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®be Atlanta Qari-Wrekin Sounial 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. THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Cfi c FROM NOW Cft c ?JU C TO NOV.lothtJV C The national conventions of both the Democratic and Republican parties will soon be staged— And then will come the campaign with all of Its excitement and enthusiasm— And that will be only a part of the interesting news which readers will find in their paper every Tuesday t Thursday and Sat urday from now to November 10th. More Than 5 Months 50c This will pay your subscription till after the national elec tions in November, giving you all the campaign news as well as the results of the election. We are making a special offer to send The Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal to you from now until November 10th for only 50c. SEND YOUR 50c TODAY If you wish to secure your subscription without cost to you send us four new subscribers at fifty cents each for this offer and we will send you The Tri-Weekly Journal till November 10th for your trouble. THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. Here is 50c enclosed, for which send me THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL from now until November 10, 1920. Name R. F. D P. O State 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. ■T fcsst < Map-11 IB iiMlgL. « , z J !■ 4K JBWIsF ’’ Br ■ |B9rTi ■ 18 fiiMl \ % x •' . wßl' ■ 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. HEALS-STOMACIFTROU BLE AND TAPE WORM AT HOME A sample home treatment which gives quick and lasting relief in all forms of stomach trouble, including tape worms or other worms, is being supplied to sufferers by Walter A. Reisner, Box C-6'4, Milwaukee, Wis. He is so confident of results that he guarantees absolute satisfaction in every case or there is no charge for the treatment. If you suffer from stomach trouble or any kind of worms, send him your name and address today, as this notice may not appear again.—(Advt.) 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.)