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' MIDDLE WEST TOUR
WH 81MWS :
TURNS BACK EAST
' ABOARD DAVIS TRAIN, EN
ROUTE TO CLEVELAND, Oct. 23.
With but one more formal address—
that scheduled for Cleveland to
night—John W. Davis, Democratic
candidate for president, was on his
* way east today, completing the last
leg of his two weeks’ final campaign
drive in the middle west.
The train passed out of Indiana
early today headed for Cleveland
and thence on to New York, where
the final drive of the candidate’s
personal campaign will be started
Saturday.
Mr. Davis put the finishing
touches on his Indiana tour last
night at Evansville after speaking
earlier in the day at Vincennes and
for a briefer period at Princeton.
In Evansville he replied to Secre
tary of War Weeks’ address in New
York Tuesday evening, characteriz
ing the, war secretary as “one of
the still unmuzzled” members of the
cabinet.
In Vincennes Mr. Davis charged
that the three and one-half years
of power by the Harding-Coolidge
administration “have produced this
radical third party of which they
complain.” The “radicals,” Mr. Da-
* vis said, had aroused the American
people and offered “stronge doc
trines, urging them on the people
as the cure-all for their ills.’
Secretary Weeks, he said, had dis
covered a new antagonist for the
Republican nominee in the name of
Governor Charles W. Bryan, the
Democratic vice presidential candi
date. The secretary’s act, he de
clared was a “bit of strategy so sim
ple that I think the strategy board
of the war department must have
been working on it thirty days.’
“Mr. Weeks has solemnly assured
the American people,” Mr. Davis
said, “that the real race for the
presidency this fall was not, as Gen
eral Dawes thinks, between Presi
dent Coolidge and Senator La Fol
lette, but between President Cool
idge and Governor Bryan.”
“I do not share Secretary Weeks
horror about that contingency if it
.arose,” Mr. Davis said. I should
’not tremble for the destinies of my
country if they were committed to
a gentleman, who, after having
spent twenty years of his life in
contact with public questions, re
ceived the largest majority evei
given in his state for the office of
chief executive, and who, if the
draft had not been made upon him
by the Democratic party, would have
been re-elected by his fellow citizens
by a majority greater than he en
joyed when they first inducted him
into office.”
DECLARES THIRD PARTY IS
RESULT OF G. 0. P- MISRULE
EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 23.— (By
the Associated Press.) —Completing
his third and final campaign tour
of Indiana with addresses last night
at Evansville and in the late after
noon at historic Vincennes, John
W. Davis, Democratic candidate for
president, charged that the last three
and one-half years of Republican
administration had produced the
third party” and offered with the
help of a Democratic congress to
remedy “the disease which had
brought it about.”
Mr. Davis also pledged in the
name of democracy to give relief to
tlie farmers of the country, to bring
about a thorough house cleaning of
the Washington government; to put
an end to bureaucracies and install
a government based on a sane, for
ward looking and progressive liber
alism. In addition, Mr. Davis said
he would cause the tax arid tariff
laws to be rewritten along the lines
that knew no class or section, priv
ilege or favor. .
Misrule Brougfit Third I arty
Referring to conditions which he
declared were responsible for the
creation of the independent party,
Mr. Davis said:
“Three and one-half years of pow
er by the Harding-Coolidge admin
istration has produced this radical
third party which our Republican
friends complain split the Repub
lican party. They roused the Ameri
can people and have given the op
portunity for men to offer new and
strange doctrines and urge them on
the people as the cure for all their
ills. Will you seek to cure the pa
tient bv giving him an injection of
the same virus that produced this
disease?
“Suppose you renew the commis
sions of the men that have abused
official power; that have surren
dered themselves and their country
to privilege; that have exhibited be
fore the American people and the
world their own impotence to take
any forward step in the public in-
a terest* Do you think you will quiet
radicalism by that? Do you think
vou will still the discontent in the
UnitecL States by that? Will you al
lay the vast unrest which unques
tionably pervades today the Ameri
can people by giving them, over
again, the same condition that
aroused them? Why, to ask the
< stion is to answer it. What will
you do as patriots and Americans?
Is there no relief? 1 stand here to
offer one.
Democracy’s Offer
"In the name of the Democracy I
offer yon a sane, forward looking
and a progressive liberalism that
knows no class or section, no petted
favorite, that believes it not the busi
ness of those in office either to give
favors to their friends or to official
power to punish their personal ene
mies; but to so administer the affairs
of this government that every man.
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THE’ ATLANTA T!<! WEEKLY JOURNAL
“MOKE MONEY-MOKE MORALS,” SAY GIRLS
WHO STUDIED. MILL WORKING CONDITIONS
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Some, of the leaders in the “students in industry” movement. From left to right: Katherine New
kirk, of PGinono college. California, acting chairman, student assembly, national Y. W. C. A. conven
tion,’ Countess Elsa Bernadotte, of Sweden; Alice Corl, leader of the University of Wisconsin’s plan to
support eight factory girls in the university’s summer school. ’
whether he be laborer, or farmer, or |
business man or what not, may feel j
that he is an equal citizen resting
under equal laws and with the equal I
care and consideration of his gov
ernment addressed towards his needs. ,
“You ask me what the Democracy j
would do if you trusted it with pow- 1
er? Well, I will tell you where it I
would begin. It would begin just
where I believe the American wants
its 0 process to begin; with a thorough
house cleaning in Washington.
"Equal rights to all men and
s >ecial privilege to none.”
A storm of applause greeted his
utterance.
“It would rewrite the taxing and |
the tariff laws of this country that ■
no legitimate industry could be in
jured: so that no working man could
be deprived of the opportunity for
honest toil, but on the other hand
so that no consumer in the United
States would be unduly burdened to
pile up profits for those who have
written the law in their own inter
ests.
“We do not accept the theory bold
ly proclaimed when the Fordney-Mc- I
Cumber blil was written, that we will .
take care of the producer and let the I
consumer take care of himself. We I
would do something more for the \
farmer than simply investigate him. I
We would take such measures that
would open to him again the great I
markets across the sea upon which |
he must depend. We would no long
er compel him to buy in a market
controlled by monopoly at monopo
listic prices and sell in a market
open to all the world. We would aid
him in his marketing processes and
we would lessen the long journey be
tween him and the ultimate consum
er, and build up such government
agencies as would put him on a pari
ty with his fellow citizens in the j
conduct of his business and in the
merchandising of the things he has
to sell.
Knell of Bureaucracies ,
“This country has been controlled ;
for years by an industrial bloc. >
There is a farm bloc now in con- !
gress endeavoring to redress the '•
balance, and it is the great ambition
of democracy that those scales shall
be held so even that it will not be
necessary to have industrial or ag
ricultural blocs but the ear of the
government will be equally open to
every man, no matter what his call-I
ing.
“We propose to put an end to the I
building up of great bureaucracies
in this country that, sooner or lat- '
er, will take away from the super !
vision and the energy of the people j
that interest in their government, i
to find themselves governed by a!
horde of agents located in Washing- j
ton of whose personalities and pres
ence they are not aware.
“Those are some of the things in
the Democratic program and I be-|
lieve as firmly as I believe anything ;
that this great outpouring here to
day and the pervasive interest shown \
all over this country Is a demonstra
tion of the fact that on the fourth
of November next the American
people are ..going to turn again to
the Democratic party and its nomi
nees for their relief.”
Dalton Plans to Abolish
Railway Grade Crossing
DALTON, Ga., Oct. 23.—County
and city authorities are conferring i
on plans t oeliminate the dangerous i
grade crossing at the Crown cotton
mills, where six lives were lost re
cently when an automobile was
struck by a train. Two plans have
been proposed, one to build an under
pass, and the other to re-route the
road. The cost of work is estimated
at about SIO,OOO, of which the rail
road company has agreed to pay a
third. \
Bogus Passport Plot
Likely to Upset Cabinet
[ BUCHAREST. Oct. 23.—(8y the
Associated Press.)—Discovery of an
extensive organization for the is
suance and sale of bogus passports
to the United States resulted last eve
ning in the attempted suicide of Gen
eral Viatoiano, brother of a member
of the Rumanian cabinet and today |
I threatened a cabinet shakeup.
Slim Pay Envelopes Means'
Easier Prey to Chance Ac
quaintanceship, They Re
port After Intimate Survey
CHICAGO, Oct. IS. —More money
—more morals!
It is the girl with the slim pay
envelope who falls the easiest.
She wants “good times.” But she
can not afford them herself.
So, nine cases out of ten, she be
comes easy prey to the strange
youth who is willing to “foot the
bills.”
The temptation of joy rides good
eats, pretty clothes, gifts of jewelry,
nights in the cabarets are difficult
to resist.
At least that is the opinion of
twenty-five college girls who took
jobs in factories and shops last sum
mer just to find out how “the other
half” lives.
The young women were recruited
from Vassar, Mount Holyoke, Uni
versity of Oregon, University of Ok
lahoma and other sphools.
“It Can’t Be Done”
They went forth under the aus
pices of the “Student in Industry”
movement which originated with the
national board of the Y. W. C .A.
three years ago.
The Countess Elsa Bernadotte, of
Stockholm, a niece of the king of
Sweden, entered a hide and leather
plant in Chicago. She was only
there a few weeks until her identity
was discovered. Her name forth
with was scratched off the payroll.
Sixteen of the other girls also
landed jobs in Chicago. Eight went
to Philadelphia.
All announce their sympathy is
entirely with the industrial girl.
“It can’t be done,” they say. “No
one can lead a. healthy, all-around
clean life on the wages and under
the conditions we worked this sum
mer.”
The working girl on a. typical fac
tory wage, they explain, has no
guarantee against the emergencies
that inevitably arise.
Doctor bills, clothes, union dues,
insurance can not be met by the
saving of $2.88 a week, the result of
the strictest possible economy and
self-denial.
With no guarantee against such
emergencies, the factory girl is com
pelled, by her insecurity, to hold on
to poorly paid jold? often at the cost
of her health.
The morals of the girls they work
ed with, the collegians declared, ran,
as they do in all groups, from the
highest to the lowest.
Yet usually it was •» question of
money. If wages -were higher, mor
als would be higher, the- students
believe.
Meets Beaus in Parks
Living on such low wages, there
is little chance for a. factory girl to
meet a young man formally. Ac
quaintances, as a rule, must be pick
ed up at random.
There are no facilities in the girls’
rooming houses for entertainment
of their young men friends. Conse
quently, "fellows” must be met on
tho street corners or in the parks.
Working conditions are reported
“varyingly good and bad.” Except
in rare instances, bosses were found
considerate and fellow workers heln
ful, friendly and anxious to help the
new girls along.
Sanitation and physical conditions
varied. Ventilation and light were
uniformly good. But weariness and
monotony—well, they were preva
lent everywhere.
The students all volunteered for
the experiment. They paid their ex
penses. above their scant earnings,
from their own pocketbooks.
WOM \N MISSIONARY, 87, DIES
NEW' BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 23.
Mrs. Julia. E. Towle, 87, for 45-years
a missionary among the Indians of
the Pacific northwest, died here yes
terday. In 1884 shq. went to the
Umatilla Indian reservation as mis
sionary and remained until about 10
years ago.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
By J. P. AUe/
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(Copyright. 1924, by The Beil tynd'cate. Inc.’
I BORAH COMMITTEE
TO CALL CHAIRMEN
FROM FOUR STATES
I (Continued Lain Page 1)
. long cross-examination in an effort
■ to show, he said, that the American
i Bankers’ association had departed
i at Chicago from its traditional pol-
■ icy of “hands off” in politics to
i wage a fight on La Follette and
j “terrorize” the’ bankers by saying
j the La Follette movement was a
real menace to the government.
Shepherd insisted that accounts
of the proceedings saying that the
sessions had a decided political tinge
wer enot justified.
Sen.-tor Caraway. Democrat, Ar
•kansas, suggested the inquiry was
going far afield, but Walsh dis
agreed vigorously. Senator Borah
I suggested that the bankers had a
I rig/- to exp ' opinion of
I Sena'. Jr La Follette, and added:
“I suspect that Senator La Fol'
' letto had no objection to ther doing
l so.”
W. sh asked again about the Chi
! cago convention of the American
I Bankers’ associataion. but Shepherd
insisted that his association did not
discuss political contributions. He
added that the association had no
eontr • over what was said bv those
■who addressed it.
Later the committee was told by
Charles D. Hille, vice chairman of
the Republican national committee,
that about $850,000 had been col
lected in New York state for the
j Republican campaign fund.
Hilles also testified that the con
; tributors’ committee of the Repub
l lican national committee had organ
! ized acommittee to collect campaign
I funds among the casualty insurance
! companies over the country.
Says Pomeroy Was Director
: Mr. Hilles testified that he. had
' been interested in collecting cain
[ paign funds, but that work was
: under the supervision of Daniel E.
Pomeroy, of Englewood, N. J.
i Hilles said he had no knowledge
I of any organization collection in he
> half of the Republican party out-
I side of the regular organization.
; "Do you know of any organiza
! tion, association or individual in
' New York collecting campaign funds
! in that state other than the Repub
lican national committee?” asked
j Senator Borah.
I “Only one. That is the contnbu
| tors committee, which sends „all
funds to the national committee.
"Do you know Guy D. Emerson?
asked Senator Caraway.
"I do.”
I "Is he collecting funds for the Re
! publican party?” »
“He is. He is head of the contrib
utors’ committee.”
After the witness had told of the
committee dealing with casualty in
surance companies, Mr. Unteimyer
brought out that it represented all
classes of insurance companies.
“Where are the contributions htus
received reflected In the reports of
the national committee made to this
committee?”
"I couldn’t say.”
50 or 60 Sub-Committees
“How many subcommittees are
' there under the contributors com
j mittee?” Untermeyer asked.
“About 50 or 60, operating in New
York.”
“Don’t operate also over the
country generally?”
“I don’t think Mr. Emerson or
j ganized as fully elsewhere as In New
York.”
“Frankly now, dont' you get your
money from the big ‘protected’ busi
| nesses?”
“We get our money from about
1 30,000 contributors.”
“Aren’t officeholders required to
contribute?” interjected Senator Car
| away.
“They are not.”
I “It has been in the papers enough,
i Haven’t you read the C. Bascom
j Slemp ‘Dear Ben’ letters?”
"I have not.”
“While I'm on that.” Caraway
added.'"l want to say that I have
Pastor in Poison Case
Granted Sanity Test
MOUNT VERNON. 111., Oct. 23.
Judge J. C. Kern today granted a
motion by the attorney for Law
rence M. Hight, former clergyman,
for an inquiry into bis sanity before
he pleads to the indictments charg
ing him with the murder by poison
of his wife and Wilford Sweeten.
REW LAMP BURNS
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The inventor. A. N. Johnson. 642
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it. Write him today for ' ill partic
ulars. Also ask him to explain how
you can get the agency, and with
out experience or money make $250
to SSOO per month.
WALKER HOLOS UP
PWINGOFBJLIOL
ERRORS ARE FOUND
Governor Walker Thursday order
ed the printing of all official ballots
for the election on November 4 to
be held up until the names can be
rearranged, in order that the can
didates of the various parties may
be properly bunched. In counties
where the ballots already have been
printed, it will be necessary to have
them reprinted, it was said.-
After copies of the offeial ballot
had been mailed out for the county
officials to follow, in having theii
local ballots printed, it was found
that the Democratic candidate for
state offices had been separated
from the candidates for the electoral
college, with all other patty candi
dates for electors intervening. This
arrangement made the Democratic
candidates for state offices fall under
the progressive candidates for elec
tor, without any subhead to differ
entiate the Democratic candidates
from the progressive candidates.
It also was discovered that the
I name of H. Bedinger Baylor, inde
| pendent candidate for governor, had
been placed in the list of the nomi
nees of the Democratic state pri
mary, although it was designed that
Governor Walker is I,he Democratic
candidate and Mr. Baylor an inde
pendent Democratic candidate. As
Mr. Baylor did not enter the pri
j mary, state officials held that he
could- not be listed among the Demo
cratic candidates, but his name
would have to appear in a separate
place under the head of independent
candidates.
As the general election is less than
two weeks off, and it is the duty of
county election officers to distribute
the ballots to all county precincts,
some of which are 25 miles or more
from the courthouse, it was realized
that the situation would cause a
great deal of confusion in some coun
ties.
Mrs. Bessie Anderson, secretary of
the Democratic state executive com
mittee, called the officials in all
counties where the Australian ballot
system has been adopted, over the
long distance telephone Thursday,
and informed them that new ballots
were being mailed out.
in my files a record of thirteen in
dictments for such attempted forc
ing of funds where the accused
. | guilty.”
j Untermyer submitted an analysis
of the report of the Republican na
tional committee on contributions up
to last October 10, showing that sl,-
109,793 of the total collections of sl,-
714,372, had come from 470 contribu
tors.
Under a long cross-examination,
Hilles declared he had no knowledge
that Elbert H. Gary, J. P. Morgan,
or President Bedford, of the Stand
ard Oil company, had made any con
tributions to the Republican cam
paign funds. ,
j The telegram from Senator Walsh,
of Montana, came up again. Unter
myer said it was apparent that it
would be possible for big interests to
send SIOO,OOO into Montana or other
states without it showing on the Re
publican national committee records,
or that committee knowing of it.
“Is there- anyone connected with
this investigation,” said Senator Bo
rah, “who can supply the committee
with any facts to run that down? We
want to do it and we want to do it
right away, because the election is
only a little way off. I do not be
lieve Walsh would say that unless
such rumors existed, and unless he
had a good reason for thinking so.”
$500,(100 in Five Days
Approximately $500,000 was added
to the Republican campaign fund in
the five days from October 10 to Oc
tober 15, bringing the total to within
SBOO,OOO of the $3,000,000 maximum
sought by the Republican national
I committee.
This is shown by official reports
received today by the senate corrimit
tee from national Treasurer Willliam
V. Hodges. Os the nearly $500,000 to
tal, the New York office reported
$308,812 and the Chicago office $178,-
215.
Individual contributions ranged
from teA cents to $12,500, there being
one subscription of the latter amount
from William Nelson Cromwell, of
New York city. One donation of $20,-
000 was received from the Union
League Club of Philadelphia, which,
the committee was told yesterday by
Edward T. Stotesbury, and others,
conducted a campaign for contribu
tions independent of that of the
Pennsylvania, ways and means com
mittee of the Republican national
committee.
New contributions of SIO,OOO each
reported came from Irenne Dupont,
'of Wilmington, Del.; Frank A. Mun
sey, New York publisher; Congress
man Ogden Mills, of New York, and
Frank W. Stearns, of Boston, a per
sonal friend of President Coolidge.
Contributions in the sum of $5,000
were made by Senator William B.
McKinley, of Illinois; Max D. Steuer,
of New York city; Mr. and Mrs. Larz
Anderson, of Boston, and W. P. Mur-
■ phy, of Chicago.
Miss Helen Clay Frick, of Pitts
burg, is listed as giving $2,000, and
! Alanson B. Houghton, American am
’ bassador to Germany, $2,500.
! Other contributors included H. S.
' ! Bovard, Greenburg, Pa., $3,000: John
■ iM. Jamison, Greenburg, Pa., $3,000;
H. Emlen Roosevelt New York, sl,-
>000; W. P. Draper, New York, $2,-
000: B. G. Dawes, Pure Oil company,
$1,000; Mrs. B. G. Dawes, Colum
bus. $1,000; Theodore Gary, Kansas
City, $2,500; Hunter L. Gary, Kan-
• sas City, $2,500; A. L. Adams. Kan
. ’sas City. $2,500; William Volker,
- i Kansas City, $2,000; F. H. Lathrop,
Birmingham. Ala., $2,500; Grant
; Ridgway. Chicago, $1,500; F. $.
’Terry, Cleveland, $2,658; B. G. Tre
‘ > maine. Cleveland. $2,658: E. 1.. Ford,
’ i Detroit, $1,000: J. B. Ford, Detroit,
-1 $1,000: A. W. Goodrich, Chicago, sl.-
JjoOO; Edward Mallinckrott St. Louis.
•ij $1,500; Charles Deering, Chicago, sl,-
J 100; James Deering, Chicago, $2,500;
' Warren Wright, Chicago, $3,500.
■ | William C. Sproul. Philadelphia,
i ! $1,000; Marshall Fields. $5,000.
Disbursement Report
The disbursement report of the
i N< w Y jo offices for
I October 11 to October 15 inclusive
> shows that the Chicago office spent
j $168,742 and the New York office
I $85,444. The Chicago office expendi
■ tures included an advance of $lO,-
; 000 to the Republican committee of
I Cook county and SIO,OOO to the Cook
■county campaign committee and $14,-
l 800 to Bert O. Cady, national com
' mitteeman of Michigan. The New
. i York expenditures included $50,000
| to the New York state Republican
I committee, $15,000 to the Republican
i senatorial committee and $5,373 for
. i moving pictures.
Fire Fighter Killed
RICHMOND, Ind.. Oct. 23—Wil
i Ham Kinney was killed and a second
' i Richmond fireman was .seriously in-
• I jured while fighting a'fire of un
. determine dorigin today which de-
Cst roved Lindley hall, administration
land main classroom building of Earl
iham college. The firemen were
.'.•aught under falling w ills. The loss
1 I was placed at approximately
I $125,n0n.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2*. IP2L
COOLIDGE MONEY MYTHICAL;
“OFFER” PROVES ONLY RUSE
TO BOLSTER G. 0. P. LINE
Norman H. Davis Unable to Find 2 to 1 Odds Against
Davis —Close Observers Wonder Where Republican
Ticket Is to Get Vote as Democrats Gain Ground
RY RALPH SMITH
NASHVILLE, Term., Oct. 22
American politics in the past has
developed many paradoxes, but in
the <M>inion of keen observers no self
contradictory proposition comparable
to the alleged betting odds on the
presidential election has ever before
been presented. From the facts in
the case the conclusion is inevitable
that New York is “betting” to keep
up courage in face of a situation
that fails utterly to justify the be
lief that President Coolidge has .as
good as an even chance of winning
the election.
The logic of the situation and the
inflexible facts fail to justify New
York’s apparent confidence in Cool
idge’s election, as reflected by the
betting odds that are quoted from
day to day by Wall street brokerage
firms. Newspaper reporters, politi
cal strategists, personal advisers and
others intimately associated with
John W. Davis’ canvass profess in
ability to “see where Mr. Coolidge
expects to get his votes,” and their
profession rests on a familiarity
with conditions born of actual con
tact with the people.
Not one but a half dozen men who ’
have been with Mr. Davis since the
beginning of the campaign, on yes
terday and again today, pointed out
that the president cannot expect to
receive support from any of the fol
lowing classes of voters:
1. The postal employes.
2. Grand Army veterans and vet
erans of the Spanish-American war.
3. World war veterans.
4. Organized labor.
5. The farmers of the west and
middle west.
“Belting Odds” .Mythical
For the opposition of the rank and
file of the five classes of voters
above enumerated, the men who
have followed the campaign set
down what they belifeve to be good
and sufficient reasons, and these
reasons, be it said, are so human
and so plausible as to be absolutely
convincing.
Before amplifying the reasons why
the classes mentioned will not vote
for Coolidge, in the opinion of those
who should know, it is pertinent to
revert to the “alleged betting odds,”
mention of which was made at the
outset. In referring to the odds the
words “alleged” is used advisedly.
The odds do not obtain in fact.
The New York newspapers have a
way 6f announcing from time to
time the betting odds that are sup
posed to prevail in Wall street. The
market wires that radiate from the
financial center carry almost daily
some allusion to the fact that Cool
idge is an “oods-on favorite” in the
betting, with no takers in sight. Ob
viously, it is the desire of the in
terests in New York to create upon
the country’ the impression that Cool
idge is making a run-away race of
the presidential canvass, and that
the “moneyed men” of the country
are backing him to the limit. \
It may be, and possibly’ is true,
that the “moneyed men” of a cer
tain type are backing him to a fare
ye-well, but they are not backing
their judgment, not so as you could
notice it, if what the men with Mr.
Davis say is true. They declare that
the long odds quoted on Coolidge are
bunk, nothing more, put out in the
hope of influencing the people.
No Money’ In Sight
Norman H. Davis, of New York,
a former Tennessean, who served in
the Wilson cabinet as under secre
tary of state, told me yesterday that
efforts to find some three-to-one
Coolidge money in Wall street last
week failed utterly.
“The fact is,” said Mr. Davis, “an
offer of $50,000 against Coolidge’s
election at one-to-two, that is, $50,-
000 against SIOO,OOO, could not be
placed by a reliable gentleman who
invaded the precincts of the election
gamblers down in Wall street.
“But notwithstanding the inability
of Democrats to place money against
Coolidge at one to two, the men en
gaged in this sort of activity con
tinue to quote odds of three to one
on Coolidge in the papers the next
day, and to send the same sort of
‘bunk’ over the market wires.
“But New York isn’t bettirig any
heavy o'dds on Coolidge's election.
New York, in fact, very’ much
doubts whether Coolidge has a look
in as the thing now stands, and
New York believes, too, that John
W. Davis’ candidacy’ is growing by
leaps and bounds, and it is growing.
The Democratic candidate has made
wonderful progress within the past
two weeks. His canvass of New
York state, the ardent support he
is receiving from Governor Al Smith
and the activity of the party lead
ers in New York City have worked
a wonderful change in sentiment.”
Hughes Case Parallel
The experience recited by Mr.
Davis concerning election betting in
New York isn’t unlike the experience
the writer had eight years ago dur
ing the Wilson-Hughes campaign.
Wall street was advertising odds of
three to one on Hughes. A number
of prominent and wealthy Democrats
commissioned me to take some of
the money for them. They were
willing to wager $50,000 at the adver
tised odds, but when the effort to
place this sum, or any part of it was
made, not a cent was to be found in
Wall street.
The fact that the effort to wager
against Coolidge’s election failed last
week tends to confirm the growing
suspicion that New York really
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COLUMBUS. Ga., Oct. 23.—A sen
sational turn '.as taken late Wed
nesday afternoon in the murder trial
of Will Willis, when a witness for
tlie state was arrested- on'a perjury
warrant sworn out by Willis. The
charge was preferred against Roy
T. Bracken, former Fort Benning
military policeman, who was dis
charged from the service last Mon
day. Willis /s charged with slaying
Will Green< negro.
The action against the witness,
according to counsel for the defense
in the murder trial, was based on
testimony by Bracken that he sav'
Willis in an automobile cominq
from the direction of Will Green’s
house sho, _ly after he heard shots
fired. Bracken was on the stand
during the first trial of the case
which resulted in a mistrial and he
made no reference to seeing Willis
in the car after having beard shots.
His explanation Wednesday for
i >t having mentioned this on the
form ?r trial was that he was not
asked about it.
Bracken’s arrest occurred after
recess for the night had been order
ed in the Willis trial. It is expected
that defense counsel will present
testimony today designed to attack
Bracken’s testimony.
The Willis case will probably go
to t’- jury some time today.
Religious Talk Causes
Youth to Confess
Larceny of $1,500
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23.—Listen
ing to a religious talk at the Young
Men’s Christian association here yes
terday affected Edward P. Harn, 16,
so deeply that he gaVe himself up
to the police, confessing, it is al
leged, that he had run away from
his home in Buffalo with $1,500 of
his grandmother’s money.
soft proposed by the president, and
bitterly resent his suggestion. •
Thus, it appears that while there
are fiye excellent reasons for believ
ing that Coolidge’s vote is going to
be reduced to a minimum. Nev«
York continues to talk about laying
odds on the president’s election next
month. The two propositions are
; self-contradictory, and as such form
j one of the most unusual and signifi
cant paradoxes in American politics.
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