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VOL. XXVI. NO. Il l
COMMITTEE VOTES TO RETAIN TWO-THIRDS RULE
SCANDAL IN TICKET
ALLOTMENT HOUSES
STATE DELEGITIONS
RY THEODORE TILLER
Washington Correspondent of The
Journal
NEW YORK, N. Y., June 24.—A
ticket scandal without precedent
brought dissention in the ranks of
practically every state delegation as j
the Democratic national convention
r opened Tuesday.
The anger in the delegations, in- I
eluding Georgia, over the shortage ;
of tickets for their families or prom
inent Democrats from the state en
titled to admission, had been brew
ing since Monday when the ticket
situation began to become known. |
It broke violently Tuesday when
certain New York newspapers, with
out’ investigation, printed reports
that the galleries were to be packed
by McAdoo boosters.
Just the opposite Is true. The
McAdoo organization received only
200 tickets, although promised 1,000,
and the galleries now seem to be
in control of the New Yorkers.
Judge David Ladd Rockwell, Mc-
Adoo manager, issued a statement
Tuesday sayin gthat a “raw deal
had been given the McAdoo organi
zation in the distribution of tickets,
end “we have information, which
we believe, that those behind the
candidacy of other gentlemen backed
by Wall Street interests have tick
ets to burn.”
Judge Rockwell said in part: “As
raw a deal as has been given the
McAdoo organization since it arrived
in New York city has been handed
it in the matter of tickets. Mr. Mc-
Adoo and myself and this whole or
ganization were only given 200 tick
ets for this convention, although
Mr. McAdoo is by long odds the lead
ing candidate for the nomination,
and undoubtedly . will be the next
nominee. , , ~
Charges Purposely Misleading
“If it were not being purposely
charged, for the express purpose ot
muddying the waters, the talk in
the New York papers this mornin s
about the McAdoo crowd having cor
ralled all the tickets to the conven
tion would be amusing. The true facts
are as different as usual from the
accounts in the New York news
papers. .
“The McAdoo organization was
promised 1,000 tickets. It was given
only 200. Wo have information, ,
which we believe, that those behind
the candidacy of other gentlemen ,
backed by Wall street interests have
tickets to burn.
“£ am told that some strong New
York Smith delegates have as many
as 100 tickets each to distribute, while
New York delegates who are less
friendly to Governor Smith were
given only thre tickets.
“Os course, as the delegates favor
able to McAdoo are far in excess of
the delegates in favor of any other
candidate, the total number of dele
gate tickets which the McAdoo dele
gates have is greater than the num
ber of delegate tickets that other can
didates have. But, even so, in many
cases, the McAdoo delegates were
refused tickets by unfriendly national
committeemen.
“At every step of the game In New
York, there seem indications that
there has been an attempt to stack
the cards against McAdoo, and the
ticket situation is but another proof,
albeit a clear and convincing one/'
only of this effort on the part
the anti-McAdoo leaders, but also
BW the determination to misrepresent
( Vnd distort the facts on the part of
the Tammany and Wall street pa
pers.”
That the convention hall has been
"packed by New York,” was the
charge indignantly heard about hotel
corridors where delegates met and
compared notes. It is revealed that,
at this convention, party workers,
men of influence, and club managers
for this candidate or that, x to say
nothing of the wives of delegates,
have not a chance to get into the
convention.
Tickets Given Contributors
Delegates from the west and south
heard with amazement and anger
that tlit New Y’ork city convention
committee” had been allocated 2,500
tickets in the galleries. These tickets
are now being distributed to all per
sons who contributed SIOO or more
to the convention fund. These con
tributors, of course, are mostly New
Yorkers, and include such celebrities
Te \. Ri^ kard : Charles Schwab,
J?. 11 '. -L Sl . nclair and Others of finan
cial ability to pay into the convention
fund whicn brought the Democratic
show to the city.
!t is further alleged, in other
quaiteis, tha tthe boosters of Gov
ernor Al Smith are allotted 1,000
tickets for the Smith shouters in
the galleries. A t McAdoo headquar
ters, however, it is claimed that
only 00 tickets went to the entire
McAdoo organization, and that man
ngers ot, McAdoo clubs from Califor
nia to Georgia, and other persons
of prominence, including members
of congress and influential politi
cians who have always been in the
throngs at Democratic conventions
cannot get into Madison Square
garden.
Dark horse candidates like Sena
tor Glass. Oscar W. Underwood.
John W. Davis, and others, were un
able today to supply one-tenth of
the demands upon them and seemed
uncertain about their eventual al
lot ments.
Afloat load of Georgians, includ
ing the delegation, came up only to
ascertain that several hundred could
not get into the convention, the al
lotment to that state being less than
50, outside of the seats on the floor.
Customs Disregarded
While it is conceded that it is
customary to allot the convention
city about 2,500 seats, delegates
claim that the New York arrange
ments went all awry because it was
promised that Madison Square gar
den would be made over so as to
take care ot about 20.000 persons,
whereas the seating capacity today
is wound 12,000 to 13,000,
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
STIRRING CHAPTER WRITTEN
IN HISTORY OF U.S. AVIATION
BY DAWN - TO - DUSK FLIER
Detailed Log Shows How
Great Record Was Made
CHICAGO, June 24.—The log of Lieutenant Russell Maughan’s
record flight across the United States is:
Left Arrived Miles Time Average Speed
New York 3a. m. Dayton 7:05 a. m. 575 4:05 140.40 M. P. H.
Dayton 8:15 a. m. St. Joseph 11:52 a. m. 565 3:37 141.00 M. P. H.
St. Joseph 12:37 p. m. North Platte 2:34 p. m***32s 1:57 166.80 M. P. H.
North Platte 2:57 p. m. Cheyenne 4:15 p. m. 225 1:18 172.80 M. P. H.
Cheyenne 4:54 p. m. Salduro 8:20 p. m. 585 3:26 170.40 M. P. H.
Salduro 8:51 p. m. San Francisco 12:48 575 3:57 145.20 M. P. H.
Total 2,850 18:20 156.20 M. P. H.
NOTE —All time reduced to eastern standard time and dis
tances approximate.
The total time Lieutenant Maughon took from when he hopped
off at New York until he landed at San Francisco was 21 hours
and 48 minutes, including three hours and 28 minutes taken out
at five stops as follows: Dayton, 1:10; St. Joseph, 45 minutes;
North Platte, 23 minutes; Cheyenne, 39 minutes and Salduro, 31
minutes.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 24.—-(By
the Associated Press.) —Lieutenant
Russell L. Maughan wrote a new
and spectacular chapter in the his
tory of man’s conquest of the air
Monday when he spanned the North
American continent in less than a
day.
The hazardous and gruelling flight
was his third attempt.
He left Mitchel Field New York,
at 2:59 1-2 a. m. (eastern standard
time), halted briefly at five re-fueling
stations en route across mountains
and plains, fought fatigue and con
stantly-recurring nausea for 21
hours 47 minutes 45 seconds, and ar
rived at Crissy Field, San Francisco,
at 9.47:15 o’clock (Pacific time) Mon
day night.
Worn and nervous from his long
and 'bitter struggle with the perils
of the air, and the illness which had
gripped, him, the ’ courageous trail
blazer was engulfed in a cheering,
wildly-excited mass of humanity
which extended to him an almost un
paralleled ovation upon his arrival.
“Gee, but it’s good to be here,”
he said, as jubilant comrades of the
air service lifted him bodily from
the cockpit of his plane. “I am
tired, but happy.”
The ostentatious reception was in
sharp contrast to the lonely, single
handed battle which the airman
waged throughout the day in his
race with the sun.
Undaunted by Failures
Lieutenant Maughan soared away
from Mitchel field in the waning
light of a half-moon, undaunted by
prospects of none toe favorable
weather, a claud-fleeced sky, and
, the knowledge of his two previous
[ failures.
I From the start he encountered
rough weather, but surmounted all
difficulties as he drove his powerful
P-W-S army pursuit plane with the
sun.
Darkness enshrouded San Fran
cisco as Lieutenant Maughan ap
peared. The drone of his motor
came to the ears of the waiting
thousands, and they broke into pro
longed cheering. The flier circled
the field twice, his plane blotted
from view part of the time by a
light mist. Then he shot downward
and taxied almost to the door of
army headquarters in a perfect
landing.
The belt-buckle of the world had
been pulled up a few more notches.
Lieutenant Maughan was borne
away to army headquarters amid a
deafening ovation. There he re
counted briefly the story of his diffi
cult voyage, and received a shower
qf congratulations, including a mes
sage from Major General Patrick,
chief of the air service.
He declared that he had been ill
two or three dozen times during the
sea-to-sea dash. He said he had eaten
nothing since breakfast—in New
York. Supper he ate in San Fran
cisco.
Averaged 150 Miles Per Hour
Lieutenant Maughan flew at an
average speed of approximately 150
miles an hour, he said, making less
than that above 2,000 feet and more
at or under that height.
“I was mighty glad to see the
lights of Crissy field,” he comment
ed. “I lost them for awhile, but
quickly picked them up again.
“I bucked head winds for two
thirds of the way, and the rest of
the way I bucked a ‘heavy cross
wind.”
His plane, he explained, was of a
type now being tried out by the air
service, differing only in that ad
justments were made enabling him
to carry eighty gallons more of gaso
line.
The machine, a 375-horsepower sin
gle-seater, appeared to be in perfect
mechanical condition when he ar
rived. It is of nearly the- same type
as that in which he made his two
previous attempts to span the con
tinent in a day.
On the first flight, July 19, 1923,
a small motor ailment midway across
the country forced abandonment of
the flight. Ten days later he tried
again, but at Rock Springs, Wyo.,
was forced down by an oil leak.
Lieutenant Maughan went to the
home of Lieutenant Colonel William
E. Gillmore, in charge of the air
force at Crissy field, where he will
be a guest several days.
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE SENDS
WIRE OF CONGRATULATION
WASHINGTON, June 24.—Presi
dent Coolidge today wire his con
gratulations to Lieutenant R. L.
Maughan, on his successful dawn-to
dusk flight from coast to coast.
“I am glad to extend to you my
most cordial congratulations,” the
president said. “Your flight is an
achievement of which every Ameri
can is proud and marks a real ad
vance in practical aviation.”
Telegrams of congratulation also
were sent from both the army and
navy flying corps today to Lieuten
ant R. L. Maughan at Crissy field,
California, upon his completion cf
the cross-country dawn-to-dusk
flight.
“The army is proud of you and
the latest record you have added to
its achievements.” Secretary Weeks
telegraphed. “Your flight of yester
day is not only a triumph of science
but of personal courage and skill 1
extend to you my own congratula
tions as well as the thanks of the
department.” t
IP or Id News
Told in
Brief
COLUMBUS, Ga.—Colonel William
S. Shepard, prominent Confederate
veteran, ninety-four years old, died.
BELFAST. —Much damage was
caused by a tornado which swept
over the heart of the city and lasted
five minutes.
NEW YORK. —Forty thousand
workers on men’s and children’s
clothing in New York and vincinity
voted to strike, it was announced.
TOKIO. —Japanese Christian lead
ers urged American missioaries to
continue their work and Pledged co
operation, in a conference.
NEW YORK.—Democratic con
vention committee on rules votes
to retain long established two-thirds
rule in nomination of president and
vice president.
LIMA, Peru.—Representatives of
Peru and Ecuador signed, an agree
ment forth« nomination of delegates
to discuss the boundary question at
Washington.
WASHINGTON. —Brigadier Gen
eral Charles E. Sawyer resigned as
personal physician to the president
to devote his time to the Harding
Memorial association.
SHANGHAI. Foochow, Fukein
province, China, is flooded, and
many casualties and millions of dol
lars of property is reported ag result
of high water in Min river.
SAN FRANCISCO? Lieutenant
Russall L. Maughan, coast-to-coast
dawn-to-dusk army aviator, an
nounced he would fly back across
the country by easy stages.
ROME.—Premier Mussolini de
plored the death of Deputy Matte
otti, but said the fascist govern
ment does not mean to be pushed
out of power because o fit, in an
address to the senate.
GENEVA.—Justin Godart, French
deputy minister of labor and health,
announced to the international la
bor conference that France was
ready to ratify the Washington
eight-hour day convention.
TOKIO.—The imerial diet met in
extraordinary session to deal with
the supplementary budget for the
fiscal year 1924-25, approximately
242,013,000 yen, principally for
earthquake reconstruction.
WASHINGTON.—Brigadier Gen
eral Charles E. Sawyer, personal
physician to President Coolidge and
previously to President Harding, re
signs post to devote his time to work
of Harding Memorial association.
NEW Y’ORK. —Lee and J. J. Shu
bert announced the consolidation of
their theatrical enterprises, compris
ing eighty-six theaters, under the
name of the Shubert Theatrical cor
poration, capitalized at $25,000,000.
TORONTO.—PostaI officials in sec
tions affected by the strike of Cana
dian postal workers held examina
tions to qualify men to take the
places of strikers and distribute a
tremendous amount of accumulated
mail.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Officers
searched for two men, believed to
be wanted in connection with the
$2,000,000 Rondout, HI., mail train
robbery, after they were reported
identified at a gasoline filling sta
tion.
NEW YORK.—Mrs. Leroy Springs.
Lancaster, S. C., is chosen chairman
of committee on credentials of na
tional Democratic convention: an
other woman. Miss Darden Moose,
of Arkansas, is named secretary of
committee.
BROOKLYN.—Explosion of naph
tha aboard British freighter Egre
mont Castle, docked at Brooklyn, is
believed to have caused death of five
members of crew: seven others are
seriously burned, and ship is towed
to outer harbor and beached.
NEW Y'ORK.—Hearings of plat
form committee of national Demo
cratic convention are enlivened by
threats of spokesmen for two states
to take Ku Klux Klan issue to floor
of convention if organization is not
specifically condemned in platform.
NEW YORK.—Gaston B. Means,
on trial for violation of prohibition
law. testifies that Jess Smith, friend
of former Attorney General Daugh
erty. committed suicide following
Means’ refusal to act as agent for
Smith in return of $21,000 received
for liquor withdrawal permits.
BOSTON.—Twenty-one Republic
an members of Rhode Island state
senate, who fled from state to Rut
land. Mass., after attempt to gas
senate chamber, issue formal state
ment. saying they will not return
until governor guarantees their per-
I sonal safety and insures resumption
lof orderly legislative procedure.
BBYIN WINS TILT
OVER PROHI PUNK
IN FLORIO! CM
' ' ■ 1.
NEW YORK, June 24.—A row
over prohiibtion enforcement broke
out Monday at a caucus of the Flor
ida delegation with William J.
Bryan on one end of the argument
and former Governor Albert W. Gil
christ on the other. In the end Mr.
Bryan had his way.
The tilt was precicipated after Mr.
Bryan had been placed on the com
mittee which will frame the plat
form. Mr. Gilchrist offered a reso
lution declaring it the sense of the
delegation that there should be no
prohibition plank. After 20 minutes’
discussion, marked by exchanges of
personalities, the resolution was re
jected. Mr. Gilchrist and Thomas
J. Appleyard, also a delegate at
large, were its only supporters.
Several delegates joined with Mr.
Bryan in declaring it would be a
mistake to tie his hands with in
tructions. The former secretary of
state pointed out that the resolu-
I tion committee would be made up
I of divergent elements and the draft
ing of a platform would be a “give
and take” proposition. His support
ers declared they were willing to
trust him to urge adoption of a sat
isfactory law enforecement plank.
Mr. Gilchrist, admitting he was
outnumbered, insisted that his reso
lution be put to a vote. Mr. Bryan
referred to both him and Appleyard ■
as “wets,” a term which Mr. Apple
yard resented because,'-he said, he
had not taken a drink of liquor
since he was eighteen years old.
Mr. Bryan told his colleagues that
if the Democratic convention did not
“go as strong” on law enforcement
as the declaration in the Republican
platform, the Democrats in the com
ing campaign would find themselves
on the wet side of the fence.
Wayne B. ’Wheeler, general coun
sel of the anti-saloon league, address
ing a meeting of Congregational
ministers, said that “a dry plank
will not help prohibition enforce
ment laws on the statute books at
Washington.” He added: “A clean
cut, strong law enforcement plank
will appeal to the people of the na
tion.”
AMERICANSONSHIP
INSULTED BY JIB
CUSTOMS OFFICERS
YOKOHAMA, June 24.—(8y the
Associated Press.) —American passen
gers on the steamship President
Madison were subjected to a rigor
ous and rather discourteous customs
examination when the vessel docked
here today, until higher officials were
informed of the change in methods
and intervened and apologized.
At least one American victim ot
the disagreeable innovation was a
woman. The President Madison,
out of Seattle, docked as usual, but
when foreign passengers stepped I
onto their pier, Japanese customs
officials stopped them, saying:
“Are you Americans?”
When the answer was affirmative,
the passengers were forced to un
dergo a most rigorous search, in
cluding removal of their shoes, leav
ing them standing on a wet floor.
The unprecedented examination
lasted an hour, when higher cus
toms officials suddenly intervened
and restored the normally courteous
methods of examination, with apol
ogies to the Americans who had
been detained. A complaint has
been lod®d with the United States
consulate here, it was learned, and
an officl&l investigation started.
‘And Costs,’ Under Fee
System, Adds $29.70
To Speeder’s $2 Fine
ALBANY, Ga., June 24.—A strik
ing demonstration of how the fee
system works in Georgia counties
was given here yesterday, when Eu
gene Stutts, a well-known young
man, was cited for speeding on the
paved Blue Springs road. Stutts
admitted he was speeding after he
had been overhauled by County Po
liceman R. A. Culpepper. He went
before Judge Clayton Jones and
thought he was getting off light
when the judge fined him $2. Then
he went to the sheriff to pay the
fine, and the sheriff said: “All right,
Mr. Stutts, just write out your check
for $31.70.”
“I thought the judge said $2,” the
young man protested.
“He did,” the sheriff explained,
“but he also said ‘and costs’ right
after he said ‘two dollars.’ ”
Underwood Advisers
Dickering for Votes
On Late Balloting
NEW YORK. June 24.—Advisers j
of Senator Oscar Underwood held I
j long conferences far into the night :
I and again today looking over the 1
i situation in the preliminary skir- I
I mishing for delegates for the Ala-'
I bama man’s candidacy. The sena
; tor’s friends says it is increasingly
i apparent that a tight deadlocked
j convention is in sight, and theNare
| taking every measure to be in post- |
i tion to take advantage of it.
Senator Underwood did not put in
' an appearance at headquarters this j
morning, having held several late ■
conferences with his friends. It was
said that the senator had been as
sured by many delegates that he was
their choice in later balloting.
HARRISON FLAYS
G. D. P. CORRUPTION
IN SEARING SPEECH
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Special Leased Wire to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1924.)
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN,
New York, June 24. —Pat Harrison,
senior senator from Mississippi, dis
ciple of Woodrow Wilson and the
chief haranguer of the Democratic
party in the senate, opened the presi
dential campaign of 1924 today by
proclaiming the issues upon which
the candidate nominated here and
the Democratic brethren generally
will seek to turn the Republicans
out of power.
No political speech in recent years
compares »with it either in bitter
ness of invective or penetrating sat
tire; no speech has even been fash
ioned like it, unless it be the de
nunciation of the Wilson administra
tion made by Senator Cabot Lodge,
at Chicago in 1920, and two w r eeks
later at Marion, Ohio.
What Representative Burton’s key
note speech at Cleveland lacked in
partisan fire is supplied in great
relentless retorts to the Republican
platform of 1924. The keynote speech
here, however, is exactly what the
Democrats wanted. For several days
copies of it have been in circula
tion and from every quarter have
come expressions of deep satisfac
tion with the document as almost a
platform in itself.
Finger of Scorn Pointed
If there has been doubt that the
Democratic party would go to the
country and point the fingers of
I scorn at Albert B. Fall, still free on
his ranch, that doubt has been re
moved. If there has been any doubt
that the Democrats would point ac
cusingly to the quick work of the
department of justice in indicting
Senator Wheeler, of Montana, while
no effort was made to indict Albert
B. Fall, that doubt too ha£ been re
moved.
Corruption in the government un
der the Republican regime and r.
challenge to anyone to point to a sin
gle case of corruption by any high
official or member of congress of
Democratic affiliation may be said
to be the basis of Senator Harrison’s
whole appeal.
The Mississippi senator takes cred
it for the Democratic party for the
exposure of Albert B. Fall’s record
as secretary of the interior and the
driving out of office of the secretary
of the navy and the attorney gen
eral. He asks the Republican party
to look up what its fifty-one investi
gating committees found in connec
tion with the Democratic administra
tion during the war.
Apart from the Teapot Dom’e scan
dal, which is not to be allowed to
slumber, Senator Harrison reveals
the plan of the party leaders to make
political capital out of the Mellon tax
plan. They welcome the plea of
President Coolidge for the Mellon
plan and utilize again the argument
that more taxpayers are benefited
under the Democratic plan fathered
by Senator Simmons, of North Caro
lina and Representative Garner, >f
Texas, than would have been the
case had the Mellon plan been adopt
ed.
Urges Party Harmony
Mostly it was an old-fashioned po
litical speech, with all sorts of dag
ger-throwing in the hope of dividing
the Republican party. Caustic ref
erences to the fact that Senator
Borah refused to join Coolidge as a
running mate, and as to the effort at
Cleveland to punish the friends of the
soldier bonus not omitted by
Senator Harrison, who showed him
self a master of Catalinian satire.
Candidacies have been for the mo
ment forgotten. Sensitive to the in
ner currents of the convention and
the menace of possible friction be
cause of the factional differences
that have arisen, Senator Harrison
made a plea for party harmony. His
eulogy of Woodrow Wilson was in
itself an appeal for a reunion of all
elements in the party in a common
cause.
“It would seem now,” he concluded,
“we can hear the soft voice of sweet
reasonableness coming to us from
Monticello, the voice of Old Hickory
coming across the Blue Ridge from
the Hermitage and from that his
toric crypt at St. Albans we hear the
mighty voice of v’oodrow Wilson,
wistfully crying to us: ‘To you from
failing hands we throw the torch.
Hold it high. Hold it high. Carry
on; carry on; keep the faith; keep
the faith.’”
Independents Pledge
Finish Fight m N. 0.
Gasoline Price War
NEW ORLEANS. June 23.—Inde
pendent oil companies engaged in a
gasoline price war in New Orleans
with the Standard, Gulf, Texas and
Pan-American companies, said today
they would carry on the battle even
if they had to retail gasoline at five
cents a gallon. Gas is being sold
at filling stations for 17 l-2c, but
holders of coupon books issued by
the big companies through the dis
count obtained by their purchase are
obtaining it at 14.65 c.
| The Weather
LOUISIANA: Thursday, partly
cloudy, continued warm.
ARKANSAS: Thursday, partly
cloudy io unsettled, continued warm.
EAST TEXAS: Thursday, partly
cloudy.
WEST TEXAS: Thursday, partly
cloudy.
VIRGINIA: Local thundershowers
Thursday; somewhat cooler in north
portion.
NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH
CAROLINA AND GEORGIA: Local,
thundershowers probably Thursday.
FLORIDA AND EXTREME
NORTHWEST FLORIDA: Partly
cloudy with scattered thundersh’ow- i
ers probably Thursday.
ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI:
Thursday partly cloudy with local
thundershowers.
TENNESSEE; Thursday local
thundershowers; somewhat cooler j
in west portion.
KENTUCKY: Thursday unsettled
and cooler; showers and thunder-1
storms. i
Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, June 26, 1924
GEORGIA DELEGATION VOTES
FOR UNITED ACTION ON ALL
QUESTIONS AT CONVENTION
Southerners Win Unusual At
tention and Are Given Wide.
Publicity by the New York
I Papers
l
BY C. E. GREGORY
Journal Staff Correspondent
NEW Y’ORK, June 24. —Georgia's
56 delegates to the Democratic na
tional convention went into the first
session at Madison Square Garden
Tuesday morning committed to vote
as a unit on all matters coming be
fore the convention, after a spirit
ed fight made by a small minority
in the first caucus held by the dele
gation since its arrival in the me
tropolis. The unit rule was adopted
by a vote of three to one.
The fight was precipitated by An
drew C. Erwin, of Athens, who read
an article in the New Y’ork Ameri
can to the effect that he and Colo
nel Pleasant A. Stovall, of Savan
nah, would make an effort to break
away from the Georgia delegation
in the convention. Mr. Erwin de
dared that he had not authorized
the story, and had publicly denied
its truth, but added that he did ex
pect to disagree with other mem
bers of the delegation on some of
the planks in the convention plat
form. He urged that the unit rule
be followed only in voting for Wil
liam G. McAdoo, upon Which point
the state convention had given iron
clad instructions.
Given Vote of Confidence
Colonel Stovall also denied the
story, declaring that he had never
heard of it until it was read by Mr.
Erwin. He stated that Mr. McAdoo
had stood by him loyally when he
was minister to Switzerland, provid
ing him with more than three hun
dred thousand dollars to care for
American war refugees, and he
would be for Mr. McAdoo for presi
dent even without any instructions
by the convention that had sent him
to New York.
Upon motion of Chairman Hollins
N. Randolpli, of Atlanta, the dele
gation gave Messrs. Stovall and Er
win a unanimous vote of confidence.
Mr. Erwin urged the delegation
to leave the members unhampered
on matters other than the presiden
tial race, but he was opposed by
several speakers who declared that
the delegation should settle all is
sues within its own ranks and pre
sent a solid front on the convention
floor, following the wish of the ma
jority in caucuses. After he had been
overwhelmingly defeated, Mr. Erwin
declared that he would not be bound
by the unit rule despite the vote of
the delegates.
The delegation had completed its
organization today with selection of
N. A. Norris, resolutions, and H. H.
Dean, rules.
Major John S. Cohen, president
and editor of The Atlanta Journal
and national committeeman-eleß
from Georgia, warned the delegates
against the insidious propaganda
that is being spread by the anti-Mc-
Adoo forties, and especially against
being misled by false reports in tht
New York newspapers.
Major Cohen stated to the dele
gates that he had been trying for’
a week to secure enough tickets for
them to take care of members of
fheir families and friends, but his
efforts had been unsuccessful. He
said he was informed that the
Democratic national committee had
turned over one hundred and twelve
tickets to the convention to Clark
Howell, retiring national committee
man from Georgia, for the use of
the Georgia delegation.
Charles E. Brown, of Cordele, sec
retary of the delegation, stated that
Mr. Howell had given him only
seventy-six tickets, or twenty more
than were needed for the delegates
themselves to get into the hall.
“If Mr. Howell will give up fifteen
of the thirty-six tickets he is still
holding, I W'll see that the Georgia
delegation is provided with enough
additional tickets to give each dele
gate one extra,” Major Cohen de
clared.
A committee headed by H. 11.
Dean was appointed tc/ wait upon
Mr. Howell and request him to meet
the prcf>osal of Major Cohen as to
the thirty additional tickets to the
convention. This committee report
ed at a caucus held Tuesday morn
ing that Mr. Howell agreed to the
proposition, provided he be permit
ted to distribute his fifteen tickets
fourteen of which he would give to'
the two United States senators and
twelve congressmen from Georg'a.
Mr. Dean stated that Mr. Howell
had already distributed some of these
tickets. Major Cohen then delivered
fifteen pickets to the delegation,
which voted to award each district
one of them.
Greeted by McAdoo
Congressman W. D. Upshaw, es
the Fifth Georgia district, was pres
ent at the caucus without a ticket
or credentials, and declared that
Mr. Howell had told him he ha I
no tickets left. Plans were at once
made to secure a ticket for Mr. Up
shaw.
The entire Georgia delegation
called upon Mr. McAdoo at 10
o’clock Tuesday morning, daylight
saving time, which means 8 o’clock
in Atlanta, and were given a rous- '
ing reception. Mr. McAdoo inform- 1
ed them that Georgia turned the ■
tide that will sweep him into the j
presidency over any sort of oppo- 1
sition,
Georgians Win Attention
Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn.
Queens, Richmond, the Bowery,;
Wall street, the Yanks, Giants and
probably even the Robins are today!
fully aware of the fact that “Mc-i
Adoo was born in dear old. Georgia.” |
The delegation from the Empire State:
of the South has made more noise, at- j
tracted more atatention and secured
wider publicity than any other bunch
of delegates in New York for the
Democratic national convention.
All six of the New York afternoon
newspaper gave the Georgians more
space and better position next to
pure reading matter than was ac
corded any other delegation, and in
MISS RUTH BLAIR, who, on
Monday, was elected state his
torian of Georgia to succeed Dr.
Lucian Lamar Knight, resigned.
She takes office January 1,
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most instances the stories were cor
dial.
In one or two cases efforts
made tp place the delegation under
the absolute domination of the Ku
Klux Klan, despite statements of
leaders that they were not members
of that organization and did not
know whether or not the other dele
gates belonged.
“Georgians, here with rebel yell,
again deny they are klansmen,”
read a two-column headline in the
World.
“McAdoo first and second choice
of Georgians,” stated the Sun in a
similar headline. “Georgians for
McAdoo or Hylan,” declared the
Journal, in a first page story re
ferring to a compliment paid Mayor
Hylan in appreciation of his wel
come address.
Ward Heelers at Work
The corridors of the Pennsylvania
hotel were made to ring with the
McAdoo campaign song composed by
Judge Newt Morris, of Marietta, and
the Al Smith propagandists soon
gave up efforts to sway Georgians
from McAdoo as an absolutely hope
less task.
This propaganda, by the way, in
tended to be as secretive as China
town, stands out like the Woolworth
building, and a quorum of the New
York aldermanic board might be
mustered in the hotel lobbies at any
hour getting in their work for Al.
Delegates have been provided with
theater tickets, boxes of candy,
smoking material, and invitations
sufficient to keep them busy for the
next three weeks, without taking out
any time to attend the business ses
sions at the garden.
Some delegates claim they have
been told that their hotel bills will
be paid if the convention lasts until
their funds 1 run low, indicating a
“freezing out” game to the limit
for the benefit of the home folks.
Thomas J. Hamilton, president of
the McAdoo organization in Georgia,
arrived Monday afternoon, after it
had been announced that a recent
illness probably would keep hint-at
his home in Augusta. He was given
a rousing welcome.
Guests at Big Dinner
E. Walter Trippe, editor of the
Atlantan, also showed up, wearing
a badge as assistant sergeant-at
arms of the convention. Mr. Trippe
came out for McAdoo for president
in 1916 and his appointment was
approved by Mr. McAdoo.
Most of the Georgia delegation at
tended the dinner given all dele
gates and alternates by the New
York committee at the Commodore
hotel Monday night when plates
were prepared for thirty-five hun
dred persons.
The s - ocial program for Tuesday
included a trip to Oyster bay as
the guests of Mrs. Charles L. Tif
fany and a visit to the grave of
Theodore Roosevelt in the afternoon
and a gala reception and dance at
the Commodore hotel Tuesday night.
President of Lions
Lauds Club’s Ideals
At National Meeting
OMAHA, Neb., June 24.—Unsel
fish service for others without hope
of reward is the basis of true hap
piness and of true Lionism, Presi
dent John S. Noel, Grand Rapids,
Michigan, declared today in his an
nual address before 1,800 delegates
of the International Association of
Lions’ clubs.
“If individuals are imbued with
the true spirit of the organization,
organized endeavors will be lifted to
a higher plane and Lionism will be
come a vitalizing force in the fra
ternity of righ-minded, efficient and
patriotic men,” he said.
The United States and Canada are
the most idealistic nations in the
world, and the most important duty
—as well as the greatest privilege—
of a Lion is to develop these ideals
and strive to live up to them, he
said. Lionism, he declared, is found
ed upon the eternal principles of
the golden rule.
McAdoo Issue Locks
Arizona’s Delegation
NEW YORK, June 24. —Forces i
understood to be divided into Me-j
.\doo and anti-McAdoo groups today i
Ir-'idlocked the Arizona delegation.
The point at issue was the delega- ■
tion chnirmnnship with W. G. Bow- .
man and C. C. Gunter contesting
and the delegation evenly divided :
The delegates finally appointed W.
E. T.utz. caucus chairman, as te-n
porofy chairman, and David Hop
kins to the cr&ueniiais committee. |
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TRIBUTE TO WILSON
IS PHD BY GREAT
CONVENTION THRONG
Georgians Take Lead
In Big Demonstration
In Tribute to Wilson
BY RALPH SMITH
(Journal’s Staff Correspondent)
NEW YORK, June 24.—The
Georgia delegation took a leading
part in the first big demonstra
tion of the convention, which
came when Senator Harrison, In
his keynote speech, paid tribute
to the wise and just statesman
ship of Woodrow Wilson. The
demonstration continued un
abated for half an hour and be
fore it ended every state dele
gation had joined in the wild pro
cession about the famous old
garden.
As the applause that greeted
Mr. Harrison’s first reference to
Mr. Wilson increased in volume,
H. 11. Dean and Newt Morris
grabbed the Georgia standard
from its moorings and began a
parade around the floor. Others
fell in behind and soon the great
est pandemonium prevailed. It
jrowned the noise of the band,
ind silence was not restored un
til Anna Case was put forward
to sing, and she can sing as
:an few women.
NEW YORK, June 24.—The long
established two,thirds’ rule govern
ing nominations of for
president and vice president was ap
proved for retention by an over
whelming vote at the first meeting
today of the Democratic convention
committee on rules. \
Only three votes were cast for
abrogation of the two-thirds rule.
They were recorded by delegates
from Texas, Florida and Tennessee.
Rolling along on a great wave of
party enthusiasm despite its deep
differences over candidates, the Dem
ocratic national convention at one
brief session today gave itself over
to cheers for- the party and roaring
approval of Temporary Chairman
Pat Harrison’s lambasting ot the
Harding-Coolidge administration.
While the contest over delegates
and platform principles temporarily
was laid aside, the 13,000 delegates
and visitors at the convention gath
ered under the sizzling roof of Mad
ison Square Garden —home of many
a great show but nor.G greater than
this —to go through the formalities
of getting the convention under
way.
Cheers for Jefferson, Jackson and
Cleveland rose in a growing cres
cendo until Chairman Harrison men
tioned the name of Woodrow Wil
son. That was the signal for the
first demonstration and everybody
went to it regardless of sympathy
for Smith or McAdoo. It was near
ly a half hour before the great au
dience was quieted again and Chair
man Harrison went back to finish
ing his keynote address.
Makes Plea For Harmony
Closing with a plea for harmony
and a united democracy whatever
the decisions of the convention
might be, Chairman Harrison said:
“It would seem that we can hear
the voice of sweet reasonableness
coming to us from Monticello; the
voice of Old Hickory coming across
the Blue Ridge; and from the his
toric crypt at St. Albans we hear
the mighty voice of Woodrow Wil
son calling to us, 'To you from
falling hands we throw the torch;
hold it high; carry on; carry on;
keep the faith; keep the faith.’”
In succession while the conven
tion cheered each ne.w point of at
tack, Senator Harrison turned the
guns of his best oratory on the Re
publican administration for all its
policies, ranging from foreign to do
mestic and centered his attack on
the developments of the congression
al investigation at Washington.
The delivery of the keynote ad-„
dress was the principal part if
day’s business in the convention.
The remainder of the proceedings
was perfunctory and connected with
the organization machinery. Rules
governing the lower house of con
gress were adopted temporarily by
the convention.
Until the convention reassembles
tomorrow various committees will
continue their w'ork. Tomorrow’s
session will see the temporary or
ganization given over to a perma-
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McAdoo Is Delighted
As Georgia Delegation
Brings Jim Democrat
NEW YORK, N. Y„ June 24.
“Did Jim Democrat come, too,”
asked Mr. McAdoo when inform
ed of the arrival of the Georgia
delegation on Monday. He ex
pressed delight when informed \
that the old negro had met Mayor
Hylan at city hall, and had told
his honor that he had come to
stay in New York until McAdoo
ha dbeen nominated.
Mr. McAdoo laughed heartily
when he learned that Congress
man ( pshaw had pinned a Mc-
Adoo badge on the lapel of the
mayor’s coat, amid a noisy dem
onstration enthused over the cor
diality of the mayor’s brief ad
dress of welcome. Mr. Upshaw
declared that any man who could
make such a speech wag entitled
to wear the badge of the next
president of the U. S.
The Georgia delegation was re
ceived this afternoon by Mr. Mc-
Adoo in his suite at the Vander
t’lt hotel, and Jim Democrat was
among those present. 9