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VOL. XXII. NO. 95.
M'ADOO BOOM GETS'
FRESH IMPETUS AS
CONVENTION MEETS
Democratic Hosts Spend'
First Day at San Francisco;
Listening to Keynote and
Organizing for Work
Convention Program
For First Day’s Session
Noon: Convention called to or
der by J. Bruce Kremer, vice
chairman national committee.
12:05 p. m.: Prayer by Kt. Rev.
P. L. Ryan, vicar general diocese
of San Francisco. <
12:10 p. m.; Reading call for
convention by E. G, Hoffman,
secretary national committee.
12:15 p. m.: Address by Vice’
Chairman Kremer formally open
ing Convention. Announcement of j
temporary organization.
12:30 p. in.: Keynote address
by temporary Chairman Homer S.
Cummings.
. 1:30 p. xn.: Presentation of res-
olutions calling for the appoint
ment of committees.
1:00 p. m.: Roll call of states
for presentation of members of
following committees: Resolu
tions; credentials; rules and or
der of business; permanent or
ganization; notification of presi
dential nominee and notification
of vice presidential nominee.
2 p. m.: Selection of honorary
vice presidents and secretaries of
convention.
2:30 p. m.: Adjournment follow
ed by meetings of the various
committees.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 28.—Dele
gates and leaders were prepared for
a fight over both platform and candi
dates as the Democratic national
convention assembled today for its
opening session.
An innovation planned for the
opening of the Democratic national
convention today was the silencing of
the great gathering by a bugle' call
instead of the usual pounding with
the gavel. As the bugler’s notes
came to an end and the buzz of con
versation on the floor ceased, a de
tachment of marines standing in
front of the platform were to raise
the national colors and present arms
while the band, high up behind the
chairman, played the Star Spangled
Banner. The formal call to order by
Vice Chairman J. Bruce Kremer was
to follow.
The arrangement was made by
Secretary of the Navy Daniels at the
suggestion of First Sergeant H.
Hornbostel, who is chief of the sec
retary’s personal escort during his '
visit to San Francisco. ’
The actual convention work itself
was only preliminary and perfunc
tory, but the arrival of convention
lay served to bring further into the
open the questions which had been (
iividing delegates and perplexing the
slder politicians in their pre-war
conferences. ,
The keynote speech of Homer S. 1
Hummings, as temporary chairman,
was the principal feature of the
iay’s program. Later in the day the '
iewly-seiected convention commit- 1
tees were to furnish the first real 1
ievelopments as they began their
;asks of writing the platform hear- :
ng appeals from contests over dele
?ftte seats, and making up the con- 1
petition rules and a slate of perrria- !
sent. convention officers.
The livest subject in minds of
lelegates manifestly was, the im
jending prohibition fight, but trflk of J
:andidates was gaining more and (
nore attention as the rival mana
gers got down to cases with the big
sody of uninstructed and unpledged
lelegates. ]
Today for the first time the en- ,
Ire convention personnel was here i
md the opposing elements were tak- ,
ng definite be/rings.
The latest turn of the McAdoo
>oom furnished a new angle to the
invention preliminaries but its pre
:ise effect on the relative situation 1
if the candidates was not yet clear. ;
Announcement that the former sec- j
etary of the treasury, despite his
leclaratlon that he did not want the 1
tomination, wmuld be willing to ac
ept it, was variously accepted by i
he several elements in the fight.
By some it was declared the de
'efopment meant that McAdoo, whose :
lupporters hitherto had planned to
:eep him in the background for sev- ]
iral, ballots, now would be an active ,
untender from the start and that '
n consequence the convention, like
hat of the Republicans at Chicago,
could have a “big three” tunning
lose together at the opening roll
all. The possibility of such a de- 1
■elopment brought renewed claims ]
if consistent gains from the sup
lorters of Palmer and Cox and set
he dark horses champing impatient
y as they recalled what happened to ■
he big three at Chicago.
The Palmer and Cox. managers
ought to discount the apparent slg
lificance of the McAdoo announce
ment which was made last night by 1
Jational Committeeman Love, of ,
Texas, without saying whether he .
iad any direct authorization from '
Ir. McAdoo. It was apparent, how- ,
ver, that many of the McAdoo work
rs. who have been canvassing tor ,
©ties without much organization or
ystem, accepted the statement of :
Ir. Love at its face value.
Among the best informed poll- ,
icians, the general opinion was that '
t still was too early to definitely
orecast what would happen. They
uggested that the Love statement
nly put the technical situation back
inhere it was when Mr. McAdoo an
ounced recently that he did not care ■
obe considered a candidate. At that
ime both Attorney General Palmer
nd Governor Cox were active candi
ates and their supporters were
laiming victory.
In the pre-convention scramble for
elegates, many of those who had
een McAdoo supporters promised to
ote for other candidates, but the
IcAdoo men declared today that
radically every one of these could
e brought back into the fold.
There was frequent mention of
ecretary Meredith, of the depart
ment of agriculture, as a possible
unning mate for Mr. McAdoo. Mr.
leredith’s presidential campaign
eadquarters were closed Saturday
.•hen he announced he was in no
ense a candidate.
A discussion of candidates mani
estly still was subordinate in the
minds of many of the delegates to
he prohibition issue, and they re
arded the inevitable preliminaries
f the opening session with impa
ience as they waited for the time
(Confined on Page 6, Column 3)
16BRGIAREGIURS
TO OFFER DIVISION
OF VOTES OF STATE
’Credentials Committee Nex\j
I to Hear Contest May
Propose Howell-Vereen
Race in September Primary
BY ROGERS WINTER
. (Staff Correspondent of The Journal)
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 27.
When the regular Georgia delegates
go before the credentials committee
on Monday afternoon for the second
■ inning of their fight for seats on the
floor of the national convention it is
quite probable that they will not de
mand to be seated as a whole, but
will ask for the same division of
seats which they proposed to the Pal
mer people in Atlanta convention,
and which was scorned by the Pal
mer people with quite a show of self
righteous indignation.
They will not contend that the Pal
mer delegates ought to be excluded
altogether from the convention. They
will offer to be as fair to the Pal
mer delegates as they ask the con
vention to be to them. They will,
suggest an apportionment of Geor
gia’s twenty-eight votes on a pro
according to the popular
vote in the Georgia primary or ac
cording to the county unit vote. In
either event this would figure ap
proximately a division of the dele
gation into three equal parts.
Os course the first question that
would be raised by the Palmer dele
gates when the above proposition is
submitted will be the question of
the national committeeman from
Georgia. The Palmer delegates will
hurry away, from a division of the
votes for fear the Smith delegates
and the Watson delegates combining
against them would remove Clark
Howell from the national committee
and put William J. Vereen upon the I
committee in his place.
Compromise Proposition
When the Palmer delegates raise (
this question, as it is said that they
will do, the regular delegates will
submit to them the proposition that
the names of Clark Howell and Wil
liam J. Vereen be placed upon the
ticket of the Georgia state primary
to be rfeld in September, that if Mr.
Howell receives a majority of the
popular vote or the county unit vote,
whichever way he desires to run, then
he shall continue to serve on the na
tional committee for the next three
years, and that if Mr. Vereen re
ceives a majorit yof the vote then
Mr. Howell shall relinquish his pldce
on the national committee and -turn
over his proxy to Mr. Vereen, who
shall represent Gergia in the na
tional councils of the party for the
next four years.
Th% regular delegates are awanting
with keen interest the reply that •will
come from Mr. Howell and his sup
porters on this proposition. They are
willing for Mr. Howell to be elected
to the Georgia commltte at this con
vention if he will agree to a referen-’
dum with the understanding that he
shall retire and give his proxy to
Mr. Vereen in case of his defeat
in the Georgia primary.
It is not expected that the cre
dentials committee will be so one
sided in its decisions of the Georgia
contest as was the national com
mittee on Saturday afternoon. A
number of the members of the cre
dentials committee have expressed
themselves in favor of seating the
delegates elected by the Atlanta con
vention, or at least of apportioning
the convention votes among the three
factions. The action Saturday of the
national committee was a personal
victory for Clark Howell, who has
been a member of the committee for
twenty-two years, and is very popu
lar with his colleagues.
Georgia Shriners at Frisco
The city of Atlanta an dthe state
of Georgia were as well represented
as any section of the United States
in the crowds that thronged this city
on Sunday. Added to the two con
testing delegations from Georgia,
there were in the city two hundred
Shriners of the Yaarab Temple in At
lanta and a host of Shriners from
Macon and Savannah. They stopped
here on their return journey from tl)e
great Shriner convention held last
week in the city of Portland.
The Georgia Shriners were ♦rejoic
ing over the election of E. A. Cutts,
of Savannah, to the office of imperial
potentate of the imperial council
which is the highest office in the
Shrine. The Yaarab band gave con
certs Saturday night and Sunday at
the San Francisco hotel, the Palace
hotel and the Chancellor hotel in
honor of the two Georgia delegations.
They played no favorites when it
came to politics but serenaded them
all. A great host of Shriners in gor
geous uniforms spent Sunday here as
the guest’s of Islam Temple of this
city which kept open house for them
at the Shrine temple, gave them free
automobile rides all over the city and
supplied them with a steady stream
of handsome Frisco girls wearing
hostess badges. Take it from the
writer the Frisco girls have got the
goods. Nowhere else except in At
lanta can their equals' be found. In
addition to the numerous Shrine pa
rades and concerts and other festivi
ties which have been in progress here
for thirty-six hours there were sev
eral parades for the various candi
dates for the presidential nomination.
Georgians Parade
The Palmer parade was headed by
Colonel H. H. Dean, of Gainesville,
who acquitted himself with great
dignity and eclat at the head of the
procession. Not even the attorney
general with all his gray hair and
stalwart figure can outclass the colo
nel when it comes to bulk. Even
the coolnel’s political adversaries
were constrained to admit that he
was no discredit to his state, so far
as looks were concerned, as he strode
down Market street with a Palmer
pennant on his shoulder.
Anticipating that they will be
seated in the permanent roll of the
convention the Palmer delegates have
mad© their nominations for the va
rious and sundry committees. They
are as follows:
Credentials, Albert Howell; reso-,
(Continued on Page 6, Column
CONVENTION BEAUTIES. When the orators at the Democratic national convention at San
Francisco start spellbinding the women delegates with honeyed words about “the most beautiful
ladies in the world,” it won’t be flattery. It is a fact undisputed that never before at any national
convention has there been such an aggregation o f beautiful women as are now in San Francisco.
If proof were needed this sextette supplies it. Upper left is Mrs. Kellogg Fairbanks, a Chicago suf
fragist, and strong for McAdoo; tenter is Mrs. Robert L. Owen, wife of the senator from Oklahoma.
At the right is Mrs. A. B. Pyke, delegate from Cleveland. Lower left is Mrs. George Mara, of Bridge
port, Conn., wife of Assistant National Committee Chairman Mara; center is Mrs. John T. Barnett,
of Denver, and right, Mrs. Frank J. Graham, of C hicago.
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AMENDMENT FOR
SUFFRAGE BEFORE
GEORGIA SENATE
Opening the second week of the
1920 session, the general assembly on
Monday morning resumed work on
the calendar of unfinished business
left over from last year, both houses
taking up for consideration matters
that are conceded to be of vital im
portance to the state.
In the senate the proposed suffrage
amendment to .the state constitution
held ( the floor, coming up as a spe
cial order by vote of 22-18 on Friday,
when an effort to table the measure
failed by a narrow margin. The
amendment is In the form of two
companion bills by Senator Fermor
Barrett, of the Thirty-first. Under
their provisions, the word "male”
•’would be stricken out of the consti
tution in the qualifications of voters.
The passage of a constitutional
amendment requires a two-thirds
vote in both branches of the legis
lature in order to secure its submis
sion to the people and it is considered
extremely doubtful whether sufficient
strength can be mustered even in the
senate, to put it through. It does not
constitute a ratification of the federal
suffrage amendment, agitation on
which is not expected to be renewed
at this session.
The senate will also consider Sen
ator Dorris’ bill to regulate the is
suance of marriage licenses. Impos
ing certain restrictions on the grant
ing of such licenses and providing
for permanent and accurate records
in the offices of the various ordinar
ies of the state.
It was anticipated that the report
of the budget and efficiency commis
sion would be submitted to the gen
eral assembly at Monday morning’s
session, since the commission has
completed its Investigation of the
financial needs of the several depart
me - and institutions of the state.
The commission’s report will contain
few recommendations as to ap
propriations, it is understood, <ue to
the financial stringency in the state
treasury, but it is believed that a
method of increasing the state’s reve
nue by taxing intangible property
will be suggested.
A few local bills stand at the head
of the house calendar and not much
general business is expected to be
transacted during the day’s session.
It has been indicated that the pro
posed new charter for the city of
Atlanta will be introduced in the
house this week by Representative
John Y. Smith, of Fulton, but the
exact date of its introduction has not
been announced. The draft of the
new charter is complete. It must be
passed by the legislature and then
submitted to the people in a refer
endum.
Record Non-Stop Trip
Os 1,200 Miles Made
In Flight From Omaha
NEW YORK, June 28.—John K.
Larsen, who yesterday established a
record non-stop airplane flight from
Omaha, Neb., to Lancaster, Pa.—1.200
miles—was expected to • completeTTs
trip to New York City today.
Mr. Larsen, accompanied by two
passengers, hoped to make the flight
from Omaha to New York without a
stop, but was forced down at Lan
caster by a heavy fog.
The plane used 105 gallons of gaso-
An average speed of more than
100 miles an hour was maintained.
The airplane took off at Omaha at
4:12 a. m. and landed at 5:06 p. m
An altitude of from 4,000 to 9,000
feet was maintained during the trip.
Georgia Peach Trains
Get Right-of-Way
MACON, Ga., June 28.—Peach
growers of middle Georgia have been
notified that the Potomac yards em
bargo has* been lifted for perishables.
Peach trains will be given the right
of way, it was said.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1920.
Classy Middle Name May.
IVin Frisco Nomination;
Ring Says His Is ‘Worm'
Lardner Fails to Interview
'Bryan, but Gets a Nerve-
Cure at Hiram’s High-
Pitched Home
BY BING W. LABDNEB
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal;)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 28.—Wil
lie Bryan hit the old burp: Friday
and took a load off of the party’s
mind if any, as they thought he
might probably not show up and that
would make this convention illegal
in addition to useless.
Jimmie Montague, the poet, who Is
also my boss on this trip, asked me
to go to the Great Uncommoner’s’
room and get a interview, so I went
to his room and rapped and a voice
says, who is it and I told him the
truth, and the voice says, they’s no
body home. It was the same voice
that said we shouldn’t ought to cru
cify mankind upon a cross of gold
in 1896 or any other year. This
year, he wants a dry plank in the
platform which means that prohibi
tion will keep on coming and crucify
mankind upon a cross between ether
and prune juice at twenty dollars
a quart. Any way I didn't get no
interview out of him, but I did talk
to a lot of the delegates and the
idea now seems to b§, the only
chance the Democrats got to win
this fall is to either nominate a
lady or else get a man with as cute
a middle name as Mr. Harding’s,
which, as everybody knows, is Ga
maliel. As soon as this idea was
decided on, the head guys went out
and paged all the candidates to see
whom had the cutest middle name,
but the results wasnt all that could
be expected.
Bull Name Is “Bing Worm”
For inst they found out that Irvin
Cobb’s middle name is Shrewsbury
and Sen Lewis’s is Ham and Mar
shall’s is Weasel and Gerard’s is
Words or something and Cox’s Is
Waffles or something and Wilson’s is
Woodrow, and in fact pretty near all
the leaders has middle names that
begins with a W, including myself
but none of them as cute as Gama
liel. So, being a pretty fair poli-
Wcian by this time to say nothing
about quick thinker, which I told
them, why not pick on me as their
candidate on this plank, because my
middle name also begins with a W,
but its a whole lot cuter than the
other birds and a specially when you
put into combination with my Ist
name, so they asked what was the
combination and I told them Ring
Worm, well that isn’t truth and I
wont tell nobody what the real com
bination is, but the delegates have
fell for what I had told them and it
now looks like I will stampede the
convention on this basis, that is pro
vided I keep out of the' takicabs in
San Francisco until it is time for the
nominations, or other wise there will
half to be put up a corpse “for
th,eir candidate and at that I suppose
they might just as well.
txr How Taxis Save Tires
W® thought the taxi drivers in old
sla ughterous till
. blr<3s here, and they
% th ® Chicago boys look dif
ferent. Last night I and Mr. Mon
tague and Mr. Cobb decided we bet
ter go out and call on Hiram W.
Johnson and congratulate him, and
We got in a taxi and the driver be
j’eved in saving tires 1 by only run
ning on one at a time, and was
setting next to Mr. m feobb ii Die
back seat and even MrACobb .'can't
help lurching sometinkes rid I
looked like 1 would a ness
of debris and I knocked thr win
(low and asked the driveSr if h had
anything vs. us, and helsaid no t
was pedestrians he so we
felt a little more safer, Ac move
pedestrians he missed ... i,/,
got, and finely we
where they wasn't no
So he dumb up on „
private home in the h p niir'v
catch a young eoupli^M rkin i >
knock them for a f' "•!
wasn't nobody there^^H er> g 0 we
BRITISH GENERAL
IS HELD CAPTIVE
BY SINN FEINERS
CORK. June 28.—Cavalry and po
lice patrols scoured the countryside
today in search of Brigadier General
C. H. T. Lucas, commander of local
British troops, who was kidnaped by
an armed band of Sinn Feiners at a
hunting lodge near Fernoy. General
Lucas just returned in company with
two colonels from a fishing trip when
two cars bearing armed, masked
men held up the party. Both col
onels escaped, although Colonel Dun
ford sustained a bullet wound in the
arm.
Sinn Feiners today regarded Gen
eral Lucas’ capture as the biggest
success they have scored so far, de
claring it would prove a damaging
blow to British prestige.
SO PERSONS ARRESTED
FOR ATTTACKING TROOPS
DUBLIN, June 28.—Military au
thorities have adopted a new and
stronger policy in dealing with dis
turbances here. Eighty persons were
arrested on Sunday as a result of at
tacks upon troops and police in con
nection with the railway strike.
An armed band kidnaped the rail
way station master at Mallow, who
had dismissed a number of men ow
ing to their refusal to drive trains
carrying troops and police.
GREEK FORCES
STILL ADVANCE
IN ASIA MINOR
LONDON. June 28. —Continued
progress by Greek forces in Asia
-tjiiior was reported in an official'com
munique revived from Smyrna by
the Greek legation here today. The
statement said the Turkish popula
tions of Philadelphia, Lodag and Aj
hissar had joyfully received the
Greek troops who drove out the fol
lowers of the Nationalist leader,
Mustapha Kernel Pasha.
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 28.—Al
lied military and naval forces have
completed destruction of all fortifica
tions on both sides of the Darda
nelles, in accordance with the terms
of the peace treaty, it was officially
announced today.
Poles Claim Capture
Os Much Material
LONDON, June 28. —The following
official communique covering activi
ties of the Polish army was received
from Warsaw today:
“The enemy’s resistance has been
broken on the river Pripet to Ozer
zyo. We captured Considerable ma
teral. Two thouand of the enemy
were killed.”
Killing in Laurens County
DUBLIN, Ga., June 28.—80 b Min
cey, a negro, shot and killed Will
O’Neal, about Ave miles from Dublin
Sunday morning. The shooting took
place at another negro’s house, where
Mincey went to hunt his wife ana
found her in company with O Neal.
Mincey is in jail, where his brother,
Reuben, is under life sentence foi
killing a negro woman while he
awaits the outcome of his appeal foi
a new trial.
finely come to Mr. Johnson s home,
which is six thousand ft. above tne
st. level, or otherwise he would ot.>
ran us into the front parlor and
demolished a few Johnsons.
Well Mr. Johnson seen that we
was kind o' shaky and cured it, and
if 1-had of known what kind of a guy
he was in Chicago, 1 would of 'V'to
drew in his favor and
convention for him. Jh at
all the news except that
that shook down a few ’’
Los Angeles hasn't s P rea “ C1 ',-v H '
yet, .but/ as Mr. Cobb says, if I the
fires don’t get us, the taxicabs
will.
ISSUES AND PLUNKS
WORRYLEADERS AT
FRISCO CONVENTION
Leadership of President Wil
son Hangs in Balance,
Bryan Now in a Strong
Position
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 28.—Issues
and platform planks rather than can
didates are worrying the leaders of
the Democratic national convention
as they approach their tasks of the
week, for the leadership of President
Wilson hangs in the balance.
With characteristic skill, William
Jennings Bryan has maneuvered
himself into a position of strength in
the all-important resolutions commit
tee which drafts the platform. The
old fight betwen the Democratic sen
ators who supported Senator Lodge’s
reservations and those who support
ed Senator Hitchcock and President
Wilson In their stand for interpreta
tive reservations to the peace treaty
has broken out anew.
Mr. Bryan has cleverly gotten be
hind Senator Walsh of Montana, who
voted for the Lodge reservations and
who is popular with the western
senators and is their candidate for
phairman of the platform committee.
Everybody thought the Wilson peo
ple were in splendid control of
things here that when it was an
nounced that Senator Glass, of Vir
ginia, had conferred with President
Wilson and had secured his ideas on
platform planks, no diffifficulty was
anticipated in selecting Mr. Glass to
be chairman of the reolution com
mittee. But the revolt came suddenly
and has given the Wilson leaders
much to worry about, they are confi- 1
dent of electing Gless, but it will be
a close shave. I
League Causing Trouble
The people behind Senator Walsh,
of Montana, have expressed fears
that Senator Glass might put some
thing in the platform condemning
the Republican senators who voted
for the Lodge reservations and thus
place in an embarrassing position
the twenty Democratic senators who
lined up with Mr. Lodge. •
For a dead issue this League of
Nations business manages to create
more live trouble in the two political
parties than anything else this year.
But the surprising thing is, that in
a Democratic convention there should
be diffieuity, for President " Wilson
has declared the league the princi
pal issue of the campaign.. Mr.
Bryan, however, has been insisting
that the reservations adopted by the
Republican majority of the senate
should have been accepted by the
president. Senator Walsh, of Mon
tana, took the position when he
voted for the Lodge reservations,
that it was the only way to get the
treaty ratified.
No matter what is the outcome
of the fight for the chairmanship of
the resolutions committee, the strug
gle will not be ended till the plat
form plank is written. The Bryan-
Walsh elements favor adoption of
the peace treaty with whatever res
ervations are necessary to insure
prompt ratification. They want noth
ing said about the Lodge reserva
tions. Senator Glass wants the treaty
ratified without reservations which
“impair its essential integrity.”
Combine Against Bryan
In the Virginia platform which he
wrote, he had plenty of condemna
tion for those who voted for the
Lodge reservations, but if he wants !
harmony here, he will have to elimi
nate the denunciation and limit him- |
self to an affirmative statement of
what the Democrats propose to do
with the peace treaty.
The aspirants for the presidential
nomination are wisely keeping out
of the though if any danger
looms, it is quite certain that a coa
lition of McAdoo and Palmer forces
will be made for purposes of organi
zation and platform, if for nothing
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Senator Glass Seems to
Have Defeated Walsh for
Chairmanship of the Reso
lutions Committee
SAN FRANCISCO, June 28.—The
fight over the Democratic platform
began today in deadly earnest with
the meeting *of the resolutions com
mittee which wiW write the party’s
declaration of principles for imesenta
tion to 'the convention.
Every indication is that on one,
two or perhaps three questions the
fight will be carried from the reso
lutions -'committee to the convention
floor. The wet and dry and League
of Nations issue seems certain to
go to the floor and the Irish ques
tion' may also cguse debate there.
The. first clash between the forces
supporting the Wilson administra
tion and those opposing it was ex
pected to come in the selection of
the chairman of the resolutions com
mittee, scheduled to occur late to
day.
Senator Glass, of Virginia,
administration choice for chairman,
appeared early today to have won
out over Senator Walsh, of Montana,
for the place.
Prohibition
The situation as the convention
met as to three troublesome plat
form questions were: ,
William J. Bryan, leader of the
drys and Nebraska's member of the
resolutions committee, had a dry
plank to present to the committee,
which reads:
“We heartily congratulate the Dem
ocratic party on its splendid leader
-1 ship in the submission and rajifica
, tion of the prohibition amendment
• to the federal constitution and wc
pledge the party to the effective en
forcement of the Volstead law, hon
estly and in good faith, without any
increase in the alcoholic content of
permitted beverages and without any
weakening of any other' of its pro
vision.”
Postmaster General Burleson and
James Nugent, of New Jersey, lead
ing wets, also had’planks varied in
language, but all to the same pur
pose—pledging the party to favor
modification of the Volstead law so
that the individual states may deter
mine what they will permit in the
way of alcoholic content.
Both sides were determined and
very confident. Administration forces,
who want the platform to remain
silent on the question, also expressed
confidence that this would be the
outcome of *the fight. There is no
question, say those who have care
fully canvassed the delegates, that
the majority of them favor a moist
plank, but whether they will vote
for one in the face of the contend
ing forces is a question.
League of Nations
President Wilson, Mr. Bryan and
Senator Walsh have planks op this
question. In spite of the fight that
Bryan and Walsh are making on the
president, it appeared likely today
the administration forces will win.
The president’s plank, which Sen
ator Glass will present, pledges the
party to ratification'without impair
ing reservations. »
Bryan’s plank declares against mak
ing the league a political issue and
urges ratification with safeguarding
reservations.
Walsh’s plank pledges tljf party
against any compact requiring the
United States to engage in foreign
wars; impairing the power or right
of self defense; endangering the Mon
roe doctrine, or giving any other
nation a greater vote than the United
States.
Irish Question
The administration is against men
tioning Ireland, but may concede a
mention of Irish independence in con
nection with the League of Nations
holding for the league as the hope of
the Irish and other subject peoples
for freedom.
Irish organizations, in concert, have
prepared a plank, emphatically put
ting the party on record as sympa
thizing with Ireland, and favoring
recognition of the Irish republic by
the United States.
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I INKEYNOTEADDRESS
) Declares* That Action of
r Party in Senate on Dispo
sition of Treaty Is "Black
est Page in History”
e SAN FRANCISCO, June 28.—The
a League of Nations covenant, was
ti championed as the “Monroe doctrine
-of the world,” by Isomer Cummings,
s temporary chairman of the Demo-
- cratic national convention, in his key
note address here today.
!, Os the peace treaty’s defeat in the
e senate, he said: “No blacker crime
- against civilization has ever soiled
a the pages of our history.”
e He characterized the Republican
o platform as “reactionary and provin-
- cial.” “Filled with premeditated
slanders and vague promises, it will
s be searched in vain for one construc-
- tive suggestion for the reformation
-of the conditions «which it criticizes
f and deplores,” he continued.
He declared that the peace time
. record of the Democratic party from
March, 1913 to the outbreak of the
. world war has to its credit “more
. effective, constructive and remedial
1 legislation than the Republican
, party had placed upon the statute
books in a generation.”
Praising the administration’s
, course in the war he said: “We
. fought a great war, for a great cause
and we had a leadership that carried
s America to greater heights of honor
3 and power and glory than she has
r ever known before in her entire his
tory.”
Referring to congressional investi
. gations by "smelling committees,” he
. said that over 80 investigations nave
. been made, over two million dollars
t wasted and "tTie ’result has been to
; prove that it was the clearest war
. ever fought in the history of civili-
J zation.”
Democratic Achievements
f .“Peace achievements of the Demo
, cratic party,” he asserted, "freed the
. Ifarmer from the deadening effects
of usurious financial control. La
! bor was its Magna Charta ol
. liberty. and finance were
t released from the thralldom of un
. certainty and hazard.”
- “The income tax law,” he said-,
> “relieved our law -of the reproach
. of being unjustly burdensome to the
5 poor. The extravagancies and in
equities of tariff System, were
I removed 'and a non-partisan tariff
( commission created. Pap-Amjerican
ism was encouraged and the bread
thus cast upon the waters came back
I to us many fold. Alaska was opened
i to cortimerce and development. Dol-
> lar diplomacy was destroyed. fA cor-
■ rupt lobby was driven from the na- ‘
: tional capitol. An .effective Sea-
• man’s act was adopted. The federal
■ trade commission was created. Child
• labor legislation was enacted. The
parcel post and the i;ural fifee de
livery were developed. A good, roads
1 bill and a rural credits adt were
! passed. A secretary Os labor was
- given a seat in the cabinet of the
‘ president. Eight-hour laws were
adopted. The Clayton amendment to
the Sherman anti-trust act was pass
' ed, freeing American labor and tak
ing it JrQin the .list of commodities.
The Smith-Lever bill for tlijs im
provement of agricultural conditions
was passed. A corrupt practices act
was adopted. A well considered
warehouse act was Federal
employment bureaus created.
Farm lotin banks, postal savings
.banks and the federal reserve siystem
were established.
“The federal reserve system, pass
, ed over the ojiposition of the lead
ers of the Republican party, enabled
America to withstand the strain of
war without shock or pffnic and ulti
mately made our country the great
est creditor nation of the wtorld.”
Turning to the record of thje Re
publican congress since 1918, Mr.
Cummings said it was ‘barren of
achievement, shameless in of
tftne and money and without parallel
for its incompetencies, failures and
repudiations.”
President Wilson’s two appeals be
fore congress for legislation dealing
with profiteering, reduction of taxa
tion, aid for’ soldiers and laws to
improve relations of capital and'la
bor were ignored,” he declared, and
“after a year of sterile debate our
country has neither peace nor recon
struction.”
He dwelt particularly on attacks
made upon the president. hLalice
followed' him to the peace tablie, he
said, and widespread propaganda
made it imperative when he returned
from Paris to "make a struggle for
that which had been won at incal
culable cost. . This meant wre<ck of f
health, sickness for months on a. bed
of pain; and worse, the sicknects of
heart which comes from the knowl
edge that political adversaries l are
savagely destroying not merely the
I work of men’s hands, but the world’s
I hope of settled peace. This wa.s the
! affliction —this the crucifixion.
Tull Text of Speebh
It is not reservations that. the
president stands against, said Mr.
Cummings, but. nullificaton. He told
how President Wilson had published
the tentative text of the league cove
nant widely in 1919, asking for criti
cism and receiving suggestions from
Taft, Hughes and others that were
"actually incorporated into the re
vised draft of the league.”
Senator Lodge, he said, refuse*! to
offer constructive amendments at
any time. “So Intolerant was his; at
titude that he would not oven con
sider a compromise proposed by for
mer President Taft of his own party
and which, was assured of sapjport
of forty Democratis. senators. we«-
ator Lodge knew that he controlled
the senate an dthat in his own time
and way he would destroy the treaty.
Mr. Cummings' address follows in
full:
"Ladies and Gentlemen of the Con
vention:
“At this high hour when the des
tinies not only of political parties,
but of peoples, are at stake; when
social unrest is everywhere apparent;
when existing forms of government
are being challenged, and their very
foundations disturbed or swept away,
it Is well for us here in America, to
pause for a period of solemn delib
eration. .
"We, who assemble in this great
convention, counsel together, not
‘merely as members of a party, but
as children of the republip. Love of
country and devotion to human serv
ice should purge our hearts of ail
unworthy or misleading motives. Let
us fervently pray for a Divine bless
ing upon all that we do or under
take. Let us pledge ourselves anew
to equality of opportunity; the unity
of our country above the interest's
of groups or classes; and the main
tenance of the high honor of Amer
ica in her dealings with other na
tions.
"The people will shortly determine
which political instrumentality is
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