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■ . NEW YORK STATE
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Oct. B.—John
W. Davis, Democratic nominee for
president, began today the last lap
of his drive in western New’ York
state, leaving here for a noonday
speaking engagement in Rochester
and the final address of the tour
tonight in<Buffalo. He described his
r visits to Schenectady, Albany, Utica
and here as “particularly encourag
ing,” and told members of his party
he now r was entirely confident the
November verdict would be favor
able to the Democratic national and
state tickets.
Mr. Davis, devoted several hours
today to drafting his Buffalo ad
.lress and studying data for use on
his forthcoming swing into the mid
dle west states. From now on to
the closing of the campaign he is
expected to stress issues dealing
with the Republican foreign policy,
tariff, the record of the Harding
and Coolidge administrations and
legislative acts of congress since
1920, not omitting plain statements
on such matters as the Daugherty
and Fall exposures as made by the
special senate investigating com
mittee.
Mr. Davis brought the second day
of his New York tour to a close here
last night, arriving from Utica,
where he delivered an afternoon ad
dress in which he again defended his
ideas of the theories of government,
as he said, they were represented by
the major political parties, and came
L out flatly in opposition to “discrimi
rtajrion based upon religion and upon
Lauds New’ Society
The candidate introduced the sub
ject of racial and religious differ
ences wdth a reference to the society
formed yesterday in Utica and spon
sored by former Senator Elihu Root.
He hoped that the organization, com
posed of Protestants and Catholics,
“would bloom into a mighty tree
over this nation.” to teach the doc
trine of good will among men which
the Angels sung at Bethlehem.”
In developing his idea, Mr. Davis
said he recently had taken the op
* portunity to find out what the ex
pressions of great Americans had
been and quoted two of the declara
tions he had found. The first said:
"We have abundant reason to re
joice that in this land the life and
truth of reason has triumphed over
the power of bigotry and supersti
tion and that every person may here
w’orship God according to the dic
tates of his own heart. In this en
lightened age, and in this land of
equal liberty, it is our boast that a
man’s political tenets will not de
prive him of the right of attaining
and holding the highest offices that
are known in the United States.”
Those were the words, Mr. Davis
added, “of the greatest of all Ameri
cans—George Washington.”
The second statement was read
, by the candidate as follows:
“Qpr progress in degeneracy ap
pears to me to be pretty rapid. As a
nation we began by declaring that
’all men are created equal. We now
practically read it ‘all men are cre
ated equal except negroes.’ When
‘ the know nothings get control it
will read ‘all men are created equal
except nevroes and foreigners and
Catholics.’ When it comes to this $
shall prefer to emigrate to some
country where they make no pre
tense of loving liberty—to Russia,
for instance, where despotism can
be taken pure and without the (base
adoy of hypocrisy.
Compares Parties
Amid the applause that followed
Ihe reading of this observation, Mr.
Davis raised his voice to name its
author—Abraham Lincoln—and con
tinued:
“And in this land today any man
should be ready to stand forth and
sign his ‘yea’ and ‘Amen’ on those
■ declarations.”
Returning to his analysis of gov
ernmental theories, Mr. Davis de
clared that “what the American
K people are going to decide on this
fall Is a deliberate choice between
these antagonistic and convicting
theories of government.”
He sketched at length the develop
ment of the Republican and Demo
cratic parties, and that headed by
Senator LaFoUette and Whoeler.
Naming them in order, he declared
they stood for privileges to some and
denial to others, equal rights to all
and special privileges to none, and
that the most recent entry in the po
litical field, “would change our sys
tem of constitutional government
and put in its place the parliamen
tary systerh of Europe, under which
congress or the legislature is su
premo in all things."
Ctfl’s Death Mystifies
Poisoning
Theory Is Investigated
DANVILLE, Va., Oct. B.—Police
are investigating the death of Miss
» Blanche Long, 22 years old, a
native of Semora, N. C., who was
found dead in her room Tuesday at
her boarding house. While the
theory is widely entertained that the
•young woman swallowed poison in a
fit of despondency attributed to
anonymous letters received Monday
by her fiance, W. R. Butler, whom
rhe expected to marry next Thurs
day, and by Mrs. Bertie Taylor, her
landlady, no definite basis is avail
. able for asserting this as a fact.
Coroner J. E. Taylor held an au
topsy over the body last night.
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ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PILGRIMS journey annually to Mecca (above), not the
center of a disturbance which threatens to upset the entire Mohammedan world. In the cen
ter of the arcaded enclosure is the Kaaba, the Holy Stone, kissed by the pilgrims. King Hus
sein of Hedjaz (right) and Ibn Saud (left) of Nejd are leaders of opposing forces.
Lft FOLLETTE KGAIfI
ms COOLIDGE
WITH SLUSH CHMIGE
' -
HOBOKEN, N. J., Oct. B.—Deter
mined to press his demand for a sen
ate investigation to establish wheth
er a “slush fund” is being collected to
“buy the election for President Cool
idge in doubtful states,” as he
charged in an address last night at
Scranton, Pa.; Senator La Follette
invaded New Jersey today.
On reaching Hoboken he issued a
statement reiterating the "slush
fund" charges.
“I intend,” he said, ‘‘to follow up
vigorously my demand for an investi
gation of the special slush fund
which is being collected under the
direction of AV. T. Mellon, of Pitts
burg, brother of the treasurer-secre
tary, and Edward T. Stotesbury, the
Philadelphia partner of J. Pierpont
Morgan, for the alleged purpose of
buying the election for Collidge in
the doubtful states.
“It is evident that it is a repeti
tion of the tactics used by Mark
Hanna in the campaign of 1896 when
the famous message was sent to Col
onel Dudley, of Indiana, with its in
struction, ‘A r ote them in blocks of
five.’ In that campaign a greater
fund than ever previously had been
collected for political purposes was
essembled by substantially the same
methods that are now being used, and
when election day came voters were
openly bargained for in the doubtful
states.
“Ever since that time the pro
gressives in congress have been
sticking to the strict campaign ex
penditures, and to prevent the use
of money for corrupt political pur
poses. They have introduced many
bills designed to remedy these evils
and purify American politics. In
every instance the reactionary mem
bers of both old parties have joined
to prevent the enactment ot any law
that had teeth.”
Mr. La Follette was awaiting a
reply today to his telegram to Sen
ator Borah, of Idaho, chairman of
the. senate committee on campaign
expenditures, in which he demanded
an Immediate investigation of the
alleged slush fund, and urrred him to
subpoena Chairman Butler, of the
Republican national committee; AV.
T. Mellon, Mr. Stotesbury, Joseph
Grundy, president of the Pennsylva
nia Manufacturers’ association, and
others, who. he declared in his
Scranton address, he had reason to
believe had a hand in the effort to
raise “a slush fund of $3,000,000 or
$4,000,000.”
“I assume,” said Senator La. Fol
lette in his statement today, ‘‘that
the committee- will in the near fu
ture make public such informatio •
as it has obtained to date.
“My telegram to Senator Borah
yesterday was to call his attention
to the evidence of this extraordinary
emergency collection which clearly
indicates the Republican national
committee has revised its campaign
budget, and now Is planning to
spend money on a huge scale. This
revised budget may not appear in
the routine reports sent by the Re-
Whole Mohammedan World
Is Threatened, as Desert
Ruler Rides on Capital of
All Islam
BY MILTON BRONNER
LONDON, Oct. 1 —lbn Saud, sul
tan of Nejd, in interior Arabia, by
advancing on Mecca, capital of King
Hussein, of Hedjaz, has just started
a blaze which may set the whole
Mohammedan world aflame.
Every one of the world powers,
including the United States, is no
ticing with uneasiness this tribal
brawl whfeh upon its face would ap
pear only a personal rivalry for pos
session of various deserts, palm trees,
harems and shrines.
Hussein, then sherlf of Mecca, aid
ed the Allies during the war and was
rewarded by being made king. His
territory includes the holy cities of
Mecca and Medina. To Hussein’s
sons weie given the kingdoms of
Iraq, formerly Mesopotamia, and ol
Trans-Jordania east of Palestine.
Sultan Starts War
Sultan Ibn, type of the ancient
zealot who carried the crescent
throughout the world at the point of
the scimitar, has no patience with
Hussein, his policies and his religion.
Recently he declared open warfare.
He captured Taif, Hussein’s summer
capital, 60 miles east of Mecca. It is
his reported intention to seize Mecca
and drive the king to the protecting
guns of the British fleet at Jeddah.
There begins trouble for the dom
inant Christian powers.
No nation wishes to take sides in
the quarrel for fear of offending its
own Mohammedan subjects who al
ready are restless enough. There are
publican national committee to Sen-1
ator Borah's committee.
“It is vital that the American peo
ple know before the election day ex
actly what the money Interests are
doing to influence their decision at :
the polls. I intend to see that they '
have this information.
“We have just begun to fight.
Wall Street shall not buy this elec
tion.”
“I know nothing about the Repub- !
lican national committee's finances,” \
said Mr. Slemp, “and I have !
had no connection, direct or indi
rect with the handling of them.
Neither will I have in the future.
“It has not been suggested to me
that I leave Washington in the in
terest of President Coolidge’s can
didacy, and I have no intention of
leaving.”
CHARGE OF LA FOLLETTE
FABRICATION, SLEMP SAYS
WASHINGTON', Oct. B—C. Bas-;
com Slemp, secretary to President 1
Coolidge, branded as “pure fabrica
tion” today the statement by Sena
tor La Follette, independent presi- ’
dential candidate that he would have :
charge of a campaign “slush fund” |
for the Republican party.
CHARGES OF I.A FOLLETTE
LIE, SAYS W. L. MELLON'
■PITTSBURG, Pa., Oct. 8. —Senator
Robert M. La Follette's charge that!
a “slush fund” was being raised in
Pennsylvania “for use” in the Re- ■
publican national committee, by a|
committee including AV. L. Mellon, |
bi other of the secretary of the treas. !
ury, Andrew Mellon, was characteriz-;
ed as “ridiculously absurd.” by AA’. ■
L. Mellon today. “No statement is i
necessary,” i-aid Mr. Mellon. “It's'
just a lie and doesn’t call for any
answer.”
Alabamian Named
North Texas Bishop
NEW YORK. Oct. 9.—The Rev. E.
Cecil Seamon, of Gadsden, Ala., to- i
day was named bishop of North |
•Texas at the annual session of the '
houseof bishops of the Protestant '
Episcopal church. He will succeed '
he late Bishop Temple.
Election of a successor to the late
■ishop of Nevada was postponed
• ithout explanation. It was said
hat the choice of a bishop to till '
he vacancy would not come up
rain at this session of the house.
Ihe Rev. Dr. A. A. Gilman, presi
dent of Boone University, at
V. uchang, China, was elected surra
u.iri bishop of Hankow.
The resignation because of illness
of the Right Rev. Frank I. Toucet,
bishop of Idaho, and Bishoo Coad
jutor Frank Du Moulin, of Ohio,:
were received.
The Right Rev. E. P. Dandridge,
rector of Christ church, Nashville,
Tenn., was elected bishop of Idaho
at the afternoon session. The new
head of the Idaho diocese is a son-in
law of the Rt. Rev. Arthur Seldon
Lloyd, Suffragan bishop of New
York.
; about a quarter of a billion Moslems
i in the world, most of them living
under the flags of Christian nations.
England has millions in India, tht
Soudan and various dependencies
and mandates. France has thena in
Algeria, Morocco, the Sahara, Sene
gal and elsewhere. Italy has them in
Tripoli. The United States has them
in the Moros of the Philippins. So
viet Russia has Moslem subjects on
the Caucasus and in some of her
Asiatic states.
Mecca Pilgrims Complain
King Hussein, owing his rise
■ largely to the Allies and looking to
I them for protection, would continue
friendly to Europeans. Sultan Ibn,
owing nothing to any western power,
would be for strict non-intercourse
with them if he obtained possession
of Mecca. He can lose nothing in the
attempt.
The powers in general have noth
ing but trouble to expect from the
controversy. Only the Soviets may
gain. They will use every endeav
or in Persia, in Afghanistan and in
Turkey to stir up animosity. The
total result may be a shaking to the
very foundations of the western na
tions’ power over their Moslem sub
i jects.
The reign of King Hussein, it must
be admitted, has caused dissatisfac-
I tion among Mohammedans* of many
| lands. His little capital of Mecca is
I the most venerated of all cities. It
I contains the great tombs of the
! sheiks, the mosque of Fl Haram and
i the holy shrine of the Kaaba, inclos
i ing the black stone supposed to have
i been placed there by Abraham him
: self.
Every year some 100,000 Moham
medan pilgrims come to kiss this
i stone. They complain now that Hus
j sein has been harsh to these visitors.
I Furthermore, the Turkish and Egyp-
I tian religionists deny his claim to
be caliph of the Moslem world.
Mr. John Edmondson,
Pioneer Citizen of
Eufaula, Ala., Dead
EUFAULA, Ala., Oct. 9.—Mr. John
M. Edmondson, aged about seventy
three, died Wednesday morning after
a long illness at the home of his
brother, R. Q. Edmonson. He was
one of Eufaula's oldest, most promi
nent and influential citizens, the ju
nior member of the nearly sixty-year
old cotton firm of R. Q. Edmonson
& Brother. He was conspicuous in
the community as a leader in all its
best interests.
The funeral will take place Thurs
day afternoon from the Edmonson
home on College hill.
He loaves one brother, R. Q. Ed
monson, Eufaula; two sisters, Mrs.
J. M. Glenn, Troy, Ala., and Mrs.
Mattie E. Barnes, now in New Mexi
co, and the following nieces and
nephews who were as his own chil
dren: Dr. J,,M. Edmonson, Birming
ham; E. L. Edmonson, New Orleans;
Mrs. W. H. Flowers, Atlanta; Mrs.
H. M. Flowers, Dothan, Ala. Burial
will be in Fairview cemetery beside
his wife, who died several years ago.
KANSAS CITY OOCTM
IMTS SEW TRUSS
New Discovery Heals Rup
ture Without an Operation
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. (Special)—A
new discovery which, experts agree,
has no equal for curative effects in .
all rupture cases, is the latest ac- ’
complishment of the well-known
Hernia Specialist, Dr. Andrews, ■
121 H Koch Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. !
The. extraordinary success of this
new method proves that it holds and .
heals a rupture. It weighs only a
few ounces. Has no hard gouging ;
pads, no elastic belt, no leg straps,
no steel bands, and is as comfortable
as a light garment. It has enabled |
hundreds of persons to throw away
trusses and declare their rupture ab
solutely healed. Many of these had
serious double*ruptures. from which
they had suffered for years. It is |
Dr. Andrews’ ambition, to have ev- j
ery ruptured person enjoy the quick I
relief, comfort and healing power or j
his discovery, and he will send it
on free trial to any reader of The ;
Journal who writes him. He wants .
one person in each neighborhood to '
whom he can refer. If you wish
to be rid of rupture for good, with
out an operation, take advantage of
the doctor's free offer. Write him
today.
IPUBLICJK SMIT
MLED ffl M.
UMBK FIMS
E¥ DAVID LAWRENCE
(Special Leased Wire to The Journal—Copy
right, 1924.)
DES MOINES, lowa, Oct. 9.—This
might well be called the cradle of
political revolt in America. Here it
was in 1912 that the insurgent move
ment came into being. And here
this year has developed the clearest
ease of rebellion which the Repub
lican party • faces in the entire
nation.
He is a. short-sighted politician
who brushes aside as ephemeral the
, ills of lowa or the significance of
i the protest that is being marshaled
i throughout this state. President
‘ Coolidge may carry the state —it is
not a certainty by any means —but
the administration can get a pretty
I good idea of what its troubles are
J going to be for the next tw’o and
perhaps four years by listening to
the murmurs of lowa. Why should
Senator Smith AV. Brookhart feel
impelled to defy the national Repub
lican ticket and organization and
live politically to tell the tale? Why
should there be editorials in news
papers steadfastly supporting Presi
dent Coolidge but arguing at the
same time that the Dawes part of
the ticket be soft pedaled? Why
should there be well authenticated
rumors that Federal Judge William
S. Kenyon, formerly the leader of
the farm block in the United States
senate, is restraining himself with
difficulty from announcing his sup
port of Senator La Follette?
Truly these men would not have
taken the position they have taken
if they thought the Republican vot
ers of lowa disapproved, and that
is just the situation. Here, as per
haps nowhere else in the west, there
is a certain bitterness against Presi
dent Coolidge for adopting a passive
policy with respect to farm legisla
tion. Here they are denouncing
the tariff and arguing for “the prin
ciples of the McNary-Haugen bill”
and the stabilization of farm prices.
■ Here they refuse to accept the rise
! in prices as permanent and they in
sist on some kind of legislation
which by means of an export cor
poration shall keep the prices of
farm products from 60 to 70 above
pre-war levels.
Laugh at “Radical” Cries
And who are , the men backing
Senator La Follette and running his
campaign? One would expect to
find them in the musty precincts of
the labor temples or in the upstairs
barracks of railroad terminals. Not
at all. Dante Pierce, publisher of
the “lowa -Homestead,” the most
powerful farm weekly in lowa, is the
head and shoulders of the La Fol
lette movement. He laughs when
any one calls him a radical. He
sits in his office in a big seven
story building, or he meets you at
the Des Moines, dub- Yes, in the
atmosphere of the conservatives
themselves—and he sweeps aside as
rubbish the talk of La Follette be
ing unsafe. He retorts that Wis
consin never found him unsafe in
the years he was governor. As for
public ownership and the supreme
court issue, Mr. Pierce speaks of
them as of secondary importance.
He insists he is personally friendly
’.o President Coolidge, but that issues
are more important than men in
lowa. »
To get some idea of what is hap
pening out here one must point out
i that “Wallace’s Farmer,” owned by
1 Secretary Henry S. Wallace, of the
department of agriculture, is not
taking any part in the defense of
the president. It is stated that
Mr. Wallace has, on a recent visit
here, told friends he didn’t intend
to stay in the cabinet after March
4, next.
All these farm editors keep their
ears to the ground. It is important
to their magazine circulation. And
they are endeavoring to voice the
protests of the farmer in season and
out of season. Discretion makes
the M’allace periodical more or less
neutral as between the views of
lowa farmers and the record of the
Coolidge administration. Incidental
ly, Secretary Wallace is credited
with writing the farm plank in the
Republican state platform. That
plank commits the party to an in
dorsement of “principles of the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill.” But the presi
dent has not seen fit to go that far.
So Senator Brookhart, Dante
| Pierce and the rest of the La Fol
| lette crowd insist that they are the
true Republicans and that the na
tional ticket ha s failed to stick by
the state platform.
G. O. P. Harmony Lacking.
Nor is all peace and harmony
among the Coolidge men. For some
; reason or other, unfathomed by the
: Republicans, the management didn’t
i seem to recognize the troubles of the
• party in lowa. Men like Addison
Parker, the Coolidge leader, implored
the W’hite House and the Republic
an national campaign committee
for home help early in the year to
! help quell the agricultural revolt,
! but only recently have the regular
leaders felt themselves taken care
i of by the national organization.
Meanwhile the Democrats are at
sixes and sevens. Echoes of the
fis?ht last spring when Wilbur’
Marsh, the friend of the late Charlie
I Murphy in lowa, was dethroned by
; the McAdoo leaders, Clyde Herring
i and the former secretary of agricul-
I ture, Edward T. Meredith, are still
heard. How John AV. Davis will
| fare as a result of it cannot be fore
’ cast, but usually’ when there’s a
factional row in lowa, the Demo
crats do not poll their full vote.
There is talk, of course, of swing
ing Democratic votes to La Follette
to keep the state from Coolidge.
This will not affect very many
votes. In the 1920 election the Hard
ing ticket won by 400,000. That’s
a big lead for anyone to break
down. La Follette could take 40 per
cent of the Republican vote and still
fail with Democratic support to car
ry the state. It is a matter of con
siderable doubt whether on election
day the Republican vote will be split
in half as apparently is the case
today’. ft.
The Ku Klux Klan is a vital fac
tor here. The La Follette men are
apprehensive about it. The klan is
supporting Coolidge, at least its of
ficial organs are friendly to the pres
ident and are denouncing La Fol
lette. In those sections of the state
where farm discontent is not more
controlling the klan will swing many
votes. It may’ be the balance of
power. The klan is strong in lowa.
Almost any group which votes solid
ly* is powerful in politics. Review
ing all the circumstances, it would
be rash to say the state is certain
for anybody. President Coolidge has
a good chance to carry it. The re
sult will be close, which means that
the plurality may be in the neigh
borhood of 90,000 to 50,000 votes, but
the situation favors the Coolidge
ticket because of factors which wilt
bo turned tn that direction by elec
tion day.
FAT?.’RUA A’, CLTOBtfR It. 1021.
HIS GAINS FAST
IK IMS. CLOSING
ON COOLIffS HEELS
BY DAVID IAWREXCE
(Special Leased Wire to The Journal- —Copy-
right, 1924.)
TOPEKA, Kan., Oct. 9.—Some im
portant shifts may be looked for in
the last three weeks of campaign in
Kansas, and John AV. Davis, the
Democratic nominee for president,
may be the beneficiary thereof.
Kansas, as usual, is different.
When in 1916 it turned over a solid
ly Republican majority and was car
ried for AVilson, everybody was sur
prised, including many of the Demo
cratic leaders. There are possibili
ties here of an upset. One thing
seems certain —John W. Dav.s in
stead of Senator La Follette will be
second in this state, if not first.
Informal polls taken by precincts
cannot always be relied upon hut al
lowing for the usual inaccuracies
thus early in the campaign, they in
dicate that Senator La Follette has
not made the inroads into the Demo
cratic vote here that he has in other
states. Railroad labor in many sec
tions of the country is solidly for La
Follette but in Kansas it isn’t. The
railroads have formed what is known
as “company unions,” and they come
much closer to influencing then em
jioyes than is the case in ether
states.
Just now the drive is on to recover
votes that were originally inclined
to be for LaFoUette. The Demo
crats admit that their losses as the
outset were heavy but they insist
that they will regain a great many.
Local issues are also a vital factor
in an analysis of Kansas. Governor
Jonathan Davis, Democrat, carried
the state by a substantial majority
two years ago. This means that the
Democratic party has an organiza
tion and plenty of fight. John W.
Davis made a favorable impression
when he spoke here and there seems
to be more enthusiasm to the square
inch among the Democratic organi
zation workers in Kansas than the
writer has discovered in any state
yet visited.
Spike G. O. P. Strategy
The Democrats have spiked one
bit of Republican strategy which
has worked well in other states. The
Republicans have been hammering
away at the idea that John W. Da
vis would be a poor third. The pur
pose of this was to steer conserva
tive Democrats to the Coolidge
ticket with the argument that the
common enemy being La Follette,
no changes should be taken in de
feating him, or preventing him, at
least, from throwing t-he election
into the house of representatives.
Kansas also isn’t in a radical
mood. The state is enjoying un
usually good fortune. Not only was
the wheat crop good but the corn
crop was splendid, too, and to have
two good crops when prices happen
to be high is a stroke of good luck
that few states can boast. Under
these economic conditions there isn’t
much of a protest vote. Indeed,
there will be apathy instead, and the
party workers will have difficulty
in getting out a big vote.
AVhat are the issues? President
Coolidge was at the height of his
popularity in June, but there have
been recessions since. The Demo
crats have literally flooded the state
with copies of Frank R. Kent’s re
cent magazine article describing
President Coolidge as having less be
hind his silence than the public
generally imagines.
So the situation has resolved itself
into a Democratic and Republican
fight and with a state inclined, to
be conservative this year the choice
appears to be between two safe and
sane candidates—Coolidge and John
AV. Davis, instead of between Cool
idge and La Follette.
The Ku Klux Klan .is a very po
tent factor on the surface. How
much it will count on election day,
nobody pretends to know. AVilliam
Allen AVhite entered the guberna
torial race as an independent candi
date. He says the attitude of the
Republican candidate for governor,
Ben Paulen, on the klan issue, isn’t
satisfactory. He says he would pre
fer another term by the Democratic
governor, Jonathan M. Davis, to the
election of the Republican nominee.
J.a Follette Out of It
The Republican managers have
for some time been scared by this
flank attack from one of the best
known natives of Kansas. Now
they are beginning to pursuade
themselves that AVhite will simply
split the Democratic vote, which is
largely anti-klan, and that the elec
tion of Paulen will be assured. Not
so in Democratic circles, where they
point with significance to the fact
that scarcely a day passes that some
negro lodge or organization doesn’t
send Copies to headquarters of the
resolutions they have passed on to
the AVhite House petitioning Presi
dent Coolidge to come out squarely
against the klan in a statement over
his own signature.
The negro vote is estimated at
50,000. The Democrats cannot ex
pect all of this, but every vote they
get is a gain over previous years,
for it is quite out of the ordinary
for negroes to invite the Democratic
state chairman to attend their meet
ings, and that’s what has been hap
pening out here.
The shift in the negro vote, the
recovery of La Follette votes by
John AV. Davis, and the steady anti-
Coolidge campaign being carried on
by the Democrats, is the main source
of their optimism. They may be
right, but the writer is inclined to
believe that as the race approaches
a climax the president will have the
advantage in the contest for the elec
toral votes of Kansas. Those who
have been counting on La Follette
to carry Kansas, however, might as
well cross that off their list of con
jectures.
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Editor Prefers Jail
To Telling Whether
He’s Member of Klan
BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. B.—Market
Hubbell, editor of a weekly publica
tion, refused today to state in court
whether he is a member of the Ku
Klux Klan, and was declared in con
tempt of court by Judge Peter Maul
during continuation of John Doe pro
ceedings against the klan. Judge
Maul reserved decision in the matter
of a jail sentence when the witness
asked that he be given time to ob
tain an attorney.
“I’d rather go to jail and have
my conscience clear than answer the
question,” Hubbell declared when
asked by Attorney Henry W. Kil
leen, who is directing the John Doe
proceedings, whether he belonged to
the klan.
‘‘All right, let’s send him to jail,”
said Killeen, making a motion that
Hubbell be declared in contempt.
Judge Maul remarked that he
deemed the question a proper .one,
and directed the witness to answer.
Hubbell maintained his stand.
The proceedings were instituted
by Charles S. Desmond, an attorney,
in an effort to establish whether the
klan has been in existence in Buf
falo in defiance of a state law.
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IDAHO FALLS, Ida., Oct. B.
Declaratin that Calvin Coolidge is
“the only president who has had the
courage to combat the growing tend
enc ytoward bureaucracy and ex
travagance and therefore is one of
the greatest men in the political
history of the United States,” was
made in an address here last night
by United States Senator AVilliam
E. Borah, Republican, of Idaho.
Senator Borah expressed friend
ship and admiration for Robert La
Follete but added that as he had
differed with Theodore Roosevelt in
1912 he must in this campaign dif
fer with the race of the Wisconsin
senator for president.
"In 1912, one in whose leadership
I had great confidence, one for
whom 1 had almost unbounded ad
miration and whose friendship I en
joyed, left the party and sought to
organize a third party, I declined to
follow,” said Senator Borah. “Now,
another man, whose friendship I
have also enjoyed, Senator La Fol
lette, for whose sincerity of purpose
and ability I have great admiration,
heads a third party. I entertain
no doubt as to where 1 can be of
the most eervice if I am to remain
in public life. I propose to fight
for clean, economic government for
progressive principles inside the Re
publican party.”
Minister Released
In Bigamy Charge
MOULTRIE, Ga., Oct. 9.— Rev. R.
B. Chitty has been released from the
Colquitt county jail where he was
held for about two on a charge
of bigamy in connection with his
marriage to Mrs. Mary J. Robers
nearly three years . jo. Chitty’s re
lease followed a statement by the so
licitor general to the effect that Chit
ty could not be prosecuted In Col
quitt on account of the fact that the
alleged crime charged against him
was committed in Cook county.
T. J. Meadows, Tift county farmer
and the father of Chitty’s third wife,
to whom his marriage is said to have
been bigamous, who is prosecutor in
the case, left Moultrie after testifying
before the grand jury without pro
curing a warrant against Chitty re
turnable to Cook county and the
sheriff of Colquitt, having no further
authority., to hold the minister,
opened the jail doors for him.
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