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best suited to their purposes, most
responsive to their needs. They will
have before them many platforms
and many promises. In what direc
tion will they turn? There is no
better way of judging the future
than by the past. We ask, therefore,
that the people turn ‘from the pas
sions and the prejudices of the day
to the consideration of a record as
clear as it is enduring.
Republican Leadership
“The Republican party was unsuc
cessful in the elections of 1912 be
cause it had persistently served spe
! cial interests and had lost touch with
the spirit of the time. Those who
controlled its destiny derived their
political inspiration from “the good
old days of Mark Hanna” and neither
desired a new day nor were willing
to recognize a new day when it had
dawned. To each pressing problem,
they sought merely to reapply the
processes of antiquity.
“There were elements in the Re
publican party which were intolerant
°f its mental sloth and moral re
sponsibility. These influences sought
to gain party control in 1912 and
again in 1916. They renewed the
hopeless struggle at the convention
recently held at Chicago.
“Despite these efforts, the leaders
who have manipulated the party
mechanism for more than a genera
i ,}Ji. are still in undisputed control.
The Republican platform, reac
tionary and provincial, is the very
apotheosis of political expediency.
Filled with premeditated slanders
and vague promises, it will be search
ed in vain for one constructive sug
gestion for the reformation of the
conditions which it criticizes and de- j
plores. The oppressed peoples of the
earth will look to it in vain. It con
tains no message of hope for Ire
land; no word of mercy for Armenia;
. and it conceals a sword for Mexico.
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or thrill to those who love liberty
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Democratic Achievements
“The Democratic party is an unen
tangled party—a free party—owing
no allegiance to any class or group
or special interest. We were able to
take up and carry through to success
the great progressive program out
lined in our platform of 1912. Dur
ing the months which intervened be
tween March 4, 1913, and the out
break of the world war, we placed
upon the statute books of our coun
try more effective, constructive and
remedial legislation than the Repub
lican party had placed there in a
generation.
“The income tax was made a per
manent part of the revenue prouuo
ing agencies of the country, thereby
relieving our law of the reproach of
being unjustly burdensome to the
poor. The extravagances and in
equities of the tariff system were
removed; and a non-partisan tariff
commission was established so that
future revisions might be made in
the light of accurate information,
scientifically and impartially obtain
ed. Pan-Americanism was encour
aged: and the bread thus cast upon
the international withers came back
to us many fold. The great reaches
of Alaska were opened up to com
merce and development. Dollar
diplomacy was destroyed. A corrupt
lobby was driven from the national
capitol. An effective seaman's act
was adopted. The federal trade com
mission was created. Child labor
legislation was enacted. The parcel
post and the rural free delivery were
developed. A good roads bill and a
rural credits act were passed. A sec
retary of labor was given a seat in
the cabinet of the president. Eight
hour laws were adopted. The Clay
ton amendment to the Sherman anti
trust act was passed, freeing Ameri
can labor and taking it from the
category of commodities. The Smith-
Lever bill for the improvement of
agricultural conditions was enacted.
A corrupt practice act was adopted.
A well-considered warehouse act was
passed. Federal employment bu
reaus were created. Farm tend
banks, postal savings banks and the
federal reserve system were es
tablished.
“Tnese enactments, and many oth
er provisions of a remedial charac
ter had a cleansing and quickening
effect upon the economic life of our
country. The farmer was freed from
the deadening effects of usurious
financial control. Labor was given its
Magna Charta of liberty. Business
and finance were released from the
thraldom of uncertainty and hazard.
The economic life of America was
refreshed by the vitalizing breath of
economic freedom.
“This extraordinay narration
sounds like a platform of promises.
The sober fact is that it is an ad
equate recital of actual perform
ance. It constitutes Demodracy’s
response to the demands of social
justice. It is our answer to the an
tiquated slander that the Democratic
party is unable to understand the
great affairs of the country.
The Federal Reserve System
“If the Democratic party had ac
complished nothing more than the
passage of the federal reserve act, it
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poor alike, after thousands had been
carried away by Pellagra.
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would be entitled to the enduring
gratitude of the nation. This act
supplied the country with an elastic
currency controlled by the Ameri
can people. Panics—the recurring
phenomena of disaster which the Re
publicap party could neither control
nor explain—are now but a memory.
Under the Republican system, there
was an average of one bank failure
every twenty-one days for a perid of
nearly forty years. After the pass
age of the federal reserve system,
there were, in 1915, four bank fail
ures: in 1916 and 1917, three bank
failures; in 1918, one Dank falure;
and in 1919, no bank failures at all.
The federal reserve system, passed
over the opposition of the leaders of
the Republican party, enabled Ameri
ca to withstand the strain of war
without shock or panic; and ulti
mately made our country the great
est creditor nation of the world.
Achievements in War
"And then the great war came on.
Ultimately, by the logical steps of
necessity, our peace-lovng nation
was drawn into the conflict. The
necessary war legislation was quick
ly supplied.
“A war finance corporation was
created. War risk insurance was
provided. Shipbulding laws re-es
tablished America’s supremacy upon
the seas. The office of alien prop
erty custodian was created. A war
industries board was established. A
war trade board was created. Food
and fuel regulations were formu
lated. Vast loans were successfully
floated. Vocational training was
provided. A national council of de
’ sense was created. Industry was suc
cessfully moblized.
“Almost overnight, the factories of
the nation were made a part of the
war machine, and the miraculous
revival of the shipping industry
filled the ocean lanes with our trans
ports.
“Our flleet laid the North sea mine
barrage. We sent fighting craft to
ievery sea and brought new courage
‘and inventnive genius to the crucial
fight .against the U-boat.
“In transporting our troops to
France, we never lost a man in a
ship convoyed by the American
navy.
“One of the first decisions was be
tween the ‘volunteer system’ and
the selective draft. Many patriotic
citizens strongly deprecated conscrip
tion and dreaded its possibilities. The
administration, however, placed its
influence behind the measure, se
cured its passage, and made possible
the winning of the war.
“It proved a Democratic system
assuring equal service, equal danger
and equal opportunity. At one
stroke of the pen, bounty jumping,
and the hired substitutes that had
disgraced the management of the
Civil war were made impossible. The
selection of men to go to the front
was placed not merely in the hands
of the civil authorities, but actually
in the hands of the friends and
neighbors of the men eligible for
service. No fundamental law was
ever administered with such scrupu
lous honor . Not one breath of scan
dal touched this legislation; and so
cheerfully was it accepted that to
day, the term ‘draft dodger’ is an
epithet of reproach in any com
munity.
Work in France
“Partisanship was put aside in the
selection of General Pershing as
leader of our forces and no military
commander in history was ever given
a freer hand or more unflagging
support. The policy of selecting of
ficers through training camps avoid
ed the use of political favorites and
guaranteed competent leadership for
the youth of the land. Ten million
men were registered within three
months from the declaration of war
and thirty-two camp cities, complete
in every municipal detail, were built
in ninety days.
"In France, we had to construct
our own docks, railroad lines, stor
age depots, hospitals and ordnance
bases. We had to cut down the
forests for our barracks. In June,
two nqpnths after the declaration of
war, our fighting men were in
France; in October, Americans were
on the firing line; in scarcely more
than a year, we had 2,000,000 men
in France, had whipped the enemy
at Belleau Wood, beaten them back
at Chateau Thierry, wiped out the
St. Mihiel salient and delivered the
terrific hammer blow at Sedan that
virtually ended the war.
"Les than two years ago. General
Haig, with the bluntness of a sol
dier, said: ‘The British arcy is
fighting with its back to the wal;’
Lloyd George was crying: ‘lt is a
race between Wilson and Hinden
burg;’. and France clung like a
drowning man to the rock of Verdun,
turning agonized eyes toward Amer
ica. And America came. We chal
lenge the critics of the administra
tion to point out how, within the
limits of human possibility, the war
could have been won more promptly
or with less loss of American life.
“It was not by mere chance that
these things were accomplished. To
readjust the processes of peace so
as to serve the activities of war re
quired leadership of unexampled
skill. Petty criticism of minor de
fects and individual officials may for
a time attract a superficial atten
tion, but the significant things, the
great outstanding facts plead elo
quently for the Democratic cause.
“Let no one misunderstand us.
These great affairs were carried for
ward under the stimulus of American
patriotism, supported by the courage
and the spirit of our people. All this
is freely and gladly acknowledged,
but surely the time has come when,
because of the calculated criticism
and the premeditated calumnies of
the opposition, we are entitled to call
attention to the fact that all of these
things were accomplished under the
leadership of a great Democrat and
a great Democratic administration.
We have no apologies to make—not
one. We are proud of our great
navy; we are proud of our splendid
army; we are proud of the power ot
our country and the manner in which
that power has been used; we are
proud of the work that America has
done in the world; we are proud of
the heroism of American men and
women; and we are proud of the in
spired and incomparable leadership
of Woodrow Wilson.
“Has not the time come when all
Americans, irrespective of party,
should begin to praise the achieve
ments of our country rather than
to criticize them? Surely a just and
righteous sense of natlona 1 pride
should protect us from the insensate
assaults of mere partisans* We
fought a great war, for a great cause,
and we had a leadership that carried
America to greater heights of honor
and power and glory than she has
ever known before in her entire his
tory. If the American flag must be
lowered, it will be hauled down in a
Republican convention and not in a
Democratic convention.
Partisan Investigations
“It is this shining record of tre
mendous achievement that Republi
can managers and the Chicago plat
form seek to shame and besmirch.
Various congressional committees,
which for want of a more appropri
ate term, are called ‘smelling com
mittees’ were appointed for the pur
pose of ascertaining whether or not
there was any graft in the conduct of
the great war. Over eighty investi
gations have been made, over two
million dollars have been wasted, and
the one result has been to prove that
that it was the cleanest -war ever
fought in the history of civilization.
"Through the hands of a Demo
cratic administration there have
passed more than forty billions of
dollars, and the finger of scorn does
not point to one single Democratic
official in all America. It Is a record
never before made by any political
party In any country that ever con
ducted a war.
“If Republican leaders are not able
to rejoice with us in this American
triumph, they should have the grace
to remain silent, for it does not lie in
the mouths of those who conducted
the Spanish-American war to Indulge
in the luxury of criticism. What was
there In this war to compare with
the typhoid-infested camps and the
paper-soled shoe controversy in 1898?
What was there In this war to com
pare to the embalmed beef scandal
of the Spanish-American war? De
spite all their investigations, not one
single Democratic official has either
been indicted or accused or even
suspected; and the only dignitary in
America, of any outstanding political
significance who is moving in the
direction of the penitentiary, is Tru
man Newberry, of Michigan.
“The very power of the Republican
party to conduct a partisan investiga
tion of the war, to criticize the presi
dent, to control the organization of
the senate and to wreck the prospect
of world peace, rests upon a bare ma
jority of one, secured through the
tainted senatorial vote from Mich
igan.
"The Republican party became so
fixed in its incorrigible habit of con
ducting investigations that it finally
turned to the fruitful task of inves
tigating itself. For the first time
since they entered upon this pro
gram, they discovered fraud and
graft and gross and inexcusable ex
pendtiures. The revelations disclose
the fact, long understood by the ini
tiated, that the meeting at Chicago
was not a convention but an auction.
The highest bidder, however, did not
get the prize. The publicity which
overtook the proceedings frustrated
the initial purpose. In more senses
than one, the recent Chicago con
vention has left the Democratic party
as the sole custodian of the honor
of the country.
The Cost of the War
“There are men so small in spirit,
so -pitifully cramped in soul, that
they suggest that the war cost too
much. The Republican platform
echoes this complaint. It was, in
deed, an expensive war. War is the
most wasteful thing in the world.
But is money to be measured against
the blood of American soldiers?
Would it not be better to spend a
billion dollars for shells that were
never exploded, than to have one
American boy on the firing line
minus an essential cartridge? Was
it not better to prepare for a long
war and make it short, than to pre
pare for a short war and make it
long? When criticism is made of the
expense of war, let us not forget that
we bought with it the freedom and
the safety of the civilization of the
world.
Preparedness *
"Again, they say that we were not
prepared for war. In a strict mili
tary sense, a democracy is never pre
pared for war; but America made
ready in away that was far more
effective than by maintaining, at
enormous cost, great armaments,
which neither party ever advocated
and which our people would never
approve.
“Wars are not fought by armies
alone. They are fought by nations.
It is a measuring of the economic
strength of nations. The front line
trench is no stronger than the forces
which lie behind the trench. The
line of communication reaches back
to every village, farm, counting
house, factory and home. America
prepared by making the economic life
of the country sound.
“What -would have been our situa
tion, if, prior to the outbreak of the
war, we had not prepared so that our
farmers were able to feed the armies
of the world? What would have
been our situation if labor had not
been willing to follow the leadership
of the president? What would have
been the situation if we had not es
tablished a currency system which
made it possible for us -o finance
the war? What would have been
the situation if the Republican party
had been in control and had main
tained its old attitude toward legisla
tion? There would h ave been an in
evitable breaking down of the eco
nomic structure of our country. We
would have been caught in the throes
of a panic more devastating than any
we had ever known. Industrial life
would have been disorganized and the
tasks of war. difficult as they were,
might then have become altogether
impossible.
Republican Record Since 1918
“The Republicans have now been
in control of the senate and the
house for more than a year. They
won the election of 1918 upon the
faith of alluring promises. They
said that they would earnestly sup
port the president, at least, until
the tasks of war were finished. It
was their contention that they would
enter upon the work of reconstruc
tion with superior intelligence and
even with greater patriotism than
would be possible under Democratic
leadership.. They gave publicity,
when they entered upon the recent
session, to detailed and ambitious
statements as to their record, let
them also be judged by the record.
What have the Republicans accom
plished since their political success
in 1918? What beneficial results
have flowed to the American people?
What promises have been redeemed?
What progress has been made in the
settlement of foreign or domestic
questions? ,
“Twice the president went before
congress, since the termination of
hostilities, calling attention to need
ed legislation. He urged the pas
sage of laws relating to profiteering;
measures to simplify and reduce tax’
ation; appropriate action relative to
the returning soldiers; the passage
of a resolution concerning the con
structive plans worked out in detail
by former Secretary Lane, and the
measures advocated by the secretary
of agriculture. He suggested that
the congress take counsel together
and provide legislation with reference
to industrial unrest, and the mutual
relations of capital and labor. After
more than a year of sterile debate,
our country has neither peace nor
reconstruction. Barren of achieve
ment, shameless in waste of time and
money, the record of the present
congress is without parallel for its
incompetencies, failures and repudia
tions. Are the American people so
unjust or so lacking in discrimina
tion that they will reject the service
of a party which has kept its word,
and place trust in a party which
merely renews the broken promises of
a previous campaign?
Attacks TTpon the President
“Re publican leaders have been
moved by a strange and inexplicable
jealousy of the president. Their
feverish animosity, expressed in
gross abuse and through secret in
trigue, has been productive of one
of the most unhappy chapters in
American history, recalling the sim
ilar experiences of Lincoln and Wash
ington. Political malice followed the
president to the peace table. A sen
atorial “round robin” was widely cir
culated. Every device which parti
sanship could develop was employed
for the purpose of weakening the in
fluence of out commission at Paris,
and making the task there still more
difficult. At a time when every in
stinct of fairness pleaded for a
whole-hearted support of the pres
ident, political antagonism and per
sonal envy controlled the anti-admin
istration forces.
“The president made every sacri
fice for the cause of peace. The
long-continued strain while compos
ing differences abroad; the expendi
ture of nervous vitality and intel
lectual force in building a new order
of human relationships upon the
ruins of the old, laid heavy toll upon
his reserve powers. Then came the
return in triumph, only to find here
a widespread propaganda of opposi
tion, making it imperative that he
take up in his own country a strug
gle for the preservation of that which
had been won at such incalculable
cost. Following the superhuman
labors of- seven years of unexampled
service, this meant the wreck of his
health, sickness for months upon a
bed of pain, and worse than the
physical sickness, the sickness of
heart which comes from the knowl
edge that political adversaries, lost
to the larger sense of things, are
savagely destroying not merely the
work of men’s hands, but the world’s
hope of settled peace. This was the
affliction —this the crucifixion.
“As he lay stricken in the White
House, the relentless hand of malice
beat upon the door of the sick cham
ber. The enemies of the president
upon the floor of the senate repeated
every slander that envy could in
vent. and they could scarcely con
trol the open manifestation of their
glee when the great man was
stricken at last. The congress was
in session for months while the pres
ident lay in the White House, strug
gling with a terrifying illness and, at
times, close to the point of death.
He had been physically wounded
just as surely as were Garfield and
McKinley and Lincoln, for it is but
a difference of degree between fa
natics and partisans. The congress,
during all this period, when the whole
heart of America ought to have been
flowing out, in love and sympathy,
did not find tnzie, amid their bicker
ings, to pass' one resolution of gen
erous import or extend one kindly
inquiry as to the fate of the pres
ident of their own country.
“And what was his offense? Merely
this—that he strove to redeem the
word that America had given to the
world; that he sought to save a fu
ture generation from the agony
through which this generation had
passed; that he had taken seriously
the promises that all nations had
made that they would unite at the
end of the war in a compact to pre
serve the peace of the world; and
that he relied upon the good faith
of his own people. If there was any
mistake, it was that he made a too
generous estimate of mankind, that
he believed that the idealism which
had made the war a great spiritual
victory, could be relied upon to se
| cure the legitimate fruit of the war
j —the reign of universal peace.
“In one sense, it is quite imma-
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MEXICO ClTY—Carranza is shown here inspecting his positions
before the ‘‘last stand” battle of Rinconda shortly before he was
slain. With the ex-president is General Murgia, commander-in-chief
of the Carranza forces.
MEREDITH NOT
CANDIDATE FOR
THE NOMINATION
SAN FRANCISCO, June 26. —Secre-
tary of Agriculture E. T. Meredith
issued a statement today in which
he declared he was not in any sense
a candidate for the Democratic nomi
nation.
Joint headquarters for Meredith
and Former Ambassador Gerard,
also a contender for the nomination,
had been opened here. Their names
were linked in the sign announcing
the whereabouts of workers for the
twin boom.
“I am attending the invention
merely as a delegate at ge from
lowa,” the secretary sale.. “I ap
preciate more ’than I can say the
friendship and confidence expressed
by lowa friends in their suggestion
of my name to the San Francisco
convention, but I am not in any
sense a candidate' for the nomina
tion. lam perfectly happy as secre
tary of agriculture and if I may con
tinue until March 4 next to serve the
entire people of the nation by en
couraging agriculture and by urging
proper support of it through ade
quate appropriations to the depart
ment of agriculture, I will feel that
I am working in a field in which I
can best most effective.
“Democrats are confident of suc
cess with Senator Harding as she
Republican candidate and with the
Republican platform drawn at Chi
cago, leaving the people in doubt
as to just where the Republican par
ty stands on the League of Nations
issue.”
Palmer Delegation at
San Francisco Names
Committee Members
SAN FRANCISCO. June 26.—The
Palmer delegation from Georgia to
the Democratic national committee,
in a caucus tonight, named the fol
lowing committee representatives:
Resolutions—W. T. Anderson.
Rules—Ogden Persons. . •
Credentials—Albert Howell, Jr.
Chairman of the delegation—P. a.
Stovall.
Clark Howell, of Atlanta, was re
elected Democratic national commit
teeman from Georgia.
Aldine Chambers was appointed to
the permanent organization commit-
W. H. Wheaton, Jr.,
Griffin Postmaster
WASHINGTON, June 26.—1 t was
learned here today that William H.
Wheaton, Jr., will be appointed act
ing postmaster at Griffin, Ga., the ap
pointment becoming effective July 1.
He will succeed the present acting
postmaster, Frank C. Willis, who
will resign to become a postoffice in
spector.
Mr. Wheaton is prominently con
nected in Griffin and.is a veteran of
the world war.
terial what people say about the
president. Nothing we can say can
add or detract from the fame tnat
will flow down the unending chan
nels of history. Generations yet un
born will look back to this era and
pay their tribute of honor to the man
who lead a people through troublous
ways out ot the valleys of selfish
ness up to the mountain tops of
achievement and honor, and there
showed them the promised land of
freedom and safety and fraternity.
Whether history records that they
entered in or turned their backs upon
the vision, it is all one with him —
he is immortal.
The Requirements of Honor
"There are men who seein to be
annoyed when we suggest that Amer
ican honor is bound up in this con
test, and that good faith requires
that we should enter tne League of
Nations. The whole Republican case
is based upon the theory that we
may, with honor, do as we please
about this matter and that we -have
made no promises which it is our
duty to redeein. Let us turn again
to the record.
“The Republican party in its plat
form in 1916 had declared for a world
court, “for the pacific settlement of
international, disputes.” The -Pro
gressive party in 1912 and 1916 had
likewise declared for an arrangement
between nations to make peace per
manent. TAie Democratic party in
1916 had specifically declared in fa
vor of the establishment of a League
of Nations. The senate itself, on
August 2, 1916, by unanimous vote,
passed a measure requesting the
president to take the lead in such a
world movement.
“On December 18, 1916, the presi
dent addressed an identic note to the
nations at warfi requesting them to
state terms upon which they would
deem it possible to make peace. In
this note, he proposed the creation of
a League of Nations, saying:
“ Tn the measures to be taken to
secure the future peace of the world,
the people and government of the
United States are as vitally and di
rectly interested as the governments
now at war. . . . They stand ready
and even eager to co-operate in the
accomplishment of these ends when
the war is over with every influence
and resource at their command.’
“This was four months before
America entered the war.
"To this identic note, the Central
powers answered evasively, but the
allies, in their reply dated at Paris.
January 10, 1917, declared:
“ ‘Their whole-hearted agreement
with the proposal to create a League
of Nations which shall assure peace
and justice throughout the world.’
President's Words
“On January 22, 1917, the presi
dent addressed the senate with ref
erence to these replies, and said:
“ Tn every discussion of the peace
that must end this war, it is taken
for granted that the peace must be
followed by some definite concert of
power which shall make it virtually
impossible that any such catastrophe
shall overwhelm us again.’
“Speaking of the league of peace
which was to follow the war, he
said:
“ 'lf the peace presently to be
made is to endure, it must be a
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LABOR SHORTAGE
IS DISCLOSED IN
SPECIAL REPORT
Labor shortage averaging approxi-.
mately 25 per cent throughout the
state of Georgia is shown by a spe
cial report made to Governor Dor
sey by H. M. Stanley, commissioner
of commerce and labor. The report
was compiled at the governor’s re
quest and on the basis of individual
inquiries directed to officials in every
county in the state.
Exodus of negroes from the coun
try to the cities and to the northern
states is given as the prime cause of
the present labor situation, while
high wages paid to negroes in indus
try in the larger centers is a con
tributing factor, the report shows.
In some counties the shortage is
reported as high as 50 per cent, while
in a few there appear to be no- ap
preciable lack of labor supply. The
average condition, however, is shown
to be a 25 per cent shortage of la
bor for the state as a. whole.
During the present session of the
general assembly bills will be intro
duced at the instance of Commissioner
Stanley and Governor Dorsey placing
stringent regulations on the recruit
ing of labor by immigration agents for
industries outside of Georgia. The
present laws are held to be too lax
to meet the emergency demand and
prevent wholesale emigration of la
bor to other states.
Governor Dorsey is expected to in
clude in his annual message to the
legislature a warning as to the labor
shortage in Georgia and to recom
mend immediate action by the legis
lators to remedy the situation.
SAVANNAH CENSUS
COUNT IS 82,667,
GAIN OF 1 7,603
WASHINGTON, June 25. The
census bureau tonight announced
the following 1920 population re
sults :
Omaha, Neb., 191,601; Butte,
Mont., 41,611; Savannah, Ga., 82,-
667; Douglas, Ga., 3,401; Mansfield,
Mass., 6,255; Dartmouth, Mass.,
6,493; Summit, New Jersey, 10,174;
Oregon City, Ore., 5,686; Taylor, Pa.,
9,876; Morse, Wis., 639; Snohomish,
Wash., 2,985; Mannington, W. Va.,
3,673.
Increase since 1910: Omaha 67,505
or 54.4; Butte, Mont., 2,446 or 6.2;
Savannah 17,603 or 27.1; Mansfield
1,072 or 20.7; Dartmouth 2,115 or
48.3; Summit 2,674 or 35.7; Oregon
City 1,399 or 32.6; Taylor 816 or
9.0; Morse. Wis., 446 or 231.1; Man
nington 1,001 or 37.5.
Decrease since 1910:
Douglas 149 or 4.2; Snohomish
259 or 8,0.
Bolsheviki Shoot
Group of Officers,
Torture Prisoners
WASHINGTON, June 26. —Bolshe-
viki at lavonvka, in Southern Rus
sia, shot a group of theirty officers
on June 10 and tort,ured other pris
oners. according to a report to the
American commissioner of Constan
tinople, which was received today at
the state department. *
The report stated that the prison
ers were horribly treated. One wit
ness, Lieutenant Commander Koeh
ler, said he saw the hands and feet
of some of the officers cut off and
the officers’ eyes gouged out.
The population in the region of
Southern Russia occupied by Gen
eral Wrangel’s anti-Bolsheviki forces
continues very friendly owing to the
good behavior of the troops, reports
to the department said. A new lew
has been promulgated in that sec
tion by General Wrangel providing
for the distribution of all the gov
ernment land and large estates
among the peasants.
$50,000 Reward Offered
For Her Missing Husband
MONTREAL. —The police picked
up trace of John Doughty, secretary
to Ambrose Small, a theater owner
of Toronto, who was reported miss
ing soon after his employer disap
peared mysteriously December 2. The
secretary’s bag was found in a board
ing house here. It was learned he
had stayed in this city for a month.
Mrs. Small, who recentjy increased
from $15,000 to $50,000 the reward
she has offered for information con
cerning her husband’s whereabouts,
has been quoted here as saying sh*;
has received letters from a New
York lawyer demanding ransom for
her husband.
According to Doughty’s landlady,
the secretary seldom left his room.
Several men visited him, she said,
but none of their descriptions fitted
Mr. Small.
Plan to Open Coosa and
Alabama for Navigation
ROME, Ga., June 26.—Captain W.
P. Lay stated today that he contem
plates calling the Coosa-Alabama
River Improvement association to
gether in order to make plans for
going before congress with a scheme
to open the Coosa and Alabama rivers
to year-round navigation.
The association has not met in sev
eral years because of the adverse re
port’ made by government engineers
on the rivers, but since their reports
were mostly adverse because of the
cost entailed in making improvements
suggested and since much of the
cost has been eliminated by the cer
tainty of the building of vast power
dams on the Coosa, it is deemed prop
er to call the body together at an
early date.
Athens Man Killed When
Train Crashes Into Auto
ATHENS. Ga., June 26.—Frank M.
Johnson, of Athens, was killed Fri
day afternoon near Union Point
when a freight train collided with
his automobile. Mr. Johnson was
en route to his farm near Union
Point. He was brought back to Ath
ens by Dr. S. H. Dunbar. The de
ceased is survived by his wife, one
daughter and three sons. Funeral
services will be held -Sunday, \
TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1920
PALMER MEN WIN
FIRST SKIBMISH IN
GEORGJHWTEST
BY ROGERS WINTER
(Staff Correspondent of the Journal.)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 26.—8 y
unanimous vote in executive session
the Democratic national committee
this afternoon seated the Palmer
delegation from Georgia on the tem
porary roll of the Democratic na
tional convention.
The action of the committee was
not a surprise to the members of the
regular Georgia delegaton elected by
the state convention. They quite ex
pected that Editor Clark Howell
would win his fight before the na
tional committee. He has been a
member cf the committee for twen
ty-five years, making him its oldest
member in point of servce, and is
immensely popular with his col
leagues, most of whom address him
by his first name. He has been in
San Francisco for nearly a week in
behalf oil the Palmer delegation.
It was not surprising, therefore,
that on a personal issue between him
and a delegation of strangers un
known to the national committee,
the decision should go in his favor.
The seating or unseating of the reg
ular delegation involves his continu
ance on the national committee, and
so long as that issue is left in the
hands of his colleagues, they will
keep him where he is.
Assured Minority Report
The principal fight involved in
the Georgia contest will come be
fore the credentials committee,
which will not be made up of old
personal friends of Editor Clark
Howell, but will represent practical
ly all shades of political opinion in
the convention. It is expected that
the credentials committee will hear
contests on Monday afternoon. The
regular Georgia delegates will prob
ably have more time to present their
case than they did tpday, when only
thirty minutes were allowed to each
side.
In the event of an adverse decision
by the credentials committee, the
regular delegates have assurances
that there will be a minority report
which will take the fight to the
floor of the convention, and when
it gets there for an ultimate de
cision some of the biggest oratorical
guns of the Democratic party are
not unlikely to be unlimbered in
their behalf.
The action of the national com
mittee on the Georgia contest was
taken at two o’clock Saturday after
noon by San Francisco time, which
is the same as four o’clock by At
lanta time. It came at the close of
a lengthy hearing of the Georgia
contest and the Missouri contest* in
volving the credentials of Senator
James A. Reed. At the outset of the
hearing the committee had voted to
go into executive session when the
arguments were finished, but be
fore going into executive session
there was an effort by Committee
man E. H. Moore, of Ohio, who led
the fight yesterday for the regular
delegates to get them a hearing tie
fore the whole committee to recon
sider the previous action and have
the contests decided in open session.
This motion was lost by a vote of
thirty-three to fourteen. The vote
of the committee on the Georgia
contest was taken in less than ten
minutes after going into executive
session.
Judge Who Sentenced
McNamara Will
Make Intercession
MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 26.—Judge
J. E. Richards, who sentenced Al
len J. McNamara to death after his
conviction in criminal court here on
a charge of criminal assault?
which sentence was affirmed today
by the Tennessee supreme court, an
nounced that he would intercede with
Governor Roberts to have the penalty
commuted to life imprisonment.
Judge Richards said he had de
cided to ask clemency for the youth
because of conflicting statements
made by the young woman, now the
wife of McNamara’s brother, who ap
peared as prosecuting witness.
McNamara was found guilty after
a trial last October which continued
seventeen days and aroused more in
tense public interest than any simi
lar court hearing in years. A few
days after his conviction the young
woman he was alleged to have at
tacked was married to his brother.
Weds Twin, She Dies,
And Qther Fools Him
SAN FRANCISCO.—Arthur J. El
ler, who fought in France, filed suit
in the superior court for divorce from
a woman he says is his wife’s twin
sister.
His complaint states he married
Mrs. Nellie Lenehan Eller In Liver
pool, England, April 10, 1919, and
three weeks later sailed for home on
a troopship, expecting to send for
her.
Last August Eller was hurt In an
accident and went to a hospital for
six months. His supposed bride ar
rived from Liverpool in September
and made her home for about a
month, he says, with his parents at
424 Cole street.
Then Eller says she became Infat
uated with his friend, Charles Gua
casco, and together they came to the
hospital and told Eller they were
going to get married, that Mrs. Eller
wasn’t really his wife at all, but his
sister-in-law.
The twin he had married died, he
was told, and the woman he believed
to be his wife showed to him a pic
ture of the twin sisters together and
defied him to pick out the one he had
married. Later she and Guacasc"
ran away to New Orleans and air
living there as man and wife, he say
• Dreams of Bees and Falls
BERWICK, Pa.—Joseph Madamec
of Berwick, dreamed he had beev
caught in a bee hive and that th
bees were swarming around him.
He jumped from bed, then out a
second-story window onto a porch
roof, and from there tobogganed to
the ground. The jar did not fully
awaken him, and his screams of
“They’re after me,” aroused the
neighborhood.
Neighbors went to his aid to find
him with a wrenched and crushed
knee.
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