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! ®bc Atlanta GYi -llkekli) Souraal 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. iH kw \1 Bple v /Rifcw , oik w 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 (Continued on Rage 6, Column 3) THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL t A FROM NOW f A Dv C TO NOV. 10th Dl| c The national conventions of both the Democratic and Republicarf 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, 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. 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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. Scents a copy. $1.50 A YEAR. CUMMINGS ASSAILS REPUBLICANRECORD 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 (Continued on Page 3, Column 1)