent showers that relieved the heat.
There h not been a mishap, a se
rious delay or a missed connection.
The valiant old Pullmans, though not
built of steel, are holding together
without a cracked seam. The com
missariat gives promise of holding
out to the end of the journey with
perhaps a bit to ;spare.
Scents a copt.
$1.50 A YEAR.
WILSON AND DM
DOMING FIGURES
BEFOBEHWION
Georgia Contest to Be Heard
Friday—Reed to Fight for
Seat —Glass Has Wilspn’s
Platform
McAdoo’s Name May Be
Offered to Convention
KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 21. —
Prospects of William G. Mc-
Adoo being formally placed
in nomination at the Democratic
national convention loomed here
today when it became known
Burris Jenkins, Missouri delegate
originally scheduled to have pre
sented Mr. McAdoo’s name, was
still undecided.
Mr. Jenkins conferred today
with Jouett Shouse, assistant sec
retary of the treasury and a close
friend of Mr. McAdoo.
Mr. Jenkins, who is editor of
the Kansas City Post, following
the conference said a definite
decision will be deferred until he
reaches San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 21.—Just
a week from the opening of their na
tional convention here. Democrats to
day found themselves as puzzled and
bewildered as the Republicans were
at Chicago before their "unbossed’ - '
convention met. The Democrats,
too, are bossless, and as a result,
those of them who are here are mill
ing around seeking the answers to
a number of questions, including:
Will President Wilson ask for the
nomination for a third term?
What is William J. Bryan going t®
do and will he be able to wrest cob
trol of the convention and the party
away from the president?
What had the party better do
about the liquor question?
Why did William G. McAdoo get
out?
There are a lot more questions
some bf the Democrats would like
answered if they could find anyone
who knows the answ r er. They are
chiefly concerned today, however
about just two men—President Wil
| son and Mr. Bryan. As nobody here
i has any idea what either of these
has up his sleeve in the way of con
vention trumps, there is a general
disposition among the managers of
candidates to go pretty slowly un
til the Wilson and Bryan programs
begin to appear. As an astute cam
paign manager put' it today, they
don’t want to have to take back any
thing later that they may say now,
so they are saying nothing about
anything.
San Francisco will take on its
convention clothes this week with
the arrival of state delegations, with
the opening of candidates’ headquar- .
ters and the addition of municipal
decorations to th® already smiling
scene. Up to thl® time the Demo
crats who arrived early have put in
most of their time sightseeing, and
real campaign activity has been
lacking.
The national committee will sit
Friday to hear contests, one from
Georgia and probably one from Mis
souri as the result of insistence of
the Fifth Missouri district en send
ing Senator James A. Reed as a
delegate after the state convention
rejected him. The League of Na
tions Issue is involved in both the
Missouri and Georgia contests.
The national committeemanship of
Georgia also hangs on the outcome
of that contest. If the Hoke Smith
and Tom Watson forces succeeds in
defeating the Palmer forces, Clark
Howell, the oldest Democratic na
tional committeeman in point of
service, will lose his place.
Senator Carter Glass, of Virginia,
is expected to arrive during the
week, bearing the draft of a plat
form said to meet the president’s
views. Mr. Glass is slated to head
the resolutions committee. A. Mitch
ell Palmer is also coming to attsnd
the meeting of the national commit
tee, of which he is a member.
SEVERAL WOMEN IN
TENNESSEE DELEGATION
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 21.-
The Tennessee delegation to the na
tional Democratic convention left
Nashville last night for San Fran
cisco. The delegation is uninstrnct
! ed on the presidency but is pledged,
j by action of the state convention
I of June, to W’ork for the nomination
of a favorite son, General L. D. Ty
son, of Knoxville, a World war vet
eran, for the vice presidency. For
the first time women will sit in the
national convention as delegates from
Tennessee, the delegation including
one from the state at large and three
district representatives and in addi
tion there are four women alternates
The delegates from the state-at-large
are Senator K. D. McKellar, Colonel
Harrj r S. Berry, a world war vet
eran; T. R. Preston, former candi
date for governor, and Mrs. Guilford
Dudley, a national suffrage leader.
CURED HERJFITS
Mrs. Paul Gram, residing at £l6
Fourth street, Milwaukee, Wis., re
cently gave out the following state
ment; “I had suffered with Fits
(Epilepsy) for over 14 years. Doctors
and medicine did me no good. It
seemed that I was beyond all hope
of relief, when at last I secured a
preparation that cured me sound and
well. Over 10 years have passed
and the attacks have not returned. I
wish every one who suffers from this
terrible disease would write R. P. N.
; Lepso, 13 Island avenue, Milwaukee.
Wis., and ask for a bottle of the
same kind of medicine which he gave
me. He has generously promised to
send it prepaid, free to any one who
writes him.”—(Advt.)