Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1920 — Page 3

COMPROMISE CANDIDATE INEVITABLE, BRYAN WRITES AT REPUBLICAN CONVENTION HALL

BRYAN SAYS NO MAN IN G. 0. P. RACE QUALIFIES Not One of Candidates So Far Meets Needs of Party, He Declares. SEEMS LIKE A MORGUE By WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. (Copyright. 1920, by Win. J. Bryan). CHICAGO, June 9.—1 fear that any riaitors who may have come to the convention because of my rosy view of national gatherings and my description of the entnusiasm excited among the followers of rival candidates will blame me for their disappointment. The old convention Isn’t what it used to be, if I am able to compare this with 0 former ones. The pep Is lacking. There are no shouting paraders. no marchers singing the praises of their heroes. “The frost is on the (political) pnmpkln and the fodder's in the shock." The headquarters are manned and womaned with workers. You can have a button for the asking, and the literary department Is abundantly furnished with printed information. Likenesses of aspiring statesmen and near-statesmen adorn the walls of the respective headquarters and occasionally overflow into adjoining corridors. Groups of the curious move about through the halls, eager to see the prominent men of whom they have read, but the atmosphere Isn't charged with confidence and the visitors are not vocal with expressions of loyalty to the party or devotion to those who have entered the lists. The reason is not difficult to find. The friends of the leading men are beginning to realize, even if they do not admit, the hopelessness of agreement upon any of the men prominently mentioned. It is not necessary to scrutinize the daily reports from the committee or to speculate upon the seating or unseating of delegates. There are the usual scandals from the southern states, but these have recurred so regularly as to excite no surprise and little comment. NO CANDIDATE NEAR ENOUGH TO CAI’SE STIR. No candidate comes near enough to the required number of votes to make the action of the national committee or of the credentials committee a matter of moment. Consider the leading candidates: Gen. Wood has the best organized political machine. According to the evidence presented to the investigating committee he has by far the largest campaign fund. The primaries showed that he had a national following, that Is, friends In every state. He is not a favorite son candidate; he went at the business of securing the pres- „ idential nomination as earnestly as he has gone about other business. Gen. Wood la a strong man; he has his view-s on public questions and he expresses himself with vigor, but has been handicapped from the beginning by the fact that he is a professional soldier. The objection Is so strong in the minds of a great multitude that no personal virtues can overcome it. The reaction against militarism i in full swing and grows stronger day by day. That he recognizes this change in sentiment is evident from the fact that his managers do not stress universal military training. He has been one of the foremost champions of a compulsory system under which every young man would be compelled to devote a certain period of time to military training. WHAT CONGRESS DID TO THE MEASURE. The policy had ardent supporters in congress. The house committee was about to report a bill when a democratic caucus registered a protest by a vote of 106 to 17. jk It became evident that the democratic 'vote with the addition of protesting republicans could defeat the measure, and it was abandoned. Afterwards the military affairs committee of the senate reported a compulsory training bill which the chairman asured the senate would not require an appropriation of more than seven hundred millions. A poll of the senate showed nearly ell the democrats and many of the republicans against the bill. A voluntary training system was substituted, and this was stricken out of the bill in conference. The desire to have our nation lead the wcrld toward universal peace is very strong, and a professional soldier woul.l in the opinion of many misrepresent the nation before the world. The investigations have also embarrassed Gen. Wood. Regardless of any questions affecting the nature of the expenditures, the amount itself would prove a great handicap In the campaign. The friends of Senator Johnson have spoken very emphatically on the subject, and the feeling is shared by uli who are not personally attached to a money-supported candidacy. It abhorrent to the patriotic sentiment tl the country to encourage the ides >bat a poor man is by his very poverty disqualified for this high position. The vaen who give their lives to public service do not as a rule make fortunes; neither do they attach to themselves friends of great wealth if they champion the cause of the plain people. Some way will be devised by which presidential aspirants will be placed upon an approximate equality Irrespective of their oven wealth or the wealth ox their fri-nds. I'ntil that time large expenditures will be deemed a liability rather than an asset. AND THEN TAKE _ GOV. LOW DEN. Gov. Lowden has won many friends by his administration. He has not only pleased the business element by his methods, but he has gratified the temperance element by signing an enforcement law quite as drastic as the Volstead act. He has the backing of the old guard and probably would be more acceptable to the conservative element of the partj than any other candidate, but this is the greatest weakness. The Johnson following Is so great and his demonstrated strength so apparent that the convention will hardly dare to nominate a man so closely identified by his corporate connections with big busiThe Investigation of campaign funds has embarrassed Gov. Lowden about as much as It has Gen. Wood. , While the total sum spent In his behalf Is not as great as that expended by the Wood managers, It Is probably nearly as great per capita for the area covered. It Is true that more than three-fourths * of the Lowden fund was supplied by himself and members of his family, but the sum Invested by him In the presldentlon race Is so large as to effectually bar any man of moderate means from rivalry. The question discussed by the supporters of Gen. Wood with thesupporters of Gov. Lowden, viz.; Whether it Is better for a candidate to spend his own money or the money of other people, isn’t the most vital issue raised. The real question 1s whether a golden

He's ‘Dark Horse'?

SENATOR LODGE. The “tapering finger” that the senator pointed at the convention in delivering his keynote speech attracted so much attention that he was selected as permanent chairman. Having been elevated to that position as a compromise, there immediately centered about him talk to the effect that be would be a fine “dark horse."

ladder is to be the only means by which a candidate may reach the whitehouse. Senator Harding's candidacy Is in the l ands of a group of enthusiastic supporters. Thev have commodious headquarters and his charming wife is giving as much aid to his candidacy as a congenial helpmate can. But the senator Is running with a handicap that greatly retards his speed. He Is so closely identified with the reactionary element of the party that his nomination would alienate the progressive element as much as Gov. Lowden’s nomination would. Senator Johnson has aroused an enthusiasm far beyond that which any other candidate has awakened, but he Is the exponent of an element that Is outnumbered in this convention. He may have a majority of the mnk and file with him as Roosevelt did. but he falls considerably short of having a majority of the leaders. His position on the treaty antagonizes the record made by the republicans in the senate. It looks to me as If a "ompromise candidate Is Inevitable. They %re loklng for a man who has enough of progresslvenes In him to hold the progresses without having ;notigh to alienate the standpatters. The situation reminds me of a story: A traveling man. on leaving the hotel, gave the colored porter a bottle of bad whisky. Returning a few months later, ho responded to the porter's greeting by Inquiring how he liked the whisky. “It was Just exactly right, boss, exactly right,” said the porter. “If it had been any worse it wouldn't have been fit to drink: If It had 1-een any better you wouldn't have Hl’n It to me.”

FARMERS MAKE WANTS KNOWN Two Organizations Present Demands for G. O. P. Platform. CHICAGO, June 9.—The American fanners took a hand In the political situation today, when they presented their demands for platform planks to ‘he resolutions committee of the republican national committee. The farmers were represented by two organizations before the committee, the national board of farm organizations, Charles S. Barrett of Union City. Ga„ president, and the farmers' national council, Benjamin C. March of Washington, D. C., director of legislation. The two organizations are not in accord on the question of government ownership of the railroads. The farmers' national council insists upon a plank declaring for government ownership, while the national board of farm organizations Is not ready to press a demand for a plank. Immediate repeal of the merchant marine bill, recently passed by congress, and providing for sale of the government owned merchant marine, is demanded by the farmers' national council. Other planks urged by the farmers' national council are as follows: Legislation to make personal credit cheap and available to agriculture. Legislation providing for license and control of the packing Industry. Legislation to protect farmers' cooperative organizations conducted' for mutual benefit. Strengthening and extension of the federal farm loan system. Government ownership and ''democratic operation" of the railroads. Continuance of the high taxes upon large incomes and taxation of all war profits until the war debt is paid, and the levying of a tax upon all national resources held for speculative purposes. Legislation to prohibit the alienation by lease or patent of mineral lands or water power resources, still in the public ownership. Opposition to compulsory military service. Repeal of all wartime sedition and espionage laws. PARIS SPORTS WRITER DIES. PARIS, June 9. —The death was announced today of Georges Prudes, a sporting writer. He hail promoted numerous automobile and aerial contests.

Penrose Leaders Laugh at Talk About “Unbossed Convention

By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD. CHICAGO. June 9.—l'd rather spend my time these days in a certain little room in the Congress hotel than in the big Coliseum, because in this room the real news is being made. Its number is E-l. Reporters aren't welcome there, but today I got in and spent half an hour within its ■walls, then I had to go because other visitors —politicians who are helping to make political history—wanted to talk with John T. King, who occupies the room. Here in this room are the ends of the telephone and telegraph wires that lend to the bedside of Boies Penrose in Philadelphia. Ask the man In this room whether Will Hays was right when he told the convention that It was unbossed. I did, and they laughed loudly and told me that Hays must have been only Joking. On a little table beside King's beats a telephone, not with an ordinary tele-

PARTY WAITS ON LEAGUE FIGHT (Continued From Page One.) versing the ordei*of pioneer days. The starched affairs are jvilting. The women r.re here again—beautifully dressed. It is not true that political ladies wear mannish clothes. ’Broadwny styles are common enough and some of these women even color their lips and cheeks so thick men can notice the artifice and some even pencil their eyebrows. But a political convention Is no place to comment on trivial scandals. The band, way up in a skylight balcony at tho rear of the Coliseum, like harped and bugled saints in glory, Is playing happy-go-lucky American rags and the folks are having a nice party. Every dne is talking “Penrose.” A local newspaper contains a displayed article to the effect that the sick boss said to a bedside reporter last night that moßt important of all things here was the nomination of a man “who can present a powerful appeal to the whole people.” BIT rENROSE MIST HAVE A WINNER. “Penrose wants a winner,” they say. There's magic in the word of the boss, even if he comes from a-far. This causes discussion about the final result of the great American quadriennial convention which is having its opening scene here. Maybe, after all, the G. O. I*, had better select a man to meet a democratic adversary. The name'of McAdoo is mentioned in this regard. You hear all sorts of things. But the real meaning of the Penrose alleged bedside interview is taken by Johnson's shouters as an indorsement of the scrappy California hero. “Now, do you hear your master's voice?” is the implied line of talk from the sunset folks. SOME SAY WOOD IS A BROKEN MAN. It's passing strange how little one hears of Wood or Hoover or Collldge here today. Some say "Wood’s a broken man—all in but his shoestrings.” And then they give him to the final demnltion and bow-wows by saying, “Maybe they'll fix the general up with the vice presidency.” Hoover's press agents have put up a polite little sign In the hotel lobby saying. “Hoover—the next president of the United States." But unless there's an undertow of sentiment under this sea of concussion that Is soon to toss the food conservator upon the political beach, that sign is not to be taken seriously as far as this convention Is concerned. Hoover is merely receptive, still Coolldge Is scarcely mentioned. Butler of New York may be in some minds, but not on the lips of these delegates. Poindexter, did you say? Yes. I did hear of him a few weeks ago, but that was In Washington. Johnson may have 'em buffaloed here. His friends are gleeful. Old guardsmen who do not like him for shucks, and say so without batting an eye, draw down the corners or their mouths and wink their knowing eyes. But you never

can tell, you can't never tell what's coming out of this big Coliseum box. ALWAYS MORE BY TOMORROW. We may know more about It at this time tomorrow. Political reporter* are supposed to know everything but here's one who does not profess the power of prophesy. And anyone who tells you that he knows who’s who here should at least hack up his story with the color of his “Jack,” as they say on the river front. But here Is a little thing that Is worth noting ns a fart: The old guard will swallow Hiram Johnson with a grunt that will be heard on both coasts —If at oil. The old guard may have a punch left—it's been more like a tap ou the wrist, to date. The old guard isn't ONE BIG BOSS, at the convention, mind you. It’s a lot of little bosses trying to get and hold the ground to put its man across. That’s a difficult operation. There’s talk today that this mixup may be continued Into next week. The hotet managers and the taxi people will rejoice, but not the tired reporters, who mill around by day and night, with such small rewards as regards the big secret this convention holds. They may be balloting Thnrsday or Friday morning. Much water will go over the dam twixt now and then. Like as not, though, we are in for session next week. Johnson, for instance, will die hard, if the bosses succeed In sticking together. You tell ’em, Lowden, Hi’s got ’em all guessing today. LEAGUE FIGHT OPENS BEFORE COMMITTEE (By Staff Correspondent.) CHICAGO, JUne 9.—Preliminary t.o the opening of the convention all Interest turned to the meeting of the subcommittee of the resolutions committee. Both friends and foe of the league, bitter enders and reservationlsts, claimed that the subcommittee, headed by Senator Watson of Indiana, who was elected chairman of the full committee, was friendly to their view of what the treaty plank should say. Camps of the bitter enders and of tho

phone receiver, but with a headpiece attached for long conversations. On the hoik was hung a heavy lead weight. Between the bed of John King in Chicago and the lied of Boies Penrose —800 miles away—these two men talk, day and night, about the latest convention news. Ail of the Pennsylvania leaders who come to this room will tell you. If you are lucky enough to encounter them, because most of them don’t believe in porters and publicity, that Penrose fin boss over the wire Just as well ffs In Chicago. Indeed, King tells me that he thinks Penrose is more powerful absent than present. And so, at last, 1 have at least seen some of the machinery of the party’s masters at work. Do you doubt that a reporter looking forjiewx would rather spend a week in this room than In the crowds at the convention ? What we will hear at the Coliseum will be only faint echoes of what passes through modest little chamber E-l.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1920.

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FRANK n. HITCHCOCK. The “deep-sea” manager of the Wood campaign was credited with having stepped Into a muddle and straightened it out by making Senator Watson the chairman of the resolution committee, Just to show the convention that Gen. Wood packs a punch and Hitchcock can use it when he wants to.

reservgtionists made statements that the question would be compromised without resort to a fight on the floor of the convention. While the Borah-Johnson group of lrreconeiliables appeared to be courting a convention floor flight, they disclaimed any such Intention and said if a row Is started It will be by the other side. Senator's Borah and McCormack, lrreconcltlablet, are members of the subcommittee, which nlßo Includes Watson, a Lodge reservatlonlst; Ogden Mills of New York, a pro-leaguer; Smooth of Utah, a Lodge resert-ationist; Louis Coolldge of Massachusetts, with leanings toward Borah's views, and Henry Allen White, Kansas; William Heyburn, Kentucky: D. Lawrence, Virginia; Wallace McCamraant, Oregon; Gov. Beeckman, Rhode Island, and Harris Gilpin of Michigan classed as more or less fervent rcservatlonlsts. A report was heard, unverified from any reliable source, that a deal hail been made for the lrreconclliables to be given “reasonable satisfaction on she treaty plank in return for letting Lodge have the permanent chairmanship and Watson the resolutions committee without a fight.” The Borah-Johnson group denied being In any deal and said they would upset any coalition that planned to squelch them. When the subcommittee met Borah and his supporters were standing firmly, they said, for a plank denouncing the treaty and league covenant. The reser\atlontsts were equally firm In demanding an affirmative declaration with safeguarding of Americanizing reservation*. COMBERS THERE IX LABOR'S FIGHT. The labor question also arose to vex the resolutions committee today. Samuel Gotnpers. neadlng n delegation from the American Federation of Labor, was to appear at a public hearing before the full committee to demand that the part* go on record as Indorsing 'he doctrine that workers have the right to strike, and that no public interest Is higher than the right of the mass of the toller* to protect themselves against capitalistic exploitation. Gompers' appearance may be the signal for atgument on the general proposition of the paramount of public or class Interest. Gompers comes prepared to assail she suggestion of Gov. Allen of Kansas that the party indorse his Industrial court Idea. A decision on the Mexican question Is expected without inurh controversy. The range of subjects on which the committee was to report planks was wide. Representatives of the League of Women Voters, beaded by Maud Wood Bark, urged a dozen planks for legislation to Improve the conditions of women in Industry, to reduce the cost of living and for further federal supervision of public morals. Mrs. George Gelhart. Missouri, advocating an antt-high cost of living plank, suggested federal regulation of the marketing and distribution of food nnd federal appropriations for training in home economics. BLF.A FOR St KFBAGE AS PARTY HELP. Miss Mary Garret Hay of the National Women's Suffrage association presented a plank pledging the party to exert its best efforts to obtain ratification of the suffrage amendment In time for women to vote next November. She told the committee abong other things that ratification means that doubtful states like Missouri and Indiana will be In the republican column. Anti-suffrage leaders contending for a state's rights plank neurly broke up the hearing. Miss Mary Kllbreth of New York said suffrage candidates always went to defeat In elections and declared it Inexpedient for the republican party to take chances on the eve of a national contest. Henry Lane Wilson discussed briefly his Mexican plank. Enforcement of tho fourteenth and fifteenth amendments in the south with respect to negro voting was demanded by Andrew It. Humphreys, New York, and Thomas Birmingham. Thomas McCarter, New Jersey, and George Wharton Peppier, Philadelphia, Kakl the party should record itself as favoring aid for public utilities. Thomas E. Campbell of Arizona urged the need of reclamation In the west nnd E. J. Adams, Oregon, said the government should pay Its share of the cost of road building In forest reserves. COMBINATION OF WOOD AND JOHNSON, The combination of the forces of Gen. Wood nnd Senator Johnson in the committee on credentials succeeded In electing a Wood chairman of the committee and it also upset the action of the full national committee and reseated several Wood delegates who had been ousted by the full committee. Instances where the judgment of the national committee has been disregarded have been very rare. How far the combination of Johnson and Wood elements would go was a matter today which would give the polttclnns food for much thought For one thing. It recalled vividly the warning of Senator George H. Moses on the eve of the convention, that the Johnson and Wood legeates between them formed a majority of the convention. The laiwden people accepted the John-son-Wood combine with a feeling of both trepidation and satisfaction; the former because of the bald fact that between them the Johnson and Wood forces do control the situation; and the latter because they saw In it a tacit recognition by the rival camps that Lowden sentiment Is so strong It lias to be opposed by both Johnson and Wood. It has yet to be shown that the progressives led by Johnson and Borah, or the remnant* of the once grand "old guard"

The Republican Convention Today CHICAGO, June 9. Convention called to order at 11 a. m. by Chairman Lodge. Prayer by the Rev. John Timothy Stone, D. D. Report of the credentials committee. Permanent organization of the convention. Reception of report of the committee on rules and order of business, action upon which will determine the future proceedings of the convention.

of Penrose, Kealing ana Hert, can dominate the convention. The latter group has been openly for the candidaey of Gov. Lowden, but its members have so far failed to convince a sufficient number of delegates to go along with them. Senator Lodge, slated for permanent chairman of the convention, Is a more or less compromise between tho two elements. He has Wood leanings, but ht also opposes the nomination of Gov. Lowden. STEERING COMMITTEE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. Behind closed doors, the platform “steering committee,” composed of thirteen members of the resolutions committee. started to gather up the loose ends of the league of nations and other disputed planks. The "steering committee" Is strlvjng to prevent a renewal on the convention floor of the bitter controversy that raged for months in the senate between the "mild rcservatlonlsts" and the lrreconcllables.” Senator Borah of Idaho, leader of the “lrreconeilables," who Is on the steering committee, is willing, ho said, to carry to the convention, If necessary, his Insistence upon an unqualified reufflrmation of the doctrines of Washington and Monroe regarding entangling foreign (alliance* and European Interference with American affairs. Senator Kellogg of Minnesota, a “mild reservatlonlst,” opposed the “Borah Idea.” Both Borah and Kellogg were said to be In accord that there should be no mention of the Lodge reservations in the league plank, but that it should be confined to an endorsement of the action of the republican majority of the senate In refusing to accept the league covenant as it was sponsored by President Wilson. The two senators talked freely of carrying their fight to the convention floor If either could not have bis way. A number of delegates expressed themselves as being weary of the league as a subject for debate. Kellogg and Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin declared, however, a canvass they had made of the situation disclosed an unmistakable trend on the part of many delegates toward ratification of the treaty “with reservations." Borah, on the other hand, was equally Insistent that tho Indiana league plank, “with certain modifications und amendment," would find favor with the convention. WATSON HEADS THIS COMMITTEE. The “steering committee," which must tackle the dispute between the “mild reservatlonlst*" and the ''lrreconeilables" consists of: Senators Watson. Indiana; Smoot, Utah; Borah, Idaho, and McCormick. Illinois, and William Allen White. Kansas; John F. Neylan, California; D. L. Loerence, Virginia; Louis A. Coolldge, Massachusetts; Ogden L. Mills, New York; Wallace Mi-t’amant, Oregon; William Heyburn, Kentucky; Gov. B. Livingston Beckman, Rhode Island, and Harris Gilpin, Michigan. It was understood the league plank now stands as:

Newt Myers //y I — ■/ j I on hand to \ jfll fI / express Vi southern In■nj I Vl'] (liana's I / y wt.ti.a. Indorsing the action of the republicancontrolled senate In refusing to accept the league covenant as sponsored by President Wilson. Providing for an international court of arbitration as proposed by Senator Knox. Condemning President Wilson for having kept the American people In a technical state of war with Germany because of the senate's refusal to ratify the treaty In accordance with his wishes.

CON V E NTI ON ALITIES

* Coliseum, Chicago, June 9. The "bulls'' were decidedly In control of the convention ticket scalping today. Despite efforts to prevent dealings In convention tickets, the official cards were being offered at prices ranging from $lO to S3O, with all the "bulls" predicting that as soon as the real fight begins the market will jump forty or x fifty points. "Season tickets" are being held for prices abo to S2OO. Beauty and beast are on exl.,bltlon In Peacock ulley at the Congress hoj tel. Many of the beauties rush around en masse pinning badges and putting Lowden elephants in the buttonholes of male visitors, no matter how bewhlskered or aged they may be. Home old hoys make regular trips up and down the alley until their pockets bulge with discarded souvenirs. George Home, chief of police of Los Angeles, Is in town looking over the lightfingered brethren who make their living in the crowds. He expects to head some of them off from Journeying to the coast for the San Francisco conclave. Hiram Johnson got barricaded out of his own headquarters when boosters of Senator Harding gathered in the hotel lobby Just below the Johnson citadel and began to sing. Hiram, who had been out for a walk, started headlong Into the Harding crowd, but got stuck halfway to tho stairs. He backed out and utilized a side door entrance. TRAFFIC ON ELEVATORS IN ONE CONVENTION HALL HAS BEEN SO HEAVY THAT THE CABLES HAD TO BE CHANGED. THEY THREATENED TO RREAK UNDER THE STRAIN. Joseph L. Bristow, former United States senator from Kansas, is out of politics. But he can't shake off the fever entirely aud had to look in on the Chicago convention. He is taking no part, however. Ex-Congressman Laguardla of Now York longs for the war days sometimes when he gets stuck in lobby Jams. He was an aviator la the war and had elbow room at least.

LODGE'S SPEECH PLEASES BORAH Johnson’s Leader Says It Might Embarrass Republicans. By WILLIAM E. BORAH. (Copyright, 1920, by International News Service.) CHICAGO, June 9.—Senator Lodge’s speech was, as expected, a scholarly address. It covered quite generally the important questions now before the people. Upon the dominant issue as to whether this government is to become a copartner with European powers and take part In all the European conflicts the address becomes more satisfactory the more It is studied. While it does not say so in bo many words, the effect of the argument pre sented by the distinguished senator Is to reject any league at all. If his argument and his logic are followed to their legitimate conclusion then we must have no league at all. In order to support a league under lhe presentation of the question as found in this address you would hnve to charge the senator with insincerity and with the mere playing of politics upon this great question. The republicans in the coming campaign would find themselves greatly embarrassed by Senator Lodge's speech it this convention. In a fit of suicidal Insanity, should indorse the league of nations or pledge the republican party to ratify the present treaty and the league In any form.

LABOR’S LEADER WAITS ON G. O. P. Gompers Demands Clear-Cut Planks in Platform. CHICAGO. June 9.—Maintenance of the right to strike, and to conduct all negotiations with employers without interference by the federal government was demanded by labor before the republican committee on resolutions today. This was insisted on In spite of an understanding that the industrial plank prepared by Gov. Allen of Kansas for the elimination of strikes and compulsory arbitration would not be pressed. Labor, through Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, also demanded the restriction of the flow of Immigration from abroad to the ability of America to absorb and Americanize It, and the stopping of such immigration absolutely when there Is any unemployment here. Another demand was made for the reduction at once and effectively of the high cost of living and the curbing of profiteering. Gompers headed a special committee from the American Federation of Labor convention, now in session at Montreal. LABOR PRESENTS BILL OF RIGHTS. In its protest against restricting the action of labor In Its right to strike, the committee made the following statement: “Legislation which proposes to make strikes unlawful or to compel the wageearners to submit their grievances or aspirations to courts or to government agencies is an Invasion of the rights of the wage-earner. "When enforced It makes for Industrial serfdom, or slavery. "We hold that the government should supply information, assistance and counsel, but It should not attempt by the force of its own power to stifle or to destroy voluntary relations and policies of mutuality between employers and employes."

OTHER DEMANDS PRESSED BY LABOR. Other demands emphasized in the bill of rights presented Included: Right of labor to organize and bargain collectively through their own representatives and freedom from “unwarrantable issuance of writs of injunction'' and tie right of trial by Jury In contempt cases outside the presence o ftbe courts. Removal of all effects of the espionage act in the restrictions placed on freedom of speech, the press, the assemblage, and asociatlon. Right of federal employes to organize nnd to enjpoy the same rights and privileges of other working men: opposition to the labor proviosions of the CummlnEsch law; exclusion of convict labor from Interstate commerce; opposition to child labor; opposition to Intervention in Mexico and curbing the supreme court from overriding the acts of congress, were also Included. GIVES ITS REMEDY TO LOWER POSTS. The statement on the high cost of living follows: "We demand that effective steps be taken immediately to relieve the people of the burden imposed by the excessive cost of living and to eradicate permanently the underlying evils, recognizing fully that no other issue is of deeper Interest to the masses of the American people. “Asa comprehensive program of such relief and remedy we set forth these demands ; "Co-operation should be encouraged ns an effective means of curbing of profiteering. To stimulate rapid development of co-operatives, the federal farm loan act should be extended so as to give credit to all properly organized cooperatives just ns credit is now given to Individual farmers. “We urge that the United States department of labor compile and issue monthly statements of the cost of manufacture of those staple articles which form the basis of calculation in fixing the cost of living. “Asa means of aiding anti-profiteering measures the federal government should promptly Investigate profits and prices. All income and other tax returns should be available for Inspection.” FOR U. S. CONTROL OF RAILROADS MONTREAL, June 9.—Organized labor and organized capital may find themselves within a few months fighting side by side in at least one common cause, it was Indicated at tho annual conven-

Bruce Barton Sees Passing of Punch From Old Time Show

By BRUCE BARTON. CHICAGO June 9.—Chauncey M. Depew nnd I have attended republican conventions ever since our graduation from college. He began in IS6O and I in 1908. Chauncey thinks that this is the last one which he may ever see; and I have an idea that unless the show is changed considerably someone else may have my seat at the next performance too. For the good old program that's drawn the crowds so long seems to me to be losing Its punch. The acts are shop worn the scenery is frayed and the folks don't respond as they did. The session yesterday wa* the tamest I have ever seen. There was hardly any cheering as tho leaders came lu one by one. In tho hope of pumping some oxygen Into the listless crowd, a specialist in leading cheers had been imported from the east. He led three cheers for Senator Lodge and then hurried to/pass a handful of his cards down>-into the press section, 3* that we mlmit tel^^

Steel Magnates Invade the Field CHICAGO, June 9. —Judge E. H. Gary, J. L. Replogle and other leaders of the steel Industry arrived here today. Judge Gary was in conference all the morning and refused to see newspaper men.

tlon of tha American Federation of Labor here today. The convention seems certain to declare for return of the railroads to the government control, or for government ownership. Daniel C. Roper, of New York, big corporation head, recently Bald business men are being forced to the conviction the roads must be turned back. Repea lof . the Esch-Cummlns railroad act is the basis on which organized labor Is beginning the 'fight. Repeal la one of the planks which President S-amuel Gompers is demanding of the republican national convention at Chicago. BOSSES ABANDON FOUR CANDIDATES (Continued From Page One.) Ohio campaign and to this, perhaps more than to any other one cause, many attribute Ohio’s cool treatment of him at the polls. The G. O. P. regulars admit they want a candidate with as perfect record as possible. Senator Boies Penrose has said the party must pick to win. Hiram Johnson, his opponents claim, has eliminated himself by combatting all the other candidates. They say he has fought them all and must, iu turn, expect to be fought by them. RESERVATIONISTS IN CONTROL. The selection of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, republican, of Massachusetts, leader In the fight for treaty with reservations, and of Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, another “reservationist,” as chairman of the committee on platform, is taken to mean the middle-of-the-road republicans are in power here and that any program they decide upon they can put through—providing nobody kicks over the traces. Talk of a stampede was revived here today. That such a thing is possible is now pretty generally admitted, though the whole thing depends upon circumstances. If the experienced leaders of the old guard can hold the convention back, there will be no stampede. If It can not do so, then any one of the candidates may disregard the leaders and make a dash for the nomination via a more direct appeal to the delegates themselves. On the other hand, should the convention go its course, normally and undisturbed, though the process of elimination referred to, the list of the dark horses would be reached.

EARL HAIG MADE BRISTOL FREEMAN Accepting, Pledges Aid to ExService Men. BRISTOL, June 9.—At a special meeting held recently of the city council of j Bristol, Ear! Haig, K. TANARUS., G. C. 8., was made an honorary freeman of the city. The field marshal, after acknowledging the honor conferred upon him. said that since relinquishing his command he could claim that, next to the military duties assigned to him at home, his chief care had been to do all he could to secure fair and generous treatment for fori rner service officers and men. His ambition was to see men who were capable of working, resettled happily in j civil life, and adequately provided for. ! Much had been done, but his ambition had not been wholly realized, and there was still need for former service men to keep together if they did not want to see their Interests overlooked amongst myriads of other matters that claimed the attention of the government and public. One of the greatest difficulties which, i he said, they had to face, was to be | found In the attitude of the workingmen, as represented by certain trade unions, j A number of trade unions had taken ’ an active and honorable part In assistj iug .to solve the problems of finding | work for former service men, but In far too many cases the direct opposite had | been the case. He did not profess to be an expert in trade union matters: he was a soldier, and it was not his business; but he understood the meaning of fair play, and was not destitute of a sense of gratitude. He found one powerful union, the i Amalgamated Society of Engineers, had | refused by ballot to assist in the train- ! ing of incapacitated former service men. lie recalled that many members of that union were exempted, because of the naj lure of their work, from serving in the i trenches by the side of those to whom j they now refused to extend a helping ; hard. ! After referring to a number of other •j instances of a somewhat similar charj acter, Earl Haig said he found such a ! state of things difficult to understand. ! Those trade unions ,were not strug- ; gling for their existence, but were great and powerful organizations which could , afford to be generous. Surely they could I do as much as others and endeavor to j meet an exceptional state of affairs by I exceptional action, by self-subordina-j tlon and sacrifice not one-hundredth part i as great as that cheerfully submitted to i by the men who now sought their sym- | pathy and nelp. i He could not believe that trade unions I acting in that way fully understood tho j situation. I He appealed to them to reconsider the ! matter and to see if they could not mod--1 if.v their rules to the small extent re- ! quired to enable former service men to j find their way back into employment.

world his name is Albert Edmund Brown, leader of community singing. Perhaps he. too, Is one of those who figures himself a dark horse. Senator Lodge read for an hour and a half, using all of the tried and true stuff, and nobody cared enough to apnpplaud. The general attitude seemed *io be: “We have seen this show before. Wo know every act; the Swiss bell ringers, the educated seals, the acrobats and the Juggler tramp. AVe’ll stay till It's through, but its awfully cold, and we wish we could go to lunch.” There Is something rather wholesome, it seems to me, in this critical attitude! ft reflects a good deal of sensible through, but it’s awfully cold, and wo street. For generations politicians have been denouncing each other and promising to make our lives easier. And we're beginning gradually to understand that politicians can't make us successful or happy or rich—that our salvation 11c# not with them, bit down Inside ourjjelves.

STEAMROLLER IS PUT TO WORK ON CREDENTIALS ! Committee Stays on Job All Night and Reverses Only Three Cases. 984 VOTES, 493 TO WIN CHICAGO, June 9.—The credential* committe of the republican national committee completed its work of making np the permanent roil of that body at 5 a. m. today after being in session thirteen hours. The committee reviewed the 137 contest eases heard by the national committee last week and reversed that body’s findings in only three cases. Tho national committee action In unseating two Missouri delegates was reversed, bringing the vote of the convention back to 984, with 493 necessary ta nominate. The meeting opened with an unexpected fight over tha chairmanship. Charles Innes, Massachusetts, was opposed by Edward P. Duffleld, state chairman of the Wood organization In New Jersey. Duffleld was elected, twenty-eight t® sixteen. The result occasioned some muttering by the defeated section, who made much of the fact that Frank H. Hitchcock, Wood's campaign manager, had been “visiting” with committee members for an hour before they got down to business. W. T. Laube, Washington, was elected secretary by acclamation. Charles B. Carter, Maine, former University of Michigan guard, and twice picked for the allAmrican football eleven, appeared In the role of Informal attorney for the committee. He is a Wood man. GEORGIA CONTEST BRINGS HOT DEBATE. In the debate that ensued in the Georgia case. Gregory Page of New Mexico tore Into Henry Lincoln Johnson, negro national committeeman-elect, who conducted the case for himself and associated delegates. A roll call was taken and Johnson’s four Lowden delegates were retained on the convention personnel. The next division came In Georgia** Fourth congressional district. This time the Wood faction caught the Lowdenites napping and seated C. D. Williams in place of R. B. Butts. John W. Smith, Michigan, wearied <rf the partisan lines along which the session was developing, declared: “I'm ■ not here representing either Wood or Lowden. Don't let s fool ourselves. We're not deciding these cases according to the evidence.” This started a sort of testimonial meeting in which several members openly declared their preference regarding candidacies. John Moorman. Indiana, was insistent that the record show he “proposes t* I vote for Hiram Johnson.” OKLAHOMA CONTEST STANDS AS DECIDED. When the fifth Oklahoma district wai (ailed. Miss Ethel Delight McKinley, Marion, Ind., woman republican organizer, was granted a hearing In behalf of the Wood delegation that had prevlously been seated by the national committe®. The contest as decided by tU • national committee. The fifth Missouri, In which the national committee threw out both sets of delegates because of an alleged fraudulent primary, gave Page an opportunity to make charges that the Lowden delegation—Robert J. Flick. Kansas City, and J. E. Martin, Independence— had usog gun men and mustard gas to break up the opposition's conventions. The committee first voted down a motion to uphold the action of the national i committee, 31 to 11, then seated Flick and Martin, 27 to 20. The last fireworks before the committee lapsed into dessuetude came In the tenth Tennessee case. The national committee seated Robert R. Church, Memphis negro and Harvard graduate, supposed to be for Lowden, opposed by Charles B. Quinn, Memphis, ! committed to Wood. Mrs. Marshall Priest, delegate at larg*, objected to Church. He was ousted by an oral vota.

KNOTS RETARD WORK OF G. 0. P. (Continued From Paso One.) would first take up those planks about which there was the least controversy. Waterways are the solution- of transportation now and for the next generalion to come, according to Harry 12. Merrick, president of the Mississippi Valley Improvement association, and Charles A. Snyder of the Atlantic waterways. both of whom appeared before the committee asking that a plank be inserted in the platform covering these problems. Merrick asked for the completion of improvements already started on the Mississippi, Ohio. Illinois and Missouri rivers and the development of a larger waterway through the St. Lawrence. He cited the coal shortage of today as the result of a transportation system that can not take care of more than threeduy production of the mines, and declared the waterways offer the only solution. Gov. Peter Norbeok of South Dakota followed Merrick on the same subject and said the great northwest can not be fully developed until the St. Lawrence has been improved. Gov. Livingstone Beeckman of Rhode Island, a member of the steering committee. expressed the belief the league of nations and other disputed planks would be ’‘worked out satisfactorily,” and would meet tbe approval of the convention. MAY SUSPEND Kl LES TO NOMINATE. General rules of the convention provide that nominations are not in order until the four major committees have reported, but It Is probable these will be suspended by unanimous consent, or en recognition of the rules committee. All the committees except the on* framing the platform have completed their work and made their reports. Changes in the old rules promulgated by the rules committee Included enlargement of the executive committee from ten to fifteen members. This change was made to permit representation of women on the committee. Anew rule was announced providing that no delegate may talk longer than five minutes, or more than once, on any one subject. One other change was made in the rules. This was to make unfinished business the first order so as to clean up any details that may be pending after the nominations. It opens the way for action on tbe platform after the nomination; in case the resolutions committee gets into a protracted deadlock. The report of the committee on rules was adopted by acclamation. YOUTH BOUND OVER. George Huggins, 12. 2933 Moore aveniMt was bound over to the grand Jury this afternoon on two charges of attempted assault on children. Bond was fixed at §I,OOO on each charge.

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