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i Atlanta SYMWtWa Sminial VOL. XXIII. NO. 13. Dictograph Trap by Prohibition Agents Set for J. H. Harden Trial of Farmer Brings Out Testimony of SSOO a Month Bribe Offer to Agents John Henry Harden, formerly a prominent merchant and farmer of Cherokee county, was found guilty by a jury in United States court Thursday afternoon of attempting to : bribe a federal prohibition agent, and sentenced by Judge Samuel H. Sibley to pay a fine of $1,500 and serve two years in the Atlanta fed eral penitentiary. The jury re mained out but ten minutes. Coun sel for the defense served notice that a motion would be made for a • new trial. Harden's bond was fixed St $3,000. The trial consumed the entire ses sion of court Thursday, having been continued from Wednesday. Gov ernment witnesses told the jury how a dictograph was planted in the room of E. E. Dixon, a prohibition enforcement officer, in the Wilmot hotel on March 15, and how Harden paid SSOO to Dixon for protection against raids while other federal of ficers listened in the adjoining room. It was testified that Harden prom ised Dixon SSOO for each month the latter would protect his stills in Cherokee county from federal raids. Harden declared in his statement to the jury that he made Dixon a .loan of SSOO at a time when the lat ter 'was in debt on account of Al ness in his family, and that he did not attempt to buy protection with the money. Herbert Clay, attorney for Harden, characterized the trap laid by- the officers to catch his client as "a concocted plan which followed their failure to get evidence against him In any other way.” Assistant District Attorney Paul Carpenter, arguing before the jury, declared Harden was a menace to the community in which he lives, and that he had been interested in prac tically every large still operated in Cherokee county during a long pe riod. Throughout the trial, Harden sat with his counsel with his eyes fas tened on the men in the jury box fie was unmoved when he heard the verdict. ■ "You have been with the law.” Judge,Sibley told Harden in passing sentence, “and you have practiced opposition to the constitu tion of your country. And in at tempting to bribe a federal agent, £ou have tried to stick a knife in thu very fundamentals of our law. In view of your former prominence, your actions are inconceivable. You nay pay a fine of $1,500 and serve two years in the penitentiary.” The defendant recently completed an eighteen-month sentence in the Atlanta federal penitentiary follow ing his conviction in federal court on Illicit distilling charges. How prohibition agents used a dic tagraph and carefully laid a trap to “listen in” while Harden offered to pay E. E. Dixon, a federal agent, SSOO a month to protect him against whisky raids, was related by wit nesses to the jury. For many years, it is said by fed eral agents, the defendant was the “first” citizen of Jasper, Ga. He was foreman of the grand jury, an active church worker and a prominent and prosperous merchant, farmer and capitalist. Some months after the national prohibition act became effective he was convicted in federal court of op erating a distillery and sentenced to eighteen months in the Atlanta pen itentiary. His conviction came, it is eaid, as the proverbial “bolt from the blue” to his townsmen, who had known him only as Cherokee coun ty’s leading citizen. Harden served the sentence, and after his release, is said to have caused the prohibi tion enforcement’ officials consider able trouble. In the language of a government witness who testified on Thursday, “we could seize stills which were planted by him, we could destroy his liquor and catch his op erators, but it seemed we were never able to find Harden on the spot.” TWaVes “Protection” Proposition E. E. Dixon, one of the officers who sought for many months to con nect Harden directly with the man ufacture of liquor and arrest him, told the jury that Harden approach ed him early in March in the Atlanta postoffice building and made him a proposition to pay him well for pro teetion against raids on stills he wAs preparing to operate. The officer reported Harden’s offer to “buy” protection to D. J. Gantt, (supervising prohibition enforcement officer, and after a conference with other federal officials, including Unit- Id States Attorney Hooper Alexan der, it was decided to "go through with the performance” and nab Har den while he was in the act of pay ng over the money. Then the trap was laid, Mr- Dixon testified. A dictagraph was planted n Dixon’s room at the Wilmot hotel. Harden met the officer there on March 15. He paid him SSOO, said the witness, and as they left the room, a squad of officers who had seen listening in the adjoining room, Maced Harden under arrest.' He was later released under $3,000 bond. Mr. Dixon further swore that Har den declared to him that he had previously bought protection against raids from other officers. He said Harden told him early in the spring in Atlanta, shortly after Judge Sam uel H. Sibley became judge of the northern district of Georgia, that he was "in Atlanta for the purpose of Observing Judge Sibley’s attitude to ward moonshiners, so I'll know how to operate in the future.” *' Denies Money Was Loan On cross-examination by Attorney Herbert Clay, counsel for Harden, Mr. Dixon denied that he told Harden he was *‘a poor man in strained cir cumstances” and that he needed money badly to pay for his automo bile. Attorney Clay then quizzed the ■witness in an effort to draw the statement that federal officials agreed in a conference following re peated efforts to obtain facts against Harden in connection with operating stills, that "if we can’t get him one w£y, we’ll get him another.” The witness denied that the money paid him by Harden was intended purely as a loan, by reason of the witness’ alleged representation to Harden he was "broke.” “He gave me thff money expecting pro tection against raids on stills he in tended to operate,” said the witness. I lively tilt occurred at this junc- (Continued on Page 7, Column 3) FIGHT STAGED OVER COFFIN. OF M’SWINEY HOLYHEAD, Wales, Oct. 29. —(By the Associated Press)—Relatives of the late Lord Mayor MacSwiney re sisted when the authorities started to place the body of the lord mayor on board a boat bound for Cork. After a fight over the coffin, how ever. the body was taken aboard the vessel, which sailed for Cork. Sisteru and brothers of the late Lord Mayor MacSwiney of Cork were forcibly expelled, with other mourners, from their railway car riage by' police as a result of the fight over the coffin. Members of the family objected to the coffin be ing placed on board a special boat which would go direct from this port to Cork, and a violent scene en sued. The fight lasted five minutes. LONDON. Oct. 29. —The govern ment has refused to permit the body of the late Lord Mayor MacSwiney, of Cork, to be landed in Dublin and has provided a special steamer to convey the remains to Cork. The reasons assigned by the gov ernment for not permitting the body to be landed anywhere except in the lord mayor’s native city was “the risk of political demonstrations, which might result in the loss of in nocent lives.” M’SWINEY’S CORTEGE IS STRANGE PROCESSION LONDON, Oct. 29. —A little band of Irish pipers, wailing a weird dirge and shrieking defiance by turns, led the strangest funeral pro cession that ever wound its way through the streets of London, a procession of 8,000 Irish “rebels,” Sinn Feiners and sympathizers, fol lowing the body of their dead leader. And of these 8,000, hundreds were proscribed "outlaws,” with a price upon their heads, marching in safety through the heart of the “enemy country, protected for once by a tacit truce between the British government and the Irish “republic/’ They wore their Sinn Fein uni forms beneath long overcoats. They carried, draped in black, the pro scribed green, white and orange flag of the only government they recog nize. But there was no reply' to their mute defiance. London offered them only respect. For their own part, the Sinn Fein ers gave and accepted pledges that for this one occasion there should be no outward indication of that ever-living hatred of Enghtnd, never so bitter as it is today, that burns in Sinn Fein hearts. The pledges were kept, while soldier of the “re public” and soldier of the empire co operated to make the final journey of Terence MacSwiney, late lord mayor of Cork, from cathedral to railway' station, an uninterrupted trib ute to his courage and devotion. The funeral of Terence MacSwiney is the most dramatic incident in the history of the Irish revolt. Hours before the Irish leaders emerged from St. George’s cathedral, where impressive services had been con ducted. the three miles of streets through which the procession was to pass, were lined deep with British crowds. In Gaelic Uniform Four hundred metropolitan police were stationed near the cathedral, 2,000 police lined the roads. A few yards apart . In and around ? the church were hundreds of men in gaelic uniform ready' to enforce de corum if emotion should surge out of bounds. Two nurses, also in Sinn Fein uniform and waving large Irish “republic” flags, made a splotch of color on the cathedral steps. “Sure” First Word Spoken by Convict During Ten Years BOSTON, Oct. 28. —The first word spoken by Patrick J. Hanley, the "silent man” of Charlestown prison, who was recently given his freedom after serving 25 years, ten of which was spent in self-imposed silence, was: “Sure.” When newspaper men met him as he left the prison they asked him if he would like to go on the stage, and he answered with that word, Hanley, or "Silent Corkey” as he was known, pronounced the word slowly and painfully with a tongue long unaccustomed to such such. Then he pulled from his pocket a pad and pencil and answered other ques tions in writing. He took the vow of silence when a prison “pal” is al leged to have revealed platis for es caps. "Corkey” saw his first automobile when Warden Shattuck took him in his car to the state house, where he met his sister and other relatives. Informed by the warden that he would be freed Hanley informed Shattuck, via pad and pencil, that “this is the best prison on the planet and I cannot leave un(jl my work is completed.” He offered to pay the state ten cents a week to be allowed to remain and sleep in his cell, but was told he would have to accept his freedom. Presidential Returns to Be Sent by Wireless Announcement has just been made by the Atlanta office of the West inghouse Electric & Manufacturing company that returns for the presi dential election of November 2 will be sent out bv wireless telephone from the company’s station in Pitts burg. Pa. Amateur wireless operat ors within a radius of 500 miles will lie able to receive the messages, it is said, provided they are equipped, with apparatus of the better type. Test messages will be sent three or four days in advance of November 2 and a definite announcement of this date will be made later. Fair May Collect Weather Insurance MACON. Ga., Oct. 28.—The Geor gia State Fair association is protect ed from financial loss that might be caused from rain to the extent of $60,000 under a policy taken out, on iwhich the premium will be $2,400. From the general appearance of I the weather it looks as if the policy I will be an asset, for a continued slow rain has been falling here since Tues day night, which is the first rain in about twenty days. INTEREST REVIVAL IN LEAGUE ISSUE WILL AFFECT RACE Any Calculations Made Prior to October 5 Will Have to Be Revised, Says David Lawrence BT DAVID LAWRENCE (Leased Wire Service 1n The Journal.) (Copyright, 1920.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. —The coali tion of the west and south which gave Woodrow Wilson his victory In 1916 was a new combination of elec toral votes. Previously the big east ern states—New Y'ork, New Jersey, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois, together with New England, were sufficient to tell everybody on election night that the race was over. The big question this year is whether there is any combination of votes whereby. Governor Cox can win the presidency. Senator Harding has been picked by most everybody to win chiefly because of the tradi tional habit of America to change administrations every few years. But the Democrats have managed to force the League of Nations to the front as an issue with remarkable success in the last fifteen days, and any calculations made by the writer or anybody else as early as October 1, are necessarily subject to revision at the last moment. When this correspondent visited every state west of the Mississippi with one or two exceptions, he re ’ported, after an investigation of thir ty days, that there were only a few states—Utah, Montana and Nevada— ''wherein the Democratic nominee for the presidency had a good chance. Tn orftler to determine whether these states still are safe for Cox and whether any others have been added to the list, the writer has sent tele grams to almost every man in the west in whose judgment he can place reliance and has asked that the re plies be sent in a.specified code so that men working on Democratic newspapers or in the Democratic or ganization or those employed in the Republican camp would have no hesi tancy in expressing over the tele graph wire their own confidential and innermost judgment. Extraordinary Factors These telegrams are coming in and the results will be embodied in to morrow’s dispatch. As for the situ ation east of the Mississippi river, which has been examined in person by the writer in the last thirty days, several factors stand out as extraor dinary: First—The heavy registration of women has made it doubtful wheth er in some states everybody will have a chance to vote in the limited period that the polls are open. On account of the congestion at the polls, especially in states where no provision has been made to handle the crowds, many votes will not be cast at all. Second —The negro vote in the northern states is better organized than it ever has been. In some of the border states feeling is not al together pleasant over the way the negroes have besn mobilized by the Republicans and it is not altogether a certainty whether in cases where the Democrats control the election machinery there will be time enough for the negroes to vote though in certain cities where the Republicans have control just the reverse is apt to be the case and many whites may not get a chance to vote. The race question unfortunately enters into jthe calculation of certain important states. Woman Vote Uncertain Third—The true effect of the en franchisement of women throughout the nation is the most uncertain quantity in the whole situation. Po liticians profess to know how the women will vote but they don’t. No political leader in all the states that the writer visited was able to pro® duce a canvass of the feminine vote which could be considered complete. Time and again the canvass of the masculine vote has been accomplish ed with such accuracy in advance of the election that the result has va ried but little from the offiial result. Most editors and political leaders agree, however, that the women will merely double the Republican of Democratic vote or increase it by at least SO per cent. As the husband votes, so votes the wife. That’s the theory. Westerners who . have had more experience with woman suf frage for many years uphold that view yet in Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and even Ohio it has been admitted by politicians that perhaps the League of Nations has made more women voters independent of partv lines than at first expected. In West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, New York and New Jersey there has been a noticeable revival of inter est among men and women in the League of Nations, a wider reading of the covenant than was believed possible on a question that has so often been dismissed by the profes sional politicians as "dead” or with the statement that the “people are sick and tired of the thing.” Fourth —Another remarkable thing is that, while the street talk and club talk and smoking car gossip and newspaper talk has constituted an apparent wave of anti-Wilsonism. the casual mention of the name of Woodrow Wilson in meetings held by the Democrats have not been met with silence or a few scattered handclaps, but by spontaneous out bursts of applause. The Democrats themselves have been pleasantly surprised by the demonstrations and i don’t know whether to interpret it 1 as a feeling of sympathy for the man who has broken down in health in his endeavors to serve the peo ple as he thought best, or whether to regard it as an indication of Dem ocratic strength at the polls. Wilson’s Judgment Vindicated Fifth—The economic situation has had so many puzzling developments in the last three or four weeks, prices have dropped so materially and unemployment has come so suddenly in many cities that in more than one case are suspicions ex pressed that the shut down has something to do with the oft-heard conspiracy of intimidating labor. On the other hand, in the rural dis tricts the fall in the price of wheat and the general decline of livestock prices has stirred up the tariff issue and made friends for the Republican tariff program. The reader himself probably has noticed that Senator Harding has evidently been told of this sentiment for he has devoted two or three statements to it lately. Moreover the rising tide of interest in the League of Nations has been met by the Repub licans in the last two weeks by cam. paign speeches from such friends of the league as Herbert Hoover. Wil liam Howard Taft and Elihu Root. The attack has been against Article (Continued on Page 7, Column 6) ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1920. THE SPIRIT OF HALLOWE’EN t' K . aim. t < w sQk' * The Tri-Weekly Journal’s cartoon is in tune with the spirit of Hallowe’en, when, according to ancient belief, witches and goblins and ghosts and all manner of eerie folk are wont to walk abroad after night falls. Since long before the Christian era. All Hallowe’en Eve, or the Vigil of Hallowmas, or All Saints’ Day, or Hallowe’en, as it has been variously called through the ages, has been a festival. The Druids used to believe that Saman, Lord of Death, called together on this night all the souls condemned during the twelve months past. The Romans and the'Gaelic race and other peoples all had kindred superstitions in their time. In modern his tory, Hallowe’en falls on Otcober 31;* and young foks all over the world make merry with. In America, pumpkin lanterns and masks and pranks and parties are the order of the day and night. <g V/olf of Montana,” On Chicago Rampage, Tamed by Policeman CHICAGO. —“My name is Hardy,” he beamed. “I’m hard and that’s the way I like my potations. Set ’er up. barkeep. This one’s on me.” Tall and bronzed, wearing a Wil liam S. Hart waistcoat and a “Big Bill” sombrero, James Hardy, other wise known as “The Lone Wolf of Montana,” projected himself into the barroom of the New Gault House and made his demand upon the bar tender. “Brother, you know you’re in a prohibition town,” began the bar keeper. Mr. Hardy swept a .44 from his pocket. “Out in my country,” he cut in, ENGLISH STRIKE ABOUT SETTLED AFTER PARLEY LONDON, Oct. 28. —(By the Asso ciated Press.) —The strike of coal miners throughout England and Wales was settled this afternoon, but the settlement is contingent on a ballot of the miners. Frank Hodges, a member, of the miners’ executive body, announced: “We have got terms frojn the gov ernment which the executive is sub mitting to a ballot of the men for their judgment. Their executive are recommending their adoption as a temporary measure until a national wages board is established.” The terms which the executive body of the miners is recommending to the men provide for an advance of two shillings per shift for persons of eighteen years of age. with a cor responding advance for younger miners. The miners pledge them selves to co-operate to the fullest ex tent to obtain an increased output. Harding Pleads for Republican Senate In Speech at Akron AKRON, 0., Oct. 29. —Replying to charges of a ‘‘senate oligarchy,” Senator Harding declared in a speech here last night that he was not the candidate of any clique or combina tion, but was absolutely “unpledged” and “unbossed.” The senator spoke in the armory here ' before a crowd which packed every available square inch of space and interrupted the address many times with cheering. Previously, despite a drizzling rain, a torchlight parade had escorted him through downtown streets and crowds had thronged the sidewalks at many points and cheered him along the way. In asking for a Republican senate. Mr. Harding said that many of the difficulties of the last session were due to the slender Republican ma jority and to the fact that “a num ber of so-called Republican senators were not always Republicans.” No senate oligarchy exists, the Re publican nominee declared, and no group of men would ,control him if he were elected to the presidency. He said the only promise he had made which was not in the party platform was his pledge to try to organize a federal department of public welfare. “I’m known as a timber wolf and am given the spells of howling when 1 do not get, damn pronto, what I ask for. We’ll now dance and I’ll play. The .44 spoke, and a bisue statute of the Venus de Milo crashed to the floor. Another shot splintered the cigar case. “Orange phosphate denatured cher ry bounce, bah!” roared Mr. Hardy, as he sent a bullet through the floor directly between the feet of the bar keeper. He had just shot a match box off the bar, twenty feet distant, and shot out a knot hole in a panel, when a lone policeman came in, smacked him on the head once or twice and led him away to jail to thjnk it over. 8188 GRAND JURY EXPRESS THEFTS INDICTS MANY FOR MACON, Ga.. Oct. 29.—Thirty-six true bills, one of which involves the indictment of sixty-four persons charged with having participated in the alleged wholesale express rob beries which have taken place In Georgia during the last year, were returned Thursday at noon when the federal grand jury made its present ments to the United States district court. The indictments made by the grand jury include charges of viola tion of the narcotic act, the nation al prohibition act, embezzlement from the mails and express robber ies, according to Clem Powers, as sistant district attorney, not only employes of the American Railway Express company were included, but also several employes of the Central of Georgia railroad and several Ma con men not employed by these companies were indicted. Mr. Pow ers refused to divulge the names of those who have been indicted pend ing their arrest. The indictments were handed the United States marshal immediatelv following the report of the grand jury. W. C. Wright, foreman of the jury, made a short speech upon mak ing the presentments .to the court. He declared that the jury had found a spirit of lawlessness existing which to them was astounding. He stated that intoxicating liquors were figuratively flowing across this state like a river and leaving wreck and ruin behind them. Nebraska* Farmers May Burn Corn for Fuel OMAHA, Neb.. Oct. 28.—Hundreds of bushels of corn may be burned as fuel by farmers in northern Nebras ka this winter, according to reports brought here from north line coun ties. High priced coal and a bounte ous, but low-priced crop of corn is given as the reason. New corn, un shelled, now brings three-fourths of a cent a pound, or sls a ton. The cheapest soft coal is sls. and there are transportation charges above that. A wagon box thirty inches high is required to hold a ton of unshelled corn and that amount, it is said, will make a hotter fire and lasts longer than a ton of coal. G. ML DELEGATION HEARS WILSON ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS President Speaks Feelingly of Covenant’s Importance to Future Peace of the World Following is the complete text of the first speech delivered by Presi dent Wilson in,the present presiden tial campaign. The address was made by the president at the White House to a distinguished delegation of Republicans who favor the League of Nations. On another page of The Tri-Weekly Journal, Theodore Tiller, Washington correspondent of this paper, comments on the circum stances surrounding the occasion. My fellow countrymen: It is to be feared that the su preme issue presented for your consideration in the present cam paign is growing more obscure rather than clearer by reason of the many arbitrary turns the discussion of it has taken. The editors and publishers of the country would render a great service if they would publish the full text of the covenant of the League of Nations, because, hav ing read that text, you would be able to judge for yourselves a great many things in which you are now in danger of being mis led. I hope sincerely that it will be very widely and general ly published entire. It Is with a desire to clarify the issue and to assist your judgment that I take the liberty of stating again the case submitted to you, in as sim ple terms as possible. Refers to War Three years ago it was my duty to summon you to the con cert of war, to join the free na tions of. the world in meeting and ending the most sinister per il that had ever been developed in the irresponsible politics of the Old World. Your response to that call really settled the fortunes of war. Yo will re member that the mo e of the German people broke ' 'own long before the strength of the Ger man armies was broken. That was obviously because they felt that a great moral force which they could not\look in the face had come into the contest, and that thenceforth all their profes sions of right were discredited and they were unable to pre tend that their continuation of the war was not the support of a government that had violated ev ery principle of right 'and every consideration of humanity. It is my privilege to summon you now to the concert of peace and the completion of the great moral achievement on your part which 'he war represented and in the presence of which the world found a reassurance and a recov ery of force which it could have experienced in no other way. We entered the war, as you remem ber, not merely to beat Ger . many, but to end the possibility of the renewal of such iniquitous schemes as Germany entertain ed. The war will have been fought in vain and our immense sacrifices thrown away unless we complete the work we then be gan, and I ask you to consider that there is only one way to as sure the world of peace: That is by nfSking it so dangerous to break the peace that no other nation will have the audacity to attempt it. We should not be de ceived into supposing that im perialistic schemes ended with the defeat of Germany, or that Germany is the only nation that entertained such schemes or was moved by sinister ambitions and longstanding jealousies to attack the very structure of civilization. There are other nations which are likely to be powerfully moved or are already moved by com mercial jealousy, by the desire to dominate and to have their own way in politics and in enter prise, and it is necessary to cheek them and to apprise them that the world will be united against them as it was against Germany if they attempt any similar thing. Must Consider Mothers The mothers and sisters and wives of the country know the sacrifice of war. They will feel that w’e have misled them and compelled them to make an en tirely unnecessary sacrifice of their beloved ones if we do not make it as certain as it can be made that no similar sacrifice will be demanded of mothers and sisters and wives in the future. This duty is so plain that it seems to me to constitute a pri mary demand upon the conscience of every one of us. It is incon ceivable to most of us that any men should have been so false or so heartless as to declare that the women of the country would again have to suffer the intoler able burden and privation of war if the League of Nations were adopted. The League of Nations is the well-considered effort of the whole group of nations who were opposed to Germany to se cure thepiselves and the rest of mankind against a repetition of the war. It will have back of it the watchfulness and material force of all these nations, and is such a guarante of a peace ful future as no well-informed man can question who does not doubt the whole spirit with which the war was conducted against Germany. The great moral influence of the United States will be abso lutely thrown away if he do not complete the task which our sol diers and sailors so heroically undertook to execute. One thing ought to be said, and said very about Ar ticle X of the covenant of the League of Nations. It is the spe cific pledge of the members of the league that they will unite (Continued on Page 7, Column. 4) Dorsey Declines to Join Movement for Shutting Down Gins FARMERS LIKELY TO BE ASKED TO ‘HOLD’ PRODUCTS The Atlanta Journal News Bureau, 623 Riggs Building. BY THEODORE TILLER WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—The sec ond agricultural conference which convened here Thursday in all prob ability will ask the farmers of the nati to enter a “holding move ment” which will obligate all pro ducers to hold on their crops until a price equal to the cost of produc tion has been reached. Indications are the conference will not set a specific price for cotton, wheat, live stock and other products, bu action taken will set “cost of production at last” as the selling price. A committee on ways and means to draw up a plan to assist the farmer in the present financial strin gency was named by Charles S. Bar rett, president of thh Farmers' Nal tlonal union, who presided. This committee said it would not be able to report before Friday. L. B. Jackson, director of the state bu reau of markets of Georgia, is a member of the committee, which comprises farmers and state offi cials from all sections. Frank Morrison and several other officials of the American Federation of Labor attended the opening ses sion and promised the farmer the aid of labor in his fight against ruinous prices. It is not expected the conference will agaip appeal to the treasury de partment or the federal reserve board for government assistance. It la likely, however, that Secretary Houston and Governor Harding of the board, will be requested to cease the Issuance of official statements ai.l interviews bearing on price de clines and the necessity of lower prices. Organized labor joined in the con ference, being represented by Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, and by William H. Johnson, president of the Inter national Association of Machinists. Mr. Johnson announced that he had been authorized by Warren S. Stone, president of the Brotherhood of Lo comotive Engineers, to say that the engineers’ organization was ready to co-operate with the farmers. "Farmers and labor are suffering from the same evil," said Mr. John son, “and -4f -w®' only co-operate we can solve them all. We could se cure control of the banks by co-oper ation and change the complexion of congress.” Mr. Johnson charged that "certain men”/ had gotten hold of the gov ernment an dwere manipulating it for the benefit of the few, but ex plained that he was not referring to any particular administration. H. S. Mosely, of Perry Grove, Ark., suggested that the farming interests send telegrams to Governor Cox and Senator Harding asking them wheth er, if elected president, they would “remain inactive while the farmers are losing millions of dollars” and demanding an answer before the farmers “go to the polls.” Cox Fires Broadside At Harding and G.O.P. In Indiana Speech INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 29.—Argu ments addressed especially to voters favoring Senator Harding, upon the broad, general ground of desiring “a change” in national affairs were em phasized here last night by Governor Cox. To a large audience in Tomlinson hall, and in a formal statement, Gov ernor Cox fired a broadside of ques tions to the American people, attack ing Senator Harding and other Re publican leaders tor their League < f Nations, legislative and political records. “Republicans, when they are hon est,” Governor Cox declared, “have acknowledged what is patent to ev ery one—that no one really wants Senator Harding for president. And yet they tell me that as partisans many expected to vote for him be cause they have been taught to be lieve that they ‘wanted a change. The expression was preached as prop aganda by reactionary leaders until it has become nauseating to the pub ,lic.” Governor Cox asked whether the voters “desire a change back to nor malcy relative to legislation to tax revision by big business,” to “suc cess of reactional politicians,” to “control of government by men led by Lodge and Penrooe” and other conditions. Great Rally of Democrats Governor Cox’s visit here was the occasion for a great rally of Hoosier democracy. A parade, with fire works, torchlights and bands, was staged and the governor spoke to an overflow meeting outside of the hall. Hundreds of persons, including many clubs, marched in the parade. The governor arrived here at 5:30 o’clock from Dayton, Ohio, where he spent the day resting and where he issued a second statement, attacking the Saturday Evening Post, renew ing charges of unfair partisanship. With his fire against the argu ment “for a change” in government Governor Cox’ also preached the League of Nations and predicted vic tor next Tuesday. _ Cotton Pickers Versatile; Expert Pocket Pickers NOBLE, Ogkla.—J. H. Hughes hired two men to pick cotton for him. On his way with the pair to his plantation they picked his pockets. They vanished, he told the cops. Plotters Used Germs To Make Monkey Bite King, Doctor Charges NEW YORK.—Dr. Georges Fer nand Widal, a French specialist, who was called in consultation in the illness of King Alexander, said the monarch had been the victim of a plot to assassinate him. He declared that political enemies of the king, knowing his fondness for his pet monkey, had deliberately inoculated the animal with the germs of hydrophobia in the hope that it would become violent and bite him, which it did. The report that the monkey had been poisoned was later denied by the Greek legation at Paris. 5 CENTS A COPY. $1.59 A YEAR. Acting Upon Advice of Com missioner J, J, Brown He Sends Governor Parker Adverse Reply Guided by the opinion of Commis sioner of Agriculture J. J. Brown that the south’s farming Interest® can be best conserved by. the con tinued operation’ of the ginneries at full time. Governor Dorsey Wednes day declined to join Governor Par ker, of Louisiana, in issuing a proo lamation urging all ginneries to shu< down for thirty days in an effort tr stimulate the cotton market. Governor Parker is at the head o’ a movement which has been launch ed in several states to meet the cot ton crisis, and closing of ginneries for thirty days was suggested as ar effective measure to bring this about Governor Dorsey was urged in » telegram received from the Louis* iana executive Tuesday to join In the movement. He promptly sought the opinion of Commissioner Brown, , who told the governor Wednesday that “in order that We might handle our cotton to best advantage, it would be wise to gin it and place it in bonded warehouses, if possigle, so as to use the certificates as col lateral with which to borrow money to meet maturing debts,” Mr. Brown said this had been his position on the cotton question for eight weeks and that he saw no rea son for changing it now. With ref erence to the suggestion that the legislature be convened in extraordi nary session to Investigate the feas ibility of enacting a moratorium, Commissioner Brown told Governor Dorsey that he would prefer a mora torium to an order closing ginneries for thirty days, although he did not urge either. Doubts Wisdom of Move In his reply' to Governor Parker, Governor Dorsey declared that “al though I have great regard for your opinion, I doubt the wisdom of re questing the gins to suspend opera- At rate ’ in view of the attitude of Commissioner Brown Who is probably as well informed on agricultural conditions as any man. 1 hardly feel that i would be author ized in making tho request you sug gest. * Another development in the cotton crisis Wednesday was the announce ment that J. S. Wannamaker, presi dent of the American Cotton asso ciation, was sending telegrams from Columbia to the governors of four teen cotton states, urging that spe cial sessions of legislatures be con vened for the upurpose of passing legislation postponing the payment of taxes and assuring a uniform re duction in cotton acreage for 1921 of 33 1-3 per cent. Mr. Wanna maker s message has not yet been received by Governor Dorsey. Parker’s Letter Governor Parker’s communication to Gov ernci Dorsey follows; “Dear Governor—Your favor of October together with a number of letters aim telegrams referring to the present situation has been received and carefully noted. “In reply, will say that 1 am informed that quite a large per cent of the cotton west of the Mississippi has already been ginned, and a considerable amount of Texas cotton has been placed on the market. “You have noticed from the press for the past six or eight weeks that I have taken the position that 1n order that we might handle our cotton to the best of advantage it would be wise to gin it and place it in ware houses, bonded if possible, so as to use the certificates as collateral with which to bor row money to meet maturing debts and to protect supply merchants and the small hank ers In carrying the-supply accounts of the farmers advanced while producing the pres ent crop until tlie market price reaches at least cost of production. “I see no reason to suggest a change in that policy. “I note from the letters you sent me that some suggest that the legislature be assem bled In extraordinary session for the purpose o“ enacting a moratorium law. As to closing down the gins for sixty days or the enact ment of a moratorium law, I suggest that the latter would be much more preferable. “I am in receipt of hundreds of letters and telegrams as well as the ones banded to me by you suggesting that you call an extra session of the Georgia legislature at once and urging me to use my influence to get you to do so for the purpose of enacting a law reducing the acreage for the 1921 crop to five acres to the plow. I do not think that a law of this kind would be constitu tional, therefore, I would suggest that in the event you call an extra session, and 1 believe that it would be wise to do so, that our laws giving police quarantine authority to the state board of entomology should be so strengthened as to give the board eueh control as would he necessary to successfully control or exterminate tlie boll weevil, and that our state warehouse and banking laws be so amended as to allow state banks to give’ preferential Interest rates to co-operative bonded warehouses, as this would have a ten dency to strengthen the bonded cotton ware house receipts as against those receipts issued by non-bonded warehouses, many of which are unknown outside of their immediate com munities. “I believe that the question of acreage reduction should .be within the hands of tlie farmers themselves in co-operation with t(i/ state board of entomology, and I am of the firm opinion that an organization among the farmers will be perfected with in the nexty ninety days that will reduce the cotton acreage to five acres to the plow, or not more than 50 per cent of this year's acreage of cotton.” Governor Dorsey’s Letter Governor Dorsey’s letter to Governor Parker is as follows: “My Dear Governor: Referring to your telegram of the 25U1 instant, asking that I join in the request for all gins to shut down for thirty days, or longer: “I referred your telegram, and also other communications in which other suggestions are made, to the contmisioner of agricul-- titre of this state. Copy of his letter set ting out his views attached. “Though I have great regard for your opinion, I doubt the wisdom of requesting the gins to suspend operations. At any rate, in view of the attitude of Commission er Brown, who Is probably al well informed on the agricultural conditions and needs In this state as any man, I hardly feel that I would be authorized in making the request which you suggest.” Wannamaker’s Telegram ’ President Wannamaker’s telegram to the governors follows: “The main source from which the great majority of the citizens can hope to obtain money to meet their obligations, as well to pay their taxes, which must be paid by February 1, is from the sale of cotton, this being the main money crop of the south. “The law of supply and demand Is not functioning. Cotton can only be sold tn a limited way, at prices that are absolutely confirscatory, being only half the cost of production. “Cotton must be held for at least the cost of production—4o cents, basis mid dling. We must arrange to market cotton in central Europe, where there is pressing demand. We must assure the cotton-con suming world, beyond a shadow of doubt, that cotton acreage will be reduced 83 1-3 per cent next season. “I earnestly request that you call sn extra session of the legislature of your state to convene as speedily as possible for the purpose of passing necessary leg.'sli- (Cpntinued oa 7> Colama. S)