Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1920 — Page 2

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DISCORD OVER TREATY AND JOHNSON MARS HARMONY OFG. 0. P. CONVMTim

G-O.P. LEADERS CONFRONTED BY SORRY CHOICE Louden and Wood Bear Handicaps and Johnson Is Most Undesirable. FEAR OF BOLT GROWS By WILLIAM PHILLIPS SIMS. CHICAGO. June B—A titanic Question mark seemed suspended #rer the Coliseum as it opened its floors here today to receive the republican hosts come to nominate their candidate for the presidency. And the query of all who entered ms: Who •will it be? Gov. Frank Lowden seemed, on paper, to lead the field, with MaJ. Gen. Leonard Wood and Senator Hiram Johnson neck and neck close behind, as the various delegations met and held their vest pocket caucuses, but even over this seeming impending victory of Lowden. hung3 the biggest question of all. Would the republican guard leaders, without whose aid his nomination would be well-nigh out of the question, dare take the risk after the revelations before the Kenyon committee in Washington? The answer is said to be ready and the understanding is that it will be “No.” Lowdea’s supporters today appeared unusually confident. They insist he is far from being out of the race. They cite such instances as the Colorado delegation’s vote as a sample of what is going on. Colorado, on the first ballot, gave Wood 5, Lowden 4 and Harding 1. On the second ballot she gave, Lowden 11 and Wood 1. Several other j such were cited. Former Postmaster General Frank H. Hitchcock appeared at the coliseum for j the opening session today wearing a poker player’s expression which caused those who knew him well to shake their heads and say: “Frank knows that either he has the thing already won or that he knows Its already lost.” Wood supporters were* Immensely cheered by the reports from states like Massachusetts, which It was said “would ultimately give him the entire delegation.” A similar report came from New Jersey, It was said. In the Johnson camp the situation Is something else again. Today there U considerable uneasiness In republican ctrties as to wba: the outcome of the differences between the old guard and Johnson will be. Before Boise Penrose left Washington for Florida the word went ont that he. as leader of the “regular*," would not have Johnson, and since he returned from the south he took occasion to Issue a statement particularly Irritating to Johnson, which, in effect, was that Johnson might do for a vice president. Johnson ha 6 gone on accumulating strength. From a shoestring he has built up a pile of political capital, and , since he arrived her*- last Wednesday . he has kept his rivals busy watching j both him and the demonstrations carried off In his behalf. The last, was the big mass meeting it the Auditorium theater here last night One of the biggest theaters in the country, It was packed to the ceiling with a mob, which yelled for twenty-five minutes when he came on the stage. A crowd nearly a large filled the streets outside. But this was not what had the cH guard guessing today. It was some, thing he said la Ms speech. To many It sounded threatening. Said he, in his peroration: “With the American people today we are at the parting of the ways. Within the next few days it will be decided whether the republican party founded by Lincoln to vindicate the liberty of the common people, is in Its hour of full grown power, to drive the common people from Its ranks.” Senator Johnson has thrice declared he would not bolt the party. But “practical” politicians declare political promises are made to be broken. Will Johnson keep or break bis?

CONVENTIONALITIES

Mayor Rolpb of San Francisco Is picking np pointers on how to entertain a national convention. The democrats go to his city in two weeks. Benjamin C. Marsh, here representing the tanners' national council, probably holds the record as a witness before committees of congress. Ben testifies on short notice on nearly any subject, but his specialties are railroads, merchant marine, agriculture, packers, taxation and fiscal policies in general. His chief recreation is saying mean things about “Wall street.” Aside from “Who is going to be nominated," the biggest mystery here is where “Uncle Joe” Cannon keeps himself. Usually “Uncle .Toe” can be traced by the trail of his black stogie, but he appears to have discovered a smokeless scentless brand because nobody is' known to hare seen the veteran ex-speaker since he landed. Nicholas Uongworth. son-in-law of the late Theodore Roosevelt, doesn't hanker to run for the presidency. “I'm only a congressman, bnt I’ve shaken bands so much my fingers are numb,” he said. He hopes anew form of greeting is in nae before he Is a presidential caml^iate. There was not the helterskelter rush for the coliseum today that was seen in former years. Secure in the knowledge that the precious were safe and protected, the delegates and visitors took their time at arriving. The assault on the eolisenm pie counter began early Two thousand pies were ready for the hungry throngs. All the old dodges' and same new tricks were tried by tlcketless ones who wanted to see the convention. One chap sprained bis ankle on the eolisenm steps and then naively suggested thar he he taken to the emergency hospital just inside the door. He got a laugh. Wets Forlorn Hope Lies in Congress WASHINGTON, June B.—The last remaining hope of the wets 'today rested with congress. That this hope was slight and might yet be cut off by later court action was eleimed by the drys and ruefully admitted by the anti-prohibitionists. Congress, It w-as pointed out,* under yesterday's supreme court action, has the right to set the alcoholic content of beverages and may be able to raise the onehalf of 1 per cent limit established by the Volstead act.

TREATY RIPPED TO TATTERS AT JOHNSON RALLY Senator Candidate and Able Aid Borah Provide Some Real Fireworks. HARMONY STILL INFANT By WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN'. (Copyright, 1920. by W. J. Bryan.) CHICAGO, June B.—The Johnson meeting last night was the outstanding feature of the eve of the convention. It was not a “lull before the storm.” It was a storm Itself. ! The speeches made by Senators Johnson and Borah present as forcibly ts they can be uttered the Issues as they see them. The audience was in sympathy with the speakers—some of them so sympathetic they interrupted out of mere exuberance. Johnson and Borah represent two styles of oratory, each a master of his style. Johnson reminds one of Col Roosevolt with the emphasis which he employs and the passion which sweeps him along. His speech has the Impetuosity of a mountain torrent —no pools, nothing bat rapids. His subject is not only in his mind, hut Is in his heart as well. His chief issue was the treaty and he employed all the adjectives that appeal to sentiment and stir Indignation. There was not a sentence that suggested compromise; on the contrary he invoked the history of the republican party to rebuke any fhought of concession. The convention must choose between two alternatives —there la no middle ground It must entirely Indorse the action of the fifteen republican irreconcilable* and go to the country as the pledged opponents of the league a> presented by the president or it must repudiate the action of the irreconcilable and appeal to the country for the indorsement of the league covenant ns modified by reservations supported by thirty-four republicans and twenty-three democrats. HAVE ADVANTAGE OVER LODGE GROUP. The irreconcilable*, represented by Senators Johnson and Borah, have some advantages over the Lodge followers in the presentation of the subject to a popular audience. It is easier to condemn than to explain verbal differences, and an appeal based upon confidence in th<* country seldom fails of a response. Then, too, the disparity between America’s representation and the representation given to Great Britain and the colonies furnished an excellent opportunity to arouse national pride and stir up any prejudice that may exist against the nation specially favored. The defenders of ratification with reservations have no spokesmen who are a match for the two western senators and from a partisan standpoint they are handicapped by sn acceptance of President Wilson’s work except In so far as the reservations make alteration. It remains to be Been whether Senator Lodge will be able to call for the name of speakers who can show the necessity for the league and explain 1n a convincing way the safeguards suggested by those who favor ratification with reser vations.

Asa reporter of what is going on, I shall content myself with making known to the readers the issue as it (s pre sented with the arguments offered on either side MR. .JOHNSON RKPLIKR TO CHARGE OF RADICALISM. It will surely he a remarkable victory if Senators Johnson and Borah are able to wring an indorsement of their course from the convention, but such a resolution hardly seems probable when it is remembered that Wood, Lowden, Hoover. Coolidge, Harding, Sproul and all the other candidates have Joined the advocacy of the league with reservations. Mr. Johnson replied specifically to the charge of radicalism. The substance of his creed on this subject is that rich and poor, high and low, big and little, shall alike obey the law; that the blessings of democracy shall be within the reach of the common folk as well as the powerful and privilege taking; that invisible government shall be scourged from the government's temple and that the state made a state for all the people. He further declared himself opposed to the suppression of legitimate free speech and peaceable, lawful assembly. He avowed his purpose to be the preservation of this great nation from the wiles and pitfalls of European and Asiatic diplomacy and to resist the impairment of the republic’s sovereignty, the destruction of its national polFy and the perversions of its spirit. THE LAW’S ALL RIGHT t ADMINISTRATION WRONG. Discussing the high cost of living, he asserted that the laws of today are ■sufficient to curb illegal practice and to prevent illigitimate exploitation of our people, and charged that the difficulty has not been with the law, but with the administration of the iaw. Senator Borah is a more deliberate (Continued on Page Eleven.) OF ForaruME

LODGE DEFINES OPPOSITION TO WILSON AS PARTY ISSUE

Prefacing his speech with a viturperatlve misrepresentation of President Wilson. which two years ago would have brought out a tar bucket and .a rail, Senator Lodge, as temporary chalojan, pleased the great assemblage of pavtisans. He said, in part: “In order to render to our country the service which wo desire to render and which we can accomplish In large measure, at least, if we undertake It with all our ability and Hi a disinterested public spirit, we tr ust have tb eepportunity for service. That opportunity can only come through our being entrusted by the people with both the legislative and the executive authority. To this end Mr. Wilson and his dynasty, his heirs and assigns, rr anybody that is his. anybody who with bent knee has served his purposes. must he driven from all control, from all Influence upon the government of the United States. They must be driven from office and power not because they are democrats but because Mr. Wilson stands for a theory of administration and govevnment which is not American. His methods, his constant if indirect assaults upon the constitution and upon all the traditions of free government, strike at the very life of the American principles upon which our government has always rested. The return of the democrats to power with Mr. Wilson or one of hls disciples still the leader and master of a great party, which before his advent possessed both traditions and principles, would be u long step In the direction of autocracy, for which Mr. Wilson yearns, a*d n heavy blow to the continuance of free representative government as we have always conceived and venerated It. The peril Inseparable from Mr. Wilson and his system goes far beyond all party divisions. for It Involves the fundamental question of whether the government of the United States shall be a government of lavs and not cf men, whether it shall be a free representative government or that of a dictatorship resting on a plebiscite carried by repellent methods. Mr. Wilson and the autocracy he represents, and all which those who believe in his doctrines and share his spirit rep. resent, must be put aside and conclusively excluded from any future control. Bear this well In nrird through out the campaign, for It is the first condition of our ability to enter upon the path which will carry us forward to ! true progress and to wiser laws. It Is i the path of Washington, of Lincoln and of Roosevolt from which Mr. Wilson has sought to drag ns. We can only regain It by once and for all condemning j the man and his associates who have thus endeavored to turn us from the j right road Into the dark and devious , ways which with all nations lead t* ] destruction.

WILL OF THE PEOPLE MIST BE SUPREME. “There must be bnt one law in this country and that is the law framed by the men chosen by the people themselves ! to make the laws. The chief magistrate must understand that it is his duty not only to enforce, but to abide by the laws, the laws made by the representatives of the people, and when those laws are once made they must be obeyed nntl! the people see fit to change them. The will of the people, expressed in lawful manner through the government of the United States, can neither suffer revolt nor submit to any question of its authority on the part of any man or ny group of men or any minority of the people. When free government falls, autocracy and revolution and toe downfall of civilisation ns we have known it \ are at hand ITogress will cense end the decline to lower stages of development will haTe begun. True progress must rest upon and proceeed from the sound principles which sustain all free government and to sneh progress the republican party always has been committed. Loyalty to j the United States and obedUnc* to the people's laws are the corner stones of the republic and should he sustained, and upheld by every man and woman in every corner of our great land. Keep these principles sacred and untouched and all the rest will follow. “Let me turn first to the economic con dlftons, so profoundly distorted and <*on- ! fused by the war, which affect our dally j life, are essential to our business and upon which our material prosperity and | all rhe benefits, both mental and moral, I wM<-b flow from it when honestly ae , qulred, so largely depend. Already j beginning hag been made by a republican congress, working under all the difficulties and oppositlori imposed by a. hostile executive. Many vital economic measures and especially protective tariff legislation to guard our industries are impossible with a democratic free trader of socialistic proclivities in the whitehouse. To accomplish such measures as these we rt.nst have, as we intend to have, republican president, in sympathy with t republican house and senate. Great re dnctlons in expenditures bavg been effected, but we have been met with resistance tn some of the departments and also by habits of waste hacked by maladministration. by sacrifice of efficiency to political purposes, never so recklessly Indulged in before, and in certain cases by an incompetency so marvelous that it can not be due to nature, but must be the result of art. LODGE'S VIEWS OF PARTY ACCOMPLISHMENT. “Let me give a few examples of whet uas been accomplished. “The estimates have been reduced over $1,000,000,000. The oil-leasing and water power bills, two measures of large effect and high importance, which have been halting and stumbling for many years in the incapable hands of a democratic majority, passed both houses, but the president bsfl vetoed the water power bHI We have passed the vocational rehabilitation act for the benefit of wounded soldiers and several acts for the disposition of war material, very necessary to our finances. We have amended and improved the federal reserve and the farmers' loans acts. We have cared for the soldiers of the Civil war, straitened in their old age through the rise in prices, by an increase in their pensions. The civil service retirement law, a long deferred act of Jus I tice to faithful servants of the government, has been passed. We have beeD obliged to restore the army and navy to a peace footing, a work as i difficult as it was necessary. We have ! met this by two most Important meas : ures, the army and navy pay bill and the j law for the reorganization of the army on i a peace basis. Two of the most impor- ' tant acts of any period, the shtp- | ping act for tie upbuilding of the Amerj lean marine and the settlement of the affairs of the shipping board and the law establishing the budget, a great measure of economy and sound financial administration, are conspicuous as our latest achievements. The budget bill has been vetoed by the president. “The list of beneficial laws, passed under adverse circumstances, might be largely extended did not time forbid. But these are enough to show the far-reach-ing results of the labors of this congress, whose time is but littl more than half spent. Some of the master minds of the democratic party are now chirruping away like incessant birds that ‘the republican* have done nothing.' I should be glad, omitting the two years of war, when both parties worked together, to pnt the recorded accomplishment of the Ato years of complete democratic control beside that of our eighteen months hampered by inimical administration. Let me assure 'sou that we do not fear the comparison. > v charging of extortionate and unVstifled prices, which is stupid as well ist unlawful, are subject

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now to ample punitive laws. Those laws should be enforced, others If necessary added, and the offenders both great and small sbonld be pursued and punished, not In the headlines of newspapers after the manner of th present attorney general, but quietly, thoroughly and efficiently, In the courts of the United States. Something more in this direction can be accomplished by the proper regulation of cold storage, and a bill for that purpose has passed both houses and Is now in conference. "Another deep-seated cause of the rise of prices, more effective in its results although less obvious than profiteering. is the abnormal increase per capita of the circulating medium. This has doubled since the war began and If in the space of a few years the amount of the circulating medium Is doubled It has a most profound effect in stimulating and advancing prices. During the war credits have been enormously inflated and there have been large additions to the currency through the federal reserve banks. Here it Is possible to check the advance of prices by law. We can provide for the control of creditß in such mtenner as to give preference to the most essential products. We are also able to reduce the amount of the circulating me diura In the form of federal reserve bank notes, the authority having been given during the war to Increase the issue of these notes from two billions to four billions. It should be one of the first acts of congress to deal with this essential point and it would have a marked es feet in reducing prices by steadying them and bringing them down to a lowe.r and more normal level. “The most essential remedy for high costs is to keep up and Increase production and particularly should every effore be made to advance the productivity of the farms. Just how much the government can do in this direction is uncertain, but it can aid and support and if anything can be done it must not be omitted or overlooked. At the same time it must not be forgotten that there is a vast difference between the powers of the national government in time of war and those which it possesses in time of peace. The normal limitations of time* of peace restrict very much the powers of the general government and in helping to Increase the productivity of the farms, which must be done throngb government action, the republican party promises to use every power In this direction whether within the state or federal Jurisdiction. “There is, however, one measure which can not be passed over, a single great law which has been enacted and which In any period would be sufficient to dla tinguish a congress as on# of high accomplishment. This Is the railroad act. For six months able committees In both houses, committees where no party line was drawn, toiled day after day upon; this most intricate of problem*. There was much serious debate in both senate - and house and then the bill, signed by j the president, became law. No doubt time and experience will ehow that tm proveroents In the act can be made, but In the main it la a remarkable piece of legislation and In general principles ts entirely sound.

FOREIGN RELATIONS AND DOMESTIC NEEDS. “The time has come to put an end to this Mexican situation, which is a shame to the United States and a disgrace to our civilization. If we are to take part in purifying and helping the world, lot ns begin here at home in Mexico If we aasert and protect the Monroe doctrine against Europe, as we must for our own safety, we must also accept and ful OH the duties and responsibilities which that doctrine imposes "The president has been uneble or nn willing to do anything for Mexico, where civil war ha* raged for year*, where anarchy exists and where the poo pie are suffering. But he thinks It our duty to take a mandate for Armenia, which wmiid involve our sending an army there for an indefinite time and •which would cost, including the army and civil expenditures, 275 millions for the first year, beside* entangling u* in all the quarrels and intrigue* of AsiaMinor and the surrounding countries Mexico lies at our doors. It la a primary duty for ua to deal with It under the Monroe doctrine, bnt nothing has been done, and yet we are aeked to take a mandate for Armenia. “As the great war tn Europe pushed Mexico Into the background and turned the thought* of all away from it, so there 1* at this moment another great question of our relations to the civilized world which overshadows every other. When the armistice with Germany was signed the course to be pursued was clear. It was urged by republican sen ators before the armistice and immediately afterward. That course was to make the peace with Germany at one* and then take np for reasonable consideration the question of establishing such future relation* with our associates in the war a* would make for the future peace of the world. If this bad been done we could have had full peace with Germany three month* after the armistice. Thia Mr Wilson prevented. He went to Europe with the greatest, opportunity for large service to the world ever offered to any one roan. He insisted on going himself, for he trusted no one else. We then had the confidence, the gratitude and the friendship of every European nation, which thanks • the president we possess no longer. If Mr. Wilson had said: “We came here to help you win this war in defense of civlllza- | Mon. The war is won. All we now Insist upon is that Germany shall be pnt in such a position as not to be able again to threaten the peace and freedom of mankind. Our own questions in the American hemisphere we will care for ourselves. We have interests in the far east which we shall wish to have protected, but your own European questions ! you must settle and we will accept the settlement to which you agree. We are 1 not here seeking territory or to dictate ! what you shall do in regard to either : territory or boundaries.” Then Indeed we should have been entitled to the grsti- | tude of the world not only for our decisive services in the war bnt for generous resistance in making a lasting peace. But Mr. Wilson did not do this. He had apparently only one aim, to be the maker of a league of which he should be the hend. He was determined that there should be a league of nations then and there and in order tq nullify the powers of the senate given by the constitution of the United States he decided to make the league an integral part of the treaty of peace with Germany, Thus he presented to the senate, and Intended to present, a dilemma from which he believed there was no escape. In order to have peace with Germany he meant to compel the senate to accept with it the league of nations. It was indeed a difficult situation which he thus created. But republican senators believed their duty to be clear before them and did not shrink from fulfilling It. Thirty-nine of them in March, 1919, signed a statement setting forth that the first draft of the league as Mr. Wilson brought it back, announcing that it must be taken Just as it stood, could not be accepted by the senate in that form. MORE ABUSE OF PRESIDENT WILSON. “The president returned to Europe with this warning before him and before i the world. He admitted a few slight ■ changes in the covenant, for the most ' part unimportant and some of which j made the second draft, worse than the I first. He forced the allied and asaoj dated powers to yield to his demand that the covenant of the league should be Interwoven wltk the treaty of peace.

Committeeman JOSEPH P. HEALING. At a caucus of Indiana republicans attending the national convention in Chicago, Joseph P. Healing of Indianapolis was elected Indiana national committeeman. To accomplish this be surrendered the principle of the freedom of the seas—whatever that may have beep—to Great Britain, and he made promises and concessions to France —not yet fulfilled—which brought him the French support. Having thus carried hi* point abroad he brought the treaty with Germany home and laid It before the senate. To th* great mass of the American people he said: ‘This covenant of the league of nations will bring to the world a lasting peace.’ Everyone desired lasting peace and without panting to consider or ereu to read the covenant, thousand* upon thousand* of good people united In the demand that the senate ratify and take the league at once and without consideration, Just as It stood. The republicans of the senate, perceiving the dangers of the league, determined to reels: Mr. Wilson's demand, even at th* cost of delaying the treaty of peace with Germany. They felt that the one thing necessary was to have the people understand the treaty, that they might realise what It meant and what It threatened. So the long debate began and It has lasted for more than a year." At thi* point In hia addres* Senator Lodge launched into a discussion of Ar. tide 10 of the league covenant, and in the course of his remarks presented hi* own well known view* of this article ns th* views accepted by the republican party and likely to obe accepted b> the nation. Continuing, he said of the recently vetoed “peace resolution:” “The republh:ane es the senate made another effort to put an end to the state of technical war with Germany and at the same time rid the country of those measure* which were adoped under the war powers of the constitution and which are clearly unconstitutional in

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time of peace. They would thus have relieved the business and the daily occupations of the people from the burden of war legislation and at the same time have preserved to the United States under the terms of the resolution all benefits accruing to the United States under the provision of the treaty of Versailles. This resolution was passed by both branches of congress and vetoed by the president in a message which furnished neither argument nor reason for the veto but which it must be admitted had a pleasant touch of humor in its allusion to tbe freedom of the seas. Thus the president demonstrated again that unless he could have Ills own way exactly and without any modification he would not permit the country to be at peace, an exercise of executive power never contemplated by tbe constitution. ■ “We hear the timid cry that America will be Isolated. Have no fear. The United States can not be isolated. The world needs us far too much. We have never turned a deaf ear to the cry of suffering humanity, but whatever we do must be done in our own way, freely and without constraint from abroad. With no outside help since the Revolution wi have come to where we are today. We ahall march on and not neglect our duty jto the world. When we were called to ! the defense of freedom and civilisation !In 1917 we did not fail. We threw our | great weight into the wavering scale and j we were all the more effective, all the j stronger because we went without alliance and of our own free will, as we j should always go to help mankind. Let j us stand fast by the principles and poli- ■ cles of Washington and Monroe and against—utterly against, those of Mr. ; Wilson. We must be now and ever for j Americanism and nationalism, and i against Internationalism. There /is no 1 safety for us, no hope that we can be of service to the world, If we do otherwise.” Having thus defined the position of the republican party In this campaign as solely one of opposition to the Wilson administration under which the war was fought and won, Senator Lodge turned in the closing words of his speech to tbe subject of what the republican party should do to win the campaign and said : “Let us not promise any mlllcniutps er pledge our faith to tbe performance of lmpositbltie*. Let us simply lay bei fore the people our principles and poli- < lea, policies which are at once vigorous ; and practicable and then pledge otir- ! selves to do our utmost to carry these j policies Into effect. This we can do and I we should bind ourselvea no further. ! If the righteousness of our cause will ' not win. no false promises or delusive hopes will be of any avail. Let us be true to our highest traditions because In the mwe shall find both an inspira- ; tion and a guide. Let past dissension* ; among ourselves be relegated to history and forgotten by us. Let all honest difference* as to means end methods, If { there are such, be set aside until Xovetn- ! ber In order that the great and over- | ruling purpose in which we all agree and which we long to achieve may be attained. Make our declaration of principles so broad, ao devoted to the one supreme object, that all may accept It and all work for the same dominant result. Thus inspired, we may feel asst) red that when the banners are lifted and the trumpet* blown we shall march forth to a victory, not for our party ! alone but for principle* and ballet* which are absolutely vital If the American republic U to continue on Its trt vrnpbant course and the hope* of humanity, so bound up in the fortune* of th# United State*, are to be fulfilled.’ SEVEN BREAD RIOTERS KILLED. VIENNA. Jnne * -Seven persons were ; killed arid twenty-three wounded when ! the police fired upon bread rlotera at • Grata.

BRISBANE SAYS JOHNSON WILL BE CANDIDATE Republicans or Independents Will Run Him for President This Campaign. CROWD CHEERS BRYAN By ARTHUR BRISBANE. (Copyright, 1920, by International News Service.) • CHICAGO, June B—The news of the convention is that Johnson meeting at the auditorium last night. Tho meeting was ftnportant because both Johnson and Borah, latter talking very plain and disagreeable English for the ivory soap eaters of the republican party, made it clear, as both put it, that the republican party has once more come to a “parting of the ways.” The question is not. “how can we get rid of Johnson?" hut “how can the republican party hold the position that It has held for sixty years, since the day when Lincoln, who refused any kind of compromise, laid the corner stone of the republican party of today?” Those that believe in the ability of the people to manage their own affairs would have been delighted with Hiram Johnson's appearance and the extraordinary reception accorded him. He talked as plainly and simply as any man talking to his children or hia neighbors. Johnson said he thought that the people should decide for themselves the important question raised by the league of nations proposition, whether Americans should be drafted to settle, on the battle field, question* about Serbian and Roumanian boundaries. He said he knew that a coterie of Wall street banker* were quite willing to settle all such questions for the people, but he thought it better for the people to do their own deciding After Johnson finished talking tu the great hall he went out to see and talk to the huge crowds that blocked traffic In all directions around the meeting hall. Then Senator Borah spoke and in some way the people of this country ought to ahow their gratitude to Borah, who started the investigation in the senate nnd exposed the scheme to sell th# presidency to the highest bidder. The enthusiasm for Borah was as great as for Johnson, and the people should be (Continued on Pegs Eleven.)

BORA! PREDICTS G. O.P, DEFEAT IF HONEY WINS Cr.mpaigriFund Expose Turns People irom Lowden and Woa, He Declares. DELEGAES REFENT ‘GAG’ By WILIAM E. BORAH. United State Senator From Idaho. (Copyright, 20, International Nevsiper Service.) CHICAGO, jne B.—The question uppermost in tl minds of the delegates today seems tbe the question )f eamt.aign expendlres. There are tise who still believe that, notwlthstandii) the expose upon the part of two f the candidates as to their campaigi expenditures, that they should be nonpated and they are willing to take le risk of having them elected. Relying on -hat they believe to b* the of the present administration, they nsist that the candidate could be eleete notwithstanding the intolerable amoijt of money they hare expended to g the nomination. But it is matfest that this dea does not prevail anng the delegates generally. They not ouf feel that it would imperil his electii, but they feel that it would imperil Se election of the next congress, both jn the senate and the house. Furthermore, le delegates do not hesitate to express fhemselves to the effect that the party hould not be compelled to hear the odlm which would attach to It in the caiDaign and follow It on through the adtinistration. The thinking,-efiecting delegates, the men who come Ire direct from the people and will goback to them, and the men who have fide in the party and their country, ae getting restless and some of them u|y in their remarks on the effort to fore upon them candidates for whom they tould have to apologize all the way throgh the campaign. EXPENSES WOLD BE PARAMOUNT I SUE In addition tqthls if either of the candidates who 4e so immediately and Indefensibly competed with the use of money in the campaign should be nominated. it is belided that would be th* only subject diseased throughout the campaign. Instead of the* party going forward with a construclve program dealtug with the mattersof immediate concern to the people andhlicltlng the confidence of the people, lfiwould be a campaign of apology and Afense. It is apparent jnw that the ielegates are coming to haje less and less stomach for any suchbroposition. Hence the tali today In the convention of dark horses. It Is one of the main themes. J Almost every min who has been mentioned In any waj or who has appeared above tbe political horizon Is bemg discussed as a dark korae. If the conventi/i was to meet for the purpose of nominiting today it Is, clear that neither Mr. lowden nor Mr./Wood would stand any pow of nomination. Whether any clanges can take place to satisfy the dliatisfled delegates between now and Thursday is a different question. But it does not at all probable. Asa gentleman jaid to me today, at a time when the of the high cost (Continued Page Eleven.)