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VOL. XXVI. NO. 113
M’ADOO LEADS FIRST 8 BALLOTS
Storm Kills 94 in Ohio Towns
PROPERTY DAMAGE
IS 530.D00.0U0 IN
F LAKE ERIE TWISTER
70 Are Dead in Lorain, Ohio,
Where Storm Wrecked
Theater Building
CLEVELAND, June 30.—(8y the
Associated Press.) —Ninety-four per
sons are known to be dead as a
result of Saturday's severe wind,
rain and electrical storm which
swept the coast of Lake Erie from
Sandusky to Lorain, Ohio, wrecking
a large portion of Lorain and parts
of Sandusky.
Although the loss of life was not
as great as atfirst believed, relief
workers said today that the list of
dead may grow. Several hundred
persons were reported injured, sever
al score of them seriously, and the
property damage w r as estimated at
more than $30,000,000.
The steamship City of Erie, with
thirty-one victims of the Lorain tor
nado aboard, steamed into port here
today. The injured were removed
immediately from Ll.e ship to city
hospitals. /
Tabulation of Damages
Following is a tabulation of the
Ohio storm damage as compiled by
the Associated Press:
1 Lbrain—7o dead, several hundred
probably injured and property dam
age estimated at more than $25,000,-
000.
Sandusky—6 dead, about 100 in
jured, with property damage esti
mated at more than $1,500,000.
Cleveland—Seven dead, with small
property loss.
Mantua —Three dead.
Akron —One dead and property
damage estimated at between $500,-
000 and $1,000,000.
French Creek—Three killed, 12
houses demolished or badly dam
aged.
Near Weymouth—Two children
drowned.
Youngstown—One dead.
Alliance —No casualities, but 100
reported rescued by police from
flooded homes.
Elyria—Virtually no damage.
Cedar Joint—Six cottages blown
down; no casualties.
Vermillion—Small damage from
heavy rain but no casualties.
Salem—One dead. ,
Warren—One dead, $250,000 dam
age.
Norwalk —Creek valley residents
make preparations to leave their
*j|.Qnies as waterworks reservoir is
weakened by heavy rains.
Jumps 25 Miles
The storm first struck Sandusky,
doing most of its damage in the
eastern part of the city and then
jumped almost twenty-five miles to
Lorain, where the greatest loss of
life occurred.
At Lorain, where approximately
125 city blocks were destroyed, the
greatest loss of life occurred in the
State theater, a motion picture show
which collapsed, crushing many of
the spectators.
CHICAGO, June 29.—(8y the As
,'sociated Press.) —Sweeping sixty
miles along the shore of Lake Erie
between Cleveland and Sandusky,
0., a tornado late yesterday took a
toll of life estimated at from 250 to
350 and injured from 1,500 to 2.000
persons. Property damage will total
millions of dollars.
Lorain was the hardest hit. fa
talaties there ranging from 200 to
300, with the devastation wrought
by the terrific wind and destroyed
communications making it impossi
ble to fix the precise number.
In Sandusky harbor ferryboats
were capsized, larger craft were
torn frcm their moorings and swept
out into the bay and two boats be
longing to Henry Ford were reported
in the same distress. There also
were reports that several small pas
senger steamers plying between
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I he Weather
FORECAST FOR TUESDAY
Virginia and North Carolina: Fair
and cool.
South Carolina and Georgia: Fair.
Florida: Probably fair.
Extreme Northwest Florida: Prob
ably fair.
Alabama and Mississippi: Gener
• I’v fair.
Tennessee: Fair; slightly warmer
In west portion.
Kentucky; Fair; warmer in west
portion.
Louisiana: Partly cloudy, some
what*unsettled in southeast portion,
little change in temperature.
Arkansas —Fair, little change in
temperature.
Oklahoma; Generally fair, some
w hat warmer.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
DOHENY, SINCLAIR
M FUEL INDICTED
AFTER LONG PROBE
Conspiracy to Defraud Gov
ernment in Oil Leases
Charged
WASHINGTON, June 30.—Crimi
nal Indictments were returned by a
federal grand jury here today
against A’bert B. Fall, former sec
retary ‘■f the interior; Harry F.
Sinclair and E. L. Doheny, Sr., oil
operators, and E. L. Doheny, Jr., as
an outgrowth of the leasing of the
naval oil reserves.
Four indictments were returned.
The first named Fall, Doheny, Sr.,
and Doheny, Jr., charging them with
conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment in connection with the leasing
of the California reserve.
In a second indictment Fall and
Sinclair were accused of conspiring
to defraud in connection with the
Teapot Dome leases.
The third indictment charged Fall
with accepting a bribe of SIOO,OOO for
using his official influence in the
California leases in behalf of Doheny,
Sr.
rhe tw,o Dohenys in the fourth in
dictment were charged with inducing
Fall, in behalf of the Pan-American
Petroleum company, by the “unlaw
ful and felonious’’ payment of SIOO,-
000 to take an unlawful action.
Secretary Fall, it was testified be
fore the oil committee, was loaned
SIOO,OOO 15y Doheny, and the money
was delivered in a satchel by Do
heny, Jr. Later, Doheny obtained
the lease to the Elkhills reserve in
California. Sinclair obtained the
Teapot Dome, Wyoming, reserve
without .competitive bidding.
The indictments served to start the
government’s criminal cases in the
oil imbroglio. Civil suits already
have begun by Atlee Pomerene and
Owen J. Roberts, special counsel ap-,
pointed to conduct the prosecutions.
In considering the indictments, the
grand jury had before it nearly all
of those who testified during the
times that sensations were bein
staged daily before the senate com
mittee. In addition, much of the evi
dence made available by the commit
tee was at the call of the grand
jurors.
I The committee, in the majority
report, prepared by Senator Walsh,
Democrat, of Montana, found that
the law had been “flagrantly’’ disre
garded in the negotiation of the Sin
clair and Doheny leases and that
President Harding's action issuing
an executive order transferring the
naval reserves to the interior de
partment was illegal.
Secetary Fall’s secret negotiations
of the leases was described as in dis
regard of the statutes.
No opinion was expressed by the
committee as to whether the pay
ment by Dohney to Fall of the SIOO.-
000 was in fact a loan, but Fall’s
acceptance of it was characterized
as\“reprehensible in the last degree.”
Likewise the report related without
comment how Sinclair had paid out
$1,000,000 to clear Teapot Dome of
conflicting claims, some of which,
it said, at least were “shadowy;” had
sent a consignment of blooded chttle
to Fall’s New Mexico ranch and
had employed Fall after he left the
cabinet.
Savannah Man Gets
Year on Liquor Charge
Charles H. Crosby, of Savannah,
was sentenced to one year and a
day in the federal penitentiary Thurs
day by Federal Judge Samuel H. Sib
ley on a charge of violating the Har
rison narcotic act. Crosby entered a
plea of guilty. ,He was arrested by
federal officers last week.
John Ellison, negro, of Columbus,
Ga., was sentenced to three months
in the federal penitentiary on a
charge of larceny of government
property at Fort Benning. He en
tered a plea of guilty.
Engineer Is Killed
In Crash at Lakeland
LAKELAND. Fla.. June 28.—Roy
L. Pollard, engineer on the Atlantic
Coast Line, was killed here Friday
afternoon when an engine he was
piloting to the local shops from
I Fort Myers was struck by a freight
train. Conductor M. G. Phigpen and
a negro fireman, riding on the en
gine, jumped to safety. Pollard's
I body will be sent to Kansas City,
Mo., his home.
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WRANGLE ON KLAN
Both McAdoo and Al Smith
Deny Plank Affects Their
Candidacies
NEW YORK, June 29.—The klan
issue overshadowed all else at
the Democratic national convention
and “boom row” —the candidates’
headquarters—was almost deserted
and the campaign managers virtual
ly ceased to campaign. v
Disposition of the klan question in
the platform fight waged in the plat
form committee and in the full con
vention touched so directly on the
candidacies of several aspirants for
the party’s highest honor, that the
forces behind these men packed up
and went to Madison Square Garden.
Besides all of their working ma
terials —the delegates—were down
there.
Most of the emanations from the
headquarters, as it was, revolved
about the klan question.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, campaign
manager for Governor Alfred E.
Smith, denied that his candidate
would withdraw if the convention
voted down the Smith-supported
plank for specific condemnation of
the klan.
David L. Rockwell, leader of the
forces behind William G. McAdos,
also touched on the ,klan question in
a public statement, declaring that
should an anti-klan plank be voted
into the platform Mr. McAdoo would
in no way consider himself elimi
nated or his chances adversely af
fected.
Thomas Taggart, the Indiana
leader, like Br’er Rabbit, “he lay
low,” while the klan batle was the
hottest, but e ven he had been forced
out early in the day when an at
tempt was made in some quarters
to fasten the klan label on his can
didate, Senator Samuel M. Ralston.
Taggart denied it vigorously, meet
ing the stories with a smile, but
declaring Ralston would welcome
anti-klan, klan and any other kind
of support he could get as he was
“the candidate of all factions and
peoples, even though he was not a
klansman.”
These declarations three of the
leading campaign managers were in
terpreted as a move to set the sails
of their candidates so that regardless
of the shift of the wind over the
klan question in the convention,
their crafts would not be blown out
of the water.
The Underwood backers, however,
seemed to take particular delight in
the convention’s klan fight, and con
tinually pointed to declarations by
the Alabama senator months before
the convention which asserted had
been largely instrumental in bring
ing the klan issue today before the
convention. The minority plank on
the klan was placed before the con
vention by William R. Pattangall,
of Maine, who seconded the nomina
tion of Senator Underwood, and sup
porters of the Alabama man said
that option if nothing else was suf
ficient to tell where their candidate
stood.
The klan controversy was declared
by the proponents of the movement
behind John W. Davis to have unaf
fected their campaign except as it
brought a day of inactivity because
the mind of the convention and its
component parts was centered not
so much as to whom the nominee
should be as to what tne platform
should contain.
Suspension of activity also was
noticeable about all the other head
quarters including those opened for
Senator Glass, of 'Virginia; former
Governor Cox, of Ohio; former Secre
tary Houston and Governor Ritchie,
as Maryland.
Alleged Instigator
Os Mail Robbery
Charges Frame-Up
EAST ST. LOUIS, HI., June 29.
Max Greenberg, alleged master mind
in the $2,000,000 mail robbery at Chi
cago, June 12, in a statement made
public by his attorney. Charles A
Karch, former United States district
attorney, denies taking part in the
robbery and a-serts the charge
against him is a “conspiracy” to in
jure his character.
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YOUNG GEORGIA DELEGATE
UNLEASHES PANDEMONIUM
WITH KLAN DENUNCIATION
Andrew C. Erwin, of Athens,in 3-Minute Speech, Brings
Uproar at Madison Square Garden—Smithites Heckle
Georgians During Plank Battle
BY C. E. GREGORY
(Journal Staff Correspondent.)
NEW YORK, June 29.—Pande
monium broke loose in the Demo
cratic national convention shortly
after ten o’clock Saturday night
when Andrew C. Erwin, of Athens,
It ft the ranks of the Georgia delega
tion and mounting the convention
rostrum, denounced the Ku Klux
Klan more bitterly than the speak
ers who had preceded him, hailing
from Maine, Massachusetts, Ohio
and other northern states.
Following a personal appeal to the
Georgia delegation to join him in his
opposition to the klan, Mr. Erwin
was taken to his seat by a shout
ing crowd and Georgia women were
shoved out of their seats while Mr.
Erwin was hoisted to the shoulders
of his northern admirers and car
ried around the convention hall, to
the tune of “Marching Through
Georgia” played by the Al Smith
booster band.
States participating in the parade,
some of which keep Democrats in
their museums and zoological gar
dens, included Rhode Island as the
leader, Connecticut, Massachusetts,
Maine, Alaska, lowa, Illinois, Wis
consin, Wyoming, North Dakota,
and Utah. Kentucky and Alabama
were the only southern states in the
parade, Alabama being led by the
Underwood forces and Kentucky be
ing divided on the klan issue.
Police Do Nothing
The Georgia delegates were so
outraged the jeers and insults
hurled at them, and the rough treat
ment accorded the women in the
party, that Judge Newt Morris
served notice upon the New York
policemen of the plans of Georgians
to retaliate with violence.
“You were put here to keep order
and protect the delegates in this
convention, and if you don’t protect
the women in our delegation we will
do so ourselves,” Judge Morris
shouted to a police captain who was
thoroughly enjoying the proceedings.
There w r ere more than a dozen
policemen around the delegation,
but they did not raise their hands
to keep crowds from forcing their
way through the rows of chairs,
over the women delegates. It re-
How States Voted on the Platform
On the League
States Yeas Nays
.Akibama 24 12’/a 11%
Arizona 6 1% 4%
Arkansas 18 o '5
California 26 4 22
Colorado 12 9% 2%
Connecticut 14 5 9
Delaware 6 6
Florida 12 5 7
Georgia 28 28
Idaho 8 8
Illinois 58 10 48
Indiana 30 30
lowa 26 26
Kansas 20 20
Kentucky 26 9% 16%
Louisiana ’.. .20 20
Maine 12 11 1
Maryland 16 16
Massachusetts 36 8 28
Michigan 30 6 24
Minnesota 24 10 14
Mississippi 20 20
Missouri 36 2 34
Montana 8 8
Nebraska 16 16
I Nevada 6 6
New Hampshire ... 8 S
■ New Jersey 28 28
I New Mexico 6 6
i New York 90 "5 55
Ohio -IS 48
Oklahoma 20
No vote shown.
Oregon 9
Pennsylvania 52 22
Nay absent 2.
Rhode Island 10 10
I South Carolina ....18 IS
i South Wakota 10 10
Tennessee 24 15 9
I Utah 8 5% 2%
Vermont 8 2 6
1 Virginia 24 24
Washington 14 .... 14
West Virginia 16 16
Wisconsin 26 4 22
Wyoming 6 3 3
Alaska 6 1 5
District of Columbia 6 6
Hawaii 6 6
Total yeas. 353%; nays, 742%. Ab
, sent, 2.
quired the combined efforts of Chair
man Randolph, Secretary Brown,
Senator Nix, Judge Morris, and oth
er members of the delegation to keep
the Rhode Island and the New York
contingents from seizing the Geor
gia standard and carrying it in the
anti-klan demonstration.
The only voice raised by a new
York policeman was to threaten a
Georgian with arrest for kicking a
ruffian who tripped a Georgia wom
an.
Mr. Erw’in, who served notice on the
delegation that he would not be
bound by the unit rule except in
voting for McAdoo, was given a di
vision of time by Senator Pattan
gall, of Maine, leader of the fight
on the klan. When it was announced
that the speaker was from Georgia,
the packed galleries booed.
Mr. Erwin’s Speech
“I am from Georgia and I’m glad
of it.” Mr. Erwin stated when the
booing subsided. “We have two
courses offered to us in consideration
of the majority and minority reports
now before the convention. If we
follow the easier course, we will meet
with ignominious defeat in Novem
ber. If we hit the issue squarely,
pur reward will b a glorious vic
tory.
“I come from Georgia where we
have been trying for five years to
get you Yankees to take jp and talk
about this klan thing. I have heard
it said about the lobbies of the hotels
that there is no more reason for the
Democratic party denouncing the
Ku Klux Klan than the Elks or the
Masons or any other secret order.
“Yet I have not heard of the Ma
sons or the Elks or any other order
sending a highly paid executive and
a bunch of secret service men to a
Democratic national convention to
tell us how to run the affairs of this
coun,try. When the Masons and
Elks do that, 1 will be in favor of
denouncing them, as I favor denounc
ing the klan now.
“I come from Georgia, which state
was established by men and women
who came across the sea to escape
religious intolerance and oppression.
I appeal to my fellow Georgians to
stand with me against this hooded
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On the Klan
States Votes Yeas Nays
Alabama 24 24
Arizona 6 1 5
Arkansas ...18 IS
California 26 7 19
Colorado 12 6 6
Connecticut 14 13 1
Delaware 6 6
Florida 12 1 11
Georgia 28 1 22
♦Absent 5.
Idaho 8 8
Illinois 58 45 13
Indiana 30 5 25
lowa 26 13% 12%
Kansas 20 20
Kentucky 26 9% 16%
Louisiana 20 20
Maine 12 8 4
Maryland 16 16
Massachusetts .... 36 35% %
Michigan 30 12% 16%
Minnesota 24 17 7
Mississippi 20 20
Missouri 36 10% 25%
Montana 8 17
Nebraska 16 3 13
Nevada 6 6
New Hampshire .. 8 2% 5%
New Mexico 6 1 5
New York -90 90
North Carolina 24 3 85-100 20 15-100
North Dakota .10 9 1
Ohio 48 32 16
Oklahoma 20 20
Oregon 10 10
Pennsylvania .... 76 49% 24%
Rhode Island ... 10 10
South Carolina .... 18 IS
South Dakota .... 10 6 4
j Tennessee 24 3 21
Texas 40 40
Utah 8 S
Washington 14 14
West Virgina .... 16 7 9
| Wisconsin 26 25 1
I Wyoming 6 2 4
■ Alaska 6 6
I District of Columbia 6 6
I Hawaii 6 4 3
I Philippines 6 4 2
, Porto Rico 6 2 4
; Canal Zone 6 2 4
I Virginia 24 2% 21%
Vermont g 8
'New Jersey ..;... 28 28
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, July 1, 1924
DOUDLE VICTORY
FDR M'ADOO SEEN
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
Vote on Platform Conceded
Likely to Have Influence
On Nomination
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Special Leased Wire to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1924.)
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN,
June 29. —The forces of William
Gibbs McAdoo won two notable vic
tories in the most confusing and yet
dramatic sessions in the history of
Democratic conventions.
The McAdoo managers fought
against naming the Ku Klux Klan
specifically though denouncing all
efforts to breed religious hatred and
radical dissension. They won by a
narrow margin.
Similarly on the League of Na
tions issue, the program announced
by the former secretary of the treas
ury in favor of having a national
referendum to decide the league
controversy and take it out of pol
: itics, prevailed.
1 While the votes tonight do not
mean U.at McAdoo will be nominat
ed, it does mean that the friction be
tween both the McAdoo and Smith
factions has gone to such e, point
that to attain harmony the conven
tion may find it necessary next
week to turn to a compromise can
didate.
Notwithstanding the passionate
appeal of Newton D. Baker for a
League of Nations plank that would
favor immediate entrance of the
United States into the league, the
convention by more than a two
thir'ils vote declared in favor of the
league only after a national refer
endum shall have been held which
would differ from the election of
1920 in that it would be divorced
from all issues and candidacies and
would be conducted by special act
of congress.
Baker’s Effort Fails
Now the former secretary of war
made a great oratorical effort but
most of the delegates left before the
debate started and returned only
during the closing minutes of his ad
dress so that much of its effective
ness was lost.
T1 e chief difference 7 between the
Baker proposal, which represented a
minority of the resolutions commit
tee, and the plank sponsored by
Homer S. Cummings, was not clear
ly grasped by most of the delegates.
They brushed aside arguments that
a referendum jneant endless delay
and accepted the theory that by
calling for a referendum the ques
tion would be lifted out of party pol
itics. forgetting, of course, that the
Republican party, without waiting
for a referendum, has declared defi
nitely against American participa
tion in the league. The Democratic
leaders who favored the referendum
went on the assumption that the is
sue would be kept out of the cam
paign, though Newton D. Baker re
minded the delegates that the press
woqkl not hesitate to insist upon a
uirecfc and specific answer as to
whether the Democratic candidate
favored American entrance into the
league.
Whether the vote against Mr.
Baker constitutes a repudiation of
Woodrow Wilson, as was proclaimed
in the argument for the minority re
port, is open to question, as men
like Homer S. Cummings and oth
ers who stood beside the late presi
dent said they were interpreting his
wishes by asking for a real referen
dum and that such a process would
mean earlier entrance into the
league than a prolongation of the
struggle between parties. The dif
ference was not on whether Amer
ica should or should not enter the
league, for all factions agreed on the
objective—American membership—
but disagreed on the best method
of accomplishing the result.
Performance U nprecedented
As for the debate on the Ku Klux
Klan issue, the performance in to
night’s session was unprecedented
in the history of conventions. Re
ligious prejudice was freely ex
pressed, and the bitterness of the
Catholic-Protestant struggles of cen
turies came to the fore, though re
gretted by all. The issue came on
I whether the klan should be specifi
cally-denounced by name or whether
a set of principles denouncing se
cret political orders should be adopt
ed. William Jennings Bryan plead
ed with the delegates not to divide
the Democratic party, but to reunite
the Christian church. His eloquence
was of the same fiery sort that won
a nomination in 1896. He said the
Ku Klux Klan did not deserve ad
vertisement by a Democratic na
tional convention. Speaker after
speaker for the other side insisted
I that if the plank proposed by the
| majority meant the Ku Klux Klan,
| it should say so.
As the roll was called it was ap
parent that the vote would be close.
The galleries insisted on showing
their feelings and expressing their
i opinions. The crowd favored nam-
I ing the klan, just as the galleries
sided with Newton Baker in his plea
for a league plank meaning imme
diate entrance into the Geneva or-
I ganization.
The accuracy of many votes un
der the unit rule in vogue in many
states was challenged again and
again, requiring the polling of indi I
i vidual delegations and delaying the ;
[ count past midnight.
AIM KLUX REPORT
BEATEN BY ONE VOTE;
PLATFORM IS AOOPTEO
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New York, June 30.—William
Gibbs McAdoo maintained his lead over the field of presidential |
candidates through the eighth ballot here this afternoon, while favor* |
ite sons held grimly on in the struggle. Al Smith showed small gains J
during the day of voting, which was featured by tenacity with which I
delegates supported their favorites. The eighth ballot showed the
following result:
Underwood, 48; McAdoo, 444 6-10; Robinson, 21; Smith, 273 1-2; :
J. W. Davis, 57; Ritchie, 19 9-10; Cox, 60; Bryan, 16; Governor 1
Davis, 29; Harrison, 20 1-2; Glass, 26; Brown, 9; Saulsbury, 6; 1
Walsh, 1; Ralston, 30; Ferris, 6 1-2; wW. J. Bryan, 1; Silzer, 28; I
Thompson, 1. Total, 1,098. - |
The first ballot showed: Underwood, 42 1-2; Robinson, 21; Me- I
Adoo, 431 1-2; Sweet, 12; Brown, 17; Smith 240 1-2; Saulsbury, 7;'i
Silzer, 38; John W. Davis, 31; Ritchie, 22 1-2; Harrison, 43 1-2; ,
Cox, 59; Bryan, 18; Ralston, 30; Jonathan Davis, 20; Ferris, 30;
Glass, 25; Thompson, 1; Kendrick, 6.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, *.ew York, June 29. —The Demo- i
cratic platform will not single out the Ku Klux Klan by name. i
It will not contain a Wilsonian plank on the League of Nations, i
These two decisions came early Sunday morning after a ten-hour
continuous session in which some of the most dsiorderly scenes
in convention history were enacted.
The attempt to substitute a plank on the League of Nations for
that submitted by the platform commitee was bowled over by a heavy I
vote. But the vote on the klan was very close and its taking was I
surrounded with scenes of acrimony and dispute such as have not!
been witnessed in years on the floor of a national convention. ' i
When, after repeated challenges and changes of votes in the varl
ous delegations, the result was announced, it was 542 and three-'
twentieths votes in favor of the plank as the committee recommend-i
ed and 541 and three-twentieths votes in favor of the minority plank i
which would have singled out the Ku Klux Klan by name.
Another roll call resulted in the adoption of the platform as a!
whole and as submitted by the platform committee.
Roosevelt Moves to Adjourn
There was more disorder with a
hundred degelates calling for recog
nition, and the chairman shouting at
the top of his voice and scarcely able
to make himself heard. When a roll
call was demanded on the platform
the chair announced that the requir
ed number of seconds were not pre
sented. Then while all the racket
was at its height. Franklin D.
Roosevelt raising himself to his feet
on his crutches made himself heard
above the riot and shouted “We have
now proceeded to the morning of the
Sabbath day. I move that the con
vention adjourn until 9:30 o’clock
Monday morning.
There was a rolling chorus of ayes
and a rolling chorus of nose, but
Chairman Walsh evidently exhaust
ed, brought down the gavel with a
wallop and declared the motion to
adjourn carried.
The convention piled out In the
streets in the same disorder which
had characterized ten hours of con
tinuous session.
The platform as a whole was
adopted by a viva voce vote in
which the ayes and the noes were
mixed in a mighty chorus. But
Chairman Walsh, bringing down the
gavel, declared the motion to adopt
the platform carried.
Tired and keyed to a high nervous
pitch by the string of events which
had led up to the vote ,the delegates
and convention officials quarreled
repeatedly and in one or two cases
the police had to intervene to quiet
rows on the convention floor.
The session had begun at 3
o’clock Saturday afternoon.
Old-Time Debate Heard
Plunging on the heels of the
league plank into the klan issue,
the convention heard a two-hour old
time convention debate ending in a
speech by William J. Bryan, which
was interrupted by “boos” from the
galleries but applauded by the dele
gates in tribute to the fighting qual
ities of the three-time candidate for
the presidency.
The klan issue came to a vote on
the question of adopting in place of
the religious liberty plank es
poused by Mr. Bryan, an open con
demnation of the klan by name.
The vote on the first of the con
tested planks in the platform came
after a most dramatic appeal to the
convention by Newton D. Baker to
consider the memory of Woodrow
Wilson and put in an out-and-out
Wilsonian plank for the League of
Nations.
Other party leaders argued that
the majority plank proposed a more
practical way to accomplish the ob
ject of getting the United States into
the league and the convention sus
tained them.
The vote was 351 1-2 for adopting
the Baker plank and overturning the
resolutions committee and 742 1-?
votes for adopting the majority of
the resolutions committee and adopt
ing the plank it presented. There
were two votes absent.
“You will repudiate Woodrow Wil
son if you do this,” Mr. Baker had
told the convention before if voted.
Klan Plank Next Up \
Then the convention got co the
much-discussed Ku Klux Klan issue
on a proposal by Mr. Pattengall, of
Maine, to take in a plank naming
the Ku Klux Klan specifically. Sen
ator Owen, of Oklahoma, opened the
discussion. He was speaking for the
majority report, which does not
name the klan.
“I appear before you now in a po
sition in which I am entirely free to
express opinion as well as defend
the majority resolution now before
you,” said the senator in beginning,
explaining that he was about to re
tire from public life.
“This is a most critical question,”
said Senator Owen. “This is not a
a question as to the Ku Klux Klan I
winning 01 losing. This is a difer-(
ence of judgment between the large
a UEM'b A Cort.
Si A YEAfar
majority of the members of your,
, committee and a minority of the soma 1
. committee. I
t “The majority members present
5 you with a plank declaring in strong*!
1 eat possible terms for freedom of re-]
i ligion freedom of speech* freedom of!
- the press and freedom of the righty
■ of every nidividual to the protection;
. of the laws.
To Brand or Not to Brand
• “The only difference between the!
I minority and the majority is wheth
! er the national convention shall stig
matize the klan as being guilty of in-
• terferring with religious liberty and
with the political rights of their fel
low-citizens.
i “Make no mistake about the issue.]
There isn’t anybody anywhere in
. America in any responsible position'
that would defend any organization.
Ku Kiux or net, in violating the ;
principles of the constitution or dis-',
regarding the lawful rights of their
fellow-citizens. ;
"I assume it I s true that member*
wearing the mask and indulging in>
midnight frolics with their nighties
on have been guilty of depredations
and that sometimes the vilest and!
basest of criminals have worn the j
mask to indulge themselves in some'
criminal act. That is probably trpe. |
It is also true that there are other
lunatics in the country, who don’t I
wear this shroud, ft is also true that |
.here arc other criminals in the
country who do not wear this hood. I
I have been amazed to see this con-1
troversy between Democrats as to
wh.it is wise party policy represent-j
ed I y the press as being a defeat or i
a vict r’/ fi r the Ku K.ux Klan. It
is neither one nor the ether.
“As for myself I would not know- i
ingly deprive any American citizen,
however humble, of his right to wor- ■
ship God in his own way.
Cites Jewish “Question”
“I have been taken care of by ,
negroes all my life and 1 should ■
despise myself if I wounded the feel- I
ings of the numblest in the land. ,
Wuen Justice brandeis was made a J
justice of the ,cuprem e court of the |
United States I admired his great (
brain and character. I did not care
that he was a Jew. From the Jews I
we jeceived the blessing of th e Bi
ble. Out Ciiristian doctrine is found
ed on the teaching of a Jew. When I.
our sons went to war in America’s
great battle we did not ask their ■
race or creed, or color. t
“Shall we now allow the Demo
cratic party, with the greatest op
portunity in all history to be divided
on this question of Jew or Gentile?”
There wdTe cries of “no” from the
audience.
“Shall we use this question in any
way directly or indirectly to promote
or demote any candidacies whatever?
My fellow-Democrats, let us be care
ful. This isn’t isn’t a question of
courage, as a member of the com
mittee said. A member of the com
mittee said we didn’t have the cour
age to name the K. K. K. Well, I’ve
got the courage to name th e K. K.
K. I’m not afraid of a Ku Kiux,
living or dead. There wasn’t any
Ku Kiux in your committee that J
know of. In Louisiana the K. K. K.
was charged with killing some
pie at Mer Rouge. It never was
proven, and Louisiana passed a law
declaring that no man without per
mission should wear a mask. They
didn’t want to stop the Mardi Gras.
No Evidence Presented
“We’ve got laws in this country ’
i to control the Ku Kiux Klan. We •
| have those laws in Oklahoma. We
can tear the mask off of them. They
tried to nominate a man there for
governor, and the good Democrat*
and Protestants and Catholics licked
the stuffing out of them. We’re
not afraid of them politically or
! any other way. The only issue is:
' will you say by the voice of this
I convention that the membership of
I the. K K. K. are guilty of violating
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